THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
The University of Kansas
Vol. 88, No. 83
Wednesday February 1, 1978
Lawrence, Kansas
Staff Photos by RANDY OLSON
Book balance
heavy load of books from Watson Library. Patience and a good sense of balance kept McCall on his feet.
icy steps can be difficult to negotiate, even without books. David McCall, a Baker University professor, found the ice nearly impassable recently when coupled with a
Action delayed on union liquor bill
From Staff and Wire Reports
An effort to kill a proposal to permit the consumption of liquor in state university student unions was defeated yesterday in a court case challenging the measure alive at least temporarily.
State Sen. Edward Reilly, R-Leavenworth, said yesterday that he would ask representatives of the Kansas Board of Regents and the six state universities to appear before the Senate Federal and State Affairs Committee Friday.
The committee rejected a motion by State Sen. Bill Morris, R-Wichita, to kill the student union liquor bill. Several members said they wanted to delay action on the bill until hearing from University officials on Friday.
The measure would give officials at the six universities the authority to permit private cocktail parties by student and alumni groups in student unions.
CHANCELLOR ARCHIE R. Dykes said last night that he had not yet been contacted about the meeting Friday and was unaware the bill was even before a committee.
"I don't know anything about the bill," Dykes said. "I haven't read or seen it yet, I just can't know what our stand would be before first look at the bill.
"Right now we're concentrating on the
State Sen. John Crofoot, R-Cedar Point, said that the interim committee, which wrote the bill last summer, recognized the inconvenience of having private parties and dinners in the unions because of state law prohibiting liquor in state buildings.
Although the bill would allow the consumption of liquor by people of the legal age at private parties in student unions, the sale of liquor still would be prohibited.
budget and we probably won't worry about other things until we settle budget matters."
CURRENTLY, HE said there were not enough places for private groups to meet in other universities. He added that the situation was similar at other universities. Fraternities and other student groups, he said, are forced, in some instances, to drive long distances to larger cities for social reasons.
"I'm not saying liquor is good, but we have to recognize the fact it's here, and we have to deal reasonably with it," Crofoot said.
The Rev. Richard Taylor, leader of the Kansas Dry Forces, told the committee that the bill would encourage the increased use of alcohol.
SenEx delays establishing court for grade appeals
"Alcohol is just as addictive as heroin," Taylor said. "You wouldn't want heroin on your skin."
By ALLEN HOLDER
Staff Writer
However, SenEX members said that the petition should give more specific reasons for student grade appeals than "grades given unfairly."
William Westerbeke, SenEx chairman,
said yesterday that he would write a letter
to Steve Leben, student body president,
and wrote a response to the specific
specification to the University Council.
Establishment of a grade appeals court was delayed yesterday when members of the University Senate Executive Committee recommended that consider redrafting the petition for such a court.
The Senate passed a petition in December asking that the Council establish a Court of Student Academic Appeals because the appeal may be given without proper justification."
WESTERBEKE SAID he thought it would be better for students if the Senate redrafted the petition in a more specific manner. If the Council's Academic Policies and Procedures Committee made the petition official, the students might not be happy with it, he said.
He said the petition also would have a better chance of being passed by the Council.
LEBEN, WHOSE term as president ends Feb. 17, said it would be better for the petition to be sent to the Council now than to have a committee whose members would be new.
But Leben did not think it would be necessary to redraft the Senate's petition.
In other action, SenEx recommended that the Council give the office of admissions and records the power to enforce University requirements for graduation.
He said the student members of the committee were responsible enough to see that the specifics were made in the students' interests.
Student elections are Feb. 15 and 16. New senate elections take office Feb. 17, new House elections in April.
"It would be almost impossible to redraw the petition in this administration," Leben
Students who have been recommended for graduation by individual schools of the University usually meet University requirements. In both instances, both requirements are not met.
Time also was a factor, Leben said.
SenEx voted to give power to the Academic Procedures and Policies committee to grant exceptions in what it called extraordinary circumstances.
Yet Croftfoot said Taylor was off-base in his comparison of liquor with heroin.
