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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
FRIDAY, FEB. 14, 1986, VOL. 96, NO. 97 (USPS 650-640)
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Research plan wins approval in faculty vote
By Leslie Hirschbach Staff writer
KU faculty members yesterday narrowly passed a proposal to extend classified research, although some professors wanted the document revised because it was unclear.
The proposal, which passed by a vote of 219-194, would extend classified research at the University of Kansas from one to three years if final approval is given by Chancellor Gene A. Budig.
Some KU professors who supported the extension didn't vote for the change because they thought the proposal was poorly organized.
Thomas Armstrong, professor of physics and astronomy, said the old policy was more reasonable than the new one.
"The proposal seems poorly constructed and serves little to guide and develop research." he said.
Armstrong, who is doing unclassified research for the Office of Naval Research on the Strategic Defense Initiative, said the 10-page ballot was much too long to give just a ves or no answer.
"It was approached in a manner to try to appease diverse interests and actions by including a paragraph for each point-of-view," he said. "The result is a document with no clarity or cohesiveness."
"It would be much better to vote this proposal down and devise something intelligible that can be
Armstrong said he thought the proposal lacked guidelines for researchers that indicated what kinds of research they could or couldn't do.
understood without a lot of debate."
Sandra Wick, recording secretary for the University Senate Executive Committee, said the ballot that was sent to the faculty was written by members of SenEx, who had consulted with a member of the Faculty Senate Research Committee. The document took about a week to write.
Two pages of the document explained the opposing views of the extension.
Proponents saw the current one-year classification policy as a limit to their academic freedom because it prevented them from pursuing research goals. Some industries, they argued, would not agree to do research with an institution that only could classify information for one year.
Opponents argued against any form of classified research. Classifying research, they said, restricted some professors from sharing all of their knowledge with their students.
Jan Roskam, professor of aerospace engineering who has done classified research for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, said he voted against the proposal because it was too lengthy and cumbersome.
See RESEARCH. p. 5. col. 1
A Lawrence firefighter prepares to go back into a burning house at 1217 Kentucky St. No one was injured in the fire, which broke out shortly before 9 a.m.
yesterday. Damages were estimated at $50,000, and the tenants of the first floor apartment were left homeless. See story page 3.
By Debra West Staff writer
Reading a newspaper, magazine or current novel often is taken for granted. But for some, it's an impossible feat.
The Audio-Reader Radio Service broadcasts current printed material to people with visual or physical handicaps that make it impossible for them to read, said Rosie Hurwitz, the director.
The service, broadcast over a sub-carrier of KANU-FM, has more than 10,000 listeners across the state. It can be received only on special radios, which Audio-Reader lends to eligible listeners.
Volunteers read the wide variety of broadcast material and keep the service working around the clock, Hurwitz said. They read national and local newspapers, popular magazines, the Bible and popular novels.
Bob Skupny, 200 W. 15th St., has been a volunteer reader for almost five years. Skupny retired from Ford Motor Company in Detroit in 1981 and moved to Lawrence. He heard Hurwitz being interviewed about Audio-Reader on the radio and decided to volunteer.
"It itemed natural." Skupny said. "I was newly retired and needed something to do. It's been the joy of my stay here in Lawrence."
Volunteers are required to pass an audition that includes pronouncing a list of 100 words and reading excerpts from books and newspapers.
The service has personal significance for some of its volunteers.
Jan Shumway began reading for the service six years ago after her mother began to lose her sight. Shumway gave her mother an Audio-Reader radio for Christmas and later decided to volunteer.
Hurwitz said, "Our volunteers are all very talented, very special people. They are excited about what they are doing."
Audio-Reader first went on the air in October 1971 and covered a 65-mile radius around Lawrence. It was the second radio station in the country devoted to reading and the first on a university campus.
Over the years, Audio-Reader has expanded its signal until now most of the state receives the program. In some areas it is available on cable television systems.
