Marked cards may not trick club doormen
Bv ROBIN SMITH
Staff Reporter
"Bello Bob!" This is Jim. Listen, I've got a hot date tonight and I said I take her to a private club. Can I borrow your membership card? And your driver's license?"
Or, “I don’t know if this is going to work, Jane.” My changed my birth year from 1968 on my mother’s side.
According to several employees of local private clubs, these are some of the routines that KU students follow at school. The college provides drinking age in Kansas. Kansas law requires that persons be 21 to drink in a private club and 18 to drink in a public club.
GEORGE SHAMMAS, North Lebanon, Lebanon,
senior, who is a doerman at the Sanctuary, 1401 W.
7th St., said that he would not accept any
identification unless it could be matched with a picture
"Usually, a minor will borrow someone else's ID that doesn't have a picture on it," Shammas said.
"Then when I ask for a second ID, they won't have one and I don't let them in."
"If the picture doesn't match the person, I won't let them in and I keep the ID," he said. "Then the real owner of the identification will have to come to the Sanctuary to pick it up."
However, Marty Zimmerman, Lawrence senior, who also is a doctor for the Sanctuary, said he did not know of any potential risks.
Shammas said that he compared a picture ID with an ID without a picture to check dates and names.
"I don't want to play cop." "Zimmerman said. "It's just that I couldn't get into 21 clubs until I was of age, so they will just have to put up with the rules like I did."
However, some private clubs in Lawrence do not check everyone's identification.
Zimmerman said that if he knowingly admitted a minor into the club, he would lose his job.
MIKE HYNES, Olaite senior, who is a doeram at the Mad Hatter, 700 New Hampshire St., that he took only a "random" sample of the identification of the person who entered the bar.
"Sometimes I will check the DMs more closely if the person really looks young," Hwives said.
MARK BROTHERS, director of the Lawrence Crime Prevention Unit, said the charges that could
be pressed against a minor in a bar depended on the decision of the arresting officer.
"I would say that about 65 to 80 percent of these cases are handled informally; the arresting officer catches the offender in the bar and simply asks him to leave," he said.
The manager also could have heard in front of the Division of Alcoholic Beverage Control and Pressure Systems.
However, Brothers said, the Lawrence Police Department is more interested in catching the people who have been involved.
He said that if a manager of a private club is caught allowing minors into his bar, the manager could be charged with a misdemeanor and brought to municipal court.
"However, if an officer goes into a club and finds a youth with an ID that is obviously not his, the officer may confiscate the ID. 'Brothers said.' If the ID is in their possession, they will move to the Motor Vehicle Department in Topeka."
JACK ELDER, Lawrence patrolman, said of others tried to check patients at bars for identification.
"The new Kansas driver's licenses are hard to alter," Elder said. "You have to lift up the plastic coating to change the birth year and if the edge of the shell peeled, chances that it has been tampered with."
"If the driver's license has been tampered with, the area around the changed date will be wister than the original date."
David Wright, Kansas City, Kan, senior, who is a doorman at Bullwinkle's, 806 W. 84th St., said that smudges on a driver's license were always a reason to suspect forery.
Jim Grieger, Northbrook, Ill., junior, who is a doorman at Shenanigan's, 901 Mississippi St., said, "I had a roommate once who took a photograph of his driver's license, worked on the photograph, took another picture of it and then shrank it down to size. That was a lot of trouble, but I guess it was worth it."
Staff photo by BARB KINNEY
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
The University of Kansas—Lawrence. Kansas
Vol. 89. No.103
Igal Rodokeno, who has been a political activist for more than 35 years, visited the KU campus yesterday to express his views on nuclear weapons and power, apartheid in Africa and environmental concerns.
KANSAN
Social activist
Tuesday, February 27, 1979
Death bill sponsor testifies
By GENELINN Staff Reporter
TOPEKA - A Kansas Senate committee heard testimony yesterday on the reinstatement of the death penalty from nine witnesses, including the state senator who introduced the bill and who may cast a key role when the issue reaches the Senate floor.
The Senate Federal and State Affairs Committee is considering three different death penalty bills, one of which already has been approved by the Kansas House.
