Dole delays decision on candidacy's future
By BLAKE GUMPRECHT
Staff Reporting
TOPEKA-The big decision was no decision.
Sen. Bob Dole had been expected to decide over the weekend whether to continue his floundering bid for the presidency or to concentrate on get-received reelection to U.S.
In fact, Dole hinted his arrival at the annual Republican gathering Friday night that a major announcement might be for forthcoming at the closing banquet Saturday.
There had been persistent reports since Dole's last place finish in the Iowa caucuses a week ago that the Russell Republican would announce he was dropping out of the race.
"If I have an announcement to make," he told a horde of reporters, "I assume you'll be a lot of people around to hear it."
"In the next few days, I will make a final decision as to my course of action," he said.
"The people of Kansas will be the first to know what I decied."
When approached afterward, Dole refused to elaborate.
BUT WHEN Dole took the podium late Saturday in front of a crowd of 750 people at Topeka's downtown Ramada Inn, he informed the anxious audience that he needed
"I have nothing more to say," he said before walking away.
However, Dole's Senate campaign chairman, Tim Kaine, told Dole and yesterday that he talked to Dole several times in Kansas Day weekend and that the Senator had decided by mid afternoon Saturday to
"He wants to visit with his friends around the country to see what they think before making a decision." Owen said. "He wants to check out all his options."
OWEN SAID that he was certain Dole would make a decision by the Feb. 26 New Hampshire primary, but that an announcement could come within a week.
Some Republicans have suggested that Dole may be hurting his chances for reelection to the Senate by continuing his campaign for president.
Owen is among the many Republicans who have urged Dole to drop out of the presidential race.
"I've advised him that he ought to concentrate on getting re-elected," said Owen, who also headed Dole's unsuccessful run for the vice presidency in 1976.
"He is the ranking Republican on the Finance Committee and if the Republicans somehow take over, he would be one of the most powerful men in the nation."
The Senator flew to Washington yesterday afternoon to resume his legislative duties.
While Dole was busy trying to make a decision about his presidential aspirations, several other candidates for the GOP presidential nomination used the Kansas day weekend to kick off their campaigns in the state's presidential preference primary April 1.
SUPPORTERS of candidates George Bush, Ronald Reagan and John Connolly held numerous receptions throughout the year. For his literary literature, humor stickers and pins.
Nancy Reagan, wif of the former California governor, shook hands and mingled with the Kansas Republicans for nearly an hour Friday night.
Former Alaska governor Walter Hickel, one-time secretary of the Interior, attended a reception Friday for former Texas governor Connally.
On Saturday, Iowa congressman James Leach spoke on behalf of former CIA director Bush.
Dole and California economist Ben Fernandez were the only candidates to campaign in person at the Kansas Day festivities.
Fernandez was not introduced at the closing banquet and sat at the press table in a far corner.
However, Fernandez, a Kansas native, said he was not discouraged. He has entered six primaries so far, including Kansas.
"I compare myself to who Jimmy Carter was in January, 1976," he explained. "Once I do well in a couple of primaries I'll be on ballot."
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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
Vol. 90, No. 79
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Monday, January 28.1980
Senate funding survey questioned
By SUSAN SCHOENMAKER
Staff Reporter
Students pay an $11.10 activity fee each semester.
BUT THE survey is tipped in favor of organizations with good publicity, acclimatization and commitment to the Committee chairman. He small groups out of the public eye got little student supsurvey respondents other than an under-undergraduate/rgraduate break-down.
Late-mid Student Senate debates, politicking, personal opinion - The Senate allocates Student Activity Fee money with a mixture of forecasting, facts and figuring. But this year a student opinion survey has been published, some say, new evidence for troubles.
The survey, which was mailed to 2,000 students last month asked them to assess funding levels of various Senate-sponsored campus organizations. Two hundred and eighty
Eighteen groups were ranked in the survey. Those organizations with high campus visibility drew top marks.
The University Daily Kanasan was top-ranked netting 83.6 percent of student headlines, and 75.9 percent of percent, KU Bandits 66.6 percent, University Concert Stories 65.9 percent and Legal Videos 65.9 percent.
"The survey is not the word of God, but I think it should be taken fairly seriously." Marissa said. "I have always said. She said she would recommend that the survey serve as a guideline for Senate candidates."
"Of courses the vast majority of students to organize to support the campus-wide initiatives, I would like about the others," Gardner said. "If you take the survey at face value it is dangerous."
He said that if the Senate didn't have a handle on student opinion there would be "enough uprout" to prompt senators to make upgrades
The survey methodology should be taken with a grain of salt, according to Dave
Thissen, psychology statistics professor. He said that because no follow-up letter was sent to non-responding students the survey was biased.
However, he said, to conduct a professional survey, such as a Gallup poll, would cost up to $1,000 per person.
THE SENATE survey was conducted by the KU office of Institutional Research and Planning at an estimated cost of $400-$ 800.
