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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
The University of Kansas
Vol.88,No.174
Lawrence, Kansas
Monday July 31,1978
Director chosen to replace Lucas
The new KU director of facilities planning is Allen L. Wiechert, who was named to the position Friday by Chancellor Archie R. Dykes.
Lucas resigned his position to resume work in the School of Architecture and Urbanism at Columbia.
Wiechert, who was named interim director after the resignation of former director of facilities planning, Max Lucas, July 12 will assume the positon tomorrow.
Wiechert said yesterday that he was entering the position at a busy time, when there were more than 30 building and remodeling projects underway.
"It's very typical of what to expect in the future," he said. "There will probably be fewer big projects and more small ones. We need renovations, remodeling, renovations, energy conscious projects and projects that will meet the needs of special regulations, such as those required by new laws."
WUECHER *SAI* that he expected no immediate changes in the Office of Health.
Wiechert has been with KU 10 years and before being named to this position was the University architect and associate director of Facilities Planning for the Lawrence
He graduated with a degree in architecture from Kansas State University in 1962.
He was named KU's representative to the Kansas Board of Regiments Long Range Physical Planning Committee in 1971 and helped develop a planning manual for institutions under the direction of the Board of Regents.
WIECHER, a native of Independence, Kansas and a licensed architect in Kansas, is certified with the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards and is affiliated with the Association of University Architects and the American Institute of Architects.
Stadium to have better facilities for handicapped
New facilities to aid the handicapped will be available at Memorial Stadium for football games this fall, according to Doug Messer, acting director of athletics.
Messer said the renovation at Memorial Stadium would have improved seating, parking and restroom facilities for the 25 to 30 handicapped persons who are season ticket holders and other handicapped persons who might attend games.
ONE PLATFORM will be situated on the lowermiddle of the south end of the stadium at the east side.
There will be several seating areas on platforms with ramps leading to them, from which handicapped persons will be able to watch cameras.
one of the west side platforms will be in the south end. The other will be in the north
The west side of the stadium will have two seating areas on platform, which will be situated in the upper rows of the lower seating area.
An elevator, located on the west side of the stadium, will help the handicapped reach
THERE are also two platformed seating areas in the bleachers south of the playing field. Messer said that special bathrooms with large entryways had been installed.
He also said that because most football tickets were ordered by mail, the athletic department and ticket office did not know which handicapped persons attended the games.
Norris J. Lacy, professor of French and Italian, was appointed chairman of the KU department of *zenth* and Italian last week. He also worked with a woman, who has returned to full-time teaching.
Lacy, a professor of French and Italian, has been associate department chairman and director of graduate studies for the department for two years. He also was president of the University in Geneva during the summer of 1968 and in Paris during the summer of 1971.
Language prof named to head French, Italian
He came to KU from Indiana University, where he received his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees. As an undergraduate, he majored in French and minored in German and philosophy at Murray State University, Murray, Kv.
Lacy was a Woodrow Wilson Fellow in 1962-63 and an Indiana University Graduate School Fellow in 1963-64. He has received grants from the Endowment for the Humanities, the American Philosophical Association, Learned Societies and KU. He was a visiting associate professor at the University of California at Los Angeles in 1975-76.
Staff Photo by ALAN ZLOTKY
Watch dog
A stuffed toy sheep dog appeared to be keeping a close watch out for any wrong doing in the stall. The dog appeared in the window above the King George II Shift Fence.
Fraternity work resumes further projects unlikely
Members of the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity resumed work Thursday on a volunteer painting project that was the center of controversy last week.
The project, painting a house at Eighth and Missouri streets for an elderly woman, was assigned to Pinewood House, the United Way agency that assigned the project to the Phi Gamma Delta pledge class last October, wrote a letter to members of the planning that the project had not been finished.
According to the woman, Edyth McPike,
746 Missouri, several people resumed
painting her house Thursday but they still
have not finished the project.
