THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
Vol.86 No.89
The University of Kansas—Lawrence. Kansas
Wednesday, February 18.1976
Historians find new importance in minorities
See page 2
Staff photo
Eudora patriot
Oscar Broers, Eudora, installs a flag along Main St. in downtown Eudora. Small towns like Eudora, once thought to be dying out, seem to be making a comeback, according to the mayors of Eudora, Baldwin City and Tonganoxie. See story, page seven.
Senate election polls open today
Student elections for student body president and vice president, class officers, student senators and the satelliteUND will be today and tomorrow.
Poll will be open from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.
both days in the Kansas Union lobby,
Summerfield Hall and on the fourth floor
of Wesco Hall near the west entrance.
Today there is a polling booth in Blake Hall, and tomorrow there will be a polling booth in Learned Hall.
Nunemaker district polls will be open from 5 to 7 tonight and tomorrow night. Tonight there will be polls at Kappa Sigma fraternity, Ellsworth Hall, Oliver Hall, Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority and Retrieve Sellers Pearson Hall.
Med Center seeks extra funds
Tomorrow night there will be district polls at Lewis Hall, Phi Kappa Theta fraternity, Pi Gamma Delta fraternity, Corbin Hall and Delta Chi fraternity.
By BILL SNIFFEN
Students will be required to present their KU IDs and spring registration cards when they vote.
Staff Writer
TOPEKA-KU Medical Center administers yesterday asked the state legislature for an additional $3.1 million in funding to the University of Kansas basketball hearings.
The $1.3 million supplemental aid request is needed because the Med Center's functions will be "disrupted" without it, Charcellier Archie R. Dykes said.
The top priority, Dykes said, is an increase in the expenditures ceiling for the Med Center. The University has requested an increase in the 1.1 million ceiling.
"We have requested and our Board of Regents has approved an increase in the expenditure ceiling on hospital revenue during the current fiscal year of $1.1
"The reason for that request," he continued, "is to enable the hospital to meet the rising costs of health care and services provided by the hospital."
million," Dykes told 22 members of the House Ways and Means committee.
Gov. Robert F. Bennett had cut the Med Center's request to $875,000.
"We don't believe the governor's recommendations are feasible to get us through the fiscal year without severe internal disruptions of the services we Dykes told the committee, "We appeal to the legislature for the full $1.1 million."
The Med Center's supplemental aid request was made along with its fiscal 1977 budget presentation—that budget totals $3.3 million.
Supplemental requests were made yesterday for: an increase in the Med Center's expenditure ceiling; $153,000 from the general revenue fund to pay for increasing utility costs; $1.38 million from the general revenue fund to replace hospital revenue pledged to bonds; $730,000 to replace losses lost from declining federal education; and authorizing medical student education; and authorizing medical student education; and authorizing medical student fee increase, to replace federal funds.
The expenditures ceiling is now
e 758,253.
Bennett has recommended that the legislature approve all requests but two; the raise of the expenditures ceiling and the appropriation of $153,000 to pay utility costs.
Campaign practices stir protests; Shapiro, Tasheff deny impropriety
By CHUCK ALEXANDER
Staff Writer
Charges of unethical campaign practices prompted an emergency meeting of the Student Senate Elections Committee last night.
David Shapiro and Mark Anderson, candidates for student body president and vice president, were charged with door-to-door campaigning in a residence hall and used Sachem Circle leaflets supporting the satellite union for their own campaigne
After the meeting, the other candidates,
Tedde Tasheff and Steve Owens, were
accused of conducting a similar door-to-door
door campaign.
A petition protesting door-to-door campaigning by Shapiro and Anderson was presented to the committee by three Gertrude Sellards Pearson Hall residents who represented 11 other women who signed the petition.
The petition, which was written Monday morning, cited a regulation from KU residence hall policy that prohibits "room to room canvassing."
The petition also demanded that "definitive action in response to this complaint will be taken in response to this complaint immediately (within 24 hours) or we may be forced to pursue this matter elsewhere."
When notified of the allegation, Shapira said the GSF petition drew more starters by showing signs of dissatisfaction.
He said that past candidates had been allowed to campaign door to door without question.
"All we're trying to do is communicate with people and it's said when a little technicality that wasn't brought up in years that wasn't used under us in our campaign," Sanire said.
Lynn Bryans, Corbin Hall resident, said Tedde Tasheff, student body president candidate, and her running mate, Steve Owens, had conducted a campaign last week in Corbin similar to that of Shapiro's door-to-door cannon in GRP.
Bryans said Tasheff had knocked on the users of a few residents on her floor. "I was stunned," she said.
were drawn from their rooms by other things.
"It was just the noise that brought us out and some people who were in their pajamas peeked out to see what was going on," she said.
Sheila Everhart, Corbin Hall resident, said the women were surprised when they saw Tasheff and Eoffen because of the lateness of the hour—about 9:30 p.m.—and the fact men aren't usually allowed on the floors during weekdays.
