Ford followed by cloak and dagger crowd
By PAM MANSON
The Secret Service is being typically secretive.
The agency is coordinating security arrangements for former President Gerald R. Ford's visit tomorrow to the University of Kansas, but agency representatives won't talk about their plans.
"It's standard procedure not to reveal any details whatsoever about security," Bill Copeland, a Secret Service agent who is coordinating the security efforts, said in a telephone interview last week. "Someone might be able to piece together a general idea of the security procedures and try to slip by us."
KU POLICE, the Lawrence Police Department, the Douglas County sheriff's office, the Kansas Highway Patrol and the Kansas Bureau of Investigation are working with Ford to locate Lawrence and the KU secure enough for Ford's visit.
None of the representatives of those agencies would talk about the security plans.
Ford will arrive in Lawrence from Topek early tomorrow morning. He is scheduled to lecture to economics classes in Summerfelt Hall at 9:30 a.m. He will speak at dedication ceremonies for new Green Hall at 11:48 in Allen House, followed by a luncheon at 12:45 p.m. in the Kansas Union Ballroom. At 21:18 he will lecture to political
science classes in Smith Hall. Ford is scheduled to leave Lawrence at 4:45.
FORD'S DEDICATION speech will be broadcast live on KJH91.
Representatives from the security agencies met in Topeka Thursday to discuss protection plans. KU had scheduled Ford's activities and the Secret Service was responsible for adapting security procedures to the
Reporters covering the dedication ceremonies and the luncheon were given security checks by the Secret Service before being issued credentials. Students who will be attending the ceremony are to be asked to attend by their professor to get inside the classroom.
MIKE. THOMAS, director of KU police, said that KU policemen would be posted along the main motorcade routes and that only buses would be permitted on Jayhawk Boulevard.
Thomas would not say what the motorcade route would be, many KU policemen were assigned to the security force.
"We're doing everything we can to make the campus secure," Thomas said. "I can't be more specific."
A reporter from the Michigan Daily at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, where Ford often had lectured in
"THE SECRET Service will never reveal the motorcade routes or where Ford will be staying." Brian Blanchard, the reporter, said. "There are always about a dozen Secret Services agents in the same room with him. Even if he's only going to another building 100 yards away, they'll rush him into a car and take the long way around."
the past five years, said such security arrangements were typical.
Walter Kramer, Ann Arbor chief of police, a visit to the city by Ford always resulted in extensive security
"We always have a continent of men assigned to each place that Dog is骑着," he said. "The number of men on the ground are much smaller."
KRASNY SAID any building open to the public was difficult to secure.
"We check for booby traps before the building opens," he said. "We watch the crowd for any unusual movements of packages. Often the Secret Service checks briefcases and packages."
Krayan said a route to the nearest hospital always was kept clear and a medical crew stood at the hospital in front of him.
"We're responsible for Ford's safety from the time he arrives at the airport to the time he leaves," Krauss said. "We always breathe a sigh of relief when his plane takes off."
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
Vol.88.No.96
KANSAN
Monday February 20,1978
Lawrence, Kansas
The University of Kansas
Staff Photo by TIM ASHNER
Clean up
with warmer weather and clearing skies, Jody Karson, Facilities Operations employee, took on the massive job of clearing the
campus. Karson and other Facility Operations employees worked throughout Sunday to clear campus for safe passage.
Fee increase tentatively approved
A tuition increase that would more than double enrollment costs at the University of Kansas Medical Center School of Medicine was given tentative approval by the Kansas Board of Regents Friday at its monthly meeting in Topeka.
Staff Writer
However, the Regents said the increase would not be approved officially until its official approval.
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If the increase is approved, yearly tuition for a Kansas resident enrolled in the four-year program would be increased from $1.125 to $3.000. In the three-year program, tuition will be increased from $1.500 to $4.000.
The tuition increase was planned in conjunction with a bill that was passed by the Kansas Senate Feb. 3. The Senate bill was designed to help ease the state's doctor shortage by offering tuition waivers to practice in Kansas after graduation.
