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KU police find stolen items
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Former University employee is key burglary suspect
More than $6,000 worth of goods were recovered by KU police yesterday morning from the Lawrence home of a former University employee, KU police reported.
By Teresa Veazey Kansan staff writer
Cindy Alliss of the KU police department said a search warrant obtained for the 34-year-old woman's home led KU police to
recover the stolen items. Included in the recovery were computer equipment, office supplies, a vacuum and a two-way radio.
The items have been linked to seven burglaries, the majority of which occurred at the KU Band Department in Murphy Hall.
An investigation into one of the burglary cases led the police to the recovery. Alliss said a KU police officer talked to the suspect and was able to obtain a search warrant.
Of the seven burglary cases that were linked to the stolen property, six occurred last year. One of the reports dated back to 1992. KU police are investigating other cases
which may be related to the recovered property.
Alliss said the items identified were valued at $6,148.50. That number will increase as police continue to link recovered items to police reports, she said. All of the property identified belonged to the University, but KU police still were in the process of finding the owners of other items that were recovered during the search.
The woman was contacted by KU police last week and was developed as a suspect, Alliss said. The woman has not been arrested, and no charges have been filed. KU police believe she was the only person involved in the burglaries.
KU police have not determined a motive behind the burglaries. Alliss said that there were no patterns in the method of entry with the burglaries or similarities in the time frames. KU police still are investigating the woman's past employment status with the University.
At this time, two of the cases have been forwarded to the Douglas County District Attorney's office, Alliss said. The other five still are being investigated.
Alliss said KU police had dealt with cases like this before and that the items recovered were not unusual. Alliss said the total value of the recovered items was out of the ordinary.
Alum says capitalism is at risk
By Paul Todd
Kansan staff writer
Free enterprise and capitalism work, but the U.S. government could be placing both in danger, said Robert Eaton, chief executive officer and chairman of the board of Chrysler Motor Corp.
Eaton spoke at 7 last night to about 1,000 KU students and faculty at the Lied Center. The speech was part of the J.A.Vickers Memorial Lecture Series and sponsored by the School of Business.
Instead of trying to sell cars, Lee Iacocca's replacement spoke about the new dangers to the capitalist system in the United States.
"He didn't sell Chrysler like Iacocca would have," said Greg Hochenberg. Lawrence senior.
Eaton, who graduated from the University in 1963 with a mechanical engineering degree, said that the free-enterprise system won the cold war but was still at risk from government over-regulation of U.S. industries, prevalence of civil suits in U.S. courts and unfair trade practices of international competitors — mainly Japan.
"Politics and economics in a free-enterprise state accommodate human nature. They don't insult it." he said.
China, for example, is reforming its economic system while maintaining its political state and encouraging entrepreneurs and private business, Eaton said. But it is taking political reform much more slowly.
"Political change will inevitably come to China," he said. "In the end the political and economic systems in any society have to be compatible."
Eaton said that too many government rules and regulations on U.S. industries were unfunded
mandates — the exact mandates the new Republican Congress promised not to impose on the states or individuals.
But businesses are different, he said.
"Most laws are directed not at individuals but at companies because individuals vote, companies don't," Eaton said. "Right now, the cost of regulations imposed on American companies amounts to about $500 million to $600 million worth of unfunded mandates.
"It is a tax — an invisible tax," Eaton said. "But most people believe they are good taxes because someone else pays them — someone rich like an auto company or a public utility, and they don't understand that they are built into the cost of everything they buy."
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He said an example of an unfunded mandate was California's law that 2 percent of new cars in the state must be electric by the year 1998.
Dan Drake, Atlanta, Kan., graduate student, said he agreed that there were too many government regulations placed on businesses.
Eaton also said that the United States government needed to push the Japanese harder to make the Japanese, especially car dealers, open their retail outlets to American products.
Eaton said the powerful trial lawyer special interest group in Washington was an additional threat to free enterprise because they could hurt companies simply by hinting that a product was unsafe.
"It will only keep working if the term itself retains some of its somatic interest," he said. "It must retain freedom."
Robert Eaton, chief executive officer of the Chrysler Corporation and KU alum, speaks to KU students at the Adams Alumni Center. Eaton was on campus yesterday to give a speech at the Lied Center.
Eaton said the whole freeenterprise system in the United States needed to be more free.
