KU athlete battles enrollment problems
By PAM CLARK
Sports Writer
Shyra Holden
Shahey Holden looked forward to playing basketball for KU this season. She was coming off a solid freshman year. She was third on the team in scoring and had a good endgame as he eager to improve during her sophomore campaign.
Five games into this season, Holden was off to a great start. She averaged 17 points and nine rebounds per game.
But after KU's Dec. 1 victory over Wayland Baptist College, Holden's season—and until this week it was thought her school year— came to an abrupt end amid questions, accusations and confusion.
Holden found out she wasn't officially enrolled, making her ineligible to play basketball. It also kept her from the club.
Although Holden had she said had paid her tuition and residence hall fees, University officials said they had
Until yesterday, it was a standoff.
But then Hoden was allowed to enrol in the classes she had been attending since school started this year. "I was always a bit nervous," she said.
BUT HOLDEN'S fall semester is lost and so is a year of basketball eligibility.
“It’s hard.” Holden said yesterday. “My hands are there. Nothing I can do. The only thing I can do is cry.”
which amounted to $755 for her residence hall and a
$9 hospital bill.
"It hurts me to practice with them, though, and not be able to play."
It's been Baldon's word against the University's
McGay McCoy, University against the said trust that his office had no record that Holden paid her tuition fees.
Holden contends that she did pay her fees, but that she said them in cash and lust the receipt.
And the burden of proof is on the student, according to Holden.
"We have checked, rechecked and triple checked and "can we find no record of payment." be said. *NONE*
The only proof that Holden had was a fall bus pass, which would require a KU identification card with a semester sticker to purchase. The only way to obtain a KUID is to pay fees.
Holden said she also tried to show bank withdrawn statements that she said corresponded roughly with the amount of money she needed to pay her fees and with the time she said she said them.
Last semester, KU students received temporary identification cards. But Holden said she washed her hands before using them.
MOCCY SAID he did not know anything about the computer. He said it was extremely difficult for a student to prove he had paid if the receipt was lost and the comprotiler’s office didn’t have a record of it, especially if the fees were high.
Holden's money problems began when she was declared academically ineligible at the start of the fall semester and KU coach Marian Washington could not keep Holden on an athletic scholarship.
Holden tried to come up with the money herself. First she applied to the office of financial aid for a loan, but she said the amount that she could have gotten would not have been enough.
Holden then contacted her mother in Caitlin and a friend, Katie, for advice. Helen told Mrs. Holden called Sidney Bahr, women's health
academic coordinator for the athletic department, in October and said the money would be coming when she closed the deal on the sale of her house, according to Bahan.
BAHAN SAID she did not see the check, but was told about two weeks later that the check had arrived.
Babaan said that around Oct. 23 or 24, she was Holden with her add sheps. Holden told Babaan that she had gone through most of the enrollment process and would pay her fees the next morning at 8.
"I never did go back on the hill to see whether she was officially enrolled because I saw the add slips and assumed it was all taken care of," Bahan said. "And that was my mistake."
But comptroller McCoy said that he did not have Holden on his late enrollment list.
Holden couldn't remember what day she paid her fees, but said it was around Oct. 26.
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Stokely workers accept contract, stop pickets
By JUDITH LYNN HOWARD Staff Reporter
One no heared the telephone ring. But when Keith Davis, one of the negotiators for Teamsters local Union 696, came from a small room at the Edgewood building in Seattle, CA. A 67-59 vote to accept Stokley Van-Camp's contract offer had been ratified.
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The telephone call from local Stokley employees who have been picketing in Botswana is ratified the 56-cent wage涨. By拨送 to Stokley Vau-Gamp, E. 10th S.
Last December, Stokely had offered a one-year contract with an expiration date of December 1980.
Stokely employees had rejected the same raise previously, but accepted it this time with some revisions.
The workers ratified a contract with an increase from $5 to $7 credit toward pension payments, a life insurance increase from $2,000 to $3,000 payment to a worker's family after a worker's death and expiration date of September 30, 1982.
Davis said he had not recommended the Stokley offer to the more than 100 union members who came to the Edgewood Homes to vote.
He described the pension increase as "disraecfefully low."
After the votes were tallied, Stokely
workers filed from the building, commenting on the contract ratification.
One women said, "There's some ignorant people in there."
She said the Stokley contract offer—which had been rejected before—should not have been accepted.
Ziddie Glover, 3020 Iowa St., said she *was uncertain about the contract* *affiliation by union members.*
Bonnie Ames, 1200 W. 21st St., said the pay at Stokley hadn't been bad at all in comparison to not having the income.
She said she wasn't doing too badly. Glover works part-time and receives food stamps.
"At first I was just interested in what it might be," Wells said, "but when I learned the samples were 10,000 years old, that made them dvnamite."
"I didn't see anything wrong with that pay," she said.
During the lockout, union members received $45 a week in out-of-work benefits from the union.
