THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
Vol.86 No.130
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Monday, April 26, 1976
Dismissed citv worker seeks aid
Dennis Smith
More money, Feedback forms are discussed
The Student Senate Academic Affairs Committee voted last night to recommend no additional funding for Black 'teens' to the American Society of Civil Engineers.
The Senate will consider the requests for additional funding at its next meeting on May 5, regardless of the committee's recommendations.
In other action, the committee gave Mark Anthony, committee cochairman, approval to submit to the senate May 5 two papers documenting the University withdrawal policies.
The Black 'tects requested that an additional $92.65 be added to the $108 they were allocated during the Senate's budget bearings two weeks ago.
According to Anthony, *black tests* thought that the committee had allocated funds to the group on the basis of the behavior of the group's representative at the committee hearing two weeks ago, including those who have no requests. But Anthony said he thought the committee had made its allocation on the basis of the group's needs.
The American Society of Civil Engineers, which was well-supported by the committee, requested that an additional $115 be added to the $235 it was allocated during the budget hearings two weeks ago. The group wants extra funding to finance what John McCarthy has been given as the best dam concrete canoe around." The group has been competing for several years against groups from other universities in building and racing concrete canoes.
One of the resolutions that Anthony will submit to the May 5 Senate meeting urges University schools and departments not to make class withdrawal procedures stricter because of grade inflation. Anthony said a study completed about two weeks ago by the University's College of Education relationship between current lenient withdrawal policies and grade inflation.
The other resolution Anthony will submit advises University schools and departures to ensure that the drawal policies to carefully consider any changes before initiating them. He said he thought some departments had changed without adequate deliberation in the past.
By JANET SCHMIDT
Dennis Smith says he contacted his lawyers after being dismissed Friday from his job as a truck driver for what city officials called health problems.
Smith, president of the Lawrence Sanitation Workers Association, led the move two weeks ago by city employees that the Teamsters Union local in Tenkawa.
"I have contacted my lawyers, Norm
Fower) and the Teamsters," Smith said.
"So I know they're doing something."
Forer, associate professor of social welfare, acted as adviser to city employees in the case of the war.
"I'M VERY CONCERNED with the free speech issue," Foer said. "If there's a been demonstrated that Dennis has received unfair treatment and this is just another harassment of a city employee who has criticized city management, then I'll interview."
Smith has been outspoken on city treatment of workers. Forreer said.
Smith's dismissal, City Manager Bufur Watson said Saturday, occurred because Smith will be unable to work for an indefinite time because of lower back pains.
"HIS DOCTOR SENT a letter this week stating that Dennis Smith has a birth defect in the bone of his lower back." Watson said. "He said that being jostled up and down while riding in the truck caused back pains."
The doctor said Smith would be off work indefinitely, according to Watson.
"As you know, Dennis Smith has got a low back problem which started with sitting and kicking."
Smith's doctor, John Wertzberger, wasn't available for comment. However, the letter he sent on April 12 which Watson said prompted Smith's dismissal reads as
"He developed a back strain superimposed on a bone defect that he has
*THE TRIED TO work 12 April 1978 but in riding the truck gave him a recurrence of it.*
"I feel the only way you are going to get Mr. Smith back on the job is to try to get him into some type of activity which does not require prolonged sitting, or bouncing in a sitting position, or does not require heavy lifting.
"He may be able to resolve this situation over a period of time with some type of light
Smith, who has worked for the sanitation department two years, has not worked since 1973.
On Jan. 21, Smith said, he fell off the steps of the sanitation truck he was driving. The injury involved in two cracks in the bone of his lower spine, he said. He has been receiving workmen's compensation payments since.
Smith said he had requested light duty, or work that was less demanding physically, but more technically. Wertzberger was to verify that Smith needed to be assigned to light duty, Smith
When he returned to work April 12, he was able to work for only two hours, Smith said.
"MANY OF THE sanitation trucks don't have shocks or springs in the seats," he said. "It's just like somebody was beating you with a hammer eight hours a day.
According to Smith, some of the light duties he could have been assigned are weighing trucks at the city landfill weigh-in station, dispatching for the police or fire department or handling late pick-ups and special cases on the mistruck route.
