THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
PUBLISHED SINCE 1889 BY THE STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
FRIDAY, MARCH 31, 1989
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Oil tanker captain fired
The Associated Press
VOL. 99, NO. 120
VALDEZ, Alaska — The captain of the tanker that caused the nation's worst oil spill was fired yesterday following a federal investigation that determined that he was legally drunk after his ship
The National Transportation Safety Board said that Capt. Joseph Hazelwood, who had turned over command of the Exxon Valdez to an unqualified investigator, was fired for a level of .061 when he was tested nine hours later.
That exceeds the standard of intoxication under federal law for operating a commercial vessel at a harbor.
many, who headed four-member NTSB team
to tanker the tanker Hazelwood has been con-
tained in.
Maximum criminal penalties for operating a ship while intoxicated include a $5,000 fine and up to a year in jail. Coast Guard authorities said. In 2019, the United States imposed criminal penalties and the loss of their seasman's licenses.
The NTSB investigation found no indication of drinking by the third mate, who was piloting the ship without certification when it ran aground, or by the ship's lookout, helmsman or radio operator. However, a Coast Guard employee working in a radar room in Valdez, where tanker traffic is
monitored, had a blood-alcohol level of 20 when he was tested more than 12 hours after the accident.
The worker, Bruce Blandford, told investigators he had begun drinking only after he got off work and was not drunk at the time of the tanker accident. He said that Blandford's performance appeared normal.
Top federal officials in Washington criticized the slow response in the hours after the Exxon Valdez ran into a reef March 24. And Coast Guard Commandant Paul Yost said it was "almost unbelievable" that the ship strayed outside a 10-mile wide shipping lane to run aground.
Steve Traynor/KANSAN
Blowin'in the wind
Heavy rain and wind causes problems for Jayne Boughton, St. Louis sophomore, as she walks to class. Boughton was walking in
front of Wescoe Hall yesterday. The weather is forecast to be sunny and warm for the weekend.
County official checks reported measles cases
Skin rash could indicate illness in Lawrence area
by Kansan reporters
A suspected case of measles was reported at Buffalo Bob's Smokehouse, 719 Massachusetts St. a, and department official said yesterday.
In addition, one suspected measles case from the University of Kansas and another from Lawrence High School are pending diagnoses.
Kay Kent, administrator/health officer of the Lawrence-Douglas County Health Department, said a case of measles or may not have a case of measles.
"We have had a lot of reports of rash illnesses reported lately," she said.
A rash illness involves an outbreak of skin rash, sometimes accompanied by fever. Kent said Sometimes, a rash illness is later diagnosed as measles.
Rusty Mather, manager of the restaurant, said the health department had contacted the restaurant's staff to encourage them to be vaccinated.
Lawrence mayor Bob Schumm, owner of the restaurant, said that he knew the waitress had been under a fire when he did not know if she had mousses.
Mather said the restaurant employed approximately 25 University of Kansas students.
He said that the case had not affected safety standards at the restaurant.
"We always take standard precautions in serving food in a healthful manner."Mather said.
Kent said all Lawrence High students and faculty members under 30 years of age would be reimmunized if they had been vaccinated before 15 months of age. The suspected case at Lawrence High was reported Friday.
"Perry-Lecompton has confirmed measles and this person had exposure to that school district," Kent said.
Max Rife, assistant principal at
lawrence High, said 632 students needed reinummization. The students will be vaccinated during school hours Monday and Tuesday.
Rife said there had not been any more probable cases reported from Lawrence High since Friday. However, one student has been absent from school for four days and could not be reached.
Two of the eight confirmed measles cases in Douglas County since Jan. 1 have been KU students, said Charles Yookey, chief of staff at Wakuna Memorial Health Center. A child diagnosed at KU was diagnosed March 6.
Yockey said Watkins recommended immunization for anyone from KU who had never been immunized and was under 30 years of age. Also, those who were vaccinated between 1963 and 1967 or before 12 months of age should be revaccinated.
YocKEY said that the suspected measles case at Lawrence High would probably not affect the University although nine KU education students are teaching at Lawrence High.
Kent said the student teachers would be vaccinated if it were needed.
"I'm assuming they'll be contacted, provided they meet the criteria." she said.
In addition to the measles, a KU student and a Lawrence preschooler are suspected of having mumps.
Kent said the number of mumps
kents had been decreasing. Seven
cases were reported in March, com-
mings 23 in February and 67 in
January.
Symptoms of mumps include a fever, headache, lack of appetite and glandular swelling in the jaw area.
Symptoms of measles include a fever, cough, watery discharge from eyes and nose and a rash.
British find lost bomb on airliner
The Associated Press
LONDON — A new furor over airport security broke out yesterday after the discovery that a British Airways jet flew with an explosive aboard for at least two weeks in Syria, a detection drill forced to remove it.
The gelgelline was tucked in a seat pocket in economy class of the Boeing 747, news reports said Wednesday night. Authorities would not say when the gelgelline was put on the plane.
The incident was particularly embarrassing to British officials trying to tighten security following the Flight 117 over Lockerbie, Scotland.
The Air Transport Users Committee, a consumer group, called it "the sort of carelessness we can't afford."
Lawmaker David Wilshire, of the governing Conservative Party, said the public was always being told that British Airways was among the most trusted airlines.
the chairman of British Airways, Lord King, said the explosives worked way through the upholstery and that a cleaner found them Monday after the jet returned to Heathrow Airport from Toronto.
