THE UNIVERSITY.DAILY KANSAN
83rd Year, No. 96
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Doctors Seeking Detection Method For Breast Cancer
Thursday, February 22, 1973
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Kansan Photos by FELICIA SMALL.WOOD
Some Building Maintenance on Campus Postponed for Lack of Funds Top priority goes to emergency repairs and upkeep of new buildings .
Buildings Need 'Ring Jobs'
By ELAINE ZIMMERMAN Kansan Staff Writer
Buildings in need of maintenance at the University of Kansas can be compared to cars needing piston ring jobs, Keith Lawton, of planning and facilities, said Monday.
When a piston ring job is postponed, blue smoke may blow out of the pipe, he said, but the car still runs. He said it was possible that postponement of the maintenance would make the piston ring job cost more when it eventually was done.
Lawton said there was an "undefinite no-man's land of maintenance" that, like many other universities, the University could continue to operate without it. The maintenance in some cases costs more in the long run when it is cumulative. Better deterioration is often cumulative, he said.
The no-man's land is so called, Lawton said, because it involves an "in-between" amount of funding and ranks in priority below day-to-day maintenance and long-range capital improvements such as new buildings.
Lawton said he agreed with these priorities.
He said the state was willing to fund for daily maintenance. A small fund, a part of which is held unencumbered for emergency use, pays for special repairs or improvements that are necessary to keep KU operating on a daily basis. Replacement of
New buildings rank second in priority, Lawton said. Getting rid of the worst buildings, which are unsuited to education and become a drain on maintenance, is not only expensive but also not only inconvenient but also cost more to maintain than do new buildings, he said.
Third on the priority list is the no-man's land of overhunting, modernization, renovation and deferred maintenance, Lawton said. These kinds of repairs involve more money than daily maintenance, but less than routine cleaning or items deleted from the budget, he said.
Lawton said he could make a list of 200 maintenance jobs in this category.
Deferred maintenance eventually becomes emergency maintenance, Lawton said. Funds are readily obtainable for most of the conditions, which are dangerous to life and limb.
Lawton said that the University would never knowingly allow buildings to deteriorate to the point that structural problems would become dangerous. He also said much money had been spent during the school year to make buildings electrically safe.
Next in priority after maintenance problems that are dangerous are situations that are intolerable to the buildings or structures, and they would cause irreparable harm to a building.
Lawton gave several examples of deferred maintenance that could become expensive.
have priority over deferred maintenance, he said.
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Israelis Open Fire On Libyan Jetliner
TEL AVIV (AP) — Israeli warplanes fired on a Libyan jihadist that refused to heed warnings Wednesday and forced it to crush a military base in the desert, Israel's military command reported.
The official casualty toll reported at least 74 persons dead and nine seriously injured.
The command said the airline pilot acknowledged repeated warnings that he was violating Israeli-held territory, but did not comply with them. The government said the plane had intruded into a "highly-sensitive military area" and "behaved in a way that aroused suspicion and concern regarding its intentions."
An Israeli spokesman said that the airliner flew over Israeli installations on the Suez Canal, which acts as a cease-fire line between Israel and Egyptian troops, before Israel air force fighters were sent to intercept it.
A spokesman for the Libyan government asserted the plane overpass Scoir's airport and then, because of bad weather, strayged it up to the plane, where he described the plane as "shot down."
The Libyan government said one of the passengers was from West Germany, another from Poland and the rest from Syria in Iraq and Jordan. The airline crew was French.
Libyan radio said the plane was brought down in "an aggressive attack by the Zionist enemy," and Cairo radio vowed that all attacks were aired at the hands of the Arabs for this crime.
A Tunisian government statement said the international community should take
measures against "this new form of terrorism."
President Hourih Boundienne of Algieria called the incident "a violation of the most basic human rights."
Premier Goldi Meir expressed the Israeli government's "deep sorrow at the loss of life resulting from the Libyan crash in Sinai and regrets that the Libyan pilot did not bear the repeated warnings which were in accordance with international procedures."
Mrs. Meir apparently meant to designate the pilot of the Libyan plane without reference to his nationality. Air France announced in Paris that the pilot was French, part of a five-man crew on under contract with the Libyan airline.
Air France said two members of the crew survived.
In Cairo, Libyan Airlines identified the plane as Flight 114 bound for Cairo from Tripoli, the capital of Libya, and said it apparently overflow the Cairo airport. The Suez Canal is seven minutes' flying time from the airport.
An airline spokesman said 116 persons, including six babies, were aboard. There was no explanation for the discrepancy and the Israeli count of dead and infured.
An Israeli source said the pilot was warned three times to land the plane, but he refused. Another source said the pilot's source, 'I don't take orders from Israel.'
