University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, November 2. 1988
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Lisa Pfleiderer, St. Louis senior, and Eddie Scheer, St. Louis., senior, begin a long night of painting.
Students hope for paint rooms with ventilation in Marvin Hall
Kansan staff writer
By Debbie McMahon Kenson staff writer
When deadline is near for some architecture projects, students can smell it in the air at Marvin Hall.
ects, students can sniff in paint, and students in the School of Architecture and Urban Design don't have a ventilated room to paint their models.
So they work in the building's halls or they take their projects outdoors.
"Everybody knows we need a paint*room," said Jimmy Powell, St. Louis, Mo., senior. "You can't really go outside if it's dark. And if it's 10 degrees out there, your paint won't spray right."
The support rooms, where the painting is done now, do not have adequate ventilation or lighting. Powell said.
Ventilation is important in using paints. Face masks also can help, Kelly said.
Theresa Kelly, poison specialist at the University of Kansas Medical Center Poison Control Center, said exposure to fumes from spray paints could cause respiratory problems that required hospital treatment. The concentration of the fumes and length of exposure determine the amount of danger.
Lisa Pflederer, St. Louis, Mo., senior, said painting occurred every two to three weeks. She has had headaches because of the fumes.
"it's particularly bad at certain times, when we're working on something at once. Sometimes you don't
want to breathe it's so horrible," she said.
I believe we need to have that type of a facility, and we should make it a priority on the dean's list," Rockhill said.
Dan Rockhill, associate professor of architecture and urban design, said the school would need more money to get a ventilated paint room.
But, he said, "I think we would be hard pressed to find room for it."
Rene Diaz, chairman of the architecture program,
said a ventilated room to paint models had been a priority at the school. But he said it was one priority among many.
"We are overcrowded in this building." Diaz said.
"Spraying is just one issue of many. We need more lecture halls. I think a spray room is small potatoes compared to our other needs."
Max Lucas, dean of architecture and urban design, said that the school had requested the addition each of its 12 classrooms to be equipped with a digital
Diaz said the ultimate goal at the school was to get an addition to Marvin.
Eric Eakins, Wichita senior and vice president of the American Institute of Architecture Students at KU, said that he sent a questionnaire to architecture students last spring and that many responded positively to a spray room with good lighting and windows. However, he hasn't been able to work on the project this semester.
College Assembly decides against plus/minus system
By Grace Hobson Kansan staff writer
For many students in the College Assembly, yesterday ended their long, drawn-out battle to defeat the plus/minus grading system.
Effort to rescind motion gains student support
The Assembly, the governing body of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, voted 255-200 by mail-in ballot to drop the grading system. The assembly voted to rescind a decision made this spring to implement the system.
The decision was announced at yesterday's Assembly meeting, attended by about 50 members, most of whom were students.
William Bayne, Lawrence sophomore and president of Students Against the Plus/Minus Grading System, said that the Assembly's student membership was responsible for nullifying the decision.
"The students voted 72 to seven to rescind," Bayne said. "If you took away the students, the motion would have failed by 10 votes. It proves that students play an important role in governance at the University of Kansas."
Stephen Shawl, professor of physics and astronomy and proposer of the plus/minus grading system for the college, said that he was disap
pointed with the Assembly's decision.
"Although KU likes to think of itself as the Cornbelt Berkeley, the students show they think of it as the Cornbelt Oklahoma." Shawl said, referring to the University of Oklahoma. He didn't Big Eight school without a plus/minus system.
On Monday, the mail-in ballots were counted by two college officials with Bavne and Shawl witnessing.
In March, the Assembly voted 213-165 to adopt the plus/minus system, which was modeled after similar ones used in some professional schools.
AT the time of the original vote, only 20 students filled the 113 student representative seats in the Assembly. An election this fall added 75 members.
In October, the Assembly voted to reconsider the system through a mail-in ballot because of the controversy the grading system evoked.
James Muyksens, dean of liberal arts and sciences, said at the meeting he was encouraged by the unusually strong student participation, but the precedent of rescinding an Assembly decision concerned him. The Assembly should be more careful when considering policy, he said.
"It behooves all members of the Assembly to take a consistent, active interest in proposals before the body, so that it may take timely and decisive action," he said.
