Wednesday, April 9, 1986
Campus/Area
University Daily Kansan
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Hashinger resident arrested after theft
A Hashinger Hall resident was arrested Monday morning for stealing a speaker cabinet from the residence on March 29, the residence hall on March 29.
Li. Jeanne Longaker of the KU police said the 19-year-old student stole the speaker cabinet from the lobby and took it to his room. He took the speakers out of the cabinet but found he could not connect them to his stereo, she said
The student decided to put the speakers and cabinet back in the lobby where they were recovered. The student was arrested and charged with assaulting where he was released about one hour later after posting a $500 bond. Charges have not been filed yet.
Animal bill OK'd
TOPEKA - The Senate gave final approval yesterday to a Kansas Board of Regents revenue bill for an animal care unit at the University of Kansas Medical Center.
The bill would allow the Regents to authorize revenue bonds for the $5.2-million unit. The Med Center had asked the Legislature to help pay for the annual debt for the care unit out of the sponsored research overhead fund.
Brennan to speak
William Brennan Jr., associate justice of the United States, will speak at 2 p.m. Friday in woodruff Auditorium of the Kansas Union.
Brennan, who was appointed to the Supreme Court by President Dwight Eisenhower in 1956, will speak on "Today's Challenge to the New Lawyer." His lecture is one of the School of Law Stephenson Lectures in Law and Government.
Bill to ban scalping
TOPEKA - The Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday approved a bill that would prohibit the sale of a ticket to any event for any price other than face value.
The proposed law prohibits only ticket sales on the property of state educational institutions.
The committee heard testimony Monday from University of Kansas and Wichita State University officials who had suffered because of scabies.
Violators would be punished by a maximum $500 fine and one month in jail.
State Sen. Wint Winter Jr., R-Lawrence, revived the bill after he saw KU students left out of the Final Four basketball game in Dallas because they couldn't afternbsp;-priced tickets from scalpers.
Kansan applications
The Kansan is accepting applications for summer and fall editors and business managers.
Applications are due by 5 p.m.
Friday. They are available in the
Kansan business office, 119
S. Duluth Avenue, 401-732-8160,
dean's office, 200 Stauffer-Flint
Hall; and the Student Senate
Office, B-105 in the Kansas Union.
Applicants will meet April 16 with the Kansan board, the governing body of the newspaper. The editors and business managers will be chosen afterward.
Applications for other news and business staff positions are due by 5 p.m. April 16 in 200 Stauffer-Flint Hall
Because of a reporter's error, Delta Sigma Pi was incorrectly identified in Monday's Kansan. Delta Sigma Pi is a professional business fraternity.
From staff and wire reports.
Tammv Studel/KANSAN
Charles Wood, assistant professor of microbiology, speaks to students about the history of AIDS. Wood talked about acquired immune deficiency syndrome research results and AIDS patients yesterday. He will speak at a symposium at 3:30 p.m. Friday in 1005 Hwou Hall
AIDS questions to be answered
Lack of information and misinformation has caused an unwarranted fear of AIDS, so KU's Microbiology Society wants to help educate the public about the disease, the president of the society said yesterday.
By Lynn Maree Ross Staff writer
The Microbiology Society will sponsor an AIDS symposium Friday, with seminars by four researchers, said Fred Breidt, the president.
The best way to educate the public, he said, is to make as much information available as possible. A symposium is one way to make AIDS information available.
Researchers scheduled to speak at the symposium will discuss topics ranging from recent developments in AIDS research to blood banks screening for AIDS antibodies. The symposium will also educate the public about acquired immune deficiency syndrome is words.
Charles Wood, assistant professor of microbiology and a scheduled speaker, said
he understood that the terms used to describe AIDS might confuse and intimidate people.
Wood hopes to avoid confusion. He said he would explain his work in general terms most people could understand.
Wood spoke to a group of microbiology students yesterday about AIDS.
Besides Wood, the symposium will feature George Dawson, senior scientist at Abbott Laboratories in Chicago; Patrick Hays, chief virologist for the Kansas Department of Health and Environment; and Gary Tegmeir, director of research at the Community Blood Center in Kansas City, Mo.
For example, some people think they can GIETS from giving blood. This isn't possible — everything a blood bank uses to collect blood is destroyed once it is then thrown away after it's used, he said.
Wood and the other scientists scheduled to speak seem to agree that the public needs to know more.
"People don't understand," Wood said
"They don't understand what is involved in giving blood."
When Wood came to campus in November, he became KU's resident expert on AIDS. Before that, he worked with Dawson in AIDS research at Abbott Laboratories.
Wood said he and Dawson worked with the virus to develop a blood-screening test for AIDS antibodies. The test is now used by health organizations to screen blood donors.
In 1884, the National Institute of Health released the AIDS virus for research. It gave only five U.S. laboratories, including Abbott and a supply of the virus for research.
While Wood and Dawson developed a test to screen blood donations, Tegmeier performed clinical trials on the tests developed by Abbott and two other laboratories
The symposium, which is free and open to the public, will begin at 3:30 p.m. Friday in 1005 Haworth Hall.
