AUTUMNY
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
The University of Kansas
Monday November 21,1977
Vol. 88, No. 59
Lawrence, Kansas
Correspondent photo by BARBARA JENSEN
ERA explosion
equal rights Amendment (ERA) supporters at the National Women's Conference in Houston wowed brassieres and proclaimed that they "didn't bury their" in an attempt to keep their rights alive.
weekend, the conference adopted resolutions supporting the ERA, abortion after the third month of pregnancy, minority women's rights and a list of other women's rights issues.
Diverse views highlight women's conference
By SHIRL KASPER
Staff Writer
HOUSTON—Thousands of American women flocked here over the weekend for the National Women's Conference—billed as the largest and most diverse gathering of women in the country.
It included women from First Lady Carter to an organization of prostitute
It brought together women in blue jeans and women in heels. There were Chicanos and Hawaiians, the disabled, the young and the old.
About 2,000 delegates, elected at separate state meetings, came to vote on a 26-point plan of action aimed at improving the status of women.
Yesterday the convention endorsed abortion during the first three months of pregnancy, sex education, the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), rights of minority women and lesbians and a long list of other feminist resolutions.
Resolutions passed by the convention, which was sponsored by the National Commission on the Environment in Year, will be sent President Jimmy Carter and Congress for
consideration. (See related story page eight.)
THOSE WHO CAME in support of feminist issues, including the KU delegate at-large, Marti莉 Kent, Lawrence graduate student, were not disappointed.
"It was real exciting." Kent said last night. "I was very energized by the whole
"I didn't expect to be so inspired and moved. Someone said thirty-three and a-half per cent of the most dynamic and important women in the country were there. It was probably the most significant thing to happen in the women's movement since
Seneca Falls, N.Y., was the site of the first women's meeting, held in 1848.
Marsha Boyd, Lawrence graduate
from the University of Houston with five
scores in KU winnings.
She said here yesterday, "The conference is incredibly important."
SHE CALLED it the beginning of feminist lobbies efforts at the federal level.
Except for transportation and housing purposes, students said, the conspirator ran smoothly.
Housing problems were evident at the
downtown Hyatt-Regency hotel, where many delegates staved.
Some waited hours for rooms to be ready. Luggage and people lined the hotel lobby all day Friday. Author Kate Millet was among those who said they were unset.
Kansas delegate Kay Camin of Wichita said she arrived at the Regency at 9 a.m. Friday but did not get her room until past midnight.
"I'm furious," she said. "Someone should investigate this. I can't imagine any convention where there could be that kind of holden."
Disorganization, however, was not evident elsewhere.
LINES FOUR to five persons wide waiting to get in the convention hall where business is going on.
Only a few pickets, some with bullhorns, taunted those at the convention. Some pickets carried signs telling women to read the Bible while they could.
There was an apparent lack of observers in the audience opposing the ERA. Instead of attending the conference, anti-ERA forces staged a counter-raily across town, where they carried from parade to 20,000. They rallied against the ERA, abortion and gay rights.
When the ERA won approval from the convention on Saturday night, chants and cheers resounded throughout the stadium as the balloon floated around the floor with their state banners.
The Coliseum resembled a national political convention, with delegates from each state lined up behind their state standards.
wore buttons reading, "Yes, Virginia, there is an ERA."
Members of the press, estimated at 1,500 rotated floor masses.
The Kansas delegation was near the center of the floor, with "EKA ya!" and "I am not a threat to you."
See WOMEN page eight
Stadium funding still unapproved
- $170,000 to expand the press box to make it more accessible.
- $750,000 for replacing wooden benches in the stadium with aluminum seating, repairing the stadium's concrete structure and waterproofing the concrete;
Negotiations among representatives of the Endowment Association, the administration and KUAC would be held to discuss the length of time for which the money would be borrowed and the interest rate. Dykes said.
By MARY HOENK and DEB REICHMANN
Writers
KUAC VOTED unanimously Saturday to request a loan for stadium improvements. The request excluded expansion of the stadium, which would be funded by Education Fund contributors; VIP seating, and a wall around the south end of the stadium, which were recently opposed by students. Elimination of those proposals would loan request from $2 million to $1.8 million.
The Endowment Association's executive committee, however, withheld any decision on a loan because terms needed to be negotiated further with KUAC, Todd Seymour, president of the Endowment Association, said today.
- $120,000 to remodel the 15 restrooms at the stadium; and
KUAC agreed to seek:
Chancellor Archie Dykes said the proposal needed additional refinements before any decision on the loan could be made.