Workers will be recalled according to seniority. After the plant completes current repairs, other employees will be called back to work.
But Bob Wesley, one of the workers who picked at Indianapolis, said that union members who had been active in picket may not be called back to work.
The Lawrence picket lines had spread to Fairmind, Minn., and Indianapolis to protest Stokelv's lockout.
Funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation, he began scavenging the Southwest and parts of Mexico search for middens.
Rats' trash revamps theories on climate
Wells found his first midden while doing research in a nebula desert. He came to find that the midden was mummified sloth dung, and he had it analyzed. Radiocarbon dating showed it to be ancient.
As the saying goes, a lot can be told about a person's habits by studying his trash.
The significant discoveries came when the midden materials were analyzed, he said.
A KU professor has found that the same rule applies to wood rats, except the "trash" has led to a major revision of theories of the southwest's southern climate thousands of years ago.
Analysis of bogs in the Midwest, he said, has found evidence that spruces and other types of trees once covered the land, making up of the Midwest anything but prairie land.
LEAVES, FRUITS, seeds, pine needles
Wells has made numerous expeditions throughout the West, gathering materials for a book he plans to write when he takes a sabbatical next year.
WOOD RATS build middens in many places, he said, but the ones preserved for thousands of years are usually found in immune to the weather's erotic factors.
A midden is the wood rat's home, he said, and is built of scrapes of local vegetation. The rodent feeds on earthworms, country, pile up organic material into masses and then追逐 them from the mass to find them.
"It's their lifestyle to gather plant materials and bring in much more than they can eat." Wells said. "They pile the stuff up into midens and live inside them."
For nearly 20 years, Philip Wells, professor of botany and systematics and ecology, has poked around in canyons and streams for mudflens left behind by wood rats.
By DON MUNDA
Staff Reporter
By DON MUNDAY
THE MIDDEN* that Wells has studied are just a portion of the evidence that indicates that much of North America was infected in only a few thousand years ago.
More and more scientists have become interested in the middens, he said, and there are now about 20 researchers across the country studying middens.
"In fact, parts of southwest Missouri used to be more like what northern Minnesota is now." he said.
Middens, which can be up to a meter in height, serve much the same function as a beaver's lodge. Wells said.
and other organic items were found in the middens, even though the trees or plants they came from were nowhere near the midden site.
"They showed that the deserts of the Southwest, from the Great Basin on south into Mexico, were not deserts as recently as 8 to 12.000 years ago." he said.
Vast lakes are known to have covered the Southwest thousands of years ago, he said, and the shores of these lakes were filled with the pines whose remains are now found in
Seven thousand years ago, the wooden reults have been replaced by deserts
"Radiocarbon dating shows the climate changed very quickly, and that the deserts came in rapidly. There was a tremendous drought. Southwest 10 to 8,000 years ago," he said.
The fact that the wood rats were able to collect pine needles near the cave showed that today's deserts were once coniferous and have been deposition of the present-day Rocky Mountains.
State inspector finds fire hazards
By JEFF KIOUS Staff Reporter
Marvin Hall, the jewelry and silver-smithing studio in the Broadcasting Hall of the University of Iowa, do not meet the state fire prevention code, according to the latest campus data.
"The Union is on a one- to five-year correction plan, beginning after last year's inspection," he said.
Stan Nichols, state fire inspector, who inspected Marvin Hall, found major violations there. He said that the building's fire escapes were not approved, there was no fire alarm system, no exit or emergency door, and the stairways were not enclosed.
The open stairways are hazardous, Nichols said, because smoke and fire would travel rapidly to the top of the building in the event of a fire
These corrections include hoist exhaust systems in the kitchen, the installation of more exit signs and fire extinguishers that are regularly being recharged.
FUTURE PLANS include the installation of electro-magnetic hold open doors that would automatically shut when the fire alarm system goes off. The theory is that the closed doors will keep smoke in the room and prevent fire from moving from one door to another.
"The building is old and in bad shape," he said. "It's been neglected over the years."
few years because a major renovation of Marvin Hall was scheduled for this summer.
NICHOLS SAID that correction of the violations had been postponed over the last
Nichols also said the jewelry and silversmiths studio was a potential fire hazard because torches and other heating equipment were used in room that had a wood ceiling.
Another inspector, Bill Shelton, said he would recommend him to the department. He signs be prepared that access areas in the ceiling be seated on the spread of flames to the front of a fire truck.
"The room is a hazardous area and should be separated from the rest of the building," he said.
"There is only one exit from the observatory," he said. "That exit is down a four-foot wide wallway. That may be too tight for 30 or 49 people to leave during an fire at a fire."
Nichols said he would recommend that the ceiling be covered by a five-track-inch-inch-arc wall, and that they are recommended that the single sheet panel doors in the building be replaced with one window.
Remryf also said the Lindley Amexx building needed exit signs and recommended that the rear exit of the Nuclear Building be left unattacked during occurrance.
there were exit problems in the observatory on the roof of Lindley Hall.
