KANSAN
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
Vol. 90; No. 110
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Tuesday. March 18. 1980
Sports cuts avert budget deficit
By STEVE YOUNG Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
The athletic department will not have a deficit—thanks to almost $84,000 in budget cuts—when its fiscal year ends June 30. The director Bob Marceum said yesterday.
Marcum refused to specify what cuts had been made but said the largest single cut, about $14,000, came from the sports information office.
"We've made cuts in about nine areas, all the way from sports information to maintenance," he said.
avoid a deficit which was estimated last month at up $100,000. Marcum said.
"What do you do when gate receipts are down and expenses and inflation are up?" We didn't have any areas to turn to, "he said.
SUSAN WACHTER, interim athletic business manager, said $39,000 in project expenses—about three percent of the $2.1 million budget—were cut effective Feb. 31.
"I not at liberty to discuss where the cuts have been made," Wachter said. But she added, "They've been administrative as well as sorts." She entered the board.
Marcus said most cuts involved printing costs, part-time salaries, team travel and
recruiting. The only sports affected were non-revenue-producing men's sports.
Although Marcum did not give a complete breakdown of the cuts, he said the $14,000 cut from sports information affected part-time salaries and printing.
HE SAID ABOUT $7,000 was cut from both baseball and men's track.
Men's tennis lost part-time salaries and some traveled their swimming lost some money, but unspecified cuts were made in this year's men's gymnastics program, he said.
Marcum and Wachter said coaches had been understanding and cooperative.
Bill Spahn, men's swimming coach, said
last night that he did not want to comment on the cuts but that he agreed that most coaches had understood the move.
Marcum said the men's revenue-producing sports-football and basketball teams are unwise to cut back on the sports that supply income for the non-revenue-producing
Women's sports were unaffected by the cuts because they are state-supported.
KU students foresee draft protests
By MARK SPENCER
Staff Writer
During the 1960s and early 70s, the draft brought the stark reality of the Vietnam War to the forefront. The draft triggered unrest on campuses throughout the country and led to bitter
Although those days are little more than history to many draftage KU students, it would be a good reason to be a similar response if the draft were resumed, according to a University Daily report.
The survey, conducted before spring classes, asked students think that the draft were resumed, young people would or probably would protected it and made it as they did with the Yepman survey.
Reporting II students surveyed a scientifically selected random sample of 270 KU students.
ALTHOUGH THOSE polled favored
Analysis
President Carter's plan to resume registration by a 65 to 35 margin, 72 percent said they opposed the draft.
Sixty-one percent they would accept it, 33 percent they would seek conscientious objector status, 30 percent they would accept it, 30 percent they would leave the country, 30 percent they would leave the country.
Students were also asked what their reaction would be to being drafted. Four options were presented, and those choices could come as many as they wanted.
There is, of course, often a difference between what people say they will do and what they actually will do. The question is considerably easier than deciding what to do when faced with a few alternatives.
or innermore, the responses reflect student opinion only at the time the poll was taken. The circumstances that precipitate a draft would play a big role in determining
ONE STUDENT said, "It depends on how necessary it is at the time it resumed."
Other students, however, were more emphatic. Comments ranged from those such as "I'd protest for a while--before I left home!" and "Don't leave the kitchen! Don't leave the kitchen! Don't leave the kitchen! Don't leave the kitchen! Don't leave the kitchen! Don't leave the kitchen! Don't leave the kitchen! Don't leave the kitchen! Don't leave the kitchen! Don't leave the kitchen! Don't leave the kitchen! Don't leave the kitchen! Don't leave the kitchen! Don't leave the kitchen! Don't leave the kitchen! Don't leave the kitchen! Don't leave the kitchen! Don't leave the kitchen! Don't leave the kitchen! Don't leave the kitchen! Don't leave the kitchen!"
Any other choice is just out of sight.
Student opinion on the draft also is reflected in opinions toward the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. When asked what action the United States should take in response to the invasion, only non-military action, such as boycots and embargoes, should be considered. Seven percent said the United States should take no action, while 10 percent said conventional military action should be conducted, as most of the respondents were undecided.
