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TASK FORCE:Some oppose ban
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Daniel Gilchrist, Topeka junior and bartender at The Crossing. 618 W. 12th St., agreed.
"We know the risk going in." Gilchrist said. "If you don't like it, quit."
Jerry Neverve, owner of Red Lyon Tavern, 944 Massachusetts St., said he didn't see any harm in breathing in second-hand smoke. Biased studies exaggerate the risks of second-hand smoke, he said.
"If you take their studies and multiply them out, almost everyone would be dead," Neverve said.
said.
Smoking task force members have also ran into unbiased research in the past year. Dave Hiebert, smoking task force member, said that it was difficult to find unbiased research about secondhand smoke. If the city bans smoking in restaurants and bars, it will be stepping on a fundamental right, Neverve said. The government shouldn't have the right to take away a business's personal
choice to allow smoking,he said
note to be received Bobby Kasper, manager of Molly McGee's, 2429 Iowa St., agreed. He does not want to see Lawrence rope-off restaurants and bars from smokers. Each bar and restaurant should have the right to decide whether to allow smokers, he said.
"The city doesn't tell me what items I can serve, so why should it tell me who to allow to come in the restaurant?" Kasper said.
Mayor Dunfield wants to find a balance between health and economic concerns. His decision hinges on balancing a business owner's right to have smoking with public health and safety.
If the city did place stronger restrictions on smoking in restaurants and bars, these businesses would survive, said Mike Wildgen, city manager. People would become used to everything being smoke-free. They would just expect it, and that would not turn them away from a particular restaurant, he said.
-Edited by Nikki Nugent
SMOKING IN BIG 12 CONFERENCE CITIES
Date passed: August 1995
Smoking is prohibited in restaurants and bars, except in enclosed and ventilated areas.
Smoking is prohibited in the workplace and in all other public indoor places.
Columbia, Mo.
Date passed: December 2003 Restaurants can allow smoking areas as long as the area does not have to be passed to go to a non-smoking area or restroom. Bars can allow smoking areas.
Lawrence
Date passed: December 1986 Smoking is prohibited in restaurants with a seating capacity of 30 or fewer. But the city allows all other restaurants and bars to have smoking areas. Since April, Mayor David Dunfield has had a task force study the issues related to smoking in public. The task force will present its findings to the city commission March 31.
Date passed: could become effective July 1
Lincoln, Neb.
Most businesses must go smoke-free by July 1. Restaurants and bars that earn less than 60 percent of sales from food are free from this requirement. The city's health advisory board is discussing other options, such as requiring restaurants to buy permits to allow smoking, making restaurants go smoke-free by Nov. 1 rather than July 1, easing restrictions banning 18-year-olds from bars with smoking and requiring bars that permit smoking to have more ventilation, to state whether an employee should have to work in a smoky environment.
Manhattan
Date passed: April 1991 Besides smoking being prohibited in government buildings, Manhattan does not have any regulations against smoking.
Sources: City of Boulder, City of Columbia, City of Lawrence, City of Manhattan, Lincoln Journal-Star
PHARMACY: New dean has teaching experience
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Audus is universally respected, said Jeff Aubé professor of medicinal chemistry and chairman of the dean search committee. Audus has taught at the University for a long time, Aubé said, and his experience is what it takes to bring the school to another level.
"He knows what our opportunities are and what our problems are," Aubé said. "He has a realistic view of the school."
the view of the school Jack Fincham announced he would step down as dean last
summer. He will be teaching at the Albert W. Jowdy pharmacy care at the University of Georgia pharmacy college in Athens, Ga.
Audus said he was looking forward to the challenges of being a dean at the school. Before applying for the position,he said it was an easy choice to consider: He envisioned the school remaining one of the top schools of pharmacy in research, graduate and professional programs.
Emphasizing the Human Genome Project and continuously training pharmacy students to be
successful pharmacists were other goals. There are numerous directions the school can go in, he said.
Taking self-initiative in the school has helped Audus. He said he took most of the opportunities presented to him.
"I've always felt that if there was something I wanted to do, I could get the support for it," Audus said.
He said he wouldn't have been in the position he was in now if not for his supportive colleagues.
Dobrowsky, associate professor of pharmacology and toxicology. He emphasizes high-quality research and academic integrity, which can enhance undergraduate education. Dobrowsky said.
Audus is fair and open to suggestions to improve the school as well as the University, said Rick
"He's a very good scientist and knows what it takes to succeed," he said.
Aubé said Audus was wellrounded, and as dean he could deal with all elements in the school, from dealing with alumni and students to research and funding.
Audus will continue teaching and will step in as dean April 19.
- Edited by Henry C. Jackson
STUDYING: Fans don't see it as 'just a game'
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Bloch said the search for a social identity had little to do with his devotion to the Jayhawks.
is on a street named after the man who created basketball gives me chills," he said. "Every time I walk by it, I get goosebumps."
The fact that Allen Fieldhouse
Bloch's analysis of Missouri fans reflects Branscombe's idea that fans
emphasize negative aspects of rivals.
emphasize height or "Who else do you have to cheer for living in Columbia, Missouri?" Bloch asked.
Bloch, who can remember rooting forthe Jayhawks when he was six
years old, said history was an important factor, but his real reason for being a Kansas fan went deeper still
"I have this odd feeling that if I were an animal, I'd be the first Jayhawk ever."
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