THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
The University of Kansas
Vol. 88, No. 97
Tuesday February 21,1978
Lawrence, Kansas
Walker's job will improve, Dykes says
Bv MELISSA THOMPSON
Staff Writer
In response to a call for the removal of Clyde Walker, KU athletic director, Chance Arrow, Dykes has pledged to improve the relationship between Walker and the student body.
Dykes made the pledge in a letter dated Feb. 12 to Steve Leben, former student body president. Leben had written to Dykes nearly two weeks ago suggesting that he was not responsible for anything because he was not responsive to student opinion in issues that were student-related.
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"I don't feel the letter was extremely responsive," he said.
Leben said yesterday that he had received Dykes' letter on Feb. 16, his last day in office. He said that he was not totally satisfied with the chancellor's answer.
DYKES SAID in his letter that he would discuss with Walker and other administrators ways to improve the relationship between the athletic department and students.
Walker's performance has not always met with favor. Dokes said in the letter.
"I know that Mr. Walker's service as athletic director has not always been popular with students nor always with faculty and alumni." Dykes wrote.
Much of that stems from his impatience,
Free ride
mobility. Although Lawrence is far from Europe, Jack Waterman, Waldron, Maude, junior, responded to a motorist in the park and helped him cross the street.
When the roads in Europe are slick and cars cannot get around, people use the rear bumpers to provide better traction and
See DYKES page three
Threat of bus strike cools down
Drivers for the Lawrence Bus Co. apparently have reconsidered a threat they made to strike because of an incident betweensu KU student last F学期 in front of Snow Hall.
Staff Writer
"When it gets to be spring, it will all care of itself," Neesley said. "It looks like there needed to be a release and that (the) between Icconge and Slaughter was it."
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THE UNIVERSITY is able to reduce payments of those in financial binds. Force said. However, if the reduced payment is lower than the minimum quarterly benefits recommended by the government, the borrower is considered delinquent.
Wes Icenagle, the driver involved in the incident, has filed a complaint with University of Kansas police against Tony Shaughter, Salina freshman, for allegedly hitting him while he was trying to eject Shaughter from the bus.
Although Califano harshly criticized the 20 percent national NDSL delivery rate, Jerry Rogers, director of the office of student financial aid, said that the government did not consider that rate to be excessive.
The government, he said, requires the Government to buy the delinquency rate only if it has approved.
Students who qualify to borrow money from the NDSL program begin repaying the loan at 3 percent interest nine months after leaving school.
"It was cold and everybody was anxious to get on the bus," he said.
Chris Raffo, Chicago sophomore, was staring outside the bus and witnessed the
The loans may be paid back over a 10 year period.
Icecone refused to comment on the details of the incident.
snowstorm, which caused overcrowding of buildings and hazardous driving conditions.
But he said that bus drivers had cooled the car last Friday and that a strike was not likely.
Raffo said that the bus driver was walking out the door and turned to make sure Slaughter was following when Slaughter first hit him.
ACCORDING TO THE 1977 fiscal year financial report, of the 1,300 past due NDSL accounts at KU, 37 percent were past due 120 days or less, 16.7 percent were past due
"What's the point in making everybody on the ground suffer for that one guy's actions?" he said.
The delinquency rate not only includes people who have missed payments because of illness or unemployment and now are making payment but also people whose payments have been lowered because of financial difficulties, Foresaid.
Slaaughter said that Iencone accused him of pushing people so he could get on the bus.
"EVERYBODY WAS WASP toward the slaughter." Slaughter said, "He just shrugged out he."
KU loans repaid in most instances
"He hit him three more times when he doubled over." Raffa said.
KU's delinquency rate is below the national average of 20 percent reported last week by Joseph Califano, secretary of health, education and welfare.
"He said that he was going to go get the police and shoved me as he was going toward the door," Slaughter said. "Then I retaliated."
to use county attorney tomorrow, Lawrence police said yesterday. The county attorney will then decide whether Slaughter should be taken to trial.
Dave Nesey, one of the drivers, said tension had been building between drivers and pedestrians on the street.
Fore said that former students who made an effort to repay should not be associated with the ones that refused to pay them. He also said the delinquency with "deadheads," she said.
To cope with the high缴唤 rates, Califano said, two of the 10 regional HEW offices may start using private bill collectors.
Force said the University used two force agencies for that purpose already.
The report indicated that the agencies are North American Credit Services Inc., Kansas City, Mo., and Credit Adjustment Co. Inc., Wichita.
By ROBERT BEER
Staff Writer
Although the delinquency rate for repayment on National Direct Student Loans at the University of Kansas is pegged at 13 percent, at least 10 percent of those are making payments, Mildred Force, NDSI, accountant, said recently.
Misdemeanor battery, the complaint filed against Slaughter, carries a maximum fine of $250.
Forse said some accounts were considered uncollectable by the University because the people were in prisons or mental institutions. And accounts are considered uncollectable because the agency has lost contact with the borrower.
But Peggy Kim Wheeler, Kansas City, Mo., freshman, said, "The bus driver seemed kind of mad the way he reacted." The bus driver pushed him as he was going down the stairs. It (Slaughter's action) was like self-defense."
A police officer appeared and took the names of witnesses and involved parties. A replacement driver was called to drive the car, and it had been broken in the struggle.
ACCORDING TO witnesses, several students got between Icenogle and Slaughter to prevent further violence. Icenogle then shut the bus door and called to a bystander to bring the police from Hoch Auditorium.
from 121 days to one year, 14 percent were past due for more than one year but less
A total of 9.6 percent were past due for more than two but less than three years, 6 percent were past due for more than three but less than four years, 5.1 percent were past due for more than four but less than five years, 4.8 percent were past due for more than five years.