If the Soviets invade other countries, however, the number of students who favor military action increases. If the Soviets invade Pakistan, 57 percent of those polled favored conventional military action and 2 percent favored nuclear action. If Iran is favored, the majority favored conventional military action and three percent supported nuclear action.
IF WESTERN EUROPE is the target of a Soviet invasion, 72 percent said they favored conventional military action and 7 percent supported nuclear action.
Women were more opposed to taking military action than men. In relation to women, men favored a favored no action or non-military action, while only 30 percent of the men polled favored those options. More women than men favored a militarized action in Iran and Western Europe.
Most support for military action in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iran came from those who favored the draft.
Students who said they probably favored the draft tended to take positions similar to those who said they probably opposed or supported the draft. They were less inclined to support military action.
The rationale behind student support for registration while opposing the draft seems to lie in the purpose students see in registration. Forty percent said registration was an effort to strengthen U.S. military forces. Four percent said gesture to reaffirm the image of the United States as a strong military power in the world, and 19 percent said it was both.
| If we return to the draft, do you think young people would protest or evade it as they did at the time of the Vietnam War, or do you think young people would accept the draft today? |
| :--- |
| Protest and evade 25% |
| Probably protest and evade 45% |
| Accept it 8% |
| Probably accept it 22% |
**2 Which of the following options would you consider if the draft refused and you were chosen (Students were allowed to choose more than one option. The numbers presented are the percentage of students who chose each option)**
| Accept it | 61% |
| :--- | :--- |
| Seek Conscientious Objector status | 33% |
| Protest | 30% |
| Go to another country | 17% |
**3 What type of option, if any, is appropriate given the present situation in Afghanistan?**
| Take no action | 7% |
| :--- | :--- |
| Non-military action | 82% |
| Conventional military action | 10% |
| Nuclear military action | 0% |
| Undecided | 1% |
**4 What type of action, if any, is appropriate if the Soviets invade Pakistan?**
| Take no action | 4% |
| :--- | :--- |
| Non-military action | 35% |
| Conventional military action | 57% |
| Nuclear military action | 2% |
| Undecided | 2% |
**5 What type of action, if any, is appropriate if the Soviets invade Iran?**
| Take no action | 9% |
| :--- | :--- |
| Non-military action | 26% |
| Conventional military action | 60% |
| Nuclear military action | 3% |
| Undecided | 2% |
**6 What type of action, if any, is appropriate if the Soviets invade Western Europe?**
| Take no action | 2% |
| :--- | :--- |
| Non-military action | 17% |
| Conventional military action | 72% |
| Nuclear military action | 7% |
| Undecided | 2% |
The University Dailty Kansas Poll surveyed 270 randomly selected students by telephone Fbb. 23.26. The poll has a confidence level of 95 percent with a margin for error of plus or minus 6 percent, which means 95 chances out of 100 were correct. The telephone interviews were conducted by Reporting II students.
Death of gymnastics leaves team hanging
The KU gymnastics coach wanted to resim two weeks ago.
By TRACEE HAMILTON Sports Writer
Sports Writer
He was told he could not
Now the coach, Ken Snow, has become a teacher at the gymnasium department, with consulting later recently the gymnastics team an athletic corpse, a victim of spiraling costs in the United States.
An official announcement, expected in the next few days, will say that Big Eight competition is too tough for Kansas and that the available resources are inadequate. Last year, Nebraska and Oklahoma finished second in the nation in men's gymnastics.
SNORE KNOWS THE program is dead, but he is concerned about the sport's burial arrangements. He said yesterday that he was shocked to learn that would fairly commemorate the team members.
"This is an unforeseen predicament," Snow said. "I hope the University feels the commitment to keep the kids on scholarship. They were recruited in good faith."
"Those kids are almost through their academic programs. There is the question of whether their hours will transfer."
ATHLETIC DIRECTOR Bob Marcum,
however, is making no promises.
"Coach Snow and I will have to work those (scholarships) out," he said. "We have to see what commitments we have."
Snow said that when he learned of the program's cancellation he asked Marcum to tell the team. Snow said a convenience time and cost was involved, but he "between a rock and a hard place."
