THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOL.100.NO.85
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
(USPS 650-640)
FRIDAY, FEB. 2, 1990
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Welfare battle beginning
The Associated Press
TOPEKA — A bill that would rescind $13.9 million in cuts to the current budgets of five welfare programs is one step from Gov. Mike Hayden's desk, setting the stage for what could be the first veto of the session.
Representatives tentatively approved the bill Thursday, sending it to a final House vote scheduled for Friday. The Senate approved it, 37.2, last
week, and the proposal is expected to have enough votes in the House to go to Hayden's desk.
Hayden has not said whether he would go with the whole measure or only parts of it, but Republican leaders assume he will reject some of the proposed restorations.
Some Republicans contend that Democrats support the bill because they want to put Hayden in a
difficult political position. They said the state could not afford to restore the cuts.
Democrats contend Hayden is hoping to gain politically by appealing to a traditional distrust of the welfare system.
"I have heard from my constituents, and you have," State Rep. Henry Helgerson, D-Wichita, told his colleagues. "They want us to restore this."
System creates beastly forecast
By a Kansan reporter
Messy is the word for this weekend's weather, a KU Weather Service spokesman said yesterday.
Mark Bogner, Penaloza senior,
said a storm system would pass
through Lawrence by late afternoon
nowday and could turn to snow
by tomorow. Two to four inches
are expected. Tomorrow's temperatures will be cold with a low of 19 degrees and a high of 28.
Sunday's temperatures should be milder, reaching the upper 30s to mid-40s.
"We're going to have borderline conditions between rain and snow." Bogner said.
For the month of February, precipitation and temperatures should be above normal, Bogner said. The average temperature is usually 40 degrees.
A spokesman for the Kansas Highway Patrol said roads would be slick today and drivers should proceed with caution.
Despite the drizzle, Adeliza Diaz, Lansing senior, said she liked the weather.
"I just like the rain," she said. "It develops the atmosphere for studying."
James Gunter, Leawood freshman, said he didn't like the rain.
"It makes going to class discouraging," he said.
Eric Montgomery/KANSAN
A student takes shelter beneath an umbrella as he walks from Wescoe Hall. Rain and cold temperatures brought icy conditions to Lawrence yesterday.
W. Europe backs U.S.troop cuts
The Associated Press
British leaders said they hoped this was the last reduction planned by the United States.
LONDON — Western European leaders yesterday supported the U.S. proposal for significant troop withdrawals from Syria, and wanted a continued U.S. presence.
The Soviet Union welcomed the proposal by President Bush to cut troop levels in central Europe to 225,000 for each side — below the 275,000 being negotiated at talks in Vienna.
But Soviet Foreign Ministry spokesman Gennady Gerasimov said the plan did not go far enough.
"We must continue to have as our goal no foreign troops on foreign soil," Gerasimov said. "It must be the ceiling, not the floor. You can note in his (Bush's) speech he needs American troops in Europe for here to eternity . . . This is not a good sign."
Some analysts said the Bush plan signaled the beginning of the final withdrawal of U.S. troops from Western Europe — dreaded by many of the U.S. allies in NATO — as well as the departure of all the Soviet forces.
Reductions merit caution Cheney says
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The Soviet Union likely will pull all its troops from Europe by 1966, but Western allies must remain cautious, Defense Secretary Dick Cheney told Congress yesterday.
Cheney said President Bush's new proposal that the United States and Soviet Union seek agreement on deeper troop cuts in Europe would preserve a "useful" U.S. military presence on the continent.
In his State of the Union address on Wednesday, Bush proposed reducing U.S. and Soviet combat forces in Europe to no more than 225,000 for each side—a decrease of 50,000 from the previous U.S. proposal at East West troop reduction talks now under way in Vienna.
De Klerk lifts ANC ban after 30 years
Mandela not to be freed immediately
The Associated Press
CAPE TOWN, South Africa — President F.W. De Klerk announced today that the African National Congress will be legalized after 30 years of guerrilla war against white rule, but that its leader Nelson Mandela will not be freed from jail immediately.
In a speech opening Parliament, De Klerk also said he would lift bans on more than 30 other opposition groups, free all prisoners jailed for belonging to these groups, declare a ceasefire and impose most of the restrictions imposed during more than three years of a state of emergency.
De Klerk's announcements, reversing decades of his governing National Party's policy, appeared to set the stage for such talks to begin — probably with the government accepting Mandela's offer to serve as mediator.
These were among the steps demanded by Mandela and the ANC as preconditions for negotiations on a new constitution that would end the Black majority's exclusion from national politics.
The alternative to negotiation, De Klerk said, "is growing violence, tension and conflicts."
Although he deceived to set an exact date for Mandela's release, the president said: "I want to put it plainly that the government has decided to release Nelson Mandela unconditionally."
"The government will take a decision soon on the date of his release," he said, speaking in Afrikaans. "Unfortunately, a further short passage of time is unavoidable."
