University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, February 16, 1988
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Right; Basic Fencing class members trade lunges and parries in Robinson Center. Below; Randy Kort, Kansas City, Kan., freshman, attempts to score on an opponent. The class met yesterday. Nearly 20 people are enrolled in the class and some are members of the KU Fencing Club, which will participate in the Kansas City Open tournament this weekend at the Blue Valley Recreation Center.
Prof says killer bees to affect Kansas
By Brenda Finnell
Kansan staff writer
Although the African bees known as "killer bees" are not expected to reach Kansas, their presence in southern states will have an indirect effect on the state, a KU professor said yesterday.
Chip Taylor, professor of entomology and of systematics and ecology, has studied the bees since 1974 and estimated they would reach Texas, between November 1989 and March 1990.
"It's difficult to predict biological events before they happen." Tavlor said.
Taylor recently prepared a report on the African bees for last weekend's American Association for the Advancement of Science conference in Boston.
He said the bees were now 600 miles south of the U.S. border. They move an average of 300 miles a year.
The bees will modify and possibly eliminate queen-rearing in southern states, Taylor said. Kansas beekeepers are dependent on getting queens from southern states to replace old queens in colonies. Kansans also purchase packaged bees for recolonization.
Taylor said Kansas beekeepers would have to motify their ability to produce bees.
The African bees also might interfere with interstate shipment of bees, Taylor said. The resulting decrease in bee availability would cause costs of certain agricultural products, ranging from alfalfa to almonds, to increase
"People are going to be very cautious in determining how bees are shipped from place
Taylor said the long-term solution for dealing with the bees was to introduce European bee characteristics into the African bee population.
to place," he said.
At the University of Kansas, Taylor and his students are selecting a line of European bees that fly late enough in the day to mate with the African queens.
The African bees desceded from South African bees that escaped from a Brazilian researcher in 1957. Since then, they have been moving primarily north.
The European and African bees normally fly at different times of day, Taylor said, reducing the chance of the European bees mating with the African bees and introducing more favorable characteristics into the African bee population.
The bees are angered easily and sometimes attack people who come near their nests. They are not easily handled by beekeepers, Taylor said.
George Vanarsdall, who owns the Osage Honey Farm in Sibley, Mo., said he didn't yet know what impact the African bees would have on his work.
Vanarsdall said he had followed reports on the movement of the bees.
People can overreact to all the negative news about the bees in the same manner that Saturday night movie watchers react to horror films, Vanarsdall said.
"I haven't seen a bee in my life we can't handle"
"They go out looking for ghosts on Sunday," he said,
Alarm thwarts robbery
Kansan staff writer
By Ric Brack
Police responded to an alarm at 8:02 a.m. and were let into the store by a sales clerk who arrived at the pawn shop about 8:20 a.m.
Two Topeka men were arrested yesterday morning after they allegedly forced their way into Lawrence Pawn and Shooters Supply, 718 New Hampshire St., and tied up the manager in the back room, Lawrence police said.
Police said the men apparently met the manager at the front door when he opened the pawn shop about 8 a.m. and forced him at gunpoint to let them in.
Larry Ledbetter, the clerk who opened the building for police, said the men apparently were not aware that the store was equipped with an alarm that automatically signaled the police.
Lawrence police Sgt. Kevin Harmon said that police closed off the street in front of the store, and when Ledbetter unlocked the building, entered the store with their gums drawn.
The men, who were both armed with handguns,
surrendered shortly after police entered the store.
The manager, Merlin Ewing, 60, was not injured, but because of a heart condition, was transported to Lawrence Memorial Hospital for observation. He was released yesterday morning.
The men had emptied a safe and two display cases by the time police entered the pawn shop. Ledbetter said. He estimated that the men had about $30,000 worth of jewelry and cash on their persons and stacked by the door when police arrived.
Professors may debate contra aid
By a Kansan reporter
Two KU professors say students need to hear both sides of the issue of U.S. aid to the contras.
Harry Shaffer, professor of Soviet and East European studies and economics, and Charles Stansifer, director of Latin American Studies, have challenged Roy Laird, professor of political science, and political science, and Carl Lande, professor of political science, to a public debate.
