THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
Clear skies High in the 90s
KANSAN
The University of Kansas
Vol. 88, No.159
Monday July 3,1978
Lawrence, Kansas
Record in marathon goal of 5-year-old
Staff Writer
By CINDY McKELVEY
While other children will be shooting off firebackers tomorrow, 5-year-old Bucky CJN will be running the 26-mile Junction City Marathon.
Bucky, who weighs 40 pounds and is 3 feet, 10 inches tall, will be competing against adult marathon runners who average 130 pounds and 3 feet, 6 inches
kucky will be trying to break the marathon record for his age group, which his trainer, Ray Foster, said is six hours, 56 minutes and 29 seconds. Foster said he thought Bucky could run the marathon in 4½ hours.
yesterday.
"We run to keep our bodies healthy, but we don't push racing. That was all Bucky's idea."
Bucky ran Forster ran in the KU marathon in April and Bucky ran along for the first six miles.
"That's how Bucky got interested in marathons and racing," Foster said.
The boy's mother, Joni Maxwell, said that no one less than 14 could enter the KU marathon, so Bucky was not allowed on the track.
"We hope to change that next year," she said.
Foster said, "When Bucky became interested in running the marathon, we explained to him that he would have to set a goal for himself and work every day."
"He was willing to do it, so we started to run in training for the marathon as well as for our health."
Bucky runs about six miles every morning at a pace of 91/2 minutes a mile, according to Foster.
"he ran 18 miles last Saturday and could have run farther," Foster said.
could have hurt them. I should not
"He isn't even tired after running A
couple of deep breaths and he is fine. He doesn't even drip sweat."
Maxwell said her son started running $ 1 \frac{1}{2} $ years ago.
"He started watching when Ray and I would run at Allen Field House at 6 in the morning." Maxwell said. "He was 4 years old then and too young to stay alone. He would sleep by the track until he met interested in running."
he grounded Foster said they checked Bucky's heart rate regularly when he started running.
"So many parents are caught up in the Little League syndrome of coercing their children with negative motivation that they can't understand it when a child makes his own decisions to achieve goals." Foster said.
"At first he ran one third lap and we checked and recorded his heart rate," Foster said. "The next day he ran one fourth and gradually worked up to 11 miles and more."
10 to 15 minutes and make Foster said he and Maxwell encourage Bucky to run but do not push him to race.
Maxwell said that she, Foster and Bucky were vegetarians but that Bucky's decision to be vegetarian was not coerced.
"Our only emphasis is having a healthy body which includes having a good cardiovascular system. That's why we run and encourage Bucky to run."
"He also made his own decision about giving cup cake last August and pop just recently," she said. "He also doesn't add salt or sugar to the food he eats."
Foster said that running had never caused health problems for Bucky.
"In fact he is healthier than ever," he said. "He had chicken pox a few months ago and never ran a fever or got sick. It only slowed his time down six minutes."
Maxwell said that before Bucky started running he frequently suffered from poor health.
Bucky said it was not hard to run in the morning "because I try to run fast so I can get back home in time to see my mother before she leaves for work."
running dual
In preparation for a 28-mile marathon, Bucky Cox and his trainer, both of Lawrence, jog six miles every day. The marathon is being held in Junction City tomorrow.
Mideast ministers' talks endorsed
Mondale said, "I think it is fair to say that the Israelis have agreed to attend the London conference, but we have not yet receive final approval from the Egp-
JERUSALEM (AP)—VICE President Walter F. Mondale and Prime Minister Menachem Begin said yesterday that the next effort to revive stalled Middle East peace talks would be a proposed foreign conference with Egypt in London in mid-July.
Begin was less positive, saying that Israel first wanted to receive a new peace plan from Egypt and then would decide about a meeting. The meeting will occur after Israel has had time to look into the proposal by Favot. Begin said.
Later, at a state dinner, Mondale coupled a strong statement in support of Israel with the assertion that Israel must withdraw on all fronts and land occupied since the 1967 war.
