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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
PETER PARKS
THURSDAY, MAY 1, 1986, VOL. 96, NO. 145 (USPS 650-640)
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Second meltdown cited in Soviet disaster
United Press International
A second meltdown apparently has occurred at the crippled Soviet nuclear power plant in the Ukraine, U.S. officials said yesterday. More radioactive material spews from a nuclear power station of mass casualties mounted despite Soviet resistance that only two people had died.
A West German scientist said the Soviet reactor was spewing a thousand times as much radiation as the atom bomb that levelled Hiroshima.
In the Netherlands, a Dutch ham radio operator said he monitored a radio conversation from the Soviet nuclear accident area reporting "many, many hundreds of dead and wounded but may many, many more" to the plant north of the Ukrainian capital of Kiev.
But in a statement by the Soviet Council of Ministers read on Soviet national television last night, the government denied reports of gigantic destruction and fires and figures
Five U.S. reactors lack safety domes for radiation
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Five large U.S. reactors used to produce nuclear weapons lack thick containment domes to trap escaping radiation, which could have caused an accident. U.S. officials said yesterday.
The absence of such a protective steel-and-concrete shell around the Chernobyl reactor in the Soviet Union is blamed by officials for the long-term damage to the worst nuclear power accident in history.
groups, officials considered building a containment dome around one of the four weapons reactors near Alken, S.C., two years ago. The U.S. government price tag, it was not reasonable to do so.
The concrete and steel domes used at U.S. commercial plants are four feet thick.
Energy Department documents indicate officials have been concerned for years about the warping graphite core and embrittled and bowing process tubes in the N weapons reactor at Hanford, Wash., the U.S. plant closest in design to the Soviet reactor.
suggesting thousands of dead.
But a Soviet diplomat in Finland has called it the world's worst nuclear accident.
Like the Chernobyl plant, the N reactor is cooled with water and uses graphite to control the fission reaction inside but has no containment dome. Energy Department officials maintain that there are sufficient differences between the Washington and Soviet plants — because of the structural design and operating conditions — to make any comparison unwarranted.
"Number one, its function is defense, not commercial power generation as the Soviet reactor is," Energy Secretary John Herrington said of the Hanford plant.
And a Switzerland resident of Kiev with hospital and rescue team contacts said Tuesday that the number of people in Kiev who were
The Soviets, who admitted Tuesday that habitats of the nuclear plant settlement Pripaty and three nearby towns had been evacuated, again said yesterday that only
at a radioactive waste site after the accident at the giant plant.
"The emanation of radioactive substances has decreased, the radiation levels in the area of the atomic power station and in the settlement at the station lowered." said the
two people had died. The new statement acknowledged that 197 people were injured
Also displayed on the program was a picture identified as the damaged station — a side view showing one section of the building with a charred, caved in roof but no signs of fire. Another asked West German and Swedish nuclear experts for help in fighting an atomic fire.
statement on the nightly news program Vremya.
The statement downplaying the severity of the accident and its effects came after reports from Washington that U.S. intelligence officials estimated a meltdown had occurred or was in the process of occurring in a nuclear reactor at the four-reactor plant
Other officials called the possibility of a second meltdown conjecture, but a Swedish analyst — Mikael Stern of the private space agency Satellitibld — also said satellite pictures indicated two reactors had gone into meltdown at the stricken nuclear power plant near Kiev, the third most populous city in the Soviet Union with 2.3 million people.
It's a no-no
Joe Wilkins III/Special to the KANSAN
Leslie Dunham, Simi Valley, Calif., sophomore, gets a warning for riding double on her moped from a KU police officer.
Liquor vote may boost state's image
By Abbie Jones
Staff writer
Some call it backward, puritanical or primitive, but the state's liquor image seems to be inching its way to modernization.
"Kansas has always been so dry," State Rep Betty Jo Charlton, D-Lawrence, said recently. "We have to bring Kansas into the 20th
A liquor by-the-drink amendment will appear on the November ballot after a legislative battle to enhance the image and draw business to the
Some Kansans get taunted by the state's odd approach to liquor by the drink, which is banned by the state in motion, says one liquor lobbist.
