University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, June 22, 1988
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Wichita may get toxic incinerator Plan could affect Lawrence
By Paula Messbarger
By Paula Messbarger
Kansan staff writer
Trucks carrying hazardous wastes from 130 locations could be traveling through Lawrence by 1990 on their way to Wichita to burn the waste in a proposed incinerator, a member of an environmental group warned.
members of Greenpeace, an international environmental organization,
and Plains Keepers, a Wichita-based environmental group, voiced opposition to the Vulcan Chemical Co.'s proposal to build an incinerator seven miles south of downtown Wichita at a meeting Thursday night at the Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 1204 Oread Ave.
The proposed incinerator would burn pentachlorophenal (penta), a wood preservative which could turn into chlorodioxin, a toxic chemical compound, when burned.
compound, when it is needed. About 100 people attended the meeting, including two representatives from the Kansas Department of Health and Environment and about six representatives of Vulcan
Almost everyone stayed until the end of the meeting, bearing the sweltering heat from the non-air conditioned room. Some were able to keep cool by fanning themselves with the information leaflets passed out at the meeting.
Vulcan must build the incinerator if it is to continue producing penta because the Environmental Protection Agency is putting increasingly more restrictions on penta waste, and it could be banned eventually, said Helen Periliver of Greenpeace.
If built, the incinerator would burn sawdust from lumber mills and contaminated wood chips, along with leftover chemicals from Vulcan's customers. It would be the country's first private incinerator to burn chlorioxin-contaminated wastes.
Anthony Harvey of Plains Keepers said the problem should be a concern to Lawrence citizens. "There is an average of one truck having an accident on Kansas roads every three days," he said. "One could be a Penta truck."
Larry Zuckerman, an aquatic ecologist for the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks, talks about pentachlorophenol.
Ed Hoeller, a personnel manager of Vulcan, said he went to the meeting because it was public and he wanted to know what was being said about Vulcan.
"Penta is a poison, but it is only harmful if it is misused," he said. "We don't misuse it. We sell it to our customers, and I am reasonably sure they don't misuse it."
Larry Zuckerman, an aquatic ecologist working for the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks, said at the meeting that penta is toxic and linked to birth defects, cancer
and liver problems. He said, however, that his department cannot do anything until it sees Vulcan's projections for the incinerator.
Water supply adequate despite record demand
By Aracelia Perez
Kansan staff writer
Thanks to the hot, dry weather, the city of Lawrence is pumping water at a record rate, but no rationing is in sight.
The record, set on Monday, is 20,610,000 gallons of water pumped in one day. The previous record was 20,429,000 gallons, set on July 22, 1983.
"We're pumping in so much water that we're actually reversing the flow," said Bob Leach, the city's assistant utilities director.
city's assistant. However, that does not mean water can be wasted. The city is asking that everyone use no more than necessary when watering their yards or gardens.
"We're pumping so much water, but I hate to see people waste it." Leach said. "Don't keep watering in one spot or water so much that water flows down the gullies. When we're pumping so much, bothers me to see that happen. With normal usage, we can avoid having to ration water."
The city will not need to limit water usage as long as the water level is in Clinton Lake and the Kansas River, which supply the
city's water, remain adequate. Leach said.
The city's two pumping stations can pump more than 27 million gallons of water a day if water levels are not low and there is no mechanical failure.
The University of Kansas, which is considered a high-pressure site (one that uses large quantities of water), will continue to water the campus on a normal basis.
"We work with the city real closely," said Mike Richardson, associate director of facilities and operations. "We will continue to water because if we don't, we may end up getting a lot of water-line breaks (because of the pressure on old lines)."
Steve Cater, KU environmental health and safety officer, said because of the increase in pressure and rust in the pipes, water may be discolored when a tap is first turned on after sitting idle for a while.
That does not mean the water is not pure, Leach said. However, if the water is extremely orange in color, he suggested not washing laundry with it because it will stain.
Group hopes petition will help disabled
Rv Aracelia Perez
Proposed legislation is designed to help prevent discrimination of handicapped
Kansan staff writer
Larry Meyers was a big man, 6 feet 2 inches tall and weighed almost 290 pounds. Most of his life had been spent working in construction. His wife describes him as an independent man with pretty blue eyes.
blue eyes.
Two years ago, Meyers became bedridden because of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, better known as Leu Gehrig's disease. The disease causes the muscles to deteriorate. His wife was unable to care for Meyers because she did not have the strength to lift him. She applied for aid, but was turned down because they did not meet the financial requirements, said Robert Holroy, a friend and neighbor.
On June 7, a worker from Hospice Care o Douglas County came to assist them by cooking their meals.
The next day, Larry Wayne. It is in his memory and the memory of other disabled people. The Kansas Coalition on Disabled Rights is collecting signatures in support of proposed legislation before the Kansas Legislature that would prevent discrimination against disabled people.
their meals.
The next day, Larry Meyers died
disabled people. The final coalition is working toward existing laws that deal with disabled people, said Kalen Beaumont, who has muscular dystrophy and is one of the coalition's founders
The bill would broaden Sections 503 and 504 of the U.S. Rehabilitation Act of 1973. These deal with
preventing discrimination against people in areas such as employment, job training programs, public housing, transportation and communications. According to a coalition statement, there are more than 36 million disabled people in the United States.
States.
"The existing laws were not that good." Beaumont said. "This bill would be better. It's just a lot better.
better.