Jan. 1, 1993 — Named chairman and chief executive officer
1992 — Chrysler vice chairman, chief operating officer and a member of the board of directors
1988 — President of General Motors Europe
1986 — Vice President of GM advanced engineering staff
Robert Eaton's climb up the corporate ladder
1982 — Director of quality and reliability at Oldsmobile
1975 — Chief engineer of GM's Corporate Car Program
1973 — Executive engineer of GM engineering staff
1963 — Graduated from KU and joined GM as a trainee in Chevrolet's Engineering Center
What's in the works for Watkins
The Watkins Memorial Health Center will begin its expansion process this summer. The project will cost about $5.3 million and is expected to be completed in Fall 1997. Approximately 17,000 square feet will be added to the north side of the building. The expansion will not encroach on the activity field directly north of the health center.
Source: Watkins Memorial Health Center
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Plans solidify for Watkins Health Center expansion
By Robert Allen Kansan staff writer
Prospective contractors attended a meeting and toured Watkins Memorial Health Center yesterday in preparation for the health center's expansion project.
Bidding for the construction project is scheduled for April 13 and the groundbreaking for July. Construction should be completed by Fall 1997, said Charles Yockey, a Wat-
Yockey said.
The expansion has been divided into four phases. Phase one will add about 17,000 square feet to the north side of the health center.
"The new addition will take about a year," Yockey said. "Students will
Other phases of the expansion will remodel existing parts of the health center, including: the pharmacy, the gynecology clinic, counseling and psychological services and the reception area, said Jim Boyle, associate director of the health center.
"The purpose is to try to improve patient flow and confidentiality," he said. "It will make the registration area and pharmacy area less open and more discreet."
"The purpose is to try to improve patient flow and confidentiality."
Charles Yockey chief of staff
be able to see results as early as Fall 1996."
The expansion will aid the health center in two ways, Yockey said. The urgent care area, which has two beds, will be expanded to include eight, and the room will increase from 600 square feet to 2,000 square feet.
"We frequently have people that need a bed, but they are full," Yockey said.
Also, an additional 30 examination rooms will be built, allowing more patients to be seen. Physicians at Watkins will have two or three rooms each to see patients. Currently, most physicians have one room to see patients and must wait while nurses prepare the room for the next patient.
"We spend a lot of time standing in the hallway waiting for a room."
paid for.
The project is expected to cost about $5.3 million. Funding for the expansion comes from a $15 fee students pay each semester. Student Senate passed the fee last year, which will be dropped when the expansion is
rockey said that students would benefit from the expansion by shorter waiting times and increased confidentiality. Walk-in patients must wait anywhere from 10 to 45 minutes. During lunch hours, the wait can be an hour.
"We hope to do more appointments and less walk-ins," Yockey said. "We can do that when we have more exam rooms."
Students also will receive more private care. Students are sometimes interviewed in hallways and may be hesitant to explain embarrassing conditions in the open environment of the reception area and pharmacy.
Though construction will continue for the next two years, distractions and inconveniences are expected to be minimal.
Margaret Chow will bring her special brand of comedy to the Lied Center tomorrow.
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Compton defends his highly criticized position
City commissioner describes himself as an average guy
Sitting behind a cluttered desk in a small office on the outskirts of town, Lawrence city commissioner Doug Compton argues that he is an average guy.
By Sarah Morrison Kansan staff writer
"I am not any different from anybody else," the 33-year-old developer says. "I wear blue jeans to work, drive a pickup and have an office in a farmhouse."
Compton talks as if he is a man under attack, defending everything from the clothes he wears to the car he drives. It is not hard to trace
Compton's defensiveness, however. In his bid for re-election to the city commission, Compton has come under fire
more than any other candidate.
"So what, I live in a big house in Alvamar. I have worked hard for that house. I deserve it," he said. "I came to Lawrence in 1978 with nothing."
His occupation as a developer, his stance on adding the words "sexual orientation" to the city human relations ordinance, even where he lives, have been criticized during the campaign, he said.
The biggest issue Compton has been criticized for has not been where he lives though, but the way he handled the issue of adding the
words "sexual orientation" to the human relations ordinance.
In January, when the commission was debating whether to put the proposal on the agenda and vote on it, Compton was the only commissioner who remained undecided on the issue.
Critics called his move a delay tactic engineered to avoid the issue until after the April 4 election.
He said he wanted some questions answered before he could decide, so the commission directed the city staff to conduct a study to answer Compton's questions and set an April due date.
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In February, a few days after Compton finished fourth in the primary election, he announced that preliminary reports of the study had sufficiently answered his questions
Doug Compton is one of six candidates running for Lawrence city commission.
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