"I am continually teased and chastised," said Chris Edmonds of the Kansas Club and Tavern Association. He said he was crossing across Kansas to go to Colorado.
Charlton, who voted against the measure in the 1985 legislative session, said the ban never should have been put into the constitution. The present club card system was an elaborate way of getting around it, she said.
Senate Majority Leader Bud Burke, R-LaWood, says Kansas has tried to change its backward reputation.
“What we have is a ridiculous situation, and it’s the ridiculous nature of our constitutional probabil- jence. It all seem to be a bad joke,” he said.
Legislators also have heard arguments for an imminent business boost if the people vote for liquor by 2015, too, may be killing the dry forces.
“It’s been kind of backward for a number of years,” he said, “Let’s get with it. Let’s quit being the butt of jokes.”
"I think the average person on the street thinks we're back in the 16th century as far as our liquor laws," he said.
The only other state that has such a provision is Utah, Burke said.
Ken Wallace, owner of the Jayhawk cave, 1340 Ohio St., says it's time to move the state forward.
Gary Toebben, executive vice president for the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce, said restaurants would be drawn to the state if the measure passed in November. Kansas looks less progressive sitting next to states that allow drinking in restaurants, he said.
of hard liquor, Charlton said. They await the day they can profit from sales at conventions, sporting events and restaurants.
The businessmen said merchants would rather be in a state with more liberal drinking laws, she said.
"There is a much finer restaurant selection in Kansas City, Missouri, than on the Kansas side," he said. "Certainly any time you generate
Distilleries and proponents of the amendment started a campaign to enhance the historically bad opinion
Beginning at 1:30 tomorrow afternoon, customers at the Wagon Wheel Cafe may be in for a surprise — and it's not tree beer to celebrate the last
Sit-in to protest parking around Wheel
Residents of the University scholarship halls are planning to "Freak the Wheel" by occupying customers' party seats in exchange for the parking spaces hall residents have had to forfeit during the year.
By Peggy Kramer
See LIQUOR, p. 5, col. 3
Staff writer
"They take our parking spaces, so we're going to take their booths," Jennifer Nye. Salma sophomore and Mary Hall resident, said yesterday.
She said she didn't know if the 'sit-in' would solve the parking problem, but at least it would allow scholarships to get students to out their frituations.
Darren Roubinek, Springfield,
Mo., junior and Battetlen Hall res-
ident, said Thursday nights and
Saturday afternoons for trying to
find park spaces.
He said he hadn't received any
The back door of the Wheel, 507 W. 14th St., opens to the parking lot reserved for residents of all the scholarship halls, he said, and some of the Wheel customers even think it's the Wheel parking lot.
"We usually have to wait for the bar to close to be able to find a parking space," she said.
Tracy Edingfield, Wichita sophomore and Miller Hall resident, said she would be out of town Friday, and would participate in "Freak the Wheel."
complaints about the limited parking spaces.
"We're not doing this to be vindictive, it's meant to be sarcastic," indignedly said. "We would like to have the kids take the school hall house do hare rights."
John Wooden, owner of the Wheel,
said the bar didn't have an official
parking lot, so some customers parked
on the street. There is, however,
one space in back and one in front for
employees.
"There isn't any available area for a parking lot to be put right now," he said.
She said "Freak the Wheel" had generated a lot of support from the women in Miller.
"It is in fun, but we would like to make the point that we really don't appreciate customers filling up our parking spaces," she said.
The parking spaces are reserved for the scholarship halls, she said, but parking services doesn't have a limit on the number of tickets, especially on Friday nights.
Roubinek said that parking services had been contacted about the problem.
The situation is annoying, but vandalism hasn't been a problem, Eddingfield said, other than a few people onking on the cars while they're drunk.
Robinke said he and Nye organized "Freak the Wheel" and brought it to the attention of the All Scholarship Hall Council.
The idea of "Freak the Wheel" was considered at the beginning of the semester, but because of timing facets it would be done until tomorrow, he said.
Indian group says rights are violated
By Brian Kaberline Staff writer
Wayne Barnett walked into his dormitory after a day of work and classes. His room is a small partitioned area in a building that is scheduled to close after this semester. An inspection by the U.S. Inspector General's office found it unsafe to live in.
