Friday, April 18, 1986
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University Daily Kansan
News Briefs
New law pays debt in Med Center suit
TOPEKA — Gov. John Carlin yesterday signed into law a bill which will allow the state to spend $1.5 million to settle a lawsuit filed against the University of Kansas Medical Center by the Board of Public Utilities in Kansas City. The lawsuit resulted from a dispute over $2.2 million in unpaid electricity bills.
The four-year controversy over the unpaid bills began after the utility discovered that meters it installed to measure the amount of energy used in a building at the MedChem company running slow or not running at all.
The BPU figured its meters had given the Med Center $3.2 million in free power and billed the University for the amount. The state balked at paying the $3.2 million tab and the utility sued
Under the new law, which takes effect upon publication in the weekly Kansas Register, the state set a deadline for $1 million mediated and $1 million on July 1.
— the first day of the 1987 fiscal year. In addition, the state will pay the utility $20,000 in interest to satisfy the debt.
At least 12 incidents of bricks being thrown through the windows of cars around the city on Wednesday morning have been reported.
Car windows broken
Lawrence police said yesterday that they had received reports of red construction bricks being thrown through car windows in the 600 block of Missouri Street, the 300 block of Wisconsin Street, the 1700 block of Vermont Street, the 2200 block of Marvonne Road, the 1700 block of Illinois Street and the 1300 block of Pennsylvania Street.
a nine-year-old Lawrence boy threw a knife at his principal Wednesday at Cordley School, 1837 Vermont St.
Bov. 9. throws knife
Lawrence police said the boy waved the knife at fellow classmates during recess. Teachers tried to get the boy to give them the knife but were uninterested. When the teacher tried to get the knife away from the boy, he threw it at the principal.
The Lawrence police department will hold a public auction at 10 a.m. Saturday on the west side of the library Public Library, 707 Vermont St.
Police hold auction
The items being sold are unclaimed goods that were turned in to the department's lost and found.
Among the items up for auction are bicycles, 10 Ystofym decoy ducks, a Sony Watchman television tape tapes and cases, and an organ.
Midred Glodletter, assistant secretary for research and correspondence for the University of Kansas Alumni Association has plenty to smile about. Glodetter was inducted into the Kansas Women's Hall of Fame last night.
Corrections
Because of a reporter's error, a story in yesterday's Kansan incorrectly reported that the Journalist-in-Space Project would pay the expenses of an interviewed applicant. Applicants will pay their own expenses.
Because of a reporter's error, Mike Slane was incorrectly identified in yesterday's Kansan. He is his senior class president.
Mike Horton/special to the KANSA
Weather
Today will be mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain and thunderstorms. The high will be around 60 with winds 15 to 25 mph. Tonight will be mostly cloudy and cooler with a 20 percent chance of showers and a low in the mid-40s. Tomorrow will be partly cloudy with a high in the mid- to upper 60s.
Association loses valued worker
By Tim Hrenchir
Staff writer
When the University of Kansas Alumni Association was moving its offices into the Adams Alumni Center three years ago, Alumni Association President James Murray returns the past Adams president in the executive director's office.
But they didn't have the pictures of the presidents who had served from 1883 to 1911. Dick Wintormote, then president, and John H. Alumni Association, said yesterday.
Winternote realized this was a job for Mildred Clodfelter.
Clodfelter, assistant secretary for research and correspondence, checked archives files and called families of the former presidents. After making a plea for the photos in the Alumni magazine, she had all but seven.
"Oh, those last seven were so hard to get." she said. "There was hardly any information about them around."
But after months of research, telephone calls and leads that fell through. Clofidelter finished the job.
"Nobody had the temperance, the patience and the knowledge to do it but Mildred Clodfelter," Wintermote said.
Clodfiler will retire in June after working for the University for 47 years, 42 with the Alumni Association. Last night she was named to the University of Kansas Women's Hall of Fame.
"She knows all the ins and outs of the University," he said. "When I don't understand something, I go to Mullie."
