KANSAN
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
Vol. 90, No. 132
The University of Kansas—Lawrence. Kansas
Friday, April 18, 1980
News B
SCOTT SMITH/Kansas
Joseph Nzaur, a Kenyan competing on the University of Wyoming's track team, grimaces in pain after competing in the 10,000-meter run at the Kansas Relays yesterday afternoon. Nzaur, who was the runner-up last year, is story page eight and special Reaction section.
Rough race
Competition fears stall shuttle bus plan
Bv SUSAN SCHOENMAKER
Staff Renorter
Fears of unmanageable campus bus traffic and competition with "KU on Wheels," the team. Sponsored sponsor system, have temporary campus buildings. Work in departments plans for a campus shuttle bus service.
Jayhawk West Apartments, 524 Front Road,
has run a bus service for its residents since March 24. The bus shuttles from the apartments to as close to campus as Mississippi Street.
Jayhawk West had asked the University Senate Parking and Traffic Board for a campus driving permit, but the Board postponed an order to allow them in order to solicit Student Senate opinion.
"We wanted to know whether Student Senate was concerned that an apartment complex was operating in bus competition with the bus they support." Clark Bricker, chairman of the Police and Traffic Board, said yesterday. "I think this is the beginning of a very serious problem."
BRICKER SAID he was concerned that other apartment complex might pick up on the concept of offering a bus service for residents and imprint upon "KU on Wheels" s.points.
"What is going to happen if you open the door?" bricker asked. "I wonder whether the Lawrence family will like it."
"What bothers me is that if the Lawrence Bus Company service isn't good enough, why don't they ask for better service? This is stricty a good one in advertising, it is a very good one."
Lori Jennett, Jayhawk West Apartments manager, said the West Apartments are the apartments farthest from campus and the bus was offered as a service to residents.
We took we over this property we were "tired of being told. Gee this is too far out." Jill was very nervous to raise a quite a ruckus. It is ridiculous. We're not going to try to pretend for *students* and they're trying to take ours away.
JENNETT SAID she didn't think other complexes would start a bus service because of the expense involved. She said the Jayhawk West bus company, whose owners, had enough resources to cover costs.
Jayhawk West runs its converted school bus between 7:30 a.m. and 6 p.m. on school days. The bus shuttles continuously from 7:30 a.m. to 10 a.m. and then runs once an hour from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
"We don't want to be competition," sennett
"I couldn't afford more than one bus
answer."
"You can't treat the bus service like it is going to be a fault—they're crossing many bridges daily."
STEVE MCMURY, Senate Transportation Board chairman, said the Jayhawk West Apartments had not contacted the Board about plans for a bus service.
we were in constance or asked, it just happened and we found out about it in our own”
McMurray said. The Transportation Board, which manages the hospital, will meet Mondays and Tuesdays to discuss routes to hospital.
MCMURRY SAID he did not want to prejudice the Board by commenting on what a decision to withhold campus privileges for the Jayhawk and Wyoming Lawrence lawrence. He said he had not been contacted by the Parking and Traffic Board on the Jayhawk West Apartments' bus service privileges.
One proposal the Board is expected to consider is replacing the Frontier Ride bus route, which serves Jayhawk West, with an East Lawrence bus route. Residents of East Lawrence have requested for bus services for the past several years and recently circulated a petition for service.
Prairie Park still alive, supporters say
Bricker said the Parking and Traffic Board asked for Senate opinion because it was a matter of privacy. "I don't care," he said.
The Board can make the decision without consulting Student Senate.
Rv DON MUNDAY
Staff Renorter
Hopes for a Tallgrass Prairie National Reserve are still alive, its backers say, despite a state bill signed into law Wednesday intended to help the landowner company's upland for just such a reserve.
Supporters of the new Kansas law said the bill was an attempt to give the state a voice in whether the federal government could buy land for a park against a landowner's will.
The bill was drafted after Rep. Larry Winn, R-Kan., introduced a bill in the U.S. House of Representatives last year calling for the creation of a Tallgrass Prairie National Monument, which will eventually set aside nearly 375,000 acres of Kansas and Oklahoma land for a prairie reserve.
