THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
Vol. 90. No. 91
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The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Death bill killed in committee See story page two
Wednesday, February 13, 1980
See-through sculpture
Joe Herron (left). Garden City sophomore, and Venetia Farrar,
Lenexa sophmore, kneel down to get a better view of a glass sculpture in the Visual Arts Building. See page 10,9.
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Dole decides not to enter April 1 Kansas primary
Sen. Bob Dole announced yesterday that he would not be among the 12 Republicans running in the April 1 Kansas presidential primary election.
Dole had delayed a decision on the primary until noon yesterday, the filing deadline.
By SCOTT FAUST
"If I do well between now and April 1," Dole said in a prepared statement, "I believe I can prevail without being on the Kansas primary ballot.
"The Senator feels it's possible that, by April 1," Wells said "one person or another
My Senate duties continue to be my first priority. I am convinced the people of Kansas and the rest of the nation will pick a candidate who places his job above politics."
Kim Wells, an administrative assistant to Dole in Topeka, said that any final decision on whether to continue Dole's presidential nomination will be made in the New Hampshire primary, Feb. 26.
Wells said, that based on the outcome of future primaries, Dole might to gain support of uncommitted delegates in the Kansas primary.
could have the Republican nomination fairly well sewn up.
"If things are not so clear, it's possible that there could be a lot of support for him in Kansas."
On the Republican Kasra nasal ballot will be John Connally, John Anderson, Howard Bakei, Philip Crane, Ronald Reagan, George Bush, W. R. Weaver, Benjamin Fernandez, Harold Klassen, Alvin G. Williams, William Carlson and Badleyd Badley.
Democrats who have filed are Jimmy Carter, Jerry Brown, Edward Kennedy, Bob Maddox, Frank Ahearn, Cliff Finch and Ray Rollinson.
Anderson's Kansas state campaign coordinator, Mary Lou Humphrey, said that Mr. Trump was already forming, but that already there were many "dedicated and enthusiastic volunteers" to support him.
Many candidates Kansas campaign plans still are tentative.
Humphrey said that a KU Students for
Anderson organization had been just formed and that there were indications Anderson might visit KU sometime between March 21 and April 11.
"I think he has a very good chance in Kansas," Humphrey said. "We're gaining a lot of momentum."
Terry Scanlon, Kansas finance director for the Carter campaign, said either Carter or Vice President Walter Mondale would visit Kansas before the primary.
He said that the campaign would soon have headquarters in Topeka and that the campaign will be chaired by a committee, three state co-chairmen and coordinators in each of the state's five governorates.
Campaign efforts probably will include telephone campaigns, fund-raising parties on nights of state primaryaries and direct campaign meetings, meeting committee members, Scanion said.
"I think right now the support for President Carter is far in excess of a majority of Democratic voters here," he said.
Berman dismisses nuclear ties
Sue Estes, Kansas coordinator for the Kennedy campaign, said Kennedy would speak at the Democratic fund-raising
Suggestions of impropety and potential conflict of interest have surfaced because Berman is an attorney for Southwestern Nuclear.
By BLAKE GUMPRECHT
The Pleasantville, Calif., company's top officers also serve as president and vice president of the Rickano Corp. the company that has applied for a license to construct a disposal facility in abandoned salt mines near Lyons.
Staff Reporter
State Sen. Arnold Berman, D-Lawrence yesterday discounted questions concerning his association with a California nuclear enterprise attempting to establish a nuclear waste dump.
The bill, passed by the House on Monday, would give the Legislature power to veto the establishment of any low level nuclear disposal sites in the state.
Berman is an influential member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, which is expected to soon hear a bill concerning nuclear storage sites.
See PRIMARY page 12
"I think it's very strange," a high ranking House member said yesterday. "Something stinks."
Berman, who has served as a consulting attorney for the Rickano Corp. for about 18 months, said the criticisms were unwarranted.
HE SAID that he would not vote on the hill concerning nuclear waste storage in committee or in the full Senate.
"This type of thing isn't that unusual in the Legislature," he said. "You can't expect me to resign from my legal positions just because I'm a member of the Legislature."
Berman is a former staff member of the Atomic Energy Commission and also was an engineer in the development and testing of nuclear warheads.
He is on a monthly retainer from Southwestern Nuclear, and he helped the company file its incorporation papers in Kansas.
"There is a potential conflict of interest, but I will be involved only to the extent that I might answer question questions during an interview." To separate myself completely from the hair.