Smith said the city had assigned other workers to light duty when they were incapable of handling the regular sanitation route.
"They do it all the time," he said. "They just say they don't have anything for me."
"There is nothing we have that he could do," Williams said. "On the mistruck route, the driver still does all the picking up and loading."
GEORGE WILLIAMS, director of public works, denied Smith's request for light duty because, he said, there were no positions available.
He would have to talk to personnel or the city manager. "
"As far as assigning him to another department, that decision is not up to me.
About assigning Smith as a dispatcher for the police or fire department Watson said, "The letter says he can't sit for a long time and should require his sitting for prolonged prizes."
"His health is quite a problem to him—he can't get started for prolonged periods or he won't."
Williams, who received the letter from Wetzerberg and notified Smith of the dismissal, said he made the final decision to send it to Watson and the personnel department.
"WE'RE REALLY short-handed right now because of a lot of the workers have been sick," Williams said. "Smith's being very happy, and they don't hire anyone to fill with him in it."
He said Smith could appeal the decision if he thought it was unfair.
"I told him he could come back to work if he got a clean bill of health from his doctor."
Phil Bohlander, secretary of the
Sanitation Workers Association,
said he was affected on election.
See CITY WORKER page 8
Graphic designs adorn KU signs
By JIM COBB
Staff Writer
Signs on and around campus will take on a new look in the next few months as implementation of a new University-wide graphics system begins.
The system will replace virtually all campus signs with signs done in a new, cool color.
The first signs have already arrived and should be erected within the next few weeks, according to Max Lucas, assistant to the chancellor.
Lucas said Friday that a lack of funds could cause the system to be gradually unintelligible.
Some signs, such as those at traffic-control booths at campus entrances, will be shown.
Lucas said the signs' design was "very straightforward." Most of the signs will be rectangular, he said, with white letters on a "KU-blue" background.
Because of this, Lucas said, the University graphics committee that studied the graphics system decided that logos or icons would be used and would thus make the signs out-of-date.
He said the idea of putting Jayhawks on the signs was discarded because the figures would make the signs larger than acceptable.
Four large high-impact signs will be situated at major campus entrances—the intersections of 19th and Iowa, 15th and Iowa, 11th and Mississippi, and 19th and
Naismith Drive. Those signs should arrive early in June, Lucas said.
SMALLER BUT similar signs will be used to identify other campus entrances, routes to campus from other parts of Lawrence, parking lots, bus stations and buildings.
Luisa said the four large signs might cost as much as $1,000 a piece and the other signs would probably cost between $70 and $200, depending on their size. Some of the smaller signs are usually made to be made by the department of buildings and grounds at a lower cost, he said.
Part of the original graphics plan included erecting the same type of blue-and-white signs on highways near and in Lawrence, but permission for the project was denied by the state Department of Transportation, Lucas said.
STATE SIGN CODES blue-and-white signs for marking scenic and service areas. Lucas said he thought the signs were made to be more visually-geared, visiated by many Kangans each year.
The transportation department, however, said that the request wasn't valid and that all such signs located on highways must be placed in front of the state color for highway directional signs.
Signs on campus need no approval, and signs in Lawrence not located on state or federal highways need approval only from the city.
The city granted tentative approval for the graphics system in November.
CAS SAID THAT, after KU's request to the state was denied, the state erected green-and-white directional signs on 6th and 23rd streets, which are both highways.
"Naturally, wed prefer white-on-blue," Lucas said.
He said, however, that KU's signs might See SIGNS page 8
Four overcome by paint fumes
By DAVE REGIER
The drama started when William Dressler, Kansas City, Kan., senior, and Dean were painting the walls of the tank Friday afternoon. Dressler was overcome
Construction on a solar house being built in Pleasant Grove by Thomas Dean, professor of architecture, ran into a snag that sent four persons, suffering from inhalation of paint fumes, to a hospital Friday night.
All four were affected to varying degrees by fumes that were gen. aated as a six-foot square by six-foot high water storage tank or by six-foot high the unventilated basement of the house.
by the fumes but Dean got him out into fresh air to receive him
Dean said the painter, Richard Nightingale, went down into the tank to find one of the firefighters. Dean said, told Dressler the fumes were really bad and he would go into town to get his respirator. Dressler and his wife Regina were also in the truck into his truck and drove away he said.
