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Sunflower House closing; former residents critical
Staff Writer
By TERRY SELBY
At the end of this school year, Sunflower House, a student living group at 1406 Tennessee St, will close temporarily, leaving its 29 residents unsure of where they will be living.
The closing comes after an eight-year succession of internal conflicts and problems that twice before have closed what the house's developers call "an attempt to create the ideal living arrangement."
But former residents have called the living arrangement less than ideal, and the question remains as to whether the house is a living group or a research project.
Keith Müller, professor of human development and family life, is in charge of the house. He said he was in charge of the house for 10 years.
SOME RESIDENTS charged that the house is used too much as a behavior-modification research project for the department of human behavioral health. Mr. Brown, board member of the Advisory Committee for Human Experimentation, said an application for research had not been filed and required of all of its departments doing research.
regulations so that the problems the house had experienced in the past could be avoided in the future.
Miller said he would apply next year to use the house as a research project.
"The house has a history of conflicts," said Burleigh Smith, Boston graduate student and former resident. "These purges of residents will continue until someone decides whether the purpose of the house is to provide housing or a research facility for HDFL."
SUNFLOWER HOUSE is the sole project of the University of Kansas Student Housing Association, a 41-year-old, non-profit association meant to provide low-cost housing for KU students.
He said he thought the house was becoming more of a research project.
The association's charter contains no language that would violate user-modification research standards within its license.
Yet within the house is a research group made up of HDPL graduate students under the leadership of Miller, who is secretary-treasure for the association. They have been recruited from the student community at large.
"The house isn't a cooperative any more," Jim Bogler, Lawrence senior, said. "Miller still talks 'd廉racracy', but it has become his project and nothing more."
BOGLER WAS evicted from the house this summer by court order.
Miller called the house a "limited co-op."
That causes the module a `incurved loop`.
If we want to access a function, it "he said,
There are spheres of responsibility which allow us to
have control over them."
According to Rick Ophirem, Kansas City, Mo., another former resident, the first purge of residents from the city was ordered in 1982.
"Miller said that both closings were due to the house's unresponsiveness to the research group's suggestion for a program using behavior modeling for children and was functioning smoothly without it when he closed it."
Miller, however, said the house was closed for repairs.
Miller set as a requirement to live in the house participation in a three-hour human development class, to be held in the house, entitled introduction to Principles of Everday Behavior Analysis, according
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
BUT THE REQUIRED in house class was later dropped because of a lack of interest, Oeheim said, mainly because the students were not told before they went out to present in the class was a requirement to live there.
"Students are not aware what they're getting into when they contract in the house," Ohpime said. "They are aware that HDFL is involved, but I think a big shock to find out how much they are involved."
See CLOSING page ten
KANSAN
COLD
Vol. 88, No. 67
The University of Kansas
Lawrence, Kansas
Tuesday December 6,1977
By BRIAN SETTLE Staff Writer
The state has sustained financial damages from the architectural firm that designed the KU Medical Center expansion project. The department, in turn, argues government's office claims.
The malpractice lawsuit was filed in Shawnee County District Court against the architectural firm of Marshall and Brown-Sidorowicz, Kansas City, Kan. Also named as defendants in the suit were four individuals: Norbert Sidorowicz, Edwin Korr, Robert B. Jarvis and William H. Johnson.
Douz Muxlow, assistant attorney general,
said yesterday that the state was seeking about $280,000 in damages.
Muxlow said the state had sustained damages because of cost overruns, building defects and arbitration awards won against the state by contractors.
HE SAID most of the financial damage resulted from the arbitration awards.
given when contractors were burdened with allegedly faulty architectural design and that the Marshall and Brown-Sidowicz firm was responsible for the design issues.
"The three major contractors have won about $25,000 in arbitration awards," he
The three firms given arbitration awards were Troug-Nichols, Inc., Evans Electrical Construction Co., and Thomas Construction Co., all of Kansas City, Mo.
Muxlow said that arbitration awards were
He said the major building defect was the heating and cooling system.