Listeners help decide the programming, Hurwitz said. They can volunteer to serve for one year on a committee comprised of 50 listeners.
Once a month, the Audio-Reader staff calls the committee members to ask whether they are pleased with the programs, she said. The listeners can request programs that aren't being offered at that time.
The listeners appreciate the service, Hurwitz said.
Vivian Wrightsman,1421 Kasold Drive,said she probably was the most ardent admirer of the service.
"It means so very much to me," she said. "I love to read, and I can no longer see to read. It means my existence."
Audio-Reader receives financing from the Kansas Legislature, but it's never enough. Hurwitz said.
The state budget pays the salary of the staff, the recording tape, equipment repairs and the microwave and cable systems, she said. But it doesn't pay for the radios lent to the listeners, new equipment or the program guide Audio-Service sends to its listeners.
Many organizations, businesses and individuals donate money that helps make ends meet. Hurwitz said. The Kansas Lions Sight Foundation pays for the braille program guides, and the Delta Gamma sorority, 1015 Emery Road, sponsors an annual fund-raiser for the program.
Despite this help, Hurwitz said, the program now has no money to buy new radios, and the waiting list of listeners is growing.
Hurwitz said she thought the Audio-Reader offered a valuable service to both the people it served and to the volunteers who worked there. The service is very important to its listeners, and the readers know that what they are doing is important to these people.
"There's no more significant gift than giving yourself," she said. "In the end you get back more than you give."
Bv Abbie Jones
Med students must go to towns to get grants
Staff writer
KU medical students may not be granted scholarships under a Kansas Senate bill unless they agree to begin their practices in small towns.
State Sen. Jack Walker, R-Overland Park, is the sponsor of a bill that would cut the number of scholarships granted to medical students from 50 to 25 for the 1986 and 1987 academic school years. The bill would eliminate all scholarships after Dec. 31. 1987.
"The process is not to help medical students." Walker said yesterday. "It's to help the Kansas medical supply."
Walker said that under the bill, medical students who were awarded scholarships after Dec. 31, 1985 must agree to set up a medical practice for at least a year in a Kansas city of 7,500 people or less. They would not be allowed to practice in cities of Wyandotte, Johnson, Sedgwick and Shawnee counties.
The purpose, Walker said, is to get
physicians into smaller towns where they are needed and out of the larger cities where it's tough to find a place to practice.
Interest rates would be set at 10 percent for students in the 1986 and 1987 classes who choose to pay the money back because they do not want to practice in small towns.
"Doctors would rather buy out than go to some of those places," he said.
Scholarship recipients after Dec. 31, 1985 would be required to first enter the three-year primary care residency training program, he said. Primary care comprises pediatrics, internal medicine and family practice.
The smaller towns don't need highly specialized medicine that is available in bigger cities, he said.
"We still need primary care physicians, and we need them in smaller towns," Walker said.
The scholarships would be made for one year at a time and would be renewed annually.
It's unbelievable
Senior's kin wins $2 million
Bv Lori Polson
Staff writer
When Chris Magerl, Overland Park senior, heard yesterday that his grandfather had just won over $2 million his first response was, "No way!"
“It’s unbelievable,” Mageri said. Mageri's grandfather, Johnnie J. Mageri, is a 9-year butcher from Kansas City, Kan.
See related story p. 10.
Yesterday morning, he became the first million-dollar jackpot winner in the recently established Missouri State Lottery.
he said he probably would donate a considerable sum of money to St. Agnes Parish in Kansas City, Kan., in memory of his wife, Grace.
The jokepope:
"the idea what I'm going to do with the money," Johnnie Mager) said. "But I'm planning on giving some to the church."
The jackpot was worth $2,116,504.
Chris Mageri said he had no idea what his grandfather would do with the money.
"I have no plans to quit work," he said. "But I'll probably just work half-time now."
Johnnie Magerl works at Johnnie's Market, a Kansas City, Mo., grocery store owned by his son. Bill.
