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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
February 10,1988
Published since 1889 by the students of the University of Kansas
Vol. 98, No. 93 (USPS 650-640)
Officials studying smokestack plans
By Donna Stokes
Kansan staff writer
Two design options are under consideration for increasing the height of two smokestacks at the KU power plant.
The new designs would comply with the standards of the Kansas Department of Health and Human Services.
Tom Anderson, director of facilities operations, said yesterday that one option would be to add 43 feet to each of the two smokestacks, connected to boilers that burn natural gas and oil.
The alternative would be to build a 109-foot smokestack between the two existing stacks and to connect them to it.
Last summer, state health officials informed the University of Kansas that it had to increase the height of two of the four smokestacks from the stacks were too close to the ground.
Rodger Orke, University director of support services, said the design would be completed by March 1. Bids will be taken for construction by May 3 and the project should be completed by July 1.
"We're still evaluating options, such as what kind of a load can certain options will put on the roof of a building."
Computer modeling tests will be completed in the next few weeks for one of the two options. The tests are being performed by Dennis Lane, professor of civil engineering, and the Kansas Department of Health and Environment.
"You want them up high enough that the smoke won't come down to houses in Lawrence
The tests will help determine the optimum design for the smokestacks. The tests use meteorological data to determine the best location and area surrounding the discharge. Anderson said.
Bob Moody, public information officer for the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, said the present smokestacks did not pose a health threat.
"The problem exists only when certain types of fuel oil are used," he said. "A compliance schedule is being worked out. I don't see any problem with it."
The University currently alternates the use of natural gas and oil to operate the boilers. If the University used natural gas as the only source of energy, it would not have to make the extensions, Anderson said.
Anderson said that studies were being done to insure that all conditions were safe now and in the future.
"We want to burn natural gas 100 percent of the time, but the problem is in getting it from the field to us," he said. "It would just be too expensive."
Oil or natural gas is used in two of the four boilers, depending on which fuel is more economical at the time. The other two boilers use only natural gas.
CIA denies aiding Noriega
Forrest MacDonald/KANSAN
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Jose I. Blandon, a former aide to Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega, said yesterday that the CIA regularly sent Noriega classified reports on U.S. senators and their aides, including details on their personal lives.
An outraged Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., said to be the subject of one of the CIA reports, called the allegations about the use of classified information "as disturbing a revelation as I've heard in the course of a lot of disturbing revelations" about Noriega, Panama and international drux trading.
Blandon said the CIA reports included information on the activities of Sen. Jesse Helms, R-N.C., a leading Nortega critic, and on Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass.
A CIA spokesman denied the allegations.
Practice makes better
The CIA said it "categorically denies" the allegation, made under oath at a Senate hearing.
Sen. Alfonse D'Amato, R-N.Y., said that if true, the allegations could mean that the CIA was violating a legal ban on domestic spying.
Keith Bland, Prairie Village junior, works on playing the euphonium, a tenor tuba, in one of the practice rooms in Murphy Hall. Bland is a member of the KU symphonic band and has been playing the euphonium for 11 years.
Ex-aide says Noriega leads crime machine
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — A former associate portrayed Panamanian Manuel Antonio Noriega yesterday as the driving force behind a gigantic machine that generated hundreds of millions of dollars through drug trafficking, money laundering, gunninning and other criminal enterprises.
Noriega was indicted by a federal grand jury in Miami last week on charges that he accepted $4.6 million to make Panama a safe haven for drug and money-laundering operations.
Jose Blandon, a former Panamanian intelligence official fired by General Noriegia as his country's counsel general in New York, said that Cuban President Fidel Castro once personally intervened in a dispute between Noriegia and the Medellin drug cartel in Colombia.
One cocaine shipment by an alleged Noriega associate involved an apparent connection to the U.S.-backed contrasts in Nicaragua, Blandon told a Senate Foreign Relations subcommittee.
Blandon said that the CIA regularly
sent Noriega classified reports on U.S. senators and their aides, including details on their personal lives.
Sen. Alfonse D'Amato, R-N.Y., said that if true, the allegations could mean that the CIA was violating a legal ban on domestic skiing.
An outraged Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., said to be the subject of one of the CIA reports, called the allegations about the use of classified information "as disturbing a revelation as I've heard in the course of a lot of disturbing revelations" about Noriage, Panama and international
drug trading.
Kerry promised to further investigate the charges.
Blandon said the CIA reports included information on the activities of Sen. Jesse Helms, R.N.C., a lead attorney for the PEG Foundation. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass.
A CIA spokesman denied the allegations.
Blandon estimated the Panamanian leader's fortune at least $200 million but said there are some matters putting it closer to $1 billion
He said Noriega lives lavisily, maintaining a dozen homes in Panama, a fleet of luxury cars and aircraft and a residence in France.
Blandon said Noriega began to build a criminal organization in the early 1970s when he served as Panama's intelligence chief. He said the general consolidated his power on becoming chief of the nation's armed services in 1983, after an internal struggle that followed the 1981 death in an airplane crash of the country's ruler, Gom. Omar Torrijos.
Aid form deadline nearing
By Rebecca J. Cisek
Kansan staff writer
Jeff Weinberg, associate director of financial aid, said that time was running out for students to submit their financial aid packets.
The priority deadline for financial aid applications is nearing, and the forms are longer and more complicated than ever, a KU financial aid official said yesterday.
March 1 is the priority deadline fo. students to submit the ACT's Family Financial Statement. Those packets can be picked up outside the office of student financial aid, 26强 Hall.
