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The University Daily
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
KANSAN
Thursday, March 26, 1981 Vol. 91, No.119 USPS 650-640
Residence hall pot smokers hard to catch
MARK MCDONALDI Kansan staff
By KATHY MAAG Staff Reporter
The marjuana aroma hung heavily in the residence hall corridor as illegal smoke filtered through the door. The three students inside had taken the precautions of rolling a towel under the door, burning incense and opening a window, but the smell still escaped.
The partying residents were interrupted by a knock at the door. But by the time the two hall staff members were permitted to enter, the only students were red-eyed students and an open window
"Often by the time the door is opened, the window is already open and innocent people are sitting there," Fred McElenhie, residential programs director, said. "We must witness it or see evidence. The problem is we have no police powers."
Smoking marijuana in the residence halls is in violation of state law, hall contracts and hall policies. But according to interviews with resident assistants and a survey sponsored by the Association of University Residence Halls, punishment is rare and minimal.
Kenny Vickers, Wichita freshman, balances precariously on a skateboard as he rolls down Sunflower Road near Flipt Hall.
Only about 20 first-time marjuana offenses have been reported this year, MoEhime said.
MOREOVER, John Mullens, KU police captain, said that virtually no marriana arrests had been made in the shooting.
McEhlenie contends that the drug use has decreased recently and that alcohol abuse has replaced it. R.A.s say they do not report marijuana smokers unless the resident is a flagrant, repeated violator, and students say the smoking is an accepted activity in many halls.
"I don't get as many complaints as I used to," McElhenie said. "A nationwide survey recently reported the use of marijuana was down among students and the consumption of alcohol was up."
"We've simply replaced one problem with another. Alcohol is a bigger problem than drug use."
One R.A. agreed with McElhenie that marijuana smoking was not as common as in the past.
“It’s never been brought to my attention as a big, flagrant problem,” Marjo Tiaro, Garden City junior and an Ellsworth Hall R.A., said. “I’ve never even seen it on the floor.”
The survey of 200 Templin and Lewis hall residents shows otherwise. According to Jeff Thomas, Fort Scott junior, who conducted the survey, 40 percent of residents contacted said they were smokers in a hall who smoked, and the same number expected to smoke in the halls in the near future.
"They're kidding themselves if they say it
doesn't happen, and one 26-year-old scholarship
student in a high school in New York City."
Another hall resident said he had never been
omitted although he smoked daily.
"Two years ago they used to be a bong in a (a scholarship hall) attic. I know. I smoked that."
"Drugs are pretty much the norm at the halls."
"We never take precautions," he said.
"Nobody will turn you in. The R.D. knows about my bong. As long as you don't make a disturbance, you're OK.
MELENHIE SAID that to his knowledge, hall staff members did not smoke.
But some hall staff members admitted they did smoke marjuaqua and knee of others who did.
"No one has even hinted that any of the staff smoke," he said. "I don't think they do. I have a lot of confidence in our staff that they're not into that sort of thing."
McElihene said that the R. A was models for the institution's responsible for the repatriation to the University.
'If I knew of any R.A. that was smoking, they wouldn't be an R.A. ' he said.
"I smoke marjuana, but never in the ball," one staff member said. "I stand to be in a lot of trouble."
See MARIJUANA page 5
'Strangelove still relevant movie's screenwriter says
By AMY S. COLLINS Staff Reporter
In the climate of today's nuclear war possibilities, "Dr. Stranglelove" is hotter and even more relevant than it was first released in 1964.
"Dr. Strangelove: Or. How I Learned to Worry and Love The Bomb!" takes a satirical stab in the nuclear of war and the forces controlling it. Terry Southern, the screenwriter, depicts the humanness of power in this film as preosterouly funny, yet terrifyingly real.
"Because of its relevance, people recognize their need for concern, and they see the frailty of human power," he told about 250 people in London. "The auditorium was almost full for the movie."
According to Southern, who spoke last night after an SUA showing of the film, "Dr. Strangelove" is still a very real and intense situation, 18 years after its release.
SOUTHERN'S VISIT is sponsored by the English department's visiting writers program. He will be available for an informal discussion and questions at 4 p.m. today in the Jayhawk
Southern said that U.S. military forces refused to cooperate with the filming of "Dr. Strangelove" after seeing a watered-down version of the script.
Room of the Kansas Union and at 4 p.m. tomorrow in the Big Eight Room.
