University Daily Kansan / Thursday, January 29, 1987
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Local Briefs Services today for professor of microbiology
Memorial services will be at 2 p.m. today for Cora M. Downs, Summerfield professor emeritus of microbiology, who died Tuesday after a long illness.
The memorial service will be at Trinity Episcopal Church, 1011 Vermont St.
Miss Dows, 94, taught at the University of Kansas from 1917 until she retired in 1963. She was the first female microbiology instructor at KU and one of the first female instructors in any science field at KU.
Group to show film at its weekly dinner
Latin American Solidarity will present the film "Do Not Enter: Visa War Against Ideas" at 6 p.m. today at the Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 1204 Oread Ave., during the group's weekly rice-and-b beans dinner.
; The film, an NBC-TV documentary, focuses on the U.S. government's refusal to allow certain people to enter the country to vote. The film also says 'aid Sue Ask, Great Bend sophomore and member of LAS.
: The case of Colombian journalist Patricia Lara, who wasn't allowed to enter the United States to accept an award because of her alleged involvement in the Colombian terrorist group, is featured in the film, Ask said.
Admission to the film is free
Two candidates in this year's Lawrence City Commission election attempted to withdraw their candidacies yesterday, but weren't able to, said Vera Mercer, city clerk.
Candidates must run for City Commission
Sandra K. Qunlan and Carol R. Hamilton, the two candidates, added Mercer yesterday morning to the list of candidates names from the ballot. Mercer said
Quinlan and Hamilton had filled their candidates Tuesday, narrowly beating the Tuesday noon filing deadline.
That time was also the deadline for withdrawing a candidacy, Mercer said, so the two candidates 'names will have to appear' on the ballot for the March 3 primary election.
Academy of Science announces deadline
- The Kansas Academy of Science has announced a Feb. 15 deadline for science abstracts.
; The Academy will include all papers submitted by the deadline in the printed program at its 4th April at Wichita State University.
Student body vice president, Kelly Milligan, right, counts ballots while student body president, Brady Stanton, locks on. Student senators voted for four University Council seats during the Student Senate meeting last night.
All professional scientists and students are welcome to participate and attend.
For registration materials and additional information, contact D.F. Merriam or P.G. Sutterlin, in St. Louis, at (312) 689-3140; at State Washington, at (312) 689-3140.
Director to retire from audio-reader
; Rosanna L. Hurwitz, director of the University of Kansas Audio-Reader Network will retire in 2015 and the network's director since 1974.
Student Senate lobbying for KU
From staff and wire reports.
By BENJAMIN HALL
Staff writer
Student Senate leaders last night issued an urgent pitch for a return trip to lobby the Kansas Legislature for fee release.
About 35 student senators went to Topeka on Jan. 20 to present proposals to the Legislature and to lobby for fee release. Student Senate now hopes to continue to work with presence known in the statehouse.
The fee release bill would release to the University $953,418 in excess fees. Martie Aaron, campus co-director of Associated Students of Kansas, said the bill should reach the House floor within a couple weeks.
"That $53,418 is critical to the success of the University — period." she said.
The amount was generated by unanticipated enrollment increases last fall. The fee release would pay for more than 100 classes that were not canceled this semester, although the University doesn't have the money to pay for them.
Aaron and Eddie Watson, ASK campus co-directors, said the senators' first priority should be to write letters, distribute petitions and visit the statehouse in Topeka to lobby for the release.
"We have to drive these people crazy," Aaron said. "We've got to convince these people to vote for fee release."
The Senate scheduled two more trips to the statehouse for Feb. 5 and 10. Many senators signed up for the trips during the meeting.
"If we get people to Topека,
"we'll get fee release," student
body vice-president Kelly Milligan
said at the Student Senate Execu-
tive committee meeting earlier.
"If we don't, we won't get fee
release."
Aaron and Watson distributed a list of Kansas legislators in committee positions important to fee release, and a sample letter to legislators.
ASK received supplementary financing from the Senate in one of three money bills passed last night.
The Senate allocated $750 from the unallocated account to pay for stamps and supplies for ASK, and from the unallocated account to pay for phone bills and duplicating.
An amendment to raise the ASK director salary from $120 to $250 a month was withdrawn and sent back to the finance committee.
In other action last night, the Senate:
contract for the proposed Watson Library typing room.
Allocated $1,500 to buy four typewriters, supplies and a service
■ Allocated $4,500 to help pay for the 10th Annual Jayhawk Invitational Jazz Festival Feb. 5-7. Honorariums totaling $3,900 will pay for three musicians; $600 will pay for advertising.