"It's just a case of faulty workmanship," Muxel said. "The balance of the ducts is not effective. If you were at the Med Center today, you would see all the students in sweaters. It's the same thing in the summer, when they are all hot too."
RUSSELL MILLER, vice-chairman for administrative center, said the need for a building at the campus.
Miller currently is hiring a firm to study the problems with the ventilation and to reassess the size of the heating ducts to determine their inadequacies.
had been occupied for about a year but the heating and cooling system had been a problem since the building opened.
Miller said he hoped to have the firm go over the Med Center problems before the final announcement.
Muxlow said money wasn't appropriated to the state for arbitration awards.
He said a state legislative subcommittee had studied the arbitration requests and had
See LAWSUIT page 10
Colorado firm takes over KU housecleaning
Staff Writer
Rv SUSAN T. HALL
Custodial operations at the University of Kansas are now under the direction of a Colorado-based professional housekeeping firm.
The firm, American Management Services, headquartered in Englewood, Colo., began its housekeeping contract with the Lawrence campus Thursday. The firm was hired last spring to manage custodial operations at the KU Medical Center.
American Management manages the custodial operations of several hospitals and medical facilities.
Rodger Orek, director of KU's facilities operations, said yesterday that the contract with American Management would result in a cleaner, better-maintained and more
Oroke said he thought the contract would provide a general upgrading of housekeeping at KU in the shortest period of time.
"WE COULD HIRE new personnel and restructure the operation, but you're talking about a lengthy period of time," he said. "We're not sure about same goals in a shorter period of time."
At present, he said, three American
Management employees were touring the Lawrence campus to get a feel of the campuses before they formulated a plan that define custodial jobs and cleaning schedules.
During the evaluation process, Oroke said, American Management employees would be training workers in the use of new cleaning equipment and techniques.
The basic problem at KU has been in training and the inability to attract and continue to employ people knowledgeable about cleaning," Oroke said.
WITH THE SIGNING of the Lawrence contract, KU has become American Management's largest account. The firm's second law school in Hopkins is located in Baltimore, Md.
Mills said that at the end of six months, if there remained more custodial workers than American Management expected, remaining workers would be offered transfers to other jobs on the Lawrence campus.
IVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Capsules From the Associated Press, United Press International
Egypt breaks diplomatic relations
Oroke said that the American Management bid of about $904,000 was the lowest of six bids for the housekeeping contract on the Lawrence campus.
Sadat
CAIRO-Egypt broke diplomatic relations with Syria, Libya, Algeria and South Yemen yesterday and ordered their ambassadors out of the country within 24 hours. Syria's ambassador to the United Nations said Egypt's break in relations was an escalation of President Anwar Sadat's initiatives with Israel.
Also yesterday, Secretary of State Cyrus Vance said he would go to the Middle East to urge Arabs to "keep an open mind" on negotiations between Israel and Egypt. See stories page two.
Miners strike while talks continue
WASHINGTON—Thousands of coal miners went on strike yesterday before the midnight expiration of their contract with the Bituminous Coal Operators
Although negotiations continued, United Mine Workers President Arnold Miller left Washington after three hours of talks and said he would return to Iowa later.
WASHINGTON - A drug that was used daily by thousands of Americans as part of an experiment in Vietnam has been found to cause cancer in male rats.
CHICAGO—An American Medical Association council urged the AMA yesterday to harden its position on marijuana, stating it had new evidence that it is a "terrorist" drug.
the brigade damage. The council said recent research showed that some marijuana users had suffered lung damage, rapid heartbeat and psychiatric disturbances of various types. See story page five.
Experimental drug causes cancer
The drug, dapone, was tested in Vietnam as a preventive medicine for a severe form of mallaria that was resistant to standard malaria pills. Dapone did not show any adverse effects on the patients.
By employing the most advanced housekeeping techniques, equipment and materials, he said that the area a custodian worker could clean would increase and
SAN ANTONIO - A witness who was granted federal immunity testified yesterday that he piloted a helicopter over Real County, Texas, while hunters, including a county commissioner, illegally shot as many as 100 golden eagles with shotguns on three trips between 1975 and 1977. The witness said the flights were partly financed by the Real County Commissioners Court. See story page six.
