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Lynette Woodard, KU alumna and Harlem Globetrotter returns to Lawrence this week.
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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
WEDNESDAY July 9, 1986 Vol.96, No.152 (USPS 650-640)
Budget-law arouses speculation
Bv Brenda Flory
Staff writer
Staff writer
The Supreme Court ruling Monday that declared a portion of the Gramm-Rudman Act unconstitutional has several Kansas lawmakers and University of Kansas professors speculating about what Congress will do next.
U.S. Rep. Dan Glickman, D-Kan,
said the first thing he wanted
Congress to do was to ratify the
first round of Gramm-Rudman cuts.
He said that he wasn't happy about the court's decision because the automatic cuts acted like a prevenience measure. The congress couldn't agree on budget cuts.
The Supreme Court ruled 7-2 that a key provision in the law violated the separation of powers between the executive and the legislative branches as required by the Constitution.
The act provided automatic across
the-board cuts if the president and Congress failed to meet deficit-cutting goals. The provision the court dealt with the designation of power to the compromil general, who heads the General Accounting Office in the legislative branch.
The comptroller general decides the size of the automatic cuts and where those cuts will be made, thus performing an executive function. The court said an officer in the legislative branch couldn't perform an executive function.
The court's decision gives Congress 60 days to reaffirm a first round of 1984 nominations that automatically took effect last March for fiscal 1996.
effect Cassan,
U.S. Sen. Nancy Landon
Kassebaum, R-Kan, said she would
support legislation that would place
the comptroller general in an
executive officer position.
She said that the Gramm-Rudman act was important because it reminded Congress of its spending limitations.
"It keeps our feet to the fire on the budget," she said.
Despite the ruling, Glickman said,
Gramm-Rudman will enforce
guidelines upon Congress.
guidelines up to But Steven Maynard-Moody, assistant professor of public administration, said that he thought Congress knew the act might be considered unconstitutional when they approved it.
See Gramm-Rudman, p. 5, col. 1
He said Gramm-Rudman made Congress look if it were committed to solving the budget deficit, but it wasn't a forceful commitment.
He said he didn't believe that Congress would ever meet its goal of a balanced budget and elimination of the federal deficit by 1991, which Gramm-Rudman was intended to accomplish.
"I think the support for Gramm-
Rudman was based on ideological appeal," Maynard-Moody said.
Maynard-moody said that he thought Congress would face difficult decisions in the future because the threat of automatic budget cuts no longer existed.
longer existed.
"I think there will be increased pressure to restore funds for popular programs," he said.
programs, he said.
Two KU law professors agreed with Maynard-Moody.
"It's easier for Congress to reach a consensus with automatic budget cutting than with a series of individual appropriation bills," said Rob Glickman, associate professor of law.
or law
"But what's easiest for our congressional representatives isn't necessarily best for the country."
Merchant dislikes pizza pricing plan
By Rachelle Worrail
Staff writer
said writer.
The hundreds of junior high and
school with school students attending
KU camps each week create a big demand
for pizza.
It is a demand to which pizzarias gladly coat, often at discounted costs because of the large quantities the camps purchase.
But the owners of Checkers Pizza & Pub, 214 Yale Road, Larry and Susan Friedland, said Monday that they were upset when they learned two camp directors were placing orders for the campers to disband them, then charging the campers more for the pizzas than Checkers would.
Checker your voice.
Checkers charged the directors
$2.50 for a small pizza and $5 for a
large. The directors of the camps then sold small pizzas for $4 and large pizzas for $8.
lapped off. Friedland that he and his wife learned about the profits the camp directors were earning from the pizzas when the son of Elaine Brady, KU Spirit Squad coordinator and director of the KU cheerleading camps, came into Checkers. Brady was paying her son for delivering the pizzas with some of the re-sale profits, Friedland said.
Elaine Brady said the remaining profit made from the re-sale of the pizza was to be donated to the Williams Fund, which supports athletic scholarships. The problem was that the campers didn't know
Vietnam Memorial marred by graffiti
Staff writer
By Rachelle Worrall
The remnants of an anti-war slogan on the KU Vietnam Memorial may remind the living that not all people treat memorials with respect.
