THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
Wednesday November 16,1977
Vol.88,No.56
Lawrence. Kansas
The University of Kansas
Itaff Photo by ELI REICHMAN
Takina it easu
Following a long haul from the Kansas Union to the Chi Omega fountain and back, Rex Harglis, Kansas City, Kan., junior, took a
short break to recuperate. Hargis was one of five people who pulled the bathtub in an effort to raise money for the American Red Cross.
Senate money loss linked to ex-official
Staff Writer
By MELISSA THOMPSON
Salary advances are no longer given to Senate employees on unearned income, Leben said, but were at that time. He said he had given Mitchell the first advance salary and was paid the second; Mitchell's monthly salary. Also, he said he was led to believe that Mitchell was ex-
THE VOUCHER WAS ASKING for a salary advance. Leben said that Mitchell, on July 29, had asked for a $300 advance on his monthly salary of $650. Leben she'd denied Mitchell the advance because he already met the cellphone an advance of $300 two weeks earlier.
Leben said the former student and business manager, Tom Mitchell, was asked to resign when an Aug. 11 financial report showed that he had terminated a local account. The account was made up of filing fees from candidates who were employed at offices or was not student activity money.
A former Student Senate business manager obtained $300 of Senate funds earlier this year by forging the signature of Senator Curtis McCormick. The Senate officials told the Kananas last night.
A subsequent check with University authorities revealed that a voucher for $300, dated July 29, had been made payable to Mitchell and carried a signature passed off as Leben's. However, Leben said he never signed the voucher.
Shah of Iran greeted by Carter, protesters
Leban said that the signature on the voucher was not his and that his last name had been misspelled. The name on the voucher was spelled "Leban."
Leben admitted that he probably did not take enough time to consider Mitchell's first request. He said, however, his refusal of a proposal prompted a prompted Mitchel to force the signature.
"SOMEONE", APARENTLY Tom, Tom.
The cashier said the voucher to pay Tom. $200. Leben said.
Mitchell, who is no longer attending KU,
said last night that he thought Leben's
refusal of the second request had been
that what he had decided to "go
over Steve's head."
WASHINGTON (UPI) - Teary-eyed in wafting tear gas, President Jimmy Carter greeted the Shah of Iran on the White House lawn yesterday while demonstrators struggled with police and pro-shah crowds a few hundred skids aaway.
Mitchell, who now lives in Overland Park, said he was never directly asked whether he had forged the signature. He said he had seen his name on what he called "an unauthorized advance."
peeting either an insurance check or a loan and need some money to pay his rent unit monthly.
The shah, his queen and Rosalyn Carter
wetted and gagged in the wind-carried gas
stream.
frontation that erupted as the shah arrived for a two-day visit.
White House veterans said they could not recall a comparable disruption of a White House state ceremony, not even during the Vietnam War.
U. P. Park Police said at least 109 persons, including 17 policemen, were injured, most of whom were children.
hospitalization. Hospital spokenmen put the total at 75 injured and said one man, a shah supporter, was in serious condition with a fractured skull.
"There were no misrepresentation made." Mitchell said.
Police first said 20 persons were arrested, but later changed the figure to 11. They said nine were charged with disorderly conduct and two with assaulting police.
AN ESTIMATED 7,500 to 8,000 pro- and
2 buildings fail to meet fire code test
By LUCY SMITH
Staff Writer
Watson Library and Haworth Hall do not meet the state fire prevention code, according to the latest campus building inspection completed yesterday.
Merton Hickman, inspector from the state
F雷尔 Marshal's office who inspected Watson-
sburg and Marina. He said that the stairs in the northwest
corner did not meet all the requirements for enclosed stairways and that the exit in
the southwest courtyard was not always operable from the inside.
Chris Caldwell, Senate treasurer, said Mitchell never denied the forgery and had talked with him on several occasions about the incident.
Also, many of the fire extinguishers are in need of hydro-static tests, to check the pressure, additional exit lights on the main floor exit are needed and a copy machine that blocks an emergency door on the main floor should be moved, he said.
