University Daily Kansan / Thursday, March 5, 1987
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Local Briefs
Two freshmen will run for top Senate posts
Two students announced yesterday that they would run for student body offices as part of the First Class coalition.
Jeff Mullins, Leavenworth freshman, and Brian Kramer, Northbrook, Ill., freshman, announced that they would run for student body president and vice president.
Primary recount ups vote margin
Student Senate elections are April 8 and 9.
The winners are the same, but the margins are slightly different after an updated, but unofficial survey of City Commission primary vote.
The new count increases the margin from two votes to five votes between Ellis Hayden, who qualified for the April 7 general election, and Commissioner David Longhurst, who was defeated.
The results will become official when Douglas County Commissioners canvass the ballots tomorrow. County Commissioner David Holmes said today that no problems with Tuesday's balloting had been reported
The update occurred because several ballots were unable to be counted electronically Tuesday because they were mutilated or marked in pen rather than the correct voting pencil.
Last day to donate to KU's blood drive
Blood donor turnout was up by 75 people yesterday after a slow first day Tuesday, bloodmobile workers said.
Jaci Metzger, KU student intern for blood services with the Douglas County Red Cross, reported that 265 people came in to give blood yesterday compared to 175 Tuesday. Of the 265, 242 were successful donors. Fifty-eight people gave blood for the first time yesterday compared to the 18 first-time donors counted Tuesday.
More than 100 volunteers assisted the bloodmobile staff
Today is the last day of the drive, which will continue from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. in the Kansas Union Ballroom.
Metzger suggested that people who want to give blood today should go in before noon. She said the bloodmobile staff expected to be busy this afternoon with last-minute donors.
Clubs to sponsor film on acid rain
A Canadian film about acid rain and a panel discussion will be presented next week by three local clubs.
"Acid Rain: Requiem or Recovery," will be shown at 7:30 p.m. March 12 at the Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vermont St. The Jayhawk Audubon Society, the Lawrence Douglas County League, and the Kokura Group of the Sierra Club are sponsoring the program.
The panel will include Don Cooper, aide to U.S. Rep. Jim Slattery, D-Kan.; R.C. Pete' Loux, director of the Kansas Electric Utilities Research Program; Dave Romano, air quality chief of the Kansas Department of Health and Environment; Dan Wheeler, representative of the National Protection Agency's Kansas City office; and Dennis Lane, director of the KU Air Ecosystem Interactions Research Laboratory.
From staff and wire reports
Home-work plans called deceptive
By PEGGY O'BRIEN
"Earn thousands processing mall Large company urgently needs homeworkers No experience necessary Start immediately "
Work-at-home offers similar to this one advertised last week in the Kansan are attracting the attention of KU students and consumer affairs exper-
Students are attracted by the prospect of making big bucks with little effort.
Consumer affairs experts, on the other hand, are concerned because they said many work-at-home offers were deceptive and illegal.
Clyde Chapman, director of Consumer Affairs Association, 819 Vermont St., said his office had received more than 50 calls since the semester began from people with questions about the offers.
"At least the students are being smart and calling, but I'm sure some slip through the cracks," Chapman said.
Chapman said that when the consumer affairs office told callers the facts about the offers, his warning that the offers were scams usually was enough to discourage students from nursing the deals (further).
The association has filed only one
complaint for a KU student who invested in a work-at-home offer. Chapman has received no response from the company after two complaint letters.
"Most have not been in operation long enough to have a true customer-experience record." Chapman said.
Circulars from these work-at-home "companies" lead would-be workers to invest in schemes promising hundreds of dollars for a few hours of work.
Typically, workers answering such ads do not receive the expected envelopes for stuffing. Instead, they get promotional materials asking for more money to get details on the money-making plans.
In most cases, the individual is expected to place more ads recruitment efforts.
"They ask you to place an ad so that others will place an ad," Chapman said. "It has the elements of a chain letter."
Michael Duffy, Kansas City, Mo., postal inspector, said that when the post office found out about a work-at-home scam, it took civil action against the perpetrator.
The work-at-home scam is one of the oldest forms of classified advertising fraud, according to a 1986 report by the Federal Trade Commission's Bureau of Consumer Protection.
Citizens eye harmony between frog, bypass
BY TODD COHEN
When Agnes the Frog appeared on the political scene in November, it was a momentous event in more ways than one.
Staff writer
First, the fictitious frog's campaign for Douglas County Commission won national attention. She was protesting the proposed trafficway, or bypass, that would run next to the Baker Wetlands, home of her fellow Northern Crawfish frogs.
Second, she essentially was the first Northern Crawfish frog seen in Lawrence since 1978.
And that last one was scraped off Haskell Avenue.
But that doesn't mean there are no Northern Crawfish fiskers in Baker Wetlands, said Joe Collins, editor at KU's Museum of Natural History.
The trog, which is on the federal threatened species list, is hard to find, he said. The threatened species list is one step below the "endangered species" designation.
Collins said that in 20 years he had seen the frog four times. But Lawrence residents had reported sightings in the wetlands, the species' northernmost U.S. home, since the early 1920s.
They come above the surface only during heavy rainstorms in the spring and summer. Collins said that during those storms the frogs emitted a mating call that sounded like human snoring.
The frog lives in burrows a foot
beneath the earth's surface in areas with permanent or temporary water.
Stan Roth, a biology instructor at Lawrence High School, who lives within a block of the wetlands, said he often listened for the frogs.
While he hadn't heard them in the wetlands since the early 1960s, he had come across the rare frogs in the Flint Hills of Kansas and near Warrensburg, Mo.
Collins and Roth said they weren't overly concerned about the trafficway's proposed route along the northern border of the wetlands at 31st Street between Louisiana Street and Haskell Avenue.
