THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
Vol.86 No.83
Tbe University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Tuesday, February 10. 1976
KU prejudices observed to take several forms
See page 7
Staff photos by DON PIERCE
I've got it, I've got it, I've . . .
Real reasons, third year law student from Lawrence, draws a bead on a pop fly during an impromptu softball practice east of Robinson Gymnasium yesterday. Much to
Leslie's digust, the ball pops from her glove and falls to the ground. Her teammates' friendly razzing prompted the wordless response, right.
City, employs approach solution
By MARY ANN DAUGHERTY and JOHN FULLER
Staff Writers
Orderly discussion, something that's been lacking in recent public meetings concerning city mismanagement allegations, is called for the most part last night at city hall.
The Lawrence City Commission, city staff and employees, and the three authors of a second mismanagement report, filed Jan. 27, chipped away at their differences and moved toward correcting alleged offenses by city management.
Although they reviewed about one-half of the report, the commissioners were unable to take binding action. But they agreed to recommendations that the office of Douglas County Atty. David Berkowitz investigate the following charges:
-Sanitation routes were prepared for another city by Lawrence sanitation employer
—Overtime hours were fabricated in the sanitation department.
——A sanitation employee was illegally discharged.
The commission plans to discuss the remaining half of the report at 7 p.m. Feb.
The commission favored recommendations of increased safety precautions in all departments, increased health information and enhanced training on two-way radios in sanitation trucks.
Mike Wilden, assistant city manager,
said efforts were under way to set safety
up.
Mayor Barkley Clark suggested that City
Manager Buford Watson meet Thursday with representatives of Blue Cross & Blue Shield to discuss increased hospitalization coverage.
Clark also said two-way radios would be available in hotels, where budgets were prepared for Brazil, 1977.
Most discussion concerned recommendations that Donald Purdy, sanitation department superintendent, be removed from the department and that Arnold Wiley, street superintendent, be placed in a job that doesn't require leadership skills.
Muriel Paul, one of the three authors of the report, said Purdy should be removed from the department because he allegedly assaulted a sanitation employee in 1974.
Watson, who termed the assault allegation "simple horseplay," said Purdy shouldn't be replaced because of the incident.
WATSON SAID that a former city employee had snapped Purdy with a towel. Purdy, Watson said, then grabbed the dog, "bear hug" and they tumbled over a desk.
After working there several days, Watson said, the employee requested transfer and then resigned. A while later, he said, the employee applied for workman's com- mendation and he allegedly received in the scuffle with Purdy and was awarded a $2,000 settlement.
The employee worked for several days after the incident, he said, and then began working with the company.
Paul said the version she heard through mismanagement investigations was that they had been used.
furnace and "nearly choked the man to death."
In his own defense, Purdy said he was recovering from a heart attack at the time of the incident and weighed 155 pounds. He said he couldn't have "assaulted a map half my age."
Norman Forer, adviser to the United Public Employees Association of Lawrence, said that employees in the sanitation department went to work fearful for their lives.
Watson said he had heard rumors that some sanitation employees were carrying guns to work. The problem had been corrected last April, he said, when he a
COMMISSIONERS Donald Bimba and Margersinger, who both were members of the original six-man committee that investigated mismanagement charges, said they hadn't heard of any city employee fearing for his life.
police officer and George Williams, director of public works, informed employees they would be fired if they were caught carrying concealed weapons.
Concerning Wiley, Watson suggested that he remain as street department superintendent but that he agree to attend the meeting. The commission favored the suggestion.
See MISMANAGEMENT page 5
Director chosen for Med Center
By BILL SNIFFEN
Robert B. Kugel has been appointed as the new executive vice chancellor for the KU Medical Center, Chancellor Archie R. Dykes said last night.
Kugel, now vice president of health sciences at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, will make the final deadline for appointment this afternoon. Dykes has
"We haven't been able to get all the details worked out," Dykes said. "We have the plan."
But Kugel has accepted a verbal offer, Dykes said, and final arrangements will be made before an official announcement is released.
Kuwei, reached in Albuquerque, said that he expected to begin work as the Med center's new executive vice chancellor of the institution. That was he delitched at his appointment.
"KU has got a lot to give for it," he said. He said the Med Center's fine reputation, its building expansion programs and the Wichita branch had attracted him.
"It's fair to say every major medical center has its problems," be said. "And malpractice suits are a universal phenomenon."
Kugel said he was also aware of the Med Center's recent problems, including a halt in heart surgery and a nurse walkout, both in December, and the $28 million in malpractice lawsuits against the Med Center.
The Med Center has been without an executive vice chancellor since the resignation of William O. Riele last spring, and he is now required to find a new executive vice chancellor.
