University Daily Kansan / Monday, October 31, 1988
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State drug program would test 74 KU employees
By Barbara Joseph Kansan staff writer
Kansan staff writer
Give Mike Hayden's new drug program, which goes into effect tomorrow, will allow 74 KU employees in safety-sensitive positions to be tested if their supervisors have reasonable suspicion that the employees are using drugs.
"I'm hopeful it will serve as a model program for the private sector and for other stets."
In a press release, Hayden said the program was an attempt to ensure a drug-free workforce through rehabilitation instead of punishment.
Initial reaction from state employees and initialization was mostly positive, with some before.
"I have no problems with the program if it is well-designed," said Judith Ramaley, executive vice chancellor "Targeting people who don't understand it is an appropriate role for the state to take."
The governor's office defines safety-sensitive personnel as law enforcement officers authorized to carry firearms. That group consists of members of the KU police department and may refer to University police at the University of Kansas Medical Center.
Reasonable suspicion would be determined by trained supervisors, and includes on-the-job accidents, inability to perform a job or documentation of employee drug use.
KU police officers and supervisors opg.. receiving orientation about the program on Friday and will continue in that process until Nov. 9, Longaker said.
Lt. Jeanne Longaker of the KU police department said the program would affect 35 positions in her department. Of those, 33 are
classified and two are unclassified.
She said neither she nor the employees had had time to digest information received from personnel services. But, at first glance, she did not see the need for such a program.
"This department typically takes care of whatever problems come around, according to personnel service regulations," she said. "I don't see how a drug-testing program would make a difference from what we already do."
Longaker said that she might feel differently about the program after she had time
Information from the governor's office also listed 39 positions at the Med Center as being subject to the program. Of those, 37 were classified and two were unclassified.
Those figures are unconfirmed. Richard Johnson, assistant director of University police at the Med Center, refused comment on Saturday.
to study it and see it in action.
Besides affecting certain KU employees, the program applies to 2,220 other employees in 17 other state agencies. It also applies to the governor, his staff and cabinet, the lieutenant governor and the attorney general, who will be tested to set an example.
Hayden's drug program, announced Oct.
24, also will make mandatory the testing of
all employees.
tions in the KU police department and at the Med Center. Refusal to submit to drug be considered the equivalent of testing positive for drugs, and disqualify the applicant from employment.
Employees who refused to test also will be treated as having tested positive, which could result in their being fired or disciplined.
Rehabilitation through the Topeka-based employee assistance program, LIFEline, will be available for those employees who test positive for cocaine, marijuana, amphetamines, heroin or phenyclidine (angel) and complete a rehabilitation program or testing positive for drugs a second time could be terms for an employee's dismissal.
Mike Falkner, Olathe junior, looks at plaster casts on display at the Mary Amelia Gallery in Lippincott Hall. The gallery, which now houses the Wilcox Classical Collection, was dedicated yesterday.
Roving collection finds home
Kansan staff writer
By Grace Hobsor
After 23 years of obscurity, the Wilcox Classical Collection finally has found a home.
Yesterday, the 100-year-old collection of Greek and Roman statues and art was rededicated in the newly constructed Mary Amelia Grant Gallery in 103 Lippincott Hall.
"We've tried to recreate a little of old Fraser and have tried to teach us, in collection a useful aid for teaching, a book, associate professor of classics.
Elizabeth Banks, curator of the collection, has worked to make a home for the collection since 1968
The ceremony, attended by more than 200 faculty, students, and invited guests, rededicated the collection to A.M. Wilcox, a KU professor of Greek from 1865 to 1915.
Banks she did not know the monetary value of the collection because it had not been appraised since the 1960s.
From 1888 until 1965, the collec-
replicas of such statues as Diskobolus, the discus thrower, and Venus De Milo, lived in Old Fraser Hall. When Fraser Hall was moved to a damp fled shed at 15th and alpine streets.
In 1983, the collection, which had incurred a 30 percent loss due to the poor storage conditions, was moved to a warehouse on West Campus. Since 1987, the collection has been in the process of moving to Lippincott, now its permanent house.
Banks' colleagues praised her work. James Woeel, chairman of the Western Civilization department, said this appreciation after the ceremony.
"Better Banks is to be commended for her perseverance." Woelfel said. "Obviously, it was an enormous amount of work."
Actor Mike Williams impersonated Robinson to redelegate the collection. Dressed in 19th-century garb and sporting a full red beard he robbed Robinson's, Williams recreated the 100-year-old dedication.
Almost a century ago, David H. Robinson, KU professor of Greek and Latin, exhorted the need for a Greek and Roman art collection to the 1888 Board of Regents. The lack of good photographs necessitated the collection; students must see the art to learn about it, he said.
"I thought it was very well done," said David Weaver Robinson. Shawnee resident. "I think (David Robinson) would have been very pleased with the occasion."
Four of Robinson's grandchildren were on hand for the dedication.
