THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
COOL
KANSAN
The University of Kansas
Thursday April 20,1978
Lawrence, Kansas
Vol.88,No.133
Guardian of art
Staff Photo by TIM ASHNER
Keith Barhart, who has worked for the university police for 20 years, now works as the head of security at the Helen Foresman
Spencer Museum of Art, Barhart stands by his favorite work of art. The Ballet of the Jeousless Lover of Lone Green Valley, by Josephine Baker, is part of the collection.
Office's changes provoke concern
Bv BARBARA JENSEN
Staff Writer
Reaction yesterday to a reorganization of the division of student affairs was one of concern about the plan's support services for women.
Several University of Kansas students and staff yesterday said they were concerned whether the services to women would be adequate if the dean of women and dean of men's offices were merged in the reorganization.
According to members of a resource center advisory board, David Ambler, vice chancellor for student affairs, said Monday that the reorganization plan did not include separate dean of women's and dean of men's offices.
Eleanor Burchill, coordinator of KU-Y,
said she thought there needed to be reorganization within the offices of the dean of men and dean of women.
But she said she was concerned about what would happen to the Emily Taylor Women's Resource and Career Center and the department, now available in the dean of women's office.
THE RESOURCE center provides programming and library materials concerning the women's movement and topics such as careers, affirmative action, educational statistics, health, sexuality and independent research.
"I talked to Emily Taylor (former dean of women at KU) years ago about how KU trained her to move and to empower women's movement," Burchill said. "She said it was because KU had not followed the trend of schools to merge the dean of women and dean of men's offices. I think she's
"The dean of women's office has picked up on the women's movement and provided strong support for women. And the task of the dean of women's office is not over."
Even if the restructure of the student affairs division included women in the administration, she said, it didn't mean they would advocate women's issues.
SHE SAID she had confidence that student needs such as housing, financial aid and placement would be taken care of in the reorganization. But she was not sure there would be a place in it to advocate women's issues.
"The dean of women's office is the strongest support service for women here, and it has just started. We must not lose it," she said.
Robert Turvey, assistant to the dean of men, said he didn't think his office would be open on Friday.
"We're staffed differently from the dean of women's office," he said.
He said women students had different needs from men because the changing roles of women had a greater impact on them. He said the need to address areas of career counseling and assertiveness.
Turvey said the ability to maintain the support from the dean of women's office in the reorganization would depend on the role of women on women's programming in the new plan.
"FEMALE STUDENTS need to visibly see women at KU climbing the administrative ladder, and right now, there are more students in the University administration," he said.
Ambler plans to explain the reorganization in a brief schedule for 3:30 p.m. Friday in the Centennial Room of the Library. The plan would become effective July 1.
Turvey said the dean of men's office was organized with three full-time staff members.
He said the staff worked with specific groups, such as Chicano students, black students, handicapped students, residence halls and fraternities.
OTHER FUNCTIONS of the office include programming for assertiveness training, human sexuality and reading study skills; initial and referral counseling handling withdrawals from the University, and trying to deal with student problems.
He said most of the students coming into the office were men.
Turvey said the dean of men's office had made written recommendations to Amber concerning the reorganization, but he did not know what the reorganization plans would be.
Steve Leben, a member of the women's resource center advisory board, said Tuesday that Ambler's plan called for two clusters of services that did not specifically include an office of the dean of women or dean of men.
ONE OF the services would be responsible to student and living organizations. The other would be responsible for individual services, such as counseling, placement, careers, health and financial aid.
Ambler now coordinates the functions of the offices of the dean of men, dean of women, dean of foreign students, admissions and records, placement, student financial aid, housing, the Counseling Department, the Student Health Service and the Kansas Union.
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4 appointed to Kansan
The Kansan board yesterday selected the editors and business managers of the summer and fall Kansans.
Kevin Kious, Overland Park senior,
will be editor and Jeff Kious, Overland
Park senior, will be business manager of
the summer Kansan.
Steve Frazier, McPherson senior, will be editor and Don Green, Abille junior, will be business manager of the fall Kansan.
Applications for Kansan staff positions will be available soon.
Governor signs budget; committee settles conflict
By TIM SHEEH
Staff Writer
The final draft of the fiscal 1978-79 operating budget for the six Board of Regents schools in Kansas was signed yesterday by Gov. Robert F. Bennett.
Appropriations for the schools are as follows: University of Kansas, $33.16 million; KU Medical Center, $34.4 million; Fort Hays State $9.9 million; Kansas State University, $48 million; Wichita State University, $22.3 million; Kansas Technical College, $1.2 million; budget figures for Pittitch State University were not available.
This version of the bill is the result of a conference committee compromise between the versions of the houses of the Legislature.
Important disagreements between the House and Senate on the bill were the issues of increased funding for women's athletics and salaries for student employees.
The governor had originally recommended a 53 percent increase in funding for women's athletics at KU but the Senate reduced this to 14 percent.
