THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
Mostly sunny High in the 90s
KANSAN
The University of Kansas
Wednesday June 14,1978
Vol.88,No.149
Lawrence, Kansas
Administrators uncertain about protesters' identities
By TOM RAMSTACK Staff Writer
The University of Kansas will not discipline protesters at Yitzhak Rabin's April 6 speech in Hoch Auditorium because they are not sure who the protesters are.
A statement released yesterday by Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor, and David Ambler, vice chancellor of student affairs, said, "We have carefully examined the photographs and other information available to us and have not been able to identify any KU students or staff involved in disruptive activities. Consequently, our attorneys have advised us that we do not have sufficient information to proceed with disciplinary hearings for any member of the University community involved."
During the speech about 150 demonstrators, mostly Arabs and Irianians, tried to stop Rabin's speech by chanting and yelling. Rabin was interrupted at least
... was interrupted at least 26 times. The KU Police Department had one policeman taking pictures of the unruly protesters, which were to be used as evidence if students or faculty were disciplined by the University.
ACCORDING TO THE Student Records, Rights and Regents Regulations, if a student disrupts any University event and it is not to his/her own accord, it is appended to KU for as much as two years.
Problem was that the camera was not good." The decision not to take disciplinary actions was jointly made by Chancellor Archie R. Dykes, Mike Davis, University
general counsel, the KU Police Department,
Amber and himself, Shankel said.
The decision was unanimous,he said.
Shawat Hammoudhe, a member of the Organization of Arab students, said yesterday, "I don't think that we committed a crime against us and had a right to have a right to talk." We had a right to talk.
Shankel and Ambler's statement also said, "We intend to take all necessary steps to ensure that there is no recurrence of the disruptive activities which occurred at the Vickers Lecture during Mr. Rabin's presentation."
Sankel said, "I'm writing a letter to the University general counsel, the Chief of KU Police and the University Support Services team, and I'm helping for avoiding these problems in the future."
KUAC head search begins
With hopes of improving rapport with students, the six-member committee searching for a new KU athletic director met yesterday to begin its job.
The committee was appointed by Chancellor Archie R. Dykes to find a replacement for Clyde Walker, who announced his resignation as athletic director
According to the job description, the athletic director is responsible for "articulating to the public the goals of the men's athletics program and the University," in addition to establishing "positive relationships" with faculty, students and
WALKER HAS been criticized since 1974
by several student senators for ignoring the needs of students.
Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor said, in an earlier interview, that Walker's poor rapport with students had concerned him.
Shankel, chairman of the committee, said yesterday that committee members discussed goals and plans to advertise the position at the meeting.
"The ultimate goal of the search committee is to narrow down the applicants to three," Laura Pinkston, a member of the committee, said. "After that, Dr. Shankel and Chancellor Dykes will make the final choice."
The position, which begins after July 1.
will include a salary of $30,000 to $35,000 annually,
according to the job description.
snankel said earlier that letters and job descriptions had been sent to about 250 NCAA schools and 30 predominantly minority student institutions.
HE SAID 10 to 12 applications already had been received, but would not release the names of any applicants.
More than 100 applications are expected to arrive before the June 25 deadline, he said.
The committee is composed of Pinkston; Gerhard Zuhter, professor of English; Clark Coan, dean of foreign students; and Mike Harper, student body president.
Estimate of work delay varies
A delay of 13 months in improving seven KU playing fields at 23rd and Iowa streets will last until at least next fall, Mike Harper, student body president, said yesterday.
"It looks as if the project is going to be delayed for another year and I don't know if the students will stand for that," Harper said.
However, Keith Lawton, director of facilities planning, said yesterday that the work would be done during the next few weeks.
In spring 1977 the Student Senate allocated $7850 to have the seven playing fields regraded, sprinkler systems installed and the fields seeded with grass.
THE FIELDS are used by University of Kansas students for sports activities. But there had been complaints that the fields were dangerous with potholes that they were dangerous
Harper said he was told originally by the
administration that repairs would be completed by fall 1977.
Max Lacus, University director of facilities planning, said last month that the improvements would have to wait until spring or fall when grass seeds would be
Bob Still, a repair and facilities improvement firm in Austin, the seeds could not grow this summer.
