One for the dripper
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Details. page 2
Published since 1889 by the students of the University of Kansas
Tuesday
March 24, 1987
Vol. 97, N0.117
(USPS 650-640)
County officials crack down on use of fake I.D.
By PAUL BELDEN
Staff writer
Jamie Stout, Wichita freshman, was sitting in the Mad Hatter, beer in hand, having a casual chat with a friend when she was caught.
"This undercover lady cop came up and asked to see my I.D.," Stout said. "I was like, 'What?' because you know, she wasn't dressed like a cop. Then she flashed her badge and, oh well."
Stout was arrested Feb. 5 at the Mad Hatter, 700 New Hampshire, and was charged with displaying false identification, a class B misdemeanor, punishable by six months in the county jail and a $1,000 fine.
Stout is one of many. Raising the legal drinking age in Kansas has meant more underage drinkers and more fake I.D.'s.
Jim Flory, Douglas County district attorney, said he reviewed the fake LD. problem seven months ago.
"I discovered that it was so prevalent and so intentional that I decided I would not give diversion on the possession of fake I.D. s," he said. In diversion agreements, the prosecutor agrees not to pursue the case if the defendant meets certain conditions.
John Lamb, director of the Alcoholic Beverage Control Division, agreed with Flory about the increasing use of fake LD.'s.
"It is always been there to a certain extent, but it never reached the proportion it has in the last two years," he said.
Lamb said that since Jan. 1, 1986,
ABC agents had made about 40
arrests for the use of fake L.D.'s.
"I would say that before 1985, we probably had fewer than five fake I.D. arrests, period," he said.
'We want to put some teeth into the law.'
Leonard Robinson
assistant attorney general
In the most recent fake I.D. cases Flory has prosecuted, the convicted persons received a 30-day suspended jail sentence and one year probation and were required to attend the Douglas County Citizens Committee on Alcoholism program and do five
hours community service work
The ABC wants to stiffen these penalties.
Leonard Robinson, an assistant attorney general assigned to the ABC, said the ABC would ask the state Legislature for a mandatory $250 fine and either 48 hours in jail or 40 hours of community service work for those convicted of using fake L.D.'s.
"We want to put some teeth into the law," he said.
The proposal is designed to protect owners of liquor stores and bars who face fines and license suspensions if they fail to liquor to underage drinkers, Robinson said.
One such owner, Ace Johnson, of The Sanctuary, 1401 W. Seventh St., tried to recoup the amount he was fined but failed. The state Court of
Appeals ruled against Johnson on March 12. Johnson was fined after Ronald M. Smith, then an underage KU student, was caught drinking in The Sanctuary in fall 1986.
Robert Davis, one of the appellate judges, wrote that the court's opinion was based upon a state statute for bidding bars to "knowingly or unknowingly" permit minors to drink on their premises.
Johnson originally sued Smith in small claims court, winning a $500 award.
Johnson said he would not appeal the decision to the state Supreme
Smith then appealed in Douglas County District Court, which overturned the small claims award to Johnson. The Court of Appeals affirmed the district court ruling in its March 12 decision
Court. He said he was satisfied forcing Smith to pay legal fees.
"These kids seem to think they can do anything they damn well please, and that's what I was trying to do, to show them something can and will happen to them." Johnson said.
Smith said his lawyer's fees exceeded the original fine, but the money wasn't important.
Stout, who has not yet made a court appearance, said she would not be deterred from drinking.
"I have two years now before I'm legally able to drink," she said. "Like, I'm going to wait two years before I drink a beer. That's kind of ridiculous."
"They're busting people without thinking that they did the same thing when they were underage."
Harlan Miller owns and operates Miller Print Shop, 821 Vermont St. Miller has run the shop since 1945.
Past era survives at local print shop
Staff writer
Bv PEGGY O'RRIEN
The sign outside Muller Print Shop. 821 Venture St., reads: "If I'm here I am open, if I not I'm closed."
Inside the dusty old shop, the smell of printers' ink reminds customers that they are taking a trip back in time, before copy machines, state of the art computers or high-speed printers.
Harlan Miller, 72, prints the same way he did 50 years ago, using an ancient Linotype, or typesetting machine, and a 50-year-old printing press. He still has a lot of hand-set print, but he doesn't use it much.
"My computer is between my ears, and sometimes it goes blank," he said.
Operating the last commercial Linotype in Lawrence makes Miller unique. Because few people know anything about Linotypes any more. Miller repairs his equipment himself.
Miller also has an international reputation most of his fellow merchants are aware of. Since the '30s, much of his work has been devoted to publications for philatelists, or stamp collectors.
Miller prints envelopes, forms,
price lists, booklets, letterheads
and low-grade business cards.
As a child, he was interested in stamps. While in high school in 1930, Miller started a stamp publication that ran for about 25 years.
An article in the Stamp Wholesaler, a philatelic journal, said that almost every specialist group in philately had its journal printed by Miller at one time.
Miller said he stayed in the printing business so long because, "I got in the habit of eating as a child and never got out of it."
KU journalism professor David Dary, who studied printing in high school, said Miller's was one of the
last old-time print shops. Dary said the shop was almost a museum for people with an interest in early printing.
Dary saw the address of Miller's print shop on a publication about old paperbacks while traveling on the East Coast.
"A lot of people in Lawrence don't know what he's done over the years," Dary said. "He's a true old-time gentleman printer."
Don McDow of McDow Insurance Agency, 846 Illinois St., is one of Miller's long-time friends and customers. McDow said that Miller was well known throughout the nation among stamp collectors.
