KANSAN
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Vol.86 No.163
Take some guys, add some dolls
Thursday, July 15, 1976
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Carter taps Mondale after first ballot win
Bv The Associated Press
NEW YORK--Sen. Walter F. Mondale of Minnesota is Jimmy Carter's choice for a vice presidential running mate on the Democratic ticket.
Carter, who swept to his party's presidential nomination here last night at Madison Square Garden, kept his selection of Mondale a secret until he was ready to tell convention delegates and the nation this morning on television.
Mondale, who was in seclusion in his hotel
room, got an early morning phone call from Carter asking him to join the ticket. Secret Service men then escorted Mondale to the room and entered the candidate after the appointment.
In addition to his call to Mondale, Carter also spoke by telephone this morning to the other five men he was considering, telling them he had picked someone else,
The five other possible running mates on
the field are Sen. Sean, John Glenn,
Ohio. Sen. Edmund,
Sayers expected to get SIU athletic post today
Staff Writer
By LEWIS GREGORY
Gale Sayers, assistant director of the Williams Fund at KU, is in Carbondale, IL, where he is expected to be named athletic director of Southern Illinois University. SIU officials will name the athletic director at a press conference this morning.
Sayers, who was unavailable for comment yesterday, was the last candidate to be interviewed by the SIU selection committee. He also wanted to be a university athletic director.
Don Baker, KU sports information director, said he had no official confirmation.
"HE'S BEEN in Carbondale for the past two days, and from my conversations with him, was very optimistic about his possibilities at SIU." Baker said.
Sayers, who has been with the KU athletic department for three and one-half years, is one of five men being considered for the position. The post opened when SIU athletic director Doug Weaver resigned to become Georgia Tech's athletic director.
Sayers said he would discuss his reasons for wanting to leave KU if he were appalled. "I don't want to be a professor."
Southern Illinois University, the 18th largest university in the country, has two faculties and is ranked 25th in the nation.
Albaugh Carter guarded his choice until the last moment and didn't tell his aides, to guard against a leak, most of the attention centered on Monday.
Henry Jackson, Washington; Sen. Frank Church, Idaho, and Sen. Adil Stevenson
Edwardsville. Together, they have a full-time enrollment of almost 30,000.
SAYERS STARRED for the Jayhawks during the 1962-63-64 football seasons before gaining a greater reputation with the Bears of the National Football League.
Carter, the outsider who conquered the establishment, will make his acceptance speech tonight, following the nomination of Mondale.
He was a two-time all-American at Kansas and was selected for the all-Big Eight team in three consecutive years. He won four Big Ten titles and was Rookies of the Year in 1986.
As a Jayhawk, Sayers totaled 2,675 career yards and scored 20 touchdowns. During his sophomore season he rushed for 1,125 yards and seven touchdowns.
AFTER COLLEGE, Sayers was the first draft choice of the Chicago Bears and the Kansas City Chiefs. The Bears won his contract from the Chiefs.
Sayers' pro career was shortened by injuries to his knees. He had five knee injuries and six broken bones.
After a junior season of 917 yards, Sayers was considered a Heisman Trophy candidate, but he ended his final season at KU with only 633 vards and five touchdowns.
After his last operation, Sayers decided to make one last effort with the Bears. He had a discouraging year and announced his retirement in September. 1972.
Sayers than worked for a Chicago stock brokerage company before returning to KU.
At his American Hotel command post, Carter smiled his trademark smile at the television set and hugged his 8-year-old brother. Carter hugged his long angel for their greatest prize.
The Democratic National Convention erupted in cheers as the former Georgia governor, the inevitable nominee, was formally installed on its ticket.
It was ratified, first by the traditional roll call of the states, then by acclamation, in 1853. It was ratified again in 1904.
For the record, Carter had 2468.5 delegate votes when the convention made it unanimous in a voice vote that was more of a cheer.
Rep. Morris K. Udall of Arizona, who went before the convention to announce he was putting on a Carter button, had 329.5. He also took the stage when he relinquished his home state delegate and hailed Carter, had 70.5. And Ellen McCormack, the anti-abortion candidate from suburban Long Island, and the only woman in the formally placed in nomination, got 62 votes.
Udall drew a farewell ovation for his candidacy as he released his delegates before the roll call and promised to become a "soldier in the Carter cause."
It was Ohio's 132 votes for Carter that climbed his nomination, for there he won his final primary victory, the one that convinced rivals and skeptical party elders that it was time to unite behind a man who couldn't be stopped.