Bryan's said the incident took place during the floor's study hours and, by caught sighting it, caught his attention.
Tasheff said the door-to-door campaigning she had done Monday was cleared through the proper channels and that she was escorted by a Corbin resident. Tasheff said, however, that the impromptu floor meetings were done at the request of the
Tasheff said she had gone door to door in a few instances Monday night but denied that she had engaged in door-to-door campaigning last week.
See CAMPAIGN page 5
Two legislators criticized the Med Center's aid request at the meeting.
State Rep. Wendell Lady, R-Overland Park and chairman of the committee, said more realistic estimates of budgets would make supplemental requests unnecessary.
"Even last year," he told Dykes, "we increased the estimate over what you said it the estimation to be. And now, we find the estimate exceeds this by $1.3 million."
"What it's telling us," Lady continued, as we really aren't doing a very good budgeting; we're budgeting, and then planning how to move the budget at the end of the year."
State Rep. John Carlin, D-Smoll, said the consistently low budget estimates and the need for supplemental increases were "frustrating."
"In general," he said, "the Med Center hasn't done as good a job as they could have. They could've been more realistic." Dykes said the Med Center's budget was difficult to determine 18 months in advance because of increasing medical costs.
This cooperation will cause better understanding of the budget estimating procedure and a greater likelihood of accurate estimates. Dykes was
After the meeting, Dykes said that the Mid Center's fiscal year 1978 budget, in now being prepared with the help of the legislature's budget analysts.
After the budget hearing, both Lady and Carlin said they doubted that the Med Center would receive all the funds it had requested.
Dykes said that if the expenditure ceiling weren't raised, the Med Center would have financial problems before the end of this fiscal year.
"We'll have to live within the budget," he cut and "to do that would mean cutting back" and "cutting down."
"The persons who would be hurt would be the patients themselves."
David W. Robinson, acting executive vice chancellor for the Med Center, said the Med Center was treating more patients than it had been a year ago, and at less cost a patient. But the total costs of the Med Center's operations has increased he said.
"We have to spend more money to process more patients," he said. "But the
See MED CENTER page 11
Sign limit may keep out motel
By MARY ANN DAUGHERTY
Staff Writer
Specifications of the city sign ornament may prompt a model builder to locate in
the area.
Robert L. Woodbury, representative of Midwest Motel Inc., said he was "very serious" about moving a planned 41-unit Best Western motel to another city because the City Commission had refused to permit use of a sign larger than city specifications.
Woodbury appeared before the commission at its weekly meeting last night to ask permission to erect 154 square feet of signs in front of the planned model. It is to be placed in a Big Boy Family Restaurant, 740 Iowa City, Chester County, sign may not be larger than 90 square feet.
MAYOR BARKLEY CLARK said the commission regretted its decision, which was 4 to 1 for denial of Woodbury's request. However, Clark said because other firms required it to meet the specifications, it wouldn't be fair to make a special exception.
He said exceptions could be made when road visibility wasn't impaired. A 90-square-foot sign looks much larger along Massachusetts than it does along Iowa, he said.
"It's not the size of the sign but how it looks to people." Pierce said.
Commissioner Fred Pence cast the only dissenting vote.
off Iowa, Woodbury said, it would appear small to motorists. He said he couldn't build the model if he wasn't assured the sign would be clear enough that those entering Lawrence from the turpurea.
Wooldbury said the Ramada Inn and the Holiday Inn both had signs larger than city signage.
COMMISSIONER MARNIE Argersinger said visibility was clear in the area and people who usually stay in Best Western motels would find it.
The sign ordinance was passed in October 1974. Clerk said, with the understanding that those motels would alter their signs by October 1979.
Commissioner Carl Mibec, who said he would support or ordinance exceptions if signs didn't impair visibility, suggested that thebury purchase a special Best Western sign.
THE COMMISSION also studied and approved several existing and proposed traffic controls on the University of Kansas campus.
Because uniform signs are rented by managers of Best Western motels, Woodbury said, it would be difficult to change size or style of the sign.
Clark said city commission approval was needed so violators could try their cases in court.
on the request of Mike Thorns,
Knox director of police and parking, the
officers.
limits and stop signs on several campus streets.
Thomas said yesterday afternoon he had asked the city's Traffic Safety Commission to study KU traffic controls. City ordinances, which govern campus traffic, haven't been reviewed in several years, he said.
MOST OF THE CONTROLS endorsed by the commission are in effect, Thomas said, and those that aren't will be effective soon. The Traffic Safety Commission unanimously asked to ask the commission to approve these controls:
The establishment of 20 m.p.h. speeds on Baumgartner Drive from Jayhawk Blvd. to Mississippi; Jayhawk Blvd. from the Omina Omega Station to 13th; Lilac Lane from the Omina Omega Station to 14th; Drive from Mississippi to West Campus Road; North College Drive from 11th circling back to 11th; Popular Lane from Jayhawk Blvd. to Sunflower Road; the drive from South Lake and Ellis drives north of 19th and Sunflower Road from 16th to Memorial Drive.