Students who have to get information from their parents for the application and then fill out their own sections might be pressed for time.
Weinberg said that students who filed the packet after the priority date might not be considered for all the aid programs.
"It is a shame when a student with a 3.8 grade point average forgets to file and loses a $1,000 scholarship," Weinbern said.
If students cannot get their tax forms completed on time, they can file the financial aid application and indicate that the figures are estimates, he said.
Programs that fall under the deadline include University scholarships, the Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grant, the Perkins loan, and work study. Students could still receive assistance from the Pell Grant and the Guaranteed Student Loan programs if they filed after the priority date.
The application for the 1988-1989 school year is four pages long and completing the packet is more complex. That, he said, is because of the government's attempt to simplify the process.
One change in the application forces students to count 70 percent of their after-tax earnings from the previous year as part of the money they and their parents can contribute to educational expenses for the following year.
The application process also is longer for the office of student financial aid. Now, the office has to collect copies of marriage certificates and verify that male students are registered for the draft.
Even students who fill out the proper forms by the deadline might find that they qualify for less money.
Funds for the Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grants and the College Work Study Program have decreased about $4 million for both programs from last year, as a result of the Higher Education and Tax Reform Acts of 1986.
Jayhawk to make nest in Kansas Union
By Julie Adam
Kansan staff writer
A bronze jayhawk scheduled to make its nest in a garden at the University of the Philippines will stay at home instead.
The bronze jayahk, called "Jayhawk II Kansas Sarimanok" was a replacement for a jayahk that Elden Tefft, professor of art.
had created and sent to the Philippines about four years ago.
The solid bronze sculpture is 26 inches tall and is a replica of the jayhawk, which Tefft also created, that stands in front of Strong Hall. Tefft said that the jayhawk was a bronze sculpture created by Philippines called the sarapmk.
purchased by the members of the Philippines chapter of the Kansas University Alumni Association to their connection to the University.
But in the midst of student riots in the Philippines in 1984, an administration building at the university was burned and Tefft's sculpture, which was in a nearby
Tefft's original sculpture was
Dan Ruettlmann/KANSAN
Elden Tefft, professor of art, is the creator of "Jayhawk II Kansas Sarimanok," which will be displayed on the third floor of the Kansas Union.
garden, was destroyed.
Grant Goodman, professor of history, said that the year after the fire, when he was at the university as a visiting professor, a group of KU alumni asked him to persuade the University to raise money to replace the sculpture. Because alumni in the Philippines could not afford to purchase a second sculpture, the group asked Goodman to try to arrange a deal with the University to finance one.
Soon after, Tefft started working on Jayhawk II to replace the original one.
"This was the biggest thing in their lives at that time, Goodman said. "To them, the significance of being a Ku. KU are they very loyal alumni."
Goodman said the alumni had asked him to ask the administration, the University of Kansas Alumni Association and the Endowment Association if they could find money to pay for a new replacement.
The requests were turned down. So instead of roosting in the Philippines, Jayhawk II will make its nest on the third floor of the Union.
James Long, director of the Kansas Union, said that Tefft's jayhawk sculpture would be displayed in the union after renovations were completed. The jayhawk sculpture was chosen instead of another sculpture that was too fragile for display there.
Long said he hoped the Jayhawk II, which would cost the Union $6,000, would be bought by a class so that it could be kept in the Union permanently.
Development options still being considered
By Christine Martin
The suburban mall issue in Lawrence might have been keeping a low profile lately, but it certainly isn't dead.
Neither is a plan to keep retail development downtown.
Kansan staff writer
City officials agree that Lawrence cannot have it both ways, that the city will have to choose between a suburban mall and a downtown development project. But until that time, planning will go on for both.
See related story
Three proposals for a suburban mall are being considered by the Lawrence-Douglas County Planning Commission. On Feb. 24, the commission will hold a public hearing on the rezoning requests for the suburban mall proposals.
The Planning Commission will either recommend approval or denial of the proposals. One proposal will then go to the Lawrence City Commission, and the other two will go to the County Commission.
But Dennis Constance, city commissioner and a member of the Downtown Improvement Committee, said that a suburban mall would undermine a city plan that calls for the downtown to be the principle retail center in Lawrence.
"The purpose of the downtown plan is to reinforce and enhance an
Mike Wildgen, assistant city manager, said that developers would rather build a suburban mall than a downtown project because a mall site would be easier to work with than building downtown.
already healthy downtown," he said.
One proposal for a suburban mall by Jacobs, Visconsi and Jacobs, a Cleveland developer, calls for a 61-acre site at Iowa Street and Armstrong Road in south Lawrence. That proposal would go before the City Commission.
The developer made a similar proposal 10 years ago that was denied by the city. Five other suburban city proposals have failed since then.
The other two mall proposals, which will go before the County Commission, have been submitted by Ed Colliser, a Lawrence lawyer, and Warmack and Co., a Fort Smith, Ark., developer.
The Collister proposal calls for a secure manhattan in Highway 40 and Wake Forest Drive.
The Warmack proposal calls for a 101-acre site at Clinton Parkway and Wakarusa Drive in southwest Lawrence.
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Meanwhile, the city-appointed Downtown Improvement Committee has been working on plans to keep retail development downtown.
The improvement committee presented a $44.5 million downtown retail development project to the City Commission last week,
The project calls for three department stores, 60 small shops and 1,200 additional parking spaces scattered in the 700, 800 and 900 blocks of Massachusetts Street. Six enclosedwalks would connect the shops.
Constance said that the improvement committee was waiting for the City Commission to take action on the plan.