THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
The University of Kansas
Vol. 88, No.130
Monday April 17,1978
Lawrence. Kansas
Rainy weather Saturday hampered the Superstars competition, sponsored by Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity and Kappa Alpha Theta sorority to raise funds for the Special Olympics.
Nancy Stinson, St. Louis sophomore and winner of the women's competition, watched weary Saturday as another cargo carrier slipped on wet grass during a run through the obstacle course at Broken Arrow Park. Duane Albert, Larned senior, won the men's competition.
Each athlete competed in his choice of seven sports, including bowling, basketball free throw, tennis, weight lifting and long jump.
Rick Chambers, Sigma Phi Epsilon organizer, said that each house had to pay $50 to enter an athlete. Any money raised after that, he said, would count as points. The athlete was not eligible for any awards.
"The money part of the competition is like an extra event, going towards the athlete's final point total." Chambers said. "And although a lot of the money comes from within the team, it is also important to be aware."
Sigma Phi Epilion was active in organizing the Superstars competition last year when the event was part of Greek Week, Chambers said. When the Interfraternity Council and Panhellenic Association decided not to have Greek Week this semester, the fraternity decided to make the competition its philanthropic project for the semester.
Marcia Bush, Kappa Alpha Theta co-chairman, said letters had been sent to all fraternities and sororities explaining the competition, but the response had not been as
Chambers told other groups were not sent letters about the competition because the event was organized by the IFC and Panhellenic last year. When the groups were announced, the organizers said that the competition had been cancelled.
Statue's place up to administration
"It was out of habit, I guess," Chambers said. "But in light of how low the participation was this year, it's probably something we'll do in the future."
By CAROLINE TROWBRIDGE
Staff Writer
A decision on whether move the Jimmy Gannon statue to new Green Hall is now back (in the plan).
In recent months, the matter of the statue's move has volleyed between KU administrators, the Kansas State Historical and the Kansas attorney general's office.
Joseph Snell, the society's director,
received a letter recently from KU
administrators requesting the society's
approval to accept a nomination.
opinion issued March 28 by the attorney
general's office that the statue must not be moved.
Soll had made a decision March 20 that the statue could be moved, although it would have been more difficult to do.
KU ADMINISTRATORS were required to obtain approval from the society to move the statue to comply with the 1977 Kansas State Preservation Act.
The preservation act provides protection against tampering by state or local groups for historical sites listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
The act also states that before any
registered site is changed, the society must give its approval.
Snell said that he would discuss the matter with the historical advisory board Thursday and that his reply would be sent to KU within two weeks.
Both old Green Hall and the state were
the national academic center, WCU.
According to the opinion issued by the attorney general's office, only Gov. Robert Wade was charged.
Snail said Friday that he had not replied to KU's most recent request but that a new one had been posted.
general who issued the opinion, said there was no time limit during which Bennett answered.
JOHN MARTIN, the assistant attorney
"The governor wouldn't intervien unless the University asked him to." Mattie said.
Bennett has said that he will not intervene in the matter unless someone makes an appeal.
"No one has asked the governor to do anything on the Jimmy Green statue," Brent Anderson, assistant press secretary to Bennett, said.
Bennett would have to conduct extensive research on the move if anyone requested it.
Tuition incentives try to ease doctor shortage
By TIM SHEEHY Staff Writer
A bill designed to combat the shortage of
students in Kansas because law Friday when
Gov. Ryan signed it.
The bill, which originated in the Kansas Senate, creates a scholarship program with two types of scholarships. The first type of scholarship is offered to students at the University of Kansas Medical Center's School of Medicine who agree to practice in any area of Kansas
Nonresidents are eligible for the scholarship program.
The second type of scholarship will allow students who sign a contract agreeing to practice in underserved areas of Kansas to receive a four-month stipend in addition to the usual benefits.
THE SECRETARY of health and en-
vironments of Kuwait medically underserved areas of Kuwait.
A student will practice one year in Kansas for every year he takes advantage of the school's program. However, the student must practice medicine in an area where stipend must practice medicine in an area of Kansas with doctor shortages. The student must have an paid can practice anywhere in the state.
Tuition at the Med Center is currently $3,000 a year for resident students enrolled in the four-year program and $4,000 for students enrolled in the three-year program. Tuition is double for nonresident students.
doctors available to Kansans, especially those located in rural, underserved areas.
"There is a potential long-term impact too, however, because studies show that doctors who begin their practices in area are more likely to remain in that
"I think the program will retain more medical school graduates in the state, and through Outreach programs and continuing education programs we can make medical
CHANCELLOR ARCHIE R. DYKES said yesterday that he thought the bill would help those students who encounter financial difficulties in medical school.
