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February 14.1980
Olympics bring pride
In the last few weeks, there has been much talk about the political value of the Olympics. Are they purely independent of politics, or are they just another manifestation of nationalism and 'We're better than you' pride?
Now that the Winter Games have begun, it appears that national pride is very important to their enjoyment. After cheering Monday night when the young U.S. ice hockey team scored a goal in the last minute to tie a more experienced Swedish team, it seemed more than ever to be the case that the Games are for national pride as much as for athletic achievement.
And it wasn't just the exciting play. The fans showed they cared almost as much about the nationality of the players as the outcome of the game, with their signs and flags and chants of "U-S-A." It was nice to have something to cheer about for once, even if it was only a tie.
And while all this was going on in the Ice Center, the International Olympic Committee, meeting only a few blocks away, was reiterating its head-in-the-sand position that the Olympics are beyond politics.
Lord Killian, president of the IOC, said, "The IOC cannot solve the political problems of the world, but calls on the governments of all countries, and in particular those of the major powers, to come together to resolve their differences, and I, as president of the IOC, and all members, will do everything in our power to assist in this so that the Games of the XXII Olympiad can take place in the right atmosphere."
Wouldn't it be nice if this were possible? But, as one commentator put it, the Soviet Union isn't about to give us the skill so it can hold a track meet.
The IOC barely has the power to influence Taiwan. How does it expect to influence the Soviet Union to the necessary for the "proper atmosphere?"
For now, we have the Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, N.Y. While they're here, we might as well enjoy them.
They may be the last Olympics Games Americans will be able to enjoy for a long time.
It is clear that the world has not heard the last from the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant.
Some plucky residents of Harrisonburg, Pa., a city that lies 11 miles northwest of the Three Mile Island plant, has even started a new solar company, slogan "I survived three Mile Island."
Eleven months have passed since that day last March when things began to go wrong inside Unit 2 of Three Mile Island's concre- tion building. Last year's crisis at the plant is history.
But that was before this week. Monday, a small amount of radioactive gas was released from the plant when 1,000 gallons of water were added to it and the plant's reactor. The Metropolitan Edison Co.'s operator of the plant, confirmed that the water leaked into an auxiliary building.
During the months since the accident, Three Mile Island's mammoth cooling towers have loomed over the serenity of the city. They also allow the newsmen clogging the area, asking questions about the accident that the NRC told us could never happen, has been but a
News stories reported regularly last year that questioned the safety of the plant and the honesty of Nuclear Regulatory Commission officials, their announcements during the accident.
Three Mile Island story is a rerun
No injuries were reported in the leak. A Metropolitan Edison statement said that there would be no adverse effects to workers on the island from the new release.
Residents of the area were told that there was nothing to be afraid of and that any radioactivity that they received would be less than a chest X-ray. Today, the operators of Three Mile Island like to repeat "No one died at Three Mile Island."
BUT THE RADIATION that is produced by the combustion building has the potential to kill thousands of people—and the radiation from the waste may just be that if you don't use it.
The cleanup will be *very delicate and dangerous process*. Metropolitan Edison and the city's water supply companies, the cleanup, and early sign indicate that the groups are beginning the cleanup with the same arrogance and ineptitude that marked building of the First Three Mile Island accident.
Katherine Mix's husband, Arthur, served in KU's department of botany for 40 years before his death in 1966. Mix has not received so much as a bread crumb from the state. Mix now lives an a rest home in Boston where it comes to spending money. Mix has none.
Legislature disgraced by retirees' treatment
ACCORDING TO A news story printed early this week, engineers have not yet begun to clean up the nuclear waste left by the nuclear reactor in a circular concrete containment room. The building holds about 40,000 curries—a unit measure of radioactivity—of Krypton 85 and about one million gallons of radioactive water. Radioactivity—an amount of radiation about
In a move to begin the waste removal, Metropolitan Edison has asked the NRC to approve their plans to vent the krypton gas, which was now held inside the plant, into the outside air.
Any move to release the gases, as Metropolitan Edison has suggested, or to release the radioactive water into the Susquehanna River, would be imbecile.
To ensure that KU faculty members of all of the state's employee could have beneficial retirement programs, the state has established Kansas Public Retirement System in 1982.
It would almost seem that Metropolitan Edison and NRC officials really do believe the propaganda that they circulated to make them more accepting, following the release of radioactive gases later.
2,000 times greater than was released into the atmosphere by the atomic bomb at Hiroshima—is contained within the building's steel reactor vessel
The entire scene seemed more than
Despite the MRC's lack of concern, the paint at the NRIe Mile Island is a deadly time for residents. "We have local emergencies." Little has been done at the Mile Island to remove the hazards that exist.
It has been almost a year since the theap incident, but the effects of the fire on local residents remain uncertain. Any attempts to vent the gas into the air would be a callous disregard for safety.
the plant begins, the NRC and Metropolitan Edison will once more be under close public scrutiny. And justifiably so.
