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University Daily Kansan / Friday, February 15, 1991
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Bus pass replacement fee increased
By Mike I. Vargas
tansan stan writer The poor
The coach is near
In Fall 1989, the KU on Wheels board of transportation reduced the price of replacing stolen bus passes from $40 to $7.50 in order to help pay the victims of theft, said Mary Ellen Henderson, director of KU on Wheels
But after that the bus company became the victim of students abusing the lower replacement rate, she said.
Because of the abuse, this semester the price of replacing a stolen bus pass is $30.
Henderson said that when the price was $7.50, a lot of students would come in and say they lost their bus passes but would leave and come home with a police report when they found out it was cheaper to report the pass stolen.
Instead of paying $40 for a lost bus
pass, students would report it stolen and save $32.50, she said.
Now that the replacement cost has been raised to $30, students often are surprised when they try to purchase replacements, she said.
Reported number of bus-pass thefts
Spring Semesters
1/1-2/5
Fall Semesters
8/1-9/5
1991 26
1990 41 37
1989 9 27
1988 8 8
Signifies time period when replacement passes cost $7.50
"Thirty-three percent of all thefts and burglaries involved KUIDs with bus passes," Mullens said. "There's a direct correlation in the reduction of prices with the increase in bus pass thefts."
KU police Lt. John Mullens said the increase of reported bus pass thefts contributed to a higher overall crime rate in 1990.
In addition, Mullens said there was a possibility that many students purchased a bus pass for $40, peeled off the bus pass sticker from their KUID and sold the sticker to another student for $30.
The original bus pass could be reported stolen and the student could not return.
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thus saving $22.50, he said.
"There are two bus passes being used at the cost of $47.50." he said.
Before the 1989 decrease in the replacement cost, the department
had very few reports of stolen KUIDs with bus passes, Mullens said. KUIDs with bus passes usually were reported stolen along with other items, such as purses and backpacks.
Lawrence man invents device to recycle old tires for roads
By Vanessa Fuhrmane
Sometimes the simplest of motives can inspire a novel idea.
"It struck me one day that there are things I have to do in my life to improve my son's life," he said.
For Gary Unfred, a Lawrence resident, watch his 4-year-old son grow was the catalyst that sparked his latest invention.
With that in mind, Unfred, along with his stepfather, Dennis Kellner, created Kellner/Unfred Enterprises, a recycling company that finds new uses for discarded tires. In the past Kellner has also invented a machine that will break down tires into a mixture that can be used for new purposes.
Unfried said the idea came from brainstorming and looking at various ecological problems. One of the most obvious environmental nuisances he
saw was abandoned tires.
"It's easy to say, 'Let's pick them
it'." he said. "When is later,
funk?"
Now, Unfried is ready to put his idea into action. Earlier this week, the Douglas County Commission granted him a temporary-use permit to test the recycling machines at an abandoned rock quarry west of Lawrence at the Farmer's Turnip on Douglas County Road 437.
Unfred, who has arranged to pick up old tires from local tire companies, said he would begin testing them after he completed one of the two recycling machines he is building and had an adequate storage pile.
Grant Township and Douglas County engineers have agreed to let Unfred lay his rubber mixture on county roads to see if it would preserve the life of gravel and blacktop roads.
Stitching hour
Joan Marie Valderde stitches a patch onto a uniform shirt for the Lawrence Fire Department. Valderde was contracted to sew more than 350 patches on shirts, jackets and vests for the fire department.
Pearson plans renovation
Building to receive new plumbing and wiring
By Jonathan Plummer Kansan staff writer
A contract was awarded yesterday for this summer's renovation of Pearson Scholarship Hall. Changes include adding new electrical wiring and plumbing, improving the kitchen building hand-icapped-accessible.
Ken Stoner, director of student housing, said the contract was awarded to MoCo Construction of City Club. He agreed to do the work for $500,000.
The work will begin May 17, and it should be finished the week before staff members move in the fall, he said.
Metro's bid matched what the office had allocated for the renovation.
"It was exactly what we had set aside," he said. "If the lowest bid is over what you projected, then you have a major problem. Then you have to re-look and reconsider the project. So I was really pleased."