James Carothers, associate dean of liberal arts and sciences, said that since coming to the University in 1970, he had never seen the Assembly. "Only after a policy had been implemented for years had he seen a reversal"
Judy Beck, St. Louis, Mo., sophomore, said she thought the recent decision was positive for students. The plus/minus grading system would have placed too much emphasis on grades, and competition for grades is already too intense, she said.
"It really would have violated my beliefs of education," Beck said. "Education shouldn't be based on the mark you receive."
Muyskens commended Shawl, who did not attend the meeting, for his efforts.
"He persevered in the face of indifference from his colleagues and in the face of uncertainty and inaction from the standing committee structure," he said. "His original success proves that an individual can make a difference."
Fraud suit filed against 60 parties in area-based operation
Investors may regain money
By Daniel Niemi
Kansan staff writer
Investors in a pyramid scheme operated from Lawrence in 1985 may see some of their money returned if a lawsuit filed this month in federal court receives a favorable ruling.
favorable ruling.
John Noonan, a Kansas City, Mo., attorney, filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Kansas City, Mo., against 60 people and companies involved in Culture Farms Inc., a corporation set up in Lawrence in early 1985
"The whole purpose of the suit is to try to recover money for persons who bought cultures and were defrauded." Noonan said.
defrauded. Noonan said.
Noonan said the bankruptcy trustee, Christopher J. Redmond of Wichita, had traced money from Culture Farms to the individuals and corporations named in the suit. Some of the money has been traced to Great Britain, France and other foreign countries.
"Money flowed from individuals to corporations, sometimes by very circuitous routes." Noan said.
sometimes by In Culture Farms bought packets of an activator from a sister company of Culture Farms to grow bacterial cultures from milk. Investors sold the cultures to Culture Farms, which then was supposed to sell them to Cleopatra's Secret, a Reno, Nev., firm.
However, officials have said that the Reno firm never produced cosmetics and that the investors received money from Culture Farm's sale of activator kits to additional investors, not from the sale of the culture*
Cleopatra's Secret supposedly used the cultures in facial cream.
Culture Farms eventually stopped making payments to investors, and the sale of activator kits was banned by a Kansas judge in June 1985. Noonan said a dozen people were indicted and pleaded guilty to charges in connection with the scheme.
with the scientist
Diana Castelli, a para-legal in Redmond's Wichita office, said $113 million in claims had been filed against Culture Farms by more than 20,000 investors.
"My goal is to bring the claims down to $20 million," Castell said.
However, she sad many of the investors had filed claims for lost profits and that Redmond was allowing only the initial investment to be recovered.
Redmond was out of town and unavailable for comment.
The 294-count complaint includes charges of money lauding, bankruptcy fraud and securities fraud. Also, Noonan said the suit charged that the operators of Culture Farms used the mail and telephone in the course of committing a fraud, a violation of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act.
Census recount not much different
Kansan staff writer
By Deb Gruver
Census count+
About two weeks ago, KU resident assistants became door-to-door representatives for the state census office.
But their work in a campus census recount did little to boost the census figures of Douglas County and Lawrence. The final census figures for the state were released yesterday and peg Douglas County at 59,411 and Lawrence at 44,980.
The following figures include everyone who has declared permanent residency as Douglas County and Lawrence.
The figures are lower than those of the 1979 agricultural census and are not much higher than the preliminary figures that spurred the recount on the campuses of all Regents schools.
November 1, 1988 figures:
Douglas County...59,441
Lawrence...44,980
In the first census, students and military personnel were not counted as permanent residents of Douglas County and Lawrence, and students
1988 preliminary count:
Douglas County...58,272
Lawrence...44,095
1979 agricultural census:
Douglas County...74,257
Lawrence...58,561
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in residence halls were not contacted at all.
Four Lawrence legislators said that the decision was unconstitutional and demanded the recount.
State Sen. Wint Winter, R-
Lawrence, State Rep. John Solbach,
D-Lawrence, State Rep Betty Jo
Charlton, D-Lawrence and State
Rep. Jessie Branson, D-Lawrence
have opposed the census figures and
are not satisfied with the recount
In an interview last week, Winter called the recount a farce.
I telt all along that the recount was a useless gesture." Charlton said. "The off-campus students were ever counted, and not not have ever been counted at all."
Charlton said yesterday that the figures might cause Lawrence to lose representation in the state.
She and the other legislators had requested the use of voter registration records in consideration of census figures.
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