HAPPY
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
Lawrence, Kansas
The University of Kansas
Tuesday December 13,1977
Vol. 88, No. 72
Staff Photo by GEORGE MILLENER
Miaratina south
John Snyder, best known around Lawrence as the bare-schested "Tan Man," will leave town at the end of December for the
warmer climate of Corpus Christi, Texas. Snyder, night junior in the first National Bank Building, says he wants to be where there is a need for him.
Tan Man to leave town for sun
Rv LINDA HINEMAN
Staff Writer
The man with the tan is leaving town.
John Snyder, well-known to University of Kansas students as the "Tan Man," is moving to Corpus Christi, Texas, to follow the sun.
Snyder said Friday that he was moving south, because it was too cold in Lawrence the winder.
Snyder learned last Monday that he had gotten a janitorial job with ITT Building Services, a job he had wanted for more than a year. He plans to start his new job
"It's too bad it don't stay summer here at the time," he said. "Dowen there it does."
Snyder, 34, has been sunning himself in Lawrence for the past 10 years. He came here from his hometown of Augusta, Kan., he said, to get away from his parents.
Two or more favorite spots to sunbathe are near Robinson Gymnasium and near Wesco Hall, where he enjoys talking to students, he said.
"A LOT OF hippies go by; I talk to
bugs in their hair."
Snyder has become something of a legend among KU students because he brought the school to national attention.
Snyder said he also enjoyed swimming and riding his bicycle. He said he would go to the park on Saturday.
Lawrence and buy another one when he
had 10-speed bicycle that was still
working.
Tracy Warren, Kansas City, Kan.. special student and a friend of Snyder's, said he always saw Snyder riding his bicycle around town.
Warren said that when Snyder first came to Lawrence people called him things such as "Bicycle Man" or "Shirtless Wonder."
"Finally, just by usage, 'Tan Man' stuck," he said.
SNYDER HAS developed a golden tan from his hours in the sun. He said he stayed in the sun all the time because it "feels good."
Although he likes to be outside as much as possible, he said, he cannot stay out too long when it is cold. He said he would be able to do more of what he wanted to do in Corpus Christi because of the warm climate.
Snyder said that he was planning to stay in Texas permanently but that he would write his friends in Lawrence and come back during his vacations.
He said he would spend Christmas in Augusta with his mother, sister and three brothers. But he plans to take a bus to Corpus Christi before Dec. 28.
SHE SAID the people who worked with Snyder were going to have a party for him during their break the Friday before he left.
for him and helped him get his new job. She also got him his job at the bank. Joe was a man who didn't care.
Martha Dunn, Snyder's supervisor at the First National Bank Office Tower, 900 Massachusetts St., where he now is a janitor, said she wrote a recommendation
Dunn said Snyder was an energetic worker and a sincere person.
Snyder, who now works 25 hours a week at the bank, will work 35 hours a week in his new job. He also works Friday and Saturday nights at the Harbour tavern, 1031 Massachusetts St., where he said he got free beer and coke.
"He's always bustling around," she said.
He was a dishwasher at the Campus Hideaway restaurant, 106 W. N. Park St., before he began working at the bank four years ago.
Snyder said he especially liked his job at the bank during the winter because then it was dark when he went to work, and he aimed to catch the last rays of sun each day.
Dunn said Snyder would work a night shift on his new job, too, 'so he'll be able to
Snyder said most of his friends had told him they were glad he was moving to where the weather was always like summer.
"He wanted to follow the sun," Warren said.
Waxman is named chief of KU Medical Center
By DIRCK STEIMEL
Staff Writer
David Waxman has been appointed as the new executive vice chancellor of the KU Medical Center, Chancellor Archie R. Dykes announced yesterday.
Waxman had been acting vice chancellor since the resignation of Robert Kugel Sept. 31.
The announcement of Waxman's appointment ended a four-month search for a new vice chancellor for the Med Center by Dykes.
The search for the new vice chancellor was limited to members of the Med Center staff and faculty. Dykes said the search was not extensive, and expense involved in a nationwide search.
Dykes had said earlier that limiting the search did not mean that Waxman would automatically get the vice chancellor's appointment. Waxman had announced in September that he would accept the position if it was offered to him.