"As we have often said, we are convinced that without eventual withdrawal on all fronts to boundaries agreed upon in negotiations and safe-guarded by effective security arrangements, there can be no lasting peace. We need a framework for lasting peace been so favorable; never have the dangers of failure been so great."
Mondale, who leaves Israel today for talks in Alexandria, Egypt, with President Awar Sadat, also criticized the Palestine Liberation Organization in his speech, mentioning the group by name. U.S. officials said it was the time to such a high-ranking in the Carter administration had publicly condemned the PLO.
"There is only one possible response by
civilized people to terrorism." Mondale
said. "We condemn PLO terrorism totally and absolutely. We condemn those responsible for acts of terrorism and those who claim credit for them."
U. S. officials said President Jimmy Carter had approved Mondale's speech.
Begin, who opposes Israeli withdrawal from the occupied West Bank of the Jordan River and the Gaza Strip, spoke before Mondale at the dinner. He then repeated that point of withdraw from those areas for security reasons but said the position was preoccupied with safety.
"This is the justice of our cause, to make sure that our civilian population—men, women and children—is not hurt," Begin said.
Mondale and Begin emerged from their meeting to face 200 chanting, whistling demonstrators in front of Begin's office. The demonstration was mounted by the rightist Gush Eminim movement, which steadily moved toward withdrawal from the occupied West Bank.
In Cairo, the Egyptian foreign minister, Mohamed Idrashi Kamel, said his government had not yet decided whether to attend the suggested meeting.
Begin did not dispute Mondale's statement that Israel had agreed to the proposed foreign ministers' meeting. However, he said, the Israelis hope the meeting will take place after the Egyptian peace proposals are analyzed.
"Mondale说，'I think it is fair to say
he has agreed to attend the London
conference."
But he said there was no agreement yet from Egypt.
Begain said, "We agree the peacemaking process should continue and negotiations should be renewed."
Kamel said Egypt had not yet received an invitation from Washington to the London
However, he said such a meeting should not be his presentation of its latest peace proposal.
Kamel said last week that Egyptian participation depended on Israel's formal reaction to the ISIS attack, but he said the plan would be given to the United States for relay to Israel within a day or two, raising the possibility that it will be sent back home when he visits Egypt in early Eygpt.
Blacks killed on Rhodesian farm
"Only then shall we decide on our next step," he said.
Mondale said of the projected London talks. "It would be at that meeting when we have the Egyptian proposals and the Israeli proposals," he said, in caps, and we would resume direct discussion."
The Egyptian plan is based on Sadat's suggestion that the occupied West Bank be returned to Jordan and the Gaza Strip to Egypt as the first phase of a settlement and that Israel security and the future of the occupied areas be negotiated later.
Israel has objected to the idea, saying that the return of the lands before negotiations start constitutes a precondition to peace talks.
MAYO, Rhodesia (AP) - Black gunmen raided a farm near this eastern Rhodesia town Saturday night, shooting and burning to death 14 blacks, including a mother and her five children. A survivor of the massacre said the killers were taking revenge on blacks warned against working for white farmers.
He said that he thought Carter should be presented with proposals before talking about compromises.
Kamel also said he was discouraged by President Jimmy Carter's suggestion Saturday that he might propose compromises to the talks start again.
"We are hopeful that it will take place," he said, "I cannot as yet say that it will."
Mondale cautioned that the London meeting was not a sure thing.
The husband, who identified himself as Charles, was wounded by shotgun pellets in the chest and an arm, but his teenage son was unharmed.
He said the raiders lined up nine farm workers, shot them and then shot another, a middle-aged man.
was unhitched.
The wounded nurses were hospitalized with gunshot wounds in Salsbury, 153 miles west of Boston.
"They said, 'We warned you last time when we burned the compound that you must all leave and you have stayed on,' " Charles said.
The attack came eight days after 13 whites were killed or fatally wounded in a raid on a mission in the eastern hill country of Rhodesia.
Charles said after that they ordered his
team to get them into one but, in
thickness and set the bat on his feet.
The white owner of the farm, who would identify himself only as Vic, was in Salisbury at the time of the attack. He was visiting his wife and two daughters, who were recovering from injuries received last week. The car deactivated a landmine on a farm road.