"I don't think the law will stop the bill (the reserve proposal) if that what's it intended to do." Winn said yesterday in a telephone conversation from his Washington, D.C., office. "We gave the Legislature and their committees the chance to review the sales as they come up."
Hitchhiker may give us legal access to the property where we want to live, even on a acres of land in the state if the landowner is unwilling to sell. Land bought for military purposes or for certain public buildings, such as churches, will not be permitted.
"I don't think we had a cripping blow," said Elaine Shea, executive director of Save the Tallgrass Prairie, Inc., a Roan Oak Park group that has filed a lawsuit against the land restriction bill.
"it's basically a question of who will have control over the land—the individual or big company."
Kendal Frazier of the Kansas Livestock Association, a group that had been in favor of water for livestock, said there was no reaction to the proposed reserve but also would help to alter federal policies on acquiring other streams.
BACKERS OF the bill had feared the federal government would condemn land on a large scale to create the proposed reserve, so it was vetoed. Mr. Klobuchar, the Legislature have the final say in condemnation.
However, Shea said, the current reserve proposal was also written to keep the government on track.
"A clause in the (reserve) bill says that if a landowner within the desired area was to do things to the land that would hurt its purpose as a sole occupant, modernization proceedings could be used," she said.
That would only be done as a last resort, she said.
CONCERNED LANDOWNERS were not convinced that condemnation would not be used. Frazier said, so the recent bill was introduced and passed.
Condemination would require permission from the Secretary of the Interior, Shea said, and could occur only after a commission made up of the government's reasons for desiring the land.
"We feel that farmers and ranchers are doing an excellent job of preserving the prairie." Frazier said, "and government shouldn't intrude upon that."
The bill had also been the center of controversy because attorney General Robert Stephan had issued an opinion in January that the proposed bill was unconstitutional. Because it was not made clear concerned with the new law agreed that the next step would involve its testing in the courts.
"The constitutional question will still have to be resolved in the courts," Shea said, "but we expect that the Corps of Engineers will probably find a solution." It is the court action will probably occur with them.
AT THE earliest, she said, backers of the reserve bill could expect to get hearings in Congress sometime in 1818, and by that time the law had been enacted and the law in the buying of land for reservoirs.
'it (the straw bill) doesn't look like it'll be involved in legislative action this year," she said. "I imagine it will be re-introduced in the next Congress, but most park bills don't come up until the second session, so we don't anticipate much on it until sometime next year."
Job outlook uncertain for KU graduates
Staff Reporter
By GRANT OVERSTAKE
Despite gloomy economic forecasts, KU placement officials said yesterday they were "cautiously optimistic" that May graduates from KU would be able to find jobs in the recession continued, August and December graduates could find jobs harder to come by.
Vernon 'Gessler, director of the University Placement Center, said the investment made by coming to the university should help students to graduate in today's market.
"I feel we're in a good position because, during financial difficulties the first ones affected are the ones who are least qualified for their job," he said.
The number of employers attracted to the KU campus has increased over the past few years, he said. More than 400 employees conducted on-campus interviews last fall considered he expected an increase in the total number of on-campus interviews this year.
ACCORDING TO a survey of trends in the employment of university graduates published by Frank S. Endicott, director of placement at Northwestern University, 77 students were employed and matched that business would be the same or better in 1980 as it was in 1979. About 85
The placement center assists students in the School of Education and the College of Health Sciences. It offers good for graduates in these areas if they are flexible enough to adapt to the market,
percent of them said they intended to recruit at as many or more colleges this year than in 1979.
"That's significant," Geissler said. "That's ontimism."
Kansas economy reflects trend toward recession
"The effect of the economic situation is that some people may have to be willing to travel elsewhere in the nation for a job. They also may have to take for the moment a second choice. They can't just set their sights one job, they have to broaden their view."
Pamela Madi, placement director at the School of Engineering, said engineering students were in high demand because of the energy situation.
It is too early to tell whether the recession of 1980 will be as bad or worse than the recession of 1974, according to Darwin Dauco, KF economist of economics.
"The demand is very good right now," Madi said. "There has been an increase in the number of offers extended from companies to universities and the range of engineering students will be placed."
