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February 4, 1993







The goals of the so-called “family leave” bill are fine, proper and timely, but in the real workplace world, this new legislation is bound to cause many difficult and costly repercussions. It also would be interesting to know how many members of the U.S. Congress, who are so enthusiastic in their support of this bill, have ever had to meet a payroll or run a profitable business.

Few people can argue against the idea and plan for individuals to be able to take off from their jobs to be at home with a new baby or to help when there is serious illness in their family. The plan being readied for passage in Washington would allow employees of companies with more than 50 employees to have up to 12 weeks of unpaid leave a year to care for a new baby or sick family member.






OPPOSITION TO PLAN





February 4, 1993







To the editor:

I would like to voice my opposition to our new president’s plan of allowing homosexuals in the military. The armed forces have served and defended this nation well for over 200 years. Why change something that works?






CARTOON OFFENSIVE





February 4, 1993







To the editor:

I am writing to express my shock and disgust at the Oliphant cartoon which appeared in Saturday’s Journal-World. The cartoonist obviously commenting on the ban on homosexuals in the military, portrays a purse-toting, effeminate soldier challenging the command of a beefy drill sergeant.






ROUGH SAILING FOR WATER TRANSFER BILL





February 4, 1993






It was as crystal clear as spring water Wednesday proposed changes to the state’s Water Transfer Act are not going to sail through the Legislature.

Members of the House Energy and Natural Resources Committee spent about 45 minutes asking a Kansas University professor and the state’s chief water engineer about a broad range of technical legal questions concerning a proposed bill to change the way the state regulates water transfers.






PROF ATTACKS CREDIBILITY OF KU PROBE





February 4, 1993






Kansas University’s acting vice chancellor for academic affairs today testified that law professor Emil Tonkovich should be fired for abusing his faculty position and sexually harrassing law students.

“What I saw … was sufficient evidence of unethical conduct, moral turpitude, that, unless refuted, would warrant dismissal from the university,” David Shulenburger testified.






FOR THE RECORD





February 4, 1993






Law enforcement report

Police reports






JAIL INMATE AWAITS APPEAL ON EXTRADITION





February 4, 1993






Authorities soon will know the fate of a man who has been fighting extradition from the Douglas County Jail for more than a year.

Timothy Rowlett is waiting to hear whether the Kansas Supreme Court will review his appeal of an Illinois court’s ruling to extradite him to that state, Douglas County Sheriff Loren Anderson said.






KU INCREASES FEES FOR PARKING PERMITS





February 4, 1993






The cost of parking permits at Kansas University will go up slightly next year, according to recommendations approved Wednesday by the Senate Executive Committee.

SenEx approved permit fee increases for fiscal year 1994, which begins July 1.






HENRY E. JANKUS





February 4, 1993






Services for Henry E. Jankus, 94, Lawrence, will be at 1:30 p.m. Saturday at Warren-McElwain Mortuary with the Rev. Ron Kocher officiating. Burial will be in Oak Hill Cemetery.

Mr. Jankus died today, Feb. 4, 1993, at the home of his daughter in Lawrence.






RANDOLPH BUNDY





February 4, 1993






Memorial services for Randolph M. Bundy, 82, Ottawa, will be at 2 p.m. Friday at Westminster Presbyterian Church here with the Rev. Henry A. Roberts officiating. A private burial will be in Highland Cemetery. The body was cremated.

Mr. Bundy died Wednesday, Feb. 3, 1993, at his home.






PRESTIGIOUS HYMAN AWARD GOES TO EX-JAYHAWK WOODARD TODAY





February 4, 1993






WASHINGTON, D.C. Lynette Woodard was to receive the Flo Hyman Award from President Bill Clinton here this afternoon during National Girls and Women in Sports Day festivities.

The former Kansas basketball All-American and Olympic gold medalist is winding down what is probably her last year in professional basketball. In three weeks, she’ll end her third season with Daiwa Securities in Japan.






MOVIE FILMED LOCALLY TO AIR NEXT WEEK





February 4, 1993






A movie filmed partially in Lawrence and starring Brooke Shields and Richard Thomas will make its television debut Tuesday.

“I Can Make You Love Me: The Stalking of Laura Black” will air at 8 p.m. Tuesday on CBS.






HANCOCK BACK IN KU PRACTICE





February 4, 1993






Kansas junior Darrin Hancock returned to basketball practice on Wednesday, just five days after laser surgery on his left retina.

Hancock, who also had surgery on his right eye eight days ago, was given the OK to practice after visiting the doctor for his post-operative check up early Wednesday afternoon in Kansas City.






FOR THE RECORD





February 4, 1993






Fire calls

Lawrence firefighters assisted with a medical emergency at 11:53 a.m. Wednesday at Babcock Place, 1700 Mass.








