Kansan finds Olympic press pass means privileges
EDITOR'S NOTE-Kelly Scott, Kansan managing editor, is working as a member of the Associated Press staff during the Montreal Olympics. He's also playing Games for the Rangers, having the fluff of her hair.
By KELLY SCOTT Kansas Olympic Correspondent
MONTREAL—My first discovery at the 21st Olympic Games was that being a member of the press corps may be the best way to live comfortably for two weeks in this iam-macked city.
Montreal has been ridiculed by the press for its handling of the games, but the city bears us no ill will.
Special rates, easy-access transportation and basic living arrangements have eliminated for sports writers some of the complications and expenses confronting other visitors to the Olympics.
THE PLASTIC press credentials I wear around my neck—I even sleep with them—have guided me safely around town and have rescued me more than once from naving.
Press headquarters is in a hotel-shopping-office complex called Place Desirand. The Associated
Press is on the 28th floor with other wire services:
United Press International, Reuters, Canadian
Telecoms.
There is a heady atmosphere up there. The Olympics are a sports event, but the top AP sports writers who cover them realize they also will be covering the top news story in the world for two weeks.
There was talk of the political disputes involving Taiwan and African nations during an AP staff meeting Saturday. Peter Arnett, the Pultier Prize-winning Vietnam reporter, has been assigned to AP's Olympic staff to lend stability to its political coverage here.
THERE ARE periodic announcements of who is
tired of being "out." Still, it is a "business as
usual in atmosphere
The writers are glad that the Taiwan issue was decided. They didn't care what the decision was (Taiwan left the games), but they wanted to concentrate on competition instead of confrontation.
Bert Renthal, the AP track and field writer,
regrets Kenya's withdrawal from the games. The
Kenyan runners were strong and the caliber of
several races will diminish with their absence.
And the long-awaited showdown between Filbert Bay of Tanzania and John Walker of New Zealand in the 1,000 meters is off because the Tanzanian team pulled out.
TO GET some idea of how it is with the press at Montreal, come with me to the opening ceremony, where you can watch the entire show.
However impressive the pageantry might have seemed through the eyes of ABC's cameras and Jim McKay, imagine slitting three rows from the track to see what I was expecting. Zebeeh, see what I mean about that press pass?
I was wet-eyed through much of the ceremony. Being close enough to those athletes, many of them prancing and laughing joyfully through one of the moments of their lives, really did something to me.
Each time the crowd roared for a favorite delegation, I felt the urge to whoop and wave the
wheat. But sports writers, you know, don't applaud. Nor do they even acknowledge the history they are building. (Not to mention the sports media.)
There came a moment when we all realized that the athletes, in their colorful and often nationalistic attire, were in the stadium. The Queen had done her duty, and the flag had been carried in and raised severely.
Now, the most symbolic act of the opening
romantic appearance of the ruler's
rumpeter at hatha was again.
THE NORTH "end zone" of the stadium began to buzz and then worked itself into a low roar. They would see the runners first. The roar became loader. We jumped to our feet and crawled toward the northwest corner, where the runners would enter.
Spectators in the north end spotted them and transmitted the thrill to the rest of us.
The two runners, young Canadians named Sandra Anderson and Stephan Prefontaine, ran into the arena holding high the Olympic torch. It was an electric moment.
The diverse crowd, which had betrayed its nationalistic fervor by cheering loudest for their own athletes, united in a roar. It was a moment of motivation and excitement for the competition to come.
AS THE PAIR CIRCLED the track, thoughts of
her were filled with rides, minutes and
mins at what a good thing the OJ did.
Hundreds of flambelets throughout the stands blinked. and the largest ovation of the afternoon sky filled the air.
The runners quickly mounted a temporary platform in the middle of the infield where the torch would ignite the symbolic ring of fire. They saluted the four sides of the stadium, holding the torch high above their heads. Together they lowered the torch to the huge arm and the flames creped around it.
Pompos? A little. Too reverent at times?
Perhaps. But the ceremonies changed the troubled atmosphere from be.ng Montreal-the-Olympic-fiasco to an exciting, competitive bonanza.
I'll let you know whether it stavs that wav.
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
The University of Kansas—Lawrence. Kansas
Vol.86 No.164
Monday, July 19, 1976
Jayhawk's loss Saluki's gain See page 4
By BERNEIL JUHNKE
Four of the six student body presidents of the Board of Regents institutions think the Board may have acted prematurely in its approval June 22 of a tuition increase, Tedde Tasheff, student body president, said last night.
