THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
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The University of Kansas—Lawrence. Kansas
Vol. 90; No. 115
Tuesday, March 25, 1980
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Questions linger in Crawford investigation
By BILL MENEZES
Staff Reporter
Although an investigation by the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare failed to uncover enough evidence to prosecute KU professor of anthropology Michael Crawford for alleged fraud, U.S. Attorney James Buchle said there was evidence of fraud in Crawford's handling of federal grant money.
In a letter sent to the Office of the Inspector General Kansas City, Mo. field office Wednesday, Bubchele said his review of investigation reports strongly indicated that "Dr. Crawford's activity in handling government grant funds was highly unethical," and he said it was tantamount to abusing him any worse."
"The investigation report contains considerable information which indicates a possibility of violations of laws or regulations. It is important that the report be published."
Crawford said yesterday that the decision not to pursue prosecution supported his own statements of
CRAWDHOP SAID that although some of his procedures in handling the grants were "irregular," they were practiced by many researchers for reasons of efficiency.
"This is an irregular practice but it is a more efficient way of spending the taxpayer's money. It essentially does not cost."
*Grants are given for specific categories, he said.*
*I think all researcher will cross grant lines to be
The grant requirements mentioned by Buchele said Hew grants should be used "solely for the benefit of the project for which they are approved and must be administered autonomously."
HEW's investigation, according to Bucchie's letter,
was conducted to ascertain whether Crawford in-
tentiously misappropriated HEW grant funds through improper fund transfers, kickbacks of research assistants' salaries or payments of improper consulting fees.
THE INVESTIGATION also attempted to deter-
them. Crawford made false statements in HEW.
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The HEW investigation began in September 1977 after the Office of Special Investigations in Kansas contacted Crawford to conduct a Crawford's handling of grants during a research project in Belize in Central America during the early 1980s.
Elizabetht Murray and Nanyse Mempels, who sent the list to the office, worked as research assistants to Crawford in Belize, along with six other graduate students. They developed samples for scientific research on sickle-cell anemia.
BUCHELE'S LETTER concluded by recommending that consideration be given to *purus* administrative sanctions against D. Crawford. The letter also said, "It is our opinion that civil action for recovery should definitely be considered."
Crawford said the HEW investigation brought out no personal misuse of any funds.
Fred Mosley, special agent in charge of the Kansas City, Mo., field office of the HEW office of the Inspector General, said that department policy prohibited him from confirming or denying information about any investigation by his office, or the Hewlett-Packard Company, unless the investigation resulted in an indictment.
Buchael said that he did not know how HEW would take his suggestions, but that the department, and not
his office, would pursue any actions against Crawford.
"HEW probably hasn't taken what to do yet," he said. "They probably just received my letter."
MURRAY AND Sempelski asked HEW to look into Crawford's alleged misuse of grants and his maintenance of a "stush fund" used for expenses on the trip.
Murray said Crawford had asked her to pay back $400 of her salary into this fund.
In a memo issued in January 1978 by William Argersinger Jr., then vice chancellor for research and graduate studies, Argersinger said that the "slush fund" arrangement was "not proper because it is not intended that what was paid Ms. Murray, is intended to be payment for service rendered, in this case to the project."
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Baker awaits word on sports magazine
By STEVE YOUNG Staff Renorter
More than three weeks have passed since LDC Enterprises announced it was going to sell its campus sports magazines, including editions at KU and at four other Big Eight schools.
Amid speculation that the sale of the profitable magazines is being arranged, LeDuce has yet to announce—either to the magazine's editors or to the magazine's subscribers involved—what it intends to do.
The future of LeDuc is a $26,000 question for the KU athletic department, Don Baker, sports information director, said yesterday.
Baker said the department bought almost 800 subscriptions of $25 each, totaling nearly $3 million in commissions from contributors. The department also spent more than $4,000 in promotional expenses.
LeUCU HAS pledged to reinburse the department and all subscribers, Baker said, but the company's lack of communication compelled him to contact University lawyers.
"The company has not communicated fully with the schools. At least with the teachers, I think we have good communication," he said. "Because of that, I have reason to be concerned, and it was one of the reasons—in fact, the reason—that I made Mike Davis ('University general counsel')."
Davis said this week that a suit against LeDuc was still being considered but that no work had been done on it. Baker, who said two weeks ago that a suit against LeDuc was a high probability, said yesterday that no further entitlement had been set by the department.
"When they said it might be six to nine months, I took that to mean that they didn't really know when it would be." he said.
