THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
The University of Kansas
Vol. 88, No.76
Monday January 23,1978
Lawrence, Kansas
Delta Upsilons regroup after fire
By NANCY DRESSLER
Staff Writer
Homeless members of Delta Upson-
fraternity, 1025 Emery Road, gathered in their fire-guided house last night to discuss
temporary housing. A Friday night fire that
raged through the house's third floor had caused an estimated $20,000 damage to the roof.
Robert Turvey, assistant dean of men and
14 all persons in the house at the time escaped without serious injury.
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From the Associated Press, United Press International
Carter wants curb on deductions
WASHINGTON—President Jimmy Carter, while calling for income tax reductions that would mean lower taxes for almost all taxpayers earning less than $100,000 a year, is asking Congress to eliminate some of the deductions available to businesses and individuals to curb the federal deficit.
Carter
Deductions for state and local gasoline, sales and personal property taxes and reductions in the allowance for medical expenses would be eliminated if Carter's plan is approved. See story page two.
Mideast talks remain at standstill
JERUSALEM--The 21st-month-old Egyptian-Israeli peace drive came to a standstill yesterday when Israel suspended talks on a troop pullback in the Peninsula. The suspension is sure to be a disappointment for Secretary of State Cyrus R. Vance, who returned home yesterday from Greece and the Middle East expecting political negotiations to resume in a week to 10 days. See story page two.
Resolution of gas dispute possible
WASHINGTON—Theresa congressional leaders agreed yesterday that the House and the Senate might be close to ending the natural gas pricing dispute that has persisted for months.
House Speaker Thomas P. "Tp" O'Neill, D-Mass., Senate Minority Leader Howard Baker, R-Tenn., and Rep John Rhodes, R-Ariz., House minority leader, said they thought Congress was moving toward some form of bipartisan government. The Congress from approving President Jimmy Carter's energy program last year.
Appearing on CBS-TV's "Face the Nation," O'Neill said that he based his optimism on the attitudes of lawmakers and that he thought the full House would support some kind of gradual deregulation of natural gas over several years if such a plan were approved by the House conferences.
Laetrile, abortion to be considered
TOPEKA-In this, the third week of the 1978 session, the Kansas Legislature will hold committee hearings on such controversial issues as abortion, laetrile and the coal slurry pipeline. Today is the last day for individual lawmakers to introduce legislation.
Dole attacks canal treaty
CHILLICOTHE, Mo.—Sen. Robert Dole, R-Km., attacked the proposed Panama Canal treaties Saturday.
Speaking at a Republican fund-raising dinner, Dole said the current draft of the treaties should not receive Senate approval without changes, including an agreement between President Jimmy Carter and Panamanian leader Rafael Narváez. The United States' right to defend the canal and naval priority passage through the canal in a crisis situation.
Dole
Locally
About 30 percent of the students at the University of Kansas have been enjoying double representation in the Student Senate. The students were being represented by both senators from their organized living groups and from their schools within the University. The double representation may meet its end this week when the Senate considers a bill to eliminate the four seats causing the controversy. See story page five.
adviser to University of Kansas fraternities, said yesterday that arrangements had been made with at least one apartment complex to house some of the fraternity's 64 members who were living in the house this semester.
The fire was discovered at about 8:15 Friday night in a northwest corner room on the fraternity's third floor by Bill Krizman, manager, one of the room's three occupants.
STEVE RAYL, Hutchinson sophomore, who also was upstairs at the time the fire was discovered, said Krizman discovered the flames and went to get a fire exe
"I went up and saw the flames and
the exclamation mark on the exit,
"Ravell said Friday."
"We didn't really have any trouble getting out," William Ewonius, Wichita sophomore said yesterday. "There were a couple of singers but no one required any treatment."
Rayal called in the alarm to the Lawrence Fire Department at 8:21 p.m.
The house had installed smoke detectors and a fire alarm system about a month ago to comply with the state fire code. Fraternity members said all alarms and detectors sounded and alerted them to the fire.
FIRE INSPECTIONS of KU's fraternities and sororities were conducted in September 1976 following a fire at a baker University fraternity that killed five men. That
Ewons, fraternity president, attributed his fraternity's safe evacuation to the recently installed systems and the recently installedness of fire precautions since the Baker fire.
fraternity had not been in compliance with the state fire code.
"We did know what to do and no one was injured." Ewons said.
Fire department officials yesterday had not determined the cause of the blaze.
Flames were confined to the structure's third floor and were under control in about an hour, a spokesman for the fire department said yesterday.
"WE WERE LUCKY and we will have this back to normalcy before too long." Jim Brooks, president of the fraternity's house corporation board, said yesterday.
Brooks said plans already were being made to rebuild the damaged part of the building.
Brooks said food service would be restored in the house in the next several days, which would allow members to return for meals.
Nine fraternity members now live in an annex in the West Hills Luxury Apartments complex. Ewonus said efforts were being made to open apartments in apartments near the fraternity house.
HE SAID THAT in the next three weeks about 20 members might be able to move back into rooms on the second floor that suffered minimal smoke and water damage.
HEW begins study of athletic programs
See FRATERNITY FIRE page three
By MARY HOENK
Staff Writer
The department of Health, Education and Welfare begins a week-long examination this morning into KU's athletic programs J.L. Thomas, director of the higher education branch of the Kansas City, Mo., HEE office, said Friday.