Tasheff told members of the Student Executive Committee that each of the four members present at a Student Advisory Committee meeting last weekend expressed dissatisfaction with the procedure used to increase tuition.
The Regents approved a $6.9 million increase in incident fees (tution) for the students of Kansas and result in tution hikes of $50 a semester for Kansas residents, $150 a semester for out-of-state students at universities and $102 a semester for out-of-state students at colleges.
The Student Advisory Committee is composed of student body president of the
However, she said, the Regents met again Friday and might meet a third time before Friday.
TASHEFF SAID the advisory committee had been told that the Board of Regents would meet only once this summer, June 22, when she could maybe could be considered only at that time.
Tasheff said she was going to write to the Regents to see why the decision on tuition increases had to be made in June if the Regents could have met in July.
"Other kinds of alternatives to the tuition increase could have been considered had there not been such a change."
A GRADUAL tuition increase over four might have been one alternative to the usual increase.
Tasheff said the Student Advisory Committee had discussed fee waivers for graduate students and hoped to form a statement on waivers soon.
She said it had been suggested that teaching assistants and assistant instructors be given salary increases proportional to their costs rather than have their tuition waived.
Two StudEx members responded that a salary increase instead of a tuition waiver would be undesirable because salaries are taxable, a salary is paid in installments
over a long period of time and the money needed to pay tuition wouldn't be immediately available, and that some graduate students only took a few hours and could more easily pay tuition than those with full loads.
TASHEFF announced that the first of its installed on campus is in front of Barry Hall.
The search for a replacement for William Ballour, vice-chancellor for student affairs, will be delayed because of an ad change in the Chronicle of Education which states that experience in student affairs work is not necessary but is preferable. Taussel said.
The ad previously read that experience in student affairs was necessary.
Steve Owens, student body vice-president, said that Gov. Robert Bennett and Chancellor Archie Dykes would speak at the Higher Education Barnquet Nov. 7.
StudentEx members suggested Barbara Jara
dress, Representative from Texas; Elliot
Richardson, former Cabinet member; and Jerry Brown governor of California, as well as Senator.
Poor student representation at SenEx meetings this summer was discussed. Tash-eff said she wanted to be notified by SenEx representatives if they couldn't be at SenEx meetings so that she or some other student could attend.
Senate Committee chairmen are to contact organizations under their jurisdiction to make plans for a Student Senate open house this fall.
Organizations recognized by the University but not funded by the Senate will also be supported.
Steve McMurray, Student Senate Committee chairman, said that a consultant to do a mass transit study in Denver would probably be hired in two weeks.
He said the study should be completed by February.
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Bus passes, fare to increase
Students will pay $3 more for bus passes and five cents more for regular fares this fall as a result of action taken by the Student Executive Committee last night.
Steve McMurray, Student Senate Transportation Committee chairman, said increased rental cost was the reason bus passes would go from $15 to $18 a semester and from $18 to $30 for non-students. Fares will go from 20 cents to 25 cents.
The $11 an hour Student Senate now pays for bus service will increase to $1.50 this fall with the stipulation that the service run on a 110 bus hours a day, McMurry said.
He said the rate would be $12 an hour if the buses didn't average a total of 100 hours a day, but he didn't think it would be difficult to use the buses that much.
this close," he said. "Fifty cents won't take care of all the increased costs."
McMurry said the transportation fee each student paid as part of his activity fees each semester would be $1.80 for full-time students and cents a credit hour for part-time students.
The student bus service, KU on Wheels, is funded entirely by bus passes, regular fare and the student transportation fees. Stuffs are押金, opposed abroad, in
Dunne Ogle, Lawrence Bus Co. manager, said salary and fuel were two of many cost increases that made the higher rental fee necessary.
BUSEN RAS an average of 110 bus-hours a day in the spring, McMurry said.
"We're very happy we could hold the line
*Approved another change in the See STUDEX page 4*
Staff photo by JAY KOELZER
Jubilation!
Saturday was Jayhawk day as the Royals met Boston. George Brett, broke a 1 to 1 tie with a home run in the bottom of the ninth inning. The Royals came out with a win.
coach Chick Hiller. Brett was also a deciding factor in Sunday's game with Boston as he slammed a two-run bomber to leave the field.
