University Daily Kansan / Thursday, April 9, 1987
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House panel gives approval to 65 mph limit
TOPEKA — Less than a day after the Kansas Senate approved a bill to increase the speed limit on rural interstate highways to 65 miles per hour, the House Transportation Committee yesterday endorsed the measure and sent it to the floor for debate.
The committee approved the bill on an unrecorded voice vote after State Rep. Rex Crowell, R Longton, chairman of the panel, said he realized an increase in the speed limit probably would result in a higher death toll on the state's roadways.
The measure would give Gov. Mike Hayden the power to increase the speed limit on rural interstates to 65 mph, effective May 1. The change would affect about 600 miles of highways, Interstates 35, 70 and 135 and the Kansas Turnpike.
TOPEKA — The House yesterday sent the governor a bill that would ban underground burial of low-level radioactive waste, rejecting an attempt to send the bill to a conference committee.
House passess bill on waste burial
In sending the measure to Gov. Mike Hayden on a 125-0 vote, the House also approved of Senate changes in the bill. The Senate passed the bill Tuesday on a 39-0 vote. Hayden endorsed the bill earlier this week.
The bill was prompted by the search for a regional disposal site by the Central Interstate Low-Level Radioactive Waste Compack Kansas is joined in the compack of the Oklahoma obraska, Oklahoma and Louisiana.
The bill also would prohibit the storage of low-level radioactive waste in an inactive salt mine at Lyons.
Kansan names top fall staff members
The Kansan Board yesterday named Jennifer Benjamin, Lawrence senior, as fall editor of the Kansan and Bonnie Hardy, Topea senior, as fall business manager.
Benjamin now is the Kansan's managing editor, and Hardy is the ad director. The board made its selections after interviewing candidates yesterday.
Clarification
In Tuesday's Kansas, the Ultimate Fools Festival was reported to have been sponsored by the KU Frisbee Club and JKH-KFM 91. Student Union Activities, which sponsors the KU Frisbee Club, also was a sponsor of the tournament.
From staff and wire reports.
Abusers of codes sought
By JAVAN OWENS
Special to the Kansan
U. S. Sprint officials have been called in to help MCI investigators in a two-week investigation of code abuse in Lawrence.
Jerry Slaughter, investigator for MCI Southwest in St. Louis, said that Brian Bales, of U.S. Sprint in Kansas City, Mo., was called in because investigators had determined that Sprint codes also were beaten abused.
He said students who had abused U.S. Sprint or MCI access codes would face prosecution if they didn't understand the unitarity within the two-week period.
"We want to reiterate the fact that students still have a chance to come in without facing any criminal action," he said.
"We have found several U.S. Sprint codes that have been abused on and off campus," Slaughter said.
Investigators will conduct interviews in room 222 of All Seasons Motels, 2309 Iowa St., today and Friday and from Monday through Thursday next week. The room will be open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Students who confess to abusing access codes will have to pay back $M.
Slaughter the abuses could be traced to the spring semester of 1986. Students who abused codes then are not exempt from facing criminal charges, because the statute of limitations on the crime is two years.
Jim Flory, Douglas County district attorney, said he would cooperate with MCI and U.S. Sprint investors against abusers of access codes
"There is a great likelihood that people will be charged," Flory said. The important factor is that people can contact the lawyer by talking to the investigators now."
Slaughter said the investigation was going at full speed. An investigation also is under way in Topeka, where Slaughter received a search warrant to check on stolen MCI codes. He said he was investigating a link with the Lawrence area.
Although only 25 students have come in, investigators have received numerous calls, and many abusers have been identified, Slaughter said. But he said he was sure many more students would come in as the end of the investigation neared.
He said he could not calculate how much the two companies had lost from code abuse in the last year. He added that other codes that had been abused.
"We have a lot of students identi-
tally that have not come in yet."
Slater
"The figure is mounting every day." Slaughter said. "We have a number of codes that is above and beyond our initial expectation."
Class untangles mysteries of auto work
By PEGGY O'BRIEN
Staff writer
Sandy Herd, Lawrence resident, removes the oil plug from her car as Byron Edmondson assists her. Edmondson owns Byron's Autohaus, 906 Vermont St., and teaches an auto mechanics class sponsored by the Emily Taylor Women's Resource Center
Sandy Herd jacked up her red '76 Chevy Nova. Lying on a car, she rolled underneath the car, unscrewed the oil drain plug and watched the old oil flow into a drip pan.
She found her oil filter, unscrewed it and replaced it with a new one. Then she replaced the oil.
"oh God, I hate this," Herd said last night from under her car at Byron's Authaus, 99 Vermont St.
Herd, Lawrence resident, is a student in the Automechanics II class sponsored by the Emily Taylor Women's Resource Center and taught by Byron Edmondson, owner of the garage. Last night was the first of three sessions, which cost $20.
