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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
Wednesday April 5,1978
The University of Kansas
Lawrence, Kansas
Vol.88,No.122
Flying bra
The 'Iying hail' kite constructed by Randy Gold, Fredericktown, Mo., sophomore, with the highlight the third annual kite fly derby held earlier this week. Gone constructed as a result of safety concerns and unanticipated weather conditions.
turer in architecture and urban design. Golus said that the kite took only three hours to construct and that the cross-your-heart frame was made from heavy wire and a clear plastic material.
Buildings' fire violations persist
By JOHN FISCHER
Staff Writer
Many University of Kansas buildings remain unaffected if fire codes after removal installed in.
Compliance with the codes has not been met because funds for major repairs must be allocated by the Kansas Board of Residents in their next meeting in June.
The office of facilities planning is currently busy drawing up proposals for the Regents, Max Lacas, university director of facilities planning, said yesterday.
Watson Library, Hoch Auditorium, the Kansas Union, Allen Field House and Haworth Hall were all found to be in major violation of the state codes.
VIOLATIONS IN the other buildings on campus were noted, and some buildings were closed.
The auditorium and the library were cited
for several major code violations by state fire inspectors last fall.
Inspectors recommended a fire alarm system, a smoke detector and improved emergency lighting for the auditorium. They also suggested that the top balcony be closed off and that seats on the first floor be nailed down or else removed.
For the library, inspectors suggested another exit from the stacks and more exit from the library.
Improvements recommended for the field house included reconstruction of some of the interior areas with noncombustible materials.
The recommendations for the Union called for installing exit signs and making improvements to the building.
Haworth Hall was in violation of the codes because of a deficient fire alarm system.
"SOME THINGS have been done," Lucas said.
He explained that most of the improvements had been made to correct the problems.
"You might go into some building, and they may not look as if anything has been done to them," Lucas said. "I'm not sure which buildings have been fixed.
"Facilities Operations has taken care of,
or has scheduled to take care of, the minor
Rodger Oroke, director of facilities operations, said recently, we have taken
Oroke said that most of the minor improvements involved fixing doors, cleaning storage areas and moving furniture. He said the buildings had similar violations.
The funds for the improvements are part of the Major Repairs, Special Maintenance and Remodeling Fund. These funds are allocated to the Regents by the Kansas Legislature. The Regents then decide which projects will be undertaken.
He said that, in compliance with state regulations, a letter had been sent to the fire fire marshal detailing KU's plans for meeting the fire code fires.
KU considers KUAC deficit aid
Lucas said that some of the repair work, including work done in the library, was done on Monday but that this work would be not done until KU started on the renovation of the buildings involved and that the funds for the renovation work were part of the KU
LUCAS SAID he was not sure how much the funding would be.
Staff Writer
By CAROLINE TROWBRIDGE
To help reduce an expected budget deficit for the University of Kansas Athletic Corporation, the University of Kansas is considering a proposal for the maintenance of Allen Field House.
"We have asked the University to help with the deficit of the athletic corporation,"
Clyde Walker, director of athletics, said, however, that he had not requested any aid from the team.
University aid to KUAC for the maintenance of the field house would help in reducing the organization's predicted cost. As executive vice chancellor, said last night.
"WE HAVE discussed from time to time the University's help with the care and needs of our students."
Maintenance is the only expense involved with the operation of the field house, he
KUAC approved a budget Friday for fiscal year 1978-79 that had an expected income of $2,787,600 and expenses of $2,900,330.
KUAC is responsible for the care,
maintenance and supplies and materials for the
warehouse.
No decision will be made about KU's possible allocation of funds to KUAC until the current KU budget is approved by the Kansas Legislature, Shankel said.
All but two of about 12 maintenance positions are funded by KUAC. The two other positions are funded by the state, Shanket said.
The fire inspection, in which about 150 campus buildings were visited, was conducted in November. An inspection also was held at the University of Kansas Medical Center.
Shankel said increased use of the field house in the past three years for women's intramurals, faculty and student recreation, physical education and classes had increased the cost of operating the facility.
"WE HAVEN'T identified yet a source for possible funds," Shanket said.
"KU should legitimately bear some of the cost of maintaining Allen Field House," Shankel said.
The project deficit is due, in part, to an expected decrease in football revenue. KUAC makes more money when big games, such as Oklahoma and Nebraska, are play away. The increased seating capacity compares increased KUAC's share of the money.
The decrease in revenue was taken into consideration when preparing the budget but inflation has risen to help increase the deficit, Shankel said.