Witness tells of illegal eagle hunts
American Management is a subsidiary of the American Hospital Supply Corp.
New research finds pot harmful
The University of Kansas basketball team celebrated its re-entry to the top twenty college teams in the nation last night by battering Murray State 16-71 for their fourth straight victory in Allen Field House. The Jayhawks rated a tie with St. John's for 15th place in the United Press International poll and were ranked 19th by the Associated Press. The last KU team to appear in the top two was the 1974-75 team that won the Big Eight Conference. Kansas will meet Fairleigh-Dickinson tomorrow night before facing No. 1-ranked Kentucky Saturday night. See story page seven.
Locally...
RUSSELL MILLS, DIRECTOR of Support Services at KU, said because of an increase in the number of staff and cleaning techniques, a reduction in the University's current custodial staff of 155 would occur by normal attrition. The turnover is about 19 per cent annually.
Oroke said positions that opened because of attrition would not be filled as new cleaning techniques were introduced and efficiency of custodial workers increased.
During the initial workers' training period, the American Management staff will work closely with each custodial worker and KU's 18 custodial supervisors. Oroke
"One of the most important functions exercised by American Management will be the ongoing training of these supervisors," he said,
Oroke also said that the firm would designate a supervisor for each cleaning area to help develop an identity between the custodial staff and the buildings they clean.
Anita adds fuel and match to Revival Fires sermon
Rv LUCY SMITH
Staff Writer
TOPEKA-Anita Bryant said last night that God had given America a second chance, lest it be destroyed as was Sodom and Gomorrah.
Bryant was the featured speaker at a
Crusade crusade held at the
Municipal Auditorium by
the
A large advertisement in a Topeka office during early urged Bryant to speak all of the plea.
The advertisement carried the names of 71 individuals and organizations, including Concerned Citizens for Human Rights, the Topeka chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, some social action groups, the Kansas Geological Society, Kidney County and Gas Services of Kansas.
She said she became involved in fighting an ordinance in her home area that she said could have forced the hiring of teachers who were not homosexuality in private religious schools.
In a news conference before last night's revival crusade, Bryant said he had never been a terrorist.
Bryant said she was attempting to share her feelings of being opposed to homosexuality, abortion, drug abuse or anything else that would drag down the
"I've had a policy of live and let live as far as another person's sexual preference is concerned," she said. "But I became insecure that they tried to form themselves on others."
"My children attend private religious schools and this would affect them,"
Cecil Todd, television evangelist responsible for the national crusades, preceded Bryant at the crusade with an old-time fire and damnation sermon, con-
See related story page eight.
denning the "Godless and abominable sin of sodomy, homosexuality and lesbianism."
A congregation of approximately 1,200 applauded and said "amen" as Todd said homosexuality was a sin and those who endorsed homosexuality disgraced the God.
Todd elicited another round of applause and amens when he called homosexuals "perverts and sodomites" and refused to say they are saying homosexuality was not gay, but a sin.
"Homosexuality is one step away from atheism." Todd said, citing as evidence, "Pervicts applaud atheist trends across the country."
"It is sickening," he said. "The hottest
places in hell are sawed off and not to
exploit them."
Calling television a "one-eyed monster," Teddia said "Television is a product of the human brain."
See REVIVAL page eight
Todd said he had read homosexual
children into the homosexual life(s).
cruitcled children into the homosexual life(s).
Todd said it was a national disgrace that television networks were showing violent crimes, homosexuality, vulgarity, premarital sex and profanity.
Iddd said a blasphemous movie was being produced that depicted Jesus and his disciples.
He said people were imitating what they saw on television. He called for the people of God to "come out of the woodwork and stop it."
Crusading
Correspondent photo by RICK PADDEN
Bible in hand, Anita Bryant sings to a congregation of about 1200 at a Revival Fires Crusade last night in Topeka. At a news conference before the rally, Bryant said she has never conducted a campaign against homosexuals.