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July 29 , 1987
Vol. 97, No. 153
(USPS 650-640)
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
SUMMER WEEKLY EDITION
Former KU official gets release date from federal prison
Published by the students of the University of Kansas since 1889
By ALISON YOUNG Special to the Kansan
The U.S. Parole Commission has ruled that former KU executive secretary Richard von Ende, sentenced in November to three years in federal prison for drug crimes, will be released from custody March 8, 1988.
Since December, von Ende has been serving his sentence at the Federal Correction Institute in Fort Worth, Texas.
At a June 9 hearing, the commission ruled that von Ende would complete 15 months of his three-year sentence, said Steve Johnston, south-central region administrator to the parole commission in Dallas.
Von Ende, who served as the University's chief lobbyist to the Kansas legislature from 1972 until September 1986, when he resigned, was one of 21 people in Lawrence indicted last July on cocaine-related charges after an investigation that involved local, state and federal drug enforcement officials.
He was charged in federal court with three counts of distributing cocaine and three counts of conspiracy to distribute cocaine.
On Sept. 22, von Ende pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to distribute cocaine and to one count of distributing cocaine. All other previous charges against von Ende were
Traffic booths to be rid of asbestos
The commission ruled that von Ende would complete 15 months of his three-year sentence.
- Steve Johnston parole commission region administrator
Bv STORMY WYLIE
The four traffic booths on campus will be remodeled this fall to remove all traces of asbestos.
Staff writer
The wall panels and ceilings in the booths, which restrict the flow of traffic on campus, are made of transite, a material that contains asbestos fibers. Asbestos is an incombustible, fibrous mineral that was extensively used for fireproofing and electrical insulation before questions were raised about its health effects.
Donald Kearns, director of parking, said last week that he asked the department of facilities operations to remove the asbestos material from the booths after he first found out about the asbestos in March. The traffic booths are about 20 years old.
McMillan did say that both were minimum-security institutions holding similar types of offenders.
The federal parole commission has a system of guidelines for particular crimes with severities assigned to them. This is counterbalanced with the background of the individual in charge. He said the parole guidelines for him recommended a term of between 12 and 18 months.
dropped.
Rodney Bishop, a Lawrence physician, said people who inhaled asbestos fibers increased their risk of contracting lung cancer and other upper respiratory diseases.
On Feb. 19, von Ende fired a motion with the U.S. District Court in Kansas City, Kan., for a reduction in sentence. According to court records dated April 17, the court had taken the request under consideration but would defer any ruling until after von Ende appeared before the U.S. Parole Commission in June.
After his release, von Ende will be supervised by a federal probation officer until Dec. 6, 1989 — the expiration of his full term, Johnston said. As a condition for his parole, the commission will require von Ende to participate in a drug after-care program, he said. Such a condition typically requires such things as urine testing and drug counseling, but is at the discretion of the probation officer, Johnston said.
On May 14, von Ende was transferred from the Federal Correction Institute in Fort Worth, Texas, to the Federal Prison Camp in Big Springs, Texas. Lloyd McMillan, assistant superintendent of the Big Springs institution, said the reason for the transfer was not public information.
Donna Hultine, assistant director of parking, said her office had been assured by the department of facilities operations that the traffic booths were safe unless something broke up or was released and released asbestos fibers into the air.
Dale Fulkerson/KANSAN
On July 7, that may have happened at one traffic booth.
Rila Jordan, security officer II supervisor, was manning the booth this morning.
A 17-year-old KU student drove her car into the side of the traffic booth on Mississippi Street, behind the Kansas Union. The car crashed through the east wall, breaking down the transite panels and frame on that side.
Kansan photo illustration
drove up onto the bank on the east side of the road, bounced off the curbing and crashed into the traffic booth.
Jordan said she could tell that the girl, who was driving a 1973 Mazda, was not experienced in driving a stick-shift car.
Jordan said a young girl drove up to the traffic booth about noon asking for directions to Massachusetts Street. Jordan gave her directions and told her to make a U-turn around the booth.
Jordan jumped out of the booth as the car hit. Neither Jordan nor the girl driving the car were injured in
The girl lost control of the car.
the accident.
Jordan said that when the car crashed into the booth, she thought she saw clouds of asbestos and cement dust. She said she had known about the asbestos in the booths and was uncomfortable about staying in
them for long periods of time.
Facilities operations personnel were called in to clean up the debris immediately after the accident.
Bob Porter, associate director of physical plant maintenance, said he thought the dust was dirt from the carpet in the booth, not asbestos fibers. But, he said, the dust could have had some asbestos fibers in it.
Porter said the workers who cleaned up the booth that day did not wear masks or protective clothing because transite was not considered a workplace hazard. The workers swept with a special dust bag to collect any asbestos dust he said.