The bill will become effective June 1.
The bill will become effective June 1.
Students who do not honor their contracts to practice in Kansas will be required to pay the full amount of tuition plus interest.
Bennett signed a number of other bills Friday, including one that will make financial assistance available to people suffering from sickle-cell anemia.
practice in Kansas more attractive," Dykes said.
A midnight rider is a legislative term for an amendment that is tacked on to a bill late in the session and that has received very little debate.
Bennett again had strong words for the Legislature and its use of the "midnight rider" on several bills at the end of the session.
BENEFTT SENT a bill on product liability insurance to the secretary of state without his signature. He said he could not mention because of the fashion in which it was passed.
Grounds crews revitalize campus
By TIMOTHY TANKARD
Staff Writer
On a sunny afternoon in the second week of April a lanky, gray-haired man is seen scooping loose dirt around a sapling he has built in the Hall. He notices two girls watching him.
"Pss!! Come here a minute, get a secret for ya!" he calls.
They clutch their books a little tighter and restantly walk over. He stands up, picking the book off his lap.
"There's something I oughta tell ya about this little fire here," he says, pointing down the wall. "I'll just put it out."
The girls giggle.
"Be it known that this tree has been planted on this campus by me for you," he looks, looking at them seriously. "And what I was doing in front of the classroom, is that it was done by a dirty old man."
He bursts into wild laughter, grabs his shovel and goes walking off.
"TOLD YOU those guys are weird," one girl says to the other.
"And not only that," the other complains,
"It's an ulyl tree."
But what that old man knew, and what he wanted the students to know, although they apparently did not understand was that some day that tree would be part of KU's landscaping that others would call beautiful.
KU grounds crews, the final cog in a complicated landscape-planning machine with gears that run from an architect's drawing board to the chancellor's desk to Facilities Operations, as well as several other buildings. We have been in full force the past two weeks.
The grounds crews are trying to get as many plants into the ground as possible during this spring's shortened planting season.
The average spring planting season lasts about six weeks. Mathes said, but this year it probably would be no longer than three weeks. Planting has been underway for two weeks.
Jim Mathes, director of land maintenance at Facilities Operations, said Friday that a late winter along with untimely rains had slipped this year's landscape operations.
Mathes said that in another week nursery plants would have matured too much to safely transplant. After that, KU grounds plants until fall before planting could resume.
"WHEN MOTHER NATURE is throwing the blows, he said," there's nothing we can do. "So we're just not going."
"We've had to let some things like weed spraying slide a little because of the plan."
Getting new Green Hall landscape has been the major job this spring, according to Mathes. Landscaping for the new Visual Arts Building will begin this spring, but those plans had to be shelved until the fall because of both the short season and delayed construction on the building.
MATHES SAID THAT landscape could not begin on a new building until the construction was completely finished. Otherwise, the work was damaged by construction machinery, he said.
The landscaping plans for the new Visual Arts Building include benches, more sidewalks, junior trees, dozens of little spreader bushes and, on the north side, a row of trees that will be new to campus—Cherieke Chief dogwood.
Mathes said dogworms were tried at KU about 30 years ago but they died. At CEP, about 18 years ago, the
in the past 30 years, as well as the protection the building will give the plants against intense sunlight. Mathes said there was a good chance the dogwoods can now sur-
THE SHAPE A LANDSCAPING project will take originally buds in the mind of Alton Thomas, University landscape architect. His plans are sketched on a map and then sent for approval to the chancellor, the university director, Mathets and several other people.
After that, the plans are reworked until an acceptable design is agreed upon by all.
Thomas said that landcaping a new building generally costs 2 or 3 percent of the cost.
There are many considerations—aesthetic, functional, financial—when planning a landscape. And all of these are dictated by what the climate will allow.
"On Mount Oread alone there are a number of microclimates," Thomas said. "Slope, direction, watershed, soil and wind determine what can be planted and where."
"Because we are at the intersecting corner of four weather zones, there are plants that grow in Kansas City that would die here. There are even plants that can live on the north side of campus but would die on the south."
THOMAS ALSO SAID the shallow shelf of rock that underlies Mount Orand was a mountain.
Thomas said that although his designs did not follow a single landscaping trend or model, he had altered his designs over the years to accommodate the general shift towards more angular, box-shaped buildings on campus, such as Wesco Hall.
"In the past 20 years our landscapes here has shifted away from the old naturalistic style and gone toward a more geometric, ordered look," Thomas said.
The growing attention paid to solar energy also has worked its way into the job market.
"IF POSSIBLE, we try to plant deciduous trees on the south side of the building," Thomas said. "That way it gets shaded in the winter, the leaves fall and let in the sun."
