University Daily Kansan / Thursday, February 12. 1987
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Local Briefs
Ex-KU students sentenced on drug charges
? Two former KU students were sentenced in Douglas County District Court this week for cocaine-related crimes
Bay attended the University of Kansas in the fall of 1976.
' Donald P. Bay, 30, was sentenced to three to 10 years in prison by District Judge James W. Burke in order to ordered Bay to pay court costs.
He pleaded guilty Jan. 12 to delivering cocaine May 29, 1985 Delivery of cocaine is a class C felony, punishable by up to 20 years in prison and a $10,000 fine.
He pleaded guilty Jan. 9 to attempting to sell cocaine April 24, 1985. Attempted sale of cocaine is a crime punishable by five to 10 years in prison and a $5,000 fine.
Another former student, Brian F. Cross, 23, received a one to five year prison sentence from District Judge Ralph M. King Jr. Cross also was ordered to pay court costs.
Cross last attended KU in the fall.
David P. Winebrenner, who deliberately set a fire last year that resulted in the death of a Lawrence firefighter, was committed Tuesday to a state security hospital in lieu of sentencing.
Judge sentences arsonist to hospital
Winebremer, 22, pleaded no contest Jan. 9 to one count of a charge of first degree murder. Previously, he had pleaded not guilty to that charge and charges of attempted murder and aggravated arson.
Women's center to honor Anthony
The additional charges were dropped after he changed his plea. District Judge James W Paddock committed Winebrenner to Larned State Security Hospital for psychiatric care and treatment. Winebrenner is to remain there until the District Court permits him to leave.
The Emily Taylor Women's Resource Center will sponsor a celebration honoring the anniversary of the birth of Susan B. Anthony from 2 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. Friday in the Strong Hall rotunda
Personnel from the center will be present to answer questions about Anthony and about the resource center. Cake and punch will be served.
Anthony played a vital role in obtaining voting rights for women in the United States.
Law school to have career workshop
Campus and Area
The School of Law is sponsoring a career workshop tonight in Green Hall. Anyone interested is invited to attend.
Speeches on career opportunities for lawyers will be given at 7 p.m. 8 p.m. and 9 p.m.
The speakers, most of whom are practicing attorneys, will discuss nine fields of law. The topics are banking and insurance; corporate law; federal and state prosecution; federal and state government; financial planning, lending and investment banking, and real estate mortgage; small firms; large and medium firms; legal service and public defenders; and non-traditional law.
From Kansan wires.
Senate tables removing state liquor law
By CHRISTOPHER HINES
TOPEKA - Two actions yesterday put off indefinitely the elimination of the state's minimum markup liquor law, keeping liquor closed to the free market.
Staff writer
The Senate Federal and State Affairs committee repealed an amendment of the liquor-by-the-drink bill that would have ended the minimum markup law. John Lamb, director of the Alcoholic Beverage
Control, said he would continue to enforce the minimum markup law after saying Monday that he would not.
Before recommending passage of the bill to the Senate, committee member State Sen. Eugene Anderson, D-Wichita, moved to drop the article of the bill eliminating the minimum markup law.
The law establishes the lowest legal retail and wholesale prices for liquor in Kansas, prohibiting distributors from undercutting one another's prices.
A majority of the committee approved the motion but not without an objection from another committee. Dr. Sen, Gen Bone, R-Overland Park.
"We shouldn't throw this issue to the courts but hit it head on," Bond said.
Lamb said Monday that the ABC would discontinue enforcing the law based on Kansas Attorney General
Bob Stephan's opinion that the minimum markup law was illegal.
Stephan said the law was a violation of the Sherman Anti Trust Act and was similar to a New York law that was incurred by the U.S. Supreme Court.
However, Lamb said after a meeting with Gov Mike Hayden and Stephan that the ABC would continue enforcing the law. But it had no plans of prosecuting those liquor retailers who had already cut prices.
"As far as we're concerned, it's business as usual." Lamb said.
Hayden said the law should continue to be enforced until legislative or judicial action was taken to change it. He did not support the ABC's taking action based solely on Stephan's opinion.
Lamb said that for now he did not expect Stephan to file a lawsuit against the minimum markup law.
"We'll cross that bridge when we come to it," he said.
Work-study bill passes the House without financing
By JOHN BUZBEE
Staff writer
TOPEKA - A bill to strengthen the state work-study program at state universities passed the House yesterday without a provision for money to run the program.
"The bill is sort of in conflict with itself right now," said State Rep. Jessie Branson, D Lawrence.
The original bill allowed for work-study money to be used to run the program, but that provision was taken out in committee.
Branson said universities could still get administrative money through the Board of Regents, but she hoped the Senate would allow for administrative expenses when they considered the bill.
We need every opportunity that we can come up with for students that are in school to remain in school.'
- John Solbach
D-Lawrence
"I feel that the legislation is badly needed," she said. "We just need to improve it a little bit."
State Rep. John Solbach, D-Lawrence, said he was concerned about approving a program without money to run it.
You cannot expect the University to run things without a budget, he said.
Solbach, Branson and State Rep. Betty Jo Charlton, D-Lawrence, all voted for the bill, which passed 107-16.
