Wednesday, March 19, 1986
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Police investigate frauds in Lawrence
A Lawrence woman suspected fraud when a man tried to sell her siding for her home. The company's address, 701 E. Third St., turned out to be in the middle of the Kansas River.
Lawrence police investigated and found the company, Better Homes, Inc., and its address, did not exist.
In an unrelated incident, a woman who said she represented a Mississippi-based charity was cited for not having a license to solicit and for not being registered with the Kansas Department of State as a non-profit organization.
The woman had set up a table outside a grocery store in the 1700 block of Massachusetts Street and was soliciting donations. She told police she represented a Meredith, Miss., charity named R.E.A.C.H. for Abused Children. She also gave Meredith as her address.
Police later checked with Meredith authorities and were told they had not heard of the charity.
The KU chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists Sigma Delta Chi will sponsor a forum titled "Sports Journalism: News or Entertainment" at 7:30 tonight in 100 Staffer-Flint Hall.
Forum to be tonight
Scheduled speakers are Paul Splittert, a former pitcher for the Kansas City Royals who now is a part-time broadcaster for ESPN and the Royals; Frank Boal, sports director of WDAF-TV; and Mike McKenzie, sports special assignment writer for the Kansas City Star and Times and visiting professor of journalism.
All students and faculty members are invited.
Bill could raise fine
TOPEKA - The House Judiciary committee yesterday approved a bill that would place library material within the Kansas statute for crimes against property.
Failure to return a book or other library material within 30 days of receiving a written notice would be punishable as a misdemeanor under the bill.
The punishment for a misdeaner is no more than one year in the county jail and no more than a $2,500 fine.
The bill will now go before the full House.
Bill could set prices
TOPEKA — The House yesterday tentatively approved a bill aimed at curbing excess drinking in private clubs. The House will take final action on the measure today.
The bill prohibits private clubs from serving a drink for less than it cost the establishment. It also says selling a drink at a price less than that charged to all other purchasers of drinks during that week is illegal.
Drinks may no longer be included as part of a meal package, and private club owners are required to post a price list of all drinks under the bill.
Weather
Today will be mostly cloudy with a high of 40 to 45 and northwest winds 15 to 25 mph. Tonight will be clearing and cold with a low of 20 to 25. Tomorrow will be partly cloudy with a high in the upper 30s to lower 408.
Campers hope to change KUEA policy
Stan Witner
Two pup tents sat yesterday on the wet grass surrounded by bare trees, but it wasn't a typical campsite.
By Tim Hrenchir
Staff writer
There were no hammocks or cookstoves. A road ran in front of the tents and behind them was Youngberg Hall, home of the Kansas University Endowment Association.
For much of the day, Chris Bunker, who was staying in one of the tents, sat on a curb in front of the tent. He held a sign, written on poster paper, for passing drivers to see. The sign said "S. Africa Has A Dream."
"This is the first time I've ever gone camping," Bunker said yesterday. "I hate the great outdoors. I'm an indoor person. Except for maybe the beach."
But Bunker, Prairie Village third-year law student and president of the KU Committee on South Africa, says he won't pull up his stakes until the Endowment Association approves a plan for total divestment in companies that do
From staff and wire reports.
Bunker set up camp Monday. Yesterday afternoon Michael Maher, Roeland Park sophomore, pitched his tent north of Bunker's. They hope other proponents of divestment will join their camp and set up enough tents to fill a large area near Youngberg.
business in South Africa, or until he graduates in August.
a large Ruth Lichtwardt, another member of the KU Committee on South Africa, said she planned to camp nearby tonight.
Bunker said he had obtained a description of the Endowment Association's property lines from KU's Architectural Services office and camped a few feet from the line.
Monday night a study group on South Africa met at Bunker's tent. Supporters of the Committee on South Africa brought him macaroni and cheese.
Bunker said that Monday "it rained heavily, but the tent held up very well."
"The only problem is that the tent leaks from the bottom," he said.
