THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Vol. 86 No.53
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
November 7.1975
Polo sport too rugged to horseplay
By STEVE SCHOENFELD
Football is considered a rough sport. Hockey, rugby and soccer are thought of in the same way.
Polo, however, isn't known as a sport for "tough guys." Yet not too many people realize that polo is one of the most strenuous games played.
There are between 12 and 15 people who go out each week to the University Horse and Training Center (not affiliated with the University of Kansas) and attempt to master a game that was first played in the late 1800s. As she showed, they've been playing, they said, they've learned that polo is definitely not for patties.
"POLO IS AN AWFULLY rough game," Karla Nulty, 625 Indiana St., said yesterday. "There are a lot of rules that you have to know before you can hurt it. It can be a very dangerous game."
Polo is played on horseback with four players on each team. Each player uses a cane stick 48 to 54 inches to try to hit a small light ball into a goal. Each goal is divided into eight equal hour and is divided into eight playing periods of seven-and-a-half minutes each.
CHOR VOORHEES, AN instructor at the University Horse and Training Center, said that the players had discussed the rules in advance to prevent anyone from playing too rough. One of the defensive methods used in the game is to ride the horse into someone else's horse, she said. If the players don't get doing are doing, someone could get hurt she said.
The first requirement to play is to know the word "blade." Blades, Hormell, N.Y., offloads a slash.
"YOU SHOULD BE ABLE to ride well enough to keep all your attention on the game," she said. "You can't fight with the animal. He's on your side."
Polo is one team sport that men and women play with and against each other. Women can be just as good in polo as men, Blades said.
"Polo's always been a male dominated field," she said. "People think that men would have a huge advantage because they have more strength to hit the ball. But the ability to ride is just as important. A good jumper should be just as fin a player as most men."
This men played the women in a "battle of the sexes" match at the horse center and the men won. Voorhees said that it was a close match.
"Obviously if women can play close against men," she said, "when you don't
See POLO page five
Polo maneuvers
while trying to maneuver his horse into position, David McKinsey, 13, Lawrence, angles his pole stick to ensure a square hit on the ball during a practice session at the University of Virginia.
Public employes accuse city of misusing sales tax
BY IAN KENNETH LOUDEN
Accusations including failure to account for the use of the Lawrence one-half per cent sales tax were made against the Lawrence city management by the United Public Employee Associations of Lawrence at a special meeting last night.
The association's accusations came two days after the Lawrence City Commission refused to recognize it as a collective bargaining unit.
According to the association, the city management has failed to prove that the sales tax has been properly spent to upgrade the police and fire departments as was originally intended when the tax was initiated in 1972.
Officer Matt Filtzipatr, a member of the association, said that in the past three years, $270,000 of the revenue collected through the sales tax had been put into the city general fund, which is used for miscellaneous city improvements.
Alvin Samuels, firefighter and a member of the association, said union members of the fire and police departments had been called to the scene several times, but the city didn't comply.
"I don't think the city knows what they do with it," he said. "The city will not report."
City Manager Buford Watson, who is attending a city manager's conference in Wichita, said in a telephone interview early this month that the company paid per cent sales tax had been used properly.
In a prepared statement, the association also accused the city of penalizing employees for time lost because of on-the-job injuries, assaults and theft. The company and insurance company's requests for correction, arbitrary harassment and insulting of employees, threats of dismissal of employees involved in union activities, keeping secret files on employees, failing to comply with labor laws, failing to improve equipment maintenance and failing to stop collection agencies from
A review of the city budget will show that the city has done nothing wrong, he said.
sending threatening letters employees who have received medical bills for on-the-job
The statement said, "The public should be aware that under city regulations, any employee who brings employment problems to the commission is subject to dismissal."
The association asked the citizens of Lawrence to help promote the establishment of a committee for efficient management to investigate all of the charged malpractices and report back publicly to the city commission.
It also asked for an investigation by the appropriate state authorities into the uses of these materials.
vestigation by the Kansas Occupational Safety and Health Administration into the widespread safety violations in Lawrence municipal employment and an investigation Patrol to determine whether city vehicles are safe to both employees and citizens.
Dennis Smith, a sanitation worker and member of the association, said he was disappointed that the commission had failed to form an association as a collective bargaining unit.
The association is rejecting Mayor Barclay Clark's proposal that an employee with ties to the mayor be
See ACCUSATIONS page five
Ways paid by KUAC
By BILL SNIFFEN
It has been a practice of the University of Kansas Athletic Corporation to invite some student body officials to away football and director of the Williams Educational Fund.
The expense-paid trips of Ed Rolfs, student body president, and David Shapiro, Student Senate committee chairman, were KUAC's way of saying "Thank you to people who help make our programs successful." Novotny said yesterday.
