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Thursday, July 3, 1975
University Daily Kansan
Marijuana laws seen as affront to privacy
We must not weaken, ever. The regulations our government continually produces are ever chiseling at the foundation of our castle—our privacy.
I am referring to many things, among them our present laws making it a crime to smoke marijuana in our own homes. No one should tell me I cannot partake of
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marijana—a substance found to be no more hazard than damaging or inky in my mouth.
There should be some regulation of those who would sell it for profit, or those who would drive a car while stoned, because they would be engaging in public acts
However, while in the privacy of their own homes, they should be able to enjoy
marijuana as they can now enjoy the hardest of lour or pornography.
There is a move afoot in Kansas to legalize possession of two ounces or less of marijuana, but it doesn't address the issue.
I, for one, support this move. State Rep Michael Glover, D-DLawrence, who has introduced a proposal to the legislature that would move, is another. And there many more.
The proposed changes would retain criminal sanctions for sale and related activities involving marijuana. They would also require a special dissection of the citizen, where it belongs.
A joint special judiciary committee of the state legislature will hear testimony for and against the proposed decriminalization plan in September. The committee will also consider drafting a bill to send through the legislative process.
—Peter Porteous
I hope they consider it wiser and decide to draft this long overdue legislation and I
Children's creativity sparked by course
BY JENIFER OTWELL Kansan Staff Reporter
In a large basement room of an old stone building at 9th and Vermont, you might find, as various times, a five-legged horse with a short mane, or a thumb-sized blue horse named George.
The class uses various forms of art to develop imagination and sensual awareness. The children are encouraged to exercise their senses and their imaginations through the use of dance, music, painting, drawing, clay and stories read by their teachers, Marsha Paludan and Leni Salkind.
Yesterday the children were asked to imagine an animal they would like to be, draw it and then become that animal in their imagination.
Then they mottled like a pig, slithered like a or stretched their necks like a graffite.
Next they imagined make-believe animals, modeled them from clay and wood.
cing around the room to music and wearing skins of colored cloth.
The child gives visibility to the things he imagines so that they become real, Paludan said yesterday. He is encouraged to "see" his pictures as if they were as lines, color, shape, texture and movement.
Pulalan has a Master's degree in dance from the University of Illinois and taught there for three years, as well as at the University of Missouri. He also has also taught at the University of Kansas.
She said she had been interested in creative movement education for about 10 years.
"Education is a focusing of attention," she said, "and it doesn't really matter what the attention is focused on. It's the capacity to focus that's crucial."
Children should expand their imaginations through participation in art,
She became interested in teaching a class like this when she taught in Maryland schools and found that most art museums had good educational programs, she said.
Salkind has a master's in art education from the University of Maryland. She has taught aesthetics and sensory awareness in both students program in Lawrence schools.
Oregon prof explains how computers compose music
Computers can do more than play music; they can compose it, Emilio Gaglario, professor of mathematics at Oregon State University, said here last night.
Each program contains about 1,200 rules of harmony that he has recorded, Gagliaro said, and each note is chosen by the compilers. It satisfies the largest number of rules.
For the past year, Gagliardi has experimented with programming a computer to compose music, and he played recordings of his last night at Swararthe迟到 Rectal Hall.
The resulting music reflects the taste of the programmer, Gagliardi said, because
the music depends on which rules of harmony have been recorded.
He said he was one of only four persons who had used computers to compose music which is played by conventional instruments.
At Oregon State University, Gagliardo uses computers to solve statistical problems in biology, other natural sciences and medical diagnosis.
Music composed by computers is diffe- rentive because of any repetition or variet- ion of themes, he said.
Gagliardo said he didn't know why some of the music sounded pleasing and some harsh since all of it satisfied the rules of harmony.
The thought of the perfect honey-
producing bee might set some apiarists
quietly giggling, but the Brazilian bee is
nothing to laugh about.
U.S. feels Brazilian bees' sting
By BILL KATS Kansas Staff Reporter
Michener said the bee had spread over all of Brazil and north into Guiana and Surinam. There have been no reports of stingings in Guiana or Surinam because bee
What does one make of a bee capable of working hours longer than other honeybees; one that will work into the evening and even in light rain; one that carries larger nectar loads; and one that is nearly twice as large as some commercial honeybees in use. *in*?
The number of deaths attributed to the Brazilian honeybee has elevated the bee to a semi-mythical status. Human deaths have been higher than those of worker near Rio de Janeiro who was killed had reportedly been stung 1,000 times. Chickens, horses and mules have also been
"There have been an awful lot of scare
the professor, professor of gnomeology,
and yesterday.