- $200,000 to renovate the athletes' dressing rooms;
SEYMOUR SAID HE could not predict
Staff Writers
whether the long it would be granted to KUAC or how long it would be before any decision
Dykes said. "When they loan money to parts of the University, they do just as a bank would do it. They have to have adequate return on the money."
If the loan is granted by the Endowment Association, the price of a student season ticket would increase from $20 to as much as $23.
*STUDENT OPPOSITION to the original $2-million proposal arose when a petition bearing 2,500 signatures opposing some project was presented to the Student Senate.*
The methods for financing stadium renovations through an increase in football facilities.
The petition was included in a Senate resolution passed last week that opposed the law.
Meanwhile, feminists chanted and cheered as about 2,000 delegates at the convention approved the 26-point plan to improve the status of women.
"WERE NOW GETTING closer to the limit of what students are both willing and able to pay." Steve Leben, student body president and KUAC representative, said.
Clyde Walker, KU athletic director, had the projected income of public ticket sales on an average during the last five years of about 11,000 tickets, but according to a report, ticket sales had a pattern of increase, with 12,000 last year and about 13,000 this year.
During consideration of the resolution, Leben presented additional sources of revenue that he said had been overlooked by the board.
For each game, an extra 50 cents could be tacked on to student tickets, 75 cents on faculty tickets and $1 on general admission tickets.
He said that using figures of declining student ticket sales and increasing public ticket sales, the board should take into account the revenue from public ticket sales was low.
WOMEN FROM states that have not ratified the RA's social support for the woman in the household.
CONSEQUENTLY, Laura Pinkston, KUAC student representative, moved to exempt students from the surcharge. She said the amount students would pay for the renovations possibly could be financed by revenue the KUAC already had available to
The plan includes concerns in education, child care and reproductive freedom—abortion. But the pill-billed concern was passage of the ERA, which has to be approved by three more states to become part of the U.S. Constitution.
See KUAC page five
Women from Illinois were selling ERA buttons to raise money. Virginia women
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Capsules From the Associated Press, United Press International
Kissinger accused of kidnap plot
The University of Kansas Athletic Corporation (KUAC) board of directors approved the project Saturday, but the Kansas University Endowment Association yesterday postponed a decision to grant the university a $1.8 million loan to fund the renovations.
FUNCHAL. Medra—At least 130 of 156 airplane passengers and crew have been reported dead or missing in the crash of a Portuguese Boeing 727 Saturday night. During bad weather, the airliner skidded off the end of the Santa Cruz airline after it crashed, and the accident has began an investigation into the cause of the crash. See story page two.
The Concorde's opponents, mostly people living near the airport, say the SST's noise and vibration levels will make life intolerable. But Air France and British Airways, operators of the SST, met the Port Authority's noise standards last month in a series of highly publicized test flights to Kennedy.
NEW YORK—Opponents of the Concorde tied up traffic at Kennedy Airport yesterday in their last motorcade demonstration before the Anglo-French supersonic jetliner begins scheduled commercial flights to New York later this week.
WASHINGTON—Frank Sneep, former chief intelligence analyst of Communist strategy for the CIA in Saigon, said yesterday on CBS's "60 Minutes" that former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger told the CIA to study the potential impact of the attacks, who denied the allegations, said. "What would we have done with them if we got them?" See story page two.
Caramanians had asked that elections be held one year early, saying that a new government was needed to make decisions on critical issues facing Greece next year, including entry into the European Common Market, Grece's role in addressing its conflict with Turkey about Cyprus and other Greek-Turkish problems.
The Student Senate Minority Affairs Subcommittee decided last night to survey minority students at the University of Kansas. See story page three.
ATHENES-Prime Minister Constantine Carmalin's conservative New Democracy Party was victorious in the Greek national election yesterday, but Carmalin's share of seats in the new Parliament will be drastically reduced. He and his party won place with a dramatic advance, outlasting the liberal Democratic Center Union.
Concorde foes protest at airport
Portuguese jet crashes on island
Kissinger
Locally ...
Socialists gain in Greek election
Sadat seeks peace with Israel
Rv ELIAS ANTAR
The declaration, broadcast around the globe, was the closest that any Arab leader has come to recognizing Israel as an independent country during 30 years of international war.
Associated Press Writer
JERUSALEM (AP) -In an act unthinkable just two weeks ago, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat stood in the parliament of Israel yesterday and said, "We accept to live with you in a lasting and just peace."
Sadat's mission captured the imagination of millions, in but infuriated Palestinian and other Arab militants to the point of calling for his assassination as a traitor.
Greeted at the Knesset by a fanfare of trumpets, Sadat read solemnly in Arabic from his text: "When the bells of peace ring, there will be no hands to beat the drums of war. Even if they existed, they would be soundless."
