Monday, April 14, 1986
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KU student arrested after receiving drugs
A 22-year-old KU student was arrested Thursday after taking delivery of a package containing cocaine from an undercover agent of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency, a spokesman for the Lawrence police said yesterday.
The suspect was arrested by Lawrence police on charges of possession of a controlled substance and possession of drug paraphernalia. He was later released on bond and is scheduled to appear in court Friday, police said.
The package was delivered to Lawrence earlier in the month by the United Parcel Service, police said, but the person it was addressed to could not be found. Later, UPS received a call from someone who said they were a friend of the intended receiver and would take delivery of the package.
Poll on Union set
An informal poll about whether to renovate the Kansas Union will be taken from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Thursday and Friday.
The petitions will be on tables in the lobby of Strong Hall and on the fourth floor of the Union. Students need their KU I.D.s to sign their names to the Union.
Police said the Drug Enforcement Agency was notified when UPS workers, searching for an invoice for the package, discovered an unidentified white substance.
Institutional Research is designing the poll. If the poll receives at least 1,850 negative signatures or 7.5 percent of the KU student body, a referendum on the renovation of the Union will be called for in November and the project will be delayed.
Car driven off bridge
"I am hoping that students will have studied the Union issue enough to know that the renovation project is final," he said.
David Epstein, student body president, said Saturday that he hoped students would participate in the poll.
Lawrence police said they received a call early yesterday morning from a man who had driven his car off of a bridge over the Kansas River and then had walked to a nearby house to report the accident.
Police said 29-year-old Robert Eisenbath, 1530 Lindenwood Lane, was southbound on North Second Street when he drove over a median separating lanes of the bridge. The car then went over a road that was flanked by trees before landing on its roof on a pile of rocks under the bridge.
Eisenbarth was treated and released from Lawrence Memorial Hospital.
Police issued citations to Eisenbarth for reckless driving, no proof of insurance and driving with a suspended license.
Author to give talk
Mario Vargas Llosa, a Peruvian author, will speak on "The Culture of Freedom" at 8 p.m. today in Woodruff Auditorium of the Kansas Union.
He will speak as part of the Humanities Lecture Series and is sponsored by the Hall Center for the Humanities. The event is open to the public.
Weather
Today will be mostly cloudy, windy and cold with highs in the mid-50s. Winds will be gusty and from the northwest at 20 to 30 mph. Tonight will continue cloudy with lows in the upper-20s. Clouds will dissipate tomorrow with highs in the low 50s.
From staff and wire reports.
Crain Sands and Wilfredo Lee/KANSAN
This mud's for you
Scott Van Valkenburgh, right, and Val Innes, above, have fun in the mud. Five teams competed Saturday against each other, against the cold weather and against the mud in a mud volleyball tournament at Perry Park on West Harvard Road. The tournament was sponsored by Lawrence Parks and Recreation Department. Jane Suellentrop, coordinator of the event, said parks and recreation wanted to make the tournament an annual event. For a first-time event, Suellentrop said, the tournament had received a terrific response from the community. But because of the cold weather the department will probably move the tournament to sometime in August.
KU prof researches rat fluctuation
By Russell Gray Staff writer
Rats.
What does Norman Slade have in common with Willard, the Pied Piper of Hamlin, and rock 'n' roll fans?
Like the others, Slade has an affinity for rats, particularly the cotton rat population in the Lawrence area. He is a professor of systematics and ecology at KU.
Slade is studying the extreme fluctuations of the rat's population, he
The rat, originally from Mexico, has been migrating north since the end of the ice Ages and beginning of warmer temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere, he said. This fits with observations toward trend of other southern species.
said. At the five-acre site where he is studying them, two and a half miles northeast of Lawrence Municipal Airport, he caught 132 rats during one month, but in another 16-month period, he caught none.
"Ultimately, I would like to understand what causes these fluctuations," he said.
Instead of studying age classes or sub-classes of the rat to determine the causes, Slade said he looked at weight classes.
In addition, the importance of climate, amount of food and predators in the area are taken into consideration, he said.
But Slade has found that the most important factor in population fluctuations is the weight of the rat, he
Now Slade is trying to convince researchers of similar mammals that weight is a good way to look at and understand population changes in some mammals, rather than age or reproductive rates, he said.
The results of his study can be applied to other mammals in studying their population changes. he said.
Slade said the practical benefits of his research would be in situations where people intervene in the environment — pest control, game management and preservation of endangered species.
protect certain mammals, he said.
Shade, who is financed by general research funds at KU, said the work done by researchers such as himself helps create the basic principles used by those in applied research.