"No one is going to stop the trafficway," he said. "What we want is for the trafficway to mesh with the environment to the happiness of everyone."
But the probability of commercial development around the road was a concern. Collins said.
"People tend to like to drain wetlands. Collins said, and without the wetlands, there's nothing."
Erik Dorsey, Leawood senior, basks in a tanning bed at Electric Beach Tanning Salon, 1601 W. 23rd St. Many area tanning salons are booked solid for the week before spring break.
Students tan, shun side effects
BY JENNIFER FORKED
Staff writer
The sunbather slips between the two layers of synthetic, ultraviolet light. The coffin-like tanning machine surrounds the bather with light as bright as the Florida sun, baking him bronze.
With spring break nine days away, business has increased for many local suntanning salons.
Clint Coleman, Overland Park junior who works at Electric Beach Tanning Salon, 1601 W. 23rd St., said the past two weeks had been busy, and that he expected the increase in business to continue.
"I assume it'll go for two or three weeks afterward. People want to keep their tans." Coleman said.
He said the salon had remained open until 2 a.m. because of the large influx of customers.
"If people want to come in, we'll just stay open. You have to take what you can get, because in the world one wants to come in," he said.
Coleman said he tanned once a week.
"I feel better about myself. It makes me look healthier," he said. But Coleman said he thought some people tanned too often.
"A little color doesn't hurt anybody, but you could go overboard easily," he said.
Lie Bittenbender, Lawrence dermatologist, said short-term and long-term side effects accompany medications like the antibiotic Tetracycline.
cline may irritate skin.
Also, tanning while using birth control pills may cause brown blotches on women's faces, Bitten-beneder said.
"It doesn't hurt, it just looks weird," he said.
Bittenbender said long-term damages included skin cancer, premature aging of the skin and agepots.
"From a dermatologist's standpoint, tanned skin is damaged skin," he said.
Christine Demos, Olathe freshman, and Kelley Garrett, Nashville, Tenn., freshman, went to Electric Beach yesterday to improve their complexion. They've been going to the salon for a month to "Get rid of the pale, sickly look," Garrett said.
Garrett said she burned during her first three visits but then tanned. She said her skin didn't peel, but that it looked bright red. It hurt for a few days also, she said.
John Graham, Garnett senior,
tanned yesterday at European
Suntanning, 2449 Iowa St., to prepare for the Florida sun during spring break. Graham has had five tanning sessions and plans to tan 12 more times.
"I don't want to get burned my first day in Florida and spend the rest of my vacation in sheer misery." Graham said.
Graham didn't think the tanning beds caused any more harm than tanning outdoors.
'My dad has worked outside for 35 years doing construction, and he hasn't had cancer yet. A few weeks
in a tanning salon won't hurt," he said.
European Sunting owner Gerry Meyer said tanning in the salon definitely helped prevent burning when suntaining outdoors during spring break. But, he said, it's not an overnight process.
Meyer advised beginning sun-bathers to tan four or five days in a row, skip a few days and then sun-bather for three hours for about two to three weeks.
After that, bathers can reduce their tanning visits to two to three times each week. Meyer said it would help how tan individuals wanted to get.
Electric Beach owner John Racunas, Prairie village sophomore, sax ultraviolet A (UVA) on the second bed of the light in tanning beds.
The beds have only a small amount of shorter, more harmful UVB rays, and no UVC rays, Racunas said.
Bittenbender said tanning beds were not safer than tanning outdoors. He said the UVA rays in tanning beds had higher intensities than those emitted by the sun.
The synthetic tanning wasn't proved to cause cancer or premature aging. Racunas said. It is impossible to document harm because cancer and wrinkling can be caused by the sun's rays.
Some doctors recommend going to tanning salon to cure acne, Racunas said.
"They said it wouldn't hurt you to go two to three times a week." Racunas said.
Pastor says U.S. support of contras is immoral
Staff writer
By PAUL SCHRAG
Firsthand accounts of atrocities in Nicaragua confirm the immorality of U.S. support for the contras, the director of Ecumenical Christian Ministries said Tuesday.
"They attack unarmed villages and families," said Jack Bremer, the director. "U.S. support of the contras is an enormous human tragedy."
Bremer was one of nine Methodist pastors and laymen who returned Saturday from a two-week trip to Nicaragua and Honduras. The Kansas East Conference of the United Methodist Church sponsored the trip.
Bremer said that many Nicaraguans told him that the contras terrorized defenseless, poverty-strecken civilians. He said that the contras had attacked agricultural cooperatives, health clinics and schools, and had killed unarmed farmers and children.
The group's purposes were to establish official ties with a Nicaraguan church, interview people for a documentary film and show solidarity with Central Americans.
"The United States is carrying on a very major war against Nicaragua that is taking the lives of many people," he said. "It is creating conflict in a country so small and Central America that will take generations to
overcome.
"There is absolutely no evidence that I saw on this trip that in any way could ever justify such a mistaken policy."
Bremer said that the only support he found for the contras was from contra officials and U.S. embassy personnel in Managua, Nicaragua, and Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
Charles Stansifer, director of the center for Latin American studies, who has visited Central America at least once a year for 25 years, and Brian K. Doyle, a vice president of Central Americans who supported the contrasts.
Bremer said that the Sandinista government in Nicaragua was not opposed to religion and
was attempting to establish a democratic system in which the poor would be able to improve their lives.
The Sandistas want Nicaragua to be a nonaligned nation outside both the U.S. and Soviet spheres of influence, Bremer said. But because the United States opposes them, the contrasts are forced to go to the Soviets for support, he said.
Stansifer said that U.S. influence in Nicaragua, in the form of support for the contras, was greater than the Soviet influence in Nicaragua. He said he thought that the Sandistas would prefer closer relations with the United States than with the Soviet Union.
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