Reilly, chairman of the federal and state affairs委席, said the liquor bill would be of value to the universities because it would encourage activities in the student
"I THINK THEI REV. Taylor has lost a lot of support in the Legislature with this plea,"
Another good point of the bill, he said, is
that students would not have to drive to and from private clubs for their parties. This could help reduce the number of alcohol related traffic accidents. Reilly said.
Death bill debate airs
Staff Writer
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Student union operators and local law enforcement officials would be responsible for seeing that liquor laws are obeyed, he said.
Debate on a death penalty bill begins to
begin. Senate Federal and State
Affairs Commission
However, Reilly said, "I don't think Chancellor Archie Dykes or President Duane Acker would let their student unions turn into saloons."
State Sen. Edward Reilly, R-Leavenworth, chairman of that committee said yesterday that he thought the bill would pass through the committee and go to the Senate floor unchanged from the form approved by the House.
Reilly, a death penalty proponent, said he expected limited debate on the House death penalty bill in both the committee and the Senate because the bill is similar to last year's bill.
The House passed a bill by a wide margin Jan. 19 that would make the death penalty an option in first-degree murder cases. The House bill proposes a system of two juries to try murder cases—one to determine guilt or innocence and another to determine the penalty.
"**THINK THE vote will be very close in the Senate**.
It has a fair chance it has a fair chance. Reilly said.
However, State Sen. Don Allegruci, D-Pittsburg, said he planned to call for another 30-year-minimum sentence amendment when the bill reached the Senate floor.
A similar House death penalty bill was approved by the Federal and State Affairs committee last year but was amended by the Senate to provide a minimum 30-year sentence for first-degree murder. Gov. Robert F. Bennett vetoed the Senate bill
"I'm confident that we will be able to amend the bill again this year to provide the 30-year minimum sentence." Alleguez said. "Nothing has happened to change opinions in the Senate, except perhaps that this is an election year."
Reilly said he doubted that the death penalty bill would be amended as it was last
ALLEGRUCI SAID he was not sure what he should do with an amended decision finally.
"I think the 30-year minimum is a reasonable price." Allegruza said. It will keep the prices low for the next three years.
But Reilly said, "I don't think the death penalty bill will be amended to a minimum
of their lives. The governor's veto of last year's bill only caused another year of murders having to serve only the present 15- year minimum."
Athletic seating to be discussed
By MARY HOENK
Staff Writer
Staff Writer
Student representatives of the University of Kansas Athletic Corporation will meet Clyde Walker, athletic director, to discuss the disapproval basketball and football seating. Jill Grumbach, student representative to the university, said: "However, no date has been set for the conference."
Changes to be discussed include a switch to a reserved seating system for basketball and a possible shifting of student football seating sections.
Grubbaugh said that the possibility of seating changes had been discussed briefly at an executive meeting of the KUAC board last week.
She said the committee had accepted a suggestion that Walker meet with the student representatives about all the seating changes.
'IT WAS highly recommended that there
be a minimum of any inridement in
gestering the badge above.
Walker said that no decision had been made and that his department was giving consideration to the advantages and disadvantages of types of seating arrangements.
Bert Nunley, former Senate sports committee chairman, said the seating board had not met in the past year and no students appointed to the seating committee this year.
"We have some concerns with the present seating arrangements, and we're planning to discuss these with all parties involved," he said.
According to the rules and regulations of the Student Senate, there are provisions for an athletic seating board, which is designed to be an advisory board in decisions concerning student activities.
NUNLEY SAID he had heard mixed reactions on the possibility of reserved seating. But he said several students who were in favor of the proposal had said they were tired of hassling for a seat for every basketball game.
He said that the sports committee did not have an opportunity to look into the role of the staff.
Leben said he also was unclear as to the function of the seating committee and knew that he had been an active member.
Grubbaugh said student representatives would try to gather student opinion through an informal or formal survey on the changing changes before the meeting with Walker.
Fuel oil heats KU during gas cutback
Staff Writer
By PAM MANSON
Despite freezing temperatures and a curtailment of natural gas service, the University of Kansas has enough reserve fuel to keep campus buildings warm this winter, Rodger Orok, director of Facilities Operations, said yesterday.