The raiders then forced Charles and a son into another hole, where they were shot at and the structure set afame, Charles said. The two escaped by crawling into the bush.
The area is about 50 miles from the border of Mozambique, the base for one of the two black guerrilla armies fighting to topple Rhodesia's biracial interim government.
Reporters asked Begin and Mondale about Carter's Saturday statement that the United Nations and the long-dormant Geneva peace conference were the ultimate fallback positions if Washington failed to mediate the Mideast conflict.
Other details of the attack were not immediately available.
Government officials blamed nationalist guerrillas for the slayings.
Begin said, "We read the statement and we understand it."
Four persons survived the latest attack. They were the husband of the slain mother, one of his sons and two other farm workers.
Mondale said that he thought Carter's statement had been misinterpreted and that Carter had not raised a Geneva conference as a current prospect.
Chilling effect seen in Bakke aftermath
The effects of the Supreme Court ruling on the Bakke case may be more psychological than legal, according to affirmative action directors at the University of Kansas.
"It may cause harm to affirmative action programs because it will be misinterpreted. Bomini, the director of the affirmative action for the Lawrence campus, said yesterday.
"The misinterpretation may be on the part of those who most need affirmative action and on the part of those with the responsibility to extend affirmative action."
Ritter said that she had received several calls from members of minority groups who expressed concern about the effects of the decision on affirmative action programs.
Melvin Williams, director of affirmative action at the University of Kansas Medical Center, agreed that the decision may have negative effects.
"The fact that Bakke won is to have a chilling effect," Williams said.
The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that Allan Bakke had been discriminated against in being denied admission to the University of California's medical school at Davis when less academically qualified minority students had been admitted.
But the court also said that other affirmative action admissions policies were not violated.
"Everyone knew that it was a reverse discrimination case. The fact that Bakke won may mean that some people won't look any further into what the rest of the decision meant, especially those who don't want to."
"I had assumed that Bakke would be admitted to U.C.Davis and, on this assumption, I had not hoped for the support of the chief artificially articulated in the decision," she said.
"The people who felt that they were mandated to have affirmative action programs may not feel as strong a need to have them," Williams said.
Williams said negative effects of the disease may be registered in the community.
"There's nothing at all in the decision that should harm affirmative action, but the misinterpretation may cause a loss of heart and a loss of momentum," Ritter said.
Ritter said, "Because the decision will be misinterpreted, those with the responsibility of extending affirmative action need to reinforce and rearticulate all of the reasons."
She said press coverage of the decision had been better than she had hoped for.
She said that the ruling was much more supportive than she had expected.
"The coverage has emphasized both aspects of the decision," she said.
Curt Schneider, attorney general,
speculated last week that another Supreme
our test case would make the same
student work more affirmative action
programs for employment.
Firefighter's leader doubts offer approval
Staff Writer
By DAVID LINK
nist household, the union's president, said yesterday that Mayor Donald Binns had accepted an invitation to appear before the union tonight to explain the provisions of the package but that he did not think union members were comfortable with it.
The president of Lawrence's firefighters' union does not think a two-year labor package announced by Lawrence city council on Friday will be approved by its membership.
Packages for both the city's firemen and policemen were hammered out by the City Commission in executive session Friday as declaring an immanence in their negotiations.
After hearing from both the policemen's and firefighters' representatives Wednesday, commissioners called for the special session at which to decide the issues.
According to last year's agreement, any impasses were to be resolved by the City Commission after holding public study sessions with both sides.
Design flaws being fixed in 1-year-old arts building
By TOM ZIND
Staff Writer
Design problems in the one-year-old Arts and Design building are being remedied this summer. Max Lacas, University director of facilities planning, said yesterday.
The ventilation system, which is required because of toxic fumes produced by ceramic and paintwork work, was not exhausting air properly in some areas. Lucas said.
Lucas said adjustments were made to allow the air to go through the ducts at a fraction of the building require that the air be changed at least five times an hour. Other areas, which produce more of the fumes, require a rate of air change of 20 times an hour.