Other members of the Athletic Corporation board have made similar trips,
Novtayni said it was a common practice to invite student body presidents to away football games. Dave Miller, student body president from 1973 to 1974, said he was invited and went to a football game at the University of Colorado.
Mert Buckley, student body president from 1973 to 1974, said he was asked to go to two games by Clyde Walker, athletic director. Buckley said he declined one invitation for a private fund-raising paying for the renovation of the floor of Allen Field House. He said that because he
supported KUAC on that issue, he declined the invitation because it would have been too difficult.
Buckley said he declined the other initiation so he could go to the game with
Both former student body presidents said they saw no conflict of interest in a student body president accepting a trip to a football game.
Because the planes KUAC charters hold
passengers, vacant seats are often
deployed.
Because planes carrying the football teams teamed, all seats are paid for.
Guests who have contributed to the athletic program of the University are invited to participate in a symposium.
Rolfs flew with alumni on a flight charter by the Williams Educational Fund, Novetty said, and the Fund is under the direction of the Athletic Corporation.
Novtayn said that Shapiro flew with the team.
Rolfs said he had gone to the football game in Kentucky as a representative of the Athletic Board and of the University. He said he was invited by Walker.
Excess tickets cost cars
High Cotton, chairman of the parking and traffic board, said the board decided to allow more cars.
If a driver has been issued five or more parking tickets by the KU Parking Services, and the fines haven’t been paid, his car will be parked in front of the next time it is parked illegally on campus.
department to tow any car that has had five or more parking violations and not to release it until all violations against that car have been nailed.
"We have decided to enforce the excessive violations clause in the parking lot."
"I don't consider it a favor at all," Rolfs said.
Cotton said the Parking and Traffic Board decision applied equally to any car driven on the street.
Rolfs said that he wanted to cut Senate funding of the Athletic Corporation.
"We're treating everyone equally on this," Cotton said. "We'll impound any car that has excessive violations, regardless of whom it belongs to."
"We have virtually no say in how the money is spent," he said.
Shockley offers to speak here without charge
According to Shockley, it would be a public service for those who disagree with the government.
He said that there was vast disagreement on his theory, and that he believed public
The parking and traffic board is an advisory board to KU Parking Services, and is made up of: four students; four faculty members; Mike Thomas, director of police and parking, and Hank Sonday, chief judge of the traffic appeals court.
Rolfs said he was surprised that Walker had invited him to the game.
See KUAC page three
improvement and to demonstrate to the public the sincerity of his opinion. When his sincerity was challenged by William F. Buckley last year, Shockley took a polygraph test to prove his sincerity, he said.
Kansan hiring
See SHOCKLEY page two
By LYNDA SIMON
Staff Writer
Applications for positions on the news or business staff of the spring semester Kansean are available in 105 Flint Hall, the Student Senate office in Muncie, and the College of Nursing and the Dean of Women. The deadline for applying is 5 p.m. Tuesday.
Interviews will begin Wednesday, Nov. 12. Applicants should sign up for a time on the bulletin board outside 114 Flint Hall.
William Shockley, whose Oct. 2 debate here with Richard Goldsby on the genetic intelligence difference between blacks and whites was canceled by the SUA Board, has offered to appear without charge at the University of Kansas.
Shockley has his objective was to get people to think about measures for racial
Shockley will speak Tuesday at the University of Southern California and Wednesday at Washburn University in Nashville, where he scheduled at KU have been canceled at the University of Michigan and Lo Malina at Riverside, Calif. Shockley, who called the Kanan yesterday that after his talk at the university, will be speaking for a group of interested students at KU."
posed the debate. Generally favorable responses had been expressed about the debate from Washburn's biology and philosophy departments, he said.
He said he only wanted projection equipment, a blackboard wall and a group of chairs.
Shockley said he would be willing to speak without a fee as long as the discussion was on.
He said he initially agreed to the debate format only because other options weren't
"One simply can't get across statistical, clinical information in a debate format," he
He said he preferred a discussion rather than a dateform because a debate was more appropriate.
In a telephone conversation with Shockey yesterday, Mike Miller, SUA activities adviser, said he told Shockey he couldn't attend the meeting because his agency specifically requested to schedule a talk through the SUA. Miller said Shockley wasn't asking for sponsorship of a public address here. He wants to get involved in events for purposes in an in-depth discussion, Miller said.
"I'm not just going to show up and sit in a ball." he said.
At Washburn University, there has been little comment about the Shockley-Goldby debate, according to Greg Brewckrels, news director at the university. A paper had received only one letter that op-
KU first for beer, but bar crowds continue Students back open bars Other schools lag in lager
A majority of students surveyed yesterday by the Kansan said they would prefer that 14th Street be blocked off from traffic and security tightened if a new street area is formed in the 14th and Ohio streets area is forcoming.
