Monday, April 28. 1980
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KU dedicates Satellite Union
By JUDITH LYNN HOWARD
Staff Reporter
The throaty sounds of "Misty" floated on the instruments of the recordings at Jazz University. The saffron of the Satellite Union yesterday as almost 60 persons gathered to dedicate the building's gathered space.
David Amble, vice-chancellor for Student Affairs, said. "We dedicate this Satellite Union to those faculty and staff who have worked to make this dream a reality."
The union was a dream which was debated according to Fd Rolls, 1975 student body president.
"It's really a pleasure to see this unlifeth" he said.
"The Satellite Union was placed on the back burrow." Rolfs said.
He said that the original conception of the Satellite Union came in 1964. Four years later, a student referendum was passed, and the university adopted an academic building and a Satellite Union. The hospital proposal passed. The Senate approved the Senate the following year.
In 1973, the union project was revived by Sachem, a senior men's honor society, and under its direction the project to place the Satellite Union on the student ballot. Their efforts were sucessful.
AFTERSTUDENT approval was gained in February 1976, a student task force was
organized to outline a proposal for construction and financing.
Frank Burge, director of the Kansas Union, said the students spent long hours in the building to prepare for which would include those facilities which would be needed in this southwest corner of Kansas.
The groundbreaking for the union began in November 1977.
Chancellor Ardie Dykes commended the "outstanding student body leadership" along with the support of alumni in formation of the Satellite Union project.
Acknowledgements for gifts to the Union including the Chandler Court, sponsored by Mr. and Mrs. Anderson Chandler, also were made during the ceremony.
Attorney says Pinto trial sensationalized
By VANCE HINER Staff Reporter
Newspapers and prosecuting attorneys in the recent Ford Pinto case assumed Ford Motor Company's guilt before examining all, the lawsuit, to Male Wheeler, a Ford defense attorney.
Wheeler, a former KU law professor who wheeled the school to Florida, successfully defended Ford in the country's first criminal protection of a manufacturer for the Ford motor company.
Ford had been charged with reckless design of the Pinto and failure to notify the public of the defect, resulting in the deaths of three teenage Indiana girls in 1978.
Wheeler said that many newspaper and magazine articles written during and before the case were aimed at discrediting the case rather than objectively presenting the facts.
"The article made all kinds of allegations," he said. "Most of them were false."
An article about the case that appeared in Mother Jones, a San Francisco magazine, was the type of "drastic yellow journalism" that the Pinto investigation, Wheeler said.
"The car was the killer and Ford was the father of the killer."
WHEELER SAID that, contrary to many reports, statistics indicated that the Pinto was safer than half of the cars on the market at the time of the accident.
According to National Highway Transportation Safety Administration standards, he said, Vegas and Mazdas are rated "more dangerous" than Pintos.
Wheeler said that the prosecution attempted to apply present safety standards to the 1973 Pinto.
PRESENT NIHTSA standards require that an automobile withstand a rear end collision of up to 30 miles per hour without a fuel tank explosion, he said.
"The car in our case was stopped on a highway. We maintained that the truck hit the car while traveling between 55 and 60 miles per hour," he said. "The prosecution
If the jury had not acquitted Ford, manufacturers would have been forced to second guess legislators or face prosecution when standards changed, he said.
Although prosecutors and newspapers claimed that Ford knew how to make the Pinto safer in 1971, Wheeler said no changes then would have been feasible.
A RACE CAR driver and some INDUSTRIALS who were performing with soaked gas bottles, be said, but they testified that such modifications would cost the consumer $3,300 more for their car.
"How many of you would be willing to pay $3,300 to save the 150 lives lost so far as a result of tank damage?" Wheeler asked. "Will you be fair with me, none of you would."
In May, 1978 the NHTSA determined that the Pinto was defective, several months before the Indiana accident.
Wheeler the prosecution claimed that Ford should have taken out full-page advertisements to inform the public of the Pinto's defect.
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"It would not have made sense to tell everyone to pack their Pintos." Wheeler said. "That would have forced some people to drive cars that were more dangerous.
"I still don't know why the prosecution picked the Pinto."
HE ADDED that many observers of the trial thought it was a mistake to use the Pinto to establish legal precedent.
Wheeler said that Ford's victory did not absolve manufacturers of their responsibility to obey the law.
Task force to study grievance revision
A five-member task force, appointed by the Faculty executive committee Friday, will make sure that a revision unifying KU grievance processes is complete.
The revision, which was presented in a report to the University Council Committee on Institutional Review and Responsibilities, was made because current procedures are overlapping, inaccessible or irrelevant.
Ellen Johnson, committee member, sand there were several procedures a complaint would follow, making it difficult for him to move where to when he complains.
The report recommends that an administrator of the judiciary, a third-year law student and a member of the judiciary, be required for mediation and hearing panels for complaints.