WHEN THE PAINTER came, Dressler warned him about the intensity of the fire.
Dean said yesterday that he then told Dressler a professional painter was coming who would be accustomed to the fumes and know how to handle them.
Dunn calls for better health care
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Dunn said there had been an increase in personal injury litigation, although the malpractice crisis wasn't as critical as many thought.
KANSAS CITY, Mo—Lee J. Dunn, legal counsel for the KU Medical Center, challenged student nurses to provide health care in court that could lead to malpractice lawsuits.
Dunn spoke Saturday to nurses attending the National Student Nurses' Association (NSNA) convention at the Radisson Muelebach hotel in Kansas City, Mo.
"Organized medicine has pushed to enact legislation which will effectively eliminate or severely curtail the ability of an injured person to seek compensation for his injuries," Dunn said.
He called physicians' reactions to the increase in litigation a "poor public relations effort", rather than an effort to cut down the incidence of injuries.
Some of the malpractice legislation put a cap on liability, be said. This means a dollar
"EVERY SINGLE time these bills either collectively or singularly have been challenged in court they have been found unconstitutional."
limit is set on damages that can be collected.
A pretrial screening panel, not available for other types of cases, is another legislative move, he said. The Kansas pretrial screening panel, made up of physicians, is voluntary, he said, which requires it to stand under constitutional challenges.
Pretrial screening panels just for medical pretrain practice cases are another such device.
Dunn said limiting the time that a suit could be filed and the amount of damages were two types of legislation often backed by the medical profession.
"THESE IS ABSOLUTELY no reason in mind why doctors should be treated
Dunn faulted insurance carriers who "are doing an exquisitely poor job of running their businesses," saying the way they operate was by hiking premiums to doctors.
He added that the same was true for nurses.
"A patient has to trust you, that you are going to exercise your professional judgment and professional competence in the patient's interest," he said.
He said he hoped that antitrust litigation
During the four-day convention, which closed yesterday afternoon, the Student Nurses' Association of Kansas (SNAK) was awarded a certificate of achievement for member recruitment. Jody Gering, president of SNAK, accepted the award.
SNAK membership is 100 students higher than last year's, according to Pat McAnyan, Prairie Village school. McAnyan just completed a term as first vice president for convention and program planning of NSNA. He also programs for this year's convention.
"A BUSINESS problem is being turned into a legal and professional problem in that your relationship with your patients is being perilously damaged." Dunn said.
Four nursing students interviewed who are members of SNAK were excited and interested in the issues and programs of the convention.
would be brought against the insurance companies so their books would be opened.
SUSAN LANDER, Kansas City, Kan.
She was accused of a program, "Slit Victim," which dealt with the care of a victim of sexual assault. She said rape had happened to victims from six
"We were told not to be judgemental of
Film collector wants all that jazz
By BECCI BREINING
It's a midnight jam session. In a deserted nightclub five musicians unwind with a slow, lazy rhythm. A column of cigarette smoke trails into darkness above the players as piano notes trickle and mingle with soft, easy drum beats. A trumpet offers only a few phrases. The musicians smile. The music soothes.
Deflores is a 1969 graduate of the University of Kansas who has collected jazz records for 21 years and jazz film for five. He was in Lawrence during the weekend as a guest of KANU radio station.
In 1971, at the joking suggestion of a friend, he started searching for "St. Louis Blues," a classic 1940s jazz short starring Searles Smith, known as "empress of the blues." He found the film after a three-year hunt. Since then, DeFlores' love of jazz has kept him busy in his new role as a film archivist.
ON FRIDAY two rare films were shown to about 100
ON students in a history of jazz class taught by Richard
Henderson
Rob Deflores doesn't want jazz musicians of yesteryear to be forgotten, so he's working to preserve
This picture scene from a favorite black-and-white jazz
short, "After Hours":
Suddenly, the players shatter the relaxing atmosphere. A runaway tempo palpusates with a handside of wild melodies. The infections quality of the rhythm engulfs its player, and the crowd is so similar, clapping, laughing at the fun of it all.