HE INSISTED in his 55-minute speech
Regents approve increase for residence hall rates
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Rooms at the eight University of Kansas residence halls will cost more next school year.
Also approved at the meeting Friday at Emporia State University was a recommendation from the Regents' Council of Presidents that all student employees at the seven Regents' institutions receive the new minimum wage when it goes into effect Jan. 1.
The Kansas Board of Regents approved a rate increase of $50 for double rooms from $1,235 to $1,265 and a $135 increase for single rooms from $1,560 to $1,956.
THE RESIDENCE HALL rate increases represent a 4 per cent increase for double rooms and an 8.7 per cent increase for single rooms.
The increase was proposed after it was recommended in a study made by the student members of the Administrative Association of University Residence Hall.
Anausa State University also received authorization from the Regents to increase the number of students enrolled this year. Emprora State requested that the Regents consider for final action at their December meeting a 10 per cent increase in Emprora State residence halls rates next
This fall at KU, about 7,000 students live in double rooms and 504 students live in single rooms.
The Regents' recommendation that student employees receive the new federal minimum wage of $2.65 an hour, 35 cents more than the current minimum wage, will be submitted to Gov. Robert Bennett for his approval. State legislative approval also is necessary before Regents' institutions can comply with the new minimum wage.
Legislative appropriations of $7,251 for fiscal 1978, which ends June 30, and $79,544 for fiscal 1979 are being requested for KU to cover the wave increase.
A.U. ADMINISTRATORS have not decided
they will comply with the new
minimum wage.
Regents also approved a capital improvement funding priority list for fiscal year 2018 to purchase renovation funding as the Regents' No. 1 priority. Also on the 46-item list are: Summerfield Hall renovation, 18th on the 30-story building, 19th, and Landley Hall renovation, 24th.
In other action the Regents:
The Regents' December meeting is scheduled for Dec. 15 and 16 in Topeka.
- Approved a change in the name of KU's Slavic and Soviet area studies program to Soviet and East European studies program and a name for the new program, "Slavic languages and literature."
that Israel must withdraw from Jerusalem and other lands occupied in 1987 and that uprooted Palestinians must receive a bmpelm.
Begin said he personally was prepared to go to the cannals of his Arab neighbors.
Israeli Prime Minister Menahem Begin, who followed Satad to the rostrum of the Knesset, hailed the Egyptian president for his leadership and invited other Arabs to follow his path.
He called on Arab leaders to open peace negotiations and said, "Everything must be done."
Begin conspicuously avoided any mention of Palestinians.
The immense significance of the day was See SADAT page three
Staff Writer
By BRIAN SETTLE Staff Writer
It did not take long for J. Hammond
to say that he rang of the
University of Kansas teaching
McNish captures honors in HOPE award balloting
McNish, adjunct professor of business who has been a full-time instructor at KU since 1970, was awarded the University's Alumni Award. He said that the KU-Missouri football game Saturday.
The HOPE (Honors to) an Outstanding Progressive Educator) award, given annually, is decided solely by the KU senior class.
The other finalists for the award were William Balfour, professor of physiology; Malcolm Burns, assistant professor of economics; Allan Cigler, associate professor of political science; and Donald Rieger, associate professor of journalism.
MENSH SAID his basic philosophy of teaching was based more on discussion than teaching.
MeNISH SAID that he did not feel he had any one outstanding asset in teaching but that he thought much of his success was due to his ability to stand aside and not be
"I feel that students can learn a lot more from each other if you just let them," he
"I feel that with my subject and my personality, discussion is absolutely the best method," McNish said. "I think it is important for students to talk with each other about what they are being taught. They'll know more and the class will be more interesting."
MNeah came to KU to teach in 1946 but resigned two years later to enter private law.
McNish became KU's faculty representative to the Big Eight Conference
MeNHB, a member of the Nebraska Business Association, teaches classes in business law, commercial law and advanced problems in business administration. He received his bachelor's and law degrees from the University of Nebraska.
and the National Collegiate Athletic Association in 1974. He also serves as chairman of the board for the University of Kansas Athletic Corporation.
He has won the Henry A. Bubb award for the outstanding teacher in the School of Business and was named an Outstanding Educator of America in 1974. He has been a HOPE award finalist for three consecutive years, also designated as "Hillteacher" another KU teaching award.
MENSH SAID he had no real professional training as an instructor and he thought that many of his colleagues in the business school should take some education courses.
"I'm constantly feeling my lack of training in the way I present my material," he said.
McNish said he had no thought of leaving KU to teach at another institution.
"I think KU is an absolutely marvelous school," McNish said. "I would not be at all upset."
J. Hammond McNish