He said the system also circulated air too quickly in some areas.
James Meeser, dean of the School of Fine Arts, said yesterday that there was a possibility of health problems occurring as a result of the fumes.
"The system in inadequate right tone, and I think that any time you have an inadequate "message there are potential problems," he said.
ventilation system there are potential problems," he said.
However, Mooser said he had not received any complaints from students or faculty conferring the fame.
concerning the table.
Lies disagreed that a health problem may exist.
Lucas disagreed that a health problem may exist. Moeser said that another problem apparent in the building's completion had been the lack of sufficient seating for the building.
the obstruction of the skylights through the air. He said air conditioning pipes rarested the skylights, obscuring the natural light and artificial lighting in the classrooms and studios.
and forcing the use of artificial light in the museum not to burden Messer also said there had been problems with part of the burial used to cover the gallery.
walks back to the building. The hurdle has been bunching up and sagging in some areas since the building was completed, according to Moeser.
completed, according to Moeser.
Lacus said workers had started to remedy the problem by injecting adhesive behind the hair.
Some of the problems, Moeser and he had been generally pleased with the new building.
building.
"Any complaints have to be in perspective because any new building will have problems," he said. "We have had a lot of little problems, but I'm convinced that we need to build that gives us superior space."
Meester said he was especially pleased with the new building because, for the first time, the visual arts department was housed in one building.
Previously the department had been scattered around campus, but Moesser said he regretted that the building had been located that it received little attention. He is now located at an art building
Oleen said he regretted that the building was light from the north, which he said was preferable for an art building. While repairs are being made on the new building, renovation plans for Fowler Hall and Desin Building, are under way.
the building directly behind the Arts and Design Building, are unavailable. Fowler Hall will be used to house creatures and in addition to the building located in Broadcasting Hall.
was hired to design a construction company had been hired and that renovation would begin within the month.
The agreement announced by Binns after Friday's session called for the policemen to get salary increases totaling 15 percent by 1980. The firefighters would receive increases totaling 12 percent in the same period.
Wage increases for the policemen will come in the form of a 4 percent across-the-board salary increase effective Jan. 1, 1979, an upward reclassification of officers, corporals and detectives, which will result in a 5 percent salary increase July 1, 1979, and a 6 percent across-the-board increase Jan. 1, 1980.
Firefighters were granted a 6 percent increase in the rate or an 12 percent total increase over the two years.
Knight said union members had voiced particular displeasure at the reclassification granted to the policemen. The same basic proposal was denied the police.
Commissioner Marnie Argersinger had said the reclassification of firefighters, requested in their Wednesday proposal, was because it was a last-minute proposal.
Wednesday's proposals from both unions had focused on a one-year agreement, although the voice and firefighter communities all expressed interest in a multi-year agreement.
Knight said that his group was not opposed to offering him but that it was the one offered by the group.
"The main problem is in keeping up with the cost-of-flow," Knight said. "With inflation jumping 10 to 11 percent a year, 6 percent just doesn't cut it.
"I think everybody, by that I mean the police and firemen, wants a guaranteed car," he said.
After outlining the agreement Friday, Binns told police union president Gary Sampion that the unions' only alternative to the government would be to work next year without one.
The uniformed employees would then presumably earn the same pay increase among city employee
Knight, however, cited another alternative if the agreement is turned down by
"We can either live without a memorandum of understanding, like the mayor said, or we can take it. If we can't, they're trying to draw us into some kind of conflict."
He declined to elaborate.
Before recessing into executive session Friday, commissioners generally agreed that this year's impasse procedures had not worked well.
we "think that there was an intent all along to carry this thing to impass and perhaps we should have expected that," Carter said. "Maybe what we need is an acceptable fair labor practice ordinance to prevent misunderstandings in the future."
Commissioners directed the city staff to begin work on such an ordinance and suggested the possibility of using outside mediators in future labor disputes.
mediators in that both unions said they are in favor of both a labor relations ordinance and the use of professional mediation.
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"We've been trying to get both for a long time," Knight said.