THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
The University of Kansas
Monday March 6,1978
Vol. 88, No.106
Lawrence, Kansas
Agony
Staff Photos by ELI REICHMAN
freshman guard Wilmore Fowler, who was out of the action with a knee injury. While KU was slowly wilting under the pressure, so was Fowler. And in the end Fowler could not watch any more. See story page six.
For the fourth time this season KU met K-State at the semifinals of the Big Eight Post-season tournament. However, for the first time this year, KU was without the services of
Big 8 loss makes KU play Bruins
Snorts Writer
By BILL NEWSOME
The Kansas Jayhawks were surprised to learn yesterday afternoon that they will play UCLA in the first round of the NCAA West Regional Saturday.
UCLA automatically qualified for the subregional in Eugene, Ore., because it won the Pacific Eight Conference championship. KU was selected as an at-large entry in the 32 team tournament because of its 24-4 record.
Missouri, the surprising winner of the Big Eight tournament, will represent the conference at the subregional in Wichita. The Tigers, 14-15 on the season, will play Utah, 23-5, and the winner will advance to the regional in Lawrence.
KU LOST its chance to play in the Midwest subregional in Wichita and possibly the Midwest regional in Allen Field House when the Jahyhaws lost to Kansas State Friday night, 87,76, in the semifinals of the Big Eight postseason tournament.
The surprising part of the KU-UCLA announcement was that the game pairs two teams at the outset of the tournament that are currently ranked in the top five in the league. The team that was ranked No. 2 last week and was ranked No. 244 record and was ranked No. 5.
"WHEN YOU'RE depending on an at-large berth, you just have to go where they tell you to go." KU men's basketball coach Ted Owens said after the announcement. "When you get to the NCAA tournament you don't expect any of the teams to be easy."
On paper, the West regional appears to be the toughest of the four. Of the top ten teams in last week's rankings, five are in the West region.
Arkansas, ranked 4. with 4 a 28-second, will play Wubeater 19-9. The winner of that game will play the KU-UCLA winner at the West regional in Albuquerque, N.M.
In the regional's other bracket in Tempe, Ariz., No. 8-ranked New Mexico, 24-3, will play Fullerton State, 21-4, and No. 18-ranked San Antonio, 20-5, who play previously ranked San Jose, 22-5,
Before the NCAA selection committee made the pairings, the 11-at-large teams were selected by the strength of each team and were selected No. 1, A Arkansas No. 2 and KU No. 3.
KU, ARKANSAS and North Carolina were placed in the West regional at large bids because all three were upset in conferences' postseason tournament.
Owens was not particularly happy with the seedings.
"I can see Arkansas been seeded ahead of us," he said. "But not North Carolina."
owens admitted feeling disappointment after failing to win the postseason tournament, which would have given the Jayhawks the opportunity to play before their own fans in Wichita and possibly Allen Field House.
"The KIDS WERE down after the Kansas State loss," he said. "We had our hearts set on playing in the Midwest in front of the Chiefs last past, and we aren't going to worry about it."
Guard Clint Johnson said the disappointment had worn off.
sure, we would have loved to have护生饱死; he said, "But we aren't even sure."
The "road advocate," co-captain John Douglas is looking forward to playing in.
"I've said all along that I think we might play better on the road," he said. "We might tend to take things too easy if we were at home."
DOUGLAS THINKS that the loss to Kansas State will help the Jawaihs against
"We always seem to play better coming
Contract defeat invites intervention
PITTSBURG, Kan.-Local members of the United Mine Workers union voted yesterday to approve the tentative contract with the Bituminous Coal Operators
From the Kansan's Wire Services
Tomorrow is the last day for students enrolled in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences to withdraw from a class, so that time students must petition to drop.
Drop deadline
Tomorrow also is the last day for students in the School of Engineering to withdraw from a class.
Striking miners in other parts of the country voted overwhelmingly against the contract, which would have ended the three-month strike.
Association, but nationally it was defeated and President Jimmy Carter made plans to step in swiftly to force the miners back to work if the walkout persisted.
Sources said Carter was likely to invoke today the provisions of the Taft-Harvey Act that were intended to hit strikes, setting in motion a sequence of events that could lead to a back-to-work court order within a few days.
JODY POWELL, White House press secretary, said yesterday, "It's clear from the trend in the voting that the president will have to act no later than tomorrow. It will be the primary vote on the presidential ballot to be followed by a bipartisan meeting of the congressional leadership."
the geographies for all other schools have passed.
reports of 482 of the United Mine Workers' 794 locals, or about 60 percent, were in. There were 44,666 votes against the contract and 19,885 in favor of it.
Pharmacy students have until Mar. 21 to withdraw, and graduate and undergraduate students in the School of Social Welfare have until April 18.
ADMINISTRATION officials began a new round of meetings to plan their next step in a strike that has caused power curtailments and threatened serious damage to the economy.
Carter met with Ray Marshall, secretary of labor, and other administration officials at the White House when he returned from a Camp David, MD, the presidential retreat at Camp David,MD.
going to make it,” Willard Esselstyn, UMW secretary-treasurer, said.
Eselsky declined to answer questions except to say he had been in touch with the person.
"It appears now that this contract isn't
Pending final decisions by Carter, one source said, the administration's strategy would be for Carter to invoke the Taft-Hartley Act tonight, appointing a three-member board of inquiry required under the law to make a report.
Its members are likely to be Carl Warns, a law professor at the University of Louisville. Eva Robinson, a labor arbitrator for Work and Jack Gentry, a Washington lawyer.
off a loss," he said. "I'm glad we got UCLA.
The better the competition is, the better we
can win."
The legend of UCLA and its high ranking arena is also what excites about Saturday's game. The Jets have a strong affinity for
"We look forward to playing great schools in UCLA. Johnson said. "I'm already up ahead."
