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University Daily Kansan / Monday, April 20, 1987
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Local Briefs
Lawrence men bind and beat burglary suspect
Four Lawrence men, upon finding an burglar suspect inside one of the men's apartment early Saturday morning, tied him up and beat him, a Lawrence police spokesman said.
The incident occurred about 2 a.m. Saturday in an apartment in Dover Square, he said.
no arrests have been made yet,
the spokesman said, and police will leave it to the Douglas County
officer to explain what, if any, charges will be filed.
Police took the burglary suspect to the Lawrence Memorial Hospital emergency room, where his nose was found to be broken. He also complained of a sore right eye and forearm, the spokesman said.
2 Lawrence men commit suicide
Two Lawrence men committed suicide last week.
The spokesman said that an anonymous caller called the police dispatcher Thursday that he was going to kill himself in the garage of a house in the 2200 block of Barker Avenue.
When police arrived, they found Strickler in the garage with a self-inflicted wound to the head.
Strickler was flown to the Med Center by helicopter, where he died the next day.
The other man, Jimmie Musselman, 65, shot himself Friday in the front yard of his house in the 1500 block of Powers Street just as police arrived, the spokesman said.
A neighbor of Musselman's had reported to police that Musselman was sitting in his front yard with a gun, he said.
Author to lecture about atomic bomb
Richard Rhodes, author of the critically acclaimed 1987 book "The Making of the Atomic Bomb," will lecture at 8 p.m. today in the Mayflower Room of the Plymouth Congregational Church. 925 Vermont St.
Rhodes will talk about the history of the development of the atomic bomb and what he calls the world's need to reconsider the idea of the nation-state as the ultimate political system.
The lecture is sponsored by the KU Coalition for Peace and Justice.
Correction
Because of an editor's error, the first Pulitzer Prize winner for individual work from the KU School of Journalism was reported incorrectly in Friday's Kansan, and Calder Pickett, Clyde M. Reed distinguished professor of journalism, was misquoted. The first such winner from KU was Louis LaCoss. Because of a reporter's error in the same story, the journalism dean in 1974 was reported incorrectly. The dean in 1974 was Edward Bassett.
From staff and wire reports.
Regents approve funding proposal
By ROGER COREY
Staff writer
The Board of Regents approved Thursday a three-year plan to increase financing among state universities, and KU administrators are working to gain Gov. Mike Hayden's support.
The plan's goal is to bring up the Regents schools to 95 percent of the financing of their peer institutions by fiscal year 1991. Each Regents university has a different group of peer institutions.
The University of Kansas' peer institutions are the universities of Colorado, Iowa, North Carolina, Oklahoma and Oregon.
Now the Regents universities' financing is 14 percent less than the peer average. Faculty salaries are 8 percent below the peer average, and the operating budget is 30 percent below.
The plan would adjust university budgets for enrollment changes, additional physical facilities, faculty salaries and improvement of existing programs and services.
The plan also would raise faculty salaries at Regents schools to the level of the peer schools' average.
"Raising the Regents schools up to 95 percent of their peer institutions is a realistic goal," Del Shankel, acting executive vice chancellor, said Friday. "But whether we will be able to convince the governor and Legislature, I don't know."
He said KU officials should use all their persuasive powers to have the plan approved.
"The state's economy is beginning to turn around. I'm hopeful the turnaround will continue and that the education will continue," Shankel said.
He said the plan demonstrated a real commitment by the Regents to enhance the quality of education at Regents schools.
The six state universities and the Kansas Technical Institute in Salina are under the Regents jurisdiction.
In the past, the Regents usually had a clause that they have received, Shankel said.
Keith Nitcher, director of business affairs, said that the Regents had approved the plan but that specific numbers would not be determined until May. The Regents are scheduled to meet again May 13 to 14.
"We will be seeking the support of the governor after the May meeting." Nitcher said.