Revenue code groups are large organizations, such as Legal Services for Kansas, that require a full-time support staff.
Set Feb. 21 and 28 as tentative
Elected John Cissell, AURH senator. Kim Coulter. Education
senator, Mike Womack, Nunemaker senator, and Amy Randle. Engineering senator, to the University Council...
- Proclaimed February 10, 1987, as "Lynette Woodard Day" in honor of her scheduled appearance at the Harlem Globe troubadour with the Harlem Globetrotters.
KU Senate chairmen set goals for spring
By CHRISTOPHER HINES Staff writer
Staff writer
Better management, more fiscal responsibility and a more aggressive attitude in formulating University policy are some of this semester's themes coming from the newly elected Student Senate committee chairmen.
"We want to review and examine groups receiving Senate money to find out how they are managed, if they are seeking more student involvement and if they are effective in what they do," said Clarissa Birch, co-chairman of the Student Senate Finance Committee.
Michael Foubert, chairman of the Student Minority Affairs Committee, said the committee would take a more investigative and educational role in finding and bringing down racial barriers at the University of Kansas.
"For the last few years, the committee has not been very active," he said. "It has been mostly legislative. We need to go out and find and define new avenues of progress."
Philip Duff, chairman of the Student Senate Student Rights Committee, said the committee would severely screen legislation going to the full Senate, sometimes sending it back to committees for reexamination, to make the running of the Senate smoother and more efficient.
Roger Templin, chairman of the Student Senate University Affairs Committee, said he wanted a more in-depth analysis of pending legislation during committee meetings. To accomplish this, each committee would break up into its smaller subcommittees to discuss and resolve the minor issues before convening as a whole.
"It it would make general discussion of the body as a whole more understandable because a lot of the smaller questions would be out of the way," he said.
Chris Harper, chairman of the Student Senate Social Responsibility Committee, said his committee would serve as a watchdog for the Senate's spending.
"We are going to be especially mindful of KU's investment in South Africa and are going to be pushing for divesture when we find any," he said.
Wolf Creek stages accident
Staff writer
By JOHN BUZBEE
TOPEKA — It was quiet yesterday at the Nickell Memorial Armory -- too quiet.
A long bank of phones was silent. A message board was blank. But in a make-shift media room, occupants were not shy with their questions.
"Dan Rather, CBS News, this is a drill." an acting reporter said.
He wasn't Dan Rather. But it was a drill
Officials of the Wolf Creek nuclear power plant were testing their plan to respond to a nuclear accident.
The Wolf Creek plant is in Coffey County, about four miles north of Burlington.
The news media center at a National Guard armory in Topeka had many of the trappings of a disaster.
including tight security, news conferences and bogus press releases issued throughout the day.
But it was calm. There were no panicked crowds, no frantic workers. Observers at the news conference asked questions about the bogus disaster.
In the disaster scenario, an electrical malfunction led to a radiation hazard.
Robert Rives, Wolf Creek spokesman, said the plant was required by its license to hold the tests annually. If Wolf Creek officials get a bad audit they must do it again. But in their two years, graded tests, they did well, he said.
"We always identify things ourselves that we can improve." Rives said. The plant will receive its evaluation by tomorrow.
Verna, Ridgeway, a consumer affairs worker for Kansas Gas and Electric who helped run the media room, was pleased with the test.
"I thought it was a good drill," she said. "I thought it went well."
One worker feigned a planned injury and was taken to Ransom Memorial Hospital in Ottawa, Rives said. The hospital can treat patients contaminated with radiation, he added.
Most of the test took place at the plant, and more than 250 people were involved. Also, a phone information or the media was set up in Wichita.
If there was a real emergency, Topeka and Wichita would be used as media centers because of their size, Rives said.
As the semester speeds along, some students get further and further behind, but the Jayhawk Study Service offers students a collection of notes and tests to help them catch up on their studies.
Lisa Unell, Overland Park senior, started the service this semester after she saw similar programs on the West Coast. There, notes and tests were compiled and distributed by the universities.
Staff writer
"I know so many people who can't take notes." Unell said.
Service offers hope for lagging students
Unell's friends and relatives have donated notes from chemistry, computer science, anthropology, physics,
By JERRLI NIEBAUM
Unell expects that most of her clients will be foreign students and disabled students who have trouble keeping up with lectures. She plans to give discounts to students with disabilities.
Unell said she planned to sell notes by the lecture and by the semester. She is compiling semester packets, books and exams, that will sell for about $24.
Some of the exams will come from Kinko's Copies, where some teachers have filed old tests for students.
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