THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
The University of Kansas
Vol. 88. No.104
Lawrence, Kansas
Thursday March 2,1978
New leader
the new Student Senate president Mike Harper. It was the first meeting of the new Student Senate since their election February 16, 1978.
A statement about press responsibility from Steve Leben, brought a smile to the face of
Expanded outlets for religious paper denied
By LINDA FINESTONE
Staff Writer
The University Events Committee yesterday denied a request by Graduate Students Presenting an alternative to expand campus distribution locations for Today's Student, a national religious publication.
The request, submitted by John Vanderhert, president of the organization, had asked that the committee approve 18 locations to distribute the papers with the possibility that boxes would be set up at all locations.
The organization now distributes the papers between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. on Tuesday and Wednesdays from 10 boxes at 10 locations on campus. The committee originally granted permission for approval for eight boxes in September, and then also granted permission for two other boxes in December.
TODAY'S STUDENT is published weekly by Life Now in Ames, Iowa. Vanderhushir said that Graduate Students Presenting an Alternative was a local organization comprising four undergraduate and four graduate students. He said the group distributed the paper free at KU because it had been treated with a Christian group associated with Life Now.
Vanderhare said his group also was connected with another Lawrence group of about 150 people that was interested in the project.
"We distribute them because of our involvement up in Ames and our common form of presenting what the Bible says to us," he said.
UNIVERSITY Events Committee guidelines state that committee approval is not required to allow students to
pass out free literature on campus unless the activity takes place outside of campus buildings.
Although Today's Student is not passed out by hand, the committee approved for distribution boxes in both classrooms that semesters.
In denying yesterday's request, the committee debated whether papers could be used at one time to distribute papers on campus.
Scott Jarsus, committee representative from the Student Senate, said he thought there already were enough boxes on
"MY OPINION is that we've oversaturated the campus," he said.
However, Ron Willis, professor of speech and drama and a committee member, said he did not think the paper had yet reached the point of saturation unless the paper's distribution caused a litter problem.
Vanderhorsl told the committee that if there was a litter problem because of the naster, he was not aware of it.
About 3,500 copies of Today's Student are distributed each week. Vuandamerd, who said, and about 3,600 of these books are donated to the university.
His request, he said, was a way of asking for a method to find the most effective distribution points on campus.
"We want a range where we could experiment and try that," he said. "We like the freedom to move boxes around."
"WE'RE ASKING for that latitude, if we wanted to go to 18 boxes, we could."
Wills said that although the committee twice had approved the number of boxes to be allowed in the past, he
He said he now thought it was a mistake to have granted approval for the boxes, but said the committee would have had better reasons.
"The question of 18 is too many, 10 is enough or 8 is too few is not an issue I want to be involved with," he said.
CARYL SMITH, chairman of the committee, agreed that the committee should continue to allow the distribution of the funds.
"We have approved this method two times," she said. "It seems as if we have an obligation to live up to this task."
Although the committee denied the request, the members told Vanderbost that the organization must provide identification and a local contact address for the 10 existing boxes.
Smith said that the committee had asked the group to do so before, but that the group had not yet compiled with the group.
KATHY HOGGARD, director of the KU Information Center, said the Information Center had received complaints because Today's Student provided no way to send local letters to the editor.
"This is a vehicle for giving a message out without being able to respond," she said. "There's no local address."
Hoggard said she wanted the organization to put a local address and telephone number on each box.
however, vanderhorst said that since the organization
See EVENTS page six
Custodians say plan not working
By PAM MANSON Staff Writer
"We're overworked under this system," Ashley Maxwell, a custodial supervisor, said yesterday. "I don't see how anyone in the company can keep up with new machinery can do more work without new machinery."
The transition to a new housekeeping firm at the University of Kansas has brought complaints from some of the custodians who save the firm's new system is not working.
The new firm, American Management Services, was hired last November to improve the efficiency of custodial services at KU. The firm has managed custodial services at the University of Kansas Medical Center since last April.
GEORGE HEWITT, an American Management employee, was put in charge of the custodial service that Hewitt had been relieved of his duties as director of housekeeping on Feb. 7. He was replaced by another American Management employee,
Russell Mills, director of support services, said Hewitt, who had been housekeeping director for two months, was supervising the new housekeeping plan well.
Pelzer said that the employees were not overworked under the new system.
"MOST BUILDINGS are overstaffed," he said. "The whole problem lies with absenteeism. We'll have a building fully staffed and stocked with cleaning materials and then half the staff won't show up for work."
Pelzer said there were about 120 custodial workers, but 19 job openings on the custodial floor.
one firm's new program included getting new cleaning equipment, training the employees in better cleaning techniques and each em-
编写 job description.
the program also called for the care staff to staff by attrition from 185 to 135 employee.
GLIBERT TOLBERT, a custodial superintendent the job descriptions were written
"The management expects us to thoroughly clean some rooms every day and mop up the others," he said. "They don't realize how much traffic some of the rooms have. Also, they've given us bigger areas to cover."
Pelzer said the descriptions were designed to tell the worker exactly what he had to do each day so he wouldn't waste time on unnecessary work.
"As the custodian uses the new equipment and as his cleaning methods improve, he'll be able to take care of a larger area," Pelzer said.
Tolbert also said the custodians had not received new equipment.
