University Daily Kansan, July 31. 1980
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caller's question. The coordinator of the center, Pat Kebele, talks to another one of the many callers who phone the office and informs the manager that a service is under way.
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and Carter would still get the nomination "Gates said.
If the rule is passed, Carter will be assured of the nomination, since he has approximately 300 delegates over the total needed.
"There probably will be a bitter fight, however," he said.
IF THE RULE is defeated, the delegates could vote for whom they want on the first ballot. Kennedy forces and congressional leaders seeking a Carter alternative would still enough delegates to win, while their votes to deny "Carter renomination."
Gates, a member of the convention rules committee, said there would not be much difference if the convention were opened up.
He said the only way major defections would occur was if an outside candidate were introduced.
A bitter fight that would divide the party is what Larry Bengston, state Democratic chairman, is worried about. Bengston, a Carter delegate from Junction City, said lack of unity in the fall was what concerned him most.
"I hope we can come out of New York with no animosity," Bergston said. "If we have a real bloodletting it will carry into November."
"If any one of those three says 'I'm
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available," it would siphon off support from both Carter and Kennedy," Bengston said.
JULIA CRAFT, 622 Schwarz St., a Kennedy delegate, said she would support Muskie or Monale as a candidate, though she preferred Kennedy.
Steve Treater, a Kennedy alternate, agreed with Craft that Kennedy stood the most to gain from Carter's problems.
"It it's obvious that it has had an effect already on Carter," said Treater, 1029 Delaware St. "Any delegate has to agree before he can lead the party to victory."
Treasurer said the Carter organization had not been charitable to the Kennedy delegates in drafting the platform and rules. If there were an open convention, the group would be resolved with more benefit to the convention than if the convention were closed.
Even if there were a fight on the convention floor, it would not affect unity much. Treaster said.
He said the Democratic Party was much like two fighting cats
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you think they are about to kill each other, you find out they are actually making love," he said. "Democrats right and have diverse viewpoints."
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The RU Information Center was made in heaven for people who could not otherwise find an answer to a difficult question on just about anything.
"How can I get my landlord to fix my air conditioner?" pleads a perspiring student.
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'Is my $150 electric bill a true reflection of a fire of burning a 60-watt bulb and ding on a water heater?' "take a senior with a waning bank account."
"Does Rosie the Riverer really live in Ellsworth Hall?" asks a bewildered trivia buff.
QUESTS FOR CLUES to such every day mysteries often can be fruitless. They also can cause cramped forefingers from dialing phone number after phone number or rusting page of page of directories and reference work
But the 10-year-old Information Center is tucked away in 105 Strong Hall. The center is funded by the University and has an annual budget of $25 million. It is a paradise for people who are puzzled with curious or simply in need of an answer.
Although the center's 12-member staff spends part of its time shuffling esoteric trivia questions, the bulk of its business is straightforward and informational. During enrollment, the busiest season, thousands of calls are made to Auditorium" to "Help I lost my class cards," "tie up the office phones."
"If we don't know it, you don't need it!" says a sign tucked to an office wall. Files with facts ranging from famous comic strips and cartoons to
Clark Lankberry, Phillips senior, who joined the center's staff two months ago, patiently replies "Hiroshima Mon Amour" to his seventh inquiry of the evening about the eighth caller requests details.
Lake Perry Theater's repertoire line the floors.
"It's a haunting story of two people scarred by war," Lunberky said. "We had our chair, hunting for zip codes, checking a Lawrence map for directions and finding an answer for a confused student about fees for off-campus courses."
THE CENTER WAS born in the spring of 1970 as a way to dispel or confirm rumors and ease fears in the days when Mt. Oread was rocked by bombs and antiwar and civil rights protests.
A couple of student volunteers sat at a stark table in room upstairs in Strong Hall and told distraught callers that the situation, not Strong, had burst into flames.
PAT KEHDE, who became full-time acting coordinator in May, said the center received an average of 205-800 students per day and the fall. One icey day in February brought a whipping 2,700 calls. A heavy snowstorm had blanketed the campus and students were worried about classes and canceled classes, Kehde said.
Even in the summer, a slow season, at least two staff members run the club. The players on and on week 2 p.m. to 8 m.phils, Lumberbury said that after a few threes, they quick "Anchor Sailors sell theirs" "calls the phones usually fell silent."
"It's usually pretty quiet between two and six in the morning," Lunberg said as he pointed to a bed draped with an orange and gray patchwork quilt with red yarn sticking out all over it. One of them was a plush pillow, one at one morning by a panicky caller and a loud ringing noise in the background. Someone had accidently
set off a burglar alarm and didn't know what to do.
The "Incidents and Rumors" bulletin board, peppered with newspaper clippings of events that might arouse concern or curiosity, is the only visible reminder of the center's birth as a rumor-control office.
"Iran hostage stand may be linked to Ministries arson fire" and "Initial attacks from Tehran." 50,866, "announce some of the headlines. Lunberry said no one had called him about the KU student who was killed in Kansas—the subject of one clipping."
Newcomers to Lawrence may want to know where the Union is, how to get to Spencer Art Museum or how far away Topeka is. Summer students might ask who is playing at Worlds of Fun or run a swim at Clinton Lake or rent a capa.
TO THE BEST of their ability and resources, the information center staff will try to tell you what to do or who to meet. In the event they want to settle a bet with your roommate on the names of Donald Duck's nephews; you wonder who created the comic strip character Joe Potter and how much he depressed and need someone to talk to.
"It's the kind of thing every city should have, but very few do," Kehde said.
Search committee seeks candidates
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ads in the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the Kansas City Star and the Wall Street Journal, Kleinberg said.
The search committee for a permanent chancellor has cast its net across the nation and will meet to ponder its first catch late in August, according to committee chairman Allen Steinberg, professor of chemistry.
The committee began its search for a permanent replacement for Chancellor Archie R. Dykes, who will leave the school in 2016 and be placing a help-wanted ad in the Chronicle of Higher Education. The committee is also considering placing
WHEN ENOUGH applications and nominations are received, the committee will meet again, probably after school begins in the fall, Klenberg said. He emphasized that the committee should include no one from consideration.
"Everyone whose name is received by the committee will get a letter from us." Kleinberg said.
alumni appointed by the Board of Regents in early July. At its first meeting in July, the committee elected William and outlined the search strategy.
The search for a permanent chancellor is expected to take from six months to a year, John Conard, the executive committee will submit names of the five best candidates to the Board of Regents, who will choose one of the five.
The Regents appointed Del Shankel, former executive vice chancellor, in early Jy to serve as acting chancellor after Dykes' departure.
The 12-member committee consists of four faculty, four students and four
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