University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
The University Daily
KANSAN
Monday, March 9, 1981 Vol.91, No.111 USPS 650-640
Ex-legislator, Dykes accused of hurting KU
By GENE GEORGE Staff Reporter
The Legislature, with help from a former state senator and former Chancellor Archie R. Dykes, has launched "a carefully orchestrated assault" against University, according to State Sen. Jane Eldredge.
Eldredge, speaking at Saturday's "Eggs and Issues" breakfast sponsored by the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce, charged that Dykes and the former senator, Arnold Berman, were helping some lawmakers "diminish the reputation of Kansas University."
Their goal, she said, was to attempt to justify dee cuts in next year's KU budget.
Eldridge, R-Lawrence, said that Berman was involved because "he was disappointed in the judgment of the voters of Douglas County and that he thought the voters were politically not very wise, and so perhaps it was time for them to get their just desserts."
SHE SAID THAT Berman, a Democrat now working as a lobbyist, wanted to lower faculty pay raises to 6 percent. The Senate Ways and Means Committee trimmed the faculty pay raise from Gov. John Carlin's recommended 8 percent increase. But the governor demanded the governor to propose a 10 percent increase.
Berman, who publicly has expressed bitterness at losing the senate race to Eldridge last November, said he was "shocked and amazed" Sen. Eldridge would make a comment like that.
He said maybe she made those comments to cover up for campaign promises she could not
Dykes, now president of the Security Benefit
Group in Topeka, could not be reached for comment.
Eldredge, in her comments, referred to last month's controversy about the management of the University of Kansas Medical Center. Some lawmakers, including Senate Ways and Means Chairman Paul Hess, R-Wichita, had a surprise inspection of the Med Center last month.
HESS AND OTHER lawmakers then held a closed-door session with the Board of Regents. According to press reports, the legislators told the Regents that if they did not resolve the lawmakers' list of complaints by the end of the Legislature would cut the Regents budget.
"After the tour of the Medical Center was completed," Eldredge said, "those legislators chose to discuss their concerns with other parties who were no longer part of the Legislature (Berman), who were no longer part of the University family (Dykes)."
Hess and the others kept their complaints from Acting Chancellor D. Shankel, however, Pillar was killed in a car crash.
"It was, I believe, more than a lack of common courtesy (not) to either inform Chancellor Shankel that the visit was being made, or that after it was made to inform him of the concerns that the members of the Legislature had," she said.
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BERMAN CONFIRMED that Dykes and he
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KU's Tony Guy and John Crawford hoist the Big Eight postseason tournament trophy for the sellout crowd at Kemper Arena Saturday night. Kansas defeated K-State, 80-68, to win the tournament and earn a spot in NCAA regional competition.
NCAA tournament awaits Javhawks
By KEVIN BERTELS
Sports Editor
KANSAS CITY—Mo.-Kansas' basketball tradition has been slipping in recent years, but the Jayhawks' opponent in the first round of the NCAA tournament has no tradition.
See ELDREDGE page 5
KU, now 22-7 and Big Eight postseason tournament champions, will face Mississippi, 16-13 and Southeastern Conference tournament champs, at 8:08 p.m. Friday in Wichita's Henry Levitt Arena. The winner plays Arizona State Sunday afternoon.
THE JAYHAWKS, the third winning team in college basketball history, at least slowed down their recent slide by beating Kansas State 80-68 Saturday night in Kemper Arena. The victory gave KU its first post-season tournament win and was the first time someone had more memories of an 18-10 season two years ago and a 15-14 record last year. Both years KU lost in the tournament finals.
"in my years at Kansas this is the only championship to escape me."
"I'm delighted," Head Coach Ted Owens said. "It was our goal at the beginning of the season to get an NCAN bid and to win 20 games. We figured to win 20 awards and the bid would follow along."
OWENS WAS pleased with both the Jayhawks in round assignment and the site of the first-round game.
KU, seeded seventh in the 12-tair Midwest regional, will be among six teams at the Wichita sub-regional. The other sub-regional site is Austin, Texas.
THE REGIONAL'S top four seeds receive byes and in the second round will meet the four winners of the sub-regional's first-round games. The four winners of the second-round games advance to the regional semifinals in the Louisiana Suncreed in New Orleans.
After the KU game Friday Wichita State will
soon southern University. The winner plays Iowa
Southern.
The top four seeds, in order, are Louisiana State. Arizona State and Louisville, the defending national semifinalists.