The museum is named for Mary Amelia Grant, a KU professor of classics from 1865 to 1915 and curator of the collection until her 1965 retirement. Grant contributed to the museum's finding the collection a permanent
Computers advising students
Before now, lack of financing prevented the collection from having a place of its own.
EAS program outlines Liberal Arts graduation requirements
By Grace Hobson Kansan staff writer
About 1,500 students in the College of Liberal Arts and
Colleges not a jump start on enrollment.
With the aid of the enrollment assistant system those students have been able to pick their classes before sitting down at a terminal in the enrollment center. EAS will be tested until Nov. 18.
Officials think the program will help students determine which courses they need to complete in order to graduate. Students participating in the program are advised by computer. The program is designed to handle the technical aspects of advising but does not substitute for a faculty adviser.
When the pilot group of students received their enrollment materials on Oct. 20 and 21, they were able to pick up a computer diskette. The group was composed of students who entered the University of Kansas fall 1986 or after and were English, personnel administration, math or economics majors.
Because many did not pick up their disks, other students may participate by going to 102 Strong Hall.
Five computers set up in the rotunda of Strong Hall are equipped to use the disks. The students can see their existing graduation requirements and design their schedules.
"I think it is a good idea because when we entered school, we didn't get confidential folders," said Lisa Holman, Champaign, Ill., junior. "I still don't know what I still need."
Holman said that although she didn't have an adviser, she would choose her classes with the EAS program and
feel confident she was filling requirements.
feel confident she was filling requirements. Gina Meier, Topacho sophomore, wasn't as optimistic and less confident.
"I don't enroll until the 15th. It's not likely I'm going to get these classes anyway." Meier said.
The College office updates the computer's timetable twice daily, allowing students to determine their schedules before enrolling. A computer printout of the resulting schedules is given to the student.
Parm Houston, assistant to the dean of Liberal Arts and Sciences, said she was satisfied with the progress of EAS, but the real test would come when students use the program on their own.
"We've been so anxious for it to work well, that we've had lots of staff in the rotunda." Houston said. "For it to work well, there should be a any staff. We want to see if we can show them screens without questions. That will be the real test."
Kevin Baughman, Wichita sophomore, said he found the computers easy to use.
"When I first sat down at the computer, I didn't know what was going on," said Baughman. "But it's really pretty easy."
EAS faces an uncertain future. College officials hope to expand the program to reach all students, but money for it remains tight.
"It has to compete with a bunch of things as far as resources go," said Joe VanZandt, coordinator of the Advising Support Center. "I doubt it is heads and shoulders above the rest as far as priorities."
In addition to the high costs, space for the terminals would be a groblem, VanZandt said.
Kansan staff writer
Listeners survive Martian invasions on anniversary of original broadcast
By Katy Monk
Kansan staff writer
Two Martian invasions in two nights is a lot for any town to handle.
But radio listeners only had to tune in, sit back and enjoy the fun when KAUN broadcast two nights' worth of H.G. Wells "War of the Worlds" — on Saturday, the original broadcast of "Invasion from Mars" by Orson Scott Card's Academy Theatre of the Air; yesterday, the premiere of the 60th anniversary production; starring Jason Robards
The new production, broadcast nationwide, attempts to restore immediacy to what had become a nostalgic piece. Elaine Davies, publicist for the new production, said FF's "new wave" was "the best it's happening right now," in Grovers Mill, Oct. 30, 1988.
Al Schild, professor emeritus of education at the University of Kansas, was a schoolteacher in Fulton, S.D., in October 1938. He remembers listening to the broadcast with a few other people.
Radio listeners by the thousands heard on Halloween eve, 1898, that Grover Mill, N.J., had been invaded by Milletts.
"I don't think any of the group there heard the start of (the broadcast)," he said. "There was a period of time when all of us wondered whether it was real, or what was going on.
"And of course there were reports all through that people were evacuating their homes out East."
But Schild said he and his friends didn't get too worried before they figured out it was a drama. After all, he said, it seemed to be happening a long way from South Dakota. Bruce Linton, professor of journalism, has had no
There was a period of time when all of us wondered whether it was real, or what was going on. And of course there were reports all through it that people were evacuating their homes out East.'
Al Schild Professor emeritus of education
heard the broadcast but remembered the reaction to it. "I think there was a realization that radio could be very
Davies said digital technology and on-location recording had resulted in sound quality better than anything before.
Davies said she didn't expect people to believe the new production was real even if they did miss the beginning, which she felt it would be.
"We hope the result will be as exciting for our audience as the original was for the original audience." she said.
The remake, directed by David Ossman, a founding member of the Firesign Theatre, remains true to the original radio script. The only changes made were to language that dated the 1938 broadcast.
powerful," he said.
After the 7 p.m. broadcast, KANU announcer Mike Allen said a few people had called in wondering what had happened to the bluegrass show that normally aired at the otherwise, he said, there was little response to the program.
"no panic," he said. "I think after 50 years, everybody got the message it was a drama."
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