GOP delegate selection ends; 172 uncommitted
WASHINGTON (AP) -With Republican National Convention delegation selections now complete, President Ford and Ronald Reagan must fight over 172 uncommitted delegates to decide the GOP presidential nomination.
One month before the climactic ballet
at Kansas City, the arithmetic favors the
President. Assuming he holds all delegates who presently say they'll vote for him, he needs to capture only 64 of the unified Reagan must pull in 11 to be nominated.
Both Ford and Reagan claim they will win on the first ballot. But the AP Poll, which credits a candidate only with those delegates who specifically say they will vote for him, shows both short of the 1,130 needed for the nomination.
The AP count shows 1,066 delegates for Ford and 1,020 for Reagan.
ON THE BASIS of learnings expressed by some delegates and claims of both camps, Reagan must cut significantly into the gains of a nation whose states and capture virtually every un-
The Associated Press has polled and repolled delegates throughout the selection process. The delegates column some who tell reporters they are uncommitted. Several sources report that one delegate has given three news agencies different scores for reference: Ford, Reagan and uncommited.
Staff photo by JAY KOELZER
In the border states and Mid-America, the largest block of uncommitted is 13 in West Virginia, 10 of which the Ford campaign lost to Lincoln. Four of the 13 tell the AP they are leaning
committed delegate in the South and West if he is to win on the first ballot.
Ford needs only to live up to his present caimins in the Northeast and hold his own in the South.
Mrs. Lloyd Burgert, 1658 Vermont, brewra an early morning rain to inspect the squash and dill for sale at Lawrence's first Farmers
Market held last Saturday in the parking lot of 8th and Vermont.
See story on page four.
Market decisions
ONE OF FOUR uncommitteds in Missouri and two of three in Kansas say they're leaning toward Ford. Of five uncommitteds among the recently elected North Dakota delegation, two are counted in some surveys as leaning to Ford and one to Reagan. No leannings have been stated by three uncommitteds in Minnesota.
Eleven delegates in Illinois claim they are uncommitted, although two of them were selected at large in the belief they'd vote for Ford.
In the West, most delegates of a group of 14 unaccompanied from Hawaii are expected to depart on Friday.
toward Ford, but the others profess not to even be leaning at this point.
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Grants fund KU seminars
By GARY WALLACE
Federal grants totaling $127,154 are being used at the University of Kansas this summer to sponsor seminars in Marxist theory, poetry and pc-Civil War American music.
The seminars, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, are led by Richard T. DeGeorge, professor of philosophy, J. Bunker Klar, professor of music history, and Andrew P. Debicki, professor of Spanish.
Out of more than 70 grants awarded nationwide, KU was the only midwestern institution to receive grant funding.
institutions like KU with libraries suitable for advanced study.
THE TWO-year-old program is intended for teachers in small, isolated undergraduate and junior colleges who are concerned primarily with improving their knowledge of the subjects they teach, DeGeorge said.
The seminars provide these college teachers with opportunities to work with students.
Each participant receives a stipend of $2,000 for a two-month period and a housing and travel allowance of $250. Those at least 18 years old are given the term at Jayhawk Towers.
"MOST of these people are the heads of small departments or are the sole member of a department," Debcik said. "In some cases, we push them to explore further reserach."
"the question here is how well will the freshman and sophomore level classes be
Debicki said he was aware of critics like Sen. William Proxmire, D-Wis., who question the allocation of federal money to teachers and subject subjects as 20th century Spanish poetry.
Those eligible for the seminars have faculty positions at the time of their application. Preference was given to applicants who have been teaching at least one year, and who have not recently had the opportunity to use the resources of a major library.
taught for the four years when there will be less mobility in education and the emphasis will shift to upgrading the quality of teaching," Debicki said.
Clark said "the most important aspect of the program was the opportunity for these people to converse with colleagues in their own institution" Clark said.
DEGEORGE AND Debicki said that the seminars provided the participants the motivation and guidance to improve their teaching skills and enable them to publish their own work.
"Actually, this program has a more effect than that a regular graduate student can have."
One participant, Timothy J. Rogers, professor of Spanish at Miami University in Ohio, said the seminar's greatest asset was the motivation it generated by providing access to facilities and educators of high caliber.
The grant for Debicki's seminar, Methods of Poeic Criticism and 30th Century
See GRANTS page 2