Men's lobby, Senate officers want funds
The second session of week-long Student Senate budget hearings ended last night with one new group requesting funding and recommendations on the Senate's internal budget.
By GENE LINN And SARAH TOEVS
The full Senate will approve, amend or refuse all of the committees' recommendations April 11 and allocate to the 47 groups making requests.
Staff Writers
The president of the University of Kansas Men's Coalition, Mike Pendergast, told the Senate Services Committee that unique problems facing men that have been neglected could be treated effectively if the Senate began to fund the Coalition.
AN EXAMPLE OF a problem unique to men, he said, was the anxiety many men face when they fail to measure up to the standards of the people that always succeed in their chosen fields.
men with serious problems to psychologists or other experts.
Mark Mikkelson, spokesman for GSC,
said the increased funds would serve to put
already established programs on a more
as well as to fund two new programs.
Committee members questioned the coalition's request for $460 for a typewriter, saying that a typewriter would be available to the group in the Senate offices in the
"The Senate recognizes that women have unique physical, psychological and social problems by funding women's groups and I am delighted to help." These types of problems. "Pendavit said."
The Graduate Student Council presented its requests to the Academic Affairs Committee of $13,539 in addition to its line item allocation of $9,500.
The new programs would be a graduate student travel fund and a speaker hostship program.
Several groups requested large increases over their budgets for last year.
Pendergast said the coalition would have no much material to type that it would need
A SPEAKER honorarium fund for $2,000 would provide money to graduate departments that otherwise would not be able to finance guest speakers.
According to Mikhelson, a student travel tund of $2,000 would help graduate students in the area.
If the Senate approves the requested
investigation, the congressional activity
fee can be reduced by 30 cents.
other areas of the country meet travel expenses.
He said the coalition, which requested
1925, could have volunteers help men with
equipment. "It's a good deal," he said.
"We're all in this boat together," Bretz said. "The healthier the programs we have for undergraduate and graduate students, the better off we'll be," she said.
Lynn Bretz, Lawrence graduate student,
thought the increase would be justified.
The Finance and Auditing Committee made its final recommendation to the Senate for the Senate internal budget for 1979.
The final amount recommended was $34,900.10. That figure covers all Senate expenditures, including office supplies, salaries, advertising and funds for Concerned Students for Higher Education, the Senate lobby group.
THE COMMITTEE also decided to recommend to the Senate a resolution in which the Committee would
See SENATE page three
Med tuition gets tentative approval
By TIM SHEEHY
Staff Writer
TOPEKA-The Kansas House gave preliminary approval yesterday to a bill that would eliminate tuition costs for University of Kansas medical students who agree to practice in Kansas after graduation.
The bill will move to the full House today for a final roll call vote. The House did not add any new amendments to the bill, so it passed with 64 votes in favor and 16 against Robert F. Bennett for his approval or veto.
Under the provisions of the bill, there would be two types of scholarships for students from Kansas: The first type would exempt students from tuition expense and pay them a stipend of $500 a month if they signed a contract to attend an underserved areas of Kansas after graduation.
If a student failed to honor his contract to practice in Kansas, he would be charged the principal amount of his tuition plus 10 percent interest.
An amendment by State Rep. J. Santford Duncan, R-Wichita, that would have broadened the scholarships to include current resident trainees was defeated by the House. Hayden said that no residents had been handed him to indicate an interest in state aid.
DETERMINING WHICH areas of Kansas qualify as medically underserved will be left to the secretary of Health and Environment.
The second type of scholarship would allow students to study at the Med Center with no tuition expense but would not pay them a stipend. In return they would sign a contract to work in any area of Kansas after graduation.
If passed, the bill would to effect June 1, 2015. Any student enrolled in the medical school enrollment must be in good standing.
State Rep. John Hayden, R-Atwood said that he had studied the bill for three years and that such a measure was needed to relieve the shortage of doctors in underserved rural areas, particularly western Kansas.
Tution, as of June 1, at the school of medicine will be $3,000 a year for residents and double that for non-residents. Under the rules of the institution, all students obligated to practice in Kansas for as many
years as they take advantage of the scholarship.
MEDICAL STUDENTS study four years at the Med Center, then do three years of resident training at a hospital. The students are also for the students 'first四年四学年ofstudents'
In other action today the House will debate the 1979 budget for the six Kansas Board of Regents schools. A spokesman for John Carlin, speaker of the House, said the budget would include appropriations bills by night, leaving Thursday open for conference committee action.
Hayden said that he thought Duncan's amendment was a good idea but that it didn't work.
