THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
Thursday January 26,1978
The University of Kansas
Lawrence, Kansas
Vol. 88, No.79
Staff Photo by DONALD WALLER
Opening questions
Madhup Joshi, student senator, questions a bill that would have eliminated four Senate seats during a debate at last night's session. "We had to do this," he said.
Union. An amendment to the petition instead added a Senate seat to represent students who live off-campus. The amendment was passed.
Senate to include off-campus seat
Bv MELISSA THOMPSON
Staff Writer
Student senators voted last night to add an off-campus seat to the Student Senate but later declined to have the seat on the roster for this spring's elections.
The decision came midway through the meeting, during debate on a petition that would eliminate four seats that represent the sororites, fraternities, residence halls and scholarship halls. The petition had been recommended for Senate approval by the Rights Committee to eliminate what had been a double representation by four living groups.
The Senate, Rights Committee chairman Reggie Robinson said, is based on academic representation from individuals' schools and to have representation from living groups is unfair to those not in organized living groups.
STEVE LEBEN, student body president,
moved to提请 the petition to establish a
seat for off-campus students and said it would provide representation for all students on both an academic and a residential basis.
Leben defended "off-campus" to mean any student that is not living in an organized sorority, fraternity, scholarship hall or University residence hall. Members of the same university have to live in policy and residents at Naisthum Hall would be classified as off-campus students.
One black fraternity, however, is not a member of the IFC, Leben said, and the Senate would have to make a judgment in that case.
Leen's amendment did not offer any guidelines for the election of the new representative, but he said it was not necessary at that time.
"Specifics don't need to be discussed tonight." Leben said.
WITH LONG lines still standing at the speaker's microphone, the Senate voted 53-
13 in a roll call vote on the amendment to create a new Senate seat. The petition is running for a seat.
However, in the last minutes of the meeting, Leben asked the Senate to give its officers authority to take necessary actions to get the petition approved by the University Council and the seat on the roster in time for the spring elections.
The elections are scheduled for Feb. 15 and 16.
The motion was narrowly defeated. Several senators said they thought that making for special treatment of the petition required a separate group that have to approve it. The petition asks for an amendment to the Senate Code, which must be sanctioned by the University Assembly.
JILL GRUBAUGH, journalism senator and chairman of the Electors Committee, said it would have been nearly impossible to have the seat on the roster for next month's election.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Capsules From the Associated Press, United Press International
Humphrey's wife to fill his place
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Muriel Humphrey, wife of the late Sen. Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota, was appointed yesterday to his vacant seat in the U.S. Senate. She will serve until a special election is held next November to fill the remaining four years of her term.
With the appointment by Minnesota Gov. Rudy Periph, Mrs. Humphrey, 65, becomes the only woman in the Senate. Minnesota law requires the governor to appoint a vice president.
Sadat tries to start talks
CAIRO-Resumption of the Egyptian-Iraeli peace talks came a step closer to reality yesterday. Egyptian President Anwar Sadat said that he was in contact with the United States to reopen the talks that broke off with Israel last week.
Senior Egyptian sources said they thought the talks could resume within 10 days, Israel, meanwhile, has drafted a proposed declaration of principles aimed at restoring the political talks in Jerusalem. See story page two.
Leaders of the Colorado-based movement said the original aim of shouting down production was not possible because not enough farmers would go along with it. However, they said they thought 95 percent of the nation's farmers would support the new 50 percent "no plant" goal.
Sodat
WASHINGTON - The American Agriculture Movement backed down
as farmers almost completely stopped crop production to a new goal of
36 percent reduction by 1975.
Farm strike leaders lower sights
Legislature has light business day
In the House yesterday, representatives approved a bill prohibiting public utilities from raising rates to cover construction work in progress and gave tentative approval to a bill allowing prosecution of adults who lead children into performing criminal acts. See story page two.
"The sooner it could be (in the elections) would be fall," she said.
TOPEKA—The Kansas Senate met briefly yesterday to receive four bills and a resolution sponsored by Sen. John Vernilmouth, R-Independence, commending the state's efforts to reduce methane emissions.
Locallv . . .
