KANSAN
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
Vol. 90, No. 140
Wednesday, April 30, 1980
The University of Kansas—Lawrence. Kansas
Muskie nominated to succeed Vance
WASHINGTON (AP)—President Carter bypassed the diplomatic establishment yesterday and in a surprise phrase said he would nominate Sen. Edmund R. McCain for secretary of the Department term by the resignation of Cyrus R. Vance.
Carter made the nationally broadcast announcement at the White House, handed by Vance. Acting Vice President Robert McDonald, adviser Zhigwen Brezinski and Vice President Walter F. Mondale, Mrs. wives' name, Jame, stood beside Carter.
IN RESPONSE to questions, Muskie declined to endorse the presidential decision that led to Vance's resignation on Monday, saying he would have to be briefed on his remarks. The attempt to impede the American hostages held in Tehran.
"I don't think it's appropriate to undertake a review of the past," the one-time Democratic presidential nominee said.
Reaction from Capitol Hill to the surprising announcement was generally favorable.
House Speaker Thomas P. O'Neill called his fellow New Englander "an able public servant capable of leading a company."
SENATE MAJORITY Leader Robert C. Byrd, D-W Va., praised Muskie for his "courage, ability and keen见感" and said Muskie "proved himself to be statesmanlike in more than two decades in this body."
Carter held the secretary's handwritten letter of resignation on his desk until after the military rescue mission.
MUSKIE, 66, chairman of the Senate Budget Committee and a member of the Foreign Relations Committee, was catapulted to national attention in 1980 when he was picked as Hubert H. Humphrey's vice presidential running mate. Muskie quickly won the respect of his party as a voice of reason in a politically charged debate over the assassination of Sen. Robert Kennedy and disintegration of the Democratic Party over the Vietnam War.
Administration sources said yesterday that Brzezinski was never in serious contention for Vance's bid.
Brezinski is considered more strict and anti-soviet than Vance, who was often known to argue for democracy.
Vance resigned because of his opposition to Carter's decision supported by Brezinski and other members of the National Security Council, to go ahead with last year's nuclear deal. The group released from their captivity in the U.S. embassy in Tehran.
Edmund Muskie
Dazzling Dizzy
Jazz legend Dizzy Gillespie performs "A Night in Tunisia" in Hoch
Auditorium. Gillespie opened last night's concert by playing two songs with the KU Jazz Ensemble. See review nage three.
Torchbearing hurts student's education
By ANN SHIELDS Staff Reporter
Representing the state of Kansas in the Winter Olympics may be host Holl Wallace, Tonganoxie.
Wallace, who missed a month of school to carry the torch in the Lake Placid Olympics, received a memorial award and a Memorial Hospital—work to fulfill a year-long requirement for her master of social welfare
she had her supervisor, Barbara Bailey, said she had failed Wallace because she did not know what
type of work Wallace had been doing during her eight months at LMH.
ALSO, BAILEY had missed meetings with Wallace for three weeks, she said.
"And I think her not knowing what my work was and something to do with that month's absence," she said.
Walace said she had made up the time she would miss during the Olympics by working at LMH
Before her trip, Del Shankle, executive vice
chief, wrote letters to her instructors asking
Bailey was unavailable for comment yesterday.
"So I'm not sure what the problem is," $'s Hannah said, "but I hope she can get it worked out with the instructor because she did a good job representing Kansas."
But Wallace said she was frustrated by the procedure for appealing grades at the University.
SHE WILL WILL with the director of the department, Dr. James M. McCarthy, professor of plant science, Margaret Schaff Gordon Frierson
they to notify him if Wallace's absence would keep her from fulfilling class requirements.
Gordon refused to say last night what could be done for Wallace.
Unlucky owners must pay the bill for lost, stolen IDs
BY TOM LEDESCH
Staff Reporter
A variation on the credit card scam in which someone charges a fortune in goods on a stolen or lost card may be done; on at the bank, a person's account will be destroyed.
Lost or stolen KU identification cards, which are used to check out almost everything from books to basketballs, sometimes are used by finders of thieves, leaving an unwitting student owing the University money for overdue or stolen materials.
A few weeks ago Bryce Abbott, Topca suprence, left his ID card and then was charged for some equipment checked out at the store.
The problem is not widespread at KU but it has occurred.
