Wednesday, June 18, 1986
University Daily Kansan
Campus/Area
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News Briefs
Self-inflicted wound kills Lawrence man
a 20-year-old Lawrence man died last night from a self-inflicted gunshot to the head, Lawrence police reported last night.
The department received a call at 7:43 p.m. to investigate a body in a parking lot in the 1800 block of Massachusetts Street, according to officer Rex Lane. The police were notified of the death by the Douglas County Ambulance Service, 1839 Massachusetts St.
The officers reported that Cedric V. Frazier had apparently selected the parking lot randomly, Lane said. Police said several witnesses saw Frazier pull into the parking lot and get out of his car.
When they heard the gunshot, they turned and saw Frazier. Lane said the shot was fired from a shotgun.
KU grad wins grant
A University of Kansas graduate student was named the recipient of the Eisenhower Roberts Graduate Fellowship last week.
Karen Hunt Exon, Topeka
graduate student, will receive a
$10,000 grant for the 1986-87
academic year from the
Eisenhower World Affairs
Institute.
Exon received her bachelor's degree in social studies in 1975 and her master's degree in history in 1982, both from KU. A candidate for a Ph.D. in political science. Exon received her doctoral dissertation now.
The grant comes from the estate of Clifford Roberts, a friend of former President Eisenhower. It was established last October.
Mikkelson-Lee resigns
Ruth Mikkelsen-Loe, associate director of residential affairs, is leaving her position at KU to become the director of residential affairs at Baker University effective July 1.
Mikkelson-Lee has been the associate director for eight years at KU.
"While I have enjoyed my job at KU, I am looking forward to a new challenge," Mikkelson Lee said. Mikkelson Lee said that she would have more responsibilities at KU because it is a smaller school.
"I hope to be able to provide quality care for fewer students," Mikkelson Lee said. "I hope to provide a more personal touch."
Work blocks traffic
The eastbound lane of Sumsidey Avenue in front of the Computer Center will be closed this morning while telecommunications lines are installed. Elizabeth Friesek said telecommunications department.
Eastbound traffic will be allowed to pass, but only the westbound lane will be open, she said.
The hours of the installation, which will continue until Friday, are from 7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
More construction will interrupt parking in front of Robinson Center on Sunnyside Avenue from June 23 to July 4, she said.
Weather
The forecast calls for partly cloudy skies today. Highs will be in the upper 80s to lower 90s.
Tonight skies will be partly cloudy with lows of 60 to 70. Partly cloudy again tomorrow with a slight chance of thunderstorms. Highs should be in the upper 80s to middle 90s.
The official first day of summer, Saturday, should continue to be hot with no significant rainfall expected. Through the weekend, highs will be in the high 80s to low 90s, lows in the high 60s.
From staff and wire reports.
Negligence breeds blight in Oread
Drafts blow through the ill-fitting windows; plaster on the ceilings cracks; and rotting wooden porches creak and sway as they are stepped
By Judy Scott
Special to the Kansan
These are common conditions in an area beginning in the 1100 block between Louisiana and Kentucky streets and stretching to the 1400 block of both streets. It is a common source of complaints to the Lawrence housing authority. Mangue Swarts, minimum housing and environmental inspector.
Warsts said her office received an average of two complaints a week concerning this area. But the office and property in the area are not yet able to get it in shape.
Glen McGonigle, 928 Avalon Road, owns several places in the Oread neighborhood in which students and retired faculty live.
"If you're right beside a house that's not taken care of, it's bound to have a detrimental effect on your property," he said.
"We had one place where the neighbor didn't take care of their place, and so we just bought it. Now it's being completely redone."
Not all the houses in this area are dilapidated, however. Several of them show the care that owners have put into them, said Paula Naughtin, coordinator of the Oread Neighborhood Association, 1310 Loulou.
siana ST. The association works to clean up the neighborhoods between Arkansas and Massachusetts streets and from Ninth to 17th streets.
Moggie said people seemed to work harder now to improve the older houses. He said he also thought the new apartment buildings in the neighborhood could spur others to take better care of their property-
The problem with the area is its proximity to campus, Naughtin said. Students are willing to pay cheap rental rates to live near campus, even if their residence is not in perfect shape.
swarts said she tried to be flexible when working with the owners but she monitored the repairs carefully. If the problems with the houses were not corrected within the allotted time span, they would have been fixed. It then would become the responsibility of the people living in the house to find a new place to live.