The Kansas Jayhawks lost their first conference game last night, as they dropped a 62-58 decision to Nebraska in Lincoln. The Jayhawks failed early, trailing 33-23 at halftime and losing in overtime. The Jayhawks fell short and are now tied for the Big Eight conference lead with Iowa State. 5-1. Nebraska now is second in the Big Eight at 4-2. The Jayhawks will attempt to regroup for Saturday's battle against Colorado in Allen. The Titans will face Iowa State last week 70-94 in Boulder. Story take place seven
Owens
The amended petition provides for the election of only one representative for the off-campus population, which Leben said was about 60 percent of the student body.
The Senate gave tacit agreement to the apportionment of the living group and off-campus seats, Leben said, because no questions were asked during debate.
The other resolution referred to a proposed bill in the Kansas Senate that would increase the state's tobacco tax and reduce recreational and athletic facilities. After debate, the resolution was amended to direct CSHE to seek increased funding for women's intercolegiate athletics but made no mention of support of the tobacco tax increase.
The petition will now go to the University Council for approval while Senate committees concurrently work on determining the details of the new seat's election.
IN OTHER action last night, the Senate passed two resolutions that dealt with the Senate lobby committee. Concerned Students for Higher Education.
One resolution authorized CSHF's self-proclaimed set of projects for this year. The group has declared that it will work on getting improvements in Watson Library, passage of the graduate assistant fee waiver and promotion of women's intercollege athletics.
Two Regents appointed
Rv BRIAN SETTLE.
Staff Writer
Gov. Robert Bennett announced yesterday the appointment of two members to the Kansas Board of Regents, one a 24-year-old and the other the youngest member in board history.
Bernard Franklin of Kansas City, Kan,
was named to the post by Bennett, along
with Robert O'Neil of Topeka, a specialist in
internal medicine.
Although Regent records go back only to
1830, Regent members are certain Franklin
Regent was born in New York.
Kansas succeeder Elmer C. Jackson of Kansas City, Kan., and O'Neil successes John D. Montgomery of Junction City. The terms of Jackson and Montgomery expired Dec. 31. Montgomery had asked for no phone call, but Jackson had said he would serve if asked.
THE APPPOINTMENT of Franklin, a 1976 graduate of Kansas State University, came after members of the Regents' Student Advisory Committee requested last
Leroy Towes, Bennett's press secretary,
said yesterday that the committee's suggestion had played an important role in Franklin's appointment.
November that the governor consider appointing a more recent college graduate.
"The governor was extremely pleased with finding a man like Franklin, who is both extremely qualified and also a more recent college graduate." Towns said.
Steve Leben, student body president and member of the Student Advisory Board, which consists of the student body presidents of the seven Regents institutions, said yesterday the selection of Franklin had pleased members of the committee.
"HE WAS exactly the type of person we were hoping the governor would appoint." Leben said. "He certainly is a recent enough graduate that he will be able to really help the Regents and higher education in Kansas."
Leben said he planned to introduce a resolution at Wednesday's Senate meeting.
Senate group supports women athletes' appeal
By MARY HOENK
A push for legislative funding of women's athletics get a booster shot last night when the Student Senate voted to assist the athletes in their campaign.
Staff Writer
But Rob Green, chairman of the Senate lobby group, Concerned Students for Higher Education, said yesterday that the athletes had initiated the legislative effort and the role of CSHE would be only to provide information and enthusiasm.
"Our position is to fit in with their plans and show we have concern and willingness to do what we can."
Levinson said that she was encouraged by Bennett's proposal and that a second letter-writing campaign would be aimed at lecturers.
The push to make legislators aware of the need for state funding begin in December with a letter-writing campaign to Governor Rick Perry to support state funding of women's athletics.
BENNETT HAS since announced a proposal to donate for women's athletics, and not required.
Anne Levinson, field hockey representative to the Council of Women Athletes, said that a few responses had been received in support of an effort in the campaign had been lacking.
A meeting to familiarize women athletes, or any interested one, to writing letters to legislators is scheduled for Jan. 29 at 7:30 p.m. in the Kansas University, according to
Facilities chief resigns position at Med Center
Unification Church back in town
Zilm will resign effective Feb. 15, according to the letter recently received by
the University of Kansas Medical Center the director of facilities planning, Frank Zilm, has announced his resignation from the university. He is the university director of facilities planning.
