THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
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KANSAN
The University of Kansas
Monday July 24,1978
Lawrence, Kansas
Vol. 88, No. 170
stadium, find the task of installing the new aluminum seats in the stadium awkward work. All renovation work on the stadium is scheduled to be completed by Aug. 15.
Bottoms up
Two employees of Stadiums Unlimited, the company doing renovation work on Memorial
Syrian rockets bombard Beirut
BEIRUT (AP)—Syrian artillery, rockets and mortars bombed Christian districts of Beirut yesterday and Christian militias responded with rocket-propelled grenades and machine gun fire in the worst battle since the Syrian attacks earlier this month.
The Christian command said six Lebanese were killed and 50 others wounded. One soldier was killed.
The fighting broke out Saturday night in the Christian area of Hadassah on the southeastern edge of the city. It subsided briefly at midnight and ended by early evening.
must before dusk, the artillery and mortar fire extended to the nearby Christian quarters of Ashaheh, Ein Rummaneh and the Beirut port area. Rooftop snipers were firing between Ein Rummaneh and the Moslem neighborhood of Chivah, witnesses said.
The radio report said scores of houses, alarms and private cars were badly damaged.
Elias Sarkis, president of Lebanon, contacted the Syrian commander, Col. Sami al-Khatib, and insisted on an immediate ceasefire, the radio report said.
The Syrians maintain more than 25,000 soldiers in Lebanon as part of the Arab League peacekeeping army that temporarily halted Lebanon's civil war 20 months
ago. Syrian troops are present in all of Lebanon except the south, near the Israeli border, where U.N. soldiers moved in after an Israel invasion in March.
Ein Humannmann was badly bombed by
season gunsner earlier this month. Sariks
were shot in the stomach.
succumbed to intense Lebanese and international pressure to stay on.
The Syrians have denounced the Phalangists for their collaboration with Israel in the south and are demanding that the Christian militias submit to Syrian security control in Lebanon. The Christians demand that the Syrians leave the country.
Athletics director search narrowed to 7
Bob Marcum, associate director of athletics at Iowa State University, and Doug Messer, acting men's athletic director at the University of Kansas, said last night that they already had been interviewed by the search committee for a new KU men's athletics director.
Another candidate, John Novotny, director of the Williams Fund, which raises money for athletic scholarships, said that he had not been interviewed but that the search committee had expressed interest in him for the position.
Ralph Floyd, assistant athletics director at the University of Indiana, said he was being considered for the position but did not say whether he had been interviewed.
A source connected with the KU athletics program said that other candidates included Gale Sayes, the former KU running coach, and Dan Eggleston, Illinois University, Doug Weaver, the former Kansas State University football coach who is now athletic director at Georgia Tech, and a university athletic director who will be next year's president of publicity would endanger his current job.
The athletic director search committee is expected to complete its interviews of prospective athletes.
Four names from the list of seven candidates will then be submitted to Chancellor Archie R. Dykes, who is expected to make a final choice for the position in early August.
Harper sees lack of playing fields
By TOM RAMSTACK Staff Writer
Staff Writer
Unless new fields are made available, intramural sports will suffer a shortage of playing fields next year, according to Mike Harper, student body president.
"There are current plans for making the fields at 19th a women's athletics play practice area, eliminating additional in-person practice and the band's practice area," Harper said.
"FOR THE FALL, there exists the real possibility that we may have as many as 300 intramural football teams, and less than 10 available playing fields."
Harper said the Student Senate spent $37,054 for the intramural sports program last year, which involves about 17,000 KU students and faculty.
He said that the 19 fields been available for intramural sports, there would still be a shortage of space because of the number of participants in the program.
Tom Wilkerson, physical education instructor in charge of intramural programming, agreed that the construction had caused damage and said that that setting fields were adequate.
"As long as no future construction makes us lose some more fields, we should be able to accommodate all the intramural sports," Wikerson said.
Wilkerson said that additional playing fields at the 22nd and 100th street area were vacant.
commode the future needs of the intramural sports program.
THE CURRENT improvements to the fields at 23rd and Iowa streets, he said, include a new football field in the fall. The construction of the computation center had eliminated a hockey field and a softball field, and addition has eliminated two softball fields.
He said three of the fields at 23rd and lown streets would be used this fall if the fire was extinguished.
wilkerson said the recreation planning committee was considering proposals that would offset the shortage, including lighting the playing fields so games can be played at night, earlier sports seasons and additional game days.
The softball program was forced to use a tournament planning schedule in which losers were eliminated rather than participating in regular league competition, he
He said that during the 1977-78 school year, the softball program was most seriously affected by the shortage of playing fields.
He also said that during the 1978 fall semester, the rugby and soccer teams, each involving about 50 persons, probably would have to use the fields along 19th Street, although they were inferior to the 23rd and Iowa street fields.
The three fields at 23rd and Iowa streets that may be available in the fall probably would be reserved for the intramural group with involve about 4,500 participants, he said.
Wukerson said that, as a last resort, the University could lend some of the fields in this region to other colleges.
Fraternity project creates controversy
The community sponsor for the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity, Bob Radchiffe, said yesterday that because of a Penn House spokesman's actions, the fraternity would no longer be eligible to participate.
In a letter to the Kansan last week, the spokesman, Cindy Hagg, said the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity had failed to complete a service project that was recommended by their pledge class during September 1977. The project involved painting a house at Eighth and Missouri streets for an elderly widow.
RADCLIFE SAID Hagg's actions were regratifiable because of an agreement that the fraternity had with Penn House to finish the project in the fall and in light of the fact that they had not been able to complete it.