STOP SIGN installation at Allen Field House service drive onto Naismith Drive, Illinois at Sunnyside, Memorial Stadium exit at 11th, North College Drive exit at 11th, parking lot exit at Naismith Drive and north of x-south exits of X-Zone parking lot.
Thomas said KU police officers would warn violators of the traffic signs for about 30 seconds.
In other business, Clark suggested that city officials and civic organizations undertake the development of Riverfront Park, a proposed recreation area in the vicinity of Tennessee and the Kansas River, as a bicentennial project.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is planning to help develop the park but won't have funds until fiscal 1977. Construction is expected to take from seven to 10 years.
"Parades and flag-waving are fine," Arngership said, "but I'd like to see something come out of this bicentennial that will last another hundred years."
Clark suggested that city officials and various public groups meet soon to discuss a plan.
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City will study report charges
The second half of a report filed Jan. 27 by three members of a six-man committee that investigated city mismanagement charges against the mayor tonight by the Lawrence City Commission.
The report, signed by Dennis Smith, Alvin Samuels and Muriel Paul, includes charges and recommendations concerning the offices of City Manager Buford Watson, Personnel Director Brent McFall and Director of Public Works George Williams.
Air becoming battleground in growing smoking war
By BRUCESPENCE
Staff Writer
"A custom laothome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black stinging fume there, nearest a serious Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless.
—King James I of Great Britain, 1604.
Tobacco is the ultimate paradox.
It's strange that smoking could bring so much pressure to so many and you be the source of so much harm.
But that is exactly the crux of the war between smokers who think it is their right to smoke whenever and wherever they please, and non-smokers who are demanding to breathe smoke-free air.
THE INCREASINGLY MILITANT tobacocophones are out so much to spuach the use of tobacco as to restrict its use to private places where people have not had to choose I have to choke in clouds of secondhand smokes.
"one vehement nonsmoker said, 'but we have not yet found a way to stop breathing. If it comes down to not smoking or no breathing, I think I should go home and be a habilite that I just haven’t been able to break."
"If they want to ruin their health, that's fine with
"Smoking more than one cigar at a time," Mark Twain once said, "is its excessive smoking."
TELL THAIL to the growing group of antimowers across the nation, and they will likely reply that any smoking in enclosed public areas is excessive. And we should be prepared to intervene in an effort to force their point with legislation.
A number of organizations, ranging from the American Lung Association, the American Cancer Society and the American Heart Association to antismoking groups such as GASP (Group Against Pollution), have successfully pushed for nonsmoking legislation in 31 states and scores of U.S. cities.
Most of the no-smoking laws, which prohibit smoking in places such as elevators, hospitals, physicians waiting rooms, museums, stores, restaurants, buses and subways are considered
weak by these groups. But the antitumack groups view them as at least a tooe hold. They are,
KANAS HAS had a no-smoking law since July 1. However, it apparently has been used only to a limited extent. It is considered by some antismoking spokesmen to be one of the weakest no-smoking laws of any passed in the 31 states that have such legislation.
The statute, primarily sponsored by State Sen. Arden Booth, R-Lawrence, makes it unlawful to be a registered nurse in the state posted by the presiding officer, owner, leaseholder or person in charge and applies only to government meetings, elevators, indoor theaters, libraries, art galleries, nursing homes, waiting rooms, medical-care facilities and buses.
Conviction can mean a fine of up to $25
The law is effective only on a voluntary basis. If, for example, the presiding officer of a public meeting decides to post a nonsmoking sign, then and only then is he backed up by law. If the presiding officer doesn't want to ban smoking, a nonsmoker's protest can go unbeheaded.
The voluntary basis catch is the part of the stature that the antismiskers object to the most.
Booth said he thought the bill was a go
DONNA JENSEN, public information director of the Kaiman Law Association, says the law, though popular, has not changed.
She also said that she hadn't seen any no-smoking signs up in the Capitol building since the law passed.
"Don't get me wrong," she said. "I don't want to take away anything from Senator Booth. The law is a step forward. I mean, we really didn't expect to pass it. as was it. We did it in a smoke-filled room."
"IT'S SIMPLY that for the first time, nonsmokers
There have been no reports of convictions for violating the no-smoking statute, and Booth is quick to point out that the intention of the law isn't to "place a guard on every elevator."
have a little something to back them up," Booth said.
Jensen, however, said she thought that most Kansans weren't even aware of the law and, if they were, few knew exactly what it encompassed.
THE WEEK OF JAN. 11-17 was National Health Week, sponsored by the Kansas Lung Association and other organizations. Its aim was to inform Kansas of the new no-smoking law and to urge nonsmokers to apply public pressure on the legislature as well as on public establishments to broaden non-smoking areas.
Jensen said one of the biggest disappointments for the antismoking groups was the deletion of a clause from last year's no-smoking bill that would prohibit businesses as well as restaurants. The clause was deleted, Jensen said, because businessmen were accustomed to having the sales floors were marked off against smoking.
See SMOKING page 10