The memorial was defaced with a slogan in black marker sometime before 6:30 p.m. Friday. The slogan said, "While waging a guerilla war against the imperialists, Brothers to the KU Police Department said."
The white limestone memorial, situated between West Campus Road and Memorial Drive was dedicated May 25, the day before Memorial Day.
Workers from the department of facilities and operations removed the writing.
punishable by up to $2,500 and one year in the county prison.
writing.
As of yesterday there were still no suspects, Brothers said.
If the vandal is caught, Brothers said, he or she would probably face Class A misdemeanor charges for criminal damage to property. It is
"There's not much to go on," he said. "These are very difficult to investigate unless you've got a witness, and no witnesses have come forward."
It is uncertain whether one or more persons were involved, he said, and it is also uncertain what kind of writing utensil was used.
"With graffiti it is extremely difficult to catch individuals unless they're in the act," Brothers said.
Thomas Berger, chairman of the KU Vietnam Memorial Committee, said he was very upset by the vandalism.
"It says a lot about the person or persons who did it. I don't think they're mental giants," he said.
"If you have to take a magic marker and scribble your feelings and run away from a monument for dead people, then you must in importance, with a cowardly way."
The memorial was not to honor the war, Berger said.
"I would like the opportunity to speak with the individuals." he said, "I think it's important that we understand there is a difference between the war years and the war."
Although a similar act of vandalism occurred at the Kansas City Vietnam Memorial, Berger said, the two acts probably were not related
Med Center missing radioactive material
By Evan Walter
Staff writer
staff writer
An official at the University of Kansas Medical Center announced Monday that the school still hasn't found a radioactive substance that has been missing since September 1985.
The Med Center and the Kansas Department of Health and Environment have been investigating the disappearance of a lead container of cesium for the last 10 months, said Ruth Schukman-Dakotas, director of safety at the Med Center.
"A very extensive investigation has been in progress." Schukman-Dakotas said. "They recommended that we first investigate the storage room. We investigated the door to see if it had been removed."
They investigated 150-plus laboratories at the Med Center with sensitivity equipment, she said. In addition to the Med Center's investigation, the state conducted its own investigations.
Cesium can be used to treat cancer. It was being used at the Med Center for research on the in vivo metabolism with human tissue, she said.
of the cesium.
The cesium was stored in a sealed, stainless steel cylinder that had been cataloged. The cylinder is one inch long and three-quarters of an inch in diameter.
Schukman-Dakotas did not say why the Med Center had waited 10 months before announcing the loss of the cesium.
"The source is not large enough to, in the matter of a few minutes or hours, cause any visible effects on a person." Allen said.
The cylinder was inside a cylindrical lead container, called a
"pig," about six inches high and four inches in diameter.
"The source (cesum) is a piece of metal that wouldn't contaminate water, soil or air." Schukman-Dakotas said. "As long as it's in its lead pig, it's not hazardous."
If the cesium were taken out of the lead container, a person would need to be close to it for a long period of time to notice any effects, such as those similar to a sunburn, said Gerald Allen, KDHE chief of the radioactive materials and x-ray section.
Investigators haven't drawn a conclusion about what happened to the material. It apparently recently thrown away, Schukman-Dakatas said.
"If it were buried under three feet of soil, we probably wouldn't even be able to detect it."
she said.
Anyone who finds the cesium or any information about it should notify the KDHE at (913) 862-9306, or Schukman-Dakotas at (913) 588-5165.
If the cesium is out of the pig it could emit a high-level of radiation. Although it might not be fatal, Schukman-Dakotas said, it could damage a person's hand if handled.
Schukman-Dakotas said that similar things had been stolen because they can be mistaken for valuable metals. The cesium, however, had little market value, she said.
Amy Hodes, Lawrence junior, works on a dance routine she plans to perform in December. Hodes practiced yesterday at Robinson Center.