In the past few years, the Senate has blocked the reinstatement of capital punishment by narrowly voting down death penalty bills that had been approved by the
State Sen. Ron Hein, R-Topena, who may cast the key vote, said he had introduced his own bill in the committee this year because he could not vote for the bill approved by the
Hein's vote could be significant because a close vote on the death penalty is expected again in the Senate. The measure failed last month, but one of the senators voting against the bill.
Hein said last night that pro-death penalty forces in the Senate had gained a vote this year because State Sen. Merrill Werts, Hein's co-chairman, replaced former State Sen. Don Everette.
EVERETTE  HAD opposed capital punishment and Werts had said he would
vote for the death penalty, according to Hein.
Hein said that if he bill received the Senate floor, he would vote for it and the bill would pass 21-19, if the other Senators voted the same as they did last year.
The bill would then go to Gov. John Carlin, who has said he would give capital punishment legislation careful consideration.
Hein said yesterday, "I don't see how some groups can come up here and say they want to be president of the country, penalty but don't care how it is enacted. We're not voting on a concept, we're voting on laws."
HE SAID THE House bill was not workable because it would make convictions more difficult to obtain in capital punishment cases.
The House bill requires prosecutors to choose between premeditated murder and felony-murder charges before they begin to work on capital punishment cases.
Felony-murder is the killing of a person while committing or attempting to commit a crime.
"If a prosecutor charges premeditated murder and finds out half way through the trial he can't prove premeditation, the prosecution will have to charge the charge to felony-murder." He said.
IF THE PROSECUTOR chose felony-murder. He said, and lost the case, the suspect was released from prison.
charged with would be involuntary man-
slaughter.
He said that someone convicted of involuntary manslaughter could be out of jail.
Hein said his bill would not require prosecutors to choose between premediated murder and felony-murder charges before they go to trial.
"I'm irrecoveably opposed to the death penalty, but my constituents favor it so strongly that I promised to vote for a woman," he said. "That's why I introduced my bill."
Other testimony concerned the concept of the death penalty.
House Majority Leader Robert Frey, R-Liberal, who carried the House capital punishment bill to the committee, said, "We must never forget the victim of a capital
BOTH JOHN Biythe of the Kansas Farm Bureau and Robert Tilton of the Kansas Sheriffs' Association said their groups favored capital punishment.
"We believe the death penalty is a deterrent to violent crime." Blythe said.
However, the Rev. Jack Breiner of the Consultation of Cooperating Churches in Kentucky said that he had a murder rate twice as high as the rate in Kansas even though Missouri had capital punishment.
Bremer also said he be objected to the death penalty on moral grounds,
'IT IS NOT just, before God, to take the life of any human being for another,' he reasoned.
Jan Scott, of the Kansas chapter of the National Association of Social Workers, said the death penalty discriminated against minorities and those who were poor.
In 1960, a California study found that 42 percent of blue collar workers convicted of murder received death sentences, while the 58 percent who were blue collar workers was persecuted," she said.
"Another study found that blacks constitute 76 percent of those executed for robbery and 100 percent of those executed for burglary," she said.
KARL MENNINGER, head of the Menninger Foundation in Topeka, said that capital punishment is enacted only if it deterred crime and that executions were a deterrent only when they were witnessed by the public.
"I don't know if you want to pay that price," he said.
Big 8 fights HEW with $15.000
Frey said the bill approved by the House fell within Court guidelines.
The last execution in Kansas took place in 1965. The U.S. Supreme Court effectively struck down all existing laws on capital punishment, and thereby did the existing laws unconstitutional.
In 1976, the Court ruled that death penalty laws would be constitutional if they did not arbitrarily sentence some people to die and allow others to live.
Staff Reporter
Rv BARBARA.JENSEN
The Big Eight Conference has contributed at least $15,000 in an effort to oppose an interpretation of Title IX federal guidelines that would require equal per capita spending in men and women's intercollegiate sports. The men's athletics director, said this weekend.
Per capita funding would require that the same amount of money be spent on each female athlete as is spent on each male athlete.
Marcum said that Father Edmund Joyce, executive vice president at Notre Dame University, had helped organize universities across the country in an effort to make Congress aware of the schools' opposition to the introduction of football when determining funding.
"If they would eliminate football from the funding requirements, it would put the guidelines in the ball park where most of us can live with it." Marcum said.
JOYCE SAID yesterday that 300 to 400 schools had inigned in opposing the in-
perpetration. He said the University of New Mexico and DeHart and Associates, a public affairs firm in Washington, D.C., had organized the effort.
