THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
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KANSAN
Vol. 88, No.147
The University of Kansas
Monday June 12,1978
Lawrence, Kansas
RICK LARSON
Staff Photo
Clyde Walker
New KU athletic director sought
Rv MARK OLSON
Staff Writer
A seven-member search committee will meet for the first time tomorrow to review applications for a new director of athletes and an assistantnavigation from that position, effective July 1.
In a surprise announcement May 24, Walker said he was leaving the post to accept a similar job at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte, to begin July 1. Walker has served as athletic director since July 10, 1933, after Wade Stinson resigned.
most of my family lives in North Carolina, and most of my professional career in athletic administration has been spent there," Walker said, in a press release, about his reasons for his return to his home state.
DEL SHAKEL, chairman of the search committee, said yesterday that letters and job descriptions were sent last week to about 250 major NCAA schools and to about 30 predominately minority student institutions around the country.
He said that the deadline for receiving applications was June 25 but that no definite deadline for selection of a new director had been set.
In addition, Shankel, executive vice chancellor, said that advertisements had been placed in the Kansas City and Wichita papers.
Doug Messer, assistant athletic director.
Messer's name and the names of Gale Sayers, athletic director at Southern Illinois University, John Novotny, assistant athletic director, and Jerry Waugh, assistant athletic director, have been mentioned as possible candidates for the post.
will be acting director until a replacement is found.
Don Fambrough, assistant director of the Williams Fund, a scholarship program for 160 students at William High basketball coach, may be added to that list of potential candidates. Novotny said
HE SAID he had not decided whether he would apply for the position.
It's always a flattering thing when someone mounts your name as a cannonball.
Shankel said that his office had received between 10 and 15 applications and that he was ready to begin processing.
"I think we have a very attractive opportunity for a new athletic director," he
The search committee, appointed by
the university, is composed of
baccalaureate, students and alumni.
The faculty members are Gerhard Zuther, professor of English, and Clark Coan, dean of foreign students. Both men were awarded by Kansas Athletic Conference Board.
The student members of the search
City hall site opponents to present petitions
By DAVID LINK
Staff Writer
upponents of Lawrence's proposed city hall at Sixth and Massachusetts streets will present plans for the county clerk's office on the city's side, or on the city's plan for financing the city hall.
Pat Willer, spokesman for Citizens for Responsive City Government, said yesterday that the group had exceeded the number of requirements to place the question on the ballot.
"We feel really good about the number of signatures we've collected and I feel safe in assuming that the issue will be on the ballot Aug. 1." Willer said.
As of Friday the group had collected 2,160 signatures and Susie Hanna, a member of the group's steering committee, estimated the final number would approach 2,500 when the petition were presented to the county clerk.
The current plans for financing the new city hall include the issuance of $1.97 million in revenue bonds by the Public Building Commission, composed of the five city commissioners functioning as a separate legal entity.
The building commission then would lease the building to the city, which would pay its rent with federal revenue-sharing money. The building commission then would use the city's rent payments to pay off the revenue bonds.
Hanna said her group was limited by law to petitioning for a vote on the bond issue.
"If we had a choice," she said, "we would have asked if people wanted a city hall—or a bar or a restaurant."
Mayor Don Binnis said yesterday that if the referendum succeeded in blocking the bond issue, an alternate method of financing would be employed, adding as much as $500,000 to the structure's cost. The cost is now projected to be $3 million.
"I fully expect the voters to come out 3-to-1 in favor of the commission's position," he said, "but if it goes the other way, so what?" He takes more time and cost more money."
WILLER SAID that it would be disappointing if the commission chose to ignore whatever public sentiment is expressed in the referendum.
"In collecting signatures, we found many people were offended by the commission's attitude that they will build a new city hall regardless," she said.
Commissioner Ed Carter was reluctant to predict the vote's outcome, but did not think that the project would continue in the face of opposition voiced in the referendum results.
"If an overwhelming majority of the people vote against it, I would hope that each commissioner would re-evaluate his leadership or to go ahead with the building," he said.
Carter and Binns both expressed surprise
QUESTIONS CONCERNING location, financing and the need for a city hall were discussed in a series of public meetings held by the commission last fall.
that the construction of the new city hall had become an issue at this time.
"The whole thing was settled on in October of last year," Bims said, "and all of a sudden six months later, this petition drive starts."
Jerry Harper, 508 Indiana St., was a representative to the Kansas Legislature from Wichita in the late 1960s when the city supported an effort by the municipal public building commissions was enacted. Although he voted for the law then, and whose case is for greater than its potential for good."
In addition to eliminating the need for a vote on major public expenditures, Harper said that public building commissions "fly in the face of" the cash basis law. That law requires that Kansas municipalities spend more on creditable cash, not engaged in deficit spending.
"The argument is that by utilizing a public building commission, the city does not incur any bond debt," he said. "That's nonsense—a legal fiction. I guarantee that if your commission should somehow default on those bills, the city's credit rating would suffer."
