Friday, May 2, 1986
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Carlin signs new law requiring seatbelts
TOPEKA — Gov. John Carlin yesterday signed into law a controversial proposal to require Kansas motorists to buckle up when they ride in the front seat of passenger cars and pickup trucks
The law, which will take effect July 1 upon publication in state statute books, was the subject of a resolution by the legislature the 1986 legislative session
"I've been involved in two accidents in the past few years, and I truly believe in the value of seat belts," Carlin said at a brief signing ceremony attended by about 15 lobbyists and law enforcement agency officials who pushed the measure through the Legislature.
Carlin requested the law prior to the 1966 session. Others pushing for the proposal included the country's automobile manufacturers who are trying to avoid putting expensive passive restraints, such as air bags, into new cars built in 1990 and thereafter.
Special athletes meet
The Kansas Special Olympics of Douglas County, Southwestern Bell of Lawrence and the KU athletic department are sponsoring a Special Olympics track meet tomorrow at Anschutz Pavilion.
The meet begins at 1 p.m. and will feature teams from Topeka, Ottawa and Lawrence. Team members will compete in 50-100-, 200- and 400-meter runs, x100-meter relay, 400-meter racewalk and 25- and 50-meter wheelchair races. Field events are the ball throw, shotput and standing and running long jump.
The meet is free and open to the public.
Golf course to open
The Orchards Executive Golf Course, 3000 W. 15th St., will open for walking golfers at 10:30 a.m. tomorrow
Joe Suiggs, manager of the course, said the course had not opened on time this spring because of work on sewer lines.
The nine-hole course probably will open to carts in a few weeks when final work is done on a bridge and cart trails, he said.
The city, which did the sewer work, paid the course about $36,000 for seeding and other finishing andDid Teresa Gardner, city engineer
Suggs said that he had received numerous calls inquiring about when the course would open and that he expected a big crowd tomorrow.
Center to be dedicated
The dedication of the Joyce and Elizabeth Hall Center for the Humanities will be at 4 p.m. Monday at the Hall Center. The center is in the Watkins Home behind Watson Library.
Members of the Hall family, representatives of other Hall family foundations. University faculty members. Chancellor Gene A. Budig and Theodore A. Wilson, in the center, will attend the ceremony.
There will be a reception after the dedication.
Weather
Today will be partly cloudy with a high in the mid-70s and winds to 10 to 20 mph. Tonight will be partly cloudy with a low in the mid-50s. Tomorrow will be partly cloudy with a high of 75 to 80 degrees.
From staff and wire reports.
Ueberroth to strike out drugs
Standing near the stage in the back of the Kansas Union Ballroom, a man wearing a blue suit and sporting a dark tan signed autographs for admiring fans.
By Frank Ybarra
Staff writer
He looked like any athlete recognized in public by his loyal following.
The man isn't an athlete. But he's made a living making sure athletes earn the respect they get.
With a message about baseball, the Olympics and the subject he's most known for — drugs in sports and national drug abuse — Peter Ueberoth, commissioner of baseball, spoke to a crowd of about 500 in the Ballroom yesterday as part of the J.A. Vickers Sr. Memorial Lectures Series. Ueberoth also was president of the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics Organizing Committee.
So the smiling Ueberhorn stepped to the podium,
he was greeted with applause from the crowd. He immediately put his hands in a “T” position,
signaling time out, to stop the ovation.
But the applause continued when Ueberroth started talking about the success of the Royals in England.
The Royals, he said, didn't have the best players when facing the St. Louis Cardinals in the Series, but they did have something more — a good team.
"The best collection of players can't beat the best team." he said.
But Ubeerborth's speech turned more serious he addressed the problem of drug use by black people.
"A cloud came over the game last year, and that cloud was drums," he said.
However, Ueberroth said, the problem with drugs in baseball is getting better, mainly because the players care so much about the game. He added that the team would be eliminated from baseball this year.
Ueberroth said the problem of national drug abuse was one of the four biggest problems facing the world today, along with the nuclear arms, terror and disruption — including world hunger and defiance.
Two changes occurred on the national scene in the past six months that have affected the use of drugs in the United States, he said. The type of drugs used have become more potent and more dangerous, and the number of drugs had decreased, when more accesse to high school and junior high school students.
To solve the problem, he said. U.S. borders should be closely monitored and tough politicians should put pressure on foreign governments exporting drugs to the United States.
Bryan Graves/KANSAN
Also needed are tougher courts, pressure from parents, influential people and institutions — including universities, Uberroth said.
"Drugs are the engine of crime in this nation," he said. Uebertroh also talked about what he considered to be the most dangerous drugs.
The first victory, he said, involved the running of the Olympic touch across the country.
Ueberroth described the film he saw of a run by a partially disabled 9-year-old girl.
Baseball Commissioner Peter Ueberrother talks about baseball, the national drug problem and his experiences planned the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games. Ueberrother, president of the 1984 Olympic Organizing Committee, spoke to a crowd of about 500 people in the Kansas Union Ballroom yesterday as part of the J.A. Vickers Sr. Memorial Lecture Series.
More artists will add variety to Art in Park
Staff writer
By Juli Warren
Art in the Park will show some different colors this year to celebrate its 25th anniversary.
Organizers of the event have tried to provide more variety by inviting 28 artists to a showing in the South Park Recreational. Center during the annual Diana Dunkley, vice president of the Lawrence Art Guild, said yesterday.
"We really wanted to bring a broader range of art to the community," she said.
