Monday, April 2, 1979
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University Daily Kansan
Disaster was only a test
By DOUG HITCHCOCK and BRUCE THOMAS
Staff Reporters
At 1:30 p.m. Friday, a call came to Lawrence's Emergency Operations Center that a train had tracked in North Lawrence
Within minutes, Police Chief Richard Stanwix and Douglas County Sheriff Rex Robinson had sequestered themselves in a room at the Louisville police station to prevent the basement of the Douglas County Judicial and Law Enforcement Center. 11th and New Hampshire streets, they would monitor the building.
In an adjoining room, city and county officials gathered at their assigned seats around a large table.
This was not a real disaster. It was an exercise in handing crises. Travis Brann, county director of emergency preparedness, had spent two months planning the operation, which involved several hundred people.
He said an exercise involving toxic chemicals was needed.
"I have no doubt in my mind that hazardous chemicals pass through Douglas County daily and we don't have a guardian angel to protect Lawrence or Douglas County from something like that," he said.
Fire trucks, police cars and ambulances were dispatched to the staged scene at Seventh and Locust streets in North Lawrence.
A field command post was set up near the site to give emergency treatment to the victims and to send them to Lawrence Memorial Hospital, 253 Mahoning, or the Red Cross Shelter, 11th and Vermont streets.
The victims included volunteers from Lawrence High School, the University of Kansas and area organizations, including local churches.
Some of the tougher volunteers ignored the cold air. They defied articles of clothing in order to get molded rubber wounds and food spills on their hands and feet.
The volunteer victims, nearly 40 in all, were divided into groups, with different injuries. Some received blue make-up to simulate a wound.
Just before the mock train wreck occurred, people ran from victim to victim, giving them a second coat of red food coloring.
At 1:20, the train that was to wreck rolled past, right on schedule. The first call to the police was made by a Union Pacific reporter.
By 1:30 p.m., the first police car had arrived. During the next 30 minutes, two fire trucks came. The first ambulance arrived just before 2:00 p.m.
Ted McFarlane, director of the ambulance service, said the ambulance's response was slow because a mix-up at the dispatch center led to delays.
Soon, the railroad crossing at Seventh and Locust streets was blocked by police and sheriff's cars. One of the fire trucks unrolled
Volunteer victim Mary Frances Krul, 1819 Main, said, "I can't believe that they're putting out the fire before we take to the
Another volunteer victim, Harrel Smith, 1800 Ohio, said, "These practices have helped. They'll still panic, but they'll have a vague sense of what happened."
After the 90-minute exercise, the participants gathered at the emergency center to discuss it.
Buford Watson, Lawrence city manager, called the exercise a success but said it showed areas that needed improvement.
Communications need to be improved, he said. Fire Chief McSwain said he had not heard any messages sent to him in the building.
There was also no radio communication among the three units There was no communication to the emergency because the police, fire depart- ment and ambulance had been deployed.
Officials will meet April11 to discuss the exercise further.
KBI to look into alleged brutality
Staff Reporter
By DAVID EDDS
The Kansas Bureau of Investigation will begin looking into allied brutality by two KU police officers at Wednesday's protest of the opening of the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty.
Randall Seiden, Fairway junior, had told Mike Malone. Douglas County district attorney, on Friday that he wanted to file complaints against two KU police officers.
Soiden, who said he represented the lawrence jewish community, said that he was "not really interested in doing this."
were upset about the way things were handled."
Malone said he had told Seiden that the incident had to be investigated before it could be investigated.
"I contacted KU police officials, and all of us agreed that an outside agency should investigate the allegations," he said. He also saw an eyeswitness to a person getting hit."
Seiden alleged that police had used excessive force Wednesday in arresting Steven Schwartz, Barrington, R.I., freshman.
Schwartz, who had been shouting pro-
Israeli slogans, was arrested after scuffling with police at the protest sponsored by the Organization of Arab Students and the Iranian Students Association.
Malone said the KBI investigation would probably take about a week. Videotapes taken by KU police at the protest will be recorded and witnesses will be interviewed, he said.
However, Mike Hill, KU chief of police, said Schwartz' arrest had not been videotaped because the photographer had not been in position to film it.
Malone would not identify the two officers.
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Committee exceeds boundaries set by Senate for allocations
Despite lengthy deliberations that lasted until the wee hours Friday morning, the Student Senate Culture Committee's final fiscal 1980 budget presentation exceeded the maximum revenue code by more than $2.390.
According to the code, the committee was allotted $9,602 to allocate to five student organizations. However, the final allocated institutions totaled $12,008
The groups' recommended allocations and original requests were:
Operation Friendship, $485 from $655;
Tau Sigma Dance Ensemble, $1,433 from $2,107; University Dance Company,
$1,042 from $1,151; Science Fiction and
Entertainment from $1,900; and
International Club and its subsidiaries,
$8,580 from $1,541.
Bill Scott, co-chairman of the culture committee, said the Senate had given the five groups $12,851 during fiscal 1979
"Our budget funds these groups for $43 less than last year," he said.
The Senate unallocated account is used to pay for supplemental budget requests from student organizations during fall budget hearings.
LAST YEAR's over-allocation was paid out of the Senate's unallocated account, according to Keith Maib, Senate treasurer.
The committee also made its final recommendations on five line allocations set by the revenue code. The amount of line allocations is determined by projected enrollment figures for the fall and spring semesters.
"the budget is far from being settled," he said, "I hate to see them dip into the unallocated. But if their budget improves, that's where it will come from."
The committee voted not to fund the KU Chinese Martial Arts Club and the KU Gung Fu Club. Each had requested $300.
All budget recommendations from Senate committees will go before the full Senate April 8.
KU bands requested $29,085, but the committee approved only the revenue code allocation of $10,968. Scandinavian said it would pay for the bands' $25,750 of what had been cut during fall budget hearings. The band would be spend for five new instruments.
Bill Scanlan, co-chairman of the committee, said the committee also would draw up bills for additional funding from the unallocated account for the three other line allocations that had requested increases. They were the Chamber Music Series, University Concert Series, and University Theatre.
Four of the five groups funded by line allocations requested increases.
The approved line allocations for the groups were:
KU Bands, $10,989; Forensics, $3,663;
Chamber Music Series, $3,653;
University Concert Series, $2,742, and
University Theatre, $2,304.
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