Barnett, a student at Haskell Inst. Junior College, pulled out a black briefcase that contained memos, letters and other information on the conditions Haskell students have to endure.
But Barnett isn't the only one keeping track of irregularities at the school.
The Native American Indian Students From Haskell, a group of students, ex-students and other concerned people, says it has been collecting evidence of civil rights violations by the school.
The group plans to present its findings at a press conference 10 a.m. Saturday in Alderson Auditorium of the Kansas Union. Organizers said they were forced to hold the conference at the University of Kansas because of repression of free speech at Haskell.
"We are calling this press conference and forum at KU because such a meeting to discuss public educational policy is currently forbidden at Haskell," the fly announcing the forum said.
Charles Geboe, dean of instruction, said many of the charges had no basis
The group cites dismiss from school based on arbitrary charges and inconsistent hearing procedures, repression of free speech, inadequate housing in the school's dormitories and holding of Pell Grants from students.
"Sometimes I think disharmony is like honey or sugar and it attracts," he said.
Venida Chenault, president of KU
A report can be filed for coming into a dorm with the slightest indication of alcohol use, she said.
Chenault said that the reports are filed by untrained staff members and that students are considered guilty of not unless they are cleared by a hearing.
Intertribal Alliance and former Haskell student, said a policy that dismissed students for receiving three reports of violating school policy was in violation of the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
He said the college was allowed until June 4 to clear up the situation or it would lose any chance of receiving Pell Grant money for this semester.
Robert Jamroz, special assistant to the assistant secretary of education, said the only mix-up was at Haskell. He said the school failed to verify its student aid reports, so it was denied the money it was due.
Doyle Teton, president of the Off Campus Club, said the worst problem on the Haskell campus was not a violation of any law, but the withholding of Pell Grant money to students.
Geboe, who last year was in charge of the school's appeal committee, said he thought the system was fair, if not too lenient because students usually had to cause a big problem before they were reported.
Students who come in drunk are usually left alone unless they are loud and bother the other residents, he said. The school stresses helping with drinking problems instead of dismissing them, according to Gebee.
A story in the April 16 Lawrence Daily Journal-World said the school was not able to pay $5,300 in grant money to 239 eligible students. The story quoted a memorandum fromaskell President Gerry Gipp, who warned students from a change in the way the government awarded and disbursed funds.
Governance, aid bills unpopular at Haskell
Staff writer
Rep. Jim Slattery, D-Kan., in December introduced one of the bills, which would take Haskell out from under the control of the Bureau of Interest. The department of Interior, and make the college an independent corporation.
Although both bills appear to be dead now, charges of deception and false motives on the part of the sponsors continue to be heard.
Two pieces of legislation were introduced in 1985 that sponsors could help Haskell Indian Junior College prove the management of the school.
By Brian Kaberline
Supporters of the bill said it would give the Indian people more control over the school's governance and from offending降 aid from the bureau.
The other bill was introduced in the Kansas Senate in February 1985 by State Sen. Wint Winter Jr., R-Lawrence. The bill would allow the state to provide financial aid to the college based on the number of Kansas students attending. Later discussion of the bill raised the possibility of establishing of a technology training center at Haskell.
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Those opposed to Slattery's bill
fear that taking the school from under the control of the BIA would allow the federal government to engeze on its treaty obligations.
Both Slattery and Winter have withdrawn support for the bills and will not pursue the passage of them unless a new law is passed, people want some kind of legislation.
Winter's bill, in conjunction with discussion of placing an advanced technology training center at Haskell, threatens to put Indian students with non-Indian students for places in the school. opponents say.
Ruth Hawkins, president of the union representing Haskell employees, said many people feared that the two bills would work together to take the college away from the Indian people.
"If Haskell wants me to go away," Winter said, "I'll go away."
All that stopped the passage of the state bill, she said, was a question of the state's jurisdiction over Haskell. That would be answered by the Slattery bill.
"I see funding as a problem, but I don't see getting out from under the BIA as the solution," Hawkins said.
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