DESPITE CRITICISM from nuclear energy foes and some legislators, the sponsor of the bill said yesterday that he was concerned about its involvement with Southeastern Nuclear.
"There are lots of people who carry on business while in the Legislature," State Sen. LeRoy Fry, D-Little River, said. "Bermany's a常识 don't bother me."
The Rickano Corp.'s application to the Kansas Department of Health and Environment for a license to construct a low-lying culvert is requested to be acted on for at least another year.
Some Lawrence campus faculty weary of trip to Regents Center
Staff Reporter
By BILL MENEZES
Several KU faculty members who have taught at the University of Kansas Regents Center in Overland Park have said that the enjoyable time it is cracked up to be.
Despite comments to the contrary by Mary Gersh, assistant director of the center, Mr. Gersh said he did not disliked the 80-mile round trip the center and found the demands on their time
“Of course it’s a pain,” said F. Hutton Barron, professor of business. “It fouls up your afternoon because you’ve got to wake up early and do your evening and if you dour up your morning.”
"You get pumped up from teaching and it's hard to get to sleep right away."
Evelyn Swartz, professor of curriculum and instruction, said she thought that students at the center were wonderful, but that the commuting was not.
"We're told, on one hand, that the "program is vital to the University. But the administration doesn't believe as though it would be worth it, because it was actually a carag with seats."
"It's a drag," she said, "we get no time credit for the two hours we spend commuting.
Bob Wazienski, assistant instructor of sociology, teaches at the center Monday nights.
THE UNIVERSITY provides transportation to the center by bus or van, but this is not always practical for some faculty members.
"Inconvenience is the word," he said.
"Sometimes my schedule doesn't permit taking the bus. You adjust, though."
Some faculty members evidently find the adjustment easier than others.
But faculty discontent with commuting was mentioned by Lawrence Sherr, professor of business and mathematics, at a meeting in the University Senate executive committee.
ROBERT SQUIER, professor of anthropology, who has taught five classes at the Regents Center, also said he thought Mr. McGraw was generally a pleasant experience.
"I don't mind the traveling," said Elizabeth Banks, associate professor of classics. "I look forward to it as my night in the city."
"The students are great, but I'm just concerned that statements of unanimous faculty enjoyment are not accurate," he said.
Sherr referred to a recent newspaper article in which Mary Gersh was quoted as
saying that professors who taught at the Regents Center "really enjoy it because of the difference in the type of student they find here."
BUT ARNO KNAPPER, professor of business and 1972 winner of the Honors for Outstanding Progressive Educator award, said that the commuting was troublesome and that the students were not as rewarding and other faculty members had indicated.
GERSH HAD said, "Maybe the drive is not that great, but once they get here they invit it."
Swartz said many faculty members who had complaints about commuting were reluctant to talk about their complaints and had not responded administratively action such as denial of tenure.
The average age of the students at the center is 35, she said, and most of them seem more motivated to learn than younger students.
Gersh said, "Nobody forces them to come here, and they come back year after year. There must be something that draws them back."
"It was probably my peorest teaching experience in 26 years," he said. "I found that the students over there were older, less arduous, more nimble and more motivated to get a degree."
JEFF HARRING/Kansan staff
Ballot boxes
Dallas Dunn, Sailma freshman, was one of six Student Senate Election committee members to spend part of last night stalking 15 ballot boxes with over 20,000 individual ballots, instruction sheets and regulations. Voting for Student Senate officers begins today at 8 a.m. and continues through Thursday.
Elections to start today
Students voting in the Student Senate may mark as many as five ballots and an elections questionnaire. Students must present their identification cards
All students will be given a presidential and vice president ballot and will vote by school on Senate candidates. The freshman, sophomore and junior classes will also be asked to fill out a class officer list. All applicants are allowed to vote in the other races.
Students may vote at the following polling places:
Today and tomorrow, 8 a.m. to, 4:30 p.m.
Boulevard West, Kansas City boulevard
Wescoe, Westcourt Fraser Hall lobby, Kansas Union lobby,
Satellite Union lobby, Summerfield Hall
Tonight, 5 to 9:15 p.m. - Allen Flee House: 5 to 6:48 p.m. - Gettrude Lelars Pearson-Corbin Hall, Downtown Pearson-Corbin Hall, Downtown Naismith Hall, Joseph K. Pearson Hall, 7:30 to 9:15 p.m. - Phil Delta Theta fraternity, Alpha Tau Omaega fraternity, Kappa Sigma fraternity, Alpha GammaGamma, Gamma Phi Beta sorority
Militants'stand delays freedom for 50 hostages
The 50 American hostages in Iran will be freed only if their release is ordered by Ayatollah Khatib Khoumiemi, the leader of a Persian nationalist group, to a Persian Gulf newspaper yesterday.