THE BILL, which was amended to allow the Regents to set a tuition increase at the Med Center, originally would have allowed students to raise tuition to more than $5,000 by 1880.
- Authorized the spending of $40,000 *
* student, activity_feg money for further
LUCAS SAID his staff was categorizing fire hazards into two types—those that can be corrected by the building's occupant or by KU maintenance crews and projects that will require Regents and legislative appropriation of funds.
"There is a Uniform Building Code that says you have to bring a building into compliance if you renovate a certain percent of the building, usually 50 percent," he
improvements to the University athletic fields near Robinson Gymnasium and 22rd
Lacus told the Regents he was attempting to find out whether there was a law requiring KU to renovate buildings that had complied with fire code regulations when building.
In other action, the Regents:
Earlier Friday, Max Lucas, director of facilities planning, reported to the Regents Building Committee on KU's progress in reporting recommendations to eliminate fire hazards discovered during the Kansas fire marshal's annual inspection in
KU HAS UNTIL March to submit a plan to the fire marshal's office for eliminating the
- AUTHORIZED the allocation of $1,285 in maintenance funds to refurbish the north side of Strong Hall's second floor after the Office of Affirmative Action moves out of its temporary quarters to offices on the third floor of Strong.
- Approved the reallocation of $18,000 to provide new stacks in the Spencer Research
By TOM RAMSTACK
KU bus strike threatened
Staff Writer
A strike was being considered last night by several drivers for the Lawrence Bus Co. after an alleged attack by a University of California bus driver last Friday in front of Snow Hall.
Wes Icengel, one of the drivers, said that he was attacked and that he filed charges with the KU Police against a student who had allegedly hit him in the face, breaking his glasses, after he told the student to get off the bus that he was driving.
"If that boy is still running around the streets tomorrow, we're not driving the buses," a bus driver who refused to be in line should have told him he should have to put up with cup like that."
Mike Thomas, chief of KU Police, said that he had a report of an alleged battery on a bus driver but that no arrests had been made.
One bus driver said he would not strike without the permission of his employer. Six bus drivers have been arrested in connection with
Co., 841 Pennsylvania St., said last night that they would strike if most of the other drivers were in agreement. Eight others could not be reached.
One driver said, "To represent my thought that there should not be open season on bus drivers, if this man is not charged, I would consider a strike."
Several of the drivers said the tension between students and drivers had been building for some time, particularly after the school bus was shut down by crowds of buses and hazardous driving.
Steve McMurray, chairman of the Student Senate Transportation Committee, said, "I called Thursday saying that there were clashes between the university clashes with drivers than in the past."
Duane Ogle, president of Lawrence Bus Co., said last night that he had heard nothing about a strike but that action would be taken against drivers who strike.
McMurry said that overall he was pleased with the service of the bus drivers.
Another driver said, "Everybody's been edgy all week. Steve McMurry has been giving us a hassle. He says that the companions against drivers are all the drivers' fault."
"I've got a contract to fulfill, and I intend to do so," he said.
The alleged attack that caused the strike threat reportedly occurred when Icenogle, who drives the Kansas Union to Ewellshorn Hall bus, tried to throw a student from his bus after the student supposedly pushed some people waiting at a bus stop.
Chris Raffa, Chicago sophomore who witnessed the incident, said that a lot of women were involved.
Raffo said the bus driver was stepping out of the bus when the alleged attack occurred.
"The bus driver turned to get the guy, to take him out of the bus," Raffo said. "That's when the gun hit him. I know he hit him in the face because I heard his glasses break."
One driver said he doubted that the strike would occur if every body calmed down.
By MARY HOENK
Sports training to be made equal
Staff Writer
Inadequacies in the women's athletic training program at the University of Kansas will be corrected by this summer, William Hogan, associate executive vice president of the Women's Athletics, told members of the Women's Athletic Advisory Board Saturday.
Hogan said a letter had been sent to a Department of Health, Education and Welfare investigator outlining the steps that the women's athletic training program.