REMFRY SAID he would recommend that an exterior fire escape be installed between the observatory and the ground.
Another inspector, Ken Remfry, said
"I felt pretty safe in that building," Hoblin said.
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Blood donors
Kirk Mills, Detroit, Mich. senior, appears to be putting his energy into pumping out a few extra blood of films while James Clinger,
Lawrence graduate student, passes his donating time by reading a book.
Dole's Senate seat eyed
By SCOTT FAUST
Staff Reporter
Sen. Bob Dole is discovering that while the cat is away, the mice will play.
As he focuses attention on the elusive goal of the presidency and presses the flesh in New Hampshire, two potential adversaries will be presented, appeared on the Kansas political horizon.
Glickman said that after Dale's decision to stay out of the Kansas presidential primary he was starting to think about running for the Senate.
One possible opponent for Dale in November is U.S. Rep. Dan Glickman, D-fourth district. Another, John Simpson, was a candidate for the state's formally announced his challenger to Dale.
He is leaving his options open, Lew Ketcham, Glickman's press secretary in Washington, said yesterday.
"He is 95 percent sure he is running for "rehearsal in the House, but he's not totally closing the door on the Senate," Ketcham said.
HE SAID that Glickman's decision would come before April 1 and that a choice to challenge Dole would not necessarily be the most dramatic event or major change of voter mood.
The filing deadline for the Senate election is June 20.
A decision by Glicken to run for the Senate can be based on "any sense that the support for Sen. Dole is eroding or that he would make Kelman's candidate increased." Kelham said.
He said Dole's decision not to enter the Kansas primary was not significant enough to make Glickman commit himself to a race and risk losing his seat in the House.
Glickman, who began his political career as president of the Wichita school board, would be running for his third congressional term in November.
"Sen. Cole is obviously well established," Ketcham said. "It would be a tough race, but Dan wouldn't decide to run unless he thought he could win."
Dole's only declared opponent is Simpson, an attorney in Topeka who served as state senator from Salina from 1971 to 1979
KETCHAM SAID Glickman's supporters had mixed reactions to the possibility of a campaign for the Senate.
Simpson, who announced his candidacy last July, said Dole had allowed a futile presidential campaign to "pre-empt" a Senate campaign.
"It is time the Senator stopped roaming
through the snow of New Hampshire, Simpson said, "and got on with the business of explaining himself and his positions to the man he sent him to Washington in the first place.
Simpson said he expected that Dole would end his presidential bid after a poor showing in next Tuesday's New Hampshire primary.
"You can't have a good campaign if one of the candidates is not there to discuss the issues and meet with the voters."
HE SAID Dole needed to tell Kansas voters why he had supported the oil companies "so viciously."
Dole's avoidance of the Kansas primary "clearly shows that he isn't as strong in Kansas as he would like to be," Simpson said.
Simpson said Dole had not done enough to lessen the U.S. grain embargo's effect on Kansas farmers.
"He says he has worked for Kansas independent oil companies," Simpson said, "but he's helping only a very few wealthy independents."
Dole's opposition to a windfall profits tax and amendments he has offered to legislation dealing with the tax, Simpson who owns a major oil company billions of dollars.
By GREG SACKUVICH Staff Reporter
New contract for custodians is still pending
The University of Kansas Medical Center is not making an effort to negotiate a new custodial contract, although the old contract would be signed April, a union official said yesterday.
However, Rodger Croke, KU director of support services, said, "The program is being reviewed at this time."
11 was announced earlier this month that the Med Center's current custodial contract with American Management Services would not be renewed.
The union official, Francis Jacobs,
president of the Kansas Public Service
accounting bureau, stated that state accounting office to find out what the Med Center intended to do about a new custodial contract but was not able to gather information from the union represents the Med Center custodians.
THE STATE is supposed to announce its plans 90 days before a labor contract expires, he said.
Jacobs said the Med Center would probably negotiate a contract directly with the union.
The Med Center's current contract with the University of Chicago and the center's housecleaning firm, AMS had a similar contract with KU's Lawrence campus, but it was not renewed when it joined.
The Lawrence custodians were employed by the University before the AMS contract and remained with the University when the contract expired.
Custodians had complained of harrassment by AMS before the AMS contract dispute in December. They said there had been an increase in the custodians' work and an attack on their employees to new employees could be hired at lower wages.
AMS has not told the custodial supervisors that its contract is not being renewed, he said.
"I believe they (AMS) aren't telling the supervisors about their plans so that they won't leave AMS for other jobs just before the contract expires." Jacob said.
The Med Center should be able to handle the custodial duties itself, he said, as it did before the contract with AMS was signed in April 1977.
The original contract with AMS was intended to improve the quality of housecleaning at the Med Center, Jacobs said.
But a cleaning system already exists at the Med Center, he said. To take over the center, Mr. Kuehn said, the Center would need to purchase only two scrubbing machines, at a cost less than $100,000.