After a move by the city to alleviate the crowd problems by blocking off 14th Street from traffic and increasing security failed, the commission voted 3-2 Tuesday night to ask the owners of the three taverns involved to close at noon on the days of home football games. However, it's likely to be a controversial
The taverns in that area are popular places for many people to drink beer and socialize. That's exactly the problem—too many go there, and the city commission has gone up to the crowds who pour in on football weekends.
Sixty three per cent of 272 students surveyed at random said they would favor the blocked off street and an increase in security on days of home football games.
Only 11 per cent of the 272 interview favored closing the taverns at noon on home football game days. No action was preferred by 22 per cent, only 2 per cent revoked robbing the liquor licenses of the taverns if the crowd continued and 2 per cent had no opinion.
The three tawns affected the Wagon Wheel
Café and the Orange Cake, 1401 Oslo St,
and the Bierstuhr, 13 Tavares.
"It just seems like all the people really enjoy it down there after the football games," Roseanne Bulkary, a former N.C. State player, said.
street blocked off and increased security if it would work."
She said if people realized that the taverns might be closed if they didn't settle down when they went to the tavern, she would have been nervous.
Bob Crumpley, Oswatimie sophromore, said that revoking the liquor licenses of the taverns would certainly clear the crowds out, but that in addition, 1df businesses, business people have no place to go to drink beer.
"I'd hate to see it closed," Bukary said. "It just seems so traditional."
Robin Ferris, Winfield sophomore, suggested that streets within a block of the tavern area might be closed to non-residential traffic, which might reduce conflict between the crowd and passing traffic.
"Revoking the liquor licenses would probably cause more problems than it would help," he said.
Bob Applequist, Kansas City, Kan., freshman, said the only good alternative to blocking 10th St. and increasing security would be just to leave the streets to concentrate on preventing property destruction.
"I think if they close down the place completely, there will be a lot more problems on their hands." Applejquit said. "People go to there to blow off steam. If they don't so know, they'll just go somewhere else."
He said that the atmosphere in the Union, which sold beer, wasn't the same as at the tavern and that the Union therefore wouldn't draw much of the same crowd.
See BEER page two
By SHERI BALDWIN Staff Writer
Beer sales at the University of Kansas took two years. In the first state-supported university to begin selling
Fort Hays State College began selling beer Monday afternoon, and the other four state schools are still debating the issue. Beer was sold in the Kansas Union at KU for the first time last Saturday.
Lyle Stab, Fort Hays State student president, said yesterday that beer sales weren't confined to the city.
Beer is also being sold at Custer Residence Hall in a student recreation center called "The Back Door," he aid. The college food services rent the area from the residence hall, he said.
He said general student opinion indicated that there was no real desire to have beer at athletic contests.
Staba said beer in the Union was being sold only in cans. "Tiger Pause," a snack bar in the Union, will be open from 3:30 p.m., until 11 p.m. Monday through Saturday, he said.
"It would probably be too much trouble for what it would be worth," he said.
"We are not going to have beer in our football or basketball areas." Saab said.
The Fort Hays State bar district is about six blocks away from the campus, he said.
Staba said beer sales had been implemented quickly because a student referendum Oct. 8-8 had indicated 80 per cent of the students were in favor of the Union selling beer. The referendum was in conjunction with full student government elections. Staba said 1200 people out of about 5000 on the campus voted.
Bernard Franklin, Kansas State University student body president, said the K-State University Governing Board (UGB) will be conducting a poll to determine student and faculty opinion on the beer sales there.
"The few people I've talked to in the office here talk about beer with mixed emotions," Franklin said. "The demand isn't as great here as it is at KU because of Agavileve."
Jim Hamilton, UGB member, said that the poll would start next Tuesday and be completed a week afterwards. Telephone surveys by a random sampling method and questionnaires will be used, he said.
"They won't even touch it in the stadium here," he said.
Franklin said that the UGB had voted Tuesday to outlaw the sale of beer in the State Room, which is an exception.
The Intercollegiate Athletic Council decided Monday against selling beer, Franklin said. According to Franklin, Ernie Barrett, K-State athletic director, cited high installation costs as one reason for not selling beer in the stadium. Barrett also thought Big League would be in favor of selling beer in the stadium. Franklin said.
"If we could make some money from beer sales, I would be in favor of it myself." Franklin said.
Until now, the K-State Union has been the only one that wouldn't allow the consumption of beer, he said. Rick Luthi, student body president at Kansas State University, told us that when beer began selling it would be by can only.
"Because of the ease in handling it (in can), it would make things a lot simpler for the Student Union to do."
See UNIVERSITIES page six