All facilities operations personnel are trained to handle asbestos materials. They must wear masks and protective clothing, and use the special vacuum. Areas with asbestos debris also are wetted down to keep any fibers from being inhaled.
After collection, asbestos is stored in double bags in a corrugated metal building near the power plant. When the building becomes full, the asbestos is buried at a special landfill near Topeka.
Porter said the transit panels would be removed from the booths this fall after the completion of higher priority projects such as the construction of parking lots, new office spaces and the installation of a new telephone system.
Replacing the transite panels with metal and styrofoam panels will cost about $7,000.
"In my personal opinion, the people in those booths are under less of a hazard from the transite than from the vehicles that stop there for information," he said.
The Kansas Department of Health and Education does not consider transite a hazardous material, said Steve Cater, KU health and safety officer. People who work with transite have a low chance of being exposed to asbestos, Cater said.
Porter said the siding of the Lindley Hall Annex also contained transit. However, 90 percent of the asbestos campus is in pipe insulation, he said.
Meese defends his investigation
The Blue Angels, the U.S. Navy's flight demonstration squadron, practices at Richards-Gebaur Air Force Base, Kansas City, Mo. They prepared on Thursday for "Operation Handshake," the base's air show and open house last weekend.
Heavenly Angels
WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General Edwin Meese III yesterday defended his effort to seek the facts of the Iran-contra affair last November, telling congressional questioners that the conflicting accounts he received from other administration officials did not cause him to suspect that "more was involved than confusion."
Meese, on his first day of testimony, frequently relied on notes of key meetings to tell how he and his
No notes exist, however, for one crucial conversation that Meese recounted in detail: the brief meeting Nov. 24 when Meese informed the then-national security adviser, John M. Poindexter, of the discovery of a National Security Council staff draft memo that referred to the diversion.
deputies uncovered evidence that profits from U.S. arms sales to Iran had been diverted to aid the Nicaraguan contras.
about this," Meese said. "And I believe his exact words or close to his exact words were: 'Ollie (Lt. Col. Oliver L. North) had given me enough hints about this so that I generally knew, but I did nothing to follow up or stop it.'"
"I asked him whether he knew
Meese said he then asked Poindexter, "Have you told anyone else, or does anyone else in the White House know?" When Poindexter replied no, Meese said he assumed that Reagan had not been told.
Non-resident fees to increase more than 10 percent this fall
By CARLA PATINO
All non-resident students, undergraduate and graduate, will pay $147.50 more in tuition fees this fall.
Staff writer
Resident students' fees also will increase, but not as much. Undergraduate resident fees will increase from $645 to $62.50 in the fall and graduate resident fees will increase from $705 to $722.50.
Figures from the student affairs office show that the increase for non-resident students is the largest in three years.
Summary of required fees per semester at KU for the years 1985-1988.
Tuition for undergraduate nonresident students will increase from $1,600 to $1,747.50, and graduate nonresident students' tuition will increase from $1,660 to $1,807.50.
Tom Rawson, director of business and fiscal affairs for the Lawrence campus, said he thought two factors affected the increase in tuitions. The first is the standard set by the Board of Regents of having about 25 percent of the Regents institutions' educational budgets financed by student fees, and the second was changes in tuitions at similar universities in other states.
Rawson said a committee appointed by the Regents revised the fees every year.
Ray Hauke, director of planning and budget for the Regents institutions, said non-resident fees at the Kansas Regents institutions were significantly below the ones charged by other peer institutions. Resident fees, however, are more comparable to those at the peer institutions, he said.
Hauke said tuition increases usually depended on the University's operating cost and the administration's decision of what proportion of that cost is allocated to students and to taxpayers.
He said he thought students would get their money's worth, not only at KU, but at other Kansas institutions, compared to universities in neighboring states and of comparable size.
Connie Sheridan/Kansan graphic
"Our tuition, even with the increases, is below of that paid by
non-residents at other institutions,' Hauke said.
Beville said the incidental fee did not contain the campus privilege fee.
Linda Beville, assistant to the vice chancellor for student affairs, said the biggest increase had come in the incidental fee, which is the portion of the tuition that pays for classroom instruction and library services.
The fee increases, Beville said, won't change the fact that 'we (KU) are often referred as the bargain of the Midwest.' That is because our tuition is lower compared to most at major institutions."
The campus privilege fee is the portion of required University fees that support a variety of non-classroom student activities, such as student health fees and Student Senate activities fees. This fee is the same for residents and non-residents, and has increased $2.50.
Last Summer Kansan
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This is the final edition of The University Daily Kansan Summer Weekly Edition. The Back-to-School edition of the Kansan will be available Aug. 19. The newspaper will resume daily publication Aug. 24.