University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, June 19, 1991
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Strong Hall to receive new order
By Jeff Meesey
Kansan staff writer
Soon some students won't need maps to get around Strong Hall.
After July 1, the rooms and offices in Strong will be numbered sequentially.
"Certainly, we are losing a little bit of history, but if something was done confusibly originally, it isn't as bad to change it."
"The way it is now is very confusing," said Erin Spiridiglidou, assistant to the dean of liberal arts and sciences. "People come in, and they can't find the rooms they want because of the way it's numbered."
Strong is undergoing another internal change with the offices for the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, the School of Law, the wing of Strong, said Edynda Gilbert, associate dean of liberal arts and sciences.
"We are changing something that was originally part of the building," Francisco said. "The plan to have the odd and even wings had been on the original drawings. It's an oddity to have it this way.
The even-numbered rooms now are on the west side of the building and the odd-numbered rooms are on the east side.
Terry Haak, Lawrence police officer, explains the sobriety checkpoint to a motiver he has stepped on the Key Dive Bridge.
The correct room numbers will be listed in the fall KU telephone data.
Both the old and the new room numbers will be used until people are accustomed to the change, said director of facilities planning.
'The way it is now is very confusing. People come in, and they can't find the rooms they want because of the way it's numbered.'
Drivers to receive sobriety tests at checkpoints around Lawrence
— Erin Spiridigliozzi assistant to the dean of liberal arts and sciences
"What makes it nice is when a student comes in, we'll be able to take care of them right there," Gilbert said.
The offices that are moving to the new location are the college undergraduate records office, the graduation office and the undergraduate services office. Together they will make up the College Undergraduate Center in 109 Strong, after the renumbering
The offices will begin moving Thursday or Friday, and the center should be open by July 1. The center will occupy the space vacated in February by the office of foreign student services, which was moved to 18 Strong. Starting July 1 it will be interned International Student Services.
The idea is to reserve the second floor of Strong for college administrative offices.
When money becomes available, the west wing of the basement will house Supportive Educational Services and the Advising Support Center.
The college's offices were moved to Strong from Nunemaker Center early in the 1980s.
Pam Houston, director of the Liberal Arts Undergraduate Center, said, "Nuneman was felt to be too inaccessible to students on a daily basis for things such as deans stamps and student records."
Houston said that when the offices moved to Strong, not enough room was available to put them in one location.
By Rochelle Olson
Kansas staff writer
The police officer asked the driver to null over and step out of his truck
"Do you have any problems with your knees or ankles?" Brian Edwards, Lawrence police officer, asked.
The man said he did not.
The man faltered.
Edwards told him to walk forward placing one foot directly in front of the other.
The officer asked him to stand with his arms at his sides, lift one foot slightly off the ground and extend it forward six inches while counting to
The man leaned on his truck two times for support before he got to 30.
analysis test for blood-alcohol content.
The man passed barely.
Edwards told the man that his balance was poor and that he was taking a chance by driving because his reaction time would be slowed.
This scene was repeated several times with different results early Saturday morning at a sobriety center on the bound lanes of the Kaw River bridge.
The man said he would not.
Officers from the Douglas County Sheriff's office, the Lawrence police department and the Kansas Highway Patrol conducted the checkpoint.
They blocked off the eastern lane of traffic on the bridge with patrol cars and orange cones, stopping every car between 12:30 to 2:30 a.m. the ather lane from 12:30 to 2:30 a.m.
Lt. Donald Crowe, of the Douglas County Sheriff's office, who was in charge of the checkpoint, said the officers stopped 228 vehicles at the checkpoint. Eight people were pulled into the eastern lane for additional and one was arrested. The average time of a stop was 27 seconds.
drivers whether they had been drinking.
During the initial stop the officers identified themselves, shined a flashlight into the cars and asked the
If the officers thought there was probable cause, the driver then was asked to breathe into a machine that causes blood alcohol level is more than the
Drivers who appeared to or admitted to having been drinking were pulled into the eastern lane of traffic and given additional tests.
legal limit of. 10 percent
Lights on the machine turn green, amber or red depending on the percentage of alcohol in a person's blood. A red light indicates that the level is higher than the legal limit and indicates that the level is approachable. A green light shows that the driver is well below the legal limit.
At the first checkpoint this year
May 25, 255 cars were stopped and two arrests were made.
Seven Kansas counties were given money from a federal grant to conduct sobriety checkpoints this year. Four more checkpoints will take place from early July to October at different locations in Lawrence
Crowe said he planned no changes for the next bridge checkpoint except
to make sure the street lights were working. Three lights in the checkpoint area Saturday were burned out.
Checkpoint locations are determined by the frequency of alcohol-related incidents in the area, Crowe said.
He said most of the alcohol-related accidents in Lawrence occurred on major streets.
Yeltsin's presidential victory may help Russia's economy
KU profs: leader may play major role in reforms
By Melissa Rodgers Special to the Kansan
Following the election of Boris Yeltsin as president of the Russian Federation last week, KU professors and a Soviet student now are waiting to see how he will lead the troubled republic.
Yeltsin, a former member of the Politburo and past head of the Moscow Communist Party, was elected with 60 percent of the vote in the first round, anti-Communist ticket in the first democratic elections in Russia.
Once described as a radical, Yeltsin attacked the inefficiencies of the Soviet bureaucracy and criticized the privileges given to high-ranking Communist party members.
Roy Laird, professor emeritus of Soviet and East European studies.
described Yeltsin as a demagogue.
"The U.S.S.R. is in the greatest state of flux since the 1917 revolution. Laird said it is on an increasing scale due to a concern or sextant to guide the new captain.
"I expect Yeltsin to seize on nationalistic fervor. Eventually he will be able to rule by decree."
John Garland, associate professor of business and a specialist in East European and Soviet economic reform, said Yeltsin's victory might strengthen reform efforts in the Soviet Union.
"The big question is, 'Did the elections show favor for Yelshin's earlier, more radical proposals or his recent conservative proposals reconciling with Gorbachev?' Garland said. "Economic issues
were top concerns to the voters.
This will give Yeltsin more leverage with Gorbachev."
Laird said that as Russia's economic conditions become worse, Yeltsin will need the cooperation of the southern republics to maintain a supply of fresh food.
"Expertes are predicting genuine hunger within the next year, and civil disturbances are rising." Laird said. "Anyone in Yelissin's position would find this crisis frustrating."
Anna Shandarin, Moscow senior, said, "I used to think of him as a man out for public opinion wanting to get as high as he could and only concerned with his popularity. I don't know whether he will be good or bad. I will wait and see."
KU wins second in Soviet studies
Kansan staff report
A U.S. Department of Education study ranked the KU Soviet and East European studies program second in the nation, said Bill Fletcher, director of the program.
Ranking in the top 10 means a three-year fellowship worth $216,500 this year and varying for the next two years.
The competition determines the top 10 program in each geographic area of study such as Latin American studies and Russian and East European studies. The winners in each area receive foreign-language and area-studies fellowships, and the programs are designated as national resource centers.
The resource centers are used by the government and by other universities for information.
"This is the most elaborate review in the nation for such programs. Fletcher said." "This is clearly arely in the top 10 in the nation."
Some other schools ranked in the top 10 were Harvard University, Yale University, Columbia University, University of California Berkeley.
Fletcher said the Department of Education would not tell him which institution ranked first.
Fletcher said the program's library was an important factor in the evaluation. The Slavic collection in Watson Library includes more than 400,000 volumes, of which 300,000 are in foreign languages.
The Department of Education's study takes place every three years and is judged by a panel of selected professors.