Baker discounted a claim made several weeks ago by leDuc that subscribers could be reimbursed within six to nine months.
AT THE OTHER Big Eight schools where LaBac once published magazines—Oakland, Santa Monica, Missouri—athletic department officials had little more information than their KU students.
At Oklahoma State, department officials declined to comment.
Tom Dirate, editor of the OSU magazine until it was dropped, said yesterday that LeDuC was negotiating with a buyer in connection with the OSU and Nebraska magazines.
"I've heard of a prospective buyer who wants to purchase Oklahoma State and Nebraska together. That's one way LeDuce is trying to nail its bills," he said.
Dirato said that 2,400 subscriptions had been sold at OSU—compared to 1,500 at KU—and that both the athletic department and subscribers were waiting to see how the university would respond.
"The issue has not come to a head here," he said. "The school is much like myself—it's looking for the sale to be consummated, but you might also maybe other things must be considered."
DIRATO SAID subscribers had been "ultra-patient" and that there had been few complaints from OSU alumni.
At Nebraska, Bill Bennett, assistant sports information director, said he had heard nothing about a possible NU-OSU magazine sale.
"I'm sure Tom LeDuc (company president and founder) would like to get the things sold, but I think it's still up in the air," he said.
The Nebraska magazine, Leuc's most successful in the Big Eight, which was started a year ago, had about 6,000 subscribers when it "suspended. As its number twice as many subscribers and the low revenue rate concerned Leuc, Bennett said.
"They were not happy with our renewal rate. It kind of leaves all of us here scratching our heads and wondering why. I can't explain it, but asking themselves the same thing," he said.
BENNETT SAID that the department hoped the magazine resumed publication. "I hope it gets going again. It was a good thing."
At Colorado, athletic department officials were less supportive of the publishing company.
Bill Crowder, assistant athletic director at Colorado, said the CU athletic department . - c.ALDC.com six
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Med Center renovations await governor's approval
By STEVE MAUN Staff Reporter
A bill providing $700,000 in fiscal 1980 supplemental funding for renovations at the University of Kansas Medical Center awards Gov. John Carlson's signature after it
Staff Reporter
A story on page one of yesterday's Kansan incorrectly reported that Gerhard Zutter, university Senate President and chairwoman of the University of Kansas was falling behind the other Board of Regensburg schools in the size faculty salary inference.
Zuther actually said that Regents schools were having trouble keeping up with their peer institutions in faculty salaries and fringe benefits.
We sent the salaries would be discussed at the next meeting of Faculty Senate presidents, which will probably be April 17 yesterday as reported in the article.
Correction
KU's peer schools are the University of Kansas, Low City; the University of Colorado Boulder; and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The University of Oklahoma, Norman; and the University of Pennsylvania.
Peer schools are selected schools that have similar enrollment, courses, research and per capita tax funding.
The funds are part of a multi-year appropriations act amended earlier by the Senate to enhance renovation funds for the Center, and the Committee had initially recommended that the funds be included in the Med Center's budget. The Board voted to concur with the Senate amendment.
More than 300 rooms in the old hospital do not compare with the rooms in the new hospital because they need new paint and carpeting, he said.
David Waxman, executive vice chancellor for the College of Health Sciences, said, "We're hoping that the bill will go right on to start renovating rooms in the old hospital."
received approval from the Kansas House yesterday.
About 200 beds in the old hospital are being used now, but some people would rather be in the new hospital than in the old, or go to a different hospital, Waxman said.
State Sen. Frank Gaines, chairman of the Senate State and Means committee, which made the amendment, said, "The reason we are not allowing a doctor to the Medical Center. The Med Center is running at 88 percent occupancy, which, for all practical purposes, is 100 percent for a hospital. This money is to be used to paint actual hospital rooms so they can be opened."
He said he hoped to renovate about 50 rooms with 100 beds within the next year.
Lookin' up
Tom Waller, a lieutenant for Southwestern Bell Telephone Company, radios instructions to another crew helping to lay
underground telephone wire at Ninth and Michigan streets. The phone wires are attached to a steel cable which is pulled through the ground.
Residents to oppose mall secrecy
By LYNN ANDERSON
Staff Reporter
The secretive nature of downtown mail planning in Lawrence will be countered tonight when some Lawrence residents take their own policy guidelines for downtown development to the city commission.
Kail Fleetcher, a member of Citizens for a Better Downtown, said yesterday that the group disliked the closed planning process the
"The impetus for the downtown mall is coming not from the
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Lawrence people, but from the developer of the mall." Fletcher said. "That process should be reversed."