-AP wirephoto courtesy of the Tampa Capital Journal
Later, Brown took his turn, from the microphone in the California delegation, at the far corner of the arena. He said Carter could handle the nation's problems.
"He's proved that to you, he's proved it to me," Brown said.
Jimmy Carter prepares acceptance speech
Most bugs out of new computers
By DAVESTEFFEN
Despite mechanical failures during the University of Kansas' new instructional and research computer system's first 10 days of operation, most users are satisfied with the new system, Paul Wolfe, coordinator of University computing, said yesterday.
Jon Huxable, student dispatcher, said the old instructional and research computer, the honeywell 635 had had problems at first, too. "Users that complain don't know what to do," he said, necessary to keep the system going," he said. "When the bugs get worked out of the
Since the system was opened to users 1, 1 various mechanical problems have inconveniently users. One of the eight disc drives used by computer has been replaced by computer users malfunctioned July 7.
new 66-60 it should be more reliable than the 635."
The next day a faulty power unit prevented the integrated control unit on the system from working properly. On July 10 the system's printers developed problems that prevented the printing of job results for users.
KURT LOOK, graduate assistant in human development, said the new system's failures were the usual problems to be faced and anytime new equipment was installed.
Walkers share peace commitment
run on the old system and got the same accurate results, only more quickly.
"I was exceedingly pleased that the same job was finished in half the time with the same equipment."
"There has been a fantastic improvement in turnaround." Look said.
McNella uses a remote entry terminal, which submits jobs to the computer from a server.
Staff Writer
BvLEWISGREGORY
"The turnaround is much faster," McNellis said.
A longshoreman, a jewelry maker and six Buddhist monks are among 25 participants in the Continental Walk for Disarmament, which arrived in Lawrence yesterday.
India Queen, Harvard student from Berkeley, Calif., has been with the walk from its beginning in San Francisco to New York and then in mid-October in Washington, D.C.
"When you are moving components of a system thousands of miles, something's bound to need adjustment," Jesse McNellis, U.S. Geological survey hydrologist, said.
Both Jack Davidson, professor of physics, and Herman Lujan, director of the institute of social and environmental services, said many encounters encountered were unfortunate but minor.
John Seitz, assistant director of operations at the computer center, said users would notice significant improvements in the new system—likely in turnaround time, the time between submission of a job and the completion of it.
DAVIDSON SAID he ran a program on the new computer identical to one that he'd
MOODY SAID he didn't believe nuclear weapons were the answer to problems with hostile governments. Peaceful means are the answer, she said.
"The walk has given me an opportunity to tell people about alternatives to violence," she said.
The walkers average 20 miles a day and haven't run into any bad weather that has
Charlotte Smith, 21, said she joined the march May 16 in Securo, N.M., because she was a first responder.
"The country is a lot more beautiful than I ever expected," Moody said. "The people here are much better."
Many walkers said non-violent defense was the best solution to invasion.
"Jobs are ready practically by the time you read them into the computer."
He said he beloved invaders would be angry and go back home if the workers
The walkers will leave tomorrow morning for their next stoo. DeSoto.
HUANTABLE SAID the increased speed was due to a variety of factors.
"The scope of the walk has become greater because of the monks." Queen said.
With peace buttons pinned to his straw hat, Chuck Pierson, from Richmond, Calif., joined the march because of a strong feeling about the necessity of disarmament.
"IF THE country would be invaded because of our total nuclear disarmament, a total strike of the workers would be our defense." Pierson said.
"I WAS sitting one day and heard drums of the monks. I walked with them for 14 miles," Smith said. "Then I decided to go home." He then asked my personal belongings and here he am."
the world, but they don't know how to go about it". Smith said.
Smith, a jewelry-maker, said a couple of people had objected to her joining the walk because she didn't have any deep comfort with it. They changed their attitude later, she said.
"It has larger memory and faster hardware, giving it the ability to run larger programs and more programs at once in less time," he said.
Because of the advantages of the new system, Davidson said, he'd avoid the old system.
"I am quite enthusiastic about probing the potential of the new system. It is been a challenge, but I think I'm ready."
THE MONKS are carrying a letter from the mayor of Hiroshima urging nuclear disarmament. They plan to present it to Mayor Fred Pence today, Queen said.
Look said he was pleased with the new system.
"I heard about the nuclear disarmament walk and thought this was something I could do," she said. "I told him that he said, 'The walked seemed to fulfill all my needs to help peace in the world and the earth.'"