WAXMAN IS the fourth director of the Med Center in the past two and a half years. He was deputy vice chancellor under Kugel, who was executive vice chancellor for 16 months. Kugel has remained at the Med Center as part-time faculty member in pediatrics.
Other key Med Center positions also have been vacated in the past few years. And some people who resigned complained of morale and leadership problems at the Med Center.
Other alleged problems at the Med Center include the following: incomplete and
David Waxman
inaccurate management of budgeting and fiscal affairs, low morale, personality conflicts among staff members, conflict over authority, potentiality as a result of the resignations.
Waxman said yesterday, "I feel very sober now because I never thought I'd be the executive vice chancellor and I know I have no small task in front of me. But I'm very happy for the opportunity to work as executive vice chancellor."
Waxman said one of his greatest assets in assuming the vice chancellor's post was the length of time he has worked at the Med Center. Waxman has been a member of the Med Center staff since 1961.
BEFORE HE was appointed vice chancellor, Waxman was deputy vice chancellor and dean of student affairs at the Med Center.
Waxman said that he thought his leadership was important to clarify and develop the health careers of both students and faculty at the Med Center.
He said that there was no top priority program to which he would direct his efforts as executive of the Med Center. Instead, he had several directions he will pursue be said.
One of these directions, Waxman said, will be defending the fiscal 1978 Mid Center budget of $91,454,684. A large part of 1978 budget will consist of expenses in moving into the Med Center's new facilities. Waxman anticipated no problems in moving into the new center, which is scheduled to accept patients by mid-1978.
Waxman said that he would try to use the Med Center's influence to help ease the doctor shortage in rural Kansas communities. But, he added that proposed legislation to force graduates to serve a few doctors was ineffective because it is necessary to keep doctors in small towns permanently and not for a few years.
Dykes approves grievance policy
By MELISSA THOMPSON
Staff Writer
A new affirmative action plan for the University of Kansas' Lawrence campus was approved yesterday by Chancellor Archie R. Dykes. The plan contains a number of policy improvements compliance with University practices and recent federal legislation.
Dykes was expected to have approved a new policy in late September. He said last month that the delay was caused by the administration's attempt to create a policy that would be applicable to the KU campus in Pasadena, as well as the Lawrence campus.
However, the new plan is only applicable to the Lawrence campus.
Dykes was not available last night for comments on his approval of the new plan.
Shirley Domer, assistant to the Chancellor, said yesterday that the new plan included more groups in its provisions and also clarified certain provisions of the old plan. The new plan will be applicable to all staff members of researchers and students in areas that include hiring practices, admissions, salaries, promotions and service.
Domer said the most important alterations in the plan were in the opening statements about equal opportunity. The complete prohibition against discrimination.
THE PLAN WILL prohibit discrimination on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, disability, national origin, age (as specified by law) or ancestry.
There was no mention in the official announcement of a clause preventing the use of 'excessive' language.
Fall Kansan ends
This is the final issue of the Kansan for the fall semester. Publication will resume Jan. 18.
Rights issue unresolved bv debate
Rv DAVID PARRIS
No resolution was reached at last night's debate on whether "The Women's Rights Movement and the Gay Rights Movement are Destructive to Society," but an audience of about 300 persons in the Kansas Union Ballroom clearly indicated its partiality by the heavy applaus given to those opposed to the title.
Staff Writer
Once, however, that applause was directed at a statement by Betty Hanicke, chairman of Women Opposed to the Equal Rights Amendment in the Greater Kansas City Area, who spoke in favor of the proposition.
After boisterous applause she consented,
"Maybe we're on a different wave length. I hope you're taking it constructively in the way I mean it, but I have a feeling . . . "
"I'd like to throw a challenge to you. If you don't like this world the way it is, then I want you to try."
Hanicke and her debate colleague Harold Voth, a senior psychiatrist with the Menninger Foundation in Topeka, sidemore on the same wavelength as their opponents, Bruce Voeller -co-executive director of the National Gay Task Force in New York City, and Harriet Lerner, staff historian with the Menninger Foundation.
Both sides agreed that the family structure, though deteriorating, was essential to American society, but each side differed in its explanation of the situation.
THE DEBATE WAS sponsored by the Commission on the Status of Women, Gay Services of Kansas, KU-Y and the Women's Studies Program.