He said the Regents would use the weeks before the May meeting to update the peer institution comparator for the Regents' financial financing for each Regents school.
"A lot of our success will have to do with how the plan is packaged."
Regents schools probably will get additional financing only by planning for program improvements, he said. The governor's office will discuss at Thursday's meeting.
Under the new system, the Regents would recommend a base budget increase for each of the Regents universities based on peer averages. The universities then would submit a proposal stating how they intended to use the money.
"Everyone has something at stake in this plan," he said.
Under the old system, schools submitted a list of program proposals to the Regents and asked for a specific amount for each proposal.
"I think the success of the plan will be tied to program review," Nitcher said.
Amy Rhoads/KANSAN
Boater still missing; officials and family search Kansas River
Debbie Bushey, Overland Park senior, and Tim Sites, Glen Ellyn, Ill., freshman, cool off in the Chi Omega fountain. The two were enjoying the unseasonably warm temperatures Sunday afternoon.
By PAUL BELDEN
A big splash
The search is continuing for a Lawrence man who disappeared in the Kansas River on Friday morning after he and another man went over the Bowersock River in a small boat.
Staff writer
The man, Elmer F. Wolford, 25,
still is missing but not presumed
dead, a Lawrence police spokesman
said.
missing persons are not presumed dead by the Lawrence police until seven years have passed, a spokesman said.
Major Bob Coleman, of the Lawrence Fire Department, said that two firemen in a boat and two men in a canoe were the hunks of the river for Wolford.
Friends and relatives of Wolford, in several other boats, were helping in the search, he said.
The other man in the boat with Wolford, Ricky J. Franks, 29, of Topea, survived the plunge into the lake and brought about about four feet higher than normal.
Franks pulled himself out of the river about a quarter mile downstream from the dam, which is just east of the Massachusetts Street bridge that crosses the Kansas River.
Franks told police that he and
Wolford had borrowed the boat from a Perry man, and, starting in the Delaware River near Perry, had intended to float down to Lawrence. The Delaware River flows into the Kansas River.
He said that sometime during the trip he had fallen asleep, and that Wolford woke him up and warned him just before the went over the
Franks told police that he thought he was underwater about a minute. He said he was struck by what he thought was an explosion and he kicked hard and broke the surface.
Franks was taken to Lawrence Memorial Hospital on Friday for observation and was released later that day.
The Kansas Crew team was at a North Lawrence boat ramp Friday morning loading boats onto trucks, when police pulled up and asked them to assist in the search, Libby Elliott, assistant crew coach, said.
Public hearing for bypass is tonight
She said that her husband, Cliff, crew coach, put a motorboat in the water and headed up toward the dam.
"They wanted Cliff to go back and forth up to the beddam and he looked at them like, 'Are you crazy?' " she said.
Trafficway's environmental impact statement is expected to draw large crowd
By TODD COHEN
Staff writer
The eighth and final public hearing on the proposed south Lawrence trafficway, called to discuss the controversial roadway's possible environmental effects, is expected to attract a large, angry crowd tonight.
The hearing, which will focus on a draft environmental impact statement that was released last month, will take place at 7 p.m. in the South Junior High School auditorium, 2734 Louisiana St.
Local environmentalists, who have led spirited campaigns against the trafficway in the past year, are expected to renew arguments that the roadway would harm the Baker Wetlands, a wildlife refuge that is home to the endangered Northern Crawfish frog.
The trafficway would pass next to the wetlands, south of 31st Street, between Haskell Avenue and Louisiana Street.
Environmentalists also have said the roadway would pass through two pastures northwest of Lawrence that contain fields of the rare white-winged prairie orchid and a rare
born of mistakes.
At the hearing, the engineering consultants who prepared the draft statement will make a presentation, and Robert Glicksman, KU professor of law, will discuss the history and laws surrounding the environmental impact statement process.
