The University Daily
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
KANSAN
Monday, June 22, 1981 Vol. 91. No. 150 USPS 650-640
Tornado shows faults in KU's shelter plans
By CONNIE SCHALLAU Staff Reporter
You've seen the flick 20 times. Bogaert's just about to say to Ingrid again, "Here's looking at you, kid." On the film stops, the emergency light shines on the window. You find that a tornado has touched down nearby.
Where do you go for shelter?
"I really don't know where you would go for shelter during a tornado if you were in the Kansas Union," Dewey E. Alaune, associate director of facilities operations, said.
Many people who were at the Friday night movie, "Trash," didn't know where to go either, including the man who was in charge of the movie.
"The University never elaborated on any plan to use in the Union in case of a torment," Mikaeil said.
The experience left Jill K. Tripp, Conklin,
Nip, feeling vulnerable.
"The movie was going for about 40 minutes, and then it stopped and everything was dark," Theman said.
"We just sat a about 10 minutes in total darkness... when this man came in and said, 'I lost the heart of my daughter'..."
"It wasn't clear that it was a tornado. I thought it might have been a fire."
"I thought there would be some organization and procedures for shelter evacuation. But,
KU does have a plan for shelter during tornadoes and tornado warnings, Allaire said. He also said he did not know if it was a written policy or merely an oral one.
"I'm not familiar with the details. I really don't know who would be, possibly Oroke would be."
Debris from trailer homes sitting in the center of Gaslight Village mobile home park flew over the trailers(left) leaving some virtually unarmed during the tornado that swept through the park Friday night.
However, Rodger Oroke, director of the University's support services, said that he was not the person to talk to about KU's tornado shelter plan. Oroke said that Thomas F. Anderson, director of facilities operations for the university, told me that the person who would know. Anderson was out of town for the weekend and unavailable for comment.
"At this point, I really don't have a plan," Oroke said. "The police department doesn't have a document as far as a location in each building that could be used as a tornado shelter."
"In fact, we were just talking about it in the administrative group the other day," Shankel said.
However, Acting Chancellor Del Shankel said that he believed KU did have a written plan for a reform.
"I did work on the plan five or six years ago, when I was executive vice chancellor."
"However, it wasn't well publicized. I do believe that it needs to be republicated and updated."
Regarding whose responsibility the tornado shelter plan would be, Shankel said that it would be the responsibility of the local government.
"I think it's a combination of police, facilities operations and the Office of University Relations, which handles our press releases and our internal communications, to update and publicize our tornado shelter plan," Shankel said.
Phil Leonard, emergency preparedness and risk management director for Douglas County, said that if the University had had a tornado older plan, it would have been strictly volunteer.
"To my knowledge, there is no requirement for
them to know how to such a plan," Leonard said.
"I'll tell them what I know."
Watkins Hospital is the one building on campus that has an established procedure for tornadoes. It practices that procedure at least once a year, Bill Woltmann, director of Watkins Hospital, said.
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Fine-collecting plan adopted
By MARTHA BRINK Staff Reporter
The Kansas Board of Regents adopted a plan for collecting employees' overdue fines and approved a $3 student activity fee increase Friday.
Until now the University has had no way to require payment from faculty and staff for library and parking fines.
The new fines plan gives the University authority either to withhold an employee's paycheck until fines are paid or to actually deduct fines from the paycheck.
Last year $88,000 in employee fines were according to the University's business office
UNDER THE NEW PLAN, KU will have direct leverage to collect payments, Glee Smith, budget committee chairman, said.
According to the plan, if the University decides to withhold a paycheck or deduct a fine, an employee must request a hearing in order for the employer he waives his rights to contest the action.
"I don't think they're doing faculty morale as good as putting an entire paycheck on it," he said, for $500 million.
Withholding paychecks has been an unpopular idea since it was first raised in 1979, when the Regents asked the Kansas Legislature to authorize the proposal.
CHARLES MASINTON, professor of English, called the plan "inappropriately severe."
Julie Larson, secretary in the speech and
communications department, said she did not like the plan either.
"I don't think it's really right," she said. "I student have to put up with it, it makes me feel like a slave."
KU NOW HOLDS his students's transcripts or enrollment materials until fines are paid.
The new plan is scheduled to go into effect July 1.
In other business the Regents approval a $3 student activity fee increase to finance non-revenue intercollegiate sports. The increase for summer session will be $2. ? .
The approved increase applies only to the next school year. After that the University will allow teachers to apply for the Master's degree.
ACTING CHANCELLOR Del Shankel told the Regents' budget and finance committee that the raise would provide an additional $122,000, for a total of $180,000.
Bert Coleman, Student Senate president, said he was opposed to the increase. Students who have no intention of participating in a tax break nor not bear the burden of financing them, he said.
IN OTHER ACTION the Regents elected Sandra McMulen, Hutchinson, as its new chairman. She is the second woman to hold that position.
"I hope to be a strong spokesman for the education," McMullen said after meeting with President Obama.
Prudence Hutton, Newton, held the position in 1975 and 1976.
McMullen, a Democrat, was appointed to the Board in 1979.
Weather
RAIN
Tomorrow will be fair with a high around 90. There will be an 30 percent chance of rain.
Today will be partly cloudy and less humid,
and the other service in Toekee, the high will be in the
morning.
Low tonight will be in the 60s. The wind
will turn tonight will be from the northeast
at 5 to 10pm.
Pro ball demanding for ex-Jayhawk pitcher
Rv CHRISTODD
Staff Reporter
Forner Jayhawk pitcher Kevin Clinton saw
league professional player battleper game
player battlesaturday night.