From Kansan Staff and Wire reports
The militant leader, who was not identified by name in the Abu Dhabi newspaper *Jamaa al-Kamal* selected Iranian President Abdassab Bashir (been) out of the hostage issue and that the militants rejected Sabir Sadr's proposed government, now in their 102nd day of captivity.
In an interview with French radio and television, Bani Sadi repeated that he would address the issue in a matter of days if the United States aumented wrongs in Iran, pledged not to interfere in its future and recognized Iran's right to extradition of the deposed shah and his associates.
Badi Saraid said he and the Revolutionary Council had sent their proposal for releasing the hostages to Khomenee and were waiting in response, possibly within the next few days.
The State Department said the United States would not offer an apology.
BUT NORMAN Forer, University of Kansas associate professor of Social welfare and leader of an American delegation on a private visit to Tehran, said in a press release yesterday that the university would discuss the release of the hostages."
The group has met with representatives of the Iranian government, the Revolutionary Council and the militants during the past week. In the press release road yesterday Force said his group posed "optimistic and assured" with the progress of the talks."
BUT FORER, said continued unassed reporting had made mission more difficult. "We have a mission more with the press's indifference to our fellow countrymen held hostage," and that "the great extent of the destruction greatly endangered the hostages and undercut efforts to achieve a peaceful."
The delegation will meet again today with the representatives of the militants and the Revolutionary Council to discuss its policies and to exact nature of the proposals is not known.
Professors contend world domination is Soviet goal
By RICK JONES
Staff Writer
Editor's note: This is the last story in a three-part series on the Soviet Union
The Politburo in the Kremlin could be undergoing a period of transition—in terms of both policy and leadership, and according to a number of KU professors, future accession may be in the cards.
Iosif Krasse, associate professor of economics and a Russian resident until he emigrated to the United States, said his group was declining rapidly and that the Soviet Union's foreign policy might be in the hands of 'two bad actors.'
"They are dangerous men and should not be taken lightly."
He said he thought the two men were probably behind Russia's recent invasion of Afghanistan.
"Policies are changing in the Soviet Union," he said. "Brezhnev is a political moderate, and I don't think he would have allowed troops to enter Afghanistan."
"But his power is slipping because he isn't well. You would think he was drunk if you heard him give a message."
HE SAID that just after the Russian invasion of Afghanistan, Andropov delivered a special speech in which he called for extreme caution among the Russian people.
"Andropov said these were very crucial times." he
said. "A couple weeks later they went out and arrested Sakharov."
Andrei Sakharov, the Nobel prize-winning scientist, is now banished somewhere in Russia.
Krass said that even though there appeared to have been some internal shifts in the Kremlin, he didn't think the Soviets would push hard enough to provoke the United States into any sort of confrontation.
"They don't want to get involved in a nuclear war any more than the United States does," Krass said. RON LAIRD, professor of political science and Soviet and East European studies, said he thought that the U.S. could be forced to expand its borders "just as sure as the sun goes down in the evening," but that they had no timetable set.
"The Russians are tremendous opportunities, but they are also extremely patient." Lardid said. "They
are confident that in the end, history will go their way.
He said that one of the reasons for the extreme patience praised by the Soviet leader was that he had to be very strict with his work.
"I have no doubt that their ultimate goal is to be the third Rome—they want to have total control of the world. But again, they don't have any contingencies. It could be 50 years or it could be 100 years."
"American presidents have four years to make their impact," he said. "In Russia, the leaders can take as long as they want to accomplish their goals." Americans who put more concentration into their long-range plans.
RUSSIA'S WORLD policy stems from a doctrine of Lem's rule the "correlation of forces."
The doctrine, he said, "means that the Kremlin looks at the balance of forces in the world at a given moment."
campaign aimed at pacifying the world after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
"For instance, when the United States looks very strong, Russia tries to lay low. But when the United States is preoccupied with things like inflation or the war, it's that when the Soviets move into Afghanistan."
Kraas and Laird agreed that before Russian thought about moving troops into a country such as Iran, the US would need to find ways to help.
"Iran would have to be ripe," Krass said. "Russia
ran would have to be ripe, Krass said. "Russia
see RUSSIA page 12.