The University Daily
KANSAN
Wednesday, April 15, 1981 Vol. 91, No. 133 USPS 650-640
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
KU not given facts on FBI investigation
BY TRACEE HAMILTON Associate Sports Editor
Athletic Director Bob Marcum thought he was clearing up matters concerning the FBI investigation of Big Eight basketball last night, but he may have further clouded the waters.
Marcum surprised and pleased listeners at the Kansas Basketball Banquet by announcing that Big Eight Commissioner Carl James had told him there was no investigation by the FBI into "possible irregularities" in the Kansas-Missouri game Feb. 9.
However, James was not eager to be as precise as Marcum.
"I would stand by my statement of yesterday (Monday)," James said last night. "They (the FBI) have not requested any information on the KU-MU game. Anything else is the internal affairs of the Big Eight Conference and I will not comment public on it."
WHAT JAMES will not comment on is whether any information was requested of his office-on the KU-MU game, the Missouri-Nebraska matchup or the Oklahoma State-Colorado game, all reported to be games under FBI investigation.
James's statement Monday was non-committal.
"The Big Eight Conference will cooperate fully with the FIFA World Cup, as it is, as quickly as possible. At this point,
Analysis
the conference is awaiting further word from the FBLconcerning activities.
"The conference hopes to maintain communication in order to facilitate the full cooperation and insure swift resolution of this situation."
What Marcum couldn't answer and James wouldn't answer is why his Big Eight office was so remote.
THE FBI has never stated publicly exactly what games are being investigated. A story in the New York Times hinted at two games—the Washington State Bowl Feb. 14 and the Missouri-Nebraska game Feb. 21.
A story out of Boulder, Colo., first named the Kansas-Missouri matchup as a possible third game being considered. The sports editor of the Boulder Daily Camera, Dan Creedon, has pointed out that he said only that the KU-MU game might be involved.
Nevertheless, the story was picked up by both
the games and the three games were mentioned
together.
You don't notice the byline said, 'Boulder,' Marcum said. "I think it was nothing more than rumor. The reporter out there made the statement 'may be involved.'"
Boulder has been a city in KU sports news lately. Head Coach Todd Owens recruited a guard, Tad Royle, out of Greene, Colo., who also attended the University of Colorado, located in Boulder.
Colorado Athletic Director Eddie Crowder claimed that Owens had applied for the then-vacant coaching position there in an attempt to pressure Boyle into making his decision. Colorado remained confident that it would be Boyle until he signed a letter of intent with the team.
Bill Hancock, director of the Big Eight Service Bureau, said Monday that the FBI would not reveal the games being investigated. He said the Big Eight office had requested a meeting with the agency one. He said the bureau would not tell the conference when it would finish its investigation.
In other words, the Big Eight Conference is as
about the KU athletic department,
about the investigation.
Jim Craig, a member of Carpenters Local 2279, gets some help from his daughter Audrey, 2, during a protest march yesterday in front of city hall at 6th and Massachusetts. The demonstration, sponsored by the Lawrence Building and Construction Trades Council, was held to call attention to wage projects in Lawrence, including the Marvin Hall renovation.
Union construction workers protest contractor's activities
Bv BOB MOEN
Staff Reporter
About 50 union workers peacefully demonstrated in front of the Lawrence City Hall yesterday against a Topeka-based contractor that used non-union workers at two local construction sites, Marvin Hall and the Lawrence Paper Co.
The demonstration, by the Lawrence Building and Construction Trades Council, was an attempt to win public support for local union workers in a struggle with the R.D. Andersen Construction Company, which employs lower-paid non-union workers.
Also, he charged the company with "hiding" asbestos at the Marvin Hill renovation site and with firing one of its employees because he told him that the asbestos behind the asbestos behind hazardous to workers.
"It's deplorable that a contractor like that is at Hampton, DeHoff, secretary of Rohmachi, said yesterday."
THE DISPUTE started when the Andersen company began work in Marvin Hall, paying workers $4 to $5 an hour instead of the local union wage of $11 an hour.
