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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
The University of Kansas
Monday February 6,1978
Lawrence, Kansas
Vol. 88, No. 86
Headaches
Kansas basketball guards Clint Johnson and Darnell Valentine played a rough game Saturday against the University of Oklahoma at Norman. Both needed ice packs after their injury, which left them vulnerable to injury.
points and suffered an inflamed eye, and Johnson was knocked unconscious during the game. With just less than five minutes to play, inlet, Jayhawks were down by five points, and Johnson was out.
StudEx considers new bus board
Staff Writer
By MELISSA THOMPSON
A Student Senate proposal that would change the management of the bus system from a one-man committee to an eleven-member board was referred yesterday to the Senate Service Committee for more planning.
Members of StudEx referred two bills, written by senator Steve McMurry, to the committee. The bills would have saddled him with the blame. Committee of, of which McMurry is the
ochanman and sole member, and would
serve to oversee the operation of
KU Ones Wheel.
McMurray did last week that the proposal was intended to make the operation of the fire department more efficient.
"I don't ever intend to say that I've done a bad job." McMurray said.
However, he said he thought the creation of a board would ensure efficiency. He also said that it would solve the problem of having two workers for him when he leaves later this semester.
His bill proposes that ten students and a salaried student director oversee the operation and monitor building developments on campus. If a new building is not on a current route, McMurry said, the system would have to be altered.
The board also would be responsible for considering recommendations from an Omaha, Neb., consulting firm that studied bus system and three other city bus services.
The firm's study was completed in late December.
McMurray said he wanted a new group to review the recommendations because it is not clear what the committee wants.
Steve Leben, student body president, said Friday that he thought the theory of McMurry's proposal was good but that there were many details that needed to be worked out.
"I'm not convinced that we need a salaried director," Leben said.
No Senate committee chairman is currently receiving a salary.
Student group seeks graduation in stadium
Staff Writer
By MARY HOENK
A quest for action on the part of University of Kansas officials to push for spring graduation in Memorial Stadium is the goal of an effort organized by Paul Rabinovitz. Lawrence senior
"Most people are reasonable, but some students think this is an absolute conspiracy," Rabinovitz said. "Instead of a goal to win the game, they're going to get a kick in the rear."
He said the group was acutely aware of the problems surrounding a stadium graduation, including construction and insurance problems.
SINCE CONSTRUCTION on a $1.8 million renovation project began in mid-December, there has been speculation that the stadium will be suitable for a traditional graduation ceremony.
Despite major renovation work, Chancellor Archie R. Dykes and a spokesman for the KU Commencement Committee said last month that the University was proceeding with plans to use the stadium for graduation.
Rabinovitz said he was concerned that the announcement by Dykes was based on a desire to have a stadium graduation rather than defining what was realistically possible.
IN A STEERING committee meeting last week, Rabinovitz said that the first course of action of the 20-member group would be to talk with University officials and possibly to meet with members of the athletic council as representative of the construction company.
not being able to have graduation in the stadium, but let's find out if everything is being done to see that graduation is in the stadium.
"We need a setting where we can pass information, Rabinovitz said. "Most people don't have this."
"We want them to stop saying what they want and say what we can do."
RABINOVITZ ALSO said he was interested in interest concerned the cost of insurance that would cover graduation in the stadium.
If meeting with University officials produces no results, the group's second course of action, according to Rabinovitch, would be to draft a letter to be sent to a list of 50 to alumni and other supporters. Students are keeping graduation in its traditional location.
The list would include Regents, state senators and businessmen.
Rabinovitz, could be accomplished by generating support for a stadium graduation through an advertisement campaign in several newspapers in the
A FINAL ATTEMPT to make Kansas aware of the situation, according to
Graduation in the stadium became doubtful after KUAC, a 15-member board with four student representatives, voted last November to begin the renovation project. The project consists of concrete restoration, waterproofing, new sealing, replacement of windows and roof, expansion of the press box and remodeling of the dressing rooms and restrooms.
THE PLAN increased the cost of a student football season ticket from $20 to $3.