“After the first screening, military officers and administrators kept laughing and saying they had a guy in their outfit as crazy as Ripley. You should have seen them realize we were talking about them.”
The screenplay for "Dr. Strangelove" is based extensively on "Red Alert," a book by Peter George, a member of the British Royal Air Force. Filming for the movie was done in England, and newsreels were used to show atomic bomb explosions.
Southern said that today, after the long-run success of "Dr. Strangelove," no sufficent safeguards had been developed to prevent a nuclear holocaust.
"WE'RE IN a more perilous situation now than we were then," he said. "The administration thinks they have the mandate to do anything.
The notion of nuclear war is an ultimate
By BRAD STERTZ
Staff Reporter
Committee out of leads in alleged fund abuses
See STRANGELOVE page 5
The chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee said yesterday that an investigation into possible athletic funding abuses had run out of leads.
State Rep. Mike Hayden, chairman of the committee conducting the investigation, said that the last of 12 reported cases of athletic injuries by law enforcement authorities could not be dealt with by the Legislature.
"I would say that we are no longer pursuing the investigation," Hayden said. "We ran down the last lead, but there was no apparent violation of the law."
Hayden sent the Ways and Means Committee staff out to investigate alleged abuses of state funds by the athletic departments and to see whether there had been any illegal actions by state employees.
When the articles came out, Hayden said that he was not totally satisfied with the explanations given to him by the administrators of the schools.
THE INVESTIGATION by Hayden's staff had been going on for nearly six weeks. It was initiated by Hayden after a series of articles, printed by the Kansas City Times, alleged that abuses had occurred in the athletic departments of Kansas and Wichita State University of Kansas and Wichita State University.
Three weeks ago, Hayden said that of 12 complaints he had been given, only one of them had required further study. He would not divulge which school was being investigated further
because he said he did not want to jeopardize the investigation.
Yesterday, even though the investigation was over, Hayden still would not give out any information.
INSTEAD, HE REITERATED what he had said about the investigation before.
"What we did was to look to see if there had been any misuse of state funds." Hayden said. "We were not ever concerned about possible NCAA rules violations.
"But on the one case that we did look into further, we tracked down as much as we could and presented what we had to the attorney general's office."
Hayden said that the nature of the offenses was not enough to justify legislative or judicial
THE ONLY WAY that Hayden's committee could have taken disciplinary action on any violation was if there had been a violation of stalemate.
"Based on the information that we have at the present, there is no need to continue the investigation," Hayden said. "No further action on the matter is planned for now."
An unusual aspect of the investigation was that most members of the Ways and Means Committee were unaware of its existence. Chief among those surprised about the investigation was State Rep. Bunt Den, R-Topeka, vice-chairman of the House committee.
State Rep. Loren Hohman, D-Topke, minority leader on the Ways and Means Committee, said that the study deliberately was conducted quietly by Hayden.
Shankel to give convocation address
Acting Chancellor Del Shankel will address
the annual meeting of *10* this afternoon in
Woodruff Adaptertown.
Shankel has said that he would discuss major issues facing the University. He has never been involved in discussions.
The convocation was suggested by the KU Chapter of the American Association of University Professors.
Wooldruff Auditorium is on the fourth floor of the Kansas Union.
my GENE GEORGE Staff Reporter
Lawrence lawmakers battle against Regents budget cut
The Lawrence delegation of State representatives plans to wang the same battle against buddies in the Senate.
But State Rep. John M. Solbach, D-Lawrence, predicted that unless the proposed severance tax on mineral production passed, efforts to reinstate the state budget would be Board of Regents budget would be unsuccessful.
Sobach said that Lawrence and Manhattan lawmakers had considered offering an amendment similar to that unsuccessfully offered in the Senate by State Sen. Jane Eldridge, R-NJ.
"But there won't be enough funds without passing another piece of legislation first." Solbach, referring to the severance tax, said yesterday.
THE HOUSE was handed the Regents appropriations bill yesterday after a 21-13 vote in the Senate. Eldridge's efforts to restore the university were followed by those whose districts included other Renssons schools.
The Senate bill reduces the governor's proposed increases for faculty pay from 8 to 7 percent and for the universities' operating expenses by a 15 percent average increase in student tuition.
The Senate attached a rider to the bill Tuesday that requires all university professors to hold objections.
THE HOUSE WAYS and Means Committee
He said, however, that support for any effort to spend money was scarce at the Statehouse.