However, Pelzer said the program was still in a transitional period.
"I THINK a few buildings have some new equipment he said. Most of the buildings don't."
"We said it would take six months to get this new program implemented," he said. "Right now we're cleaning out closets to see what equipment KU has and we're revising some of the original job descriptions to make them more efficient."
Jack Beerbower, a custodial supervisor,
said the new system caused confusion.
"Everyone is supposed to have a written description that tells them exactly which area they're in and exactly what they're supposed to do," he said. "A lot of people don't know the time the management moves people around and the supervisors don't know about it."
MILLS SAID that there were always problems when a new firm took over a
"People just generally don't like change." Shouldn't they feel that way, but they do.
Mills said the new system had been implemented in three buildings so far. He said the other buildings would eventually be switched to the system.
"Some of the equipment is already at the campus and more is coming." Mills said. "We will be training the custodial workers in the cafeteria, building over to the system one at a time."
Staff Writer
By ALLEN HOLDER
Dykes plans to continue fund for minority students
Chancellor Archie R. Dykes said again last night that he had not withdrawn support from the Post-Baccariaurea Scholarship Fund, provided by the Kansas University Endowment Association for minority graduate students.
Dykes said his intent is to continue the Post-Baccalaureate fund, which last year raised $127 million.
graduate students in the schools of
the university and some and some
sections of the graduate school.
MINORITY students had been upset this week after Dykes said in a University Forum Friday that the Post-Baccalaureate fund was being re-evaluated.
But in a statement issued Monday, Dykes said all such programs were evaluated each
See DYKES page 13
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Capsules From the Associated Press, United Press International
Soviet actions in Africa criticized
WASHINGTON—The Carter administration yesterday leaved a warning at the Russians that their melding in Africa could jeopardize the nuclear weapons treaty talks. Spokesman Zhiglinne Brezniak, the U.S. national security adviser, said the Russian government was making in-concessions on missiles and long-range bombers. See story page two.
Cuba's influence grows at U.N.
UNITED NATIONS—In the last few years since Cuba began sending troops, technicians and doctors around the world, it has become an increasingly influential diplomatic force at the United Nations. Some diplomats say Cuba has the power to change the world's countries in confrontations with the western powers. See story page two.
Four inches of snow likely today
British denial of air fare blasted
Up to four inches of snow is expected in the Lawrence area by noon. Snow should diminish by late this afternoon. The high today will be near 30 degrees. Skies should be mostly cloudy, with northwest winds at 15-20 mph. Sunny skies are likely tomorrow, and the tonight should be near 10 degrees, and the high tomorrow should be low in the 20s.
WASHINGTON—U.S. officials said yesterday that the British rejection of $349 Dallam-London air fares proposed by Braniff International has created pressure for the U.S. to tear up the "Bermuda II" aviation agreement signed with Britain last July. Congressional and aviation officials said that the agreement was not working because of London's reluctance to approve low-cost flights to compete with Britain's cut-rate Laiers always between New York and London.
Locally...
R. Gregory Walstrom and the Society of Art are no longer total mysteries to University officials, who yesterday approved the society's registration and recognition as a student group. The decision, however, does not bring the problem between Walstrom and county officials any closer to a solution. See story page 14.
Kansas speech patterns mapped
By MARY E. HOENK
Staff Writer
People do a lot of things, but mostly they talk—unceasingly, every day.
Rarely however, do they take the time to think about how they talk.
Cook said yesterday that he was in the process of mapping the native speech patterns in Kansas in an effort to help researchers develop the Linganistic Atlas of the United States.
One person, though, who spends a lot of time thinking about it, is Albert C. Hoff. He doesn't believe in being a scientist.
Cook is currently doing a study on how people from Kansas talk.
OVER THE past four decades, linguists have recorded speech patterns for all the states except three: Florida, Missouri and Kansas.
The complexity of the speech patterns in Missouri, which includes speech differences in the Ozarks, has prevented Missouri from being mapped completely. There has been some preliminary work done by linguists at the University of Missouri-Columbia.
Florida has not been mapped, Cook said, and the number of non-native speakers that have lived there is unknown.
COOK SAID Kansas had not been mapped completely because it did not fit into a geographic package with other states, such as the midwest or southcentral states.
"It's an accident of geography that Kansas was not included," he said.
The preliminary data that Cook has helped to compile during the last seven years shows a variety of dialects with "inconsistent, checkerboard" patterns.
A phrase identification study that was completed as part of the total study seemed to indicate a leap-frogging settlement pattern, according to Cook.
IN THE leap-frog effect, certain towns, such as Salina, Russell and Hill City, were established by Northern and North Midland settlers, while the towns of Abilene, Ellsworth and Hays were established by South Midland settlers.
"The railroads made Kansas colorful," Cook said. "But from the point of view of migration, after the Quantrill's Raid, Kansas became dull."
Cook said that westward migration and the railroad routes had changed patterns in Kansas.
COOI SAID that preliminary work would be combined with a new field-work project, not yet begun, that would concentrate on pronunciation.
The pronunciation study will cover every
county in Kansas, Natives of each county will be interviewed.
Cook said it was becoming more difficult to find native speakers who remained in one city all of their lives because of increasing mobility.
"The state of Kansas is losing its See COOK page seven