University Daily Kansan / Friday, January 30, 1987
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Local Briefs
Marijuana sales would be taxed under new bill
TOPEKA — A bill introduced in the Kansas House yesterday would require marjuna dealers to pay tax on their illicit wares, but its sponsor isn't counting the extra money yet.
Suspects arrested on drug charges could be convicted of tax evasion under the law, even if other charges didn't stick.
State Rep Robert H. Miller, R. Wellington, said the bill's purpose was to give law enforcement agents a tool in fighting the drug trade.
However, if drug dealers went to the state director of taxation and bought marijuana tax stamps, they would be complying with at least that law.
"It's a brand-new idea in Kansas." Miller said.
The law was patterned after a successful law in Minnesota, he said. It will be sent to a House committee for consideration today.
Former Girl Scouts sought as volunteers
The Kaw Valley Girl Scout Council is seeking former Girl Scouts of all ages to participate in the 2015 women's 75th anniversary celebration.
Lawrence activities include a potluck and salad dinner at 6:30 p.m. March 10 at the Plymouth Congregational Church, 925 Vermont. The Lawrence Girl Sisters also will have a Promise Circle at church March 12 at the South Park gazebo as part of a national program.
The council is asking former Girl Scoots to contact its office and fill out a short questionnaire and be invited to area celebrations.
Former scouts may call Jackie Frintrup, field director for Lawrence, at 842-5427, or Connie Weldon in Topeka, at 273-3100, for more information.
Live radio show to be performed
Campus and Area
"The Good Time Radio Revue, a music and comic radio show, will be broadcast live on KANU: FM 91.5 at 8 p.m. tomorrow from Liberty Hall, 642 Massachusetts St.
Al Berman, KANU development director, said that only 15 studio-audience tickets were left. Tickets cost $2.
The show will feature local music performing jazz, classical, country and folk music. The Imagination Workshop radio theater will perform comedy skits between acts.
> Among the performers are
> Chuck Berg and his 14-year-old
> son, Nathan the Lawrence Wood-
> Johnson. Lawrence graduate student.
Debaters capture honors at Harvard
Two KU debaters took top honors at the University of Harvard tournament last weekend. KU debaters also took high honors at Dartmouth College and the University of Utah.
John Culver, Overland Park senior, and George Lopez, Wichita junior, took first place honors in a field of national competition at Harvard. They defeated Dartmouth College in the semifinals and the University of Redlands in the finals.
From staff and wire reports.
Scientists plan re-creation of 'big bang'
By TODD COHEN
Re-creating the "big bang" may spark a big economic boom in Kansas and make KU a leader in science if the state is selected as the site for a proposed $4 billion energy research project.
Staff writer
Construction plans for the world's largest "superconducting super collider," an underground nuclear accelerator, await the approval of President Reagan and Congress, said Frank Wilson, senior scientist at the Kansas Geological Survey on West Campus.
Kansas has been preparing for nine months for an expected 20-state competition to attract the SSC, said Joe Harkins, Kansas Water Office director and coordinator of the state's campaign to attract the project.
The SSC, which would take four to five years to construct, would provide 5,000 permanent and temporary jobs for scientists and technicians and expand the state's tax base by millions of dollars, Wilson said.
The Kansas Geological Survey submitted a report on possible Kansas sites to the U.S. Department of Energy in March, Wilson said.
Gary Toebben, Lawrence Chamber of Commerce executive vice president, said the SSC would be a significant generator of economic growth in Kansas and would benefit the entire state no matter where it was located.
"We think we've got a good shot at it." Wilson said. He called the state's geology almost ideal for the project.
An area in Osage County, only 20
Ray Ammar, professor of physics, said, "It would attract Nobel laureates, and the research there would undoubtedly create Nobel laureates. KU couldn't but profit from such a massive project in its back yard."
The project calls for re-creating the energy particles that existed milliseconds after the "big bang" that some scientists think started the expansion of the universe billions of years ago.
miles southwest of Lawrence, has been identified as the state's prime site, he said.
Wilson said understanding the basic components of matter as it existed may lead to a whole "grand unifying theory."
"There's nothing more basic than
the cutting edge of science."
This is the
cutting edge of science.
Harkin and Wilson said they hoped Reagan's reference to supporting basic research in his State of the Union address was a sign of support, for the SSC.
If approved, the SSC would be housed in a circular tunnel 52 miles in circumference and built 200 to 600 feet beneath the earth's surface.
In the tunnel, two beams of proton particles, moving in opposite directions, would be accelerated to near the speed of light. To reach those speeds, the proposed SSC is designed to be more than five times the size of
But Renee Wessels, press secretary to U.S. Rep. Jim Slattery, D-Kan, she said she did not think any SSC had been introduced in Congress yet.
The beams would cross in "interaction halls" where scientists would electronically analyze the reaction.
the largest one now in use.
Scientists hope the proton particles will be broken into the smallest particles possible.
Ammar said that if Kansas won the
Scholars study Gorbachev's power
By JENNIFER FORKER
Staff writer
Mikhail Gorbachev's position as Soviet general secretary may be in jeopardy because of his attempts to make profound changes in the Soviet system, according to a KU professor.
But another professor and a student, both of whom recently visited the Soviet Union, said they thought Mr. Hutchins secured the loyalty of the Soviet people.
"If Gorbache can bring it off, he's a great success and he ought to survive for awhile. If not, the party will cause him to resign," said Roy Rodgers, professor of political science and Soviet and East European studies.
"A lot of people say, 'Hey! Don't rock the boat!'," Laird said. They question exposing the party dirt, he said. "Someone will hurt to hurt the Soviet image and morale."
