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Friday, January 25, 1974
University Daily Kansan
Walker Asserts Athletic Board Approved New Job Assignments
by Mayo
By HAL RITTER
Kansas Stair Reporter
Athletic Director Clyde Walker last night defended four administrative changes within the athletic department. The changes, which were announced Monday, were made by Walker without consulting members of the University of Kansas.
"The board at its last meeting (in November) gave me its approval and the authority to make the changes I thought were necessary." Walker said.
The new administrative assignments were questioned Wednesday night at a meeting of the Student Senate Executive Committee (StudEx).
Richard Lauer, Evanston, III, senior and member of StudEx, told StudEx he was tired of the athletic board being used as a rubber stamp by the Athletic Corporation.
Lauer said yesterday that he didn't question Walker's authority to make adjustments to the athletic department but that the athletic board should have been consulted because the board has three student members and students are major contributors of funds to the department.
"HE (WALKER) is not just functioning in a vacuum," Laster said. "He's accountable to students. We just gave him a floor and we give him money every year."
"What NCAA regulations say is that there has to be some kind of student-faculty governing board over the athletic corruptions involved, and even not even consulted. Its presence is a joke."
The four changes made by Walker included the hiring of Doug Messer, currently assistant athletic director in charge of business and financial affairs at Florida State University, who will become assistant business officer, or both, of the business and ticket offices at KU.
Messer will assume the duties of Assistant Athletic Director John Novotny, who will direct the department's Outland Athletic programs. The source of income for athletic scholarships.
ALSO ASSUMING new assignments are tennis coach Mike Howard, who will become assistant ticket manager, and coach David L. Rapp, who will become an assistant to Walker.
As a result of Lauer's objections, StudEx instructed the three student members of the athletic board to study the situation and prepare for the Student Senate at its meeting Wednesday.
One of the student members, Mert Buckley, Wichita senior and Student body president, agreed with Lauren when asked he thought Walker had acted properly.
"I think Walker should have consulted the board again before he made the appointment," Buckley said. "I was disappointed he didn't come back to the board wife, either a request for a search committee or a look at or at the least with one name."
"He Walker) doesn't want to have to run to everybody and say, 'Can I do this, can I do this?'
A second student member of the Board,
Sara McHride, Kansas City, Kan., senior, will
work with Mr. McHride on a project.
"I CAN SEE both sides of it," she said.
"Students like to have a little say in what happens, especially when their money is involved, but I think Walker has to have a little free rein."
Another member of the board, Thomas Weiss, associate professor of economics, is the first woman to chair a department.
The Abortion Action Coalition was incorrectly identified in the Kansas yesterday as an anti-abortion organization. The coalition also supports other support for liberalized abortion laws.
Weiss said that in his opinion the board had been consulted.
"He (Walker) called a special meeting in November and told the members that he was going to be involved in the organizational structure of the department," Weiss said. "He was hired to be an administrator, and if he thought something needed to be done, then it was his job to do."
Fools Afloat
"If after a period of time you decide a guy is not doing his job, which includes hiring his assistants, then you fire him. I don't feel slight at all."
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Lawmakers to Speak
An "Eggs and Issues" meeting of the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce, featuring the four Lawrence representatives and the lobbying team at 7:30 a.m. Saturday at the Holiday Inn.
Sen. Arden Booth, Republican, Reps,
John Vogel and Lloyd Buzzi, Republicans
and Rep. Mike Glover, Democrat, will
receive the nomination for the first two weeks of the 1974 session.
Reservations are $2 and can be made by contacting the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce at 843-4411. The meeting is open to the public.
AURH Approves Plans For Dorm Crisis Center
A proposed crises center in Oliver Hall became a step closer to reality last night after the Association of University Ideas Halls (AUHR) voted to support the idea.
She said that Headquarters Inc., 1632 Kentucky, had agreed to train 20 Oliver hall students in the skills necessary to operate the center.
Spencer, who is a resident in the predominately freshman hall, said that the crises center would be tried as a two week program to help students become a permanent program, she said.
Spencer said that students who were trying to start the center wanted the University to supply two rooms and two beds so that the center could be operated 24 hours a day.
It will be a place in which students can always find someone willing to discuss any particular topic.
During the pilot period, meet of the publicity about the program would be directed towards Oliver Hall residents, she said. "They will be available to anyone who needed them."
Spencer emphasized that any calls to the center would be strictly confidential and that it (the program) would be student operated.
Worship At University Lutheran
SUNDAYS at 10 a.m.—led by Pastor Don Conrad (ALC-LCA) and at 11 a.m.—led by Pastor Norman Steffen (LC-Missouri Synod)
This Sunday ONLY at 11 will also be a special discussion on crisis in the Church
15th and Iowa 843-6662
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