Once again Wayne Parks, RFD 3, was presenting his case and trying to get some help in his fight against a pipeline company that had been drilling oil spirals two times in the past two years.
The worst spill occurred on June 6, 1977, when a valve on a pipeline owned by Williams Brothers Pipeline Co., Kansas City, Missouri, was used to drain 44,000 barrels, which is more than 44,000
Dispute over oil spills remains unresolved
Snapshots of an oil-covered creek with dense grass banks surrounded the morbid bird.
Staff Writer
The three members of the Douglas County Commission gazed at the quart mason jar that contained dead frogs and earthworms floating in the murky water.
By JEFF TEVIS
gallons, of leaded gasoline onto Parks's pasture near his house. Parks lives four miles northeast of Lawrence on the Douglas-Leavenworth county line.
THE PIPELINE and an above-ground junction are adjacent and above Parks' property, allowing any spills to run off downhill onto Parks' land.
The $2.900,000 of gasoline ran down a ravine and fouled the upper portion of a
Most of the gas seeped beneath the surface of the ground, out of reach of the pipeline crews that tried to clean up the spill.
"It took them more than 2% hours to get a crew out there." Parks said.
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Neutron bomb production unlikely
WASHINGTON-President Jimmy Carter has tentatively decided against production of the neutron bomb, the nuclear weapon designed to defeat a massive Soviet tank attack on Western Europe, according to unidentified administration officials.
Carter met in Washington yesterday with Haus-Dietrich Genscher, West German foreign minister, who reportedly was sent by the West Germans to meet with Mr. Bush.
Approval of last miners' pact likely
WASHINGTON - Mine construction workers yesterday apparently ratified a three-year contract with the soft coal industry, bringing labor peace to the coal industry.
Sam Church, United Mine Workers vice president, said the bailout was running substantially in favor of the contract, although voter turnout had been
Park, O'Neill connection denied
WASHINGTON—Tongsu Park, the South Korean businessman who was testifying, denied under oath yesterday that House Speaker Thomas "Tip" O'Neill ever asked him for money. O'Neill, in a formal statement, said he never sought money from Park or the South Korea government.
*park, in his second day of public testimony before the House Ethics Committee, disclaimed any knowledge of a document found in Gunderson's book*, *Fraud in Funds*.
Weather . . .
There will be a chance of thunderstorms today and tonight, according to the National Weather Service. Skies are expected to clear late tonight as temperatures dip into the 50s. High temperatures today and tomorrow should be in the mid-70s.
Locally...
For the first time in the University of Kansas athletic history there is a rowing team. KU coach coach Don Rose says that ifrowing is going to stay in the Midwest, then there has to be a rowing program at a school with a big splash in KU history this spring. For story and pictures see Weekday, page six.
Every time it rains, water forces the gas from beneath the ground, polluting the soil.
the state environmental agency suggested that a large trench be dug in the ravine to collect the gas-laden water as it ran down the hillside. Williams Brothers says that Parks refused to allow them to dig the trench.
Parks said he had only wanted the pipeline company to guarantee that there would be full insurance coverage on the trench in case anyone was injured while on his property. The pipeline company refused that it did not want to dig the trench, he said.
EVENTUALLY, more than three acres of pasture land were ruined and had to be fenced off at the company's expense. Parks said that 11 more acres had been affected since the June spill. All the land affected is currently rented by Parks from Ralph King, a Lawrence lawyer. No monetary reimbursement has been sought, Parks said.
"I want a guarantee that next time the spill will be cleaned up." Parks said.
"In the beginning I hoped that I could get the job completely, completely. So what I had beenuring is being done."
He already has tried to get assistance from the Environmental Protection Agency, the Coast Guard, which enforces and levies laws on the areas, and the state environmental authorities.
mui tjrysen, a geologist for the state environmental agency, said yesterday that he and his colleagues had taken water samples from the creek, testing the water's lead content. Both agencies agreed that there was no danger to animals outside of the three-acre
"I'M NOT GOING to risk all of the cattle I have in that pasture below the spill on someone else's decision when I can still find dead frogs and worms when it rains." Parks
Bryson said, "Both the EPA and our office thought that Williams Brothers did all they could to clean up that spill. That's why they were never fined."
He said that only about 10 percent of the 300 spills in Kansas annually resulted in a (fathom) drop.
After listening to Parks complaints
forsay, she said they two doubted
the police could help him eth-
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Wayne Kellum, Douglas County zoning See OH, page 309
See OIL page three