Queen said she believed Carter to be the best candidate for President because he probably wouldn't intervene militarily in other countries.
LUJAN SAID he was generally pleased with the new system.
THE CONTINENTAL WALK is sponsored by more than 21 committees and organizations, including the Socialist Party, American Friends Service Committee, War Resisters League and the People's Party.
"If I had to give it a grade, it would be an A-." he said.
Osbourne, a graduate of Stanford University, did graduate work in political science before deciding to become a longshoreman, which he has been most of his life. He is a Unitarian and hopes to make a difference in the assembly of the church to support the dissension.
McNellis said the system was better than he expected.
"When the new system is running properly it's really something," he said.
"I've been a part of the peace movement and have been disappointed with what I've been going on with nuclear weapons," Osbourne said.
The walkers are followed by a truck that carries food and sleeping gear, but they will stay in private homes in Lawrence. Donations have paid for most of their expenses, other expenses are met by the walkers.
Famous supporters of the walk include Joan Beaz, Dan and Philip Berrigan, Bard Daniel Elaborg, Allen Ginsberg, Benjamin Spock and Gloria Steinem.
"I'm not very happy with the political scence this election year," Osbourse said. "I don't think we will."
ANOTHER WALKER, Shelden Osbourne,
65, started in San Francisco.
Cross-country walkers
Steff photo by JAY KOELZER
A group of 25 people concerned about the issue of world nuclear disarmament moved toward Lawrence on Hikwah 40 yesterday.
After spending the night in the city, the group plans to move on to DeSoto tomorrow.
Campus Editor
Trumpeter brings his jazz to campus
By GREG BASHAW
Jazz is alive and kicking on college campuses, and trumpeter Willie Thomas is
Thomas, who's jammed with jazmine from Dizzy Gillespie to Miles Davis, talked yesterday in an Ellsworth Hall room about jazz's acceptance into the academic setting.
"jazz kinda grew up on the streets, ya know, man," he said, smoothing his curly red-blonde hair over a funky, flowered shirt. "And so now we are trying to develop the formulation of materials necessary to pass this knowledge on academically."
THOMAS, IN town to hold jazz clinics at the Midwestern Music and Art Camp, is a member of the new, formally educated breed of jazzerman, and his talk strays between the jive of a hormon and the formality of an academician.
"A whole set of kids who grew up with rock and were beat-oriented went to college and cleared the way for jazz," Thomas said, taking a cigarette from one of the seven instruments he learned on the trumpet. "And jazz is gonna stay alive and be reborn right in the classroom, man."
He started blowing in grade school.
"BACK THEN whatever jazz you did was on your own," he said. "Back then it was music that was 'out there,' away from the school, don't let me hear you play that."
It's a long way from the dark jazz clubs that flourished during Kansas City's 40s to an air conditioned dorm room on a sunny day. These guys have always been along for the ride. Mark his dues card paid-in for, if there was a jazz club cooking in the 40s or 50s, chances are.
Thomas developed anyway, and was good enough to become known as a kid
phenomenon in his hometown of Orlando, Fla. He got on with Horace Heald's Stars of Tomorrow, a travelling Ted Mack-type team that another trumpet player named Ai Hirt.
He giggled with an army band in Atlanta after graduating from the University of Alabama and then joined the A Ballet to perform his first chance to solo with toe-flight, leggen.
"For two years that group was just a total musical experience," he said. "We'd play our regular gig and then look around for a club to jam in afterwards."
A STINT with Woozy Herman's Third Herd and work in small clubs in Las Vegas, New Orleans and Denver and "everywhere else" followed. He tried playing session dates for awhile but found them too confining.
"I just didn't want the Tonight Show thing where you get in line and wait for your turn to blow," he said, so he went home, opened a music store that grew into a second and worked with Orlando's school system to introduce jazz to their concert bands.
"I had a bit of trouble selling jazz to the muns and stuff, but once we got rolling it was rewarding," he said. "Jazz is part of the music language that can be brought into the schools."
Still, bandroom dance, jazz, stuck in a "Maynard Ferguson-Buddy Big rich band syndrome," is many measures behind what you'll hear in clubs, he said.
"HORN PLAYERS got caught up in the electronic shuffle and left behind," he said. "Groups like Blood, Swat and Tears and Chicago brought back the focus on individual players, but we're not there yet." "I'd like to see college players form
He'd nice to 'see college players team up on the court, because he's more creative freedom and room for im-
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