Deb Teeter, OIRP director, said there was no demographical information collected on
Instruction costs take most fees
Unless students are blessed with the advantages of scholarships and grants, they are likely to walk out of enrollment at Allen Field House each semester with a good deal less money than they walked in with. Some students may wonder how the University
Out-of-state tuition this semester was $83.10, with$ 750 going into the incident fee. The special student fee remained at $103.10.
According to Martin Jones, director of business affairs, the $58.10 that full-time employees receive at J.P. Morgan's semester was divided into two main categories—an incidental fee of$ 55.00, and a fee for a graduate degree.
Watkins Hospital, including medical evaluation, examination and most lab tests for outpatients.
Also included in the $103.10 an$ 11.40 Activity Activities and $28.35 to pay the University Advisory Board for University Day Klean,$ 1.25 to the Legal Services Program and $1.35 to various services.
Student fees also are help to pay for a number of buildings on campus, including Wesco Hall, the Kansas University, the Kansas Union Annex, the Kansas Union Addition and the Satellite Union. Fees for these buildings also pay $7 for Student Health Facilities.
The largest chunk of this money goes into the Student Health fee. This $46.00 fee allows students a number of pre-paid services at
The remaining allocations from the student fee are $5.00 for the transportation fee and$ 1.50 for Women's Intercollegiate Athletics.
Teeter said the percentage of undergraduate/graduate survey responses closely followed the actual student body and included 54 percent of graduates and 23 percent graduate students.
But those who answered the survey are of less importance than those who threw it into the fire. The Senate administrative assistant. He said aptly plaged Senate relations with the president.
KEVIN BOLT, Overland Park freshman was one student who did not answer the Senate survey. He said the survey reflected the fact that the Senate was out of touch with him.
"I put the survey in my room and it got on the clutter," she said. "It wasn't a press conference, but it was down with me then I might be able to relate to the Senate's problem. No enough time."
Templeton said the Federation of Student Social Workers, a defunct group, rated 24.8 percent student approval.
HE SAID ignorance bred indifference.
In a prior Senate survey, 59 percent of the respondents said they did not have a basic understanding of how their student activity fee was spent.
"If the Senate wanted to cut a group to zero funding and I didn't know who they were, I say I'd fine. I don't think the survey is fair." (The Washington Post) As a communication gap, "Templeton said
Topped Tree
Tom Lee, superintendent of grounds for the University of Kansas, surveys the path the car behind him took yesterday afternoon when it skipped off Drive Memorial, striking the road.
he is holding. The crab apple tree is about 15 years old and will cost about $13 to repaint, according to Lee. The car was driven by Norm Joseph, Overland Park freshman, Neither has been seen in the area.
Recruits get red carpet treatment
By SCOTT FAUST
Staff Reporter
For eight high school prospects, the football recruiting weekend was a parade of red and blue vinyl. It was two nights in a week, with good food and complimentary people.
"Football recruiting anymore is an art and a science," Bruce Mays, assistant athletic director, said last week. "It's become an all-year thing. You're a
It was also a sell.
During their all-expenses-paid weekend at KU, the recruits toured athletic facilities and attended campus events about KU academics, lunched with alumni businessman and watcher the KU-Calorida basketball team.
KU MAY INFITE a total of 50 high school football players for similar weekends by June 1, eventually giving scholarships to 30, Mays said.
During the weekend, he said, he tries to emphasize informality.
Mays estimated that 90 percent of the stories of people being bought are exagragated.
"We don't want to make it a big pressure-packed thing," he explained.
"We go with the idea that if a young man was hurt on his first day out, where would he like to spend his next four years?"
A Texas recruit, who rattled off the names of schools in Texas and Oklahoma that were recruiting him, said KU and its alums had nothing that seemed questionable.
AFTER DINNER at the athletic training table in Jayhawker Towers, they spent Friday evening at a Lawrence bar, accompanied KU football players.
"We at Kansas try to stay aboveboard on everything we do," he said.
He and the seven other recruits arrived in Lawrence late Friday afternoon.
Under NCAA rules, the KU players and recruits are each given $5 to spend for the night.
At a brunch Saturday morning, the
Each hostess carried a folder containing information about KU and the player she was escorting.
recruits looked tired and unenamored with their royal treatment.
Each was introduced to a KU athletics hostess, who was to be at his side all morning.
At the end of the brunch, head coach Don Fambrough told the recruits, "We hope this will be a fun weekend for you."
Hostess Carolyn Fee, a Hutchinson junior,
said she left the recruiting up to the coaches.
"We want you to meet our coaches, meet our players and meet our young ladies."
"We try to make them feel at home and answer any questions they may have," she said.
They visited the stadium locker room where they saw walls painted with words such as "INTENTSITY;," "HIT!" and "WIN."
After the brunch, the recruits took a bus tour of the campus, and a walking tour of the Kansas Union.
Assistant coach Bruce DeHaven said the
equipment he was showing the recruits, which included four types of playing shoes, "was as good as money can buy."