Edmondson began the class with a warning.
"There's no way I can make you mechanics in three weeks, but I can make you more familiar with your own car." Edmondson said.
Class members, five women and one man, hoped to become more comfortable and knowledgeable when dealing with mechanics.
Herd said she felt a responsibility to learn more about her car so she could feel more comfortable taking it to a garage.
Edmondson, who doesn't believe in fixing things that aren't broken, said mechanics don't always know all the answers. He often is puzzled by variations in foreign cars, which are his specialty.
The students learned the basics of a tuneup, which should be done every 15,000 miles or once a year.
Edmondson said.
The words "distributor," "points," "carburator," "compression," "rings" and "fuel injection," among others, lost their mystery as Edmondson showed the class actual parts and explained their functions.
The class learned how to change oil, check spark plugs and measure compression, the basics of a tuneup. Edmondson explained the importance of maintenance in lubrication and cooling systems.
Edmondson encouraged the class to take care of their cars.
because once something inside the engine went wrong, repairs got expensive, costing more than $200
As the novice mechanics messed around under the hood, Edmondson checked their work.
"Ya'll don't need to be in this class. Everything's in good shape," Edmondson said.
Elizabeth Blanchard, graduate assistant at the women's resource center, said the class was one of the center's programs to help women. This is the third year the center has sponsored the class.
"Part of the mission of the
Last night they learned how to handle parts of their cars.
program is to teach women how to handle all parts of their lives," Blanchard said.
Blanchard said students who took the class in the past were enthusiastic that they finished the course, while others were intimidated by their cars.
With the oil change completed successfully, Herd said she felt better already.
"I like knowing what things are. I don't particularly want to do it all the time." Herd said.
Smallest circus brings big name to KU
Priest contributes humorous commentary to Royal Lichtenstein performances
Staff writer
By JERRI NIEBAUM
Students are invited to Watson Library's lawn at noon today to forget about school and pressures and play and reflect with the Royal Lichtenstein Circus from Santa Clara, Calif.
The five-member circus is named the Royal Lichtenstein because, as the world's smallest circus, the 15-year-old circus wanted a big-sounding name. But the name has nothing to do with the tiny European country.
The Rev, Nick Weber, a Jesuit priest, started the circus "to survive." Survival, he said, means living "above and beyond."
Weber acts as ringmaster for the group, which performs magic tricks, animal stunts, acrobatics, juggling and acting. Weber wouldn't say what animals or what acts would perform today.
"Our whole show works on surprise," he said.
While the audience is being surprised by circus stunts, Weber talks.
Yesterday, he was purposely vague about the subjects of his discussions and the missions of his circus. He wants people to watch and listen without any preconceptions, he said.
"We invite people to wonder about what we are," he said.
The Rev. Vincent E. Krische, director of the St. Lawrence Catholic Center 1631 Presbyterian said, said she wanted to saunter made people laugh and then reflect.
"His commentary is really quick
and Krische said. 'You can laugh,
but you can't laugh.'"
Krische said Weber's ministry was the circus.
"The circus provides a moral commentary on the state of affairs today," he said.
he was in town.
Yesterday afternoon, Weber gazed at Lawrence's new Catholic Center, which was an empty lot the last time
The Catholic Center is sponsoring the circus, which has been coming to the University of Kansas off and on about 10 years. It was last here in 1984.
Weber made an unlikely looking priest while he waited yesterday in front of the center for the circus crew to find electric cables. He wore $v$
'T the circus provides a moral commentary on the state of affairs today.'
— The Rev. Vincent E. Krische director of the St. Lawrence
Catholic Center
yellow T-shirt, jeans, black leather boots, and his blond hair fell to his shoulders under a blue baseball cap.
The cables are used to provide electricity for the three trailers that the circus members travel and live in.
Weber's interest in the circus started when he was a child.
"My parents took me to the circus when I was five, and I never recovered," he said.
He remembers thinking that the circus was utterly useless, which he made it said like God. Like art, he,God, is useless but essential to life.
Weber grew up in the Roman Catholic Church, which he said drew him in when he was in sixth grade.
"I was drawn to the religious order that was teaching me," he said.
But Weber didn't want to stand behind a pulpit and wear a white collar. In 1971, with a master's degree in drama from San Francisco State University and a background of teaching high school and college drama, he started the circus that now tours 40 states in three-year cycles.
"There are no answers and every one can make believe," he said.
Is there ever a "holy war"?
"HOLY WARS"
Is there ever a "holy war"? Most are/become unholy acts and alliances. The Crusades or 30 Years War are not times of pride. Some wars are fought with words as deadly as bullets (Mt. 5:22) See recent headlines for examples. Yes, Christians can argue/debate with one another like brothers and sisters AND still love one another
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