"I'm definitely up for this one," co-captain Ken Koenigs said. "We've got to play 'em sometime, so it might as well be now."
Union condemns station's absence
By MELISSA CORDONIER
Staff Writer
The Lawrence City Commission has been accused of negligence because it has no fire alarm system.
The accusation was made in a five-page report issued Friday by the International Criminal Court.
The report, prepared by Michael Penner, president of the local, also demands an investigation by the commission into the city's fire defenses.
The report quotes from the Planning Guide for the Lawrence Area, 1975-1985. The planning guide, which was compiled by the Lawrence-Douglas County Planning Commission, included a north fire station at 23rd Street and Oundash Road to serve south Lawrence.
The three existing fire stations are No. 1,
7& 8 Vermont St. No. 2, 1941 Haskell Ave.
and 1956 W. 5th St.
FIRE CALLS from areas south of 15th Street are answered by stations No.2 and No.3.
No.3, Penn. The report also quotes from the General Fire Station Site Standards, which recommended a maximum response distance of two to three miles from the station to the fire. Penner said the response distance from station No.2 to the extreme southwest portion of Lawrence was about nine miles.
"We are calling for an investigation," Penner said, as the commission doesn't want to say.
Penner said the issue of a fourth fire station might be included in the union's contract negotiations with the city, which are scheduled to begin April 15.
Penner said the firefighters had not yet approached the city commission with their demands because they first wanted to gain public support for their position.
HE SAID THE union was conducting a campaign to personally discuss the firefighters' position with Lawrence residents.
"There is a lot of antagonism between the 'use and the commission,'" Penner said. "What we need to do is not only city not strengthening the fire department, I don't know. But the issue has to be brought to light."
Penner said the union feared the city commission would ignore the recommendations for another fire station until a fire of death occurred in southwest Lawrence.
"That's a typical misque from the fire department," Bins said. "There's no question that as the city expands west, we will have to deal with fire probability within the next year or so."
LAWRENCE MAYOR Marine Arger-
sian lawyer said yesterday that she thought the
women were wrong.
He told City Commissioner Donald Bins had said a firefighter that another station would not be built until fire runs and property losses increased by 50 percent.
Binns yesterday denied making that statement.
She said the response time of fire vehicles was just as important as the response time of a car.
"A fire engine can get from Sixth and Kasold to Prairie Meadows in three or four minutes," Argersinger said. "I don't think we are in deserate straits."
Prairie Meadows is a residential neighborhood south of 23rd Street and east of street
However, Penner said, the Sixth Street fire station has only one minipump, which is primarily used for grass and other small fires. Penner said large fires would require a pumper truck from the No. 2 station at 1941 Haskell Ave.
Staff Writer
Custodians' contract draws walkout threat
By PAM MANSON
Custodians at the University of Kansas Medical Center are considering a walkout to protest working conditions, Francis Jacobs, their union representative, said Friday.
Jacobs, the business agent of Local 1132 of the Public Service Employees Union, said that the union was trying to resolve the problem through other methods but that some of the custodial workers thought a walkout was the best way to protest.
"Problems have been building up since an outside firm took over custodial services at the Med Center," Jacobs said. "The firm's contract is with the University and the custodians' contact information, which makes changes in the staff and procedures without consulting the union."
AMERICAN Management of Englewood,
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Locally . . .
The Kansas men's and women's swim teams won impressively this weekend against major competition. The men won the Big Eight swim meet in Lincoln, Neb., and the women won the Region B swim meet in Minneapolis, Minn. The men beat the women 10-4 to 34-8. The women beat Minnesota, 693-57. See stories page six.
Colo, was hired in April 1977 to supervise housekeeping at the Med Center. The company's new program included getting new cleaning equipment, training the employee with the responsibilities of each employee with written job descriptions.
Tomorrow skies will be cloudy. Temperatures will be a little lower, with the high in the mid-30s.
There is a 20 percent chance of snow or rain mixed with snow today and a 30 percent chance of snow tonight. Temperatures will be in the upper 30s today and will drop into the mid-20s tonight.
Weather
The program also called for the reduction of the staff by attrition from 180 to 120
"The company said the custodians could clean the hospital better with one-third fewer people," Jacobs said. "In effect, the crew was cut and the work load increased."
Jacobs said that the plan called for cleaning specified areas fewer times a week than had been done previously but that the custodians were again清洗 each area every day because the hospital was not bein' cleaned as it should.
"ABOUT A MONTH after the company took over we considered a walkout," Jacobs said. "The University asked the union to give the company a chance and the custodians settled for passing out handbills listing their grievances."
"No one knows the purpose of these tests," Jacobs said. "The union doesn't know whether they will affect employment status or pay rates."
The remaining 120 custodians now have to take written tests. he said.
Jacobs said the company still would not add the 120 custodians at the Med Center.
JACOBS SAID he was sending a letter to Mills that would protest the testing requirements, changes in classification of employees and changes in work procedures.
"I feel the law says the union should be consulted when changes are made that affect its members," he said. "The union has not been consulted about these tests or about the classification changes of a few employees."
Employees are classified by their pay rates. All of the changes made in the custodians' classifications increased their salaries, Jacobs said.
"The University says only the director of personnel can give raises," he said. "If American Management executives are in contact with the company can probably affect everyone's salaries. We don't object to people getting raises, but we want to know what the procedures are going to be."
JAY REYNOLDS, director of housekeeping at the Med Center and an American Management employee, said that he did not know of any problems with the program and that all questions about the tests would have to be answered by Mills.
Mills said the tests were an evaluation of the effectiveness of the training program.
Mills also said that University administrators made all decisions concerning promotions and pay increases and that the management made only recommendations.