"There is no advantage to the landlord fixing them up," she said. "When the house falls apart, he can sell the lot to a developer."
Eugene Ross, Leavenworth junior, said he and some of his friends decided to rent part of a house on Tennessee Street last fall.
One of the doors in the house was locked when the house was shown, Ross said. But when he and his friends returned to the house after signing the contract, they managed to get into the room.
"The room was soaked from a leaky ceiling," he said. "The plaster on the walls was cracked. The floor was buckled, and it was roach-infested. We had to lie to the owner to break our contract."
When the city inspector is called, a number of paths can be taken, depending on the condition of the house. Swarts said.
Naughtin said, "We think it is ridiculous that people are able to milk their prospects that way."
She said she would usually give the owner one to two weeks to begin repairs and up to 30 days to complete the repairs. It is rare, but possible, that a house will be vacant when she first visits it.
If the house were vacated, the owner would still own the house, but no people could live there, she said. The owner is told to pay to get it
Although some houses and apartments in the Oread neighborhood might be uncomfortable to live in, they are attracted to the location and the rent.
Barry Breitung, Naperville, Ill. graduate student, lives in an area near some run-down houses.
"My house is the best place II've lived in Lawrence," he said. "But some of these houses around here are really awful."
Breitung said those houses usually had very cheap rent, which attracts students.
I.R.S. stalks tardy student loans
By Dana Spoor Staff writer
Staff writer
College students who neglect or forget to pay back their student loans may be surprised when they start paying the tax refund and it never shows up.
The Internal Revenue Service has started withholding tax refunds from former students who have defaulted on their student loans. The IRS pays as much of the loan as possible out of the refund
The loans that have been returned to the federal government as uncollectable are the loans that will be
affected, Jerry Rogers, director of student financial aid, said yesterday
"Personally, I don't see how this could affect us," Rogers said.
This procedure is part of a two-year pilot program initiated by Congress, according to a Department of Education employee. When the two years are up, you will look at the success of the program to determine whether it will continue.
The IRS may withhold refunds for one more year because of defaulted loans. State universities send names to the IRS. S. attorney's office for prosecution.
Since 1976, $120 million in loans have not been paid. The federal government has collected less than $20 million of the total amount. The state of Kansas has $1.4 million worth of defaulted loans.
Since January, the state of Kansas had withdrawn 2,518 refunds, amounting to $1.3 million. The IRS withholds the entire amount of the refund or the total amount due on the loan, whichever is less.
Marvin Burns, member of the Board of Regents, said KU would not receive any of the money directly when the government began collection processes.
"When the University collects money, it gets loaned back out," Burns said.
When the government collects on defaulted loans, the money goes into a fund and is awarded to needy institutions. If the loan is a National Direct Student Loan, however, then the money goes to the U. Treasury.
The Kansas University Endowment Association is not affected by the decision, because the money for their loans comes from donations and is not backed by the government, Iris Jones, student loans director, said.
Outbreak spurs call for measle vaccine
Staff writer
By Dana Spoor Staff writer
Students may receive a free vaccination at Watkins Hospital.
Students who received a measles vaccination before their first birthday or who were born between 1963 and 1967 have been advised by the Lawrence Douglas County Health Department to get vaccinated.
detected in Newton, the last one in March
Ninety-eight cases of measles have been reported in Kansas this year, compared with one case last year and five cases in 1984. The cause of the outbreak is hard to pin down, Ann Ailor, head nurse of the communicable diseases section at the department, said yesterday.
"Some of the kids were not immunized, but you can't say exactly what caused it," she said.
The first case was reported in Newton in January. There were 46 more measles cases
Topeka was also hit with the measles. Topeka West, High School reported 18 cases of measles.
Ailor said that since March there hadn't been any cases reported, but there was still some risk.
any cases reported, but there was one other case. "The highest risk group now are the high school kids and college kids who may not have gotten the right kind of vaccination," she said.
The Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, from the Department of Health and Human Services, said the measles vaccine is indicated for all persons born in 1957 or after who lack documentation of receipt of live measles vaccine.
After the report of measles at Topeka West, Ailor had all records in Lawrence junior high and high schools audited. All students who needed the vaccination were told to get one.
Lawrence Magee, chief of staff at Watkins, said she wasn't any legal action the university could take.
"In the past, several years back, you had to get the measles vaccination before you could graduate, but it didn't work," he said.
KU students' records are checked when students as in freshman, said Lymn Heller, staff nurse.
"All we can do as professionals is tell them that it is a vaccination they should have but there is no enforcement in the University," she said.
Heller said a parent orientation was held each fall which stressed the importance of the vaccination then.
Fate of campus bar still to be decided
By Rachelle Worral Staff writer
The fate of the Rock Chalk Bar, 618 W. 12th St., is undetermined even after the Lawrence City Commission last night rezoned the plot where the bar is situated.
The five-member commission also voted to accept the proposal from the Lawrence Traffic Safety Commission for the installation of a traffic light at Ninth and Maine streets.
within 200 feet of the Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 1204 Oread Ave.
The Rock Chalk Bar was rezoned from RD, residential dormitory, to C-1, commercial. Although the rezoning will not change the existing use of the bar, said Price Banks, city planner, it could alter the site's future use if the building were destroyed.
A Kansas law was passed in 1966 making the sale of alcoholic beverages within 200 feet of a religious buildings illegal, and the Rock Chalk is situated
A grandfather clause enabled the continued sale of cereal malt beverages in the bar because it was in existence at the time the law was passed, Banks said.
Under the RD zoning, if the building were destroyed and rebuilt, a bar could no longer be opened.
Lida Martin, Rt. 2, Baldwin, said she had planned to buy the bar if she were able to make improvements to the building and operate a restaurant.
"My plans are to make it into a nice restaurant." Martin said, "it would really add to the University's reputation."
Banks said a restaurant could be rebuilt on the site if the building were destroyed under the C-1 zoning.
Charles Kincaid, owner of the building, said, "I was always worried some geek would torch it some night."
Any expansions made to the existing building would have to be approved by the city commission, said Sandra Praeger, Lawrence mayor.
The decision to put a traffic light at Ninth and Maine streets was the result of the April 22 death of 10-year-old Brendon Doerr, who was fatally in-front of the intersection at the intersections of Ninth and Alabama streets.
The traffic safety commission determined a light was necessary at the intersection at its June 2 meeting.
Terese Gardner, city engineer, said a study of the intersection showed a need for traffic control. George Williams, director of public works, said the right wight would not be installed for about six months.
City panel to discuss gay bias
Staff writer
By Rachelle Worrall
A seven-member committee was formed at Monday night's Lawrence Human Relations Commission meeting to determine whether discrimination against homosexuals or public accommodations and housing.
Two KU students, Robert Lynch,
president of the Gay and Lesbian Services
of Kansas, and Kevin Elliott,
president of the Gay and Lesbian
Political Caucus, are members of the
committee.
"If someone begins to file a complaint because a minister had refused to marry two men, or two women, I can see us having some problems," Rehelo Samuel, executive director of commission, said Monday night.
"We need to be very specific and have those guidelines and not get into a whole lot of other complaints."
Committee members cannot publish information about a company that allegedly discriminates against homosexuals. Samuel said Comune officials must identify plants filed against them are now cloaked under a city ordinance.
"All we're wanting is to be treated like any other group of individuals."
Lynch said, "At least it's a start. At least they're willing to recognize that ves, there may be a concern here.
Sex discrimination policy now prevents only gender discrimination and has nothing to do with sexual orientation, he said. If a homosexual person is married or of sexual preference, that person would have no legal course of action.
"I hope this isn't turned into a real emotional issue." Lynch said.
Other committee members are Rob Rerrison, director of the KU Office of Affirmative Action; Vernell Spearman, director of the KU Office of Minority Affairs; Marcia Epstein, director of Headquarters, 1419 Massachusetts St.; Jay Johnson, coordinator of Peace House, and Robert Shelton, chairman of the KU department of religious studies.
Samuel said he also did not want individuals to become emotional over the study, due at the end of August.
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