Kansan Summer Weekly
Wednesday, July 15, 1987
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Local Briefs Injured student files civil suit against driver
John Buzbee, Hutchinson junior,
has filed a civil suit against
another KU student, Eldon Alldritt,
Wichita junior.
Alidrith was the driver of a car involved in an accident May 5 that crushed Buzbee's legs. Part of Buzbee's left leg was amputated
Buzbee's petition states that his injuries were caused, or were contributed to, by the reckless and negligent driving or wanton conduct of the driver. Aldritt.
Alldritt allegedly lost control on his car on Stewart Avenue near 21st Street. The car struck a glancing blow off the first of three parked cars, then hit the second car. Buzbee was trapped between the second and third parked cars
Buzbee will seek actual and punitive damages. He requested a jury trial.
Campus and Area
Alldritt has been charged in Douglas County District Court with driving under the influence of alcohol and reckless driving. The trial is scheduled for 8 a.m. July 17.
Matt Dillon arrives in town for filming
Actor Matt Dillon is in Lawrence for the making of Kansas, a movie that will be filmed in the Lawrence area.
He arrived yesterday and is staying at the Eldridge Hotel, Seventh and Massachusetts streets.
Dillon will co-star with Andrew McCarthy and is expected to stay at the Eldridge for a 50-day shooting period scheduled to begin July 29.
Sights mentioned for filming besides Lawrence are Topeka, Valley Falls and Gardner.
McCarthy also is expected to stay at the Eldridge when he arrives.
Sci-fi conference to begin July 18
The 14th annual Campbell Awards Conference for science fiction fiction will begin at 9 a.m. July 18 in the Adams Alumni Center. The conference is in conjunction with the presentation of the Campbell Awards and the Sturgeon Awards.
The awards will be given during a banquet July 18 at the alumni center. The banquet will begin at 6 p.m. The conference and the awards banquet each will cost $15 to attend.
Correction
Because of a reporter's error, a story in the July 8 Kansan incorrectly reported the beginning date of the demolition of eight houses on Tennessee Street. The demolition began June 27.
Opinions on new drinking laws differ
By KEITH ROBISON
Some love them. Some hate them.
Kansas' new drinking laws have spurred different opinions among owners and employees of bars and clubs in Lawrence, depending on the type of bar or club.
Staff writer
The owners and employees of bars that meet the 30 percent food requirement say that business is doing well, while owners of taverns and clubs that cannot meet the food requirement say business is slow.
Establishments whose revenue from food sales is less than 30 percent of total sales have to remain private clubs, according to the new drinking law.
Shane Lee, the owner of Gammon's, 1601 W. 23rd St., said his place didn't meet the 30 percent food requirement and must remain a private club.
"All it's done is hurt me," he said. "There are scars."
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Hugh. It's a tough business." He said the new drinking laws didn't reflect what the public wanted.
"They're (Kansas Legislature) not speaking for the populace. They're speaking for small special interest groups. You can't tell me that Reverend Taylor has that big of a following. But then again, I heard that Kansas had prohibition, so at least we're moving ahead," Lee said.
The Rev. Richard Taylor is chairman of Kansans for Life at it's Best!, an anti-liquor lobbying group based in Topeka.
Lee said, "The state Legislature traded out some vital, key issues just to get liquor by the drink passed. They didn't go with what the population wanted. They went with the special interest groups.
"I don't see how this will cut down on drunk driving. We have to close an hour early now. People will be coming in and drinking twice as much twice as fast and then driving."
Lee said Kansas liquor laws would make going to Westport, an area in Kansas City, Mo., heavily populated with bars, more attractive.
"They don't need club cards for anywhere over there, and they can drink until three. How many more drunks will there be on Highway 10?" he said.
Before the drinking law changed, Johnny's, the ground-floor bar, served only beer that had 3.2 percent alcohol, and the Up and Under, upstairs, operated as a private club.
Roxanne Medlan is the manager of Johnny's and the Up and Under, 403 N. Second St. Johnny's and the Up and Under were previously two separate establishments in the same building, but Medlan said the two bars had been combined.
Kansas Highway 10 connects Lawrence and Kansas City.
The establishment has qualified for the 30 percent food requirement and doesn't require a club card.
"We are now a drinking establishment, a completely open place. Business seems like it has increased a little bit. We've got new people coming in now because they can get a beer and a burger without having a membership card. We also have the old regulars." Medlan said.
Brooks Hanson, manager of Dos Hombres, 815 New Hampshire St., said the elimination of the club card had improved business.
"it's picked up at lunch hour especially. The newaws haven't hurt us a bit," he said.
The Jazzhaus, $ 192^{1/2} $ Massachusetts St., still requires a club card.
Ed Noenone, a bartender at the Jazzhaus, said the bar didn't meet the 30 percent requirement, and the new law did nothing positive for them.
"We'll be open publicly in a week. We have had a lot more people trying to get in. I'm sure business will pick up when we open publicly," he said.
Jay Jamison manages the Shenago Lunge, 2907 W. Sixth St. He said his business would have to remain a private club.
"It did not do anything for us except make us close an hour earlier. That's liberal drinking for you," he said.
Wes Kabler, owner of the Flamingo Club, 501 N. Ninth St., said the bar would qualify to be an open drinking establishment.
"We're losing money every night," Jamison said.
Lee said he was trying to formulate a plan that would allow minors into Gammon's.