EUDORA WRESTLING 11-0, CRUISING TOWARD REGIONAL





February 4, 1993






After a successful wrestling season last year, Eudora High had high expectations again this year.

The Cardinals have either equaled or exceeded those hopes so far.






COMMENT SESSIONS SET ON PROGRAM REVIEW





February 4, 1993






Public hearings have been scheduled for six Kansas University programs that have been targeted for elimination under Program Review, KU’s comprehensive assessment of its programs conducted last fall.

The dates of the hearings, locations, times and programs:






KU CANCELS ECONOMICS, BUSINESS MERGER





February 4, 1993






Kansas University officials are backing away from a recommendation to transfer the department of economics from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences to the School of Business.

Economics will remain in the College to avoid “disruption” that would be caused if it were to be incorporated into the business school, officials said.






COUNTY REJECTS RURAL DEVELOPMENT ITEMS





February 4, 1993







Bettie-Lou Metsker does not live within what planners call Primary Urban Growth Areas areas where cities might soon intrude and planners would like to regulate.

The Metsker 240-acre hog farm, passed down since 1860 through four generations, is about nine miles south of Lawrence’s southern most tip.






S CHIEF FOCUSES ON SUCCESS IN SPEECH AT KU





February 4, 1993






Herman Cain says thinking of his career like a bus ride has gotten him where he is today president and chief executive officer of Godfather’s Pizza.

“I had to make the decision to get off the bus and go take over Godfather’s, or stay on the bus and work at Burger King,” Cain said Wednesday afternoon at the Kansas Union. “I decided to get off the bus.”






CALL BLOCKER QUASHES KU PHONES





February 4, 1993






Tired of those late night crank telephone calls?

One Lawrence resident was, so he used Southwestern Bell’s Call Blocker to put the kibosh on calls from a Kansas University telephone number.






ASSAULT SUSPECT ARRESTED IN K.C.





February 4, 1993






Douglas County authorities have caught a 22-year-old Kansas City, Kan., man who had eluded them for nearly a week after he allegedly kidnapped and sexually molested a 36-year-old woman.

The man was arrested Wednesday on a warrant charging him with aggravated kidnapping, aggravated sodomy, attempted rape, aggravated assault, aggravated burglary, burglary and theft in the incident, which occurred Jan. 28 at the woman’s residence four miles west of Lawrence.






TRAFFIC BLIND SPOT





February 4, 1993






A traffic consultant says there are two prudent solutions for solving traffic problems at the intersection of 15th Street and Engel Road: Either install four-way traffic lights, or move half the intersection.

“I think there’s always more than one way to skin a cat, but these two are the ones we found to have the best potential to have good solutions,” said Steve Schooley, an engineer for JBM Consulting Engineers in Kansas City, Mo., in an interview Wednesday afternoon.






NETTIE MAY SPRAY





February 4, 1993






Services for Nettie May Phillips Spray, 100, of Lawrence, will be 2 p.m. Saturday at Rumsey Funeral Home. Burial will be in Memorial Park Cemetery.

Mrs. Spray died today, Feb. 4, 1993, at Sterling Heights Nursing Home.






LHS MATMEN DIVIDE DUALS





February 4, 1993







Lawrence High had to forfeit the two lower weight classes, but nevertheless posted a 44-30 dual wrestling victory over Kansas City Harmon on Wednesday night in the LHS West gym.

Shawnee Mission West defeated the Lions, 45-18, in the other half of the double dual.






PHOTO EXHIBIT SET TO OPEN SATURDAY





February 4, 1993






Kansas University’s Helen Foresman Spencer Museum of Art will feature a comtemporary photojournalism exhibit beginning Saturday through March 14.

The exhibit, “Contact: Photojournalism Since Vietnam,” chronicles more than 15 years of people, events, trends and issues that have shaped recent history.






AGENCIES OFFER AIDS TESTINGCOUNSELING





February 4, 1993






With the number of people being tested for HIV still increasing, area AIDS service providers are continuing with education programs to get the message out about risky behavior and how HIV is and isn’t transmitted.

“In 1992, we counseled 791 people about HIV testing and tested 758 people,” said Elaine Houston, education coordinator with the Lawrence Douglas County Health Department. “And four positives were reported. This is an increase of 42 percent being counseled and 39 percent being tested” over 1991 figures.






SCHOOLS SEEK COMPLIANCE WITH ADA





February 4, 1993






All Lawrence-area school districts have evaluated their facilities as required by the Americans with Disabilities Act and targeted changes needed to make them accessible to people with disabilities. School officials now are taking a look at implementing the recommendations.

Rod Elder, an architect for the state department of education, said the ADA requires public schools to make their educational programs fully accessible. That doesn’t necessarily mean every building in the district must be accessible to people with disabilities. For example, if the district includes three elementary schools for kindergarten through sixth grade, only one school must meet the requirements, he said.






