THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
AUTUMNY
KANSAN
The University of Kansas
Wednesday November 2,1977
Vol. 88, No. 47
Lawrence, Kansas
Athletic forum
University of Kansas Athletic Director Clyde Walker met with about 65 students last night in the Jawahir Roorkee of the Kansas State University.
Athletic Corporation on financing renovations at Memorial Stadium. Walker said that the most feasible way to finance the renovations, which would cost about $2 million, would be through ticket surcharges.
Surcharge not final, Walker says
ByALLENHOLDER
Staff Writer
Although he has received permission from the Big Eight conference, Clyde Walker, KU athletic director, stressed last night at a student forum that no final plans have been made for a proposed surcharge on student football tickets.
"We have asked the Big Eight conference for permission to provide a surcharge if we take on the job."
going to do it," Walker told about 69 people at the forum, held in conjunction with a meeting of the Student Senate Sports Committee.
"We do have a request in (to the Kansas
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University Endowment Association) to borrow $2 million, but that doesn't mean we're going to borrow it."
Walker recently proposed a surcharge on
football tickets to finance a $2 million renovation of Memorial Stadium. That surcharge, which would increase the cost of student football tickets by 50 cents a game, was passed by the University of Kansas Athletic Corporation (KUAC) last month and later was approved by the Big Eight conference.
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THE PROPOSAL WILL come up for a final vote by the KUAC at a special meeting later.
IVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Capsules From the Associated Press, United Press International
ERA voting time left to Congress
WASHINGTON — The Justice Department yesterday said it thought Congress could provide extra time for states to ratify the Right Equal Amendment (ERA). In addition, the department said legislatures that already have approved the ERA cannot reverse their decisions.
The department, in a legal opinion sent to the White House and the House subcommittee on constitutional rights, said Congress should be able to extend
The present deadline for ratification is March 23, 1979. Legislatures of 35 of the 38 states have ratified the amendment, but idaho, Nebraska and Tennessee did not.
Walker, who participated in a 96-minute question-and-answer session last night, said he thought that publicity about the proposed surcharge had been premature.
WASHINGTON — President Jimmy Carter signed into law yesterday the biggest increase ever in the minimum wage, requiring most employers to pay workers an annual minimum salary of almost $7,000 by 1981. The current minimum is $4,784.
Carter signs minimum wage bill
Kleindienst testifies about contract
The law raises the minimum wage from the current $2.30 an hour to $2.65 an hour, and then in three annual steps to $3.35 an hour by Jan 1, 1981. Based on a 40-hour week, the minimum wage will be $10.75 per hour.
WASHINGTON — Former Atty. Gen. Richard Kleindienst told a Senate subcommittee yesterday that he was mired by a man now accused of being an insurance swindler when he helped the man secure a $23-million contract with the Teamsmasters Union in 1976. See story page two.
The new law increases the number of small businesses exempted from the minimum wage law. Now businesses with less than $250,000 in annual gross sales are exempt. This will rise to $383,000 by Dec. 31, 1982, and remove about 850,000 workers from minimum wage coverage.
"I don't want any body to get excited about work we're doing," he said. "We're just waiting for it."
He added that he had only made the proposal and had not recommended it to the
SPEYER, West Germany — An illegitimate son of Adolf Hitler was found in France, according to Werner Maser, West German historian. Maser said he was certain the man, a 99-year-old Frenchman, was Hitler's son after studying Hitler's notes, orders and other documents. See story page two.
Sturgis arraigned for harassment
NEW YORK — A congressional witness allegedly was threatened by Watergate burglar Frank Sturgis after she testified to a congressional committee that she, Sturgis and Lee Harvey Oswald went to Dallas three days before former President John F. Kennedy's assassination. Sturgis was arraigned yesterday on charges of attempted coercion and aggravated harassment of a government witness. See story page two.
German says Hitler's son found
Locally . . .
Weinberg had complained before about getting little information from HELP officials. He had said the only information he was retted was through the media.
A jury in Kansas City, Kan., soon will be asked to judge whether Screw and Smut magazines are obscene, based on the Standards. The judgment reached presumably will depend on whether Juries think the magazines, published by Al Goldstein at Al Goldstein literary value. Dennis Quinn, professor of English and director of the Integrated Humanities Program, probably up influence their decision; Quinn is expected to testify court today for the prosecution. See story page 10.
This project needs to be done," he said.
See WALKER page three.
Weinberg said he had thought, like officials of most of the other schools in this program, that the promissory notes already issued would be ready and those weeks would be ready by the Nov. 1 deadline.
Jeff Weinberg, associate director of financial aid, said that his office was being "kept completely in the dark" about the arrival of the HELP loan checks.
Quinn
Another delay expected for HELP loan checks
this project needs to be done," he said.
By DIRCK STEIMEL
LOMBARDI ESTIMATED that a student would receive the check eight to 10 days after the promissory note reached the program's head office in Minnesota.
University of Kansas students expecting to receive Higher Education Loan Program (HELP) checks more than two months ago will face yet another delay.
Staff Writer
Babb said he would rather retire early than go through the governor's budget.
The hearings on fiscal 1979 budgets of the seven Regents' institutions, including the University of Kansas, are scheduled for next week.
HELP officials initially had promised that the checks would be available in late August. However, because of delays in financing and application distribution, the deadline was moved to yesterday. But by early morning, the checks still had not been mailed.
Last month, Bubb said in his letter of resignation to Bennett that he wanted to retire Nov. 1, even though his four-year term would not expire until Dec. 31.
Gov. Robert Bennett announced yesterday that Jordan L. Haines, a Wichita banker, has been selected to fill the unexpired term of Henry Bubb, who resigned in mid-October from the Kansas Board of Regents.
