Thursday, March 6, 1986
Campus/Area
University Daily Kansan
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News Briefs
Odd Swahili grafitti leaves police baffled
KU police investigated a report Tuesday of a Swahili word being found on the windows and doors of various campus buildings.
White adhesive letters spelling out the word UKUFAKKW2KEW had been found at the Kansas Union, Strong Hall, Stauffer-Flint Hall and the Art and Design Building.
The department contacted a man from Swaziland familiar with the Swahili language. The man told an officer that the letters formed a compound word meaning "death of a nation." The man told police he didn't know why someone would have put the word on the buildings.
Gov. John Carlin announced yesterday that he had appointed a graduate of the University of Kansas School of Law as a judge to the Sedgwick County District Court.
M. Kay Royse, 36, was appointed to fill the term of Judge James J. Noone of Wichita, who retired in January.
Police said they had no leads as to who was responsible for the incidents.
Royse graduated from law school in 1978, in the top 10 percent of her class. Before attending law school, she taught speech for three years in the early 1970s at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.
Grad gets judgeship
Merit finalist named
She has been practicing law in Wichita since she graduated from law school.
Royse's term will run until next January.
Tony Arnold, Wichita junior, was one of 80 merit finalists recently selected in the Time College Achievement Award competition.
Twenty winners were chosen in the competition. One hundred awards were given for academic excellence and exceptional extracurricular achievements.
The Kansas Union will remain open during spring break, but the Burge Union, except for the Legal Services Office, will be closed.
Union to stav open
Arnold, who was nominated for his academic record and his achievements in public service, also was awarded a Truman Scholarship in 1965.
The business office, business office bank, Student Union Activities office, Soup and Salad Bar and the Deli will continue their normal operating hours. The bookstores will close at 4:30 p.m., a half-hour early. However, the Jaybowl and Lobby Banking Center at the Union will be closed.
The Burge Union will be closed from Saturday until March 16.
Correction
Because of a reporter's error, Milton Scott was misidentified in yesterday's Kansan. Scott was appointed by the Student Senate as a student member of the University Senate Executive committee.
Also, members of SenEx sent a proposal to be considered by the University Council to rename stop day "study and review day."
Today will be partly cloudy with a high temperature in the 50s. North to northeast winds will zoom through campus at 10 to 20 mph. Tonight will be mostly cloudy with a low temperature of 30. Tomorrow should be mostly cloudy with a high temperature of 40.
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United Press International
Brier hints at gubernatorial bid
From staff and wire reports.
Secretary of State Jack Brier strongly hinted yesterday that he would seek the Republican nomination for governor if former Gov. Robert Bennett decided to skip the race.
Bennett has scheduled a news conference for 11 a.m. tomorrow to announce his political plans. Republicans in the Johnson County area predict that Bennett will not join the growing crowd of candidates for the GOP nomination.
While on the University of Kansas campus yesterday, Brier told a reporter for KANU public radio station that he was leaning toward running if Bennett did not decide to run.
"I think that you can assume that
we'll be closer than anyone can be without being a candidate on tomorrow afternoon, and we'll have more to say about that next week," Brier said.
Brier said he thought he would be a better Republican candidate than those who already have declared their candidacies, including House Speaker Mike Hayden of Atwood. He said Hayden would be vulnerable in urban areas because of his opposition to liquor by the drink.
"I'm simply going to focus on the job I've done as secretary of state and what I see the future of Kansas being," Brier said when asked what his strategy would be for winning the nomination.
Brier said he would not run against Bennett, an Overland Park attorney,
While at KU, Brier tried to "set the record straight" on his recent comments on fraud in the Philippine election.
Brier was criticized in several newspaper editors for saying he did not detect signs of systematic fraud while touring Manila as part of a U.S. delegation to observe the election. Brier said he thought the news media exaggerated the incidence of fraud and violence in the election.
because they shared many of the same strengths, including base of support.
Last week Brier sought to clarify his statements, saying that the fraud and corruption was documented only after the U.S. delegation left the country.
Several Republicans in Bennett's home county said this week that it appeared that the former governor would not run in the 1988 gubernatorial election.
top election official in Kansas.
Johnson County Chairman Fred Logan said Republicans who heard Bennett speak Sunday night at a fund-raising meeting detected signals that he would not run, Betty Bagby, former 3rd District chairwoman, said the general consensus of party members was that Bennett would stay out of the race.
As secretary of state, Brier is the
In addition, Bennett has scheduled only one news conference tomorrow to announce his plans. Candidates seeking the high office of governor often make several appearances across the state.
Police nab 2 suspects in robbery
By Brian Whepley
Staff writer
A Topeka man, shot by a police officer after the armed robbery of a Lawrence credit union, was in fair condition last night at Lawrence Memorial Hospital.
The wounded man and another Topeka man were arrested in connection with a robbery at the School Employee's Credit Union, 1015 W. Sixth St., Lawrence police said. The amount of money stolen had not been determined.
Police responded at 10:24 a.m. to a silent alarm at the credit union and saw the robbery suspect outside the building, police said.
Det. David Reavis confronted the suspect and then shot him in his upper right arm. The suspect, who is 19, fled south on Missouri Street and was arrested later at 641 Missouri St., police said.
An 18-year-old man, thought to be involved in the robbery, was arrested after his car was stopped in the 700 block of Missouri Street, police said.
Douglas County sheriff's deputies and KU police officers assisted in the search for the suspects.
No charges had been filed by yesterday afternoon, but Jim Flory, Douglas County district attorney, said he had received the robbery reports.
David Friedman, branch manager of the credit union, said a man carrying a gun came into the credit union wearing a ski mask and casual clothes.