The investigator was on campus last month to look into charges filed with HEW by a former KU women's athletic trainer that claimed that discrepancies existed between men's and women's training programs.
DISCREPANCIES to be corrected, Hogan said include inadequacies in training procedures.
Hogan said that by July 1 one assistant trainer and one student trainer would be added to the women's training staff, which includes a full-time trainer and two student trainers.
Equity between the two programs will be required by law as of July 21 under Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, which says that "equal athletic opportunity for members of both sexes" must be provided.
Hogan said the salaries of the women's training staff would be raised to meet the average salaries of the men's program to make the two comparable.
Kala Stoup, dean of women, said the security and protection of the women's training program must be comparable to the men's program.
While discussing making both the men's and women's athletic programs fully comparable, questions concerning the possibility of a merger between the departments were raised by members of the board.
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Last summer heavy rains caused severe flash floods in the areas south of campus between West 19th and 23rd streets and Ouadrald Road and Louisiana Street. The rains flooded homes, damaged cars and tore up asphalt streets.
Staff Writer
Flooding of Lawrence houses is not greatly affected by construction on the University of Kansas campus, according to Max Lacas, director of facilities planning.
Lucas said that KU had included drainage studies in plans for all new KU construction and that the plans were designed to avoid any flooding problems in Lawrence.
minimize the effect on Lawrence," Lucas said.
"We take greater than normal pains to
A STUDY OF some of the flooded areas by a KU senior engineering class last semester.
See FLOODING page five
An institution risks losing federal grants if it does not comply with the provisions of Title XI.
THE PROGRAM is just so new," he said,
"needs so many things in funding and
support."
Hogan said the administration intended to keep the programs separate, even though the programs' current organization did not have the most efficient management structure.
KU has requested a proposed increase in funding of $8,115, which is now before the deadline.
The request was made to offset a decision by the Student Senate not to fund women's athletics beginning in fiscal 1979. The Senate passed a resolution, 5844 to the women's department last spring.
Marian Washington, director of women's athletics, restated before the board that the total amount that could be received from the team would not inadequate to maintain a 10-sport program.
"I feel we need to look at the picture closely, and have tight to the decision that is involved."
Washington said she was referring to a decision made by the board last spring to cut field hockey from the department but not at the expense of other funds. The Senate voted to support the
See ATHLETICS page five
Parking limited for Ford visit
Parking at KU will be restricted tomorrow during the School of Law dedication and the visit of former President Gerald R. Ford. Those areas that will be unavailable for regular use are UL, R, I; guest parking at 13th and 12nd, all parking on Jayhawk Boulevard from 13th to 14th streets, N and some portions of AFH.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Capsules From the Associated Press, United Press International
Schneider
Schneider to run, after all
TOPEKA—In a statement to 350 cheering supporters, Curt Schneider, Kansas attorney general, announced yesterday that he was a candidate for Kansas governor. Schneider, a Democrat, reportedly had been waiting for the results of a political poll before making his final decision to enter the race.
Schneider had been uncertain about his plans to enter the gubernatorial race after last year's disclosure of several photographs showing him leaving a Joplin, Mo., motel with an unidentified woman.
Architect surrenders license
ARCHITECT BAR TOPEKA-Frank Fisher, one of three persons granted immunity from prosecution in an architectural kickback case four years ago, has voluntarily surrendered his license to practice architecture in Kansas for six months.
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Another of the three, Kenneth McLain, has indicated that he also will accept a temporary six-month suspension of his license.
The case involved a $400,000 design contract on a large expansion project at the University of Kansas Medical Center.
Locally...
The Kansas Jayhawks proved that they could beat any team in the Big Eight Saturday night when they avenged an early season loss to Nebraska, edging the cornhuskers 75-70. Kansas received a stellar performance from freshman guard Darnell Valentine, who scored 21 points for Kansas. Paul Mokeski returned to early season form, scoring 17 points. Kansas' next game is Saturday against Colorado in the Big Eight finale. See story page six.