University Daily Kansan / Friday, March 8, 1991
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Proposed budget cuts eliminate student jobs
By Benjamin W. Allen
Kansan staff writer
The jobs of 125 KU students could be in jeopardy because the House Appropriations Committee's proposed budget for higher education in Kansas does not include a Career Work Study program.
Julie Cooper, of the student financial aid department, said a budget with no Career Work Study program would cost $180,000 to employers as well as students.
"It was intended as an incentive for employers to hire students in career areas in which the students were studying," she said.
Sixty-five employers participate in the program, which pays for one-half
of the student's wages when they work outside the University of Kansas, she said. The employers pay the other half.
"Many employers couldn't pay to get the skill level they do with students." Cooper said.
"Many of these students would have to take a service-oriented job rather than career-oriented."
The Lawrence Arts Center, 200 W. Ninth St., employs four students through the program.
Lisa-Marie Rousseau, education program director of the center, said the program allowed the center to meet its goals and helped the center run smoothly.
Rousseau said that the center
worked on a tight budget and that the loss of the program would not allow them to employ as many students.
Leslie Casson, Topea senior, works at the center through the program and said it had provided her with an invaluable opportunity.
"It allowed me to support myself while I finish my degree and it gave me practical experience in the field
— art administration — I am interested in," she said.
"I realize that probably overall there aren't that many students in work study. That — the program — may seem like a small amount from the total budget, but it's critical for those students."
University agrees on plan outlining landfill cleanup
By Vanessa Fuhrmans
<ansan staff writer
KU and state officials have agreed on a plan that outlines preliminary steps for the cleanup of a University waste dump outside DeSoto, KU officials said yesterday.
"The plan supplies a framework to gather information that we'll need in order to begin cleanup," he said. "We need mental, health and safety officer."
The University of Kansas disposed of various laboratory by-products at the landfill from 1965 to 1982, when the University began sending the waste products to an out-of-state landfill.
Since KU quitdumping at the federally licensed landfill in rural Johnson County, it has been testing water samples for contamination. Test samples are taken regularly from 17 wells. KU officials said.
However, Jean Martin, who lives just northwest of the landfill, filed a lawsuit in May claiming that the landfill in her water body the landfill in her well water.
Although KU officials contended that the waste dump did not pose a health threat, they said they were already in a future ground water contamination.
According to the agreement, KU will dig additional wells to test more water samples. Cater said
the University also would test rock samples and the permeability of rock lavers.
In addition, KU must complete all testing within a certain time frame so that KDEH can make recommendations based on the findings. The University will be fined up to $2,000 daily for unnecessary delays.
John Parisi, Martin's attorney,
said enough data had been
collected already to prove a cleanup
was necessary.
He said the agreement was not strong enough.
"There is nothing there that states that a plan will be adopted," he said.
Dispute over parade rules has local motorcyclists spinning their wheels
By Nedra Beth Randolph
Kansan staff writer
Doty Morales wants to see a lot of motorcycles in Lawrence's St. Patrick's Day Parade this year.
"I think we should be able to ride in the parade like we did last year," said Morales, a secretary in the department of English.
Last year, about 30 members of the local chapter of American Bikers Aim Towards Education rode motorcycles in the parade and had a float bearing an ABATE banner. This year, parade officials are saying that they will also be holding a parade, it must limit its entry to four motorcycles and no banner.
"Gene Shaughnessy (parade chairperson) said the parade committee got a lot of loss feedback last year about the bikers in the parade.
"I remember one little girl asking her daddy if we were the Hell's Angels. But most of the crowd was cheering when we went by." Morales
'We don't want anybody to use the parade for embryids' political agenda
Shaughnessy said ABATE was a registered lobbyst group in Topea and currently was lobbying against a proposed helm law.
anybody's political agenda."
"We have a very strict policy about political statements," she said. "We stay clear of any entry that carries a strong political message."
Debbie Drummet, parade representative, said that according to parade rules, no entry could represent controversial groups or political groups.
According to parade officials, the reasons for not allowing the ABATE banner and limiting the number of motorcycle riders were listed in this year's parade rules and regulations.