THE MEN'S gymnastics team learned of the cancellation one day before the Big Eight Championships, March 7. The team field and no one qualified for the finals.
"I thought it was important to tell the kids," Snow said. "I thought the kids was important for them to know before spring comes." She discussed the situation with their parents."
"It hit us all really hard," Brad Foerch, Addison, Ill. junior gymnast said. "I didn't feel ready to retire."
The combined men's and women's program had a £70,000 budget this year. When Snow tried to resign he presented recommendations to Marcum. They were
- Hire a high school coach from Illinois and encourage him to bring his best gymnasts to KU.
- Increase the budget for recruiting.
- Increase the budget for recruiting.
* Drop the program if those suggestions could not be accomplished.
This year the men's team had seven members and the women's team had four, the minimum necessary for a team. Five of them are from state. None are eight are from out of state. None are nine.
SNOW SAY AID SOHE of the gymnasts probably would transfer to other schools. The National Collegiate Athletic Association, the men's governing body, and the Association of Intercollegiate Athletics for women, the men's counterpart, give transfer requests if their school's program is dropped. Usually an athlete must sit out a year.
The athletes who do not transfer should be kent on scholarship. Snow said.
"There is no set policy on this matter." Snow said. "But it would take one-tenth of the total amount the University will save to provide scholarships to the few that remain.
be responsible for finding another school.
OTHER SCHOOLS, according to Mar-
are also are cutting back non-revenue-
producing programs that KU would have a $100,000 budget
"Alabama, Georgia and Notre Dame are all making cuts in their programs," Marcum said. "It's a matter of resources."
But the gymnasts don't want to suffer.
"We can't all win in football and we are dependent on that sport for our income. When gate receipts go down, we suffer." But the congressional deadline is early.
"I want to graduate from KU." Foerch said. "I love the school, my professors, the people here. But I will return only if I receive a scholarship."
His brother Steve, a sophomore gymnast,
agreed.
"I don't know if we'll be able to afford it," he said.
KU hearing to determine fate of Leban's charges
By BILL MENEZES
BY BILL MENEZE Staff Reporter
J. Hammond McNish, chairman of the hearing division of the University of Chicago, would be scheduled to determine whether charges brought against Chancellor Archie R. Dykes at Carl Leibniz, associate professor for technical reasons, would be dismissed for technical reasons.
Earlier this month, Leban failed charges with the University Judiciary, alleging that Dykes violated Leban's rights and the rights of all University faculty, staff and students by his actions against Norman Levy, a former student at Claremont and Clarence Dillingham, instructor of social welfare, during their trip to Iran in December.
Forer and Dilham were suspended without pay during their trip to Iran in an unofficial attempt to help solve the crisis there.
However, in a motion filed with the Judiciary last Friday, Vickie Thomas, associate University General Counsel, said Leban's charges had no standing.
Citing several previous cases, the motion said Leban showed no concrete injury to
himself and therefore had no standing to file he charges.
The motion said that because Forer and Dillingham, as members of the University community, would have been able to allegiance to the university, they had a petition of charges should be dismissed.
Leban said he was not surprised at the motion.
"It the usual line of delaying tactics," he said. "I would expect a series of motions for one reason or another trying to dismiss the charges."
Mnish said he alone would hear the arguments at the hearing because it involved a strictly legal question. However, he would not accept that case, a Judiciary nandal would hear the case.
"A panel sits really like a jury," he said,
"and determines facts in their view."
McNish said that although the powers of the Judiciary were unclear in terms of punishment or remedy, the Judicature, not the evidence, would decide what role it would take.
He also said that the final authority for the Judiciary's action would not rest with the administration.
The hearing will be scheduled at the convenience of the two parties involved.
Mission provides food, aid to transient community
By GREG SACKUVICH
Staff Reporter
KANSIS CAYT, Mo. --The nicest name is trans-
nation. Some of the naster names are wino and bum.
Some of the naster names are sambur.
There is a transient community, but it is not a community in the traditional sense. These people have only one tie with other transients—the lack of a home.
"Don't ask me how they find us, but they do. There must be some grapevine among these guys," said Chuck, an employee of the Rescue Mission in the River Oxy area of Kansas City Mn.