Johnnie J. Magerl smiles after winning $2,116,504 in the Missouri State Lottery. Magerl, Kansas City, Kan. received his first installment yesterday a check for $84,660
the money.
"All he does is work," he said. "He
Members of the family probably will not profit from his grandfather's good luck, Chris Magerl said.
never travels. I don't know what he is going to do."
"He has a huge family." he said.
"It's not like anyone is going to get loaded or anything."
A spokesman for the Missouri lottery said that should Johnnie Magerl die before collecting the entire amount, the remainder of the money would be given to his estate.
Lottery officials hold 20 percent of all prizes worth $10,000 or more for income tax purposes, the spokesman said.
Johnnie Mmira1 received a check for $84,660 yesterday. A $105,825 check will be mailed to him every year for the next 20 years.
Mageri was one of 30 finalists who spun the wheel. He won a chance to participate with a ticket that he bought at his son's store.
It was the only ticket that won him a chance, even though he had spent about $60 on lottery tickets, which cost $1 each, he said.
The finalists were picked from among instant lottery game players whose tickets made them eligible for a drawing.
Each finalist who spins the wheel wins money. The wheel has one jackpot slot, eight slots worth $23,000, 15 slots worth $10,000, 20 slots paying $2,000, 23 worth $1,500 and 33 paying $1,000.
No one won the jackpot last week,
so the amount of money had doubled.
The Associated Press supplied some information for this story.
Open-container fine may rise
The bill was sponsored by a bipartisan group of representatives, including State Rep. Betty Jo Charlton, D-Lawrence.
TOPEKA — People who are convicted of illegally transporting open containers of alcohol won't be able to plea-bargain for a lighter sentence if a proposed law change passes the Kansas Legislature.
Bv Mark Siebert
A bill introduced in the House on Wednesday could raise the fine for open container convictions to encourage violators to participate in alcohol and drug safety programs.
"We've got to be within reason and give these people a fair shake," Johnson said. "We want to keep them from getting a DUI later on down the line."
The proposed law would require a first-time offender to be put on probation and enroll in a alcohol education program that costs no more than $100.
Staff writer.
refused the education program, they would be fined between $100 and $500, imprisoned for up to six months or both. The law also prohibits plea bargaining to the avoid penalties.
Under present law, illegally transporting open containers is punishable by a fine of up to $200, not more than six months in jail or both.
Gene Johnson, project coordinator of the Kansas Community Alcohol Safety Action Project, said the organization was supporting the bill because officers were catching violators but the violators were not being convicted.
In 1984, the Kansas Highway Patrol recorded about 2,000 violations for open containers but only 335 convictions showed up at the state Traffic Control Bureau, Johnson said. Some violators received lighter sentences by plea-bargaining.
The law is designed to get the violators to take the education course and not the fine or jail, he said. Educated people are less likely to commit serious crimes later.
By Barbara Shear
When spoken, this simple three-letter word can make ears perk up, quiet noisy classrooms or captivate an audience as it did last night in the Kansas Union Ballroom.
Sex
James Peterson, author of an adviser column in Playboy magazine, spoke to about 200 people on love and sex.
responding to a question about numerous lovers.
"Sex should be like ethnic food — enjoy the flavor, don't ask what went into it," Peterson told the audience.
Although the speech was entertaining, some people on campus didn't find the subject amusing.
Mike Lauer, Seneca junior, and a member of the Student Union Activities forums committee, said many of the posters advertising the speech were torn down or marked up.
"People were writing 'sexist' on the posters," he said. "One poster said 'The campus is sponsoring Playboy, and Playboy sponsors rape.'"
Lauer said he didn't know who had vandalized the posters.
Despite some obvious opposition to the lecture, most students attending the lecture didn't find it offensive.
"I thought it was really funny, and he had good things to say," Susan Simmons, Kansas City, Kan., sophomore, said. "He could have made it serious, but it was funny without being flippant. I was impressed."
Jim Oliverius, Timken junior, said
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