Understanding specific details of how a mammal's population works can help researchers to eliminate or
The cotton rat doesn't look like the kind of rats people are accustomed to seeing, he said. That kind — a Norway rat from Europe originally — is twice as big, dark, and has a naked, scaley tail.
The cotton rat has fine hair on its tail and a prominent white underside, he said. The less-vicious, less aggressive cotton rat will not attack other species or people, as the Norway rat will.
Class guide may be offered in the fall
Staff writer
By Barbara Shear
Along with the timetable and a course catalog, students may be provided with another booklet during the next enrollment period to guide them in their class selections.
The Academic Affairs subcommittee of University Affairs, a standing committee of the Student Senate, is working towards publishing the Jahaykaw Course Solution, a guide to professors. Roger Templin, chairman of the subcommittee, said the subcommittee was working on compiling a list of KU professors and already had received support from some of the deans.
ture and urban design, said that although he liked the idea, he thought the book would be useful only in choosing certain classes.
"We are trying to get a hold of deans right now and ask for their cooperation in planning the book," he said. "The deams have been very helpful, and we've had a lot of good feedback from them."
"I think there will be more application of it in multi-section classes than in single-section classes," he said.
In his own school, Lucas said, it probably would not be as useful because of the limited number of students in the school and because most of the classes are mandatory.
The book, one of the objectives of the Common Sense coalition, will provide information about professors in several different topics. It should ease enrollment and cut down on the number of
add-drops, Templin said.
"Most of our classes are restricted enrollment," he said. "We have some classes in architecture with four or five different sections, but they have instructors control the same projects and designs."
Amy Brown, student body vice president, said a similar guide had been published in the past at the University, but that it was discontinued because of financial problems.
Publishing the guide is expected to cost between
$7,000 and $10,000 for the first guide.
Questionnaires would request information from professors on their teaching methods and requirements.
They would ask about the amount of study time students were expected to put in each week; the teaching approach of each instructor; the number of term papers assigned; the number of special projects; whether the course has a lab; test information concerning how much is taken from lecture, discussion and outside reading; the grading system; and any additional comments the professor wants to add.
One of the deans, Max Lucas, dean of architec-
Attorneys must serve justice says Brennan tells lawyers to aid less fortunate
By Brian Kaberline Staff writer
Lawyers have a long history of leadership and service in the United States, Associate Justice William Brennan said Friday, but that reputation may be in jeopardy unless lawyers make a greater effort to serve the public.
Brennan, who has served on the U.S. Supreme Court since 1956, spoke to an audience of about 500 people Friday afternoon in Woodruff Auditorium at the Kansas Union. The New York lawmaker called the new Lawyer," was part of the Stephenson Lectures in law and the government.
Brennan said he had seen many changes in the legal profession in his 55 years as a lawyer, but future changes could make the profession of today like the "horse and lead" profession. He said that law students to determine whether these changes will be positive or negative.
Lawyers today are better educated and more mature than when Brennan first entered the profession, he said. These gains may be cancelled by the fact they are more concerned with making money than with serving the public.
"Oururs may not really be an age of science, as so many think, or of technology, or atomic energy, but rather an age threatening to be dominated by politics and, all too selfish power politics," he said.
Brennan said it was unfortunate that today's young lawyers were faced with the decision of either going into private practice or devoting themselves to helping the less fortunate.
If young lawyers wish to vindicate the proud tradition of the legal profession, they should try to find ways to combine private practice and public service into one career, he said.
"What's most needed, I think, is a way to encourage lawyers to participate in public service work and public service projects that can be performed, not once a year in Mississippi, but throughout the year as the lawyer sits behind his regular desk." Brennan said.
Lawyers might consider setting aside a certain portion of each day specifically for public service work, he said. This time should be considered as a part of an obligation to the legal profession.
Brennan said public service work was important because the focus of concern in the legal profession has changed from trying to break down large concentrations of power to protecting the rights of the individual.
"Society's overriding concern today," he said, "is with providing freedom of equality of rights and opportunities in a realistic, but not clearly informal sense, to all the people of this nation."
Brennan graduated from the Harvard School of Law in 1931. He was appointed to the New Jersey Superior Court in 1949. In 1968, Brennan was appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court by President Dwight D. Eisenhower;
Earlier in the day, Brennan visited with an audience of about 300 law students and faculty to answer questions.
At the session, Brennan shied away from questions that the court may deal with in the future and those about the other justices.
He said the current movement to interpret the Constitution as the authors might have intended was no new idea.
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