The Kansas Public Service Gas Co. cut off service to the University at 4 p.m. Jan. 25, forcing KU to switch to fuel oil, at a cost of about $6,000 a day. Natural gas service was restored by 50 percent Monday, allowing the University to cut its oil use in half.
Although the University has used 68,000 gallons of fuel reserve oil to heat its boilers since gas service was cut off, it still remains at least -even enough to last 24 or 25 days. Oroke said.
THE UNIVERSITY has an interruptable contract with the gas company, which permits the company to cut off service delivery and reduces the periods of service reduction. The University uses fuel oil, which costs about three times as much as gas, to produce the steam used in the furnaces.
William Salome, manager of the gas company, said that service to KU had been curtitled because pressure could not be maintained in the pipelines that bring the gas from Oklahoma to Lawrence. He said gas shortages played no part in the service reduction. Full service might be resumed he added.
Oroke said he did not anticipate problems obtaining fuel for the University this winter.
"Last year there was a problem with the severe cold and a shortage of fuel," he said. "We haven't had any problems this year in keeping a reserve of oil."
RICHARD PERKINS, associate director of maintenance, said that Facilities Operations was not replacing all of the fuel oil used in the past week.
"We normally replenish our supplies as soon as we can," Perkins said. "This year, though, we've got more than enough, and we'll just leave one of our tanks empty."
Last winter KU's natural gas service was curtailed for about 40 days and its fuel reserves were used during that period. The University adopted an energy shortage contingency plan that outlined procedures to reduce the severe energy shortages occurred at KU.
Stage one of the three-part plan involves full operation of the University but using fuel oil and reducing temperatures in all buildings. During this first stage, five buildings would be closed down and the heat substantially reduced.
STAGE TWO calls for the closing of additional buildings, but keeping residence halls and classes open. In the final stage, the building is vacant. Only essential services would be operating.
The University spent $154,188 on fuel oil last year. About $182,000 has been budgeted to pay fuel oil bills for fiscal 1978 because of increases in the cost of oil.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN News Capsules
From the Associated Press, United Press International
Killer sought at K-State
MANHATTAN—Polar police searched Abernard Field House and the student union at Kansas State University until 6 p.m. yesterday in a vain attempt to find the killer of Pamela Commerce. Police said she was stabbed twice during lunch hour while she was alone in the Chamber of Commerce office. The killer was yet indicted yet in connection with the murder. See story page two.
Rhodesian talks resume
RABAT, Malta—Black guerrilla leaders said yesterday that they want to share power with Britain during Rhodesia's transition to black majority rule and rejected a proposal for a British commissioner to head the interim government. Meanwhile, in Rhodesia, moderate black leaders agreed to resume informal talks with the white government today on the framework for a one-man, one-vote constitution. See story page two.
Locally...
Much of the night life of KU students is spent in Lawrence bars, where students make merry with a few beers after a day or week of homework, tests and study. The crowds in many of the bars are loud and boisterous, leaving behind a trail of peanuts, popcorn and spilled beer for the management to clean up. But each one has its own set of rules, and the cleanup job, "After busy nights you just have to pull out the tables to the pecan shells." See Weekday, page six.
Andrus
Andrus postpones sale of oil leases
BOSTON—Cecil Andris, Secretary of the interior, postponed indefinitely the deadline for a federal gas exploration leases on more than 700,000 acres of rich seabitom off the New England coast. Andrus action has been opposed by federal judicial courts judge had
uphold a lower court's order delaying the sale until Congress implements safeguards to protect the fishing industry from possible hazards related to offshore drilling in the Georges Bank area.
Two face spying charges
WASHINGTON - Two men—a State Department employee and a Vietnamese who has applied for permanent U.S. citizenship—died in federal charges of spying for Communist Vietnam. In a seven-count indictment, Ronald Louis Humphrey and Truong Dinh Hung were accused of stealing and transmitting classified information to a national defense of the United States. See story page two.
Anarchists' cause revived
CAMBIDGE, Mass.—New questions concerning the guilt of Nicaela Sacca and Bartolomeo Vanzetti have arisen in a case that has led to a series of days of the case. Questions arise from ambiguously dated reports concerning the trial. See story page two.