The state of Kansas has a law that says a contractor must pay prevailing wage rates in the state.
DeHoff said that about 600 workers were in the
"There is existing asbestos in Marvin that the state has looked at and the Environmental Protection Agency has said it does not."
Ken Pecis, vice president of R.D. Andersen,
and the director of the office and the staffing of the employee, R.Fent.
HE SAID Fent was fired because he called the Journal World about the hazard of asthenes when he tried to test it.
Fent said he didn't go to the company first because he believed corporations "get away with" being too powerful.
"We're doing a lot of things wrong," he said, pointing out that there was also a lack of laborers.
Hipp Hipp, director of the division of architectural service, said Marvin was inspected by a university secretary and the found uncapacitated between concrete floors and was not dangerous.
"The air conditioning joints were covered with asbestos," he said.
FENT SAID the asbestos did not pose any danger to students outside the building.
He said the asbestos was inside the building and came out when crews were working on a
said the contractor was told that if the SEE DEMONSTRATION page 5
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By United Press International
Shuttle sails home, ushers in new era
EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif.—Astronaut John W. Young and W. L. Crippen, taking a giant new leap in space travel with picture-perfect grace, blazed back to Earth yesterday and glided their space freighter into the world's first airport landing from orbit.
"It was super!" Young shouted after Columbia's six wheels touched down softly on a dry lake bed in the Mojave Desert at 12.21 p.m. in Arizona, where the flight of the world's first reusable spaceship.
Crippen exulted: "Boy, this is really the neatest thing in the whole world!"
Shuttle test chief Donald K. Slayton said Columbia was dropping at a rate of one foot a second when it touched down, making the landing more gentle than most felt by airline passengers. All past manned spacecraft have been deployed to parachute landings into the ocean or on dry land.
After the success of the first mission, flight control chief M.P. Frank announced Columbia's next flight will be flown by astronauts Joe H. Engle, 48, and Richard H. Truly, 43, former Air Force test pilots. The next flight is scheduled for Semester.
ENGLE, FROM ABILENE, and Truly, of Fayette, Miss., were the backup crew for Young and Crippen. Neither has flown a spacecraft before, although Engle plotted the X-15 rocket plane three times to a space-like altitude of more than 50 miles.
In addition to proving the spacing of the future, Young and Crippen broke new flight frontiers by piloting their space shuttle through sweeping S-turns at many times the speed of sound to slow down during descent, the fastest men ever have maneuvered a winged craft.
The shuttle hit Earth's atmosphere 400,000 feet over the Indian Ocean, gave a final status report of the mission.
out of radio range on its way across the Pacific toward California.
"Columbia, you've got a perfect ground track," said spacecraft communicator Joe Allen when contact was re-established. "You're looking good. You're coming right down the floor."
The shuttle crossed the California coast 141,000 feet up, traveling seven times the speed of sound, and shook the Big Sur area with a sonic boom like a mini-earthbuake.
A CROWD ESTIMATED at 350,000 watched the landing in person, and millions of others saw it on television. At the Houston Control Center, at launch control in Cape Caneral, Fla., and at Edwards, two years of frustration over delays in the program gave way to eruptions of joy.
An hour after landing, the juanty crewmen climbed down a flight of portable stairs from their airliner-sized craft and headed for a medical checkup.
Just three hours after touchdown, the astronauts were back in the air, this time aboard a regular airplane to Houston, where they spent so many long, arduous hours training for the flight. They arrived shortly after 6 p.m. CST and will spend the next eight or nine days there.
During the return home from an orbit 168 miles up, the shuttle became the world's largest glider. Its first landing attempt had to be perfect for women and children. It was designed for Young and Crumen to try a second approach.
Columbia's flawless 36-orbit, 54-hour mission and precision landing proved the space shuttle would work as planned. It launches into space and flies to Earth in spacecraft and flies back to Earth like an airplane.