"THEY CAME back Thursday and part of it, and they said they would come back the next day but they didn't," McPike said yesterday.
Rhodesia attacks bases of Mozambique terrorists
"I'm not mad," she said. "They said they would do it, so I guess they will. A man's word is his honesty and if it don't do it, then I'm going to cry for it and I not going to cry about it."
Members of the fraternity said that the letter was unwarranted because they had made an agreement with Penn House to complete the project this fall.
AS A RESULT of the controversy surrounding the project, Bob Radcliffe, community sponsor for the fraternity, said he was disappointed because he continues doing projects through Penn House.
Mpike said that she had not been upset about the house not being painted and that she was a victim of bullying.
The painting of McPike's house was two-thirds completed in October, but no further details were available.
SALISBURY, Rhodesia (AP)—Honduran soldiers backed by jet fighters and bombers struck across the border into Mozambique yesterday to knock out bases of black nationalist guerrillas who have ignored the transition government's call for a cease-fire, the military command reported.
The bulletin, issued as Vampire and Hawker Hunter jet fighters and Camberra bombers streaked over the capital's southern suburbs, said. "Security forces are launching operations against the bomber."
It said that the raids were aimed at guerrillas of Robe 'Mugabe's Zimbabwe Africa National Union that were planning new attacks into Rhodesia.
National uniform loss reported on casualties. There was no immediate report on casualties, and no immediate reaction from the Morbhumi government.
KU will be asked within two weeks to help the company that manages the University's housekeeping make up for a predicted year this, according to company officials.
The Rhodesian communique said, "Not only is there clear evidence that they, the guerrillas, intend to infiltrate in Rhodisia with the express purpose of overthrowing the Rhodesian government by murder, intimidation and a series of terrorism, but also the French leaders have been recalled to receive similar insults at these bases in Mozambique."
The additional funds that American Management is going to request from KU, Hizer said, would help the company to at least break even for 1978.
"The purpose is not to bail out a company that's losing money," Hirz said. "The purpose is to meet the higher standards KU arranged to estimate what the university really wanted."
He said that because of the increased number of custodians that need to be hired, an additional loss of $100,000 would probably occur by Dec. 1.
Housekeeping company to ask KU for more funds
By TOM RAMSTACK Staff Writer
The company, American Management Services, contracted to charge KU $904,128 for custodial upkeep from Dec. 1, 1977 to March 31, 1978, after the company Denver with a KU representative, company officials estimated their losses at $50,000. Ron Hizer, director of housekeeping for KU.
Staff Writer
MIKE McALEER, a district manager for American Management Services, said he would like the KU to have an American Management's losses on the KU contract. He also refused to say how much of an increase KU would be requested to pay and would not say did it say. "It's a fairly good-sized increase."
"From my contacts with Dr. Mills, he's
the man in the suit," McAlee said.
"He's willing to listen."
e also said that at the July 12 meeting with Mills in Denver, Mills said increases in the contract would be justified if American Management could show that KU had higher than average standards for custodial unkeep.
McAileer said he would meet with Russell Mills, director of support services for KU, sometime within the next two weeks to discuss his plan of requests for increases in its 1978 KU contract.
Mills said justification for American Management's increase requests would
However, he said, increases would not be granted simply because American voters are not buying it.
"I really don't care. Mills said, 'That's their business. Our concern is getting better.'"
"SOME OF THE job descriptions are clearly more rigorous than can be handled with current technology."
have to be based on personnel shortages for specific custodial jobs.
Mills said that before American Management could receive additional funds, approval would have to be granted by the department of administration in
American Management Services charges KU about $106,000 monthly for housekeeping services at the Medical Center, Mills said, and the University serves for services at the law enforcement campus.
He said that in fiscal year 1978, American Management had saved the KU Medical Center $150,000 from the cost of housekeeping services of the previous year.
Mills said the 1978 $904,120 housekeeping budget for the Lawrence教室 was about 6 percent higher than last year. But KU's budget increased by 6 percent in 1978, he said.