Art in the Park is an exhibition ano sale by 80 artists that is scheduled from noon to 5 p.m. Sunday at South Park, as well as the exhibition at the recreation center. In case of rain, it will be at the same time May 11.
The guild and the Lawrence Parks and Recreation Department are sponsoring the event. Dunkley said.
Eighteen of the 28 artists showing in the invitational are KU faculty members, she said, many of whom normally wouldn't show at Art in the Park.
David Vertacnik, associate professor of design and one of the artists in the invitational show, agreed.
Art in the Park, said Vertacnik, a sculptor, is aimed toward a more
commercial audience, and the art shown there is more utilitarian than his.
The price range of the artists in the invitational also is probably higher, he said.
Vertacnik said he sculpted mixed-media pieces that combined clay, steel and wood.
"I think anytime you can educate people as to what's going on in the art community, I think that's great," Vertakin said.
Rick Dishinger, assistant professor of art and another artist in the invitational, said he wouldn't have shown his art at the event otherwise.
Marilyn Bittenbender, co-chairman of Art in the Park, said artists also would be demonstrating their work, including oil painting, paper making, woodworking, weaving, sculpture and forged iron.
Bands scheduled to perform are
Union Band at 12:30 p.m.; Full Circle,
which plays Celtic music, at 1:30
p.m.; Jazz Haus Swing Band at 2:30
p.m.; and Country Sideline, from
Hawaii Indian Junior College at 3:30
p.m.
Other artists in the invitational include eight 25-year veterans of Art in the Park, said Stephen Edwards, president of the guild.
Budig extends offer for Tutu to visit KU
By Monique O'Donnell
Staff writer
Nobel Peace Prize winner Bishop Desmond Tutu may visit the University of Kansas during the next academic year to educate students on issues of apartheid in South Africa, David Ambler, vice chancellor for student affairs, said yesterday.
Ambler said that Chancellor Gene A. Budig had sent an invitation to Tutu in March.
“This is something we have wanted to do for a long time,” Ambler said. “We think it’s important to educate people on issues of national importance. That’s also why we brought Donald Woods here.”
Woods, an exiled South African newspaper editor, spoke to KU students in February as part of the KU Lecture Series.
"Tutu has played a major role in any advancement that it's been made in South Africa," Ambler said. He would articulate human rights advocate."
Tutu won the peace prize in 1984 for his efforts to end apartheid in South Africa by advocating nonviolent means.
Tutu has visited the United States once a year over the last several years. Ambler said If Tutu decides to speak at KU, the University will do everything to
Ambler said University funds would nav for Tutu's visit.
accommodate him.
Dwaine Hemphill, Manhattan law student and member of the KU Committee on South Africa, said inviting Futu was a great move on
"It would be great if we could get students to write to Tutu and encourage him to come," Hemhill said.
Hemphill said he didn't know anyone who had done more against apartheid and taken a stronger position from South Africa than Tutu.
He is one of the voices of moderation in South Africa, Hemphill said, and a few years ago he was still putting himself between the police and anti-apartheid protesters.
Tutu's visit would be educational to those who weren't familiar with South Africa's issues and events, and to those who are well-informed to those who are well-informed.
Coalition sees goals approved
By Piper Schofield and Barbara Shear Staff writers
The Common Sense Coalition successfully ended the spring Student Senate session early yesterday morning with Senate approval of the reauthorization.
At the meeting, which lasted until about 2 a.m., the Senate passed two bills that would help establish a University lecture series and another bill allocating money to publish a book to University professors and courses.
The lecture series and the guide were two promises of David Epstein, student body president, and Amy Brown, student body vice president, when they ran for office in November 1985. Their coalition, Common Sense, is the majority coalition in the Senate.
"I feel really good and proud." Epstein said about meeting his campaign goals. "It's been an incredible sense of accomplishment. I want to give a lot of credit to the people on Senate."
Earlier this semester the Senate established SecCab, a free tax service for students which the Senate had promised to create. To meet the Senate's fourth promise, better communication with parking services Epsilon, a community park with Don Kearns, directive parking services.
Although the Senate needs about $500,000 to organize the lecture series, Epstein said, the two bills in committee will firm Senate commitment to the idea.
The first bill established a board of three senators and three non-senators appointed by the student council to coordinate lecture series activities.
The other bill took $25,000 from the Student Senate unallocated account to be used as the base for a lecture series fund. The $25,000 will be used to help raise the $500,000 needed for the series.
The Senate also allocated $13,500 for publication of the Jayhawk Course Solution booklet, which is to be available in spring 1987.
The booklet will contain about 70 pages of course requirements.
Senators argued for an hour over whether evaluation studies of professors should be included in the booklet. The Senate finally agreed that evaluations could be included, although not in the first publication.
David Hardy, graduate student senator, said professors would oppose the booklet if student evaluations were included.
"We need the support of faculty to get this thing off the ground," he said.
The Senate could be sued for publishing the student evaluations, Hardy said.
Drew Blossom, business senator,
said he opposed financing the booklet
because students could get the same
information from a course syllabus
or the department in which the
course was offered.
Luca Jellinek, business senator,
said course information was unavailable to students before enrollment.
Epstein defended the booklet by saying it would be a helpful service to KU students.
Epstein said that a similar booklet was published at Arizona State University and that 95 percent of the students need and liked the booklet.
Student evaluations of professors should be a possibility for the future, he said.
"There are risks, but I think you should be excited about taking risks," Epstein said.
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