ITS FLIGHT put Americans back in space after an absence of almost six years and marked the most significant development in space travel since Apollo 11's astronaut walked the moon.
Academic executive chosen
Staff Reporter
By KATHRYN KASE Staff Reporter
Cobb said he had conferred with Chancellor-designate Gene Budig about the academic-affairs search when Budig visited Lawrence last weekend.
The new KU vice chancellor for academic affairs will be Deanell Tacha, Executive Vice Chancellor Robert Cobb said yesterday. Tacha is now associate vice chancellor for academic
"We're absolutely delighted," Cobb said about
the reaction to it. "She has excellent qualifications."
Tacha, whose appointment becomes effective,
he characterized the new job as a challenge.
"I think one of the challenges facing this office is to work with the faculty in implementing and maintaining academic quality and high standards of excellence," she said.
One way Tacha is responding to that challenge is by presiding at the Commission on the Improvement of Undergraduate Education. She also heads the Academic Standards Committee, which ensures KU's compliance with various athletic conferences' academic standards.
Tacha said she would continue to preside at both committees and to teach at least one class each semester after assuming her new duties. The school is run by a faculty member and a property class in the KU School of Law.
"I teach oil and gas at the law school in
the fall," she said. "I plan to teach that next fall, but
it's not a priority."
Tacha said she would choose her successor once she assumed her new position.
Before becoming associate vice chancellor two years ago, Techa was a law professor and an academic.
She will replace Ralph Christoffersen, who left
KU in March to become president of Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Jerry Hutchison, associate vice chancellor of academic vice chancellor using vice chancellor for the office in the interim.
Deanell Tacha
With Tacha's promotion, KU now has two female vice chancellors. The other is Frances Horowitz, vice chancellor of research and graduate studies.
"We may be the only major institution in the country with two women vice chancellors." Cobb
Smiles fill city meeting
City commissioner Nancy Shontz, (right), plus a corsage on Marci Francisco, newly elected mayor of Lawrence, Francisco, the only nominee for the office, won by a one to four vote.
BOB GREENSPAN:Kansen staff
By DALE WETZEL Staff Reporter
A packed City Commission meeting usually means a pack of aggrieved citizens.
Yet, last night, inside the City Commission chambers during the commission's regular Tuesday night meeting, it was an occasion for bouquets rather than brick bats.
It was governmental changeover time, the night that Nancy Shontz, Tom Gleason and Barkley Clark, Lawrence's newly elected City
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Commissioners, were slated to take their places in the commissioners' blue swiped chairs.
Television cables snaked across the floor; the abundance of reporters and photographers caught Garner Stoll, city planning director, by surprise.
"What is this?" Stoll said quizzically as he couldered over the throng to his left, "Are we on TV?
INDEED THEY WERE, and the new commissioners were dressed for the occasion. Shontz,
Even Clark, who usually maintains the university professor that he is, came aloud to me.
the top vote-getter in the April 7 election, wore a long blazer and dress. Gleason, a local attorney, reported that
Yet, it was left to a smiling Ed Carter, who was welding his mayor's gavel for the last time after he retired.
"Do we have any old business left," he said with a pause, "beides Commissioner Schumm
"The boos and the hisses he took on the chin; In fact, it was not running again," she said, dripping with grim fatigue.
'Ma Bell's the winner, the city's the loser./You'll now have time to work out and become a dedicated booster.' Binns finished, as Carter and the crowd dissolved into laughter.
OF OUTGOING Commissioner Bob Schumann, a loser in the April 7 election, Bins had more
As it turned out, he did. Commissioner Don Binns, in keeping with a tradition he established several years ago, had some self-penned poetry to read, and he began with Carter.
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Weather
It will be mostly sunny today with a high of 67, according to the KU Weather Service. Winds will be from the south-southeast at 5 to 15 mph.
Skies will be partly to mostly cloudy
with winds from the south at 5
to 15 mph.
There is a chance of showers and thunderstorms tomorrow morning and the high will reach the upper-60s to low-70s.