HICKMAN SAID HE would ask for changes that would bring the stairway into compliance. He said he would demand that exit be made operable from the inside.
The annual fire inspection carried out by the state Fire Marshal's office is in its second week. Buildings inspected so far are Hoch Auditorium, Flint, Wescoe, Strong, Fraser, Green and Spooner-Thayer halls, the Building and, Spencer Museum of Art.
Watson was inspected as an office-type building while Haworth was inspected as an educational building. Under the 1970 Life Safety Code of the National Fire Protection Association, buildings are inspected according to their uses. On the KU campus, in under four types; educational, office, place of assembly and residential occupancies.
Gordon Sailors, one of the five inspectors from the Fire Marshal's office, also inspected Haworth Hall yesterday, and said the fire alarm system was deficient. He said employees in the building were concerned that the alarm system might not work.
"What is needed is a uniform program for testing to be sure the alarm system is working."
TODAY, THE KANASS Union will be among the buildings inspected. The inspections will last through the week and possibly into the week after Thanksgiving vacation. Buildings will not be inspected over vacation.
The requirements for each type of building are different.
office buildings, such as Watson, an See INSPECTION page three
Staff Photo by RANDY OLSON
Weekend hunters
Chuck Leigh and his father, Tom, St. Louis, spend many of their "in-season" weekends hunting outside the Swan Lake refuge at Summer, Mo. Residents of Sumner call their winter campground "Lakeview."
anti-sham demonstrators had gathered overnight on both sides of the Whitle House
The demonstrations remained peaceful, but noisy, until the shah and Empress Farah arrived by lymnus at 9:30 a.m. (CST). Then the anti-shah protestors broke through police lines and the police responded with tear gas.
The gas and noise drifted into the White House South Lawn, where Carter was starting his welcome speech. The shah asked if he would join in to his face when the jungle reached him.
Through it all, Carter tried to conduct the ceremony as though nothing unusual was
Standing erect, blinking back tears from the fumes, he called the shah's visit a great honor and "a reminder of the strong ties of friendship between your country and ours."
Ironically, his speech contained a line noting there were about 30,000 Iranian exchange students in the United States and saying, "this is a wonderful opportunity for us to share experiences and to plan together for the future."
With the din of the nearby fighting nearly drowning out his words, and with much of his audience chilling and weeping in the room, I realized that you, very much for your words of welcome.
IN HIS RESPONDING speech, the shah
relation has attested importance to our
relations. America has always shown a very unseafish
America has always shown a very unseafish
many times very friendly attitude.
HOPE voting continues today at Wescoe poll
Because of unexpected early closing hours at two of three voting polls yesterday, senators will have an additional chance today to vote for the 1977 HOPE award.
Janet Gorman, co-chairman of the HOPE Awards Committee, said yesterday that the粉 in Wescoe cateraier would be open for young today from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Pols had been situated Monday and Tuesday at Wescoe, the Kansas Union and the information booth on Jayhawk that has to have been from 8:30 a.m. to 8:39 p.m.
However, the poll on Jayhawk Boulevard closed before 4 p.m. A sign outside the information booth said no more ballots were available.
The Wescoe poll also closed early.
The Union poll was open as scheduled.
German said the polls probably closed early because of problems in getting people to work and because of an unexpectedly low turnout of voters that depleted the salaries of all salaries.
THE VOUCHER INCIDENT was enough to warrant Mitchell's removal from the paid Senate position of business manager, Leben said. Mitchell had been appointed by former student body president Tedde Tasheff in April 1976.
- masters for the award are: William halfour, professor of physiology and cell biology, professor of economics; Allan J. Cigler, associate professor of political science; Son Jungheimer, associate professor of sociology; McNehill, adjunct professor of business.
"I thought it was clearly grounds for asking for Tom's resignation," Leben said. Leben took the matter to David Ambrer, vice chancellor for student affairs.
Ambler told Leben then that asking for Mitchell's resignation certainly was within reach.
