Thursday, March 20. 1986
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University Daily Kansan
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House stiffens laws on happy hour, DUI
TOPEKA — The Kansas House passed two alcohol bills yesterday by a wide margin — one that adds further restrictions to the state's happy-hour law and another that stiffens the DUI law.
By a 116-7 vote, the House passed a bill that would outlaw daily drink specials at private clubs.
An establishment could not change the price of a drink during the week nor could it sell a drink for less than cost, under the proposed law.
The bill also would eliminate free drinks served as part of a meal package and require club and tavern owners to post price lists of all drinks.
A section of last session's happy-hour bill that prohibited a person from being served more than one drink at a time would be eliminated by the proposed law.
Another bill passed by the House would prevent those convicted on DUI charges from entering into a diversion agreement if they have had a previous alcohol conviction in another state.
The measure passed 122-1.
School to name dean
The new dean of the School of Education will be announced today, Del Shankel, acting vice chancellor of academic affairs, said last night.
Six candidates, some from Lawrence and some from out of town, were interviewed, he said.
Paul Haack has been acting dean since Dale Scannell resigned last summer.
Shankel said he would not release the name of the dean until today so that the remaining candidates could be notified of the decision.
Protest camp grows
A six-person tent was added yesterday to the camp site in front of Youngberg Hall in protest against the Kansas University Endowment Association's investment statements that do not exist in South Africa.
Chris, Bunker, Prairie Village law student and president of the KU Committee on South Africa, began the camp in Monday outside the Endowment Association's West Campus offices.
Bunker said yesterday that he thought more tents would be pitched in front of Youngberg last night, but he was unsure how many campers would stay overnight.
Bunker and Phil Klere, chair-
man of KU College Republicans,
will debate divestment at
12:30 p.m. today in 107 Green Hall.
Corrections
Because of a reporter's error, Pittsburgh State University's student body president was misidentified. David Ramsey is Pittsburgh's student body president and David Hardy is a graduate senator at KU.
A story in yesterday's Kansan incorrectly identified the owners of K-2 Sportswear Ltd., 1023 Massachusetts St. The business is owned by K-2 Sportswear Ltd. Inc., a Kansas corporation.
Weather
Today will be partly cloudy with a high temperature in the upper 30s. Winds will be light and variable. Tonight will be partly cloudy with a low temperature in the 20s. Tomorrow will be partly cloudy but warmer with temperatures in the lower 50s.
From staff and wire reports
The theory that an increased sales tax would spur economic growth for the state is only words — words that do little for higher education, Larry Jones, a candidate for governor, said yesterday.
Candidate wants more education funds
By Abbie Jones
Staff writer
"Those are good words," he said. "That is not going to ensure our future. We've got to get rid of that kind of thinking."
The 54-year-old Republican from Wichita announced his candidacy in December. He spoke yesterday at the Burge Union about the future of business in Kansas.
"We must simply fund the opportunities," Jones said after the speech, part of the Executive Lecture Series. "Funds are scarce. The
Gov. John Carlin has proposed a 1-cent state sales tax increase for next year to generate new monies in the state. A bill to raise the sales tax was approved yesterday by the Kansas Senate.
University of Kansas is vital to support at the highest level."
Jones, who became a member of the Board of Regents in 1984, was named its chairman earlier this year. He recently resigned that post to begin campaigning.
The Regents system needs ideas, partnership and money, he said. His goal is to see an additional $30 million allocated to Regents' schools to improve overall quality. He also would like to allocate money for bigger programs for the
University of Kansas Regents Center in Overland Park.
Jones also wants an active governor.
He said that during his term on the Regents he never heard from Gov. John Carlin, who, he said, should be active in higher education to show he cares.
"I think a governor should be a patron and involved in that process," he said.
Jones, who never has held elected office, was appointed to a task force to study employment conditions of the Federal Aviation Administration's air traffic controllers after a strike in 1981. He was a member of the Governor's Select Committee for Reorganization of Kansas State Government and the Committee for
Reorganization of Wichita Municipal Government.
"What I could bring as governor is not politics as usual," he said. "I can do something for careers and for children."
Jones graduated cum laude in 1953 from the University of Wichita, now Wichita State University. He received a master's degree in business administration from the Harvard School of Business in 1955 and a doctorate in 1959.
He held several positions at the Coleman Co. of Wichita, beginning in his undergraduate years. He became president in 1971 and shared the office of chief executive of the company until 1985, when he resigned to become chairman of the executive committee.
Judge says civil rights necessary
By Sandra Crider
Staff writer
With a push of a button, Judge A. Leon Higginbotham Jr. transformed his audience last night.
They had a choice of being either 18th-century U.S. slaves or blacks living today in South Africa.
A. Leon Higginbotham Jr., judge on the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, and Frances Horowitz, vice chancellor for research, graduate studies and public service, sit in Woodford Auditorium before Higginbotham's speech. Higginbotham spoke about apartheid last night as part of the Stephenson Lectures in Law and Government.
"What I ask of you today is no agreement, only imagination," Higginbotham said.
Higginbotham asked the audience to imagine that he had three buttons. One would make everyone black, another would take them back to a plantation in Virginia between July 1776 and 1865 and a third would transport them to modern-day South Africa.