Fletcher called Lawrence a "prime economic market" and said the city should explore many alternatives for downtown areas.
FLECHTER SAID that because Lawrence was a strong seller's market the city could afford to shoon around for a shooning mall.
"We have a lot to offer a developer," she said. "We don't need to take the only three they offer us."
Fletcher said the CBD standards for downtown development were prepared to complement Plan 96, which is the city's master development blueprint. The plan recommends that the downtown should be compatible with surrounding neighborhoods.
The CBD, Fletcher said, will ask the city to adopt its standards. They also will ask the city staff to draw up a separate plan for the downtown area, study alternatives to downtown growth and begin contacting other developers.
The city has dealt only with a Cleveland mall developer, Jacobs,
Vicepresso, Jacobs.
Fletcher stressed that other cities exploring mall construction had promoted public discussion on the needs a downtown should serve and how it should look. She said she hoped the CBD standards would create a public forum for discussion of those issues.
THE COMMISSION also will discuss a proposal for a jitney service for Lawrence.
The service was developed by Ward Thompson, owner of the Lawrence Yellow Cab company. It would provide a middle ground between the existing cab service and the transportation services of the Council on the Aging.
Commissioner Marci Francisco said recent fire department studies indicated that firefighters thought their response time in
The commission also will discuss the need for a new fire station in southwest Lawrence.
In addition, the commission will discuss the length of the mayor's term of office. The commissioners now annually choose the mayor based on the number of votes he receives when elected to the commission.
Rec Services sports committee differ on budget
Although most organizations went into Student Senate budget hearings last night asking for more money, Recreation Services asked for $6,000 less.
Tom Wilkerson, director of Recreation Services, told the Senate Sports Committee that the projected increase in the minimum wage expected increase in the minimum wage because of President Carter's ceiling on wages.
Despite the reduction, the budget proposal is $20,000 more than the Finance and Auditing Committee's recommendation of $120,311. To correct the difference, the committee discussed trimming a project cost or capital improvements from the budget.
The committee also made preliminary cuts in the KU Volleyball Club and the Crew club budgets. The Volleyball Club had requested $865 and the Crew Club $1,435.
The Graduate Student Council asked for a $6,300 increase over last year's funding. Included in that figure was $6,000 for travel and equipment in supplemental budget hearings last fall.
SEVEN STUDENT organizations presented their budget requests to the Academic Affairs Committee, but the Graduate Student Council was the only organization to have its entire budget allocated. The committee used the short deliberations after the hearing.
The committee heard budget request from Astronomy Associates, $780.20; Engineers University, $149.60; MEBE, Undergraduate Anthropology, $1,301; Alpha Rho Gamma, $3,440; Counseling Student Organization, and Graduate Student Council, $812.31.70
"The graduate students have resolved to work within the system, but if people screw around with the budget there are going to be some fights," Bob Frigo, graduate student and committee member, said. "Graduate students will point of contention. It is a agree point."
THE RECOMMENDED GSC fund would increase its line allocation from 41 cents to 47 cents per student in the Student Activity Fee. Line allocation items are required because they are considered more important and less likely to receive a budget cut.
Six organizations presented budget proposals to the Student Services Committee for 2013. $10,397; Douglas County Rape Victim Support Service, $1,248; Black Student Union, $45; Douglas County Legal Aid Foundation, $1,846; Hillip Child Development $2,240.
The Academic Affairs Committee also recommended cutting $480 from the Counseling Student's organization request.
The Student Legal Services requested about $45,000.
"We will need $1,007 to meet the fiscal '181 we demand." Steve Lepke, Legal Services Director at McGraw-Hill, asks the committee for approval of $4,000. The rest can be appropriated later."
THE COMMITTEE will deliberate on all of the organizations' budget requests Saturday.
The Cultural Affairs Committee heard requests from three organizations.
The Tau Sigma Dance Ensemble requested $2.552.
Greg Hickam, Lawrence freshman and treasurer of Tau Sigma, said the organization had been running on "a bare bones budget" for the past few years.
Jackie Davis, director of the University Concert and Chamber Series, requested an increase of $4,000 for the concert series and $3,500 for the chamber series.
Davis said the increase was to pay for better talent and increases in performers' fees.
Apollo Dimo, Port Harcourt, Nigera,
Junior and secretary of the African Students
Association, said the association wanted an
award to recognize the African Student Journal, Waafrika.
Dimbo, editor of Waafrika, said the increase would be used to print the magazine monthly instead of bi-monthly.
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