Kuel said he had no specific solutions to the Med Center's problems.
Kuel said the search committee had first communicated with him last July.
Kugel said his approach to solving problems was to meet with all parties involved in the problem, and obtain suggestions from them to solve it.
"But," he added, "sometimes that's very difficult to do."
The latest contact he had with the committee was about two weeks ago, Kugel said. Then, he was informed that he was the president for executive vice chancellor, he said.
Since Rieke's resignation, David W.
Explosion victim regains vision
He was listed in fair condition last night at the KU Medical Center, according to a MedCenter report.
Earl S. Husser, professor of chemistry,
he visited Burman at the Med Center
yesterday and Burman had regained vision in one eye but couldn't yet see properly out of the other. A doctor said it was too soon to determine the eye had been damaged permanently.
Huyssen, who was called to the scene of the accident, said that Burman was trying to isolate a peroxide compound for an ether solution. He obtained the unusual nature of the explosion.
The police said that witnesses in a neighboring lab in Malott heard only a "poof" or "pop" when the explosion occurred. They called 911, but no one answered. Burman's cries for help, the police said,
"A peculiarity of a peroxide explosion is that it can explode with great force and
causes a lot of damage, even though it just gets a lot of damage, he said. "Even though it didn't sound like a stick of dynamite going off, you can lift it at the lab the kind of damage it can do."
Anand C. Burman, Madison, India, graduate student, was working alone in a lab where he was conducting exploded in his face, KU police said yesterday. Burman was temporarily blinded and was severely burned and cut on his face, arms and body.
Huyser said the explosion occurred because Burman was trying to hurry the experiment and tried to go one step ahead of the proper procedure.
Huyer said he had been at KU for 16 years and had never seen a serious illness.
He said Burman should have been wearing the protective gear, including safety goggles, that students are required to wear in all experiments and during dous experiments or chemicals in the labs.
Before going to New Mexico, Kugel, $2, was dean of the college of medicine at the University of Texas.
A University of Kansas chemistry student has recovered partial vision after being temporarily blinded in a laboratory experiment. The estimated $1,000 damage in Mallott Hall.
Robinson called Kugel "an excellent selection."
Robinson has been acting executive vice chancellor for the Med Center,
A native of Chicago, Kugel attended Dartmouth and the University of Michigan. He earned his medical degree in 1946. From 1951 to 1962 he was an instructor in the Medical School and in the University Medical School and at the University Hospital in Ann Arbor, Mich., from 1926 to 1953.
At John Hopkins Medical School, 1955-65, Kugel was an assistant professor of the Child Development Clinic. In 1963 he developed Iowa from 1956 to 1963. From 1963 to 1965, Kugel was a professor at the Brown University College of Medicine and joined the University of Nebraska staff in 1965.
Kungel has been a member of the President's Committee on Mental Retardation and a member of the board of the Omaha Association for Retarded Children.
Kugel has three daughters. He was married to Dorothy Bowie in 1950.
Candidates to air views in debate
Tedde Tasheff and David Shapiro, student body presidential candidates, will meet in open debate from 7 to 8:30 tonight on 28 and Jayhawk Rooms of the Kansas Union.
The debate is jointly sponsored by the Student Senate Elections and Comm
Bruce Woner, elections committee chairman, said yesterday both candidates
Each candidate will make 10-minute opening remarks, he said, and Tom Curzon, Senate executive secretary and debate moderator, will flip a coin to decide who speaks first. Curzon will field questions from the audience, and each candidate and his running mate will have a total of three questions to respond to the question. Woner said.
The candidates will have five minutes at the end of the debate to summarize their position.
Both candidates will have to answer each question, Woner said, to eliminate part of the problem of loaded questions being planted in the audience.
Curtzon said he expected the debate questions to be diverse. The University's faculty members and administrators are two probable subjects, he said. The Senate's role and that of the student body president and vice president in this area also are likely to be discussed, he said.
Tasheff, Wichita junior, and her running mate, Steve Owens, Salina sophomore, are campaigning as the Vox Populares coalition
Stapiro, Lawrence junior, and his running mate, Mark Anderson, Fairway senior.
Ruling on baseball clause could hurt KU players
By KELLY SCOTT
Staff Writer
Professional baseball's reserve clause is in athletic limbo, the result of a recent ruling that could spread from the major leagues to the minor leagues. Major league baseball played at the University of Kansas.
IN ADDITION to upsetting the current balance of professional baseball, this decision could close the door on KU baseball players' chance to win spots on major league team rosters.
Judge John W. Oliver's decision in district court last week upheld the ruling by baseball arbitrator Peter Seitz that players can play out their options to win a game after failing to reach contract terms with the club.