Sobach said that when the bill came up for House debate, "we'll work with a whole range of possibilities, none of which will come to fruition without more money."
"I would guess that we'll handle the budget along the lines of what the Senate did with some minor adjustments," Hayden, R-Atwood, said.
will begin hearings on the bill today. Committee Chairman Mike Hayden said there might not be any more cuts proposed.
don't have kates. "he said.
In the Hairy Takes 63 of the 128 members to pass any measure."
THE FATE of the Regents budget and other
governance tasks to the fate of the
severance law, be said.
Gov. John Carlin's proposed mineral tax, passed by the House this month, is being studied by the Senate Assessment and Taxation Committee.
"We knew last session that without another source of money, there would not be enough." Soon, she said.
He agreed with Senate Minority Leader Jack Steineger who accused the Senate of making deep cuts in the state budget to avoid passing the governor's severance tax.
"That appears to be the sentiment by the party in power in the Senate," Solbach said.
Steiniger, D-Kansas City, made that accusation Sunday when the Senate debated the Roe case.
Police deny mix-up followed Med Center shooting
By BRIAN LEVINSON Staff Reporter
Press reports had said confusion over which department was in charge of the investigation had hampered initial efforts to apprehend the killer. The reports also said that Kansas Bureau of Investigation assistance was not requested by the authorities after the shooting, because of the confusion.
Police officials denied yesterday that there had been any confusion between the KU police and Kansas City, Kan., police after last Friday's shooting at the University of Kansas Medical
"There was never any confusion," Mike Dailey, Kansas City, Kan., police spokesman said. "The KU Police Department has been in tact since the shooting." The KU Police Department has been assisting them."
coordinated effort between the three departments." Dalley said.
DAILEY ALSO said the KBI was involved in the investigation, so unaffected, from the begin-
There has been a good, cooperative, well-
Mike Thomas, University director of KU police, said he did not think there was a major problem.
"We relied very heavily on the Kansas City, Kan. police simply because of its manpower compared to our small operation at the Med Center." Thomas said. "We needed it initially the KU police would be saddled with the responsibility of providing increased security."
THOMAS SAID THAT if someone thought there was some confusion it was probably because the KU police relied so heavily on the Kansas City police.
"The shooting occurred on the KU campus and was therefore within our jurisdiction," Thomas said. "From that standpoint, the rule of thumb is that it is our case."
Thomas said KU police notified the Kansas City KB1 agent immediately after the shootings.
"Also, because the shooting took place on a Friday night, the normal administration threshold is much higher," mesh
together until two days later when people returned to their offices." Thomas said.
In a prepared statement, Jack Pearson, acting director of KU police at the Med Center, said standard police procedures were followed after the shooting.
"The cooperation between the three departments has been and continues to be excellent."
Confusion is just one issue police have had to deal with because of the shooting.
Kansas City, Kan., police shot out about $5,000 worth of outside lights following the shooting, to protect police sniper. The lights had to be shot because no one could be found to turn them off.
"We had snippers in a high area so if we flushed the suspect out they could see him," Gary Chancellor, Kansas City, Kan., police captain, said yesterday. "We wanted the area where the snipers were dark so the suspect could not see them."
THE SNIPERS WERE stationed on top of the Med Center's multi-level parking garage.
Police shot out four lights on top of two 35-foot
high poles on the top level of the garage, Bob
and other facilities operations at the Med Center, said
"We asked repeatedly to have the lights shut off, but after waiting 20 minutes it became obvious they could not find anyone who knew how to turn them off." Chancellor said.
Since the lights were in the parking garage,
See SHOOTING page 5
There will be an internal investigation into the way Kansas City, Kan., police responded to the shooting.
Before parts to fix the lights can be purchased,
University administrators must decide who will
be responsible.
BROUGHT SAID TWO of the lights had been fixed because Facilities Operations had the parts in stock. The other two damaged lights were fix temporarily until permanent parts could be obtained. Brought said he did not know when the parts would arrive.
"Whenever one of our officers discharges his gun, a shooting team is notified and they conduct an investigation to see if the discharge was instilled," he said.
Weather
It will be fair today with a high temperature in the low to mid 70s, according to the National Weather Service in Topeka.
It will be cloudy tonight with a 30 per cent chance of thunderstorms and a low temperature.
Winds will be gusty and out of the south at 15 to 25 mph.
Tomorrow will be cloudy with a high in the low 70s.
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