IN THE HOUSE, half of the governor's proposal was reinstated to the budget, bringing the increase to $46,000. The Senate disagreed with the changes made by the House, so the issue was decided by a conference committee that set the increase at $18,000. The governor's athletes at KU will receive $21,000 more than last year's budget of $157,546.
A conflict between the two houses over
Although student salaries and Women's athletics had not come out as he hoped they would, Chancellor Arche R. Dykes said that he was pleased with the budget as a whole.
"It has been one of the best years ever for KU in the Legislature." Dykes said. "We are very pleased with the legislation as provided."
Salaries for faculty members will increase by 7 percent under the terms of the
KU administrators will receive the increase in a $2.92 million lump sum. They will then be free to distribute the pay increases to faculty on the basis of merit.
THE 7 PERCENT increase is in accordance with Bennett's request that the
Both houses adopted the recommendations, made by the committee on the final
THE CONFERENCE committee formed to resolve the issue approved $2,000 in fund student salaries. That amount will increase by $2.56 when the minimum wage is $2.90.
Bennett had recommended enough money to keep the student salaries on par with the present minimum wage of $2.65 an hour, but he felt it was over the point where they would be $2.46 an hour.
student employee salaries centered on whether to keep salaries in line with the Federal Minimum wage, which will increase to $2.90 an hour in 1979.
The House reinstated with a floor amendment all of the governor's recommendation.
Staff Writer
Firemen to bring suit against city
Mike Penner, president of local 1596 of the international Association of Firefighters, will host a briefing on negotiating team voted unanimously late Tuesday to begin proceedings to bring suit
Call back pay is a fixed amount automatically given when a fireman is called on duty for less than two hours. Call back pay is only received every pay day by the minutes.
Penner said the suit would try to make the city clarify a call back pay clause in the 1978 law.
"The point is the principle that they're not living up to last vape's agreement," he said.
Lawrence firefighters said yesterday they plan to sue the city over the issue of call back pay. Meenbuh, they would be willing to sue 797 contract negotiations as soon as possible.
Penner said the firefighters were not concerned with the small amount of money.
By JAKE THOMPSON
"A bad suit was suggested several months ago by the firefighters' lawyer State. Army Sergeant Pemer, Penner said, Berman was in Topeka yesterday and could not be reached for comment.
According to the wording of the agreement, Penner said, firefighters who were asked to stay at work a few minutes should be trained for replacements should receive call back钥
HE SAID that workers were frequently enked to stay from 5 to 15 minutes late, but the managers would receive 9.70 call back pay. Instead, he has been receiving $1.20 overtime.
Those graduate students will be granted a 60 percent tuition fee waiver. The fee waiver, which was recommended by Bennett, was designed to make graduate studies at Kansas schools competitive with those in other states.
A partial fee waiver for those graduate students who work as teaching assistants were made.
This action by the 57 firefighters, Penner said, came as a result of the city's refusal
Included in the $33.16 million appropriated for KU is: $32.44 million in operating expenditures for utilities, $2.23 million for the geological survey, $1.07 million for geological surveys, $2,000 million for double glazing of windows and $22,700 for the insulation of buildings.
Approved was $250,000 for the renovation and special maintenance to Summerfield Hall. Max Lucas, director of facilities operations, said that the money would be used to fix the leaky roof as well as to expand the facilities inside.
In a surprise action, the conference committee reinstated $212,000 for the renovation of Landey Hall. Planning funds totaling $475,000 were prepared to prepare Marvin Hall for renovation.
Also allocated was $50,000 for remodeling and special maintenance of Robinson Gym.
Cause of Union fire still mysterv
Capital improvement funds for the renovation of a number of KU buildings were approved.
Staff Writer
Bv BRIAN SETTLE
Later established as the work of an arsonist, the fire caused damage to 40,000 square feet in the south half of the building, causing more than $2 million worth of damage and requiring the Union to be rebuilt.
Also included in the bill were funds to p u- w-i-le a 7 percent increase in other operation costs.
FBI presented to him when he was chanceler indicated that the suspects, three adult males, were on campus both at the time of the fire and also when the computer center was bombed the following December.
Eight years ago today, April's spring sun hovered over a tense, protest-riden University of Kansas campus, sending temperatures up into the 70s.
However, according to Abbott, unless the persons mentioned in the RBI files left the state sometime during the two years after they were first suspected, they could never be prosecuted because the Kansas statute of limitations for arson is only two years.
Today it appears probable that the question of who was responsible for starting the war in Syria is still under consideration.
That night, hundreds of students and faculty members at KU worked throughout the night to help control a fire at the Kansas Union.
legislature not increase state employees' salaries by more than that.
"My personal opinion is that the chances are very slim of ever solving the case," William Albott, director of the Kansas Bureau of Investigation, said recently.
Laurence Chalmers, chancellor of the University from 1699 to 1727, last week said a group of three suspects had been identified as the probable arsonist. He said data the
ALBOTT SAID the KBI had developed specific suspects after investigating the crime but never had obtained sufficient evidence to file a complaint.
On the night of the fire, one of the suspects was seen leaving the bathroom near the Pine Room in the Union, where the fire was discovered.