Although the coalition has only four official members, all disabled, they have collected about 400 signatures since June 9th.
A copy of the petition, which has been at Allen Field House since June 13, will be placed on a table tomorrow in front of the Town Crier, 930 Massachusetts St.
Jackson supporters say campaign discriminated
Kansan staff writer
By Jeff Pitcher
Cadue, an American Indian, said yesterday that his name was removed in May from the list of atlarge delegates for racially motivated reasons.
Sick, a local Jackson supporter who is legally blind, said that he thought his name was removed because of his handicap.
An affirmative action challenge filed against leaders of the Rev. Jesse Jackson's Kansas campaign was decided last week, and the complainants now must appeal to the Democratic National Convention next month in Atlanta.
The complaint, written by Caduse and Slick, challenged the authority of the Rev. Edward Freeman, a Jackson campaign representative, to arbitrarily scratch names from the
next month in Arkansas. Steve Cadue and Patrick Slick, both from Lawrence, filed an affirmative action challenge that accused state Jackson campaign officials of discrimination.
list of potential at-large delegates
Names are only deleted, normally,
if there is a chance that the person
isn't a true supporter of the candidate.
Slick said.
Both Cadue and Slick said they were still staunch supporters of Jackson.
The decision reached last week by the state Democratic headquarters said that Freeman was the campaign's designated representative and had the power to remove names from the list.
Joseph Scranton, executive director of the Kansas delegate selection plan, said he empathized with Cadue's plight but that there was nothing his office could do about it.
"It's a matter that will have to go to the national convention." Scarenton said. "They made the rules and we don't have anything to do with that."
Cadue said he sent a reply to Scranton concerning the decision and said he planned to take his challenge to the Democratic National Convention
Regents to consider budget request
By Michael Shunk
Kansan staff writer
The proposed KU budget for 1990, with financing requests of more than $11 million, will be presented tomorrow at the Board of Regents meeting in Toneka.
in Topeka.
About half the budget request is for program maintenance, which is the amount of state finance necessary to keep KU in pace with its peer universities, said Tom Rawson, associate vice chancellor for administration and finance.
"KU needs the program maintenance funding just so that we can remain at the level we're at now," he said. "It's the basic operating cost of the University."
the University
The peer universities, schools similar to KU in size, scope and mission,
are the University of Colorado,
the University of Iowa, the University of
North Carolina, the University of
Oklahoma and the University of
Oregon.
The proposal is scheduled to be voted on in the Kansas Legislature in April.
April.
In addition to program maintenance money, KU administrators will be asking for about $3.5 million under the second year of the Margin of Excellence. The Margin of Excellence program is designed to raise KU to the level of its peer schools in terms of state funding, Rawson said.
and student aids
Also included in the $11 million request are about $600,000 to service of new buildings on campus, $1.8 million for enrollment increases and $150,000 to increase graduate teaching assistant fee waivers from 75 percent to 100 percent.
About $2 million of that would go to faculty salary increases and about $1.5 million would go to mission-related enhancements, which include scientific equipment, minority assistance, research, libraries, museums and student services.
KU's $5.3 million proposal for program maintenance financing is larger than any of the other Regents schools. Among the larger schools, Kansas State University is requesting almost $5 million, and Wichita State University is requesting almost $2.3 million.
The proposal is scheduled to be voted on in the Kansas Legislature in April.
Rawson said that the proposal was very realistic, and because 83 percent of last year's request was approved, there was a good chance that this budget would be accepted by the Legislature.
the Debateholder.
"We're optimistic about it, but it depends on what condition the state's economy is in," he said.
AIDS task force gets StudEx support for fall
By Carla Krause
Kansan staff writer
After hearing a report on the Student Senate Task Force on AIDS, the Student Executive Committee on Sunday voted unanimously to continue the task force
Michael Foubert, task force chairman, recommended that the task force attempt to have its members visit campus living groups this fall to distribute AIDS information and establish one-on-one peer counseling for students.
Also, Foubert recommended that Senate add representatives from living groups to the task force and remove some representatives from Senate committees. Foubert said he hoped that would give the student body a larger voice on the task force.
The committee voted to amend Foubert's recommendation by placing a member of the Gay and Lesbian Services of Kansas on tha
task force if that group was interested. Foubert said he had not included the organization in his recommendation because he wanted to end misconceptions about AIDS.
Foubert said he expected some opposition on the programs from students and officials who "place more emphasis on moral strictness than on AIDS prevention and education, and on human life."
Foubert said that one KU student died of AIDS this spring and that there were others who had tested positive.
"Gino cliches (such as 'sex is never an emergency') will be meaningsless when the next KU student dies of AIDS," he said in the report.
company that had contacted the task force and offered to place condom machines on the campus for free and donate the revenues from those machines to AIDS research.
the report.
Foubert also recommended that the force continue its efforts to place condom vending machines on campus. He said that he was trying to get in touch with a
Research
Foubert's said that Phase I of the program, distribution of the "safer-sex kits" during the spring semester registration, was necessary and well-conceived, with more positive reactions than negative. He based his evaluation on the general reaction from other universities, public health groups, AIDS projects and media editors.
as:
Pam Holley, student body vice president, said that although she thought the safer-sex kits proved beneficial in promoting AIDS awareness and education, they would not be distributed in the fall because Senate would not have time to vote on the issue and prepare the kits for registration
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