University Daily Kansan / Fridav. February 15. 1991
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Faculty members criticize new national energy plan
By Katie Chipman
Kansan staff writer
The Bush administration's new national energy plan, which focuses on increased production of natural resources and use of nuclear power, is being met with strong criticism from some KU faculty members.
The energy plan would promote the use of nuclear power, advocate opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge for oil drilling, restructure the nation's electric utility industry and require businesses that rely on fleets of vehicles to use fuels other than gasoline.
Mike Campbell, graduate teaching assistant in systematics and ecology, said, "The nuclear policy is silly. They still have no idea of what to do with the waste. We need to stress conservation much more heavily."
However, conservation-promoting plans proposed by the Department of Energy were rejected by the administration before the present bill was drafted. Some of the DOE's proposals would have required greater auto energy taxes and energy taxes to reduce consumption.
Floyd Preston, professor of chemical and petroleum engineering, said, "It will be used to conservation. This bill will be used to put off the long term problems."
Calling the administration's solution to the energy crisis "short-term fixes," Preston said, "It's like having a progressive disease and taking some painkillers, but not facing up to the basic problem."
John Clark, professor of history, said that he thought the plan would not work and that a similar bill had been passed during the Nixon administration.
"The only decent plan that's a possibility is the bill that was just proposed that has to do with more automobile mileage efficiency," he
"I if we adopted the 35 to 40 miles per gallon recommendation, we would save as much oil as we could. The technology is there to do it."
said
Donald Worster, professor of history, spent two months last summer in Alaska studying the history of fossil fuels.
The Arctic coast is home to Prudhbay Sea, a large oil field, and to one of the biggest caribou calving grounds in Alaska. Worster said.
"That (the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge) is the last strip of Arctic coast in Alaska that cannot be developed," he said.
"If we'll go to the extent of going to war in the Middle East rather than conserving, I can't see a calving on this coast," he said. ■ The Associated Press contributed information to this story.
Senate creates speaker board
By Michael Christie
Kansan staff writer
Student Senate voted Wednesday to create a speaker series board in hopes of bringing nationally known speakers to the University of Kansas.
The board will consist of nine voting students, six appointed by the student body president and three appointed by Student Union Activities president.
Mike Schreiner, student body president, drafted the legislation. He said he wanted the board to establish a series of lectures comparable to Kansas State University's Alf Landon Series.
The difference between this organization and K-State's is that KU board will be run by students, while Stetson's is a Series board is not, Schreiner said.
"I see this, 10 years down the road.
as an established series, with money coming from alumni," he said at Wednesday's Senate meeting
Anita Bajaj, SUA president, said she was working on similar legislation to add to SUA bylaws.
"I wanted to and see how it did in Senate," she said. "It's a lot harder to change things in Senate with a 12-member board like SUA."
Both she and Schreiner have been working for several months on the formation of the board. Senate originally came to SUA, but both groups had considered the possibility of such a board, she said.
For now, Schreiner said he hoped that Senate could allocate $20,000 for the project.
Troy Radakovich, finance committee co-chairperson, said that although that amount had not been
planned for before budget hearings began, the money might be available. The finance committee already has the task of cutting $100,000 from next year's budget requests.
"Initially, it looks pretty good," he said.
To really get at the caliber of, need money, in an advertising series, we need money," she said.
Bajaj said $20,000 was the minimum needed to start the board.
Top-quality speakers cost a lot of money, she said. So much, in fact, that the board probably would only one speaker during its first year.
Baja] said that she would like to have Margaret Thatcher speak at KU, but getting someone of that stature would be difficult without enough money.
Caroline Gnagy, Lawrence resident, adds her personal touch to a graffiti wall at the SUA Gallery in the Kansas Union. Alan Scott of SUA said the wall was a new idea that would be repeated throughout the semester.
Legal graffiti
Bills provide for additional juvenile halls
By Joe Gose
Kansan staff writer
Kansas promised to remove from adult jail juveniles who are awaiting sentencing.
In return, Kansas has received federal money to help finance juvenile detention centers. But not enough cases exist.
TOPEKA - The House and Senate Judiciary committees have both introduced bills that would help Kansas keep a promise it made to the federal government almost 10 years ago.
Both bills would provide additional detention centers using gaming revenue to help finance their contempt of court cases in seven regions across the state.
One of the facilities will be built in Douglas County and will serve 18 office
Loren Anderson, Douglas County sheriff, said the county juveniles to facilities outside of the county rather than keep them in adult aids.
"Right now we have a contract with Reno County to use a facility in Hutchinson," he said. "But when it comes to the problem, once in a while we have a problem."
Anderson said the county occasionally had housed juveniles in the breakroom of the courthouse when alternative facilities were full.
Rep. John Solbach, D-Lawrence,
said the House bill would provide
about $2.2 million in its first year for
construction of the facilities.
Sen. Wint, Winter, R Lawrence,
bill in Senate would provide
other sen.
“Instead of throwing a kid in juvenile detention, they could go to an emergency shelter,” Winter said. “There would be intensive staffing. There would be in the room with them for maybe two days, whatever they needed.”
Solbach said the centers were necessary for the psychological and physical well-being of juvenile offenders.
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