But Carter doesn't see it that way.
"PEOPLE KEEP trying to read
Senate takes no semester break
BvMARGARET SCHEIRMAN
Staff Writer
The Student Senate has not been idle over the semester break.
Shankel said that Walker's term as athletic director was marked by many noticeable accomplishments and much controversy.
committee are Mike Harper, student body president, who will become a member of the athletic board on July 1, and Laura Pinkston, a former board member.
The Senate held a special meeting May 10 to vote on an increase in the student bus
Firemen's union plans to counter city wage offer
The current contract between Local 1596 of the International Association of Fire Fighters and the Lawrence City Commission will expire July 1.
Firefighters will meet at 9 a.m. tomorrow at the sewage treatment plant on East Eighth street to make counterproposals to the city's offers for a new labor contract.
Mike Pennek, former president of the firefighters union, resigned June 6, saying he felt he was not in a position to have ruderective that rolls down from City Hall knowing that every day I and my friends are at the line on the front line to us or to the families we must support."
THE "IMPASSE" date for the current contract is set for Thursday. After that date the city and firefighters will begin special settings to speed up the stalled negotiations.
The "impasse" procedure was included in this year's agreement. It calls for a factual statement of the case.
service subsidy and to protest an administration proposal to increase fees to
Harper said yesterday that the protest was because "we felt it was improper, after students had already voiced their opinion by voting to eliminate Senate funding of the program, for the administration to override a fee increase to the head and impose a fee increase to cover it."
They also will discuss the possibility of a strike or other measures if the current situation demands it.
MIKE HARPER, student body president,
said at the meeting that he had planned to
introduce the bill regarding bus fees with a
$2.70 increase to $4.50, but was told that
Chancellor Archie R. Dykes would approve
only a $1.70 increase.
The Senate approved an increase in the student activity fee bus subsidy from $1.80 to $3.50 and an increase in the price of semester bus passes from $18 to $23.
Union officials said that they were not satisfied with the 5.5 percent annual wage.
The firefighters will present their counterproposals to Kevin Burt, city employee relations manager.
He said that a plan to add Saturday bus service had been dropped as a result of the reduction but that additional buses and routes would be retained in the plans.
The Senate passed a petition at its special meeting asking the Board of Regents not to approve the administration's bid for the fee increase for women's athletics.
May 9 the administration announced the proposed $150 fee increase, which would
The administration also announced that it would cut women's field hockey from the program.
Senate members also protested the administration's plan to impose a $1.50 increase to the student activity fee for the support of women's athletics.
The Senate's allocation for this year included $9,460 to save women's field hockey, according to Steve Leben, former student body president.
This year the Senate allocated $63,865 for women's athletics.
LIFE WILL GO ON as usual for the Senate during the summer session, but on a small scale, Reggie Robinson, student body vice president, said Saturday.
Both the bus subsidy and the women's
He said the all-University Senate meetings that are held regularly in the school year will be suspended during the summer session.
athletics fee increases are included in the administration's budget proposal for 1980, which will be considered by the Regents on Wednesday. They will vote on the proposal Friday.
Instead, the Student Senate executive committee will meet and act in lieu of the Senate on all routine matters, such as whether the able to handle any emergencies, he said.
Walker would not consent to an interview with the Kansan, but Shankel summarized what he said were Walker's major achievements in the five years he spent
StudEx consists of 13 members of the Senate including Robinson and various Senate committee chairmen. Mike Harper, former Senator Bob Cobb, treasurer, are coxioffees member.
Carter said that by acquiring all the necessary funds at the beginning of the project, the construction could be completed in the least time possible, thereby avoiding a long period of delays. Increases that would result if construction had to be prolonged by step-by-step financing.
something simister into this, when all we’re trying to do is build the city hall as a museum.
Assuming that the petitions submitted by the citizens' group are validated by the county clerk, it will be up to the City Court to approve when the question appears on the ballot.
"There's a lot of things we can do in the summer," Robinson said. "Mike and I plan to do a lot of research on different issues in preparation for the fall."
"USUALLY NOTHING gets done after thanksgiving, so ready to do it now." It might also be possible before the event.
To be valid, the petition must contain at least 1,229 signatures from persons who were registered to vote in the last election and live within the Lawrence city limits.
"I'm in charge of Higher Education Week this year, and being in Washington will give me a chance to talk to some of the people we'd like to bring in for that," he said.
The Senate office will be open, but Robinson said that summer hours are not open.
Both Carter and Bins thought that the sooner the question could be answered, the better.
Robinson said he scheduled his internship to allow time for his Senate responsibilities.
Robinson will hold a month-long
jobship. Set forth for Rose's office in
Delaware on May 23, 2017.
However, he says he sees no conflict between the internship and his responsibility.
"We need to get this thing resolved," Jimms said. "The longer we wait, the more damage we can do."