EXCLUDING any future increases, American Management Services will not be more expensive in to the Lawrence campus than before the company took over housekeeping responsibilities Dec. 1, Mills said.
American Management's bid of $94,128 was the lowest of the six companies that bid for the company.
But Hilzer said the company spent $80,000 to $90,000 on new equipment in December, $60,000 for additional new equipment that is due to arrive within four weeks, $3,000 for monthly supplies such as floor wax, and $26,000 monthly for custodian's salaries.
Any expenses greater than the $75,344 monthly charge to KU must be paid by American Management Services, thus resulting in a sizable loss for the company.
In its bid on the Lawrence campus job,
American Management estimated that 32
custodians were necessary for the housekeeping job.
The company officials said that by using more advanced cleaning techniques and equipment, the number of custodians could be increased while ensuring the quality of housekeeping KU received.
THE PLAN WAS to reduce the number of custodians from 15b by not hire people to replace those that quit; until the goal of 92 employees was reached.
The housekeeping department has the highest turnover rate of any department on campus, averaging 45 percent annually in recent years.
However, as the number of custodians decreased, custodians began to complain they were overworked and that they had not been supplied with new equipment as promised.
Lacile Lee, a custodian on the third and fourth floors of Fraser Hall, said, "The third and fourth floors have 32 rugs that I'm supposed to vacuum every day. They (American Management) said use common sense and clean what you can. Sometimes I can vacuum then only once every three or four weeks."
Lee said, "They gave me a plastic scrub bucket and took my metal scrub bucket. They gave me a new cart just like my old cart and gave me a new buffer to replace the old one."
ABSENTEESIM has averaged 10 percent daily for custodial jobs.
Currently there are 125 custodians for the RV campus, including 10 who were hired by the company.
The job descriptions for each employee says that the custodian should clean an office area, and maintain it. Under the contract between KU and American Management, the total work area to be covered on the KU campus is 2,776,765 square feet, and take 125 at the average rate.
But Ken Brouhard, business agent for Local 1422 of the Public Employee Service Union which represents the City and its Facilities Operations three years ago and approved by the Board
See CUSTODIAL page three
Politicians make last bids
TOPEKA (UPI)—Thirty-five major political candidates and hundreds of lesser contenders will launch today their final attempt to divert voter attention from baseball, hot weather, wheat prices and the grasshopper plague.
An estimated 352,000 Kansans are expected at the polls Tuesday to sort out congested U.S. Senate and congressional races and a close Democratic gubernatorial primary. Kansas has the first of the nation's late summer and fall primary elections.
Late informal poll, a handful of newspaper endorsements and talk among Kansas politicians indicated that Nancy Landson Kassebaum, 45, daughter of former U.S. President Fred M. Landon, might have gained a slim lead in the ninety-coup GOP U.S. Senate primary.
The race remained too close to call, but Kassebum appeared to have parlayed the Landon name, a moderate political stance and hey spending into a bid riveting two early campaigners with large bankrolls: Wayne Angell, a teacher, banker and farmer from Ottawa and Wichita businessman Sam Hardage.
OTHER REPUBLICANS seeking the being vacated by Sen. James Pearson, R-Kan, include Ses, Jan Meyers, R-Overland Park, and Norman Gaar, R-Westwood, Shawne banker and former Pearson aide Dylser Schueler, a restaurant owner, restaurant owner Kenneth Henderson and Stilwell livestock commission seller L. C. J. Fitzjurrell
On the Democratic side, former Rep. Bill Roy of Topeka is expected to win the Senate nomination over three other Democrats: securities broker James Mahesh Clerk Cork Dorothy K. White and real estate developer Roland Wes Preenhof of Wichita.
A similar easy victory is expected for
Gov. Robert Bennett, who is seeking reelection against the Rev. Harold Knight of Chanute and former state printer Robert Sanders of Salina.