Back at the Patrrot Athletic Center next to Allen Field House, the recruits训ked with football players in the weight room, and the recruits practiced locker room and training facilities.
KENT STEPHENSON, offensive line coach, pointed out features such as benches painted with each player's name, and photographs of players on their lockers.
He told them it was an effort to give players more individual identity.
Later in the day, Mays echoed this message.
"You're not a number, you're not a locker," he told the recruits. "You're an integral part of the University."
After seeing the locker room, the recruits heard strength coach Keith Kepath talk about the weight program football players participate in.
See RECRUITING page six
Kephart said that before the recruits
KU changes street signs to comply with standards
Staff Reporter
By GREG SACKUVICH
KU maintenance crews are replacing street and building signs on campus for aesthetic reasons and to comply with federal design standards.
The speed limit signs on campus that were put up a year and a half ago had to be replaced this weekend because a Lawrence University study showed they did not meet federal design standards.
Last week Blaine Milner was contesting a speeding ticket he received on Jayhawk Street in Los Angeles. Judge, dismissed the case because the speeds did not meet regulations concerning speed limits.
CATT DECIDED that KU's speed limit signs did not meet regulations concerning color and working of signs.
drew last week, they have been noticed by thieves and vandals for some time.
"We decided the speed limit would be 30 mph until all the signs were replaced with the old-style signs," "Mullens said Saturday.
All the signs should be replaced by this afternoon, he said.
"We have to spend about $150-250 a month to replace signs." Rodger Lefkowitz, a lawyer at the law firm, don't have any insurance to replace them. We just plan to keep plenty of them in our office.
Catt then met with John Mullens, police captain, to decide whether the 20 mph speed limit posted on the signs would stay in effect, or whether the 30 mph limit that applied to most city streets would take effect. The signs were not up to federal standards.
Most of the street signs are stolen, but directional signs often are run over or vandalized, said Joe Christy, assistant director of facilities operations.
Besides the unexpected attention the signs
"People don't see them and they're easy to knock over, especially with a four-wheel drive vehicle," he said. "I guess some people do it on purpose."
"I guess the thief got a guilty conscience and returned them," he said.
LAST OCTOBER stolen signs worth about $1,800 were found one morning lying next to a curb on west麻安 Park. Orde said.
But that was a rare occasion. There are 29 unsolved cases of sign theft and damages on campus since Aug. 1, 1979, according to KU police records.
The cost of replacing stolen or broken signs is not as noticeable now because it is absorbed by the money being spent to put up all new signs on campus, Christy said.
The old building and street identification signs are being replaced by blue, standardized, fiberglass signs that are cheaper to maintain and more attractive, he said.
Santa Fe receives safety board's ideas
By BENJAMIN JONES
Staff Reporter
The National Transportation Safety
Board declared the Santa Fe Railroad as a result of the O. 2 train wreck in Lawrence that killed two and injured 69 an NTSB spokesman said.
The recommendations are intended to prevent a similar accident by insuring that warning devices in reduced speed zones are in working order.
Speed-recording devices in the Lawrence wreckage showed that the train entered a curve in a 30 mph speed zone at 78 mph.
BRAID DUNBAR, deputy director of public affairs for the NTSB, said the recommendations were received Friday afternoon by the railroad in Washington, but the report was not published until the recommendations had been passed on to Santa Fe's main office.
Dunbar said the first recommendation asked that Santa Fe apply more stringent tests to its automatic trainstoop equipment before "terminals if it goes on our main line."
During the test, the whistle would be allowed to blow four to six seconds, then it should activate an automatic braking device.
He said this involved driving over an inductor- a track-side warning device that sets off a warning whistle in the cab of the train when it crashed.
HOWEVER, on actual train runs, the engineer would be able to shut off the whistle before four seconds if he felt the train was traveling slowly enough, and the
automatic train-stop device would not be activated.
Dunbar said the second recommendation was that train crewmen not be permitted to pre-acknowledge the warning signal, but ensure that no crewman is before shutting off the warning whistle.
At an NTSB hearing in Lawrence last December, the fireman on the train that attacked Mr. Schoenbarger testified that the safety devices failed to warn him and the engineer that they were not working properly.
HAND SAID there was no whistle and as a result the automatic train-stop mechanism was not activated.
John McPherson, a Santa Fe division superintendent, testified at the same hearing that the engineer of the tran. L.H. Greham, Roeland Lake, was unfamiliar
Hand also testified that the "slow" sign that should have warned of the 30 mph speed zone was not in place on the track.
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McPherson said that Santa Fe policy required that a team be traced to route within the previous year, but that Santa Fe records indicated Graham had last travel through Colorado.
Dunbar said the NTSE would be taking a sworn statement from Graham tomorrow in the public because Graham, who was severely injured in the wreck, is in jail
Dunbar said the NTSB probably would conclude its investigation of the wreck and release its findings sometime this spring.