"We've had a very good relationship with Penn House in the past," he said. "There's not another organization that does so much for the community, and it's too bad this had to happen."
happier.
only takes one person to harm a good relationship. We've done quite a few projects, such as paying taxes for the elderly, in the past through Penn House, but now we'll have to do it with our own money.
Penn House is a nonprofit United Wav agency that serves low-income families.
Penn House is a nonprofit United Way agency that serves low-income youth. In the letter to the Kansan, Hagus and the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity failed to complete the project despite repeated urging from Penn House. According to Hagg, the work had been done completed during October 1977. Since that time, however, no further work had been done.
Radcliffe said the abnormally long winter, the fraternity's involvement in Rock Chalk Revue, finals and the fact that most of the members did not live in Lawrence in the summer, was one of the factors that kept them out.
"I flagg is leaving town and is concerned that the project won't be completed and I can understand that, but, to my understanding they had an agreement that the fraternity would finish it in August," he said. "I thought in my mind it was resolved. We had an agreement. I don't know why she is up in the air at this. We certainly can't finish it in
ACCORDING TO HAGG, there was an agreement to finish the project in the fall, but she got tired of waiting and decided to take steps to get the painting done this summer.
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Students double as migrant farm workers
By MARGARET SCHEIRMAN
Staff Writer
Many University of Kansas students lead double lives every summer. Although they might appear to be average students, there are times when they put on a mask and head for the corn fields as migrant farm workers.
"I doubt that I would be doing it if I didn't need the money," she said.
Joal Hetherington, Lawrence graduate student,
said he official job classification was a corn
miller.
"I like being outside, but it's hard work and you have to get accimated to the heat."
nettementing, along with many other high school and University students, detassels corn in fields outside Lawrence for the Garsr and Thomas Hybrid Corn Co of Coon Ranids, Iowa.
THE PURPOSE of detasseling is to keep one strain of corn from pollinating itself so that it can be harvested.
The corn that is detaselled is raised specifically for the seed, not for eating purposes.
Hetherington said that in one field she worked on, the strains were alternated every six rows. Those that to be pollinated by the other strain had to have their tassels pulled off a certain point of maturity.
where the leaves have all grown away and it opens up," she said.
Destasseling is very much seasonal work. Hetherington said that when workers were given a field, they were told when it must be finished. If it is not, the men under desired pollen can contaminate the entire field.
"There are leaves that go around the tassle, and you have to pull it out before it reaches the point
She said she worked for about two weeks near the end of June on some fields near the Lawrence airport and again in the last half of July or a farm near Locust Street in North Lawrence.
"That means that when you're on a job, you're not doing much else besides being out in the cowardice or trying to be nice."
There are basically two ways to organize corn
detassess workers—on a crew, or under individual
PRUDENCE SPAIN, Lawrence special student,
said she had worked under both arrangements.
"When you contract by yourself, you make more money, but also you're more responsible for getting paid."
"After detaseling, you have to check the rows.
Then a crew forman goes through to see if it can pass
"If a row flaws inspection, you have to keep going through and doing it over."
"Last summer I had to go through one section five times."
She said that for a field to pass inspection, it must be 99.4 percent clean.
"So for example, in a row with 2,000 plants, no more than 10 plants can have assets remaining if it is to grow."
In the afternoon when you’re tired, you start getting sloppy, and it’s easy to miss a few tassels.
Hetherington said, "The best times to detassel are early in the morning and late in the evening. But early in the morning, you get drenched because of the dew. It doesn't matter if it rains or not."
SHE SAID that in case of rain, workers were unable to work anyway if the maturity of the corn demanded it.
However, she said she had never had to work in the rain.
Spain said that she worked on a crew, she and 10 other people met at a field northwest of Lawrence at about 5:45 a.m., worked until 11 a.m., stopped for lunch and resumed working until about 1:30 each day.
She said her average hourly wage came to about $4.50, sometimes more.
"We were paid by the amount of work we did," she said. "Steve Glassman, our boss, figured out how many rows each person had done, and then divided the money proportionally."
Hetherington said that on the first field she worked in, she earned about $6 or $7 an hour because she and others who were working with her were able to finish the field quickly.
SPAIN AND HETHERINGTON said that they had detasselled corn in previous years and that they originally found out about it by word of mouth.
Spain said that she did not think Glassman advertised that but veterans or people who had heard of the attack.
Glassman has been a local supervisor for Garst and Thomas for about six years, she said.
we walk through the rows and have to lift the tassels straight up, which is hard now because the wall is too high.
Hetherington said the minimum payment for one acre was 477, with higher brackets for taller or more
It easily fits in the pocket of a Spoonflower. They wear them and they had never seen a fellow worker become seriously ill or suffer from heat.
"FROM TIME TO TIME we get complaints," Hetherington said. "People have felt sick, but no one has really gotten sick. It's mostly the heat that does it.
"We have salt tablets for anybody who wants them.
Spain said it was common for workers to get skin rashes, especially in the crease of the elbow.
we can take snacks for one or two jugs of something.
Hetherington said, "I got a few blisters at first, but the main physical problem was that the corn leaves are really rough and the edges are sharp.
"You get cuts and marks all over your face if you're not careful.
"You have to be completely covered up. We wore long sleeved shirts, and some people made wrist guards out of old socks, with holes in them for the thumbs.
*YOU HAVE TO WEAR jeans and sneakers, and some people wear there. There's no way you can get a jacket that way.*
She said that the rows were planted tightly together and that if a person stood with his arms down between two rows, he would usually be touching the corn plants on both sides.
parish but the Hetherington said that in spite of the discomfort, the job was worth it because it lasted only for short periods, the schedule was flexible and the pay was very good.
"It's been long enough now since I finished that I can remember it without pain," Spain said.