Friday, May 5, 1989 / University Daily Kansan
Increasing drug abusers burden County
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involved alcohol, in fact a large number occur in taverns or among drinking companions.
That toll also is felt in Douglas County, where Court Services is staggering under the burden.
The amount of people placed under the Court Services' supervision has increased 128 percent since 1982.
"Given what we have, it won't do anything but get worse," Schweer said. "County will increase as Douglas County population gets larger."
Schweer said the department had only three people to supervise 430 offenders this month.
"The opportunity is there for a person to abuse more drugs with less opportunity to catch them," he said. "Right now, I have officers working early and late to do the work where it can't possibly be done."
Using highly accurate urinalysis technology, authorities in Washing-
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1 he opportunity is there for a person to abuse more drugs with less opportunity to catch them. Right now, I have officers working early and late to do the work where it can't possibly be done.'
- Ron Schweer
- Ron Schweer
Ron Schweer, director of the Douglas
County Court Services office
go undetected. Only half of those who tested positive actually admitted using drugs.
ton, D.C., and New York City in 1984 found that more than half of 14,000 arrestes tested positive for illegal drugs.
In Douglas County, Schweier said that of the 430 people supervised, only about 25 percent of those were drug tested.
The tests, which screen for many types of drugs, cost $17 each.
The findings confirmed that with out drug testing, most drug use will
"That's based totally on the amount of money we have," Schweer said. "Chances are we could be able to solve a problem if we could test all of them."
Schweier did not reveal all of the drugs that the test caught for fear that the people under supervision would use them.
The drug of choice within the criminals is marjiana, Schwere said. Approximately 76 percent had used marjiana, 12 percent cocaine, 9 percent both and 3 percent methamethapenes. Schwere said 80
to 90 percent of the people under supervision also had used alcohol.
"We have a very active drug problem here," Schweier said. "No one knows how big the problem really is. And it's getting steadily worse. Mid America is not as immune as we once thought."
Ron Olin, Lawrence police chief,
said that not many crack cocaine
users had surfaced in Lawrence.
That was before crack, a crystalized form of cocaine that is ravaging the nation, Schweer said.
"We have not had a statistical increase in drug-related crimes this year," he said. "But we have not done so." Or cocaine that other cities have seen.
"Clearly there is a direct relationship between illegal drug use and illegal criminal activity. The drugs are part of the lifestyle of the criminals."
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The sounds of the University combined choirs and the University Orchestra will fill the air of Hoch Auditorium on Sunday.
About 300 students will perform Sunday in combined choirs
The groups, beginning at 3:30 p.m., will perform Carr Oriff "Carmina Burana," a choral work composed in 1936. The piece is a song and song performed in medieval Latin, low German and French.
Admission will be free.
by Scott Achelpohl Kansan staff writer
"This is a major work for a semester." Ralston said. "A couple of the char groups have been working on it the entire semester."
Nearly 300 KU students will perform in the orchestra, the chamber choir, the concert chair, the University Singers, the University choruses and the men's glee club.
James Ralston, professor of choral music and dance and director of KU choral activities, will conduct the performance.
He said the University Orchestra had been working on the project for two to three weeks.
"The directors have been communicating about how I want this to go." Ralston said. "The intensity is mounting."
Phyllis Brill, associate professor of voice, music and dance, said she would perform in the third part of Orff's three-part piece. One soloist performs each part of the concert, she said.
"I love doing this," Brill said. "I enjoy working with the choirs and the orchestra."
She said she had performed in the University major works series three times in the past, the last in 1982.
Brill will sing soprano in the concert's last part called "Cour
Orff was a German composer who lived in Munich. He was born in 1895 and lived about 50 miles from a monastery where the carminas were discovered. He died in 1982.
d'amour." or the court of love.
Carminas are songs and poems celebrating the joys of the flesh in the Middle Ages. They were composed by former priests or monks who had abandoned their religious orders.
"We usually do pretty well with these concerts," Ralston said.
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