Also, a Kansas Department of Transportation representative will discuss the right-of-way procedures the county must follow to condemn and acquire property in the road's path.
County commissioners, Lawrence city commissioners and representatives of Environmental Protection Agency, the Federal Highway Administration, and the Kansas Fish and Game Commission also will attend and be available for questions.
Chris McKenzie, Douglas County administrator, said Friday that the hearing was a very important step in the process.
Once the final environmental impact statement is filed with and approved by the Environmental Protection Agency this summer, as required by federal law, the county can make final decisions about the
road's route, McKenzie said.
"Instead of general corridors, we're going to start talking about exactly where it will go," he said.
If built, the trafficway would run 14.3 miles around Lawrence's south border from Kansas Highway 10, on the city's east side, to a new interchange on Interstate 70, on the city's west side.
Currently, road plans run from Highway 10 south to Haskell Avenue, 31st and 35th streets before heading north to meet Clinton Parkway at Clinton Lake. From there, it would run north to Interstate 70.
The hearing won't be the public's last chance to comment on the draft statement. Residents have until May 11 to file letters with the government agencies involved with the draft statement. McKenzie said letters from Frank Hueckey county public works director, or the Federal Highway Administration, 444 S.E. Quincy Avenue, Topeka, 66838.
The draft statement is available at the County Courthouse, 11th and Massachusetts streets; Lawrence City Hall, Sixth and Massachusetts
streets; and the Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vermont St.
Glickman said environmental impact statements have only been a requirement since 1969, when the Environmental Policy Act was passed.
The act forced the government and developers to consider environmental effects and disclose their findings to the public, he said.
Glickman said that before the 1969 law, "They didn't have to think about the consequences, and they didn't see it in the public of those consequences."
The EPA doesn't have veto powers, however, and can only require that a statement is filed and prepared correctly. Glickman said.
Final decisions will be made by the county commission and by several agencies that must issue permits for the project, including the Kansas Fish and Game, the U.S. Department of Transportation and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
Opponents who are not satisfied by the statement have only three ways to respond. He said, "They can rob the politicians, go to court, or do nothing, he said.
Alumni can get credit cards with Jayhawks
Staff writer
By PEGGY O'BRIEN
KU alumni and friends now can display their pride in the Jayhawks every time they pull out their charge cards.
The First Bank Card Center of Wichita, in cooperation with the alumni associations of several Kansas colleges and universities, is offering Visa and Mastercard credit cards with a picture of the respective school's mascot printed on the card. KU alumi will see the Jayhawk logo on their cards.
More than 2,000 alumni and friends of the University of Kansas have applied for Visa and Mastercard bearing the Jayhawk logo since the alumni center started a mailing about the program at the beginning of the month, according to John Sanders, University of Kansas Alumni Association treasurer.
Cheryl Koenig, marketing projects manager for First Bank Card Center, said that in addition to the benefits the card allowed to members, First Bank Card Center contributed to the school's alumni association when members used its card. A percentage of the sales volume from card purchases goes back to the alumni association.
Sanders said the Alumni Association was mailing information about the offer to alumni and friends. He said that a telemarketing campaign would follow the mailing.
The Alumni Association does not have any projections on the amount of money the program will generate, but it has had a good response from alumni so far, Sanders said. The Alumni Association board of directors hasn't made any recommendations for use of the funds yet, he said.
Koenigs said the group programs, which offer the customized cards, were a potential promotion
for many organizations. She said that she has had positive response from everyone she has talked to about the program.
Koenigs said that students who have not completed an undergraduate degree did not qualify for this offer but that the bank was working on a student program, which should begin later this
The alumni association at Kansas Newman College in Wichita is using the money brought in by the card users to develop a scholarship fund, according to the First Bank Card Center.
The cards carry benefits for the alumni that may include a 25-day grace period in purchases before interest is charged, $400 optional cash advance available to alumni association members and no-cost travel/accident insurance. First Bank Card Center said in a press release.