Upholding a tradition that dates back to the first KU chancellor, Frank Marvin, who personally bought a bucket of walnuts from his son, Jake, in 1937. Potter's Lamp, Chancellor Archie R. Dykes keeps a close tab on campus greenery. His morning walks are well known among students.
One groundworker who was planting bushes on Llacane last Friday said, "We want no mistakes on job 'cause Dykes will just chase him. He sees something he don't like, he tells it."
Probably the most popular landscape donation on campus, at least among students, is the Prairie Acre behind Watson Library. The land, which is only about half an acre, was set aside by students and alumni in the 1980s to provide a space left in its natural, uncultivated state.
Tom Lee, land maintenance supervisor, said that Paircree Arac was moved every fall from his current site.
"WE ALSO HAVE TO go in now and then and pull saplings, pick up trash and poison the weeds that are always getting started in the kitchen, but for the most part, we get to leave it alone.
"It's too isolated to regenerate itself like the real prairie in the old days.
"If you really wanted it as it used to be,
"I think you have to chop down all the trees
that grow up there."
Last pact haunts firemen's talks
A flare-up over last year's contract between Lawrence firefighters and the city halted contract negotiations Friday after only 30 minutes, leaving representatives of both sides saying they were confused and disappointed.
According to Mike Penner, president of local 1596 of the International Association of Fire Fighters, the employees wanted to be trained and to stay beyond their regular hours. Call back pay would be two hours of overtime pay, which is one and a half times regular
City officials said they were supposed to receive bargaining proposals for next year's firefighters' contract, but instead the firefighters presented a letter stating no proposals would be made until the issue of overtime pay was resolved.
IT SAYS, "Any firefighter who has completed his tour of duty or who is called in on his day off is to be assured a minimum of two hours pay at the overtime rate."
In the agreement, Penner said, only one sentence discussed overtime付.
"We've had a lot of anxiety over the clause and decided not to make any proposals until it's cleared up," he said. "If they're not going to stick to last year's contract, we don't want to proceed with this year's."
The chief negotiator, Kevin Burt, the city's employee relations director, said yesterday that the agreement was designed only for employees who were called in on
He said that frequently an employee would be asked to stay five to 15 minutes after their shift to fill in for someone who was sick or late.
their day off, inconveniencing them sometimes for only a few minutes work.
He said their position would be unchanged at least until then.
Penner said the firefighters would meet tomorrow to discuss their next action.
Forest could provide fuel for KU trash-burning plant
By LYNN BYCZYNSKI
An energy forest will be the best solution to the need for extra winter fuel for the University of Kansas proposed trash-treater. The University of Georgia forester Gary Nauchatton said Friday.
Staff Writer
A 400-acre energy forest would supply enough trees to compensate for the 15 to 18 percent shortage of trash predicted for the winter months. Naunton said,
K-State's forestry department and KU's School of Engineering began research in 1976 on the most economical fuel to supplement trash. Naughton taught in
preliminary results of the four-year study at a meeting of the Kansas Academy of Science.
A final report on the research will be made in September 1979, Naughton said. The trash-burning plant is proposed for the city to burn the current coal and gas-burning boiler.
The supplementary fuel must be wood, Naughton said, because it burns and heats similarly to trash. Burning coal or gas with coal is more complicated changes in the design of the plant.
NAUGHTON SAID that a University-
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Vance promotes Rhodesian talks
PRETORIA, South Africa - Cyrus Vance, secretary of state, and David Owen, British foreign secretary, were in South Africa yesterday trying to drum up support for a conference that would bring together the new biracial government of Rhodesia and black guerrillas. See story page 29.
Carter administration reviews term
WASHINGTON—President Jimmy Carter, Vice President Walter Mondale and most of the senior White House staff met at Camp David this past weekend for a review of the administration's first 15 months in office. During the meeting there were rumors of a discussion of a possible high-level White House staff
Weather . . .
April showers and some thunderstorms should continue today in the arid areas. Temperatures should reach the 50s today and the 50s tomorrow.
Locally...
self-professed Frisbee fanatics came to the University of Kansas Saturday and yesterday to participate in KU's first Frisbee Club tournament. Rain dampened the activities and postponed part of the competition from Saturday to yesterday. See story page five.
Delayed news of aid awards coming soon
Students who are concerned about a delay in financial aid award notifications need not panic.
About one-third of the financial aid applications filed by returning KU students have been processed, Weinberg said.
Although there was no specific deadline, Weinberg said, officials in the office of student financial aid hope that the awarding of scholarships, loans and grants to those students whose成绩不佳 may be made before the final exams period.
All incoming students, both undergraduate and graduate, who applied for financial aid have had their applications processed, Weinberg said.
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