Deflores works for an architectural firm in Minneapolis, Minn. where he paints murals of proposed
Janis Joplin worshiped希姆斯 Smith, star of the 1929 jazz classic "Jaminin the Blues," he said. It was Joplin who raised money to put a gravestone on the nearly forbidden stove's erave.
THE CHARISMA of jazz has been preserved on film. And Defofo wants to " bring it back to the people."
Dean said he later discovered that the painter didn't get the respirator, but turned around and came back to finish the tank because the area left to paint was so small.
"Jazz is coming back big," DeFlores said. "The students I talk to all over are really turning on to it."
"Collecting jazz film is a sideline for me," DeFlores said Saturday, "but it's getting to be an occupation."
On weekends he travels across the country showing films and talking with groups interested in igg.
THE DRESSLERS found the painter's van parked in front of the Dean house when they returned, but the house was locked, Larry Krupp, a neighbor of Dean's said.
Bob Dylan is another contemporary musician who deeply appreciates the jazz pioneers, DeFlores said.
"YOU CAN WALK away saying, 'Wow,' I saw Jelly Roll Morton as he appeared in 1928 or Billy Holiday as she really looked," I said. "And you can evaluate for yourself how great that star was after you see the film." But finding these films is difficult. Paramount, Vipstone and Columbia, the three producers of jazz films from deep records. Consequently, DeFlores has to explore studio vaults, attics and storefronts for forgiven jazz footage.
Today's musicians have usually just read about
listen to jazz musician of the '20s, '30s and '40s, he said.
When he finds films, they are usually decomposing. The
nitrate chemicals used before the invention of safety film cause extreme flammability and an offensive odor as it is.
"I HATE TO THINK of all the old films in attics across the country just sitting there rotting." he said.
The resurrection process undergone by these old films is available at only four institutions in the United States: the Library of Congress, the American Institute of Fine Arts, and the Academy of Motion Picture Art in New York. The process is expensive—$5,000 for a feature film—so the number of films restored each year is limited. The institutes have difficulty raising the money to buy these old films.
"The fumes had apparently spumed him out enough that he forgot about it (the warning from Dressler) and completely sealed up the house." Knup said.
Nevertheless, Defores continues his search in hope that a less expensive process can be developed.
And he hasn't limitled him to jazz. His library of 500 films includes newweded clips of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jake Dempsey-Tom Gibbs lounge in Shooter, Mont., and Nina Simone's "A Few More" with a tempor John M. Corncrack sinnue "Song of my heart."
Defores spent 10 years searching for the McCormack film, and found it, like many rare films, in an obscure, private film collection. He recently showed the film on the "Mike Douglas Show."
Deflores "sideline" demands a deep and steadfast interest in兴趣. Perseverance is helpful, too.
Reared in Hollywood, DeLorean cultivated his love of films early. His parent appeared in Gen Aury westerns and directed several movies.
Lois Mouster, Wintfield, Ill., junior, was the way to hear about "The Well Elderly."
"I practically grew up on a motion picture set," he said,
"and I just love the art."
the rape victims before, during or after the rape treatment," she said.
Kristine Guttu, Overland Park junior, said it was exciting to see how medical systems worked and how nurses could work with them.
Lisa Sullivan, Kansas City, Mo., senior, said she particularly liked a session about emergency medicine, which featured Norman McSwain Jr., director of emergency medical training at the Med Center.
"I'm excited to learn how to care for the elderly while they are well and before they are sick."
See FUMES page 2
William Dressler got in the house somehow, Knupp said, and found Nightingale on the tank floor overcome by fumes. Soon after William Dressler went into the tank to try to get Nightingale out, Regina Dressler realized that her husband was still inside from the fume. Knpp said, so she went outside and screamed for help.
Bob Carlson and his wife Linda, neighbors
Kansan jobs open
Applications for staff positions on the summer and fall Kansans are now available in the Student Senate office, the dean of men's office, the dean of women's office or 105 Flint. Job interviews will be this afternoon and all day Tuesday.
Speaking on entertainment
Speaking at a press conference before entertaining a Hoch Auditorium crowd of about 150 people Friday night, actress Ruby Ree commented on Davis' newest film, while Davis, Dee's husband, listened. Davis and Dee presented their program as part of the office of Minority Affairs Cultural Enrichment series. See story, page 2.