THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 2009
NEWS 5A
HEALTH
Students chalk campus for Great American Smokeout
Marking building entrances part of campaign to help students quit smoking
BY ALY VAN DYKE avandyke@kansan.com
While Monica Saha wrote in pink and yellow chalk by the steps of Anschutz Library, onlookers tilted their heads to read the text:
NO Smoking within 20 feet of Entrance." It was written inside a green semi-circle 20 feet from the entrance. An ashtray sat right inside the line.
Saha, Overland Park sophomore is a peer health
"A lot of students don't know about the KU policy. We hope to remind students of the campus policy."
KEN SARBER Health educator
educator with Student Health Services. She and two other peer health educators spent Wednesday afternoon chalking boundaries around buildings on campus to illustrate the campus policy posted on building doors that warns smokers to stay 20 feet away from entrances. The chalking was in preparation for the Great American Smokeout today.
"A lot of students don't know about the KU policy?" said Ken
Although the University has participated in the Great American Smokeout for several years, this is the first year the students marked the 20-foot boundary.
As part of the nationwide event, SHS will host informational tables at Anschutz Library from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. to answer questions about tobacco and provide resources to help people quit smoking. Weather permitting, another table will be at Wesco Beach at the same time.
Sarber, health educator with SHS. "We hope to remind students of the campus policy."
Chelsea Brown. Olathe junior, has a cigarette after her English class in Wescoe Hall every Tuesday and Thursday. Now that the weather has
turned, she seeks solace from the biting cold under the building's overpass as she switches the cigarette from her left hand to her right to protect her exposed fingers.
Brown said she tried to stay 20 feet from the entrance because she didn't want to bother people, but that she wasn't exactly sure how far away she had to be. Also, she said, the ashtrays are usually closer to the doors.
"I don't really know what 20 feet means," she said. "So I just jump out to have a cigarette and hope it's OK."
The University policy
prohibiting Brown and others from smoking within 20 feet of building entrances passed in 1993.
But Sarber said even though some students were aware of the policy, the rule wasn't really effective.
"Having that policy doesn't really change anyone's behavior," he said. "They're still smoking right next to the doors."
Part of the reason the policy isn't effective, he said, could be lack of enforcement.
The policy instructs people to call the Department of Human Resources and Equal Opportunity with violations as a means of enforcement. Ola Faucher, director of the department
said the department received one or two calls per academic year.
She said most of the time, the student violators aren't identified
"If we can't identify who the students are, it's very difficult to follow up" she said.
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If it can identify a student, faculty or staff member, Faucher said, the department would work with the chairperson of the program the violator belongs to. After
"I hope they realize they shouldn't be smoking close to the door and should respect others."
Go to kansan.com for a graphic showing areas on campus where smoking is prohibited.
MONICA SAHA Overland Park sophomore
repeat offenses, consequences for students may range from a formal or informal reprimand to a student conduct code violation, which could result in expulsion.
Faucher said the department had issued one reprimand in the time she has worked with the department, but would not disclose to whom or when it happened.
Saha said she hoped the chalk lines would help people identify
where they can smoke and protect non-smokers from second hand smoke.
"I hope they realize they shouldn't be smoking close to the door and should respect others," she said.
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Monica Saha, Overland Park sophmore, and Bridget Heine, St. Louis senior, Peer Health Educators, chalk the sidewalk outside Malott Hall on Wednesday for the Great American Smoke Out, drawing awareness to anti-smoking policies on campus.
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Incest-related information found in suspect's residence
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INDEPENDENCE, Mo. — The wife of one of six men charged in a child sex abuse case recently found material depicting incest that was hidden in the family's home,
according to a search warrant.
The Jackson County search warrant issued last week after the arrest of Burrell E. MohlerSr., 77, of Independence.
Mohler
said investigators seized several items from Mohler's home, including four computer towers, several pornographic magazines and books, several DVDs, and cameras.
Col. Ben Kenney, of the Jackson County Sheriff's Department, said Wednesday that several booklets found at the home were about incest.
"The thing that was unusual was the title and the references," which were about incest, he said. "They were very explicit. ... It was all on sex with family members."
He said the computers that were seized were sent to an FBI lab in Kansas City for review, and it was unclear when authorities would know more about what they contained.
Mohler, his four adult sons and his brother, Darrel W. Mohler, 72, of Silver Springs, Fl., have been charged in neighboring Lafayette County with raping and molesting several young relatives over roughly a decade beginning in the mid-1980s. Accusations include impregnating at least two young girls and forcing one to have an abortion when she was 11.
The Jackson County warrant was issued Nov.11, the day after Mohler and his sons were arrested.
The warrant said detectives at Mohler's home for the arrest saw "numerous magazines depicting obviously young females (possibly under the age of 17) and various age males" engaged in sex.
The "articles and text of the magazines" described incestuous sex, the warrant said.
material "that made reference to incest activity among family members" in a false ceiling of the basement, the warrant said. She locked the material in a file cabinet about two months ago, according to the warrant.
Sandra Mohler said when she discovered the pornographic material she made an arrangement with her husband for him "to move to the basement area of the residence, where he continued to live and sleep separately," according to the document.
Mohler's wife, Sandra, told detectives she found some of the
Detectives also interviewed a 27-year-old woman living at the home. The warrant said Sandra Mohler and that woman were cooperating in the investigation.
No one answered the door Wednesday at the address identified in the search warrant. Calls to the home also were not answered.
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