She also is a third-time nominee this year for KU Classified Employee of the Year. The winner will be announced April 29.
Fred Williams, executive director for the Alumni Association, calls Clodflete a "walking almanac" of the University.
And Clodfelter is happy to help.
"When I first started working here I used to send out the bills, and I just couldn't send a bill to somebody I knew without writing a note on it." I wrote simple write in an essay. How great to get a bill with personal note on it.
"So somebody would make up all the receipts by hand, they'd let me look through them, and I'd write little personal notes on all the receipts"
Clodfelter's presence makes the
Alumni Association more personable than most alumni associations, Williams said.
'Nobody had the temperance, the patience and the knowledge to do it but Mildred Clodfelter.'
— Dick Wintermore former executive director, KU Alumni Association
wants to do anything she can to make things easy for people."
Wintermote said Clodfettler took each job at the Alumni Association with a smile on her face.
"She's so positive," he said. "She
"A lot of people see a huge stack of mail on their desk and think of drudgery and work," he said. Mildred says that kind of attic is in a PAACS.
"His nickname was Happy," she said, "and they called him Hap. A lot of people didn't know his real name."
Clodfelter might have gotten her disposition from her father.
before she switched her major to business. She was graduated in August 1941, and started work with the Alumni Association three years later.
Clofetter's family moved to Lawrence when she was a child, and she worked at Watkins Hospital while she was ill. The rest of her nismalism and worked for the Kansas
Cloffelter considers the University to be her family.
"I do regret not having children," she said, "but I have my brother's family and my good friends' families and all the KU kids to enjoy."
B. J. Pattie, the Alumni Association's director of membership development, said, "A lot of fun goes out of our lives when she leaves."
Ceremonies pay tribute to 14 women
By Barbara Shear
Staff writer
Emily Taylor, former dean of women, said she regretted not talking to strangers, but last night she spoke to about 150 friends and strangers.
"Talking to strangers was something I had never done," she said. "I was always afraid they would invade my privacy.
Taylor said she had listed her strengths and weaknesses.
Taylor, dean of women from 1956 to 1974, spoke in Alderson Auditorium as part of the Women's Recognition Commission on the Status of Women.
After her speech, awards were presented to outstanding students and faculty:
Outstanding woman student in community services — Pat Miller, Lawrence graduate student.
Outstanding woman student in athletics — Vickie Adkins, Oklahoma City, Okla, senior and forward on the women's basketball team.
Outstanding nontraditional woman student — Joanna Newman, Kansas City. graduate student.
Outstanding woman student in leadership — Stacy Spellman, Parsons senior.
Outstanding Woman Student in Student Services - Ruth Lichtwardt, Lawrence junior.
Outstanding international woman student - Nana Ngobese, South Africa graduate student.
Outstanding woman teachers — Sally Frost, professor of biology, and Regina Morantz Sanchez, associate professor in history.
Outstanding woman staff member - June Michal, assistant to the vice chancellor for academic affairs.
- Women's Hall of Fame inductees
**B** Women's Hall of Fame inductees -- Mildred Clofetlater, assistant secretary for the alumni center; Muriel Johnson, associate professor of human development; Ida Hale, professor emeritus of physiology, and Nona Tollefson, professor of educational psychology.
Outstanding pioneer woman — Mary Ann Ball Bickerdyke, a pioneer woman in Kansas history.
Regulars bid farewell to oldest liquor store
Staff writer
By Brian Kaberline
A short, curly-haired man walks up to the small brick store. Before he can grab the doorknob to enter, the owner is off to a refrigerator in the back to get the customer's usual case of Bluck Label beer.
Sean Williams, owner of Williams Liquors, 2242 Louisiana St., said that about three-fourths of his customers were regulars. Some are drawn to the store because of the selection, or the services, and others simply out of habit.
Whatever the reason, he said, the customers will soon have to look somewhere else for their beer, liquor and wine. The store is closing in June because of expansion of the Rusty's Food Center which has shared the corner of 23rd and Louisiana streets since the 1950s.