Anne Bloch's husband, Albert, was chairman of KUD department of drawing and painting for almost 20 years. In order to meet her demand he had to sell her husband's paintings.
The leak also illustrated that officials who regulate nuclear power plants in the United States continue to attempt to hide the truth about accidents in nuclear powerplants. Public confidence in the NRC will be further eroded when the NRC's leeche attempts to wolf伪言。
ALTHOUGH IT IS improbable that a widow has died from starvation, most of them have been relegated to much less than desirable living standards.
Even after the waste is removed, a broader problem will remain unsolved.
STOPPING LAST YEAR'S accident from turning into a metdown was a victory for the plant's scientists, but the war will not be allowed the waste in the plant is safely removed.
bob
pittman
Scientists still are unsure about how nuclear waste should be disposed of. At nuclear waste disposal sites across the United States, deadly waste is stored in inadequate conditions. Many of the plants used to produce electricity are in advanced stages of deterioration.
For faculty members who retired before 1962 and surviving spouses of faculty members who died before 1962, KPRS has to rank among the state's lowest cacers.
But KPRS, an acronym pronounced "capers," was aptly named, especially if one considers that some senior University
Because of its many threats to human life, nuclear energy is still a gamble, still a road that is best not taken.
As the cleanup of the deadly waste within
At Jan Beyae, a physicist, said recently, "The only way scientists know how to learn things is by trial and error. Unfortunately, we can't teach it without them, we simply can't afford to learn this way."
And if that is not bad enough, widows get
and if nothing that. The legislators have
ignored them, despite pleas from concerned
citizens of the state. A pre-1982 widow dying
of stagnation on the steps of the Capitol
was prosecuted by legislators during the past 20 years.
And worst yet, surviving widows of faculty members who died before 1962 received a bat, fat zero from the state.
The law establishing KPRS excluded pre-1962 employees and their families from receiving KPRS benefits. However, the old Regents retirement plan was not law but only a Regents program. Nothing but regular pay for them remained pre-1962 employees and widows in KPRS.
AND THAT'S WHERE the tragedy lies. For more than 20 years, pre-1962 employees have lived on pensions drastically below national poverty levels. An average pre-1962 employee receives a meagly $1,427 a year. It is questionable whether this pituitance could burn the fuel's supply of gas. Students could burn more than that on tithes spending alone.
One has died at Three Mile Island. Not yet, at least. If radioactivity leaks continue at the plant and if waste removal is handled properly, there will be no wonder how many people in Hamburg and the surrounding area will be alive to 10 to 20 years after that read "I survived Three Mile Island."
david lewis
members are living in poverty or need poverty conditions.
COLUMNIST
Before KPRS started, state employees were on an antiquated Regents plan, which did not cover benefits. When KPRS became law, pre-1962 employees unfitly remained on the old plan.
THE NUMBER OF widows and pre-1982 employees now living is not staggering. Most of them are young, KU has 11 employees and 19 wives who have survived. But the fact that these numbers makes a person question even more why the state did not include them in the study.
Sooner or later, she is going to run out of paintings to sell. What then?
It certainly would not have been a legal or deserving group to accommodate deserving groups of the healthiest budgets in the nation. It would not seriously hurt the budget to provide at least 20% of the budget.
vaguely familiar. A radioactive leak occurs at a nuclear power plant. Plant operators must be trained in the procedure. After pressure from the media the officials confirm the leak, but downplay the chances of any serious contamination.
BUT STATE OFFICIALS argue that if the governor comes, all of the state's private citizens should receive more retirement benefits. That, officials contend, would be much too little.
Fronically, the pre-1982 employees are in a bind because of the state's actions. The state left them for死 when it required the old Regents remain on the old Regents retirement plan.
IT MUST BE emphasized that widows and employees after 1962 receive KPRS widow benefits. In the pre-1962 widows and employees. The state has continued to let 70 elderly employees fight over $30,000 a year. To this day, the measure has done nothing for the widows.
The pre-1962 employees were never given a chance to amass a reasonable retirement fund. Why the state continue to deprive them of any pension is beyond comprehension.
COLUMNIST
Many of the widows are not even eligible to draw social security benefits. They have been dependent on their families for surplus income and they are the state and to the University of Kansas.
As of late, the University has tried to muster support for the retires. A study by the American Association of University Professors in retirement problem will be released soon.
Some faculty members have speculated that the only way the state would increase the pensions is by cutting faculty salaries. This argument presents the irresponsibility of the legislators.
This week's leak was simply a repeat of the events of last spring. Fortunately, however, the accident this week was on a much smaller scale.
The state is not being asked to give huge sums of money to each widow at least some kind of monthly pension would be helpful.
BUT DO NOT COUNT on the Legislature for help. When approached about the problem, the general attitude of legislators was less than enthusiastic.
The state, if judged by its negligence of the pre-1982 employees and widows, would rather they drop dead.