"There would be little success with seeding even with sprinklers," he said. "We will get it seeded when everything is ready."
Harper said he was told by administrators that the delays were caused when other projects were given priority over the field improvements.
LAWTON SAID that construction contracts were in the final stages of a screening process and that work would begin as soon as the contract recipient was announced.
Harper said that the Student Senate decided in February to appropriate $12,000 for an architectural contractor to make the building so that biding on the project could begin.
The contractor was hired, Harper said,
become the university's vice too slow to
the plants in the plant nursery.
But Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor, said Lucas' resignation was not a problem because Allen L. Wiechert, associate director of architectural facilities planning, was providing continuity by temporarily taking over Lucas's responsibility.
"I'm afraid that with Max Lacus resignation it will get lost in the shuffle," he
Lacas' resignation, which Lacas announced June 1, will become effective July 3.
Shankel admitted, however, that there had been a delay.
Mike Reid, operations supervisor at the Kansas Union Bookstore, looks at construction that will provide increased space at the store. Summer hours at the bookstore are 8:30 AM to 5:30 PM.
Store stretch
Enrollment for summer increases
Summer enrollment on the first day of classes at the Lawrence campus increased by 376 from last year, but enrollment at the Kansas City campus declined by 186. Bob Burdick, director of the division of information for University Relations, said yester-
The total enrollment was 6,678 on the Lawrence camps this summer, compared with 6,302 at the same time last year, Burdick said.
Enrolment on the Kansas City campus declined from 1,374 last summer to 1,388 this year.
Burdick said the enrollment probably would increase by 700 to 900 within the next year.
The enrollment statistics and the class rosters were delayed until yesterday before enrolling.
RICHARD MANN, director of University information systems, said the problem was caused by a malfunction in the program and an attempt to be misinterpreted by the computer.
Mann said that repairs were not charged to KU because the IBM equipment was mal-
"IBM had to correct the problem and had to help us reconstruct our programs," Mann said. "It took a couple of days to figure out and a few hours Monday morning to fix it."
Mann said the problems were fewer than they might have been during the spring or fall, when temperatures were higher.
U.S.-Cuban relations deteriorate
WASHINGTON (UP1) - The United States and Cuba continued in hostile disregard today over whether Cuba tried to prevent the Katangese invasion of Zaire. A U.S. spokesman says efforts to improve relations between the two countries are in abeyance.
The administration maintained its refusal to reveal its evidence that the Cubans prepared and trained the Katangans in preparing to try to stop their May invasion of Zaire.
President Jimmy Carter was certain to face a barrage of questions about the situation, along with other questions about his leadership and preparedness and broadcast conference news.
An administration official said Cuban Prime Minister Fidler Castold Troul ed U.S. envoy Lyle Lane May 17 that he had heard about preparations for the Shaba invasion and had warned Angolan leader Agostino Neto that it should not take place.
THE OFFICIAL, said Castro had said he had not any involvement with the KKK in Skupin's group.
Two days later, the official said, Lane told a Cuban diplomat that if Castro's assurances were not true the United States would view it with concern.
Rep. Stephen Solarz, D-N.Y., who met with Castro for seven hours Monday, told reporters yesterday that Castro said a political solution was not possible in Angola.
"The mission of Cuba in Angola is to protect it from foreign aggression," Solarz quoted Castro as saying, "and there needs to be Cuban troops in Angola as long as the situation is unstable in Zimbabwe, Nambia and South Africa."
THE UNITED STATES estimates there are more than 40,000 Cuban troops and military advisers in Africa, most of them in Angola — about 23,000—and Ethiopia.
Solarz said Castro had no plans to withdraw from the Ogaden in the Horn of Africa because fighting continued there and it was impossible for him to be termed expansionist designs on Ethiopia.
improving U.S.-Cuban relations had now stopped.
"Castro quite openly and explicitly acknowledged the fact that Cuba was providing advice and training and logistical assistance to the liberation forces in Zimbabwe, Namibia and South Africa," Solarz said.
"The normalization process is in a state of
attenuation at this point and is not likely to go
any further."
Despite deep U.S.-Cuban differences over Africa, the State Department made clear yesterday that the administration had no plans to cut its only link with the Castro regime—the U.S. diplomatic interest section in Havana.
