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Lizards find student's home full of love
Staff Reporter
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The two-foot igura hangs at eye level from the tattered curtain in the front window. The foot is slightly crooked.
'Don't you think he's cute?' Clera asks, as if she expects an affirmative answer.
The iguana, Albagascar, his green and yellow scales gleaming in the sunlight, stares baleffect at his mistress, his golden eye never blinking.
Seen through Coler's eyes, however, the reptiles are an amazing cast of characters.
To a casual observer, this room that holds mejones iguanas and the teta binaria a more curious animal, is a space more understandable when coupled with the fact that Coler is a native of southern Mexico.
ALBAGASCAR, IT seems, is always mad. He gets irritated at night when Culp puts him in his cage, a four-by three-by three-foot custom-built model. He hisses and puffs up when the other lizards try to climb the curtain, which is his territory.
Abagascar gets furious when Coler chases him around the room every night with a tablespoon of food dog in her hand. But anger is the only thing that keeps the cat awake.
"He's mad. He doesn't like reporters," she says.
Why would anyone want such an animal, much less five of them, for a pet?
Color gestures toward the fat iguna and Alhazapar dives head-first for the floor.
"Why would anyone want a cat or dog?" Coler asks. "The lizards are quiet, they don't cause any trouble. They're fun to watch."
"I have to chase him around until he gets so mad he tries to hit me. Then I stuff it up."
THIS FASCINATION for reptiles is not a passing fancy for Coler. She is a 28-year-old sophomore studying herpetology at the University of Kansas. Coler says she wants to make a career of the interest she has, and she will be 12 years ago when she got her first lizard.
Color's five lizards are not laboratory animals. They lead a luxurious life beyond
any free lizard's wildest dreams, if lizards can dream.
menagerie, is allowed to roam freely in the front room during the day.
Albagasac, who is definitely number one in the pecking order of Coler's reutile
Sometimes, under Coler's watchful eye,
he is set free in the living room to hang out
on the cactus plants that may remind him of Baja California, his ancestral home.
The other lizards live in a 40-gallon aquarium designed to simulate a desert. Asn
ultraviolet light, mounted on a tripod, beats down like the desert sun on the lizards, insuring that they get their daily dose of vitamin D. A bowl of sourming meatworms
Leapin' lizards
Venice, Calh., junior, owns three iguanas and two lizards. Albagascar, "number one" in Coler's brood, is easily irritated and usually cranky.
Venice, Calfi, junior, owns three lizards. Albagascar, "number one" in Coler's brood, is easily irritated and usually cranky.
Odd as they may be, Barb Coler's iguanas are interesting and appealing to her. Coler a
INTRODUCING THE imprisoned lizard,
Coles says, "named only one of them."
Princess Raiden scurries up Coler's arm to perch on her shoulder. Then she climbs through the woman's curly black hair. Tiny Princess Raiden clips down, and Princess Raiden stops to inspect the surroundings, her tongue flickering. The sensory organ that helps direct the animal
Another desert iguma, a few inches bigger than Princess Raiden, rests on its sides. The rocks in the lizards rely on for warmth when the sun is not shining. Reptiles, called cold-blooded because their body temperature varies with the temperature of their surroundings, can move only when the sun is hot.
and a side dish of lettuce await the lizards hunger.
The lizard Coler named is Princess Raideen, a gray and white desert iguana. She is the only lizard who comes even close to being what could be called affectionate. She is content to sit in Coler's hands and soak up the woman's body heat.
"MR, NOOGS, for short," Color says. She quickly adds that her friend Arden Shaffer, a second year law student, named three of the lizards.
Two tiny tui lizards, Orphan Buddy and Baby Pig Boy, share the cage with the desert iguanas. Their main activity seems to be hiding under rocks.
After recovering from their initial incinulation to kill each other, which caused Orphan Buddy to bite off Baby Pig Boy's nose, the wound was healed and enforced by enhancement menace was successful.
The igua on the hot rock is named Noodie Machine Out Of Control.
The uta lizards have already oulthed their two-year life expectancy. The desert iguanas can live up to eight years. And the rest of them, including ad now, has another 18 years of age left.
Coler tried last summer to expand Albagascar's horizons beyond the photograph-laden walls of the front room. She designed a harness for the iguno so that he could go outside and enjoy Kamsa's view. Albagascar threw a 18 at the idea of bennu leashed.
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"He loves it." Coler says, "Well, I don't know," he really likes it, but he looks like he had a bad time.
