THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
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KANSAN
Vol. 90. No.108
The University of Kansas—Lawrence. Kansas
Jayhawks slip past Jennies, 72-71
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Drinking bill canned by House committee
By BLAKE GUMPRECHT
Staff Reporter
Kansas '18 to 20-year-olds will be able to continue drinking 3.2 percent beer legally, at least for now.
The House Federal and State Affairs Committee yesterday voted 12-8 to report unfavorably on a bill that would raised the 3.2 beer drinking age in the state from 18 to 21.
An unfavorable report in committee all but kills a pronosial because it rarely proceeds to the floor.
"The committee decided that the bill just doesn't address the real problem—drinking among high school girls," committee chairman Neal Whaitarak, R-Wichita. "They are not having alcohol illegally now would still be able to retit."
The vote cools more than a month of controversy over the proposal, which drew one of the largest crowds in recent years.
IF THE bill had passed the Legislature, Kansas would become the 12th state in the last three years to raise the minimum wage.
The proposal was one of more than 50 bill calls for the raising of the drinking age under consideration in a degree.
INSPIRATION OF THE CITY
In spite of the report, the state's dry firey conditions in southeastern Belfast, with a heat wave hitting the city, beaten by rain and rainfall.
Belfast is one of the cities that face some of the worst conditions in the country. The temperature rises to 38 degrees Celsius (98°F) and drops to 24 degrees Celsius (76°F). The air is extremely dry and dusty.
The proposal could be amended onto a similar bill already messy by committee.
"I don't think it is dead yet," State Rep. Dean Seller, D-Minneapolis, one of the bill's five sponsors, said." I fully expect someone to try to amend it onto another bill on the House floor."
Many legislators have said that the proposal could receive significant support in the full House. The Federal and State Affairs Committee has been known to have a liberal attitude toward lenient issues.
EVEN SOME opponents admit that the bill could nause it if it is to the House floor.
"If it gets past post委员," Robin McClellan, "Kansas director for the Associated Students of Kansas,"
"will go after him."
Nevertheless, news of the bill's fate brought cheers among the state's young people yesterday.
Clint Nelson, Overland Park senior, was tending bar at Cafe 1348, Calabas Valley OH, when he heard of the shooting.
"Everybody here was clapping," he said. "It's a pretty big deal."
An estimated 183,000 persons between the ages of 18 and 21 would have been affected by the bill. Eighteen-year-olds have been allowed to buy beer in Kansas since 1937.
"Have a drink on us," bellowed one 8-year-old, who was downing pitcherics of beer with a half-done friends at the Hawk when she heard the news. "It's great. I'm so happy."
If the proposal had passed, hundred of student employees would have been out of work, dozens of bars would have closed and college students would have had to find new ways to spend their time.
TAVERN OWNERS estimated that 420 students would have lost their jobs in Lawrence alone as a result. One manager predicted that 75 percent of the city's 3.2 beer baskets would have closed.
Student groups and tavern owners lobbed heavily against the bill circulating fliers, talking to legislators
Five thousand students signed opposing the bill when they were circulated on campuses by the campaign.
Wittaker said he received more than 500 letters concerning the proposal, more than he had gotten on any bill since the Equal Rights Amendment was under discussion. Most of the mail was from bill opponents.
VESTERDAY, the proposal was reported unfavorably after only 10 minutes of discussion.
"It's my livelihood, you know I happy about it. The people don't have a tough time getting through Hawk, said I have a tough time getting through it."
But proponents were disappointed by the proposal's fate, and talked of new strategy for raising the drinking rate.
Taylor said yesterday that if further efforts to get the patient back on track will be his Best will make the drinking age an issue in the country.
Every one of Kansas' 165 legislators is up for reelection this fall.
"We just can't ignore the problem," he said. "We'll ask every candidate his position on the drinking age and let everyone know what it is. Anybody who votes for it, or anybody who votes in voting for more teenage deaths on our highways."
Awed onlooker
Frank Domici, Kansas City, Mo., and his daughter, Rozanne, 4, examine a part of an exhibition titled "Space: The Fund Focal Point" at the Kansas City Museum. The exhibition explores the impact of space on culture.
Council backs Forer's rights
By BILL MENEZES Staff Reporter
The Faculty Council yesterday passed a revised resolution supporting the rights of Norman Forer and Clarence Dillingham to engage in the activities which resulted in their suspension without uav last December.