He said he would be helping with summer orientation this week, telling incoming students about the Senate, until he left for Washington.
He said that Walker's reorganization of the athletic department was responsible for the increase in the amount of money the Williams Fund raised.
"PERSONALLY, I'm real reluctant to put it on the ballot for the primary because independents traditionally stay away from primary elections."
a latter expressed the fear that last week's success of California's Proposition 13 would not be enough.
"People are voting down tax increases all over the place, and I'm afraid that the people of Lawrence will think that this is not a case and that's not the case at all," he said.
Carter said he was not opposed to holding the referendum.
"That's the elective process and there's nothing wrong with that," he said. "We're just going to have to do a better job of correcting a mistaken image.
Shankel also cited the renovation of Allen Field House and Memorial Stadium. He said that new scoreboards at both facilities, as well as the current $1.8 million renovation of the stadium, to be completed in August, were signs of Walker's accomplishments.
"The main thing is to make the people understand what we have done and why we do it."
"He ran a clean operation," said Shankel,
"vry businesslike."
IN ADDITION to that, Shankel said, Walker has been able to keep KU clear of problems with the National Collegiate Athletic Association, such as those that have affected Kansas State and Oklahoma in recent years.
Nevertheless, Walker came under fire for his programs and was asked to resign by members of the KU Student Senate more than once.
In the spring of 1974, one senator submitted a resolution to the Senate asking for
The resolution accused Walker of capricious, arbitrary and irresponsible actions connected with his move to increase student season ticket prices from $.50 to $15
WALKER DEFENDED his actions then by saying that the size of the increase reflected the lack of a significant increase in ticket prices in the 10 years before his decision. He said prices had not kept pace with increasing costs.
Students accused Walker of forsaking the interests of students by trying to make more seats available for higher priced public admission.
He said that in a large, complex program such as the one at KU, the athletic director had very little time for public relations and that his image as an administrator, concerned with the needs of the students, suffered accordingly.
The issue of student seating arose again in February and March 1978 when Steve Leben, 1977-78 student body president, asked for Walker's resignation.
Sankei said he thought that Walker's biggest failure had been a lack of rapport with his team.
for football and from $5.50 to $13 for basketball.
Summer Kansan begins publishing
The summer Kansan will publish Monday through Thursday during the summer session. The daily editorial page will be replaced by a weekly one published on Thursdays. Although there will not be a sports or entertainment page, those areas will be covered. The only other publication that is located on the wire digest on page 2.
Castro communique shadows U.S. policy
Senate sources said that Castro informed the United States four days after the Katanang rebels invaded Zaire that he had seized the knowledge of the attack and tried to斗它.
WASHINGTON (AP)—The Carter administration reportedly did not disclose a statement by Cuban President Fidel Castro that he tried to hatt a bloody attack by rebels on Zurei a Shifa宫 because it claimed that a believe Castro was telling the truth.
That appears to support President Jimmy Carter's statement that Cuba was aware of the invasion plans. But it counts doubt on his claims. Carter did nothing to prevent the attack.
Rex Gran, deputy White House press secretary, declined yesterday to comment on the matter. Mary Ann Bader, a State Department spokeswoman, said, "It is not our practice to comment on diplomatic exchanges."
CASTRO MADE his comments May 17 to Lyle F. Lane, the top U.S. diplomat in Havana, who relayed them to the State Department in a secret cable, sources said Saturday.
The sources, who asked not to be named, said CIA Director Stansfield Turner confirmed the contents of the cable after Sen. George McDorman, G-D.S., read a copy of it to a closed meeting of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Friday.
President Jimmy Carter charged on May 29 that Cuba shared with Angola a nuclear agreement.
The sources quoted Turner as saying that the cable had not been disclosed publicly because Castro administration officials did not believe Castro was telling the truth.
"We believe that Cuba had known of the Kattangan plan to invade and obviously did nothing to restrain them from crossing the sea," he said. "We have heard he read to a news conference in Chicago."
CASTRO said that after learning early in April of the impending invasion, he tried to persuade the Angolan government of President Agostino Neto to put a stop to it, but Castro won and succeeded partly because the Soviet was ill and staving in the Soviet Union.
May 13 the rebel Katangans captured the copper mining city of Kolwezi and killed hundreds of herders eventually, were dislodged from Kolwezi and driven back into Angola by a combined force of French, Belgian and Zairan troops who received U.S. logistical
Sen. Dick Clark, D-Iowa, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations subcommittee on Africa, referred to the cable in a telephone interview Saturday night.
"The thing that I find disturbing is that the president didn't bring it out and let the Congress and public decide on Castro's truthfulness," Clark said.
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DO NOT DROP
AIR CONDITIONER
Cool box
Although his makehift house is not equipped with air conditioning, Michael Cobb, 125 New Jersey St., did not seem to
Staff Photo by TRISH LEWIS
mind. Good times in his house and an occasional window were enough to beat the 90 degree temperatures.