"He's a first-class printer," McDow said.
"I if hard the energy, 'd clean it all off," he said. "But then I think, it's OK. I will just leave it. They say on shop's clean, it's loosening up."
Miller's shop is an accumulation of old handset type, collectors' item dime novels, old stacks of dusty and yellow magazines, and assorted junk, such as old bowling trophies and barbed wire.
Looking at one particularly cluttered counter in the shop, Miller said he had thought about cleaning it.
Danny Ray/KANSAN
Miller said he thinks his easy-going attitude probably has saved him from ulcers and high blood pressure.
"Stuff just accumulates," he said.
Barbed wire, antique block type and puzzles are part of the miscellaneous collectibles that Miller has acquired over the years. Miller has bee in the printing business for 50 years and he bought the building he currently works out of in 1945.
He said he had never gotten around to cleaning up the show.
"Everything here is an antique." Miller said.
"I'm basically lazy, I guess. But at least I'm happy," he said.
Miller's interest in printing began in junior high school when he took a printing class. He turned out a paper, set by hand, every other week. By 16, he was supporting himself in the printing business.
When he got to high school,
Miller took over the printing class at the junior high, even though he was barely older than the students.
Miller said he didn't have time to study in high school.
"I threatened to use the paddle a time or two, but, of course, they just laughed," he said.
"I never believed in studying if could get through without it. Occasionally, it caught up with me during school and I age to read a lot in high school.
Miller graduated from high school in 1933, a semester later than his classmates.
"I knew I'd have been older than the teachers if I stayed much longer," he said.
Miller and his wife, Frances,
celebrated their 50th wedding
anniversary this month. They
were married by side since they were married.
Frances said that she also
See PRINT, p. 6, col. 3
Faculty union bill may be stalled by lack of support
By BENIAMIN HALL
Staff writer
A Kansas Senate bill that would weaken faculty unions has received no vocal support and may be stuck in committee, a union organizer says.
The bill, which would end a higher education faculty union's right to bargain collectively with the Legislature or the Board of Regents, was heard in the Senate Education Committee on March 16.
No one testified in support of the bill.
"There were no proponents," Hohn said. "It's rare that one no supports aula."
Robert Hohn, professor of educational psychology and research and president of the RU chapter of the professors, testified against the bill.
"It's hard to believe that a committee would push for a bill that nobody in the committee is really interested in."
But Bruce Cooper, director of negotiations and research for the Kansas National Education Association, said he might actually have strong support.
"You really have to watch it close-ly," he said.
Cooper said the Senate Ways and Means Committee, not just a single legislator, sponsored the bill.
"A majority of the members of the committee thought it was important enough to be thrown into the hopper. This committee bill has a lot of sponsors even though nobody spoke in favor of it," he said.
The bill was introduced three weeks ago by Senate Ways and Means chairman Gus Bogina, R-Iowa, and passed the Senate Education Committee.
The two committees are working on many bills, Cooper said.
"It's still alive and can move the last day of the session because it's a Ways and Means bill. It may be they just haven't gotten to it yet," he said.
KU's faculty probably will vote this fall on whether to form a union. At the same time, the faculty will decide which group, or bargaining unit, would represent the union in negotiations.
Hohn said representatives of KNEA and Pittsburgh State University, the only Regents school with a faculty union, also testified against the bill, which was similar to a bill introduced in 1984.
Tom Madden, director of KNEA's union efforts at KU, said the bill would hurt faculty members' leverage. The bill would separate higher education from public employees and create the higher Education Faculty Relations Act.
Both KNEA and AAUP want to represent the union.
Under the act, faculty unions couldn't negotiate for salaries or benefits. Collective bargaining would be replaced by the right to meet and confer.
According to the bill, meet and confer means that the representatives of the employer and the faculty bargaining unit have a mutual obligation to meet and exchange information, opinions and proposals to reach agreements about conditions of employment.
"Nothing in the Higher Education Faculty Relations Act shall authorize or be construed to authorize the substitution of negotiations or collective bargaining for meeting and conferring," the bill said.
"The AAUP's main concern is that it takes faculty out of the bargaining process," Hohn said.
The bill also might hurt faculty members in terms of tenure and other decisions. Hohn said.
Hohn said he also told legislators that and more important bills to regain.
Legislator questions KU policy
"The University becomes our employer, not the state. We couldn't talk to the Legislature, the Board of Regents or anybody else."
By JOHN BUZBEE
Staff writer
TOPEKA — The University of Kansas may have to put a cap on enrollment if the Legislature continues state universities' open admissions policies, a representative said yesterday.
See ADMiT, p. 6, col. 5
"If the 'brain drain' is stopped, and the number of students keeps increasing, we could see an effort to cap university enrollment within five years," said State Rep. James Lowther, R-Emporia.
Robert Lineberry, dean of the Col-
Gov. Mike Hayden has said he wants to keep Kansas' best and brightest high school students from leaving the state. But if these students enter state universities that are overflowing, something will have to give.
Stanley Koplik, Board of Regents executive director, said, "Push has come to shove, and the university has changed." What it can do with open admissions
Night owls
Complaints from Lawrence residents about late-night parties and concerts at The Outhouse have resulted in new zoning regulations. See story page 3.
A day at a time
Former Kansas swimmer Karen Dionne, who won the Big Eight Conference title and set a record in the 100-yard breaststroke two years ago, is rehabilitating in Florida after head injuries she received in a car accident in November 1985. See story page 9.