Zilim said Tuesday that his primary reason for resigning was a difference of opinion with the Med Center's ad-hoc staffing plans, his duties as facilities planning director.
He said that facilities planning should be responsible for remodeling projects and installations.
"There was a lack of clarity as to who was responsible for planning decisions." Zilim
By BILL POLLARD
Staff Writer
The Unification Church is back in town.
The Unification Church is back in town. Four church members presented their religious principles last night to a small group of people in Wescott Hall.
The church, a Christian fundamentalist organization founded in Korea in 1954 by the Rev. Sun Myung Moon, has not been active in Lawrence since November 1975, but the church opened a center at 1454 Rhode Island St. the first week of January, James L. Stephens, the church's foreman in Lawrence, said.
Stephens, who lives at the center, said the group had been in Kansas City. Kan, but moved to Lawrence because they thought it was easier to get members near a university.
Stephens during the meeting, told of the invitation and invited those present to visit his museum.
the church believed that man was meant by God to be perfect and this could be attained when everyone "centered his life totally on God."
A movie about Rev. Moon's "Goddess America Festival" in September 1976 in New York City.
Stephens said the church had four full-time workers in Lawrence. He said they all lived at the center, but none were University of Kansas students or Lawrence residents
The church, he said, also is encouraging people to attend a weekend seminar in Sioux Falls, S.D. He said the seminars, held in Sioux Falls each fall, were to educate people about the church's principles. The agenda, he said, includes lectures, recreational activities, discussions on why people join the church.
Stephens said it costs $10 and includes food and transportation by car. The church groups drive to Sioux Falls Friday evenings and return to Lawrence Saundays.
"It will be a good place to talk to people and get down to the nuts and bits of getting messy," he said.
Tracy Spellman, adviser to the council, said other ideas to help legislators become aware of the need for state funding were also being developed.
A BENEFIT FEATURING tennis competition among legislators and women athletes and distribution of an information packet to all are also under consideration, Spellman said.
She said she thought that women athletes were becoming more united in their efforts to get funding, but that there were still some who don't understand the full force of the game.
if the legislative push fails, Spelman said, the council might move to reinstitute Student Senate funding, depending on the new administration.
The Senate voted last year to refuse funding for women's athletics, beginning in the fiscal year 1979. The women's department currently has in its budget **¢33,066** that was allocated by the Senate for fiscal year 1978.
Bernett for his continued support of higher education and his willingness to listen to
Franklin is a service consultant with AT&T's management development program in Kansas City, Mo. He served as president of the K-State student body from 1975 to 1976 and as head of the K-State Black Student Union.
Among awards he has received is the Martin Luther King Memorial award.
Franklin said yesterday he didn't think his age would be a problem in dealing with the board. The member closest to Franklin in age is in his 30's.
"HE IS an outstanding young man who promises to be of great service to the people of Kansas in shaping the future of higher education," Bennett said in a statement
Franklin said his experience as student body president at K-State had familiarized him with the procedures and operations of the board.
"I think that the governor realizes that objectivity can be achieved at any level," Franklin said. "People used to think that it came after a certain length of time dealing in major academic and educational work, and then I worked working with the other members." It is sure.
HE SAID THE biggest contribution he could make to the Regents would be to continue making policy fairly to make sure different institutions are represented
Although his new position will take a lot of outside time, Franklin said he didn't think it was important.
"The only time I foresee being away from the job is the day and-a-half each month that the Regents hold their meetings. Otherwise it will generally consist of outside work." He
O'Neil, 57, has been a practicing physician in Topeka since 1851. He received a bachelor of science degree from the University of Kansas in 1942 and graduated from the University of Kansas School of Medicine in 1945.
From 1946 to 151, he served as a doctor in the U.S. Navy
DR. O'NEIL brings to the board a deep insight into medicine and the challenges facing our country." His guardian, "His knowledge of health care, his record of involvement in community affairs and his commitment to higher education are most valuable to his Hospital of Hearts."
O'Neil said yesterday he was surprised and excited by his selection.
See REGENTS page 10
Close call
Staff Photo by RANDY OLSON
Gayla Williams, center, watches as her Kansas State teammates take possession of the ball after entangling herself with two KU players, Lynette Woodard, top, and Cheryl Burnett. The K-State women's team won 66-45. See page story eight.