The silent alarm, set off by one of the tellers, alerted the police. Friedman
The man pointed the gun at the receptionist, who was at her desk inside the door of the credit union, and demanded money, Friedman said. The man then realized the receptionist didn't have any money.
"He came around the counter and down the hallway," Friedman said.
The robber then pointed his gun at the tellers and told them to empty their cash drawers, Friedman said. The money was then put into a sack.
A blue-barreled revolver and a sack containing cash were recovered from the site.
Police said they still were investigating the robbery. Olin said that Reavis had been interviewed by detectives and the internal affairs department. Such interviews are routine,
Friedman said Lawrence police officers arrived just after the man left the credit union.
Maj. Ron Olin, assistant police chief, said two Lawrence police cars were in the area at the time of the robbery, one routine patrol car and a detective unit.
Friedman said videotapes of the robbery were turned over to the police department.
Mary Burger/KANSAN
Barefoot ball
John Hughes, Tulsa, Oklaho, junior, prepares to kick the ball past Bennett Cook, Oklahoma City junior. Both are members of the Phi Delta Theta team that was practicing yesterday for the upcoming intramural soccer tournament, sponsored by Recreation Services on April 11-13.
Bill plans to stiffen DUI laws
By Abbie Jones
Staff writer
Drivers under the influence of drugs or alcohol who unintentionally injure another person may face a felony charge under a bill now being studied by a Kansas House committee.
Present law says anyone arrested for injuring another while driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs will receive the standard punishment for DUI.
The House Federal and State Affairs Committee yesterday heard testimony from two proponents of the bill, which would make it a class E felony to inflict bodily injury to another while driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol. No opponents to the bill testified.
"People have been maimed," said State Rep. Michael Peterson, D-Kansas City. "People had tremendous injuries and all you could charge was a DWI."
Under the bill, bodily injury means any bodily harm, disfigurement or
Nick Tomasic, Wyandotte County district attorney and initiator of the bill, said anyone who killed a person in the same kind of accident was charged with vehicular homicide.
"If you injure someone seriously it's not a crime," Tomasic said. "It's a common-sense piece of leslization."
Class E felons receive a minimum sentence of one year and a maximum sentence of two to five years. Those arrested on DUI charges spend two days in jail on the first offense with supplementary classes or 100 hours of community service.
Another driver under the influence of drugs had seriously injured members of a family but could be charged only with DUI.
Involvement with ASK to continue
Tomasic said that in one case, a pregnant woman was hit by a drunken driver and lost her baby during the accident. He was unable to convict the driver of murder of the fetus or for the physical injury the woman suffered.
Staff writer
Bv Barbara Shear
Student Senate accepts proposals
Student Senate voted last night to accept the proposals of an ad hoc committee formed to investigate the effectiveness of the Associated Students of Kansas.
Only one senator voted against the proposals.
The committee presented five recommendations that were drawn up Sunday after hearing speakers and gathering information about ASK, a statewide student lobby organization.
One proposal is to adopt a campus autonomy program. Under the program, Student Senate would pay the salary of the campus director and the state organization would pay for legislative assemblies. The program would switch the roles of the Senate and ASK.
The other proposals are to get the other schools in ASK to also adopt the campus autonomy program, hire a full-time campus director, restructure the legislative assemblies and continue the ad hoc committee meetings.
Jason Krakow, Nunemaker senator and chairman of the committee, said financing for a full-time campus director and remaining in ASK would come from an $150,000 unallocated fund. KU now pays more than $24,000 a year to ASK and would pay a full-time campus director an additional $10,000 to $12,000.
Charles Lawhorn, liberal arts and sciences senator, was the only senator to oppose any of the
"The committee is advocating funding to ASK
and paying between $10,000 to $12,000 for a full-time campus director, which is fiscally irresponsible," Lawhorn said. "We are putting $40,000 into an organization that is ineffective. There should have been discussion."
Lawhorn did say, however, that he thought the proposals about changing the legislative assemblies and continuing ad hoc committee meetings were good ideas.
Liz Waltz, Association of University Residence Hall senator, and she was pleased with the ad hoc committee.
"They were very intelligent and better than making a hasty decision to pull out," she said. "It was admirable, the patience and concern shown by the committee."
Senate refers bill on filling vacancies
By Piper Scholfield
The bill would allow a pool of candidates to be nominated for a vacant seat rather than giving the seat to the runner-up from the previous election.
After an hourlong discussion of a bill that would change the procedure for electing replacement senators, the Student Senate sent the bill back to committee, saying it was too vague.
Geml Shiriffe, Election Committee chairman, said the bill was vague.
sibilities of the Election Committee. The bill provided guidelines as to how candidates should be nominated, but not how the Elections Committee impartially should choose the replacement senator, he said.
In other action, the Senate passed a bill which allocated $500 to Praxis as an honorarium for speaker Raymond Lotta, author of "America in Decline."
The Social Responsibilities Committee received $440 for a booklet that would provide an unbiased compilation of views on apartheid in
South Africa.
The Senate also passed a petition requesting the cooperation of the University of Kansas Alumni Association and the Kansas University Endowment Association in soliciting support for a new lecture series.
In open forum, Rachelle Worrall, Overland Park junior, told the Senate she had been disappointed in the behavior of some senators at last week's meeting.
Worrall said she attended the meeting to fulfill a class assignment
and had seen two senators drinking beer and others leaving the meeting during discussion of issues.
"I don't see how senators can vote responsibly when they are out at the concession stand during the discussion of the issue," she said.
Charles Lawhorn, graduate student senator, later said, "If she thinks this is horrible, she should see the other universities' senates," Lawhorn said. "I was reading my constitutional law, but I had one ear on the discussion."