The Israelis opened fire and hit the plane, but a highly placed source contended that
the damage was not enough to cause the crash.
U.S., Peking To Issue Communique
The crash came just 12 hours after Israel commands struck seven Arab guerrillas bases deep in northern Lebanon in a drive to break up terrorist centers. The rulers of the country, an official report said, Arab guerrilla sources put the death toll at 15 to 26.
WASHINGTON (AP)—The United States and Communist China will issue a joint communique Thursday that is expected to report new stricts in relations between the two nations.
The communique is the outgrowth of Henry Kissinger's lengthy talks with Chinese leaders in Peking, including Chairman Mao Tse-tung.
The White House said that it would be made public in Peking and Washington at 10 a.m., Lawrence time, today.
Action Plan Upsets 3 Minorities
By LINDA DOHERTY
Kansan Staff Writer
Not all minority groups on campus are satisfied with the Affirmative Action Plan, representatives of three minority groups said Wednesday.
The plan is under consideration by the Affirmative Action Conference Committee, which met Wednesday afternoon and will meet again today, according to Juliet Shaffer, chairman of the Affirmative Action Board.
Tom Beaver, chairman of the Committee
Shaffer said she thought that few revisions had been made in the plan and that the final form would be approved as soon as possible.
Members of the Lawrence Gay Liberation Front, the Association of Mexican American Students and the Committee on Education, consulted about the contents of the plan.
on Indian Affairs, said he had neither seen the plan nor been consulted about it.
Beaver said that there was no Indian representative on the Affirmative Action Board and that he thought the plan was weighted toward blacks and women.
Antonio Cardona, president of the Association of Mexican American Students, said Chicano students had no knowledge of what was included in the plan.
Cardona said he did not think Mike Jaimez, a Chicano who is on the Affirmative Action Board, was familiar with student problems.
He said the Association of Mexican American Students would make some announcements, and he said.
he said he hoped adjustments would be
otherwise to directly include other
major groups.
Kissinger, who has reported to Nixon since his return from Asia Tiaulo, will hold a news conference at the White House to discuss the details of efforts to both Peking and Hong Kong.
faculty members employed by the University.
"It the Affirmative Action material was to our office," Cardona said, "I think it was an affirmative action."
Reginald Brown, Kansas City, Kan., junior and coordinator for the Lawrence Gay Liberation Front, said, "The avowed purpose of the Affirmative Action Plan is the elimination, in all University activities, of discrimination against members of groups which have been in the disadvantaged status in universities and in the general society.
"We feel that the members of the Affirmative Action Board have fallen short of their stated goal by not specifically making mention of gay people."
"I feel that it is important that such discrimination be specifically prohibited," he said, "to provide adequate protection for faculty, staff and students of the University."
Kissinger's talks in Hanoi resulted in the establishment of a joint economic commission to consider postwar reconstruction aid for North Vietnam.
While the White House has declined to give any details on the forthcoming China commune, it is expected to provide for improved trade relations and possibly the establishment of trade missions in the two countries.
There also have been reports that Kissinger may have made some headway in negotiating the release of three Americans held prisoner in Communist China.
Both sides have indicated that the Kissinger talks in Peking Feb. 15-19 were very good and expanded the breakthrough between China and Japan, with his visit to mainland China a year ago.
While the United States appeared to be making significant new advances in its relations with Peking, it also had word on Beijing's involvement in movement in relations with the Soviet Union.
District Judge Says
Ruling Eases Districting
From Kansan News Services
A ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court Wednesday should make easy a reaportionment job facing the Kansas Department D. Justice Judge George Templar said Wednesday.
Templar was one of a three-judge federal court that ruled the 1972 Kansas House Reapportionment Act unconstitutional Feb. 2. The panel gave the legislature until
Feb. 16, 1974, to enact a new one or face
the court draw its own.
The Supreme Court in a 5 to 3 ruling on a Virginia case said strict population equality was not constitutionally required when there were traditional county and city boundaries.
248 Candidates on Ballot For KU Government Posts
Templar said the main problem with the 1972 Kamas law was that it cut across much of the state's land.
Two hundred forty-eight candidates
were on the spring elections ballot when the
election was held.
There will be a candidates meeting at 7:30 tonight in the Jayhawk Room of the Kansas State University Hall. Sublette sophomore and election candidates meeting would be an opportunity for the candidates to become familiar with the procedures and to meet their competition.
by the 5 p.m. deadline Wednesday, 192 students had filed for 93 open seats in the Student Senate, and 54 had filed for class records and team filed for student body president and vice president.
The candidates are:
Student body president and vice president - Merri
t Williams, president of Student body president - Merri
t Williams, junior vice
dependent Student Association (ISA); Dardkind贝兰.