"I've got everything I need to stay warm," he said. "I'm planted. I'm going to stay, and I think everyone will bring things to me. Most of all I want them to bring themselves — and their tents."
Bunker said he stayed dry because he slept on an air mattress.
Late yesterday afternoon, Bunker and his brother, John, Prairie Village sophomore, sat in the tent as temperatures dropped and a cold wind opposed against the sides of the tent. Both wore jackets.
A makeshift walkway of boards, plastic and bricks led to the tent. Shoes were left outside to keep things dry inside of what Bunker called his new home.
Association than previous demonstrations in which protesters were arrested.
"People are bringing sleeping bags by the score so I'm sure we'll be plenty warm," Bunker said. "And people have been really nice about bringing food. Now if they could only change the weather."
"Our rallies took maybe 20 minutes of their time," he said. "But now they'll be seeing us day after day after day."
Steve Menaugh, public relations director for the Endowment Association, said he didn't think Bunker's protest had become a big topic of conversation there.
"I don't think a person sitting in a tent is horribly disruptive to anybody," he said.
But Bunker said his idea would be effective if enough people participated in the camp-in.
Bunker said he thought the camp-in would have more of an effect on the Endowment
Bunker spent his first night in the tent Monday.
"If nothing else, we'll embarrass the hell out of them, having an entire encampment out here for people who are concerned about their safety," he said. "At least spite of terrific University pressure," he said.
Bill wants Washburn to become state school
The Associated Press
TOPEKA — Washburn University of Topeka would become a free-standing state university in mid-1988 under the terms of a bill introduced Monday in the Kansas House.
The bill, aimed at giving the municipal university long-term financial stability, would require Topeka property taxpayers to continue to shoulder a hefty tax burden to finance the school even after it became a state school.
But Gov. John Carlin has said he was adamantly opposed to making Washburn a full-fledged member of the Regents system anytime soon. Carlin has said Kansas cannot afford another state university, but Press Secretary Michael Swenson said today the governor had not committed himself to vetting a Washburn takeover bill.
Under the measure, the school on July 1, 1988, would come under control of the State Board of Regents, which governs the six present state universities and the Kansas Technical Institute.
The measure was sponsored by three key Topeka lawmakers: Rep. Bill Bunten, a Republican who is chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee; Rep. Don Mainey, the assistant Democratic leader in the House; and Rep. Joan Wagon, a Democrat who is chairwoman of the Shawnee County legislative delegation.
Senator wants to end scholarship program
Staff writer
Bv Mark Siebert
TOPEKA - A state senator wants to put an end to a scholarship program that sends doctors to medically underserved areas in Kansas, despite a recent state study that reports more rural areas need physicians.
State Sen. Jack Walker, R-Overland Park, spoke to the Senate Ways and Means Committee yesterday, asking it to pass a bill that he addressed the problems with the Medical Scholarship Program.
The bill, sponsored by Walker, would reduce the number of new scholarships from 50 to 25 in the next two academic years and eliminate them after the fall of the 1987 school year.
Walker, faculty member at the University of Kansas Medical Center, said about 55 percent of the people end up buying out their scholarships, plus 10 percent interest, and working outside of the state.
Walker also said enough medical students were now in the pipeline to create a doctor glut. He said the program should be terminated.
"The bottom line is that there is a concern about what to do with the outpouring of physicians now in the pipeline." Walker said.
If approved, the bill then will go to the full Senate for debate.
Discussion of the measure was not completed yesterday. The secretary of the committee said she expected the discussion to continue today.
State Sen. Wint Winter Jr., RLawrence, a member of the committee, said he wanted to hear the remaining testimony before making his final decision.
He said Kansas would be feeling the effects of the program until 1992.
But Winter said he wondered why the medical community was lobbying for the bill and whether eliminating stigma would improve people from attending medical school.
Walker said, "There will always be a problem with poor people getting into med school. I don't think this is the mechanism to solve the problem."
The medical scholarship program began in 1978. It was designed to keep doctors in the state and send them to rural and underserved areas.