"I think it's basically a grassroots organization that started at the NCAA conference in January," Joyce said. "It was evident that about 96 percent of the schools there were concerned about the Title IX interpretation."
Joseph Califano, secretary of the U.S.
Department of Health, Education and
Sciences.
TITLE IX of the Education Amendment of 1972 states that equal athletic opportunities for all students are available at institutions receiving federal aid. An institution risks losing aid if it does not.
stating HEW's interpretation of the funding requirements of Title IX.
KU sent a response on Feb. 9 opposing the interpretation. The inclusion of football in determining per capita funding was one of the main objections in the response.
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South Africa reply expected today
In the statement, the Endowment Association released a new policy that said
The KU Committee on South Africa said yesterday that it would release a counter-statement today calling for the Kansas University Endowment Association to reconsider its cancellation of a meeting the committee requested between the two groups.
About 12 committee members met yesterday afternoon in the KU-Y office in response to a request in response to one released Friday by the Endowment Association. The statement was made on Thursday.
The committee has urged American corporations to withdraw investments from South Africa because they said those in the country encouraged the system of apartheid.
The policy said that any past, present or future donor should tell the Endowment Association if he does not want his money to be used. If he requests will be honored, the statement said.
ACCORDIN G TO Laird Okie, graduate student and spokesman for the committee, the group is still planning to meet with the Endowment Association.
donations be invested in companies in South Africa.
Ed Dutton, associate professor of social welfare and committee member, said,
"This will be a representative statement from all of us.
"We are going down there on March 7,
unless we hear from them before then,"
**Elias F.**
dowment association's statement says, "We feel that this policy statement accurately describes the feelings and the adoption of our policy. And consequently, we feel that our participation in the proposed March 7 meeting would be inappropriate." Seymour had signed the
Todd Seymour, president of the En-
dowment Association, sent a copy of the
announcement to the Secretary.
THE LETTER accompanying the En-
Dutton said that he received the statement yesterday, although copies of the statement had been released as early as Friday.
Government could help eagles' winter home
Members of the committee said that they would be presenting their views at the new Student Senate's first meeting on Wednesday.
A stretch of the Kansas River near Lawrence, long the winter home of dozens of endangered bald eagles, may gain the protection of the federal government, an official of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said yesterday.
Dutton said, "Seymour has unilaterally stated that he will not meet with us. We are concerned when a campus official refuses to converse in any way."
By LYNN BYCZYNSKL
Staff Reporter
Stephen Preston, a biologist for the Fish and Wildlife Service, said the Kansas City, Mo., office of the service would recommend that the six-mile stretch of river be granted "critical habitat status," preventing further development of the area.
Under the provisions of the Endangered Species Act, an area declared to be a critical habitat would remain in the possession of the current landowners. But development and tree-clearing would be prohibited and winter activity limited. Preston said.
BALD EAGLES, the national bird of the United States, have historically journeyed to Kansas in the winter to prey on fish in the open waters of the Kansas River.
If landowners wanted to sell their riverfront property, the Fish and Wildlife Service probably would buy the land, he said.
The fierce-looking birds, with wingspans up to six feet, can often be seen roosting in trees.
Mature bald eagles display the familiar brown bodies with white heads. Birds younger than five years are plodychy brown in color.
This year, 20 bald eagles have been counted in the stretch of river that runs from two miles west of Lecompte to four miles east of the town.
LAST YEAR, twice that number were seen in the same area, according to Howard Tappi.
Both Prestin and Levenson agreed that the bald eagles could desert the Kansas River wintering spot unless some measures to protect the area were taken.
See EAGLES back page
who has been collecting data on the bald eagles.
Levenson said that there was a prevailing fear FAILS bus pans.
This year's smaller number of bald eagles may have been caused by activity in the area, such as building, low-flying airplanes or hikers trying to spot the birds. Preston said.
Solar view
BURK Nelson, the older, looks at a projected image of the moon in front of the sun caused by a solar eclipse. By 13:00 m., yesterday, about 80 percent of the sun's disc was covered by the moon. About 100 people gathered around its equipment at Wescow Hall to view the eclipse, the last one visible from the continental United States until 2017. More than 250 others gathered around telescopes at Kansas Union and Daisy Hill. All of the telescopes were provided by the Astronomy Associates of Lawrence.