The investigation, Thomas said last week, was prompted by a complaint filed with his office, which alleged discrepancies between men and women's treatment and care programs.
Thomas said the HEW investigator also would examine staffing, budgets and job descriptions in both the men and women's training programs.
Dean Nesmith, head trainer for the men's athletic department, and Jacqueline King, head strength and conditioning management, have confirmed that they had completed a course presented to the HE Warner team for this week.
MIKE DAVIS, University counsel, said yesterday that he received notice of the HEW investigation a while ago but that the investigation was only routine.
"It not an adversary relationship," he
said. "They just help us define our
responsibilities."
Davis said he thought it was unlikely that the investigation would yield any penalties because of what he said was the positive relationship between the University and HEW.
Saturday night to be sure of a victory. The Jahwahjs took control and unleashed the animals and won $62 in a packed Allen Field House. See story page 179.
Hawk Fever
Staff Photo by DONALD WALLER
Diana Johnson, Kansas City, Kan. freshman, had to wait until the final moments of the Kansas-Kansas State basketball game
Chancellor Archie R. Dykes agreed that HEW investigations were not unusual. He said there had been previous investigations at KU, sometimes stemming from a complaint filed by someone who had been fired from the University.
"It's a lot of expense for the University," it says. "I suppose it's necessary but sometimes I wish it."
DAVIS SAID the expense to the University usually was incurred from duplication of materials that were presented to HEW. These were sent to people from their regular jobs, he said.
Davis said that if general discrepancies were found, the University would probably make changes if they were requested by HEW.
But, Davis said, a recommendation to terminate federal funds—the ultimate form of discipline—was possible. An institution receiving federal funding risks losing funds if it does not comply with provisions set up by the IX of the Education Amendments of 1872.
Thomas said the results of the investigation would be made available to both lawyers and the judge.
The University's deadline for compliance to Title IX, which prohibits sex discrimination at federally funded institutions, is July 21.
THOMAS SAID HEW had the right to investigate and make evaluations because the University was a recipient of federal funds.
See ATHLETIC PROGRAM page three
Firefighters were called to the scene of a blaze Friday on the third floor of the Delta Upsilon fraternity. Fire and water damage was extensive, and residents of the house were evacuated.
Staff Photo by MARY HOENK
Fire and Water
Union to return textbooks faster
By BILL POLLARD and
Staff Writers
University of Kansas students will find more empty shelves than usual in the Kansas Union bookstore after the fourth week of classes.
In three weeks, any textbooks that will not be used more than one semester will be returned to the publisher in accordance with a new bookstore policy, Betty Brock, general manager of the bookstore, said yesterday.
Under the policy, Brock said, the bookstore will keep only books that will be used for additional semesters. All other new and used books will be returned to the publishers for credit on future bookstore purchases.
In the past, unsold books were not returned until the end of the semester.
BROCK SAID the return policy was changed because the earlier date enabled the bookstore to use the credit to help pay for next semester's textbooks and to buy a wider range of books for the Oread Book Shop.
In the past, Brock said, the bookstores have received credit memos too late to apply the credit to the next semester's book orders. Using credit instead of cash to pay the bills, she said, allows the bookstore to use its money in other ways.
"You need cash to pay bills, salaries and other expenses." Brock said.
Warner Ferguson, associate director of the Union, agreed that tying up money in unsaid books during slack business periods caused nurses caused problems when paving bills.
Brock said the new policy also would
mean more efficient use of shell space. She said problems with the lack of shelf space when new books arrived would be alleviated old books would have been removed.
Marilyn Dawson, Overland Park sophomore, said she did not think the new
Some students, however, seemed more concerned with the problem of being able to find books they needed after the fourth week. Many of Kate's storekeeper's problems of credit and shelf space.
"I know people who didn't buy all their books at one time because they couldn't afford them," Dawson said. "If they wait long they're going to run into problems."
Mary T. Schnellbacher, Topeka
sophomore, said she thought the policy would inconvenience students who added to class.
Jim Evans, Prairie Village sophomore, said he favored the policy.
Others said they thought that the new other's good idea and that it might benefit studies.
Nick Vlakovich, La Grange Park III., phomorem, also said he thought the policy may work better.
“It’s a good idea,” he said. “If someone’s going to class for a month and doesn’t have a book, they aren’t going to pass the class, anway.”
"It might force students to get their books earlier," laVibloch said. "It might be better."
Regents' committee tables early retirement proposal
Staff Writer
By BRIAN SETTLE
Members of the Faculty Executive Committee raised their eyebrows in surprise last December when Chancellor Arch R. Dykes told them not to expect any action on an early faculty retirement plan discussed during the current legislative session.
The action will delay legislative consideration of the plan for another year because the Legislature will adjourn in May. In the meantime, the Council of Presidents, which consists of the officials of the seven Negels' institutions, plans to oversee the cost of a recently revised proposal.
Dykes' predictions came true Friday when the Kansas Board of Regents' Legislative Policies and Bylaws Committee approved voluntary retirement plan until June.
DYKES SAID yesterday the only reason the proposal was tabled was that it had become too late to get anything done during the current legislative session.
The concept of early retirement was broached by the Regents in 1973. Early last year, a new plan for the Retiree Benefit program
See RETIREMENT page three