DURING THE 1795-77 fiscal period, the
accounts were:
$19.134 from 150
delinquent accounts.
KU police will take Icenogle's complaint
Currently, the agencies are seeking 800.137 from 863 accounts, the report said.
The agencies, who charge 30 percent of the total collected, received $7,740 for the 1976
The report also stated that the University currently had no delinquent accounts in its books.
Research leads to Soviet Union
Staff Writer
By PAM MANSON
As a child in Shanghai, Michael Crawford learned his first language—Russian.
Crawford, professor of anthropology, was raised by Russian-born parents and has been a naturalized U.S. citizen since 1954. He is a member of joint scientific studies with Soviet scientists.
In his second year of a five-year Career Development Award from the National Institutes of Health, Crawford is conducting studies with the Soviets on such diverse topics as aging and longevity, cancer and HIV, and the relationship between Siberian and Alaskan Eskimos.
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Contract offered to striking miners
The NIH pays Crawford's salary and requires that he spend 10 percent of his time teaching, leaving the rest free for him to travel. He was in Russia last August and will return there this summer to continue his research.
WASHINGTON—Striking United Mine Workers and a major independent coal company, PJD is reaching a tentative contract settlement agreement that sets the state for future negotiations.
If the contract is approved by the UMW leadership and rank-and-file employees employed by P&O, the company could begin producing coal, helping to meet demand.
Oranges checked for contaminants
GLOUCESTER CITY, N.J.-Federal officials used a metal detector yesterday in a painter's uniform to unload a stock of contamination in a facility unified by dockworkers here.
THE U.S. Food and Drug Administration said the examination was only a precautionary measure. No contamination was found in the first several crates
CAIRO—Egypt decided yesterday to pull its diplomatic mission out of Cyprus and asked Cyprus decided to cancel the dispute of the breach over the island on a terrorist-boldly held Cypriot side.
Egypt, Cyprus argue over jet raid
The shipment was the first to arrive in the United States since a group saying it was composed of Palestinian guerrillas said it sabotaged a Israeli fruit in an attack on Israel.
Hours later, the surviving Egyptian commandos returned to heroes' welcomes in Cairo. See story page two.
Locally...
Frank Shelton, American Party candidate for Kansas governor, made several stops on a campaign swing through Lawrence Friday. Shelton said he wanted to inform voters about the party, which he said was picking up support in Kansas.
"We're the only party with a set of permanent principles in its constitution," Shelton said. "We're dedicated to preserving this country as a free
Shelton thinks he has a good chance of being elected governor this year because of a spain in the Democratic party and because he said voters were confident that he would win.
"YOU HAVE to adapt to a completely different political and university system when you work in Russia," Crawford said recently.
"If you make a mistake such as saying something considered politically dangerous, you might not be allowed to continue your research."
Crawford said that he had little trouble communicating with Soviet Union scientists but that there were problems in conducting research on the skin of Siberian Eskimos live in Chukota, the peninsula separated from Alaska by the Bering Strait, Crawford is not allowed to
"The Russians are reluctant to have me in that area because it's a's strategic military site," Crawford said. "I study collections of Eskimo skulls the Russians have and
compare data with them, but I can't see the Siberian Eskimos myself."
Former President Gerald R. Ford will
teach and medicate Redege Green Hall
and to speak with classes
Ford to lecture in KU classes
CRAWFORD'S KNOWLEDGE of evolution is being applied also to cancer research. Funded by the National Cancer Institute, he is working with Soviet scientists at a primate center in the Soviet Union that would either introduce causes cancer.
Ford will arrive from Topeka this morning and is scheduled to lecture to economics classes in Summerfield Hail at 1:45 a.m. for the commencement ceremonies, which are open to the public, at 11:45 a.m. in Allen Field House, followed by a luncheon at 12:45 p.m. in the Kansas Union Ballroom. At 2:15 and 3:45 he will lecture to political science classes
"We've studied six generations of baboons, and we think there might be a link between genetics and the risk of developing cancer," he said. "We're collecting the blood of baboons and sending it to blood banks in Newark and Milwaukee to study the chromosomes.
Ford addressed classes at Kansas State University, yesterday and Steel delivered a seminar on the use of advanced software.
Ford later had dinner in Topeka with Alf Landon, former Kansas governor and Adlai Stevenson.
"Boris Lapin, who is head of the Soviet Academy of Science, is working on the project."
Crawford's third project involves research closer to home. He is studying the Monenites of Kansas to determine the causes of their longevity. His counterparts in Russia are studying the people of Abkhasia, many of whom are 110 or older.
"WE'RE STRUCTURING our studies to make sure our data will be comparable," Crawford said. "We want to see what these data tell us that makes them live as long as they do."
Crawford, working through the biological anthropology lab, also does research for the
"The lab is here to give forensic evidence to the police," he said. "We study skulls and bones that are found and determine the sex and age of the person and how he died."
In spite of all his research, Crawford still
tends time to teach. His teaching approach in his class "Controversies in the Living and the Dead" was featured recently in Change magazine's "Reports on Teaching."
"I try to make my class different from the usual introductory course," Crawford said. "I want my students to realize there's more than one side to a question, even a scientific one."
CRAWDROP SAID he had designed a guest-speaker program to expose students to controversial topics. The speakers would come from all over the world and would speak on topics relating to genetics and population.
"Too often students take the opinions of their professors as truth," he said. "I want students to realize that there are different views about what matters most that truth can be very elusive sometimes."
Constant search
Raised by Russian-born parents, Michael Crawford, professor of anthropology, has turned back to his parents' homeland for significant studies in the areas of aging and longevity.
Staff Photo by ELI REICHMAN
Crawford said that he had little trouble communicating with the Russians. Some of his studies are limited because of their close location to strategic military sites.