When transients come to Kansas City, Mo. they know where to find a place to stay, and if they need one, they can do it.
"There's a place in every big city to get fed and bed for free." Paul White said as he walked down downtown Kansas City. Mo. "Just find downtown there, however is hanging out where you can get a meal."
Some of the Mission's "customers" are just passing through on their way to somewhere else. For many others it is a place to hole up until they earn money for a hotel room.
THE MISSION is the lifeline of many transients when they arrive in town. It supplies free food and a place to rest.
"I got married in 1939, when I was 19. I got drafted in '42, and when I got home in '45, I found out I wasn't married anymore," he said. "I just got missed and hit the road.
White's appearance is deceiving. He is a small, neat, white man who looks more like a school teacher.
White said he had been on the road for 35 years and Kansas City was his "home."
Now, when spring approaches, White comes to Kansas City, works at a temporary help employment agency and stays at one of the decaying hotels in downtown Kansas City, Mo.
"I make about $70 a week and it costs $1.250 a week for my room. It ain't the Hitz, it ain't to borne the heat."
When the summer ends, White goes wherever the mood strikes him.
"I always have a few bucks in my pocket to get me by. Most of the other guys are always broke, but that's only because they have to booze it up all the time."
Tony, an employee of another employment agency, said, "We hire these guys a day at a time. When they're in bad shape, I tell them to get some food and rest and come back the next day.
"Some of these guys want to make enough money for food and then hit the road. They're usually ok.
But most of these guys only want to make money for some hooey. When they can't ite, they eat med."
*Truckers are always looking for help loading*
*their cargo. Trucks have to overweight at a scale or in a hurry to get away*
*from the traffic.*
IT IS EASY to find work when you’re traveling, white. Sites to find work are employment agencies or online job boards.
Fred, an employee of one agency, said "We got a lot of them, (transients) in here we wouldn't have any trouble." Fred said.
Edgey is a 35-year-old recovered alcoholic who continues to drink a transient because he doesn't
ALCOHOLISM IS A problem for many transients, and their lifetimes make rehabilitation difficult.
There are several employment agencies in downtown Kansas City, Mo., that hire transients.
"They get laided and start fights," he said.
"They pass out in the hall, piss all over the place and make a bunch of noise. I guess that's why they have to keep moving—who wants them around?"
It is the alcoholic transients who make life miserable for other transients, Edeev said.
"I used to get loaded all the time. That's why my old lady threw me out of the house. I used to drunk and shoot my mouth off. It got so many times, I'm surprised it still there."
EDGEY SAID he had a wife and two children. He also had a house, too many bills, and too much to
drink. One day in 1737 his father-in-law threw him in a car, drove down Interstate 52 in Mississippi and dropped him off—dead drunk in the middle of nowhere.
"Man, I just started hatching and haven't stopped since," he said. "I hit town, some money at one of the employment places, got loaded and stayed loaded until my money ran out."
Edgew said he quit drinking last September in when he went to a hospital because he was vomiting.
"I was 35 years old and looked up. I went straight,
m still not Ozzie Nelson, but I don't want to be," he
frowned.
WHEN A TRANSIENT gets sick, as Edgey did,
the key to his recovery is the aid the missions.
When Edgey is sick, the mission is over.
"Usually they don't want the help. Physically, they know what's wrong with them. They need some decent food and a decent lifestyle. Mentally—man, who knows?"
"We try to help these guys any way we can," Chuck said. "We seen the ones who are in good shape."
The Mission is the only means of survival for some transients when they are in no condition to care for themselves and no one else cares about them, Chuck said.
An example is a man, about 30 years old, who sat on the sidewalk across from the Mission. He wore only a T-shirt, blue jeans and shoes with no socks in a Degree chill he was thin, pale, shivering and dirty.
When Chuck went out to ask the man whether he wanted help, he answered "no" with a string of hyphens.
He said, "Hey, just don't preach at me. I'm a goddamn drunk and I know it. You want to know why I live like this! Because I don't want to live like anybody else."
A few minutes later the man calmed down and entered the Mission.
"Hey, man, that's why all us burns live like this.
"Weain't bothering you, don't so burnt you. Weain't bothering you,"
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