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Instead, he sits in front of a screened window soaking un sun in summer.
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Committee OKs club liquor sales
Staff Reporter
By GENELINN
The bill will go to the fall House on Monday or Wednesday, State Rep. Neal Whitaker, WRI-Wichita, chairman of the committee.
TOPEKA - A Kansas House committee yesterday approved a bill that would allow private clubs to bolliglu alcohol.
He said the bill would have a "fairly good chance" in the House.
Members of private clubs now must pay for their liquor in advance. The clubs then dispense liquor from lounge pools or allow members to bring their own, and charge for setups.
The current policy is based on an interpretation of the Kansas Constitution allowing private clubs to dispense
However, a recent ruling by Attorney General Robert T. skepman on a 1984 Kansas Supreme Court case opened the debate over whether an affirmative action law should be
The Kansas Senate passed a bill to take advantage of this ruling, after amending it to allow club to make reciprocity rules for their membership.
THE HOUSE committee passed this bill by a voice vote yesterday after hearing testimony on the legislation.
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Thomas J. Kennedy, director of the Alcoholic Beverage Control Division, said the Division did not favor oppose the legislation.
He testified that if the bill were enacted, about 1,000 restaurants probably would apply for private club status.
"This will mean an additional $1 million in fees collected by the state," he said.
The Division would need more money and personnel to handle some aspects of the legislation, such as licensing
One of Kennedy's assistants also said the division would have to spend more time checking to see if clubs were watering down liquor or pouring cheap liquor into bottles of brand name liquor.
"There will be more incentive to do this if the bill passes," he said. "Now, the liquor doesn't belong to the company."
HOWEVER, KENNEDY said the division would save the time and money it now sends to monitor the l'eau pools.
Proponents of the bill said that it would not lead to alcohol-related problems, and that it would increase drinking rates.
"Most clubs have at least one person who has responsibility directly related to this pooling system," he job
Steven B. Glassman, legislative representative of the Kansas Kasher Hotel and Motel Association, and the pools caused by flooding in the area.
Club members have to pay these people's salaries in the long run. Glassman said.
Joe Bjerger, secretary and manager of the Topopea Mouse
judge, and the liquor pool system caused a lot of work at his
home.
John J. Miller, executive secretary of a tavern owners association, said his group recognized the need for strict control over the sale of alcohol, "but not to the extent of recording each drink on a piece of paper as it is consumed."
He said the 590 to 700 people who attend Saturday night dances at the lodge turned in a coupon for each drink they
THE NEXT morning we have to put all of these coupons in numerical order, and that's a lot of little, loose coupons to do.
Berger was one of the proponents who said the bill would not increase the consumption of alcohol.
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Senate votes to fund bus for handicapped
Rv CAITLIN GOODWIN
Staff Renorter
The Student Senate unanimously voted last night to allocate $1,648 to fund, for the students, a scholarship program for disabled students. A quorum was then called, and the meeting was adjourned after 2:30 p.m.
Because of funding problems for the bus, which transportes about 15 disabled students from home to school, the students were unable to attend school Wednesday and will only be able to attend
William Hogan, associate vice chancellor, said yesterday that the van the students were boarding was scheduled until March 9. The van is from the University's motor pool and is scheduled for other purposes.
"This service was supposed to go only through spring vacation," he said. "That van was booked up after the vacation and we had to find another van."
He said the administration had rented a van in Lawrence to replace the van the
DAVID AMBILER, vice chancellor for student affairs, said the rented van would be used in the motor pool because the original van had a wheelchair lift.
"Securing another van with a lift is virtually impossible at such short notice," he
The rented van will arrive Monday
Robert Turvey, assistant director of the Student Assistance Center, said the only remaining problem was finding a van to pick up the students this afternoon.
"Although the van will not run, arrangements are being made to pick up a woman."
Turvey said that because the bus would be funded for the remainder of the semester, the riders of the bus would begin buying bus passes.
"The people who are riding the bus now need the service for the rest of the day. In fact, they will be at a reduced rate from the $23 KU on Wheels passen because they are being driven."
HOGAN SAID problems with the apportionment of the funding of the bus ser-
vice.
He said the original bills for the service had gone to the wrong place, and the Student Senate had been paying for more than it had agreed to pay.
Hogan said the administration would pay for the depreciation of the van, and the Senate would pay 16 cents a mile and the driver's salary.