The fantasy trip was an object lesson for the listeners to realize that the yearning for liberty and freedom was not exclusive to the United States.
Higginsbotham, circuit judge for the 3rd District of the United States Court of Appeals, spoke to about 100 people in Woodruff Auditorium of the Kansas Union. The lecture was part of the Stephenson Lectures in Law and Government.
"It is something which is errant in their breasts and something which crosses the ocean and is felt by people in Alexandria and Johannesburg and Durban and Cape Town," he said.
Higginbotham, who received his law degree from Yale University in 1982, was appointed to the U.S. Court of Appeals in 1977 by President Jimmy Carter.
In his speech, Higginbotham compared the discriminatory policies of South African apartheid with pre-1965 race relations laws in the United States.
"South Africa provides us a frightening picture of what could have occurred, or a warning of what could occur in this country in the future, if we fail to preserve fundamental civil rights and egalitarian philosophies," he said.
Higginsbotham said he hoped that at schools such as the University of
The slaves in Virginia would consider the Declaration of Independence a fallacy, he said.
Kansas, professors would devote their energies to help make peace in South Africa.
"We will have professors who will give the best of their minds to look at problems like South Africa to see how can we be peacemakers, how can we be bridge builders to build the kind of society which will have dignity." Higginbotham said.
He described societies in which blacks did not have dignity.
Sleepy lot wakes for new building
Bv Juli Warren
Staff writer
A buildozer leveled the lot at 1145 Louisiana St. yesterday, the day after the City Commission approved a plan for an apartment complex at the site.
The work began despite neighbors' concerns about parking and traffic in the area.
According to the site plan, the two story building will have 15 four bedroom and six二 Bedroom apartments with new complex will be from 120b Street.
The large white house that stood on the site was razed on Feb. 27.
The commission also was concern ed about parking and asked the planning staff to study the problem.
The study should be completed by April 1.
A spokesman for Mastercraft Corp., 127 Moodie Road, which owns the land, said she didn't know when construction would start.
In Tuesday's commission meeting, Jerry Harper, president of the Oread Neighborhood Association, said the additional number of people would cause traffic flow and parking problems.
"As it stands right now that's a very dangerous intersection," Harper said. "It's going to dump a tremendous amount of traffic on that street."
The increase in traffic would make
walking to class difficult for some students, he said.
More parking also should be provided at the complex, Harper said. However, the planned 47 spaces meet the site plan requirements.
Parking at the site will be adjacent to Rock Chalk Bar. 618 W. 12th S.
Harper said most of the people who lived in the previous building didn't drive.
commissioner David Longhurst said that because of the complex's proximity to campus, many students without cars would live there.
David Guntert, Lawrence city planner, said yesterday that according to preliminary conclusions from 2014, the space spaces were generally, available.
In conducting the study, Gunter said, he checked the availability of parking at mid-afternoon, 5 p.m. and midnight.
Staff writer
Harper said that in addition to the parking problems, the complex would cause drainage and trash problems.
Interviews to appoint vice chancellor to end
Of the 13 complexes studied, five were in the Oread neighborhood: Summit House, 1105 Louisiana St.; Hanover Place, 200-1 Hanover Place; Benth and Ohio streets and on the 1100 blocks of Ohio and Louisiana streets.
By Leslie Hirschbach
Gunter said except for one instance, at the complex on 13th and Ohio streets, extra spaces were available at all times.
The committee searching for a new vice chancellor for academic affairs will complete interviews of a final group of candidates next week, Michael Davis, committee chairman, said yesterday.
The position opened in November after Deanell Tacha was appointed to the 10th U.S. Court of Appeals by President Reagan.
Del Shankel, professor of microbiology and former executive vice chancellor, is filling in until a selection is made.
Davis, dean of law, said. "We hope to act quickly after the interviews are over and get a list of names to the chancellor and the executive vice chancellor."
So far, he said, the committee has followed its tentative schedule closely and will have the candidate in place right on time — by the beginning of the next fiscal year — July 1.
Robert Cobb, executive vice chancellor, will select the new vice chancellor from a list of about three finalists after interviews are completed, he said.
"We hope to have the new vice chancellor in place by the first of July or by the beginning of August," Davis said.
many candidates the committee was interviewing.
Davis said he could not say how
"We were asked to keep this as confidential as possible," he said.
Jeannenet Johnson, staff assistant for the search committee, said last month that the committee would probably narrow the applicants to five for interviews before the final cut to three was made.
Davis said the committee had conducted a few interviews this week and would interview candidates until the end of next week.
Davis said the committee immediately entered a dark period, where it simply waited for nominations from qualified candidates. It then narrowed the list of applicants from 90 to 70 applicants.
The 17-member search committee of faculty and deans from the University was selected by Cobb and began writing dissertations and nominations in mid-December.
A candidate was required to have received a doctoral degree or the equivalent; demonstrated success in teaching, scholarly activity and service; demonstrated administrative experience that showed an awareness of the functions of a university; and to have displayed a commitment to affirmative action principles.
"Well, we're into the light," he said.
Kicking back
Mark Mohler/KANSAN
Dave Roberts, Wichita sophomore, and Brian Hunter, Salina freshman, work on karate moves. The two practiced earlier this week in Robinson Center for their Karate 108 class.
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