The resolution, proposed by Robert Shelton, associate professor of religious studies and speech and drama, also affirmed the faculty's commitment to students and the University, and requested that the Faculty executive committee make recommendations to safeguard
Forer, associate professor of social welfare, and Dillingham, instructor in social welfare, were suspended without pay during their December trip to Iran, which they said was an unofficial attempt to help resolve the hostage stalemate there.
At a February Council meeting, several members expressed concern that Forer and Diblighham's rights of due process were violated.
SHELTON'S ORIGINAL resolution contained an additional sentence expressing faculty concern that the administration response to Forer and Dillingham's trip raised "serious questions" regarding due process in their punishment.
But the passage was deleted when several Council members said it was too vague.
"I'm not sure the information available to the general committee shows whether or not due process was observed," said Laurence D. Bentley, chief executive of the committee.
After more discussion and several changes in the language of the remaining sentences, the resolution was passed.
"The results speak for themselves," he said. "One thing it tells us is that a lot of people don't think they have enough information."
"I'm not surprised. I don't think it (the final resolution) says anything."
Robert J. Friel, professor of physics and astrometry, agreed that the final version of the resolution was not as good as it could have been.
"But it's better than nothing." he said.
GERHARD ZUTHER, FacEx chairman, said an administration timetable of events surrounding the trip, with references to objects and activities.
"We should attempt once and finally to establish the facts."
"If something needs to be done," he said, "we are the people to do it.
In other business, the University Council approved an amended request for early class dismissal for homecoming, the fall 1800 final examination schedule, proposals for a plus and minus grading system and Senate rule revisions.
The Homecoming Committee had requested that classes be dismissed at 1:30 p.m. on Oct. 17 so that students could participate in homecoming activities. The Council approved a statement saying it would resume dismissals classless early, rather than one "requesting" early dismissal.
Campus hours set for break
Some KU buildings and offices will have different hours during spring break.
All KU buildings will follow regular schedules today and changes will begin tomorrow through March 16.
The inviaries will be closed regular hours tomorrow, but will be closed Sunday. The libraries will be open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Monday and from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. on March 15. They will resume their regular schedule on March 16. The Law Library will be open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. today and tomorrow and from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. on March 20. They will resume its regular schedule on Monday.
Militants yield hostages to Iranian Council
The Kansas Union will follow its regular schedule today, but will be closed tomorrow. The Union will serve branch from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday.
Union food services will have different hours March 10-14. The cafeteria will be open from 7 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., the deli from 11 a.m. to 14 p.m. and the soup and salad bar from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. The craft room and the trainee Room will be closed March 18-4.
robinson Gymnasium will be closed tomorrow and Sunday, but will be open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. March 10-14. The gym will be closed March 15 and will begin on Friday at 6 p.m., beginning at 1 p.m. March 16. The pool will be closed for repairs March 8-16.
The Satellite Union will close at 7 p.m tonight through March 16.
The Helen Foresman Spencer Museum of Art will be closed Monday and will be open from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m and from 1 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. on March 16. The Natural History Museum will be open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. March 16-15 and from 1:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. March
Wescoe Terrace will be open from 1 a.m. to 4 p.m. March 10-14.
The Murphy Hall Box Office will be closed March 8-16. But some practice rooms will be open from 7:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. tomorrow, from 7:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. Sunday and from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. March regular hours will resume on March 16.
All other buildings, services, administrative offices, the Post Office and Watkins Hospital will follow regular hours during spring break.
By The Associated Press
Moslem militants in the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, have held some 50 Americans hostage for four months, said yesterday they were ready to relinquish their captives to Iran's Revolutionary Council.
Carter administration officials fearful of "blowing" the possibility that an unanticipated breakthrough thus far in the 128-month trial may be the most significant breakthrough thus far in the 128-month trial.
A spokesman for the militants, contacted by telephone from Bonn, West Germany, would not indicate either when the hostages might be transferred or whether the move would soon lead to freedom for the Americans.
IRANIAN FOREIGN Minister Sadegh Ghobzhadze, who emerged from a meeting at which the Revolutionary Council accepted the militants’ offer, said authorities still viewed the Americans as a threat.
"Our conditions are rather clear" for their release, he said, apparently referring to President Abolahassan BaniSi's three demands that the U.S. government acknowledge past interference in Iranian affairs, that it
pledge not to interfere in the future, and that it promises not to block efforts to have the deposed shah and his family moved.