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Students should know tenants' rights
These types of landlord-tenant situations consistently cause students to neglect their studies and their social life, because they have little money or money worrying about how to get out of them.
The following is intended to be a general discussion about the landlord-tenant relationship, including the law and the vice. The law will affect all legal problems differently because of the different facts in each case.
The drain remains clogged. Your roommate moves out over Christmas. The landlord won't return your security deposit. You can't pay the money for rent. The landlord is evoking you.
By STEVEN L. RUDDICK
Student Legal Services Attorney
Students who have landlord-tender questions or problems should contact Student Legal Services, Douglas County Legal Aid or a private attorney. More information on discussions of common landlord-tender problems will follow in this column at a later date.
Unless you live in University housing, the Kansas Residential Landlord and Tenant Act (Kansas Statutes Annotated 85-244 et seq.) will usually govern your rental living conditions. Every day this Act is used to decide disputes. Every day these disputes are necessary that students know the terms of their rental agreement and accordingly.
A LEASE, written or oral, is a contract governed by the act and case law developing from a written agreement to the possession of the apartment and the landlord consents to deliver that possession;
Leases in Lawrence fall into two general categories: periodic tenancies and tenancies for a term. Periodic tenancies have no investment commitment, and are usually paid by termination, and are usually used.
ALSO, A LEASE may state that the tenant notify the landlord in writing that the tenant will be leaving at the end of the lease. If this notice is not given before the notification date—often 60 days after the lease expires—the lease may automatically renew for a year, and you will be obligated for that year. If the lease is paid off when writtenLEASE are involved.
month or week-to-week contracts. Tenancies for a specified period of time are usually written.
Once a rental agreement becomes binding, the act requires that the tenant and landlord agree to provide photographs if necessary—the condition of the premises within five days after the tenant takes possession. Students should be taught to recognize which is an important way to protect your security deposit. Without a record of ownership, your belongings are charged for damage caused by a previous tenant.
If the landlord requires a written lease, load and understand its conditions before you move in. If it is not on a clause saying it is for a term of 12 months, that means you are obligated for a year.
SECURITY DEPOSITS also can cause problems. The law says that a landlord may require the security deposit equal to one month's rent. If the place is furnished, the landlord may require up to one and one-half months' security deposit, or half a half month's rent may be required. Never pay a security deposit without receiving the record of its payment from the landlord.
Once you have moved in, completed the inventory and paid any security deposit, there are still some obligations that landlord and tenant both have.
The tenant must:
1 Pay rent when due.
2. Exercise care in the use and maintenance of the premises.
3. Allow the landlord access to the premises for specified statutory reasons—which boils down to allowing the landlord to reasonably notice and at reasonable times.
The landlord must:
3. Maintain all utility services and appliances he has provided in a safe condition.
1. Maintain the property within the standards, of local buying order.
2. Maintain the common areas of rental property.
**STUDENTS WHO WANT to move out—before or at the end of a tenancy—should know the notice requirements associated with the tenancy and the exceptions, a valid termination by a tenant will occur with a 30-day written notice. Tenancies should be dependent upon the type of tenancy involved. Periodic tenancies are often simple to end, but require a term may cause problems.**
The type of notice a landlord may deliver depends upon the type of lease and the violation in their rent face a strong risk of termination. The statutes allow a relatively low rent to be paid on your tuition, but you rent. Any student who receives a notice to pay the rent or vacate within three days should immediately seek legal assistance.
LANDLORDS ALSO have notice requirements they must meet before they can validly terminate a lease. They may never use force or self-heLP methods to get the lease, but the law does provide some means of getting tenants who have violated terms of the lease.
Notices that do not comply with the statutes or the rental agreements can cause expense and headaches, since the tenant may have had to pay a fine. He has moved out. Moving without notice also obligates you for continued rent and may put you in to move without the landlord's consent, get relief.
SECURITY DEPOSITS also can cause problems for the students, who can lose their account if a judgment or agreement or the law may provide for the foreclosure of a security deposit if rent is not paid in full or the proper procedures after termination of the lease are not followed.
In addition, a landlord may be liable to a tenant if that landlord fails to follow same statute. The landlord must deliver an itemized written statement of the amount he owes for rent or damages or both. A tenant may request amounts proved to be wrongly withheld.
BUT DO NOT try to use this little bit of legal knowledge to become litigation crazy. Students have rights that must be protected, but will be given only if the rights are truly violated. Tenants who encourage lawsuits should set themselfs up for a big burn.
If a problem arises, first try to resolve it with the landlords. Leases are contracts that can be modified or rescinded by mutual consent and are able to agree on a solution, get it in writing.
But if you can't work something out with the landlord, get legal advice before you go to court. Knowing your tenant rights and responsibilities as a life as a lawyer in Lawrence far less hard.
This is the first in a bi-weekly series of guest columns on student legal problems. If you are any questions about the problems, visit Ruddick at KU Student Legal Services.