He did not elaborate.
Herbicides going into water supply
Editor's note: This is the second of two stories on area water contamination.
By Eric Gorski
Kansan staff writer
Possible cancer-causing herbicides found in Perry and Tuttle Creek lakes are flowing into the Kansas River, a Kansas Department of Health and Environment official said yesterday.
A study released last week by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said that Perry and Tuttle Creek lakes contained herbicide amounts in excess of the Environmental Projection Agency's recommended maximum contaminant level.
Ed Carney, a KDE biologist, said the herbicides atrazine and alachlor entered the river from various tributaries, including the Coca River in Lake. The river is a major source of water for Lawrence.
Carnay said chemical samples taken upstream from the Lawrence treatment plant annually from 1972 to 1986 averaged 2.01 micrograms-a-liter of herbicide, less than the EPA's maximum contaminant level of 3.0 micrograms-a-liter.
The amount of herbicide that flows into the Kansas River at the Lawrence water treatment plant, however, is lower than the EPA's maximum contaminant level, which is the EPA's latest findings. Carney said.
The KDHE samples the water every year, but results from 1987 to 1989 are not available, Carney said.
Ralph Gelvin, Lawrence system engineer, said the Kansas River had never exceeded the EPA's contaminant level. The city receives 45 percent of its water from the river and 65 percent from Clinton Lake, he said.
Joseph Bast, associate professor of anatomy and cell biology, says students give the program a 'B' grade.
Dale Armstrong, EPA spokesman, said the contaminant level was a goal set for water treatment plants and could not be enforced. He said, however, that the EPA was reviewing a proposal to make the level enforceable.
Results at Turtle Creek ranged from 7.6 micrograms-a-liter to 0.9 micrograms-a-liter at different locations on the lake. Hayley said,
George Hanley, Corps apokemen, said herbicide samples taken in Perry Lake in spring and fall of 2013 included about 4.5 micrograms-a-liter.
Carnley said if a person drank two liters of water containing 3.0 micrograms of the chemicals every day for 70 years, he would have a one in one million chance of contracting atrasein- or alachlor-caused cancer.
A 1985 study by the KDHE concluded that Tuttle Creek helped
Carney said the atrazine and alachlor level in Perrie and Tuttle Creek lakes were higher than in the Kansas River because the chemicals settled in the lakes and flowed slowly into tribraries of the river.
Armstrong said the herbicides were found to cause cancer in animals after heavy, long-term exposure.
Simulation brings cadavers to life for med students
See HERBICIDES, p. 6
By Steve Bailey
By Steve Bailey Kansan staff writer
KANSAS CITY, Kan. — Some students at the University of Kansas Medical Center have been learning anatomy from cadavers that are not yet "dead."
The program, called the Electric Cadaver, is an interactive computer anatomy simulation brought to life at the Med Center in November for use by first-year medical students in Human Gross Anatomy class.
Joseph Bast, associate professor of anatomy and cell biology, said the Med Center was one of six test sites for the experimental program.
The other five test sites are the University of Miami, the University of Wisconsin, Michigan State University, the University of West Virginia and the Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine.
The program, begun in 1986 by Robert Chase and Steven Freedman of Stanford University, is a compilation of text, graphics, sound, animation and video, which is set to run from a Macintosh computer and a desktop computer. It was introduced to Med Center students Nov. 15 and 17.
Bast said the program was designed to be more than just an electronic textbook.
"Students learn not only the basics of anatomy but also clinical application and problem solving," he said. "It offers the student the possibility for study self-testing and review."
The program allows the user to access information related to particular areas of the body. Images can be augmented or rotated for maximized detail.
Different types of images can be called onto the two video screens. Some images are drawings, and some are photographs. Full motion video sequences of actual surgeries also can be viewed from the video disc monitor.
Of the nearly 48,000 images stored in the system, Bast said, about 1,500 are from a 23-volume anatomical atlas developed about 30 years ago by David Bassett, a Stanford professor. Another 27,000 are from Chase's personal library of clinical cases. The other 19,000 images pertain to microscopic anatomy.
"The system is supposed to be an interactive way for students to study and learn anatomy." Bast said. "I hope to continue using the program. Right now I would like to set up a review of our medical students who are studying for the National Board of Medical Examiners board exams."
"Students had mixed reviews," he said. "A few students thought it was a complete waste of time while others absolutely loved it."
Phil Ellsworth/KANSA
Best said that between 50 percent and 70 percent of the students surveyed responded that the system was very helpful for studying anatomy.
The Electric Cadver program uses video disk technology and motion sequencing to generate more than 4,800 images.
"Students liked the system much better once they got over their primary fear of the computer," he said.
"On a grading scale, it probably got about a B rating overall."
Linda Davies, assistant director for Educational Technology, said
that many students were excited about the system from the day it was
See CADAVER, p. 6