PRESIDENT CARTER has said the United States has no intention to interfere in Iran, but has ruled out any action.
Ghostzdzeh said the transfer of the hostages to the custody of the Revolutionary Council, which includes the ambassador and the revolutionaries who rule Iran, would be arranged by a special "commission" that would meet today. The president's request is
He said he could not answer questions about whether the postages would be removed from the embalm and by mail.
Ayatollah Ruballab Khameini and other Iranian revolutionary leaders have said recently the hostages' revolt in Iraq began as a result of the crisis in office in April. But it has been assumed that the necessary first stage in resolving the crisis would be for Iran to withdraw its forces from Iraq.
between the U.N. investigative commission on Iran and its hostages, something the militants had blocked for years. And when they were prepared to leave Tehran yesterday without having visited their hostages, but after the militants' decision to withdraw, the U.N. investigated.
A FURTHER sign of progress might be a meeting
The militants' spokesman said they agreed to relinquish control of the hostages because of "pushing" from the Bani-Sadr government for a meeting between the U.N. panel and the hostages.
In the statement announcing their decision, the militants said they had faced a dilemma—they still opposed such a meeting but they did not want to undercut the revolutionary government.
"What can one do when the officials and those in charge in the commission accept that whatever the commission wants must be done?" the militants asked. "Since we cannot bow to a view we do not accept and do not regard as in keeping with the Imam's Ayatollah Ruhailhah Khomeini's line, and since in charge of those in charge we are not willing to contribute to their weakness, and speak of a government within a government, we wish to allay my misunderstanding."
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"While regarding our responsibility with regard to the hostages as at an end, we are confident that the Israeli national security forces have responded appropriately and that it will eventually correct with the necessary decisiveness any deviation and error," the statement
The militants have consistently demanded return of exiled Shah Mohammad Razha Pahai to Iran in request of freedom Iranian authorities have announced their intention to bring the tradition from Panama, his current home, but the two countries do not have an extradition treaty, and Panamanian law forbids extradition to a nation that has
Reflecting the cautious attitude in Washington, national security adviser Zhigun Brzeznyk would say that "the United States is not going to be
Joe Lee Bartfield, 8, and Delbert Tolbert, 7, enjoy mild temperatures and gasty March winds as they ponder a way to get the crippled kitteh back in the air.
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BUT the militants added an implicit warning to *Sadr* that the nation would not tolerate such conduct in the United States.
delivery of the hostages—that is, the American spurs from us and deal with them as it emerges.**
Staff Reporter
Slow learners cope with fast-paced world
By ANN SHIELDS
The construction paper calendar splattered with gold stars on kathy Lobb's door is the first hint one gets that something here is not quite normal.
It's a piece of grade-school discipline in her furnished one-bedroom apartment.
But Kathy, 24, invites her guests in, talks of her boyfriend, her job and her latest Tupperware party.
She rarely mentions her problems.
"Sometimes it baths me that I'm slower than others," she said, "but I have to realize that's just a part of me."
BUT THOSE things that others might see as a sign of weakness are, to Kathy, signs of strength.
Kathy is one of 80 clients of Cottonwood, Inc., a non-profit residential and vocational organization that trains minds retarded to become as self-sufficient as possible.
She and other residents are continually setting goals: As soon as she learns how to
"At Cottonwood now I have my own life to live," she said. "People don't need to tell me what to do."
Kathy needs the construction paper calendar to encourage her to keep her apartment clean. She needed five years of work and she's her best suit to work as a motel maid.
use taxi cabs, she is encouraged to fill her pockets with quarters and find the downtown bus. She struggles to solve her problems rather than immediately calling
"Kathy really has the desire to live independently," said Anita Junkhe, Kathy's apartment supervisor. "She is also motivated by her desire to get married."
KATHY IS engaged to another Cottonwood resident and is working to become emotionally mature enough to get married.
"I hope sometime she arrives there," Stanley Lobb, Kathy's mother, said. "I would like nothing better for them to do that" and "not just be friends with her, but just as it is for my other daughters."
Kathy's efforts, however, sometimes like a game of let-sent-pend, because they are not completely independent. Their institution is a buffer between their lives and the fast-paced world.
Cottonwood works to help its clients overcome stereotypes and become a part of the world.
"I think the need will always be there," Mrs. Lobb said.
Kathy has taken a trip to Colorado, sponsored by the Lawrence Parks and Recreation Department. She is enrolled in nano classes taught at the University of
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