"We do this not only out of respect for our own needs, but also out of concern for the family and our children who often need their mothers less and their fathers more. And we do this with the knowledge that the greatest gift that we can give our
Lerner credited the lack of the father's presence in the rearing of children as the reason for her divorce. She said the women's movement supported changes in employment practices that would allow for the father to spend more time at home and the mother to rediscover her skills.
sons and daughters is the good quality of our own lives," she said.
Voth said he was not surprised by the number of women who have left their family responsibilities and entered the job market. He said inflation had forced many women to enter the job market who would have preferred to stay at home.
Hanicea said that women who thought they were there, where place were there only because they placed themselves.
According to Voth, 39 per cent of working women have preschool children and 54 per cent have college students.
VOTH SAID, "SO YOU ADD UP that statistic and the statistic of women who are forced to work by economic pressure or by women who have elected to work in these industries—making function and because of their own psychological difficulties, and when you add the number of men who have nothing to do with them," I'm telling you that our children are in peril.
"And if children are in peril, our future adults are in peril. And if they're in peril,
then the family is in peril and I know the nation is in peril.
He said it was time the issue was looked at squarely.
"It's no accident, for instance, that homosexuality is on the increase." Voth said. "Homosexuality is an expression of the failure of adequacy in a culture," she said. "I will at that the gay liberation movement would like to have their way of life defined as normal. This is perfectly natural. Everybody would rather have the environment accommodate them as they are rather than change and meet the needs of a more mature environment."
VOELLER REMARKED that homosexuals throughout history had been blamed for the destruction of the family structure. The same group, the homosexuals included, were aware of the numerous contribution made to society by homosexuals. He cited Michelangelo, Socrates, Alcibiades, Tato, Caesar and Willia examples. Examples of homosexuals who had contributed to society.
preference. No administration official was available to say if such a clause was in effect.
Discrimination on the basis of sexual preference was an issue raised earlier this semester by both Todd VanLaningham, director of the Gay Services of Kansas, and by the Affirmative Action Board. An investigation into the campaign asking the administration to include such a clause in the plan. The board also supported the inclusion.
OTHER CHANGES in the plan include the provision of training programs to help
Del Shanker, executive vice chancellor,
said yesterday that the new plan did not
contain any provisions that were not
already being followed by the University but
the plan would just be putting the practices
into writing.
supervisors learn how to apply the new guidelines. Such programs have been offered before by the University, but this is not the case for the programs in the actual affirmative action plan.
Domer said complete copies of the plan would be available soon at several offices on campus and that a condensed version of the plan would be distributed later.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Capsules From the Associated Press, United Press International
Mine workers strike continues
Striking United Mine Workers members invaded the non-union coal fields of eastern Kentucky Monday and forced some truck drivers to dump coal alongside highways. Meanwhile progress was reported at the contract talks, but no quick settlement was in sight.
About 400 strikers paraded through parts of Ohio, West Virginia and Kentucky in a 100-vehicle caravan.
Restriction lifted on gas company
WASHINGTON—The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission removed its previous threat yesterday to limit City Services Gas Co. from offering natural gas at a low price.
However, the commission left open the possibility of imposing a future growth restriction on the company. See story page two.
WASHINGTON—Congress decided yesterday to adjourn the 1977 session Thursday and indicated it would like to vote that day on the Social Security
Social Security bill awaits vote
The bill, deadlocked over an unrelated provision for tax credits for college tuition, would raise an additional $227 billion in payroll taxes during the next 10 years to keep Social Security solvent. See story page two.
KC to try to collect lost revenue
KANSAS CITY, Mo.-City officials said yesterday they were sending the Missouri Legislature a $1.1 million bill for convention business lost because of the state's refusal to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment. The loss of business was partly because sponsor issued by the National Organization of Women. See story page two.
U.S.-Japan relations called critical
Mansfield
TOKYO-U.S. Ambassador Mike Mansfield said yesterday that Japan had not gone far enough with proposals to reduce its large U.S. trade balance and described relations between the two countries as at a crisis.
U. S. imports from Japan amount to about $8 billion more than Japanese purchases from the United States.
Locally . . .
Construction of a new radiation therapy center at the KU Medical Center will start today, without a $6,000 building permit the Kansas City, Kan., city government has said approve. Such permits never have been mandatory for construction and the state of Kansas may go to court to fight the city's order. See story page 79.