The Brazilian honeybee has built a reputation for these capabilities. Unfortunately, it also carries a record of human and livestock deaths from its sting. Congress to enact legislation to prevent the bee's importation into the United States.
colonies haven't had time to become well-enhanced there, said Michener. There are no Brazilian honeybees yet in Central America, he said.
Initially the bees were moving at the rate of two hundred miles a year, but they spread slower than was anticipated for lowland Amazon forests, Michener one.
Kerr wanted to combine the best attributes of an industrious but highly aggressive African bee with gentler, lazier European strains.
The man sometimes held responsible for opening this entomological Pandora's box is Warwick Kerr, a Brazilian geneticist. In 2015, he described how an attempt to breed the perfect honeybee.
But before controlled hybridization could occur, 26 swarms of African bees escaped, mated with native bees, and began to form a colony that came to be known as bizarre honeybees.
The new strain inherited none of the pacifying characteristics of the European bees, yet the African strain's viciousness and transcience remained.
The bees have been known to chase people long distances, rob other hives of honey, and leave hives suddenly to establish new colonies.
They are known to engage in mass stung when provoked, sometimes attacking victims who are far from the bees'
intensive to vibrations from farm equipment.
As a result of this sensitivity to sound, a result may be adversely affected, said Michael
"You're not going to be able to put the hives as close to where you want the pollination done," he said. "Pollination may be an important loser if these bees come in."
The farm value of crops requiring pollination is $1 billion a year, Micheen said. Honey is an approximately $40 million a year business.
Although he expects the Brazilian bees to reach the United States, Michener said, he doesn't think they will take up residence in Kansas.
Protest to be held
The Wolf Creek Opposition and the People's Energy Project will gather at 11 a.m. in Shelter House No. 4 at the John Burlington, 80 miles south of Topeka.
Two groups opposing the construction of a nuclear power plant near Burlington will meet on the Fourth of July for speeches and a balloon release.
"I wouldn't expect this bee ever to eat it," she explained because the winters are too cold. "She needs some thawing."
But he said he did expect the bee to reach the southern United States. The bees will probably reach the Gulf coast, Texas and all of the other states where they are the same bees we are hearing of now.
If the bees migrate through Mexico, there is a good chance that the Brazilian bees would mate with some of the tamer European varieties found there, Michener said.
"By the time they reached southern Texas they wouldn't cause much of a stir to them," he said.
But there is no real assurance that the country imported into the country, said Michener.
To help insure against such an event, Senator Bob Dole introduced a bill several weeks ago that is aimed at controlling the tax on methane in the States. The bill was passed by the Senate.
The Dole bill essentially strengthens the import laws on bees. It specifies controls in importation of larvae, adult bees, eggs and semen from countries where African bees are endangered. The Dole bill suggests that research be pursued to eradicate the bee's harmful traits.
Comprehensive plan near final approval
After more than two years, the Lawrence Comprehensive Plan is near the final approval stage. Dick McClanahan, city-county planning director, said yesterday.
The preliminary comprehensive plan is expected to be discussed at a special meeting of the Lawrence-Douglas County Planning Commission July 16. Final approval should come at the commission's regular meeting July 23, McClanahan said.
It should take about six weeks to two months to print the preliminary plan and distribute it to the public, McClanathan said. Public hearings, which are required by law, should be scheduled in September or October.
In addition, the plan makes suggestions for improving the general appearance of the city and for making the best use of public fire and police fire and police stations and the city offices.
"This will give the citizen an opportunity to make suggestions that we can incorporate in the final comprehensive plan," McClanahan said.
The comprehensive plan, McClanathan said, will be a guide for development, redevelopment or nondevelopment of the Lawrence area.
The plan includes broad goals for the best overall land usage, best locations of commercial and industrial areas and projections on economic and population growth.
McMchanan said the proposed comprehensive plan was a departure from the plan currently in use for Lawrence. The old plan involved geographic areas within the city, be said.
McClanathan said the Lawrence-Douglas County Planning Commission should have a consultant under contract by the end of the month to begin gathering data for a comprehensive plan for Douglas County's unincorporated areas.
The proposed plan will develop broad policies designed for the entire city, as well as local districts.
He said 14 consultants had applied for the job and he would accept applications for a few more days before turning them over to his division's executive committee for screening.
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