George Gomez, student body vice president, said the depreciation of the van
"We feel that to fund the system is important, but we don't feel we should fund the system so much," she said. "I had said it would pay for the depreciation of the van, but the bill came to us when it was paid."
Hogan said the offices will correct the billing error. The Senate will pay $106.10 for 1,145 miles of travel and $1,078.88 for the driver's salary, he said, and the ad-
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Campus recruiting up; job market called good
By TOM ZIND Staff Reporter
Campus recruiting for job candidates is up over last year, Vernon Geissler, University placement director and coordinator, said.
If campus interviews are a good indicator, the KU graduate is a hotter commodity than he was last year.
"We've been up in across-the-board recruiting this year by about 15 percent," he said.
Frederick Madau, placement director for the School of Business, said Monday that companies already had scheduled more interviews through the School of
Although the totals for campuswise recruiting cannot be accurately computed yet, the School of Business already has surpassed last year's totals for that
Last year, 749 recruiters representing 486 companies came to the University of Kansas to interview 7,494 job candidates.
Business, than were scheduled during all of last year.
Maudeas said that 66 percent of those students who graduated last year with a bachelor's degree and who responded to a survey last July were employed—presumably in some division of business. The majority of the graduate school graduates found jobs.
"We're well over 160 companies this year, as compared to 157 all last year," he said.
"All the literature we read indicates the business field should be good for the foreseeable future," he said.
Most of the remaining graduates had either entered the military or had gone to graduate school, he said.
MADAUS SAID the demand for business graduates was high and it probably would continue for the next few years.
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Business, engineering majors top salary list
By ROBIN SMITH
Staff Reporter
A KU student graduating this spring with a master's degree in business administration will probably have a degree in accounting.
A student with an MBA receives an average beginning salary of $17,826. Fredric Madman, placement director
The lowest average salary is paid to those who major in education. Terry Glenm, placement director for the School of Education, said the average salary for an education graduate ranged from $2,000 to $10,500.
This compares to an average of $13,341 for other 1978 KU graduates.
Glenn said the teaching field was crowded and a graduate in education must be flexible enough to move to another
The second highest beginning salary is paid to engineers, who average $17,528 a year.
VERNON GEISLER, director of the University placement center, said women chemical engineers were
However, Donald Metzler, associate dean of the School of Engineering, disagreed.
"You can't separate the men from the women," Metzler said. "The companies that interview at KU don't care about it."
However, Metzier did say chemical and petroleum engineers were said the highest salary in engineering at an
average of $18,432. Matzler recalled that the highest paid salary to a KU engineering graduate was $22,206, but that the graduate was neither a chemical engineering major nor a woman.
Metzler said civil engineers were paid the lowest beginning salary $16,000.
The third highest beginning salary is paid to students receiving a master's degree in business. Madans and a student from MIT receive the same salary.
"Engineers will have no problem in getting a job."
THE BUSINESS school enrollment has grown considerably. Madus said, "We are up at least 40 percent."
*According to the latest College Placement Council Salary Survey*, Mettler said, engineering joboffers have
Law graduates are not far behind in earning a high beginning salary.
"Companies are coming to interview students in business in record numbers. I would say that there has been at least a 15 percent increase in the number of companies now interviewing here."
Magnolia Carter, placement director for the School of Law, said the highest starting salary paid to a KU law school.
According to a 1978 placement salary survey, KU law graduates made an average salary of $17,800 in "very large" law firms. The next highest salary of $17,000 was paid to federal judicial clerks.
“Of course that figure is from an old survey.” Carrtar said. “That survey was made when $23,000 was a lot of money. We plan on changing the figure to $24,000 next year.”
HOWEVER, KU law graduates who went into legal services were paid the lowest salary, $12,300. Following in low salaries were local government law graduates at $13,000.
Cartar said the job market for KU law graduates looked promising.
"All the law graduates will find jobs," Cartart said. "They may have to work at finding the jobs—I mean they just can't sit back and wait—but they will be employed quickly."
Gene Martin, professor of pharmacy practice, said a School of Pharmacy graduate might have to work 44-hour weekends.
"The salary may be a little more or a little less," Martin said. "It all depends where a graduate is working."
Martin said the highest salary paid to a KU pharmacy graduate was $3,000. The student's offer came from Las Vegas.
"In a recent alumni publication though," Martin said, "the school with the highest percent of alumni working in
MARTIN SAIID pharmacy enrollment had not increased in the past six years and credited to this KU's lack of
knowledge.
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