Shaffer and Stansifer became concerned when Laird and Lande were quoted in the Feb. 5 Kansan after the
House of Representatives rejected further aid for the contras.
Both Laird and Lande said they thought it was a mistake to quit funding the contras.
But Shaffer said, "The students need an opportunity to hear more about their experiences."
"I hope they accept our challenge, that it is widely advertised, and we get a good turnout so both sides can be heard," Shafer said.
Lande said he would be willing to debate the issue any time.
"We have decided if the proper time and place can be arranged, we will probably debate," Laird said.
"I have a high opinion of Professor Stansifer and Professor Shaffer, but I disagree with them on this," Lande
said.
Tomasek said he was unwilling to debate the issue. He said he did not think it could be proved whether continued aid to the contrast would keep pressure on the Nicaraguan government to increase democratic reforms.
No date has been set for a debate. Both Lande and Laird said they thought Robert Tomasek, professor of political science and a specialist in Latin America, also should be involved in a debate.
No date has been set for a debate.
National firm will build in Lawrence
Science center would create 200 jobs
By Christine Martin
Kansan staff writer
A national engineering and asbestos assessment consulting firm, whose headquarters are in Lawrence, yesterday announced plans to build a science center here that would provide 200 new jobs.
W. David Kimbrel, president of Hall-Kimbrell Environmental Services, Inc., said construction would begin in April on the two-story, 30,000 square foot center. The new center would be just east of Hall-Kimbrell's current building at 15th Street and Wakarusa Drive.
Hall-Kimbrell analyzes cancer-causing asbestos and designs blueprints for asbestos removal.
The offices in the center should be finished by December, and the laboratories should be in full use by early 1989. Kimbrel said.
The center, which will provide 200 new jobs when completed, will have the flexibility to accommodate a 10,000 square foot addition, said Bob Gould, architect for the center.
Kimbrell said that an addition could create 400 more jobs. Hall Kimbrell now employs 431 people, with 200 in Lawrence and the rest in offices across the country.
'We wouldn't be here if it weren't for KU.'
The company's staff includes environmental engineers, certified
- W. David Kimbrell president, Hall-Kimbrell environmental Services, Inc.
industrial hygienists, field technicians, geologists, hydrologists, microscopists and chemists.
He said that about 70 percent of the firm's employees were graduates of law school.
"We wouldn't be here if it weren't for KU." he said.
Richard Sanfilippo, executive vice president of technical operations for Hall-Kimbrell, said that the center's services would include analyzing drinking, ground and surface water, and soil samples from across the nation to see whether the water or soil contained hazardous chemicals.
"We will be servicing the nation now in these headquarters." Sanfilippo
David Hopper, chairman of the Douglas County Commission, said, "We're pleased to see that Hall-Kimbrel is really dedicated to helping us improve our environment."
Mayor Mike Amyx said he was pleased with the firm's expansion plans.
Course Source is delayed
By Kevin Dilmore Kansan staff writer
Kansan staff writer
The Jayhawk Course Source will not be published this spring to allow the Student Senate Course Source Board time to re-evaluate the project.
At its meeting last night, the Course Source Board voted to set the Fall 1988 semester as the target date for the next Course Source. It would be ready by early enrollment for the spring 1989 semester.
Roger Templin, Student Senate Executive Committee chairman, said the method for gathering public feedback on the publication would be changed.
"The emphasis should be on departments providing information for department courses," he said.
In previous years, the Course Source relied on questionnaires submitted to instructors to obtain course information. Only about 150 entries were in last semester's issue.
Templin said that the lack of response led to the ineffectiveness of the publication.
He said that the English department's method of compiling a list of offered courses was exemplary and that the board should focus on getting other departments and schools to follow the English department's lead.
"It's going to be a lot easier to have students pound on Strong Hall's doors and let the administration know we are not getting the information we need, than browbeating individual traachers to turn the questionnaires in," Templin said.
The board also voted to apply the remainder of Course Source Board director Kevin Fossland's salary to cover a $600 debt from the last edition. Fossland earns $150 a month.
The Senate had allocated $5,351 to print two issues this week, but the first issue cost more than $5,500 to print.
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