Jody Powell, White House press secretary, said yesterday that the process of
Israel retreats from Lebanon
MIS-AL-JEBEL, Lebanon (AP)—Israel lifted its flag and pulled its troops out of southern Lebanon yesterday, ending a 91-day occupation. Lebanese Christian allies and U.N. peacekeeper forces agreed to埋设 a security bolt north of Israel's border.
An Israeli army spokesman in the border of Metallah said the withdrawal was casual.
The U.N. Security Council had demanded that Israel pull out of southern Lebanon and into Syria, a move the United Nations said.
Dale McKinney waits or prospective customers to take a tour
at Satin's in a benefit carnival being held this week
Staff Photo by ALAN ZLOTKY
west of Daisy Hill. The carnival opens at 5 p.m. and runs through Sunday.
Carnies run portable playground
By MARK L. OLSON
Tonight, and every night this week through Sunday, the parking lot will be filled with carnival creations bearing such names as Rock-0-Plane, Astro-Liner and Moon-
Staff Writer
Part of the proceeds from the carnival, arranged in cooperation with the Lawrence Lodge No. 2 of the Fraternal Order of Police, will help defray the hospital costs of Lloyd Jones, a policeman who was seriously injured April 20.
When the University of Kansas is in session, the Daisy Field parking lot on the west side of Iowa Street is usually full of students' cars.
JONES WAS struck by a car while directing traffic around the scene of an accident in the 1800 block of Massachusetts Street.
For those who venture into this portable playground, the whirling lights and clanging bells mean a break in the monotony that surrounds mass community during the summer months.
But what of the people who bring these evenings of entertainment to thousands of kids of all ages? What does the carnival mean to them?
"YOU CAN just about live on what you
It means a diet of fast food takeouts and a budget in which expenditures equals income.
It means more than 16,000 miles a season spent on the road, traveling from one town to another.
make," Bill Hedges, 22, of Fort Lauderdale,
Fla., said yesterday.
Hedges and his brother Paul, 20, have been with the Hale's Shows of Tomorrows for more than a year.
"You consider that you spend about $10 a day just for meals," Paul Hedges said, and you don't even eat anything good." So if it's not the money that keeps many of these people, and even some families, coming back year after year, what is it?
"It gets in your blood after a while," the older Hedges said. Hedges "great grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Fern Hale, owned the house," he added. Jim Moller bought it from his last year.
This routine may go on for weeks.
Roller, of Hot Springs, Ark., spent 25 years in the carnival concession business before he obtained the show, which covers a territory from Texas to Nebraska.
DURING THOSE months, the show makes what is known as "circus jumps," an old circus term that describes the intense pace of the carnival. Circus jumps involve putting on a show in one city, often from noon to midnight. When you enter the 38 trucks that carry the rides, drive all night without sleep to another city, and reassemble it.
Hedges said the Hales' show, which originated out of Lenox, where Fern Hale, 85, still resides, does most of its business during September and October.
"You get to the point where you look for any place to sleep that doesn't have wheels
Although carnivals have traditionally traveled in convoys along the highways, Bud Altieri, promoter of the show, said that convoys are no longer used.
"We used to travel in a convoy, but that's not safe for highway travel any more." Altieri said. "If you get one truck that has to go slow up a hill, then you have 20 or 30 trucks following him that have to go just as slowly.
"WE ALSO have a mechanic, who is the last one to leave."
"We call him the caboose."
Instead, Aliieri said, each part of the carnival is free to move on as soon as it is.
The reception the carries receives when the arrive at its new site is a different mutant.
"It's true that there really is a prejudice towards the carnival." Bill Hedges said.
Paul Hedges agreed.
"WHEN THE CARNIVAL goes into town," he said, "the first thing that will be the motels will put out their 'No Vacancy' signs, the bathrooms in gas stations will suddenly go out of order and laundermats will close up."
Hedges said he thought the media had a lot to do with the image of the carnival being displayed.
"They have an image in their minds already," he said, "Television crews go right past us young people and look for the seediest guy they can find to interview."
"We run a clean show," he said. "We've even been called the Sunday School Show."