"We may do something to identify the minors and let them inside the club and drinkokes. We've
thought about using some kind of bracelet for the drinkers so the bartenders would know who could drink and who couldn't.
"There is no place in Lawrence for the freshman and sophomores to take a date and dance. If there's nothing for people that age to do, why come to KU? We've got the academics, but there's more to college life than that," Lee said.
"I know when I was a kid, if someone told me I couldn't do something, I would damn sure do it. It seems safer to keep the drinking in where there's somebody that cares, instead of out drinking all over the place."
Med Center to hold workshop in genetics
Staff writer
By STORMY WYLIE
Scientists are finding ways now to predict a person's future through genetics.
For instance, within the past two or three years, scientists have discovered "marker" genes that can identify persons who are carriers of genetic diseases such as Alzheimer's, Huntington's, muscular dystrophy, cystic fibrosis and even manic depression.
But many people, especially students, are not being kept up-to-date on the latest breakthroughs in genetics, a University of Kansas Medical Center genetic counselor said last week.
The counselor, Debra Collins, said much of the information on genetics found in elementary and secondary school science textbooks was several years behind the technology. Many science teachers have very little knowledge of genetics
"Most teachers are ill-equipped to teach genetics today," she said.
To help educate a few Kansas teachers about some of the recent
breakthroughs in genetics, Collins and the Med Center will offer the Genetic Teacher Training Program Aug. 17-21 at the KU Regents Center in Overland Park.
The program is being paid for by a $323,916 grant from the National Science Foundation in Washington, D.C.
About 140 teachers at urban Kansas schools, whose students range from kindergarteners to high-school seniors, will attend the first of two workshops offered this year. A second workshop for teachers in rural schools will be offered sometime this fall, Collins said.
Each of these 140 teachers will then train about 10 more teachers in their school districts. As a result, Collins said, they hope the teachers can educate more than 100,000 students on new genetic information.
The teachers will receive teaching aids such as textbooks, videotapes, computer programs and slides to help improve the students' knowledge of genetics.
Collins and her staff will follow up next year with an evaluation of the
For many teachers in the program, this may be their first genetics course in many years, Collins said. For others, it may be their first genetics course ever.
Virginia Epps, a KU graduate teaching assistant, helped Collins apply for the grant. She also will help teach the workshop.
As a former science teacher at Wyandotte High School in Kansas City, Kan., Epps said she could speak from experience on how little was known about genetics in elementary and secondary schools.
"The last genetics course I took was in 1961," she said. "Since then, I've done some reading and took one short course as a refresher. The amount of time I had to read was microscopic, but I was still way ahead of the textbooks."
either covered minimally or not at all.
"What is in the school textbook may have been adequate for a school setting, but it is shocking how little is known," she said.
As part of the application for the grant, Epps said she did a survey of genetics information in school textbooks and found that the subject is
Eric Flesher, Lawrence resident and teacher at Shawnee Mission Northwest and West high schools in Johnson County, Kan., will also take part in the program. He said he was excited about other issues that also were related to new genetic technology.
"Of course, genetics has ties with biology and other science-related fields, but there are also issues in politics, social studies and math," he said. "This can help promote cultural and creative thinking."
At the workshop, Flesher and the other teachers also will discuss ethical and legal questions related to genetics.
The teacher training program is designed not only to help educate teachers, but more importantly, to help teachers educate their students, Collins said.
Center to get grant for study
By STORMY WYLIE
Staff writer
The University of Kansas Medical Center will take part in a nationwide $10 million study of Parkinson's disease, a hospital spokesman said last week.
William C. Koller, the new chairman of the neurology department and head of the Parkinson's Disease Center at the Med Center, said this is the largest amount of money ever earmarked for the study of the dis
The Med Center is one of 29 medical centers in the United States and Canada participating in the study, which is being financed by the National Institutes of Health, Bertiesia, Md. The Med Center's piece of the $10-million pie is $125,000 a year for five years.
Other medical centers in Denver, Omaha, Neb., St. Louis, Mo., and Houston are also participating, Koller said.
Nationally, the research will include testing more than 800 persons in the early stages of Parkinson's with the use of two drugs — deprenyl and tocopherol, two of four drugs that constitute vitamin E. These drugs are being tested to see if they can stop or prevent the progression of the disease, Koller said.
“This is a brand new concept,” he said. “It is more than just testing. We're going to see if we can stop this disease in its early stages.”
Parkinson's is a progressively disabling disease that deteriorates the brain's nerve cells. It affects about 2 percent of people 60 and older. The average age a person contracts the disease is 59.
People with Parkinson's usually experience one or more of four major symptoms — tremors, droopy posture, rigidity of movement and slowness.
"Many patients find it difficult to get dressed or to feed themselves," Koller said. "It is not usually fatal as such, but the quality of a patient's life is poor."
Parkinson's is not passed genetically. Part of the research will be to determine how the disease is contracted.
Twenty volunteers from the Med Center's Parkinson's clinic will be divided into four groups. One group will be tested with deprenyl, another with tocopherol, another with a combination of the two drugs and another with a placebo, or sugar pill.
Koller said the Med Center has already started recruiting patients from its Parkinson's clinic. The number of eligible patients is limited, because most of the clinic's annual 500 patients are in the later stages of the disease.
The research will probably begin about Aug. 15, Koller said.
Koller, 42, came to the Med Center on July 1 from Loyola University, Chicago, where he was the head of the Parkinson's Disease Center.
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