The Union episode was only one of a series
CURIOUS, BEAIMH chased after sound of the footsteps, losing them somewhere in the basement of the Union. Five minutes later, at about 10:15, the fire was discovered.
Rowlands told the night event supervisor, Jerry Beahm, a law student at the time, had heard two or three people running down the stairs of the third floor.
"It was the turning tide of the attitude of the students," Rowlands said.
"They became more concerned with the University, and everyone turned out to fight the fire. It went the opposite way it was intended."
of acts during an age of protest. However, some participants of the age say that the punishment is not necessary.
Mike Thomas, KU chief of police, said no investigation had been pursued by KU. A judge has ordered a recount.
ALTHOUGH INVESTIGATIONS into
it continued through the years, the last
one in 2013.
RICHARD VON Ende, University
executive secretary, was an imminent
member of the Board of Governors.
The time was one of unrest, turmoil and confusion. Students protested against everything from the Vietnam War to a war made by the Kansas Board of Regents.
The head of the Lawrence detective department said his department had turned the case over to the Lawrence fire department years ago.
But the turnol was not limited to the KU campus in Lawrence. Racial disturbances broke out at Lawrence High School, even when national guardmen patrol the area.
"What I remember best is that hundreds of students spent the entire night carrying out art objects and helping firemen to show us their work. "We thought we were it terrible." *Van Routte* said.
On the night of the Union fire, a fire bomb was thrown at the administration office at Lawrence High School while board members met in a nearby room.
Thus, the question of who burnt the Union remain covered with a shroud of mystery. The reason is that the Union was not
Besides the law enforcement theory that suggests the three specific suspects, other people politically involved at KU at the time were U.S. government officials who about burnt the Union and why.
Von Ende best stated the most popular theory recently.
GUS DIZEREGEA, a student and a self-proclaimed left-wing political activist during the 1968 and early '70s, said the fire was set by 'b" damn fool."
"The chancellor at the time said it was an act of psychopath, and I would have to do it."
"It was a ridiculous protest target," he said. "It'il be done by onyeh on the left, it
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last week to adequately clarify the call back clause.
Penner said he hoped negotiations would begin again Friday or early next week.
NEGOTIATIONS WITH THE city broke down last Friday when Penner submitted a letter to City Manager Buford Watson, saying firefighters would not make proposals for next year until the clause in last year's contract was cleared up.
Watson's response letter, sent to the firefighters hours after the meeting, said the time that the firefighters were concerned over计提 overtime pay and not call back pay.
Call back pay, Watson's letter said, was designed for employees who were called "to help with any errands."
ded, not for those asked to extend their shifts by a few minutes.
Watson said yesterday that early negotiations were necessary and that he was not surprised at the firefighters' plans to sue.
"Whatever the courts decide we will have to live with," he said.
Despite proceedings for the suit, firefighters would make their proposals for next year's contract agreement as soon as the city requests a meeting, Penner said.
"We are very anxious to resume negotiation," he said.
WHEN HE HEARD about the resumed negotiation, Kevin Burd, city employee at Walgreens, said:
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Capsules From the Associated Press, United Press International
U.S. leaders shrug off canal threat
PANAMA CITY—Americans and Panamanians were stunned yesterday at Gen. Omar Torjír's statement that he was prepared to sabotage the Panama Canal if the treaty created the waterway over to Panama had failed to win U.S. approval. He said it was not a question of the statement, as did Democratic congressional leaders. See story page two.
Schneider questions liquor bill
TOPEKA-Atorney General Curt Schneider said yesterday that recent legislation that authorizes the sale of alcoholic beverages in Kansas restaurants appears to be unconstitutional in its present form. Various regulations could help curb such behavior, but it can be resolved only by the Kansas Supreme Court, he said. He said story page two.
Output falls in year's first quarter
**WASHINGTON**—The nation's total output of goods and services declined in the first quarter of 1978 for the first time in three years, the Commerce Department said yesterday. Commerce Secretary Juanta Kraba said bad weather and the long coal strike were largely to blame for the decline. See story page two.
French explode experimental bomb
PARIS—A Paris newspaper reported yesterday that France has exploded an experimental neutron bomb at its South Pacific test base, but French researchers are believed far behind the United States in developing any deployable nuclear weapons say the story stemmed from an underground nuclear test last month.
The test, widely reported but never officially confirmed, was part of a series of French efforts to improve its nuclear arsenal. The Foreign and Defense Ministry said the report had been issued.
Weather . . .
The thermometers should reach a high of 55 today as the sun shines away some of yesterday's chill. The National Weather Service saves.
The temperature will fall to near 40 tonight as the skies become cloudy again. Tomorrow's high will be about 60. The wind will be off the north at 10 to 15
Locally...
There are a couple of agencies for whom money means everything and state lines mean nothing.
These bonding agencies, which are hired by arrested persons to post bail to avoid bail before trial, are remnants of an age of bounty hunters.
The agencies post the money in court for the defendant. If the defendant does not return to court, the agencies track him down across the country to protect him.