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University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, March 11, 1987
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Local Briefs
Police arrest KU student on drug charges
KU police arrested a KU student at 9:40 a.m. Monday on charges of growing marijuana plants, possessing marijuana and possessed drug paraphernalia, police said yesterday.
The student was booked into Douglas County jail at 12:19 p.m. and released at 12:50 p.m. Monday after a $1,000 surety bond was posted, jail records stated.
A KU police spokesman said: police had received an anonymous tip March 3 that drugs could be in the student's room at McColum Hall.
The spokesman said the arrested student gave an officer permission Monday morning to search the student's room at McCollum. The illegal items were found in the search, the spokesman said.
As of yesterday afternoon, the student had not been charged.
Officer kills skunk thought to be rabid
A Lawrence police officer saw and shot a possibly rabbid skunk early yesterday. Lawrence police reported.
The officer, LJ. Mark Brothers, reported seeing a skunk frothing at the mouth and acting strangely about 1 a.m. yesterday at 17th and Louisiana streets.
He shot the skunk, took it to the University of Kansas landfill west of Iowa Street and buried it.
Sgt.丹 Dahquesth, Lawrence police, said the skunk was not tested, although they often are rabid. The department does not test animals for rabies unless it has received reports of someone being bitten, Dahquesth said, and police have received no reports of anyone being bitten by a skunk.
City candidates to face off at forum
The six candidates for Lawrence City Commission will be at a question-and-answer forum at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow at the East Lawrence Recreation Center, 15th and Brook streets.
The forum is sponsored by the Brook Creek Neighborhood Association. However, Dim Bins, association president, said the 102-member group would not endorse candidates.
Area tornado drill planned for today
The National Weather Service in Topeka has scheduled its annual tornado drill for between 10 and 10:30 a.m. today. A simulated tornado warning message will air on all broadcast channels.
In conjunction with the drill, Gov. Mike Hayden has designated Monday through Saturday as "Severe Weather Awareness Week." The weather service hopes that the week will better educate Kansans about safety precautions to take during severe weather.
Business manager editor sought
Applications for summer editor and business manager of the Kanan are available now in 119 and 200 Staffer-Flint Hall.
The deadline for applications is 5 p.m. March 23. Applicants will be interviewed March 24 by the Kansan Board.
From staff and wire reports.
L. A. Rauch/KANSAN
Snoozing
Kelly Johannes, Rosehill junior, snoozes on a bench in front of Strong Hall. Johannes was waiting for a friend when he fell asleep yesterday afternoon.
Workers ready Snow Hall for new look for the future
Asbestos removal nears completion; renovation is next
By KJERSTI MOEN
Staff writer
Five months after the renovation of Snow Hall began, workers are winding up asbestos removal so that the real construction work can start.
The asbestos abatement in Snow Hall's north wing was the first step in a four-year project to renovate the building. The architect, heert, director of facilities planning,
David Hall, president of B&R Insulation Inc. of Leneva, said asbestos abatement in the wing would be completed within a month.
Asbestos is a fibrous mineral used in insulation in many old buildings. The fibers can cause cancer and hazards to people who breathe them.
Hall said workers were removing asbestos-containing insulation materials from ceilings and pipes in the wing. They use a filtrating machine to cleanse the air in the building.
Wiechert said that the asbestos abatement must be completed before renovation could proceed. Bidding for the site was given to Ted vet, he said, but should start soon.
The north wing, which was built in 1958, will be renovated by 1968.
The $7.23 million renovation project is being financed by state money, which the Kansas Legislature appropriated in its 1986 session.
Wiechert said. The older part of the building, which opened in 1929, should be renewed by fall 1990.
Wiechert said the renovator would give the 1987 wing an elevator and a fire escape on the north wall. The building also will get new restrooms, wall and floor coverings, and furniture.
In the summer of 1988, the old wing will be riped apart. Wiechert said, and all of the building's interior will be renovated.
"Snow Hall was worn out," Wiechert said. "It was no longer a good building for laboratory sciences. So it was logical to renovate this space entirely for new occupants."
Snow Hall has received minor improvements in the 58 years since its oldest wing opened.
Because of the renovation, the department of biological sciences has relocated. Biology laboratories, classrooms and professors' offices that were in the '58 wing were moved into Haworth Hall.
Doris Belote, business manager for the division of biological sciences, said some of the department's facilities still were in the old section of Snow, but that all eventually would be moved to Haworth.
That means that the rest of the biology department, architectural studies and the Entomological Museum will move into new areas.
Like the '58 wing, the oldest part of Snow also will be emptied when renovation of that part of the building begins.
The Entomological Museum, which now occupies levels three and four of Snow Hall's oldest wing, will move into larger areas on the upper three levels of Snow Hall's '58 wing when it is renovated.
"We've been in this present space since 1929," Byers said. "The museum is growing, and we will have our first-class space when we move."
George Byers, president of the museum, said he was looking forward to the change.
But University officials have not decided where architectural services will go.
Hayden will sign state lottery bill
The Associated Press
TOPEKA — Gov. Mike Hayden will sign into law at a news conference tomorrow a bill to begin a state-run lottery, his spokesman said yesterday.
The Senate and House adopted a joint conference committee report yesterday on a compromise version of the recommendation bill, sending it to Hayden.
The quick legislative action on a compromise agreed upon Monday night by a six-member conference committee means that the first sale of lottery tickets in Kansas could come in September. The Department of Revenue has said instant-win tickets could go on sale that soon.