According to Abbott, his signature has been forged—poorly—and he learned of it when he received a bill from the lab.
"That's how I found out about it, I just got the bill," he said. "I haven't gotten broken for anything else yet."
Apparently there is no procedure in the University for voiding or canceling last ID cards. According to Abbott, a host of University offices and departments have to be notified of the loss and possible use of the card.
"As far as I know, there is no central computer, except at the library, so you have to deal with a lot of people," he said.
Abbott said he notified the Kansas Union Bookstore, the language lab, Watson Library and the office of admissions and records, among others.
According to Abbott, the office of admissions and records, which issues the ID cards, cannot void or cancel them.
"They did not even ask me my name. They didn't seem too concerned that I lost it. They just told me it was five bucks for a new phone."
But according to Gil Dyck, deam of admissions and records, ID cards are not the responsibility of his office after they are issued.
"We are not the custodian." Dyck said. "When we give the student the ID it becomes the student's property and responsibility.
"It's not really our responsibility. If a student wants to restructure 'new one, we can take care of that. I would assume (it's) just like when he loses his driver's license or a credit card. It's like any other piece of identification — it's the individual's responsibility."
Once the student's ID card is lost or stolen, Dyck said, the most the student can do is notify offices and departments of the loss. The teacher will contact the student.
"Once a student receives a number, that number is his forever." he said.
However, the ID card becomes invalid when the sticker on the back indicating registration is not renewed, he said.
Watson Library, which operates on a computer, can ensure that the lost ID will not be used.
According to Mary Marshall, Watson fine supervisor, it is important to make the library aware of the lost ID card as soon as possible.
"Usually the student becomes aware of the checked-out materials when he receives an overdue notice in the mail," she said. "Basically, when they come in, it's at the point that they get an overdue notice, before there is much of a fine."
"We'd give him a temporary ID to check out books until the next semester."
Bremer faces student charges after Iran trip
By ANN SHIELD!
Staff Reporter
In a letter to the state Ecumenical Christian Ministries Board, two students have accrued the Rev. Jack Breener of the Church of God, making personal profits from his trip to Iceland.
Laura Varney, chairman of the state EMC board, and David Ambler, president of the local board, yesterday said they received the letter.
Brenner, director of the University EMC, visited the American hostages in Iran for Easter and during February. The students, who had not been to be identified for personal reasons.
Varnay said yesterday that she was not certain whether the complaint would be discussed at the state board of directors. Varnay told reporters he did not plan to investigate the charges.
"Most of the things in that letter cannot be substituted," Ambler said.
AMBLER SAID he thought the letter contained mostly personal opinions and factual errors.
The students charged Bremer with profiting from his trips to Iran by selling photographs of the hostages to the press and raising money for lectures and interviews.
However, Bremer denied that he made money and said donations made to finance the trump did not cover $700 of his expenses.
"Until someone can come up with some formal charges and facts, I do not intend to do anything in the way of a formal investigation."
Brenner said he brought back some photographs taken by the militants during the 2015 attacks. Crisis Resolution Committee, led by Noronan Forer, associate professor of social sciences.
THE PHOTOGRAPHS were sold to the Kansas City Times and United Press International.
"But that money was turned over to the committee," he said. "The checks were made out to them.
"I felt like it was perfectly acceptable that the money went to the committee for expenses in arranging the trip."
Bremer also said he had not been paid for any interviews and that he had donated the photographs to various religious publications.
The students also said the EMC's membership was declining because Bremer was neglecting his duties at the EMC.
Bremer provided no leadership and was too busy to even make decent meals for the fellowship suppers, they said.
But Bremer said that he thought the Iranian trips were important and that he had helped both the hostages and their families.
"I was invited to go on both those trips," he said. "It was done to benefit the hostages.
His church had supported him financially, he said.
"The complaint is just so ridiculous that I don't want to comment on it. It's a pathetic situation."
Students wrap museum urns for final project
In an attempt to emulate contemporary artist Christo, students in an art history class yesterday wrapped the urns in front of the museum. Museum of Art with canvas and cord.
The class, Evolution of Modern Art, is being taught by Ami Winkland and Betsy Broun, lecturers in art history. Christo was the 'class' final artist of the semester.
"In order to wrap up the class, we thought that we would wrap up the urns in front of the building," Broun said.
