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Friday, January 26, 1996
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
ON CAMPUS
Office of Study Abroad will sponsor Study Abroad Japan at 2:30 p.m. today at 2085 Wescoe Hall. For more information, call Nancy Mitchell at 864-3742.
Multicultural Resource Center will sponsor a support group for Medicine Wheel Recovery at 3:30 p.m. today.
AIESEC will sponsor an informational meeting at 8:30 a.m. tomorrow at the Jayhawk Room in the Kansas Union. For more information, call Vaughn Lawrence at 782-3394.
KU Dance Club will sponsor dance lessons at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Kansas Room in the Kansas Union. For more information, call Sonia Ratzlaff at 864-1581.
Golden Key National Honor Society will sponsor Habitat for Humanity at 8:45 a.m. tomorrow at the Ecumenical Christian Ministries parking lot. For more information, call Darin at 832-2488.
Art and Design Gallery will sponsor the KU Architecture Student Show on Sunday.
For more information, call Marvel Maring at 864-4401.
OAKS will sponsor a brown bag luncheon at 11:30 a.m. Monday at Wescoe Terrace Cafeteria. For more information, call Laura Morgan at 864-4064.
Office of Study Abroad will sponsor a Great Britain Exchange Program at 1:30 p.m. Monday at 4006 Wescool Hall. For more information, call Nancy Mitchell at 864-3742.
International Students Association will meet at 6 p.m. Monday at the International Room in the Kansas Union.
KU Meditation Club will meet at 6 p.m. Monday at the Daisy Hill Room in Burge Union. For more information, call Ravi Hekatrat at 832-8789.
KU Yoga Club will meet at 7 p.m. Monday at the Daisy Hall Room in the Burge Union. For more information, call Adam Miller at 832-0399 or Paula Duke at 542-1930.
University Dance Co. will sponsor auditions at 7 p.m. Monday at 242 Robinson Center.
Smoke sparks arrest
Kansan staff report
The smell of marijuana led to a KU student's arrest yesterday on a charge of petty larceny.
KU police arrested Aaron Coburn, St. Louis freshman, after receiving two complaints that the smell of marjuana was coming from his McCollum Hall dorm room, Coburn said.
"I was really upset because he came to my door, and I wasn't smoking mariana." he said.
burn's name, he found that Coburn was wanted for alleged petty larceny for stealing a pack of Camel lights in September from a Dillons store. Coburn said.
"I stole them because I wanted a pack of cigarettes, and I didn't have any money," he said. "I was smooth about it too, but they had like 50 cameras."
When the officer called in Co-
Coburn's ball was set at $156.50, which he paid in cash.
"I had to sit in a cell with a bunch of jailbirds," Coburn said. "I'm never stealing again."
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Lawrence water OK despite lawsuit
By Amanda Traughber
Kansan staff writer
Lawrence residents need not worry about the safety of their drinking water, despite a lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency about water quality in the state of Kansas, a Lawrence Utilities Department official said.
"We meet all the state and federal regulations right now," said Chris Stewart, water systems engineer.
However, the Sierra Club and the Kansas Natural Resource Council are taking EPA administrators to federal district court, claiming that the EPA is not adequately overseeing the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, the department responsible for enforcing antipollution laws concerning water quality in the state of Kansas.
William Craven, Topeka attorney for the Sierra Club, said that the EPA had failed to make the KDHE honor antipollution standards outlined in the 1972 Clean Water Act.
But John Houlihan, chief of the geographic planning and coordination branch at the EPA office in Kansas City, Kan., said that the EPA's job was to provide guidance to states, not regulate their activities.
Craven said recent KDHE figures indicated that 95 percent of Kansas' rivers and streams failed to comply with antipollution standards.
KDHE's data essentially proves our case. "Craven said."
Houlihan also said that the KDHE's numbers don't necessarily reflect pollution, but instead were measures of designated use. For example, for water designated for swimming, the state might set levels on bacteria that should not be exceeded for it to be used as a swimming area.
But Paul Liechi, assistant director of the State of Kansas Biological Survey, said Lawrence residents should not be alarmed.
"If you're a fisherman or a swimmer or drink water, you intuitively understand why it's important to have clean water," he said.
"For years we were drinking the same water, and all of a sudden, it's now polluted?" Liechti said. "No, it's just that the pollution standards have changed."
The EPA has requested a delay until early February to file an answer with the courts.
Weather
Source: KU Weather Service
Law library moves onto the World Wide Web
By David Teska
Using the resources of the library at the School of Law has become a little bit easier.
With a goal of reaching out to the local legal community, the school now operates its own home page on the World Wide Web, said Joe Hewitt, law library automation manager.
"We wanted to provide legal information to those who can't make it to the building." Hewitt said.
Hewitt, along with Pam Tull, librarian; Chris Jones, library assistant; and Elizabeth Bartlett, Lawrence second-year law student and the law library's computer lab manager, maintains the page.
they can use Yahoo, a software program that browses the Wide Web using keywords.
They continually look for new material to add to their site and solicit input from students, faculty and the administration. Tull said.
The site went on line in May 1995 and has expanded since then, Hewitt said.
Because of the volume of information available on the World Wide Web, Tull said they were trying to focus mostly on content. If students need to access a site without a link on the school's site,
Now students, faculty and anyone in the legal community can gain access to a wide variety of information.
Some sites, such as the Tribal Law and Government Center, a source for information on cases within the Native American community; and the Kansas Elder Law Network, which provides information to lawyers handling cases involving the elderly, are unique to the school. Because of the World Wide Web's capability, anyone with a Web browser can tan into the library's resources.
"Institutions like ours are trying to reach out beyond their geographical limitations," Hewitt said.
"They're just beginning to see what's out there,"
Students also are beginning to access the home page, Bartlett said, but use has been low. That is beginning to change as more students begin to learn of its existence, she said.
she said.
Bartlett said that in addition to using the sites for class assignments, students also can access school publications such as the Law Review and The Docket, the school's schedule of events. Student organizations such as the Jewish Law Students Association and Women in Law also have had their links included on the site, Bartlett said.
Hewitt said one feature included in the site lets new users sign up for an e-mail account without having to personally visit the Computer Center.
In the future, Hewitt said the school wanted to get its own server, which is the computer used to run a home page. That would help eliminate memory storage problems and allow them to store large legal documents such as the Lawrence Municipal Code, which is more than 500 pages in length, he said.
The address of the home page is http://lark.cc.ukans.edu:80/~kulaw/. The site can be accessed either from a home computer or, for students in the School of Law, from one of three terminals located in the library's computer lab.
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