Instant-win tickets, which would sell for $1, would enable purchasers to determine immediately whether they had won anything, simply by scratching off a latex patch covering the ticket numbers.
The lottery bill becomes law when Hayden sign it and it is published in the Kansas Register, the state's official publication. That usually takes
about a week after the governor signs a bill.
Hayden's legal counsel, John Petersen, said he had reviewed the compromise version of the bill and saw no technical problems with it.
She said the governor planned to sign the bill at his weekly news conference, scheduled for 10:15 a.m. tomorrow.
"He gave it a clean bill of health." said Kathy Peterson, Hayden's press secretary. "It's not good for you."
Hayden strongly supported the amendment, and urged the Legislature in his January message to lawfully "enact a bill of consent" in approving the legislation.
When fully operating, the bill will launch lottery gambling in Kansas create at least 120 jobs in the state bureaucracy and generate up to $100 million in gross lottery ticket sales in its first year of operation.
Revenue Department officials say they expect the Lottery Commission to start offering instant-winner lottery tickets for sale by September. Lotto and other games will be added later.
Commissioners table freeze on mall study
By TODD COHEN
Staff writer
A motion to freeze all city activity on the proposed downtown mall until after the April 7 general election was put on ice for a week by the Lawrence City Commission last night.
Commissioners decided to wait until next week's meeting to discuss Commissioner Howard Hill's proposal that the city stop all work on the mall until residents vote on a mall referendum in the general election.
Hill said he didn't want the city to spend $18,900 on a mall feasibility study before residents vote. The city staff and the volunteer Urban Renewal Agency and its committees also shouldn't work on the mall project in the interim, he said.
A moratorium on URA work appeared unlikely after commissioners Amyx, Ernest Angino and David Longhurst said they opposed that
But Commissioner Mike Aymx said the commission needed more time to study whether the city could legally ask the URA to stop meeting.
Although the agency was created by the city, it is autonomous, Hill said. However, he said he was ceramic designer and asked for a request from the city not to meet.
part of Hill's proposal.
"It's no cost to the city if these volunteer committees continue meeting," Angino said. "It's only three weeks away." Discussing this mall for 14 years,
But Mayor Sandra Praeger said URA shouldn't work on a project that may be stopped or changed as a result of the referendum.
Hill said, "We're not sure what the people are going to say."
Commissioners also delayed until next week a site plan request to build a canopy over gas pumps at the Town & Country Market, 901 Ohio St.
Commissioners asked the store's owner to provide a drawing of the canopy after Fred Sack, Lawrence resident, said the canopy would violate a city ordinance that restricts sign size. The canopy should be considered a sign because the store's name and logo would be on it, Sack said.
In other business, Carolyn Shy,
Downtown Lawrence Main Street
director, presented to commissioners
signs from the media against
a recent association contest.
Pat Jancosek, Lawrence graduate student, won the fall category.
Staff writer
The banners, one for each season,
are to be hung downstreet. Shy said.
Professors disagree about merits of faculty union
Bv BENJAMIN HALL
A faculty union would hurt academics, a KU professor said yesterday.
Jan Roskam, Ackers distinguished professor of aerospace engineering, said a faculty union would set pay standards regardless of performance, whose standards would hurt academics, he said.
"I believe that unions, down the road, will promote academic mediocrity," he said.
"Performance and excellence should come first. Only then should you worry about sal-
Thev can fight their own battles."
Jaroslaw Piekaliewicz, professor of political science, said KU needed a faculty union to improve salaries. And union proponents have garnered enough support to call for a vote to form a union.
"The weak brothers always need that kind of crutch," he said. "The strong brothers don't."
But Ruskam said stalwart faculty members didn't need a union.
Roskam, who worked for Boeing before coming to KU, said that faculty salaries were low on paper but that those salaries reflected a nine-month contract.
"There are a lot of people who really feel that with a nine-month contract, you should get a 12-month salary," he said. "I think that's baloney.
"If they are really worth their salt, they ought to be able to do better elsewhere," he said.
He said that university faculty were privileged in society because they could supplement their income while improving their own work through research and teaching, if they weren't lazy.
Roskam said he supported unions for other workers but not for university faculty.
"You can decide to do something useful," he said.
"If you really are not good in your field, you're not going to be able to find meaningful work. If you are good, then you can find that
additional money, and at the same time enhance your net worth to the students and the
Piekalkiewicz agreed that productivity might be hurt by set salary standards.
"But that's the price we have to pay," he said.
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Pikealiekwicz said faculty salaries were inadequate.
"The faculty of the University is highly underpaid by comparison to all of our sister institutions," he said. "Soon, we're going to start losing faculty. I think the union can rectify that."
A union would create group salary standards for different faculty ranks. But those standards would establish only minimum salaries, not maximum. Piekalkiewicz said.
"Those people who talk about medioirity don't realize that there's no ceiling on salaries." he said.
And, Piekalkiewicz said, a union wouldn't hurt the quality of the University.
Most faculty members don't participate in governance because the issues don't affect them, he said.
"As soon as you start talking about economics and salaries, they will be interested," he said. "If I know my income will depend on it, then I will go to the meeting and argue."
A University governance committee on collective bargaining reported last month that faculty unions have little effect on salaries but tend to strengthen weak faculty governments.
A union contract could give faculty a say in selection of administrators, he said. Also, it would allow the university to
University governance plans to present a forum on collective bargaining at the University Senate meeting April 23.
Faculty probably will vote this fall whether to form a union. The Kansas-National Education Association called for the vote after collecting the signatures of 30 percent of the faculty.
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