Senators deny use of names endorses Brier
United Press International
TOPEKA - Several Republican senators say their signatures on an invitation to an appreciation reception for Secretary of State Jack Brier were not intended as endorsements of Brier's candidacy for governor.
seen, Fred Kerr, R-Pritt, said he sent a letter to Brier's campaign treasurer, Richard Campbell, to make it clear his signature on the letter was not an endorsement of Brier's candidacy.
The clarification from the senators came yesterday, the day Brier declared his candidacy for the Republican nomination for governor. The $100-a-person reception in Brier's honor was Sunday in Topeka.
"At the time I signed that I did not know he was going to be announcing his candidacy for governor." Kerr said.
Kerr said he was still considering a bid for the gubernatorial nomination himself and was not sure how to proceed.
Senate President Robert Talkington, R-Iola, also was among the 19 Republican senators who signed the invitation. Talkington also has been was studying the possibility of entering the race.
Talkington presided over the Senate most of the day yesterday and was not available for comment. However, Sue Bauman, an aide to Talkington, said he was concerned about how his signature on the invitation would be perceived.
Bauman said she was aware of other senators who had similar concerns.
nnnk Fred (Kerr) wrote a letter on something most of them assumed — that hosting an appreciation dinner is not an endorsement for Jack Brier as a candidate."
Kerr said he thought his signature on the letter was merely an expression of appreciation for Brier's job as secretary of state. Many people have interpreted the invitation as an endorsement of Brier, he said.
"I thought I should quickly let you know of my position since I do not want the announcement by Secretary Brier to be accompanied with a list of Kansans for Brier which includes my name." Kerr said in his letter to Campbell. "Several other signees have expressed similar concerns to me."
Copies of Kerr's letter were sent to the four other Republicans who have announced their candidacies for the GOP gubernatorial nomination.
Meanwhile, Brier's announcement prompted two people to make known their intentions to back him.
Assistant Secretary of State Bill Graves said he would formally announce his intention to run for secretary of state on April 18 in Topeka and in Salina, his hometown. Graves has worked in the secretary of state's office since August 1980 and became assistant secretary in January 1985.
Stuffy classsrooms become unwanted spring side effect
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By Lori Poison Staff writer
The telltale signs of springtime have arrived at the University of Kansas: sunglasses, shorts, Frisbee players and high temperatures in many campus buildings.
Often changes in classroom temperatures seem to lag behind the seasonal change from winter to spring.
Randy Samuels, assistant director of refrigeration and electrical systems for facilities operations, said yesterday that campus buildings had a variety of heating and cooling systems. The temperature variation in the buildings is caused by the separate types of systems, he said.
"It depends on the buildings," Samuels said. "Some are heating and air conditioning controlled, and others aren't."
The temperature is regulated automatically in the buildings with heat and air conditioning controlled systems, he said. When a room becomes too hot or too cold, the
heater or air conditioner turns on, according to need.
The other buildings must have their temperatures controlled manually, Samuels said. When the seasons change, workers set building temperatures by adjusting thermostats.
But as building temperatures are being adjusted, students must adjust their glasses.
The temperatures in Wescoe Hall have been a frequent source of complaints and sweaty bodies.
Lisa Holloway, Wichita freshman,
also commented on the temperature.
"My roommate came home the other day saying it was so hot in her Wescow class she couldn't stand it," she said.
Samuels said that Wescoe had an automatic heating and cooling system, but that it hadn't been functioning correctly for the past few days.
The water that circulates through the cooling system to the buildings is
not getting there, he said. Facilities operations workers are trying to correct the problem so the temperature can be maintained at 74 degrees.
"It should be fixed in the next few days, if we don't have any more problems."
Jim Ranz, dean of libraries, said it often was hot in the building.
Samuels said the temperature in Watson was set on an automatic system at 73 degrees.
Earlier this semester, library staff members expressed concern that the high temperatures in the building contributed to the deterioration of books. High temperatures cause higher humidity which fosters mold growth on the books.
But Ranz said the humidity problem had decreased.
"Since the air conditioning has come on, the humidity has dropped to about 50 percent, which is acceptable," he said.
People in Watson Library also frequently complain about the temperature.
The county's code prohibits ownership of a vicious dog that attempts to attack or attacks someone and forces owners of vicious dogs to have a minimum $50,000 insurance policy.
The only difference between the city ordinance and the county code is that the county code specifically defines pit bullereries as vicious and the city code does not.
Violators face a maximum penalty of $1,000 and six months in jail and the county may dispose of certain vicious dogs.
German shepherds are responsible for the most bites and fatalities, Commissioner Ernest Angino said. Specifying certain breeds as vicious does not get at the problem.
There are two animal control officers, said Buford Watson, city manager. The officers pick up and kill over 2,000 dogs a year.
An officer must witness a dog violating the ordinance, or else a citizen must file a complaint to have the dog picked up. Watson said.
In her first full meeting as mayor, Sandra Praeger and Lawrence city commissioners voted 5-0 last night to adopt the county's ban on vicious dogs, with one ban.
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