There was a problem in asking for an immediate resignation from Mitchell, Leben said. He and Caldwell were scheduled to attend a conference in Houston the following week and they both agreed that it would have been unfair to penalize the business manager by leaving the business manager's position being killed and "freezing" Senate money for a week.
"I MADE SURE before I left that there
was no way that Tom could spend any additional funds, nor was there any way that he could remove any funds from the local account," Leben said.
Mitchell submitted his resignation Aug. 1, and it took effect Sept. 2. He also was required to sign a statement that declared his acknowledgment of the amount he owed the Senate and stipulated terms for repayment.
MITCHELL SAID THAT he recognized his responsibility for the debt and that since September he has been looking for a job to help him pay the debt. Meanwhile, he has returned to his parents' home in Overland Park.
The signed statement, witnessed on Sept. 10 by Leben and Caldwell, declared that Mitchell would begin repaying a $500 debt as soon as he got a job. The original debt was $650, the total of the $350 approval salary advance and the $200 in missing funds, but no compensation for the payment of $100 on Sept. 6. He has made additional payments on the debt since then.
"I'm as anxious as anybody else to get this settled." he said.
Part of the agreement involved in Mitchell's resignation was that he would make himself available to Caldwell, who then was appointed to straighten the Senate's financial records.
See FORGERY page nine
Cecil Andrus to give talk
Secretary of the Interior Cecil Andrus will speak about President Jimmy Carter's energy program at noon today at Woodruff Auditorium, the Kansas Union.
Chancellor Archie R. Dykes said that Andrus would be the first member of Carter's cabinet to come to KU and that he would also meet other members of the cabin might come.
Andrus will speak in the free public lecture for 45 minutes and will answer questions from the floor on energy and environmental issues for 15 minutes.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Capsules From the Associated Press, United Press International
Farmers welcome Soviet purchase
Schlesinger attacks oil industry
WASHINGTON–During the past two days, the Soviet Union has bought more than 1.1 million tons of U.S. grain, the latest purchase being 400,000 metric tons of corn. For American farmers, the sales were good news after watching grain prices plummet. See story page two.
HOUSTON—Secretary of Energy James Schlesinger spoke yesterday to the final general session of the energy industry, which he said the industry had been spreading myth about President Jimmy Carter's energy plan. Schlesinger and the industry, rarely meeting face to face, have been through lobbyists and the media. See story page two.
Bakke brief defends programs
WASHINGTON—The Justice Department told the Supreme Court yesterday that affirmative action programs favoring minorities do not violate the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
"The act as a whole," the department argued, "wanted to deal with the discrimination against black persons then pervasive in our society."
The department filed its court-requested "friend of the court" brief in Allan Bakke's reverse discrimination suit challenging a special admissions program for disadvantaged applicants to the University of California Medical School at Davis.
Bakke, who is white, says that she was twice denied admission on account of her race and that this violated a Title VI, whichbridges racial discrimination against persons with disabilities.
Air operations normal despite threat
BONN, WEST GERMANY—The West German airline Lufthansa reported normal operations yesterday as a threat to recruits to shoot down three U.S. Navy aircraft.
But security at West German airports was the tightest in memory. Dozens of pairs of green-uniformed members of the Federal Border Defense Force armed with loaded submachine guns patrolled passenger lounges. Teams of up to six policemen searched boarding passengers and their hand luggage.
The terrorists had threatened to start destroying Lufthansa planes yesterday in retaliation for the deaths of three West German Red Army Faction members. All were found dead in their prison cells Oct. 18. West German officials said they committed suicide and tried to make it look like murder.
Locally...
In 1960 Lea Hopkins became Kansas City's first black Playboy bunny. In 1977, Hopkins is a professional model. But today she also has other interests: her poetry, her young son and her activities as a gay activist. Last night she brought her newly released book of poetry, "I'm Not Crazy, Just Different," to the school library. Hopkins urged an audience of about 70 people to make their sexual preferences known, regardless of fears about their careers. See story page five.