"We're helping to pay for it anyway, so we should have a voice," Rubinoviz said.
"Our theory is everyone is saying graduation will be in the stadium, but who else will be right?" he replied.
Lighter tax burden proposed for golf course
Staff Writer
By BOB HART
Lower tax assessments on Alvarmar Hills Golf Club may be warranted because of the services afforded the community by the owned course, according to local officials.
"I think Alvaram is one of the finest assets this city has in drawing new industry and people to our community," she said. "If the city was to provide a municipally owned golf course, it would be a shabby affair compared with Alvaram."
Mayor Marnie Argersinger said yesterday that she thought the county should take into consideration the community services that the golf course provides when evaluating Alvamar's tax assessment.
America, whose national headquarters are in Lawrence.
MAX KENNEDY, golf professional at Alvamar, said that because of the public subsidies given to other municipality owned golf courses in Kansas City and Topeka, it will be competitive to be competed. The courses owned by either the cities or the counties do not pay taxes.
"All we ask is that the city and county be fair," he said. "The city and county must decide whether they want a public course or not."
He said the golf course itself was not built to be a monaco venture but rather to create a more competitive landscape.
Glenn West, executive director of the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce, said that one of the main reasons Quaker Oats Company, W. 10th St. and Haskell Drive, has planted a new Food plant in Lawrence was that good recreational facilities were available.
costs. Senior citizens can play the course at any time for $1. The normal grease fee for 18 holes is $6.25. Kennedy also said Alvaram allowed the University of Kansas, Baker University and Junior College and Lawrence High School to play at a reduced fee for the season.
needed to keep the golf course financially sound. Randy Swane, who is in charge of the account for the management firm, said the additional capital was raised through issuing more stock and borrowing money that had been used as cost of construction that had been on hold.
ALVAMAR provides many recreational services to the community at little or no
The University's men's golf team pays a
See ALVAMAR page five
Alvamar is the only privately owned public championship course in a city the size of Lawrence in the nation, according to the Golf Course Superintendents Association of
Student's share of profits studied
By LINDA FINESTONE
Staff Writer
The refund system, bookstore expenses and the expansion reserve must close each week.
"I'm going to see whether there isn't something I can come up with to help students," Betty Brock, general manager of University bookstores, said Saturday.
Whether that goal can be accomplished through higher rebates, by returning more money for book buy-backs or adopting a new discount system is the subject of a study that she hopes will be completed before the fall semester.
1860s as a nonprofit division of the Memorial Corporation, a patronage refund program was established. The refund distributes profits to customers after an amount has been set aside for bookstore expenses and expansion.
The general manager of the Kansas Union Bookstores wants to see more bookstore profits returned to University of Kansas students.
UNDER THE rebate system, a customer receives a receipt marked with a number assigned to the account. The customer designates the six-month purchasing period in which the receipt was issued. The receipts are valid for one year and can be redeemed by the customer for a set percentage of the total receipts.
BROKK AND other members of the Merchandising Policies and Procedures Committee of the Kansas Union Memorial Library will be able to study. One idea the committee will consider will be whether textbook discounts given only to students at the time of purchase would be more effective than the present system of giving rebates to all bookstore
The University bookstores have returned a percentage of all profits to patrons for 31 years. When the Kansas Union Bookstore was organized in the late 1940s and early
Brock, who is in charge of the Kansas Union Bookstore, the Oread Book Shop, the Daisy Field Bookstore and the bookstore at the Regents Center in Overland Park, said to consider different ways to learn more profits to students already had begun.
Rebates on receipts issued last semester for period 62 will begin today. Brock said. They can be exchanged in the lower level of the bookstore for a cash rebate of 5 percent.
"There is only so much the owners can absorb before changes must be made,"
Brock said the disadvantage of rebates was that anyone—student or nonstudent—who made a cash purchase could claim a tax credit, which would determine how much students accepted in rebates.
Jon Iossard, committee chairman, said the committee could learn how much of the rebates were claimed by nonstudents by student receipts for student ID numbers.
WHEN RECEIPTS are returned for a rebate, a customer must sign a receipt. If the customer is a student, he also must give his student number.
