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Friday, November 1, 1996
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Fewer officers after budget reallocation
Sgt. Gary S. Wieden has been an officer with the KU police department since 1981 and is also a 1978 graduate of the University. Wieden is one of 28 officers feeling the effects of a 1991 budget reallocation.
Police make do with what's left
By Andrea Albright
Kansan staff writer
A budget reallocation may have helped students academically, but KU police officers are becoming an endangered species.
KU police Maj. Ralph Oliver said that to accommodate to the change in University budget policy, his department lost personnel.
"All departments are subject to budget scrutiny." Oliver said. "But the only way our department can react is to lose police officers."
Oliver said that when he joined the department in 1984, there were five detectives. In 1996, there is one.
KU police Sgt. Chris Keary said that his department had suffered from the reallocation. There were 28 officers in the department this year, down from 35 officers in 1991,
"We are trying to maintain the same level of service," Keary said. "We're doing our best with our man power and what's been given to us."
he said.
Lindy Eakin, associate provost, said that in the fall of 1992, Chancellor Gene Budig reviewed University programs and redistributed budget money.
"Gene Budig made a decision to reallocate 1 percent of the budget from non-academic to academic departments," Eakin said. "The cuts were made to beef up the academic mission of the University."
Although the change was made at the University level, each department decided individually where they would make cuts, Eakin said.
Oliver said basic law enforcement services still would be provided, but the department had not been able to replace its outdated equipment or implement any new programs. The KU Police Department Web page had to be discussed at length before the department
"The quality of service is still there,but we haven't grown."
The quality of service is still there, but we haven't grown," Oliver said. "We have to scrutinize anything new. We have to review everything because our man hours are critical."
decided it had the resources to maintain it. Oliver said.
Keary said that sometimes the department must depend on other agencies for assistance. "There are times when we don't have enough people, football games for example," he said.
Major Ralph Oliver KU Police Department
Lawrence police and Douglas County sheriff's deputies have always assisted the KU police department on game days, but recently they also have begun to use officers from the University of Kansas Medical Center.
Oliver said the KU police department has been using operating costs to supplement its salary budget. In order to halt the usage of operating funds for salary costs, the department has to reduce personnel by one additional officer.
Oliver said the extra duties put on remaining officers could diminish their ability to serve.
"We have several people doing an extra job," he said. "You lose quality doing that."
The department is able to maintain its service and equipment, but there is no extra money. Keary said the only advantage is that all of the remaining officers have at least five years of experience.
"You're robbing Peter to pay Paul," Keary said. "But experience helps us get through."
Recycle your old pumpkin
Feed it to a needy cow or your hungry friends
By Dave Breitenstein
Kansan staff writer
Now that Halloween has ended, smashed pumpkins probably will clutter Lawrence streets for a few days, although retired jack-o-'lanterns can be disposed of in a better way.
Janet Schaake, co-owner of The Pumpkin Patch, 1791 N. 1500 Rd, said her unsold pumpkins didn't end up in the dumpster.
"We put an electric fence around them and put the cattle out there," she said. "They'll eat all the pumpkins once they get softer."
Schaake said her patch had more leftover pumpkins this year than usual, but that she would rather have more left than run out before the sea.
son had ended. There's not anything wrong with the unsold pumpkins, she said.
"People just might have not liked their shape, color or size," Schaake said.
About 80 percent of pumpkins from Schaake's patch were transformed into jack-o'-lanterns, and the remainder are used for cooking, Schaake said. She also said she would allow people to throw their pumpkins back into the field after Halloween.
Victoria Silva, KU environmental specialist, said composting was a proper way to dispose of pumpkins. Another option is to cook the leftover pumpkins, she said.
"One of the ways to reduce our overall solid waste is to reduce the amount of food waste," she said. "If you can't compost pumpkins yourself, then you can try to find someone who can."
Silva said it would be a good idea to
have a local collection site for pumpkins so residents could dispose of them properly, but Lawrence has no such site.
Bridget Keller, assistant food store manager at Hy-Vise, 3504 Clinton Pkwy., said the store had sold almost all of its pumkins. She said most of the remaining pumkins were small, but that the store would give them away free to customers.
"If we don't give away all of them, then we'll find another way to get rid of them," she said.
Holly Froeschner, Columbia, Mo., sophomore, said she had thought about the thousands of pumpkins that would clutter landfills after Halloween.
"I thought about making a pumpkin pie, but I don't have a blender," she said. "I don't like to throw things away, but it'll probably end up in the garbage."
By Nicholas C. Charalambous
Kansan Staff Writer
Love may make the world go round, but the rules of dating are not universal.
In Turkey, the question on lovers' lips isn't "Should we have sex," but "Should we hold hands?" said Tugce Sarikus, Istanbul, Turkey, freshman.
"Sometimes it takes forever for boys to hold your hand." she said.
For Sarikus' best friend, it took three or four months before she held hands with her boyfriend. And two years before they kissed.
And sex?
"Most women don't have sex before they are married," Sarikus said.
And whenever you are dating,
Sarikus said, the relationship must be top secret.
"You should never let your parents know anything, definitely not your older brother," Sarkius said.
That is in spite of the fact that older brothers can be open about their relationships, she said. Men follow a special set of rules.
"If a boy likes you, he just comes up to you and asks if you want to go out." Sarkius said. "Girls don't ask."
But there are advantages. Men must pay for the dinners and movies.
In Central India, women are conservative, so it's hard to date, said Manish Mangal, Nagpur, India, graduate student. A relationship has to start with friendship and plain talk.
"But even if you are just talking,
some people will talk about it," Mangal said.
And being the object of village gossip is not good, he said.
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Arvind Kaushal, Bombay, India graduate student, said that men and women usually went out in groups of six or more. It's considered very serious to date somebody alone, Kaushal said.
Andsex?
"You have to be committed and going real steady. You have decided to spend your life with that person," Kaushal said. "Commitment comes first, sex comes later."
In Brazil, the culture is more physical than United States, said Claudio Santos, Rio de Janeiro, freshman. You don't have to be a boyfriend to hold a girl's hand walking down the street, he said.