Dermott贝兰; Eckert艾克特; Feldman菲德曼; Pakistan,ahan; Charles David斯. II Shawnee Mumson saponbyn, Karl Wiedner,Lyndon,Karol, Gary Holerow, Vivian Woods,Vivian Woods, Gary Holerow, Lawrence saponbyn, G. Kronen, Chicago, Chicago, Chicago, Michael Michaels, Nicholas Michaels, Wichita,Michael Michaels, OverleyOverley, Overland Park Schmacker,Norman, Com. Norman, HiberniaHibernia, Schnauzer,Norman, Com. Norman, HiberniaHibernia, soponbyn, Com. Hobers,Hobers, overleyOverley, Hutchinson,Hutchinson, Larry Wade, Ohrman, Ken, Ken
The Virginia plan had been upset by a four-judge federal court in Richmond, which substituted a plan that broke political boundaries in 12 instances but reduced the population variance to slightly more than 10 per cent.
Engineering (5): Jo Abbott, Hutchinson junior. In
Business (1): Hirschfeld Van Aken, Kansas City, KS.
Mary Carey, Wichita State; Ann Dillon, Hutchinson
Marc Carey, Wichita State; Ann Dillon, Hutchinson
Tupelo Hills, Kans., Gary Leatha, Overland Park
Rockford, Kans., Gary Leatha, Overland Park
Pasadena, Cal., Lawrence, Overland Park
Pratt Junior, Rockwell Vaughan, Lawrence school
Pratt Junior, Rockwell Vaughan, Lawrence school
that if the legislature did not have to
evidently district equal in size, its tax should
be lower.
Law (2): Jim Poeow, Wichita graduate student; Joe Speckman, Cityidge city graduate student; Hal Walker.
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The Supreme Court specifically approved a Virginia plan with a range of 16.4 per cent from the largest to the smallest district in the House of Delegates.
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Five-time All-Star, St. Louis sophomore, Kady Neumann.
Cincinnati, PA; guard Lou Lomax, junior, student,
Curtopeau, Pa.; senior No Lomax, junior, student,
Curtopeau, Pa.
Graduate School (IB) David A. Kessler, Daryl graduate
Kevin Gonichschäfer, Owen Park graduate
student
MICHAEL
(MCCY) D. Randle S. Andrew S. Wicklender,
Lawrence D. Blank, Overland S. Parken, Kestel Eell
Harrison, Dale R. Smith
www.mcytum.edu
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Acting on an appeal by state officials, the high court reinstated the General Assembly's scheme with the exception of a Senate district in Norfolk.
State Rep. William W. Bunten, R-Topke, chairman of the House Reapportionment Committee, said Wednesday night that he had not read the Supreme Court decision but that he thought the decision would not affect the Kansas Legislature.
The deviation in district populations in kansas is from 10,124 to 17,012, or a difference of 6,998.
The Supreme Court decision says that states can create districts with a higher deviation in population size to maintain traditional county and city boundaries. The Supreme Court also ruled such traditional lines so that districts would be as equal in population as possible.
He said the House ran into trouble when it cut certain districts with the expectation that the population in those districts would decrease or increased others in the expectation that populations would increase. Kan, for example, was expected to City, Kan. for example, was expected to
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Russian Brought Wheat to Plains
By DAVE LINK
Kansan Staff Writer
Without the help of a Russian immigrant by the name of Bernard Warkentin back in the fall of 1873, the United States might never have able to complete its $600 million wheat deal with Russia last fall.
It was Warkentin and his band of 24 Montevites who introduced Turkey red winter hwetter to Kansas and the United States 100 years ago last fall.
Without red hard winter wheat, which is still the major variety grown in Kansas, Kansas could have never become the nation's leading wheat producing state, contributing over 20 per cent to the annual U.S. wheat crop.
The Kansas Legislature has given tentative approval to a resolution proclaiming 1974 as the centennial year of the constitution of Turkey Red wheat into Kansas.
Warkentin, by the way, was forced out
last fall, which could be called a return to the womb for Turkey Red hard winter wheat.
According to James C. Malin in his book, "Winter Wheat," Warkentin and his followers each brought a bushel of turkey Red with them when they immigrated to Marion County, Kan., from southern Russia.
Many varieties of wheat were being tried in Kansas at the time, and Turkey Red was one of the few that were able to survive the Kansas winter.
Hard red winter wheat is now Kansas' major crop, producing almost 300 million bushels annually. Fifteen million bushels of Kansas wheat were exported to Russia
of the farming business by the locust plague which hit Kansas in August, 1874 and went on to become a leader in the milling industry of Kansas in the 1900s.