Wiklund said, "It created a sense of mystery, surprise and yearn for discovery. It causes you to do a visual somersault."
The project occurred simultaneously with the class' party, and the students drank beer and pop as they wrapped.
Kansas hens egg on sex-minded prairie roosters
By LYNN ANDERSON
Staff Reporter
As we pull up to the gate, the sleeping six-year-old in the back帐 nestles deeper into his blanket.
"We're at the prairie," his father says, posting him.
The sky is starting to pale. As in a watercolor, splodges of purple pleafe leafland through the surrounding reef-brown grass. Off to the north, out of the mouth of sound of air揖ing the mouth of an empty bottle.
While his father dresses him in the dark, my sister and I take trips to camp with the iron iron and we make a trail. The track path. The links two threads of barbed wire that weave a protective circle around 8,000 square acres of Kansas
After we join our equipment on the other side, we stand for a moment in the concert shirt of an April show.
He explodes into consciousness.
It's what we are here for, an ancient rite of spring the courtship ritual of *Yangtzeus* capile the.
"Whoo-hoo-hoo. Whoo-hoo-hoo."
IF YOU LIVE in Kansas long enough, sooner or
Prairie chickens are promiscuous. Males mate with as many females as they can, and vice versa, but no pair bonding takes place. The males do not help raise the young, in fact, associate little with them.
later prairie鸡 chicken takes creep into folklore you read or stories you hear. I had heard too many to let another spring you hear. I had seen the birds for myself.
The males gather on "keks" or display grounds and to try entice the females and intimidate other males. The girls try to get the rosters to be excellent and chaste lids for attention. They "boom," the term for that soulless creature.
Someone made a movie jixtaposing dancing prairie chickens and dancing Plains Indians once. It was called *Bringing Down the House*.
WETRUCK UP and down hills, trying to beat the sun. We have a map provided us by John Zimmerman, Kansas State University professor of biology and warden of the prairie chicken grounds. We should be able to keep well ahead of us with the flashlight. But the prairies hemeander, defying any attempt to plot
"Whoo-hoo-hoo. Whoo-hoo-hoo."
them or force them to conform to a compass. We get lost.
A few weeks before this pilgrimage I talked to Robert Mengel, professor of systematics and ecology and a member of the University of California Mengel who could talk to his students until he was blue in the face about the importance of visual art and mathematics.
"But I take them to the prairie chicken ground."
"To eat it to通 through to the human mind,"
have to really jolt it. Until they experience this they don't believe it exists, and they're never prepared for it.
AS THE SKY LIGHTS and the whir of semis on 1-70 fades, it's hard to care that we are staring at a hill that shouldn't be there and squashing through a marshy lowland that looks nothing like a truck path. The largest tract of tallgrass prairie in North Dakota rolls away in soft sound and shape, not ending.
Meng said there was a day when prairie reached to the East Coast.
The Kona is a perfect home for prairie chickens, who flourish in its protective hills, courtship
It is owned by the Nature Conservancy, a national non-profit group that supplied the land in the 1970s to build the Boulder Lake School. Through a program of controlled burning, gzing and restricted access, the land remains as pristine as it was before logging.
"But the encroachment of settlers and the use of prairie land for crops and towns shrank the eastern prairie to a few mineralizable fragments," he said. "It was too late, so then shrank back as settlement caught up with it."
THE FATE OF prairie chickens shifted with the shifting terrain. The last heath hen, a New England relative of the prairie chicken, died in 1932. lesser prairie chickens established themselves in western Kansas. And the greater prairie chicken—the lover of prairies, its own beauty—in the Flint Hills, Menuel says.
Today the prairie heartland has stabilized in Kansas, Oklahoma and a few parts of Missouri.
The whoo-hoo-hoo is broken only by the closer trites of Eastern wetlandarks, who are also early migrants.
We spot the blind on a rise. It gives direction to our puzzled legs.
FRANK PINET, associate dean of the School of Business, said his grandmother was fond of complaining that pariac chickens would descend on her farm in Neuschatel in the 1870s and steal the precious corn she saved for her domestic heir. Prairie chickens were works of art to her, they were a threat to her survival.
But "there got to be less 'nowhere'," Pinet said, and he did the preak chicken. For years did the prairie chicken.
See CHICKENS page eight