He gave up two home runs, one unearned run, struck out ten and walked just one. His team, the Winston-Salem Red Sox of the Class A Carolina League, lost to the Durham Bulls, 43.
The game was the second of a double-header and ended about 1:30 a.m. Clinton and most of his team went to the last quarter.
They would have liked to sleep in yesterday morning, but that luxury just doesn't happen that often in the minor leagues. The team had to play through a four-day stretch of 150 miles and play another ballgame last night.
"I THINK THE biggest adjustment from college ball to the minor league is getting used to playing every single day," Clinton said. "I looked at the schedule, and our team's played every day since the season started in April. We really expected Friday and some of the guys were exactly excited."
Clinton was drafted by the Boston Red Sox last spring after completing a successful season with the Jayhawks. Clinton won four games and lost eight. But he gave up just 20 earned runs in 70 innings.
He also struck out 68 batters, the kind of statistic that catches the eyes of major league players.
Although Clinton has been in Winston-Salem or just eight days, he has already pinpointed his primary opponent.
"You're really on your own out here," Clinton said. "You don't have things given to you anymore and you don't have anyone to fall back on. Also, the hitters up here are all good. There might be four or five好吊铃子 on most Big Eight teams, but up here, you can't relax on any of them. In the two games I've seen so far, there haven't been any holes in our opponents' lineups."
ANOTHER FORMER Jayhawk, Matt Gundelfinger, has had more time to experience the ups and downs of minor league life. Gundelfinger was drafted in June 1980 by the California Angels, and was sent to a class A team in Salinas, Calif.
Five weeks into his minor league career, Gundelfinger injured a hamstring muscle and had to sit out the rest of the season. During that time he was on knee drills on the bench contEMPLATING his new career.
"It's really a tremendous adjustment," he said. "The grind of playing and traveling every day really gets to you after a while. Some days you just don't feel like playing baseball, but you have to anyway. It gets to be just like a job--you just go out and do it."
GUNDFLINGER'S CAREEAT at KU was short but productive. During his three years with the Jayhawks, he set career records in home runs with 27, and batting average with 370. He set single-season records in runs scored, 48 hits, 61 RBIs, 50 and home runs. 16.
After completing the season in Salinas last August, Gundelfinger played in an instructional league in Arizona. During a 40-game schedule, he hit 26 and cracked six home runs.
Then in March, he went to spring training in Florida and was assigned to a Triple A club. Toward the end of the spring season, he was reassigned to his old single A team, which had moved its franchise to the northern California city of Rohnert Park.
Unguenger got off to a slow start again this season, and then reinjured his harmless muscle at the end of the season.
IVE REALLY RUN into some bad luck,
Gundelfinner said. "My biggest problem is just to stay healthy and play every day. If I can do it into the groove a little bit, I know I'll play better."
While Gundingerfler has managed to keep his confidence, he doesn't expect the going to get better.
“the pitching up here is just consistently good,” he said. “They have command of all the pitches—fastballs, curveballs, sliders and bats.” So it seems that over the plate just about any time they want to.
Despite all his hard luck, Gundelfinger said he still enjoys playing the game, and he hopes to be able to play again.
"The SCOUTS AND COACHES say I have the size, speed and talent to make it," Gundelfinger said. "The main thing for me is that I stay healthy and have fun playing. If you aren't having fun playing, you might as well hang it up."
Russ Blaylock, the Jayhawk third baseman this year, was also drafted. He is currently playing in the rookie league in Sarasota, Fla., but could not be reached for comment.
Finances may force office's return to Union
Bv TIM ELMER
Staff Reporter
The financially strapped Consumer Affairs Association office, 819 Vermont St., may have to be moved back to the Kansas Union, Clyde Chapman, director of the office, said Thursday.
"If the city does not approve funds for a staff member," Chapman said, "I can see possibly having to move back to campus, and I don't want to do that."
Chapman applied Thursday for $17,835 in city revenue-sharing funds to pay for the salary of one staff member and for the operating expenses of the consumer affairs office.
CHAPMAN LOST ALL THREE of his full-time staff members when the state office of the Comprehensive Employment Training Act made a demand to the State Title 2D participants had to be laid off by April 31.
Title 2D is an employment training program, Chapman said. Its purpose is to train people on the job who have a lack of education or marginal employment skills.
The 1978 CETA allocation of $27,000 to the Lawrence Consumer Affairs Office was supposed to have paid the salaries of Chapman's three employees until July 10, he said.
Chapman, whose salary is paid by the Student Senate, said that if the city didn't approve the new ordinance, it would be the responsibility of Chapman.
Chapman was able to maintain the Vermont Street office through the summer because CETA continued its summer employment programs, he said. He worked in the Lake-Line summer employees working in the office.
EXCEPT FOR THE SUMMER, Chapman said, "When the CETA contract was cut in April, that was the end of our funding for employee salaries."
have to consider moving the office back to the Union.
The Consumer Affairs Association was established in 1972 by the Student Senate. In 1978, the office was moved from the Union to Vermont to better to make it more accessible to the community.
FUNDING FOR THE OFFICE has come from a variety of sources, including the Student Senate, city and county revenue-sharing funds and CETA funds.
What was once a one-man operation grew to be a four-man operation. Chamman said.
"I can't see trying to maintain this office with one person," he said. "So it seems reasonable to move to a place that is more manageable by one person."
Chapman said he didn't like the idea of having to move the office back to campus.
"One of the problems we have with moving
baggage, and the reason we move off
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