"My mind boggles at the thought of airlines in Timbuktu are like if this is the best," he said.
The explosives were brought aboard the plane to test security but overlooked by police dogs trained to detect bombs, according to authorities.
Student Senate approves 51 budgets, denies 7
Police Inspector Andrew Nielson said the deligible weighed less than a pound and was four inches long and less than an inch wide. He said the substance had no detonator, could not explode by itself, and at the very worst, could flare up if ignited by fire.
Budgeting process draws to a close
Kansan staff writer
by Stan Diel
Student Senate last night approved the budgets of 51 student organizations and denied seven requests for funding, bringing to an end more than two months of deliberations by the Senate and its Finance Commiti-
Of the budgets discussed, the allocation of $2.659 to the International Club was most debated. Committee officials questioned the group's fiscal responsibility when a senator proposed to give the group $7,003.
"I can't express my displeasure enough about this group," said Pat Warren, committee co-chairman. "Their budget request was not very well done. Finance bent over backward trying to figure it out."
Chris Shirling, Senate treasurer,
said the group spent only $800 of last year's $2,300 allocation.
Men's Soccer was funded at $9,745,
a $1,900 increase from the committee's original recommendation.
Paul Leader, committee co-chairman, said the increase would pay for
improvements on the soccer field near Robinson Center and one at Shenk Complex, 23rd and Iowa streets.
Leader said the improvements on the soccer fields, which also are used for intramurals, were needed in the condition of the fields was dangerous.
"This is a bargain." Leader said.
"This is a chance to get something cheaper than we'll be able to get anything again. Men's soccer has generously offered to do all the work."
"We are virtually begging (students) to go out and break their legs," he said.
Other groups that received funding include: KU Crew, $8.775; Consumer Affairs, $8.000; KU Ice Hockey, $7.316; KU Rugby, $2.670; KU
But Michael Diggs, Wichita senior, said field maintenance was Recreation Services responsibility.
"When we pick up their responsibility, we are setting a dangerous precedent." Dizgs said.
Common Cause accused of violation
by Candy Niemann
Kansan staff writer
A complaint that Common Cause coalition is committing fraud by using the same name as a national lobbying organization was tabled by the Student Union. The group had already arrived of writer permission from the national group.
The complaint, filed by four Senate candidate coalitions, charged that Common Cause was in violation of Senate rules and regulations, which state that Senate rules must be infringed or bribery in attempting to win an election.
The coalition's name is the same as that of a national lobbying group with a copyrighted name and more. The coalition's name is *Election Rights*.
Kathleen Miller, director of administration for the lobbying group in Washington, D.C., said she had given verbal permission to the coalition Wednesday to use the group's name but on the condition that it notified local media that it was in no way associated with the national group and that it ceased using the Common Cause name immediately following the Senate election.
Waterski, $2.550; Engineering Student Council, $1.700; and Non-Traditional Students Organization, $1.633
She said written permission was in the mail.
Groups whose budget requests
The elections committee will meet to vote on the complaint Thursday. If the committee votes that Common Cause was in violation, it will be withdrawn from the election.
The coalition press releases to the University Daily Kansan and KJHK yesterday.
B. Jake White, Platte, Neb., junior and the coali-
tor for president, said the group chose his
Bain to serve in Congress.
"The attention the election should on the issues we want to get to the nuts and bolts and make sure that we are doing our job."
White said he asked the lobbying group for permission to use its name after he heard that the name was
"At that time someone said they thought they had heard the name before but couldn't place it," White said. "We didn't realize until this semester that it was a copyrighted name."
were completely denied include were Kiosk, Kansas Undergraduate Review Society for Fantasy and Science Fiction, Public Relations
See COPYRIGHTED. p. 6, col. 6
Court halts printing of Haskell paper
by Mary Neubauer
Kansan staff writer
TOPEKA — No student newspaper will be printed at Haskell Indian Junior College until after April 7.
U. S. District Judge Richard Rogers issued a temporary restraining order yesterday that will prevent the printing and distribution of the Indianapolis Post newspaper, which lastly unfastened an April 2, preliminary injunction hearing.
Rogers rulers on a civil action submitted yesterday by Dario Robertson, KU associate professor of law, and Patrick Nichols, Topea attorney, that would prevent Haskell administration and faculty cutting what Nichols called a sanitized faculty session of what should be a student newspaper.
Robertson said the present version of the paper, edited and laid out by faculty, should not be published because stories about recent Haskell controversies assigned by the student managing editor would not be included. On Tuesday night, author George Lyndon Haskell's Navarre Hall to prevent publication. Stories are laid out and edited on the "dummy" sheets before publication.
Kurt Shermuk, assistant U.S. attorney representing Haskell administration, said the restraining order should allow publication of the issue now ready for publication but restrain any further publications until the preliminary injunction hearing
Shermk said Robert Martin, acting president of Haskell, was not aware of the specific charges
filed.
han Rogers told the litigants that both sides should get together to see if the matter could not be worked out outside of court.
See ATTORNEY, p. 6, col. 3
"If he had the opportunity to sit down and contort the charges as to the newspaper a publication, I would have done it."
Hogers has his decision-making for the case was a little like Solomon threatening to cut the baby in
Robertson and Nichols represent the Indian Leader Association, a student group that publishes the newspaper. The civil activist organization is led by a member of the American Civil Liberties Union for Kansas and western
Student Society of America, American Chemistry Society, Student Health Advisory Board and the Association for Computing
Spring forward
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