KU graduate named to Regents position
The HELP program was established in Kansas because the state's banks were becoming reluctant to loan to students under the federally insured program. State
Haines said yesterday that he would not be able to take part in any decision-making matters in the Regents' upcoming budget. He said the process was not familiar enough with the process.
Paul Lombardo, director of HELP, said yesterday that instead of checks, promissory notes were mailed to 65 students on Friday. Promissory notes are legal documents that applicants must sign and return before the loan check can be mailed
officials approved the HELP program, which is a branch of the Higher Education Assistance Foundation, a nonprofit corporation. It provides a state agency to guarantee student loans.
Staff Writer
By BRIAN SETTLE
"It will strictly be a case of observation and learning," he said.
Haines, 50, is a graduate of the University of Kansas and the KU law school.
LAST WINTER, controversy arose in Topeka when State Sen. Donn EVERett, R
Dykes plans final action on affirmative action plan
At that time seven of the nine Regents, including Babb, were KU Alumni.
Manhattan, threatened to present a bill to the Kansas Legislature that would have allowed only one alumnums from each Regents' institution to be on the board.
Everett would not comment last night on Bennett's selection.
Staff Writer
Dykes was expected to approve the new plan in late September but has not yet done
"We've made strides in attracting women faculty members, but we have not done as well as we would like in attracting minorities," Dykes said.
By BRIAN SETTLE
Chancellor Archie R. Dykes said yesterday that he would meet with other administrators tomorrow on final approval of the new affirmative action plan.
DYKES TOKS *Jackson* that Ron Calgaard, vice chancellor for academic affairs, had sent a letter Monday to all University deans, directors and department chairmen urging a stronger effort in the ment of minorities as faculty members.
Hobart Jackson, associate professor of architecture and urban design, asked for a stronger voice of support from the academy to advocate for policy and affirmative action as a whole.
Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor,
has said the new plan would be a
restatement of equal opportunity goals,
"with a lot of added detail."
Dykes spoke before SenEx yesterday, after being invited by William Westberle, SanErik
"We're trying to make the plan viable for the entire University, rather than having a separate plan for the medical center and the campus in Wichita," Dykes said.
He said the plan would have some changes before it was approved, but he assured SenEx that the changes would not be substantial.
The terms of Regent John Montgomery of Junction City and Regent Elmer Jackson of Cedar Rapids were amended.
KU's original affirmative action plan went into effect in February 1973. Shankel has said the original plan was good but with new legislation, a line with new University and federal policies.
Carl Leban, associate professor of East Asian studies, questioned Dykes about a recent statement attributed to Dykes about the state of Kansas now before the Kansas Board of Regents.
THE REGENTS have proposed a plan that would begin early retirement at age 62. Mandatory retirement at KU is now at age 70.
Lombardo said that some students could begin to receive checks as early as 10 days if they had been registered with Weinberg it would be at least a month before checks would arrive and some students who called the HELP office in Overland Park would probably not be available until Dec. 20.
Leban said he was concerned that Dykes had called the plan "affordable."
Yesterday the first HELP loan check that has been issued was given to a Washburn University student, Patricia Perry, by Gov. Robert Bennett. The check was specially processed to help publicize the program, Lombardo said.
See REGENT page two.
THE DATE when students will be receiving HELP loan checks is a point of contact.
"What the faculty wants is an attractive plan rather than an affordable plan," Leban said. "That is why we are looking for an adjustment plan with the least penalty."
Last week the executive committee of the American Association of University Professors sent Dykes its ideas on an early retirement plan.
Weinberg said that the seminars were irrelevant.
Dykes said he supported faculty members' arguments against an early retirement plan, but he emphasized the importance of presenting the idea of early retirement to the Kansas Legislature in early January.
"I THINK it would be wise to find out the legislation' on opinion on this proposal before we proceed much further," he said. "I think you'll find that with the exception of one or two members, the legislature knows very little about the early retirement proposal."
Dykes said University faculty members could help the University in its relations with the legislature by maintaining an image of concern and involvement.
The problem was not misunderstanding the program, which the seminars dealt with, he said, but was finding out when the money was coming.
The plan, written by T. P. Srinivasan, professor of mathematics, calls for partial retirement for professors who wish to retire between the ages of 62 and 65. They would be given the option of working half time, with a proportional reduction in salary.
However, Lombardo said that he was confused about where Weinberg was getting his information. HELP had tried to explain the program through seminars last summer, he said, but there was no way to keep day-to-day contact with all 85 institutions in the program.
The legislature will meet in January on the budget that KU will receive for the 1579 year.
These students will have to borrow again and their loan from the University to pay their tuition.
"We've had good support from the legislature in the past years, and it's important to maintain this relationship," Dykes said.
"Every problem we have had so far with the HELP program has been in communication." Weinberg said. "It would be easier to ease these matters if my office had been kept informed."
WEINBERG SAID students waiting to the HELP loans were calling and coming in to ask about their checks. All he could tell them was that the HELP office had told him it would be about a month before checks would arrive.
He said being active at the local level, talking to legislators and making sure the faculty members voted for legislature, also were important for the University.
"It's especially important to make a strong effort to communicate with the legislature this year because the economy in Kansas is not as robust as it has been in recent years because of the agriculture problems we've had," Dykes said.
Infantrywoman
Staff Photo by GEORGE MILLENER
Clothed in the proper field attire and equipped with an M18 rifle, Allison Lauderdale, San Antonio, Tex., sophomore, became one of the first two KU women to join their male Army ROTC counterparts in weekend war games. See more photos, story page six.