TO THE EDITOR





February 4, 1993






FL

To the editor:






TIME CAPSULE OFFERS GLIMPSE OF PAST





February 4, 1993






“Miami Vice” was a popular television show. “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom” was a much-talked-about movie. And somehow the old Beatles’ version of “Twist and Shout” had seen a resurgence in popularity.

The year was 1987. The place was St. John’s School. And on Wednesday, several St. John’s School graduates traveled back to that time and place by opening a time capsule they had prepared six years ago.






HONING THE BASICS





February 4, 1993






Seventh-grade public school students in Lawrence are getting a chance to see how much they like playing on extracurricular sports teams without having to worry about being “cut” from the team or being preoccupied with needing to win.

In an expansion of the junior high athletic program implemented last year, seventh-graders now are able to join school basketball and volleyball teams with “no-cut” policies.






EDMANDS SERVICES





February 4, 1993






Graveside inurnment services for William H. Edmands, 69, Lawrence, will be at 11 a.m. Friday at Memorial Park Cemetery.

Mr. Edmands died Tuesday, Feb. 2, 1993, at Lawrence Memorial Hospital.






HOSPITAL REPORT





February 4, 1993






ADMISSIONS

Lida DeGraffenreid, Baldwin.






LIONS HAMMER TOPEKA





February 4, 1993






Lawrence may have suffered a letdown Wednesday night, but Topeka High ended up sustaining the major blow.

The Lions pounced on the Trojans 64-35 in girls’ high school basketball. After placing second at the Glacier’s Edge Tournament in Emporia this past weekend, Lawrence played sluggishly until late.






DEAN APOLOGIZES FOR WASHBURN RIP





February 4, 1993






Kansas University’s law school dean today apologized for a private memo he wrote that said Washburn University’s law school in Topeka was of “low quality.”

“I am dismayed that a private memo written to my immediate supervisor has been leaked to the press,” Bob Jerry, KU’s law dean, said in a statement.






LHS GIRLS TEAM FINDS ROCKY ROAD ON WAY TO REPEAT





February 4, 1993






Lawrence High’s girls basketball team has just finished practice, and coach Gary Hammer is trying to compare the Lions to the previous year, when they won the Class 6A state title.

“It’s funny how things change,” he says. “Expectations are higher this year.”






REASONING FALLS SHORT





February 4, 1993






To the editor:

In the Jan. 21 Journal-World, William Dann made a few insidious attempts at fanning the fires of misinformation. In his paid political advertisement, he fails miserably at combatting science with science and thereby ends up shooting himself in the foot. Here are some points for Mr. Dann, the science man, to reconsider:






FOUR LIONS DECIDE TO PLAY FOR JUCOS





February 4, 1993






National football signing day passed without a Lawrence High player committing to an NCAA Div. I school, but four Lions opted to go the junior college route on Wednesday, and another is considering walking on at Iowa.

Lawrence linemen Brian Robb and Robby Popp signed to play at Fort Scott Community College, and defensive backs Brian Martin and Troy Anderson signed with Coffeyville CC.









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February 14, 1993







Valentine’s Day may be the one time in the year when some people are able to express their feelings to their loved ones.

Dennis Dailey, professor of social welfare at Kansas University, said Valentine’s Day is an artifically constructed holiday that gives some people the opportunity to say things they might not otherwise say.






PIZZA STORES VIE FOR SLICE OF COUPON-CRAZED MARKET





February 14, 1993






It’s a dog-eat-dog world out there, particularly when pizza’s on the menu. At least that’s how local purveyors of the pie size up the Lawrence market.

Lured by a population of fast food-loving college students and young families eating on the run, pizza entrepreneurs have flocked to Lawrence.






WORKING ON 911





February 14, 1993






To the editor:

In response to Mr. Hewitt’s Jan. 28 letter concerning the bugs in the 911 system, we offer the following response.






SAX AND STRINGS COMBO GLOWS






February 14, 1993






SCOTT HAMILTON WITH STRINGS (Concord CCD-45380): Here’s a Valentine’s Day gift par excellence! It’s the romantic heroism of tenor saxophonist Scott Hamilton cradled by a 20-piece string orchestra and the sublime rhythms of pianist Alan Broadbent, bassist Bob Maise and drummer Roy McCurdy.

It’s a heaven-made match. Hamilton’s heart-on-sleeve evocations of the ballad styles of hornmen Stan Getz and Ben Webster lyrical and warm, yet also slightly introspective are show-stoppers. So, too, is the string writing of Broadbent, whose impressive credits include the Woody Herman band, Charlie Haden’s Grammy-nominated Quartet West, and most recently, the resurrected Natalie Cole of “Unforgettable” fame.






S 9-2 VICTORY