In considering whether to give discounts rather than rebates, Jossner said, the company has no incentive.
See PROFITS page six
But according to Business Management Services, which handles the accounting affairs of the golf course, the profits had not been high enough to pay for operating costs of the golf course. The company said that over the past five years £7,350 had been
ROGER BILLINGS, who is principal owner of the golf course, said that any profits that had been made from the course Alvamar had been reinvested in the course.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Capsules From the Associated Press, United Press International
Weekend peace talks end
In a statement distributed to reporters, Carter said he had a better understanding of Sadat's concerns in the stalled Egyptian-Iran peace talks but also reaffirmed the U.S. role as that of a friend to both sides.
Carter
WASHINGTON—President Jimmy Carter and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat finished weekend talks about peace in the Middle East yesterday. The administration, which maintained a news blackout on the results of the summit.
Vietnam to recall U.N. ambassador
TOKYO-Vietnam said yesterday that it was recalling United Nations Ambassador Dinh Ba Thi. The announcement came two days after Thi, accused by the United States of spying and ordered out of the country, said he would not leave.
Official Vietnam radio, in a broadcast monitored in Tokyo, said Hanoi recalled Thi because the U.S. government was trying to disturb Thi's activities. The recalled reporter said:
The became the first U.N. chief of mission ordered out by the United States after a grand jury named him an unindicted co-conspirator in a federal espionage case that involved a U.S. Information Agency employee and a Vietnamese expatriate.
Poll says treaties' future in doubt
Senate to review ERA
WASHINGTON—An Associated Press press release recently shows that 31 U.S. senators are opposed to the Panama Canal treaties or are leaning toward opposition to them, only three votes shy of the 34 needed to block ratification of the treaties.
TOPEKA—The Senate this week such bills as ones to rescind the state's ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment, make the use of Lactate for cancer patients less restore the death penalty comes before Senate committees.
House committees will consider a bill to stiffen child pornography laws and one to require high school students to be in grades 10 or higher.
Only 14 senators said they could support the treaties without guarantees that the United States would have the right of access to the canal and the right to trade with the United States.
Locally...
A bill now before the state Legislature would allow liquor consumption at private parties in state university unions. Frank Burge, manager of the Kansas Union, told a Senate committee last week that he had no objection to the bill. The measure was supported by nearly common practice in student unions across the country. See story page three.
Abandoned railroad right-of-way needs owner
BvCAROLHUNTER
Staff Writer
A 13-mile strip of abandoned railroad land between Lawrence and Tonganoxie could become a lake path, a tourist train track or a housing area, depending upon who wins the struggle among owners, businesses and its own ownership.
The land is available because the Union Pacific Railroad, which had lost money hauling freight from Lawrence and Bettendorf to Washington, could buy it.
The railroad announced the abandonment 9. Under Kansas law, a government organization, such as a town council or county board, can railroad right-of-way. However, if no government organization applies for the land within 120 days of aban-
NO GOVERNMENT organization has applied for the land. If no application is made by the first week in March, landowners will have the opportunity to sell the right-of-way for home sites.
oment, the land returns to owners of land next to the abandoned track.
Because the right-of-way is parallel to U.S. highways 24 and 40 from one mile south of Tonganoxie to laurel, the land would make choice home sites, according to Wayne Finch, a Tonganoxie resident. Landowners could sell lots for prices between $750 and $1,000 an acre if they get the land, he said.
Businessmen also could make money by gaining control of the right-of-way. They want to keep the tracks to make
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shipments to and from the town's grain elevator and steel company.
J. M. Jack is one of four businessmen negotiating to buy the rails and ties. The businessmen need the tracks to ship their products, he said, but they also might carry tourists to bring in additional money.
TWO OTHER groups could benefit from the land are bicyclists and environmentalists. Federal and state grants are available to convert abandoned rights-of-way into bicycle paths if a government organization sponsored the
rish said the Tonganake City Council might sponsor a bike path request for land within the city limits if the Mount Oreal Bicycle Club wanted one. The county or state could request the support for the road from Tonganake to Lawrence.