No such position exists in the present system.
Persons with gravescans would take their complaints to the judiciary administrator who would direct the complainants to one of five procedures: affirmative action, sentence, fraud traffic court, classified employee collective bargaining or judicial mediation.
The report, based on a review of the
University judiciary by Francis Heller, H罗 A. Roberts professor of political science and law, also recommends several guidelines for the judiciary.
These include provisions for closed
hearings, confidentiality of proceedings and
access to closed files of hearings.
In other business, FacEx forwarded minor changes in sabbaticals to University Council.
The council also accepted a report from the Faculty Senate Research Committee, which gives guidelines for competition of faculty for general research funds.
HUGH MALCHESKY, Stokely employee,
said that there were still repercussions from
the lockout since the employees returned to
work.
The lockout began after the Stokely members of Teamsmaster local 696 failed to ratify a new contract agreement after the old one ended Dec. 21.
OTHER SABOTAGE incidents also have been reported by employees. For instance, the tires of some employees' cars have been slashed, Reno said.
KENT RENO and Hvron Collins. Stokelv
It was more than three months after the start of the lockout which ended an antitrust contract guarantee a 50-cent wage increase with an expiration date of October
Robert Cochrane, director of employee relations of Stokley headquarters in Indianapolis, confirmed that Stokley had been a victim of such incidents. He said that such incidents were unusual.
families to take care of during the lockout. Collins, who has a family, said he could empathize with other families hard-hit by the lockout to an extent.
Reno and Collins said that as maintenance workers, they were responsible for repairing plant equipment.
SOME OF THE employees who had crossed the picket line probably were pressured and resentful and "felt they had to do or lose everything," he said.
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"That's my girl I was telling you about," Schip said. "He's a driver for UPS–Buster Browns we call em. He's always playing the harmonic over the radio. Some of the other trucks get mad at him. They want a harpoon and he's on there playing the harmonia."
As the truck neared the end of the line, a strange sound came over the CB. It was a harmonica.
MALCHESKY SAID that there were some "militant" employees who marched in the picket lines during the lockout and who were brutal of the contract ruffled by the union.
The steady hum of the engine was the only sound heard as the semi rolled through the darkness. Long stretches of dark and quiet spaces were filled with floodlight's glare or a crack from the cradle.
months ago. We have to fill one out at the end of each trip," he said.
With the pile of papers taken care of, Schup picked up his radio-tackebole and climbed into the truck that would make the run back to Topeka.
Reno, who is single, said that he could not empathize as much with employees who had
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But before the run began, Schulp pulled into the parking lot of one of the brightly lit restaurants near the highway.
Inside, other truckers were drinking, coffee and talkin'. Schulp ordered a cheeseburger and began conversing. The crew talked about sports, their jobs, their families.
Schulp hailed the other driver on the CB. It seemed the man had just run his four-year record of perfect driving by having an accident.
THE TRUCK lurched out of the parking lot, back onto the highway, as Schup shifted through the vehicle's eight gears.
Schup lingered over his cheeseburger, not wanting to go back out so soon. He ordered a bowl of ice cream but, it too, was crushed and it was time to hit the road again.
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Reno said that another month on the picket line may have made a difference to the outcome of the lockout.
Both men are union members and honored an employee picket line during the lockout.
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Stokely plant still restless after strike
The cool afternoon contrasted with the stuffiness inside the Stokley Van-Camp, 10th St., personnel office entrance. Harsh light and bright sunlight could rub as well shift employees came to work.
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workers, said that there had been sabotage of plant equipment and personal property since the contract was ratified.
However, Collins said, "We got a little." One woman, on the day shift, leaving the plant, was hesitant to describe the situation and likely since the employees returned to work.
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"That's what I like about the road." Schupl said. "It's just so different. There's something different going on every night."
"Someone had stuck a median guard out in the middle of the road," he complained, and "I couldn't stop in time. The guys are all mad at me, too, because we had 5,000 bounces driving time among us. The company was that throw in a big party when we got to 6,000."
SCHLIP COMMISERATED with the driver, but the harmonica player still seemed depressed. His rendition of "Tennyson" came over the CB speaker, slow and mournful.
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schedules around their work schedules and the change has created problems, VanDyne said.
THE SHORTAGE of supplies has also made cleaning more difficult, VanDuyne said.
"Some people take classes and the change takes a long time. "There are also people whose wife or husband used to work about the same hours. Because of the change they never see one another."
ween ordering the supplies and receiving them, but it's still a problem," he said.
The supply problem has improved recently, VanDuyne said.
"I understand there is a time lag bet-
Wilkins sand keeping areas constantly used by students and teachers clean was difficult because they got dirty soon after being cleaned.
The custodial supervisors have put pressure on the custodians to keep their areas cleaner, she said.
"You just can't keep everything hospital clean and their pressure makes people feel uneasy," Wilkins said.
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