Floyd Temple, head baseball coach at KU, says he thinks the decision will lead to bidding wars for the most talented players and hurt younger, untried players' prospects for major league contracts.
"The average guy has no bargaining power," Temple said.
Oliver ruled a negotiator such as Seitz had have the power to make a decision on the renewal clause, a subject closely related to the reserve clause. He argued that the point of departure between club owners and players
Seitz case the decisive vote on the three-man arbitration board that affirmed the contention of pitchers Andy Messersmith and Jim McNally that the renewal clause in the standard major league
THE RESERVE CLAUSE has prohibited a player from contracting with another club even if his contract expired, unless his club's owners traded or released him.
contract could bind them for one year, only after they failed to sign a contract with that club.
This interpretation of the renewal clause drastically undercuts the power the reserve clause has had to bind a player to one team indefinitely. If the decision stands, it will mean the end of the reserve clause and its 54-year history of controversy.
If a player doesn't agree to the terms of his contract, the board said, he must play for the team that season. If at the end of the season he still hasn't made a free agent and can negotiate with other teams.
"The interpretation undercuts the reserve clause's power to bind a player to one team."
decision. Minor league as well as major league players have the power to declare themselves free players.
All professional contracts could be affected by the
Several KU players and coaches fear the decision will lead to reluctance on the part of owners to initiate a relocation.
According to a recent editorial in Sports Illustrated magazine, an owner spends $400,000 on a player from the time he signs to the time he reaches the major leagues.
With the owners' money tied up in attracting the superstars, Temple said, there may not be enough money to buy a car.
about whether to go to college or to sign after finishing high school.
Temple said he thought that more players would enter college but that the bonuses given to the best players when they signed out of high school could be astronomical.
RUSSEH SEHON, scout for the New York Mets and a part time coach for the KU baseball team, said that although the better players would always be sought, they were not more selective in the average players it signed.
"The marginal players are out of luck," he said. "They'll be much more limited in their choices.
"Some individual players are making it hard for the present crop of kids coming up."
Rob Allandier, Roger Slagle and Brian Rhodes are three KU baseball players who think their chances of breaking into the big leagues could be lessened if the reserve clause is struck down.
Slagle said the decision favored the superstars of the sport.
"IT'S DEFINITELY to the benefit of the better ballplayer," he said. "It's going to make things hard on the mediocre players, but good for the star."
Allinder said, 'It's good for players like Messmernith and McNally, but the owners won't be putting enough money for people that are just good.
"When I didn't think it was going to affect me. I thought it (the reserve clause) wasn't good. Now I thought it was."
Rhodes said, "The decision is bad for the organization of baseball. It may be good for the organization."
going to know their investments now. I'll hurt."
Said he thought the owners would have to "throw the game" away because of the systems. He said teams such as the Los Angeles Dodgers, who relied heavily on their minor league systems, could stand to lose from the decision if it needed minor league players from contracts to one team.
Allinor was drafted by the Texas Rangers when he graduated from high school, but he said he didn't sign because they didn't offer him enough to pay for his education.
"The marginal players are out of luck. They'll be more limited in their choices."
Stagel has been drafted by the Philadelphia Phillies and, more recently, the San Diego Padres.
All three said they wanted to play professional baseball for a living, but were aware they might not
Rhodes, a lefthander, was drafted by the California Angels when he graduated from high school, but was convinced by his high school coach to attend college.
Almost all players must pass through the minor leagues on their way to major league teams. For
He was first drafted when he left Hutchinson Junior College, but decided to play for KU instead. Whether he signs with the Padres depends on the team's decision and the player recovering from recent arm surgery. Slain said.
Sehon said the minor league were essential to give players the confidence necessary to play the major leagues.
some, a baseball career ends in the minors. But for other the minors are the stepping stone to a major league.
BUT THE MINOR leagues could be seriously affected by a reversal of the supremacy of the reserve clause. Sehon said, because ball clubs could cut down their farm systems.
*Why would they want to spend money on a whole minor league club for a few players who could play well?*
*What is the best way to do this?*
College players are already at a disadvantage, Sehon said. Ball clubs are more interested in signing prospects to contracts after they finish high school. The Bills are also seeking 18 and have the maximum amount of playing time.
RHODES SAID he realized that going to college takes a gamble on his chances to play pro
Rhodes said that although he wanted 'pretty badly' to play baseball, he would be satisfied with his team.
"If you aren't ready by the time you are 22, they don't want you," he said.
"I just want to try," he said. "I don't care if I make it as long as I've had the chance."
Yet, in view of the court decision last week, blibs, Allinder and Shagle may have even roughened their case.