Williams, a 29-year-old Lawrence senior, said he was forced to quit the liquor business, rather than relocate, because of a trend toward larger liquor stores and complicated state regulations.
William's father, Skipper, opened the original store with Fred Frey. The store closed in lawrence, opening on July 19, 1949 — the first day allowed after the state
order previews.
The store moved from its original location near Second and Elm streets in North Lawrence when the Kansas
— the first day allowed after the state ended prohibition.
River flooded in 1951, he said. The flood waters rose to 64 inches in the store and destroyed all of the stock.
It's those stories which make it so hard for him to close the business, he said.
Williams is proud of the long history of the store. He said that although he wasn't allowed in the store much when he was younger, he listened to all of the stories his father and Frey told him about the store.
Webb, a managing partner of Green's Fine Wines, 800 W. 23rd St., said a state committee was studying deregulation of liquor stores in the state. It should report its findings to the government within the next year.
said.
"I think it bothers me a little, but I'm trying to do the thing by rational business processes," he said.
Williams said many laws and reports required by the state made life miserable for small liquor stores. If they were forced to may soon force those stores to close.
Williams said that he would probably make more money in other business ventures he was considered to make it make closing the store any easier.
"We're giving it up, but it will be difficult," he said.
If deregulation comes, Web said, the number of liquor stores in the state could be cut in half, with most of the stores being taken over by larger ones.
Long battle with anorexia has student helping others
Staff writer
By Peggy Kramer
At the age of 12, when Andi Hamilton and her twin sister started throwing up after each meal, they thought they had found an ingenious way to eat a lot and still stay thin.
They didn't know that what they were doing was not only addictive, but a disease.
"We didn't even know what bulimia was at the time," Hamilton, recovered bulenic and anorexic, said yesterday to a group of 15 women in the labo of Curbide Stellars Pearson-Corbell Hall.
Hamilton's sister shortly gained control and recovered. Hamilton was not so fortunate. For thirteen years she continued to force herself to throw up, often four to five times a day. This, she said, was her ultimate source of self/ control.
Somewhere during those thirteen years, when bulwinia stopped being the answer to becoming the answer to bulwinia, Hamilton block. Hamilton became anorexic.
Bulimia is commonly referred to as the binge-purge syndrome. Bulemics are primarily young women who eat excessively large
Anorexia nervosa is characterized by self-starvation, denial of hunger, abuse of laxatives, excessive exercise or depression. Not all victims display all the symptoms.
amounts of food followed by self-induced vomiting.
"Women don't have to throw up food or diet seriously to be preoccuied with food." Hamilton said.
She spent two weeks in a hospital nutrition center with therapists and support groups to overcome her obsession with food.
But she still retains the memories of the trauma, the irregular heartbeat caused by so much vomiting and the flashing light on the back of her mind reminding her to take care of her body's needs.
At 5 feet 9 inches, she weighed
about 100 pounds. Today Hamilton
weighs a comfortable 126, but she
said she seldom weighed herself.
"In the hospital I learned to like weight and myself at the same time," she said.
Hamilton is a senior majoring in communications. She is the resource representative for the National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders.
The association, founded in 1976, was the first non-profit educational and self-help organization in the United States dedicated to alleviating these eating disorders. It is based in Highland Park, Ill.
"I really wish someone would've come to my dorm and talked about anorexia and bulimia," she said.
As a representative for the association, she visits with women in residence halls and sororities, sharing her experiences and striving to educate women that help is available.
It is estimated that one out of five women who live in residence halls are either anorexic, bulimic or depressed. That 20 percent of all anorexies die
"I was so obsessed with food that I offered to do other's grocery shopping."
"I feel confident there is such a thing as recovery," she said.
In Lawrence there are four professional centers available for victims of eating disorders: University Counseling Center, 116 Bailey Psychological Clinic, 315 Fraser Fraser Health Center, 366 Missouri St. ; and the Mental Health Clinic in Watkins Hospital.