John Carlin, speaker of the house, D-Smolim, is believed to have a slim lead in the Democratic gubernatorial primary over his opponent, Daniel Chaney, D-Hutchinson. Carlin has led campaign spending and built on his recognition as the first Democratic speaker of the House.
IT WILL NOT be known which candidate—if either—is hurt the most by the Lacy fly until the already close election is decided Tuesday. Rep. Martha Keys, D-Kan, the incumbent, is unopposed in the primary.
HOWEVER, WILES, former national commander of the American Legion, has spent a large amount on the race and hopes to gain the support of the traditional Democratic followers of former Gov. Robert Docking, Chaney, who has won the Republican nomination and has run a shoe-leather campaign and has built enough labor support to keep his hopes alive.
A last-minute mail campaign by a Teopak minister and family counselor stirred a confrontation between the second district GOP congressional candidates last week. The group, with 50,600 votes through the district attacking one candidate, Sen. Ron Hein, R-Teopak.
Although Lacy claims to be an independent operative and was strongly condemned by Hein's opponent, Jim Jelco said that his staff alleged possible collusion by Jeffries.
Lacy launched a similar last-minute tactic in 1974 that is credited by some for blunting Roy's attempt to oust Sen. Robert Dole, R-Kan.
In the only other contested congressional
primary, 11 candidates are stumping the 24-5-county fifth district. There are no clear leaders among either the five Republican or six Democrats.
Among the Republicans, Pittsburgh business Don Johnston, former Kansas House Speaker Dane S. "Pete" McGill of Winfield and former state Rep. Robert Whittaker of Augusta appear to be candidates who have been supported somewhat by an informal poll run by seven southeast Kansas newspapers.
It is uncertain what impact Chuck Pike of Emporia, a former aide to retiring Rep. Joe Skubitz, R-Kan, will have on the race. The fifth Republican, cattleman Roy Perkins of Howard, is considered the low man in the vote count.
In the Kansas House, 24 candidates, 17 Republicans and seven Democrats, drew no opposition. In addition, the winners of seven primary bottles, four Republican, three Democrat, are guarded House seats because they have no general election opponent.
The district's Democratic primary remains tangled. The candidates are Sens. Don Allegrucci, D-Pittsburg; James Francisco, D-Mulvane; former Moran banker Bank Dunnick; Coffeyville native Tom Boone, employee of a sales promotion company who lost to Skibitz two years ago; and Ed Phillips, a railroad conductor from Louisburg defeated in Kansas House and lieutenant governor bids in 1950 and 1970.
Three Democrats, Betty Paxson of Topeka, Richard Williamson of Overland Park and John Barnes of Cherryville, are flying for the chance to meet unopposed GOP Secretary of State Jack Brier in the general election.
Califano backs health insurance
WASHINGTON (AP) - HEW Secretary Joseph A. Califano Jr. said yesterday that President Jimmy Carter's national health insurance plan could be implemented without increase in cost to the federal treasury if acts to control escaping medical costs.
Califano, who unveiled on Saturday the principles underlying the plan, said the key would be to have the controls in place to hold down mounting costs.
is one of the 10 broad principles Califano announced.
Carter has proposed a hospital cost containment bill, but it has made little progress in Congress. Cost containment also
savings from cost containment would be enough to pay for the program, Califano
The 10 cost containment principles released Saturday were general and added little to promises Carter already has made. They wont cautious praise from the private insurance industry, which has long opposed national health insurance. It has backed OK Health, a leading advocate of national health insurance, called them unworthy of the title.
CALIFANO said that the principles form
a solid base for a national health plan and predicted that a coalition would form behind it because "we can't afford the present health care system."
He also said more than the 10 general principles exist.
"We have kidnid out four relatively specific plans, four prototype plans, for analysis purposes," Califano said. "We have done a phenomenal amount of staff work and will be going over very specific proposals over five or five months for various pieces of this."
Califano made his comments on the CBS television program "Face the Nation."