MECHANICAL ENGINEERS are in highest demand, followed by electrical engineers, she said.
rederick Madaua, placement director of See ECONOMY page 12
See ECONOMY page 12
"Expert's say that there is a much greater down-side risk this time than in previous short recessions," Diaoff said yesterday.
the almost 100-mile length of Lake Erie is four percent very quickly in the state of Kansas. At the first of the year they were just over 3 percent. It's just symptomatic of a problem.
a recession may last for three-quarter of a year to a full year, Dacoff said, but Kansas is not as sensitive to national economics as some other parts of the nation.
"How would you like to be the chancellor at the University of Michigan? While automobile production is not insignificant in this area, it's gigantic there," Dacoff said.
Two-quarters of negative real growth in the gross national product is normally considered to be a sure sign of recession, he said.
"People who count on making their money to support their education by having them work as teachers or problems because summer jobs are going to be hard to come by," he said. "The teachers and parents who are sending their children to school. They won't be able to support them."
"There clearly is a great weakness in the economy," Daicoff said. "All of that makes it certainly more negative."
"On the other hand, a person who can't find a job might tip the college enrollment figures back the other way by thinking. 'Oh, well. I might as well go to school.'
The recession may have a mixed effect on the University and college students. he said.
Downtown Vuland from left to right: Coal Creek library, the Star Cash grocery store, another grocery store and the Grange building.
Relays marathon to run through Vinland
By BILL VOGRIN
Staff Renorter
VINLAND—When marathon跑步 hit the road, their feet may be pounding the pavement, but their hearts are racing. The teammates runners reach the halfway mark of the Kansas Relays marathon Sunday morning, they should come back.
Vinland is a small town nestled in the rolling hills on the banks of the Coal Creek, 12 miles southeast of Lawrence. It is the midway point of the 28-mile race, and it has one of the few places around revolves around a young woman named Anna Smea.
Soule lived in VINland before Kansas was a state, and as a teen-ager, was interested in the moral, social and intellectual improvement of VINland. She studied at the University in 1859, organized the Coal Creek Library Association.
The long-distance museum might want to note the small one-story red building on their right as they jog into town. The building has been standing 80 years and is now a continuous public library in the state, thanks to Soule.
BUT THE Soule and Vinland influence in Kansas history goes deeper than a cottage of worms. Rivers flow through it, and for a stroll through the small town to see for themselves the small niche of state history carved into the landscape.
Directly north of the library building across the county road is a farm and house that were once an orchard and vineyard owned by William Barnes. It was the first vineyard in Kansas.
Bill, Anna's brother, was responsible for the amber grapes, which he brought to town in a carpaget from the East Coast. The land is still farmed today, but the vineyards and apple trees are nowhere to be seen.
Just a sprint away, flanking the library, is a boarded up church, formerly the Vinland Presbyterian Church. Sports enthusiasts may want to take special notice of the 102-year-old structure.
During World War I, former KU coach James Naismith, who brought basketball to KU and the world, brought the Word to Vindians. He preached there every Sunday for three years.
Other points of interest to the runners might be the row of storefronts fiting the gravel road in front of the library. A two-story building on the south end was a popular meeting place, and was the center of community activity for years.
THE CHURCH is now owned by a Lawrence man who is in the process of renovating and restoring it.
A building just south of the library, the Star Cash store room, was built in 1921 and is a one-story building with two floors.
The third store, between the Grange and Star Cash, also dates to the early 1900s. Hitching posts for horses remain in front. A KU art teacher is the current tenant, and is remodeling it into a studio apartment.
Although Vinland may be a dying town in terms of population, it is alive in history with strong ties to the Kansas past, and with the annual marathon that wakes up this quiet valley town.
THE LAST link between Anna Soule and Kansa history stems from the Christmas of 1862. Soule persuaded her uncle to get in the holiday spirit, and he chopped down a tree from a nearby forest. He planted another uncle trimmed the first Christmas tree in Kansas, according to files at the Lawrence Public Library.
So runners can remember, when they hit the 13-mile mark and need a break from the race, to remember that.
One of the early ministers of the Vindu Presbyterian Church was James Naislon, a former KU coach and the inventor of the Naislon Wheel. He was also a pioneer in women's sports.
Photos by Ben Bigler