He said there were indications from the Soviet Union that some people did not approve of Gorbachev's economic innovations.
Every day Gorbache is talking about major problems in the Soviet
He said Gorbachev's latest concern was to place more women in high employment positions. He also is calling for more than one candidate in elections and for greater openness in admitting past economic failures.
Union that have been formerly swept under the rug," Laird said.
Leslie Dienes, professor of geography, worked for a month this summer in Moscow and Osnovisibirk for a year. Soviet economic research institute
But Dienes said that only economic, and not political, changes had occurred.
“In the economic sphere,” he said, what Gorbachev wants is to loosen some control at the enterprise level and strengthen control at the upper level.”
Dienes doesn't think any important economic improvements can occur in the Soviet Union without disturbing
the political system. Fear of repression is too strong for the Soviet people to be innovative and enterprising
"First of all, man has to restructure himself." Dienes said, quoting a Soviet woman he met. And this means that the Politburo, the powerful Soviet governing body, will have to loosen its political control over the people, something that probably won't occur, he said.
"They really don't know how to change, and they realize it will be a long and hard process," said Dienes, who wrote a book on Soviet national policy and development that should be published within nine months.
Mike Hoffmann, Kansas City, Mo. senior, returned on Jan. 3 from studying Soviet history at Leningrad State University for four months.
"Gorbachev's reforms aren't that substantial. He does a lot of talking and not a whole lot has changed," Hoffmann said.
"Gorbachev is already past his big hurdle. He's already completed rehearsal party, and he has their loyalty for me, and they are in. They are to remove Gorbache."
chev from power, there would have to be some terrible disaster."
Dienes said a recent increase in Soviet news coverage was not to benefit the Soviet people but was a tough challenge to further instill fear in them.
Allowing investigative reporters to dig up stories about economic inefficiencies, crime and social failures to keep the Soviet people in line, he said.
"Investigative journalism helps his cause." Dienes said. "The glasnost (openness) is just putting fear into anybody who is not doing his duty to the fatherland."
Hoffmann said a Soviet man told him that the only change was that "now you'll hear a lot more pretty words." He said the government still controlled the media, and thus the Soviet people believed what they were told.
SSC, all the KU science departments would have access to some of the world's best scientists who would come to conduct research.
Hoffmann also said that he didn't think Soviet policy could be accurately predicted and that, at best, Sovietologists, people who study the Soviet Union, could make blind guesses.
Reportings of child abuse up in Kansas
Staff writer
By PAUL SCHRAG
More Kansas children died of abuse or neglect in 1986 than in 1985, but that doesn't mean child abuse is a problem. Many communities are social welfare officials said Tuesday.
The 33 percent increase in child abuse deaths in Kansas in 1986 exceeded the national 29 percent increase reported Monday by the National Committee for the Prevention of Child Abuse.
Social welfare workers and officials said the statistics reflected people's greater willingness to report incidents of child abuse, rather than more actual abuse.
"There's an increased incidence of reporting because people have been educated to be more aware of child abuse," said Sue Carpenter, social services worker at Head Start Children's Center, 925 Vermont St. "Incidents are being reported now that would not have been before."
Twelve abused children died in Kansas in 1986 compared to nine in 1985. Cain said. The report from the Chicago-based committee incorrectly reported that the Kansas total was 21, he said.
Brent Cain, child protection program specialist for Social Rehabilitation Services in Topeka, said. "The report doesn't mean that society is becoming more violent. The number of child abuse deaths is small."
But child abuse has been a growing problem in recent years. Cain said.
Jim Baze, Lawrence section chief for SRS, said that one child in Douglas County died in 1986 because of abuse.
The national committee's report estimated that 1,300 children in the United States died in 1986 because of abuse or neglect.
rapidly, that shouldn't detract from public concern about the problem's severity.
Nearly two million suspected cases of child abuse were reported in the United States in 1985. Cain said.
Cain said that although the increase in child abuse deaths didn't indicate that abuse was increasing
Baze said more than 22,000 cases of suspected abuse reported in Kansas in 1966 were the result of increased incarceration of the problem since the late 1960s.
In 1973, soon after the Child Protection Act was passed in Kansas, only 2,400 incidents were reported.
Because child abuse has not increased dramatically, social welfare agencies consider the high number of reports of suspected abuse a positive indication of public concern rather than a cause for alarm. Baze said.
By KJERSTI MOEN
Karate club shows how to get kicks
With her bare hand, a small woman shattered a 2-inch brick in one blow. But the brick could just as well have been someone's collarbone.
Peggy Konen, Overland Park sophomore, was practicing karate. About 40 people watched as she and 17 other members of the KU Karate team completed the Japanese self-defense technique last night in Robinson Center.
The one-hour free demonstration was part of the club's effort to recruit music students.
"It's all concentration," she said.
"You learn to direct the power that you have."
Konen, who has practiced karate for one year and earned a green belt, said she did not use physical force to 'break the brick.
The technique builds self-confidence and gives a feeling of security.
Yonit Zwart, Amsterdam,
Netherlands, senior, another club
member, said she had used karate to
fend off an attacker in the fall
"Safety is our utmost concern," said Rob Pitcairn, regional director of the club. But the promises of self-control, fitness and a certain macho image also attract people to the sport, he said.
KU Karate Club, which celebrates its 20th anniversary this year, practices the traditional Okinawan version of karate. Students learn to use speed, focusing and concentration rather than physical strength to generate power, Pitcairn said.
Club members generated a lot of that power last night as their hands and feet smashed through several layers of bricks and wood boards.
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