The bill now heads to the Senate, where it will be considered by the Education Committee.
Education Committee member Sen. Gene Anderson, D-Wichita, said, "It is very difficult to do some administrative things without money."
Anderson said the program was important because it helped students to work while they were in school and helped them in Kansas after graduation.
"We need every opportunity that we can come up with for students that are in school to remain in school," he said.
Solbach said the program provided financial assistance to students.
The Associated Students of Kansas, which is the lobbying arm of student governments at Regents institutions, made the bill a priority this session.
Mark Tallman, director of legislative affairs for ASK, said the bill might get stuck in conference committee. Changes to the house wouldn't approve.
"We don't want to get hung up over these differences," he said. "We are still going to be able to provide some administrative support where it is needed."
Tallman said students could be hired to run the program as part of it, and money for administration also could be included in other bills.
The bill would formally establish the state work-study program, which has existed at the University of Kansas and other Regents institutions since 1983.
Under the program, students work part time in an area related to their studies. Their employer pays half their salary, and the program pays the other half. About 80 students participate in the KU program.
L. A. Rauch/KANSAM
Squeakv clean
Steve Ferrell, St. Louis senior, washes his motorcycle. Ferrell enjoyed the warm weather Monday afternoon at Raco Car Wash, 2828 Iowa St.
Panel discusses possible result of U.S. intervention in Nicaragua
Staff writer
By JOSEPH REBELLO
If the United States succeeds in topping the Sandista government in Nicaragua, it will have to send U.S. Marines to keep in power any new government it may install, a KU professor of history said yesterday.
The professor, Charles Stansifer, director of Latin American studies, spoke last night at a panel discussion on the historical aspects of U.S. foreign policy in Nicaragua. The discussion was sponsored by the KU History Club and was held at the Kansas Union.
History may not always repeat
itself, but recent developments in Nicaragua indicate that the United States is repeating past mistakes. Stansifer said.
The last U.S. intervention in Nicaragua began under circumstances like the ones involving the arrest and trial of U.S. mercenary Eugene Hasenus, whose plane was shot down while delivering arms to the contras, he said.
In 1909, the Nicaraguan government, led by Jose Santos Zelaya, arrested and executed two U.S. citizens who were caught trying to help Nicaraguan rebels.
"The Zelaya government was a
majority government brought down by outside force, and in order to support a minority government, it was necessary to send Marines," he said. "I think many people in Ronald Reagan's administration need to ask what will happen after the Sandmista government falls."
Another panelist, Robert Tomasek,
professor of political science, said he
disagreed with Stansifer.
"Let's not let this historical language get us into this determinist frame of mind." he said. Historical determinism is the idea that history repeats itself.
Small farmers face more than a financial crisis
Staff writer
By BENJAMIN HALL
Emotional illness, violence and school problems are some of the human consequences of the farm crisis, a Kansas farmer and rural life advocate said yesterday.
"There is a lot of intense anger — hatred, really — in rural America right now." Dale Fooshe said. "It's easy when you're watching your father's or your grandfather's farm go down, to dehumanize the person across the table from you."
"The smaller farms are the ones that sustain a community," he said.
Economic problems on small farms are threatening rural communities as a whole, Fooshe said at a University Forum at Ecumenical Christian Ministries. 1204 Oread Ave
who farms in Garnett, is the rural-life advocate for Kansas East Conference of the United Methodist Church.
Foshee said rates of violent death and suicide were rising in rural areas. The suicide rate in rural Missouri is double the rate for the rest of the country.
Fooshee, a Kansas State University graduate
"We have whole families going to military training every weekend, learning how to use automatic weapons because they think that's the only way out." he said.
Some farm families are even joining radical or militant groups, he said.
"There are a lot of kids showing up at schools in rural areas with emotional problems they didn't used to have," he said.
Drug use, divorce and school problems are also results of the farm crisis. Fooshee said
"There's a lot of hurt out there," Fooshee
said. "It's that loss of purpose and identity in the community that is the most painful."
Women, who often act as farm bookkeepers, absorb a disproportionate amount of emotional stress.
"She is frequently aware the family is in trouble before the man is." Fooshee said, who also thinks women deal more directly with the children's problems.
Rural people need to work together to save family farming he said. People trying to act on
"It's all related," he said. "The important thing is that we're all in it together."
Foshee said many farmers had debts in excess of 40 percent of their assets, and 18 percent of Kansas farmers were delinquent on real estate loans.
Farmers who expanded their farms between
1978 and 1983 are especially vulnerable to collapse. Foosehee said. Land values in some areas have dropped more than 50 percent since 1981.
Most debt-ridden farms are owned by people 45 or younger. Fooshoe said.
"And there's no severance pay or unemployment for farmers," he said.
Some farmers may be able to sustain their farms by growing alternative crops, such as vegetables, Foshee said.
"I think that's the way they'll go, if they can find a place to sell them," he said. Other family farms may stay afloat with the help of corporations.
L. J. Stoneback, who farms 700 acres in Osage County, said he thought the government should cut surpluses by regulating production.
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