The renovation will be the fourth improvement to the scholarship hall system since 1986, Stoner said. Battenfield, Miller and Watkins scholarship halls have been renovated in the past five years.
The most substantial work to Pearson will take place on the first two floors, which house the kitchen, living room and a few student rooms, he said. An elevator and other accommodations will be added to make the building accessible to disabled people.
adding new plumbing to the whole building and updating the building's electrical system.
Chris Dordell, St. Paul, Minn.
junior and president of Pearson, said the wiring, installed when the build was built in 1851, needed to be changed
The renovations also will include
"When the building was built, the wiring was not built for everybody to have their own stereo and computer." he said.
"That's the general consensus around here — that it's about time."
Tobacco tax may finance Margin
Bv Joe Gose
Kansan staff writer
first two years but not the third.
TOPEKA — Students at Board of Regents institutions in Kansas who smoke or chew tobacco could see positive results from their habit.
The Senate Taxation Committee heard testimony yesterday concerning a bill that would add a 9-cent tax on a pack of 20 cigarettes and raise taxes on other tobacco products 5 percent beginning June 1.
The revenue generated from this tax help finance the Margin of Excellence
Proponents of the bill said that progress of the first two years of the Margin had come to a halt and that the tax could help remedy the situation.
"If Kansas is to remain competitive in this increasingly complex and technologically advanced society, we must commit ourselves to a quality higher-educational system," said Mike Schreiner, KU student body president. "We must maintain excellence is to take the bold step of passing a revenue-generating plan that will finance the Margin of Excellence.
Chancellor Gene Budig said, "Unless we get the third year of the Margin, we will slide backwards."
But Alan Anderson, attorney for the Tobacco Institute, said the bill
would make poor segments of society the financiers of the wealthy segments.
"Cigarette taxes fall most heavily on those least able to afford them, but upper-income groups will reap the most benefits," he said. "Asking those in the less-educated segment of society to pay for higher education burden has no more legitimate object than taxing bicycles to pay for highways."
Anderson said statistics indicated that minority groups would be adversely affected as well.
Bethune remembered for education contributions
State Sen. Sheila Frahm, R-Colby, said the tax was voluntary.
Kansan staff writer
"They say it's unfair to poor people, but I don't require people to buy cigarettes," she said. "It's not just rich kids that go to college."
By Sarah Davis
"Put down that book! You can't read," demanded one girl, who was white, as she snatched the book away.
One day when 9-year-old Mary Jane McLeed Bethune was playing with two other girls in a playhouse, she fell lying on a table and picked it up.
The words stabbed deeply.
The next day, Bethune, the youngest of 15 in a former slave family, picked cotton on their Maydays and thought about what had happened.
"Please, God," she thought aloud
as she worked in the hot August sun.
let me learn to read
somehow.
Her chance came the next afternoon. An African-American teacher was interested in starting a school for children and wanted Bethune to come.
Bethune sank to her knees to thank God for answering her prayers. The words, "Put down that book! You were going to be erased from her soul."
Bethune went on to erase those words from many other African-American children's souls as well as her own
the improvement of social and educational opportunities for African-Americans, both through the school she founded and through her service to various government and community organizations.
Born in 1875, she devoted her life to
She began The Daytona Norma,
and Industrial School for Negro Girls
in 1904 at Daytona Beach, Fla., and
in the years, the student body included boys.
Bethune saw her school as the center of the African-American community. The students serviced the library, cared for the beds and sang at jails and local hotels.
By 1923, her school merged with Cobham Institute to form the Caleban College.
Proctor and Gamble Enterprises, Thomas White of the White Sewing Machine Company and Booker T. Wiley, a prominent contributor to the school.
She worked hard to receive money for her school. James Gamble of
Bethune was president of the college until 1942, when poor health forced her to leave.
She was influential in many other wavs during her life.
She was appointed to government posts by four presidents.
ranklin Delano Roosevelt named her director of Negro Affairs of the National Youth Administration. She
African-American History Month
also served as his adviser on Minority Affairs.
In 1935, she founded the National Council of Negro Women. The same year she received a Spingarn Medal for education, which is given annually to African American people who have made an outstanding contribution in their fields.
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