On your toes
Fake bills turning up around city
Staff Writer
By Dana Spoor
Safe water containing a $2 bill normally is not a cause for alarm. But in Lawrence, bogus $2 bills have been floating around for more than two weeks.
Lawrence bankers and merchants have discovered 21 counterfeit bills since June 21. The bogus money has been sent to the Federal Service office in Kansas City, Mo.
Rhonda Hays, head easihier at Firstbank, 155 Iowa St., said, "We have received some. We have never had that many coming in at once."
According to Douglas Buchholz, special agent in charge of the Kansas City Secret Service office, most of the bills were originally dropped at the fast food restaurants on 23rd Street. The original carriers have probably left town, he said.
town, he and
Now only floaters, bills carried by innocent people, are being discovered.
Buchholz said that there were no suspects in the case yet, but that the Secret Service was still investigating.
While the investigation continues, merchants and bankers are taking precautions.
"We have regular meetings and we have the bad bills on the register," said Rick Huenttemmeier, manager of Walt-Mart. 3274 Iowa St.
Buchholz said that more than 40 bogus logs had surfaced within the last 10 days in Lawrence, St. Joseph, Mo., and the Kansas City area. All of the bills have the serial number L8627281D.
or WarMart, 21. Huwtenmeller said that Wal-Mart employees usually found fake bills after the store closed. No counterfeit bills had been discovered as they were passed, he said.
At K Mart, 3106 Iowa St., a training program was implemented before the recent influx of counterfeit bills. The program teaches employees how to recognize bogus money. Steps in identifying counterfeit picture on, and the color of, the bills.
City to set fate of skateboard ramp
By Kristi Schroeder Staff writer
Stan Wainter
An enterprising group of Lawrence skateboarders may be learning the facts of life the hard way. After raising money and building a skateboard ramp in town, the group now faces the Lawrence Board of Zoning Appeals at 7 p.m. tomorrow.
The group finished building a skateboard ramp in the 400 block of Louisiana Street on Marguerite Risley's property in mid-May. Risley had given the skateboarders permission to build the ramp.
Three days later, complaints and a petition signed by 45 neighbors resulted in the firing of the Price director of the city planning department, to close the ramp.
The group must now make an appeal to the zoning board to have Banks' decision reversed, said Dean Palos, an advanced city planner.
Palos said Banks decision deemed the ramp a private recreational facility. The group would have to obtain a site plan and a use-permitted-upon-review permit. The ramp would then be to have approved by the City Planning Commission and the Lawrence City Commission.
Palas said Banks cited two reasons or closing the ramp: It was in a residential area, for house security, and it was exclusively by the residents of the house.
court, Palos sain.
Risley authorized Steve Eddy, Lawrence junior, to speak for her and take care of the legal aspects of the case. Eddy, who formed the Heartland Skaters, a group of local skateboarding enthusiasts, said some of the group helped build the
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the group upholds Bank's decision, the group would have the option of taking the appeal to the district court, Palas said.
But those people living near the ramp aren't willing to compromise, at least not yet.
ramp, but it was solely for the use of Todd Risey, Marguerite Risey's son, and his friends, not the Heartland Skaters.
James Black, 400 Louisiana St., said he would have to think about working with the group to set up restrictions. Black had his attorney
Eddy said that the group had not checked into zoning laws before building the ramp. Instead, he said, it concentrated on insurance
Eddy said there had been skateboard ramps built in residential areas, and he didn't think problems with neighbors would arise.
"Most of our skaters would be receptive to these restrictions," Edy said. "rather than have the ramp closed down."
Black has lived in the neighborhood since 1949 and owns five other lots. He said the ramp was built about 70 to 75 feet his house.
draw up a petition and had eight neighbors sign it to keep the ramp closed.
Black's biggest concerns about the ramp were noise, increased traffic and trespassing.
and then repasings.
"The radio was blaring constantly," he said. "And I had 10 to 13 people trespassing through my yard."
"As soon as it (problems with traffi-
cation) came to our attention, we started parking on Mrs. Risley's property," Houlihan said.
See Ramp, p. 5, col. 6