Students who received the scholarships before 1986 get free tuition for agreeing to practice in the state for the same number of years for which they receive the scholarship. An additional monthly stipend of $500 is given to help with living expenses, if the students agree to practice in medically underserved areas.
"It's a beautiful loan program," Walker said, "but that's not what it was designed for."
The bill would reduce not only the number of scholarships but also would permit flexibility for those who received their scholarships before 1986.
To be considered critically underserved, a county must have a ratio of less than 33.3 doctors per 100,000 people. To be considered underserved the ratio is 36.3.
Douglas County has a ratio of 55.9 percent, more than the state average of 48.3.
A study by the state Department of Health and Environment released Friday reported the number of counties critically underserved in primary health care had increased from 30 in 1984 to 37 in 1985.
For solving problems
Everyone uses same process
By Tom Farmer Staff writer
Although scientists use complicated data to reach high levels of discovery, the processes that they employ are similar to those used by most people in everyday problem solving, a Nobel laureate in economics said last night.
Herbert A. Simon, winner of the 1978 Nobel Prize in economics, spoke to about 400 people in Woodruff Auditorium at the Kansas Union.
His speech, which was part of the Kenneth Spencer Memorial Lecture Series, was titled "Scientific Discovery: Its Psychological Processes."
"The processes of discovery, even at its highest and most creative levels, are the same processes we find in all human problem solving." Simon said.
Scientists usually have valid reasons for using their complicated methods, he said, but they do not often explain the processes which lead them in their work.
Scientific discovery begins with a hypothesis generated by a scientist — much like anyone else who would make conclusions based on his knowledge of something, Simon said.
From a hypothesis, a scientist looks for patterns of likenesses and similarities.
Some discoveries are made by accident, he added. But only scientists who are curious enough usually make this type of discovery, which results from additional data found during the research of a hypothesis.
"One of the most important human capabilities is discovering patterns in things," he said.
Patterns may be discovered by using instruments and data that are readily available, Simon said. Data are sometimes hard to come by.
All people reach into their minds for processes to solve problems,
Herbert A. Simon, 1978 Nobel laureate in economic science, speaks to a group of 400 people in Woodruff Auditorium on the psychological processes of scientific discovery. His speech last night was part of the Kenneth Spencer Memorial Lecture Series.
Simon said. By discovering something, people can prove that their methods of thinking are successful...
Simon, who is a professor of computer science and psychology at
Carnage-Mellon in Pittsburgh, is a member of the National Academy of Sciences. He has received awards for research from the Association for Computing Machinery and the American Economics Association.
KU Crew asks Senate for $20,750
Staff writer
By Piper Scholfield
In what one Student Senate official called an unrealistic request, the Kansas Crew asked the Student Senate Finance Committee for $20,750 for fiscal 1987.
The committee met last night to hear student activity requests for financing for the next year.
The crew requested the money to purchase new equipment and cover additional team expenses. Included in the request was $12,000 for the purchase of a new eight-man racing shell.
Janet Bowen, Leavenworth senior and co-president of the crew team, said that if the team did not receive the Senate allocation, and fund raising attempts failed, the expenses would be paid out of the team members' pockets. Bowen said that there were about 100 members on the team.
In the past, she said, members directed traffic at football and basketball games to raise money. They also worked at the Renaissance Festival in Bonner Springs to raise the necessary funds.
This year, the crew was underbid by the ROTC for the traffic directing and could not agree to the terms of the festival contract. Bowen said.
"We have had a very successful history," Bowen said. "But it's very hard to be a student, row and raise money for the budget."
treasurer, said he was not optimistic that the crew would receive the money. The Senate already had received $90,000 of requests for $50,000 of available funds, he said.
"How do you justify a $20,000 request?" he said.
Tim Henderson, student senate
Bowen said that the request was for equipment and services mandatory to the team. Part of the funds would provide the gas and oil for the team's motorboat. The motorboot is essential for safety in case one of the crew shells turned over while in the water, she said.
The finance committee will be hearing budget requests for the remainder of the week and will begin voting on the requests next week.
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