— Gene Shaughnessy
St. Patrick's Day Parade chairperson
The committee considers the local ABATE group to be controversial in Lawrence,be said.
"If they want to be in the parade to promote motorcycle safety that's just fine and dandy." Shaughnessy said. "We don't want anybody to use the parade for anybody's political agenda."
Mike Lohmann, logistics chairperson for the parade, said that last year the group displayed the ABATE banquet committee had asked them not to.
Lohmann said the Lawrence police department requested that all parade entries move along quickly. It was important to group that is being limited, he said.
"With that many motorcycles like they had last year, they are overstepping boundaries.
"If they could not use the sign and limit the number of motorcycles, they could be in the parade like all the other entries." he said.
But Morales said the terms were unacceptable to herself and to the group.
"There is no way we could pick and choose those who could ride in the parade," she said.
The group advocates motorcycle safety, works in conjunction with the Highway 24-40 near Lawrence as part of a litter control initiative.
Dotty Morales, member of American Bikers Aim Toward Education, polishes the chrome on her 45 Harley Davidson Trike.
Testing for STDs available in Lawrence
By Amy Francis
Kansan staff writer
The first step in treating a sexually transmitted disease is diagnosis. But some might not know where they can be tested for STDs.
Probably one of the most convenient places for students to get tested or get more information about CDT's Watkins Memorial Health Center.
Before being tested, students must tell a physician what sort of exposure they have had, because there is no one test that can be used to diagnose all STDs, said Henry Buck, eyecareeologist at Watkins.
The time at which a person is tested can play a role in the results, he said. Some diseases are not immediately detectable after contraction. In the case of herpes, a person must have an outbreak to be tested.
"You have to have a lesion that you can culture." Buck said.
you can culture, Duck Mask.
Treatment is available at Watkins for students who test positive for an STD, he said.
Written information about STDs is available to students in Watkins' health education department.
Although Watkins provides testing for AIDS, the Douglas County
Health Department offers anonymous testing at Watkins from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. the first and third Wednesday of every month, said Jill Ice, a nurse for the county health department. Students only have to give a name and their birthdate.
"It doesn't have to be their real name," Ice said. "It just has to be a name they will remember."
Testing and treatment for STDs,
in addition to information, is also
available at the county health
department. 336 Missouri St.
People usually must make an appointment to be tested at the health department. There is presently a two-week wait to be tested for AIDS. But people are allowed to be tested for STDs without an
appointment from 2 to 4 p.m. Fridays, she said.
The Lawrence Family Practice,
500 Rockledge Road, also offers
testing and treatment for STDs for
its patients. A person would need to
make an appointment with a physician
for testing.
STD testing also is available at Lawrence Memorial Hospital, 325 Maine St., but only with a physician's order.
Other places a person can get information about STDs;
information about SIDS:
■ The Douglas County AIDS Project.
P.O. Box 315, Lawrence, Kan.
66044
Headquarters, 841-2345.
- STD Hotline, 1-800-227-8922.
- AIDS Hotline, 1-800-342-AIDS.
- Herpes Hotline, 415-328-7710.
Food Barn employees, managers at stalemate
Five days after Food Barn employees went on strike, the management foresees no negotiations.
"At this point there are no more meetings scheduled," said Pete Rawalt, vice president of human resources for Food Barn Inc.
Kansan staff report
Food Barn's labor union went on strike Sunday to protest the company's implementation of a new contract that required workers to work 8 hours and benefits.
Rawalt said the management and the union had shown no willingness to comply with each other's demands.
He said that Food Barn Inc. employed about 4,000 people and that 2,500 of them had gone on strike Sunday.
"Of all the people that went on strike, 843 have gone back to work under the agreement that the company implemented." he said.
Mike Charles, union steward for the local Food Barn store, 1900 W. 23rd St, said that before the strike, the store had employed about 40 people. Twelve of them are on strike, and seven others have outgiven him, he said yesterday.
Charles said he thought the strike had cut down 60 to 70 percent of the store's customers.
He said the people who were shopping at the local store for the most part were buying items on sale. The prices of several of its products
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