"I have some fond memories of playing in winters," he said. In 1971 we won the Midwest Western Conference.
the final Four during my tenure here. It was a moment in my coaching career I will never forget.
"But the important thing is to make it to the NCAA. The fact that it's in Wichita makes it especially nice because it gives our fans a better opportunity to be there."
Henry Levitt Arena holds about 11.000.
JUST HOW many fans will be there, however, is uncertain. Nanyce Wylsh, KU ticket manager, said that some tickets would be sold in Lawrence and that details would be available today.
Mississippi, with its 16-13 record, has the worst record of any team in the NCAA tournament. The Rebels qualified when they won the Southeastern Conference postseason tournament, defeating Tennessee in the first round, and积分 in the semifinals and Georgia in the finals.
The results of that tournament greatly affected the at-large bids for the NCAA tournament because of the Top 20 teams. No. 3 Tennessee were three of Kentucky and No. 12 Tennessee were defeated.
OLE MISS, however, has never played in the NCAA tournament before.
The Rebels have an all-SEC forward, 6-foot-5 senior Elton Turner, and a well-coached team.
"Their coach, Bob Wettlich, is a Bobby Knight protege," Owens said. "They play tough man-to-man defense and have a lot of movement on offense.
"It's kind of a fairy tale story. People just
have to do it, but you have to have
more talent than people give us credit for."
Two months ago the Rebels were far back in the race with a 1-8 record. An NCAA bid looked timid.
ALTHOUGH THE game will be Ole Misa's first NCA-tournament appearance, it will be KU's 12th. Only three schools in the nation—UCLA, Michigan and Ohio have made trips to the NCAA tournament.
"They are a well-coached team and I expect a physical game."
"We never lost the faith," Wettlich said. "We made some lineup adjustments and got it to work."
The Jayhawks have played in the Final Four six of those times, including twice under
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KU Iranian group to be investigated
Staff Reporter
By KAREN SCHLUETER
In the complaint, Heape said there was reasonable cause for an investigation based on allegations made by committee members Thursday.
The Student Senate Finance and Auditing Committee will begin an investigation this week into charges of misuse of student funds by the Iranian Students Association.
Ron Hape, Cultural Committee co-chairman, filed a complaint Friday as a result of questioning during Thursday's budget hearings about the costs of funds in compliance with Senate regulations.
The allegations, made at the meeting by Krupa
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Billa. Cultural Committee co-chairman, and Mahmoud engineering senator, con-
tributes the SAFF officer with gratitude.
BILLA AND AMANI, both officers of the International Club, said that ISA was given Senate money to run an advertisement announcing its officer elections, and used the money to advertise a film about the Chilean revolution.
The other allegation in the complaint was that ISA did not hold open and well-publicized elections, one of the stipulations of the Senate's funding philosophy.
Heape said he hoped the Cultural Committee would vote to table ISA's budget request for next year until the Finance and Auditing Committee completed its investigation.
See ISA page 5
Printing error makes severance bill unacceptable
By BRAD STERTZ Staff Director
Staff Reporter
For just a moment the mineral severance tax seemed ready to fly triumphantly out of the House chamber today and to wind its way across the hall into a cautiously waiting Senate.
But something happened to the bill over the weekend. Because of a printing error in the House journal, the record of Friday's session, including votes to enable to everyone, included Gov. John Carlin.
The mistake was made when the printers, following the pattern of Texas' severance tax, wrote that the tax would "include" rather than "exclude" private royalty owners. That one
provision was a point that Carlin wanted specifically made in the bill.
"I really don't think that too much will become of the misprint, along the lines of having to start all over," State Rep. Jessie Branson, D-Dawrence, said. "I think it will end up like a vote that there will be enough votes to prevent the bill from going back into committee."
BUT NOW because of the printing mistake that provision is absent and the whole cycle of debate, committee hearings and floor votes could begin again. Or it might not.
The amendment that Branson referred to was one on which new action had to be taken. After a few months, the decision was made.
Branson said she thought that after the vote on the mistake were re-opened, a vote would be taken and a final vote on the entire tax would come by today.
"It is not going to be simple to fix the problem," Farrar, a staunch opponent of the bill, said. "Even on the federal level it has been required in figure out how to exempt the royalty owners."
ment, the matter was passed quickly after the motion.
FARRAR SAID that he would like to see the ball go back into committee for further study on this.
State Rep. Kearn Farrar, R-Huguenot, however, thought that the question underlying the mistake was not important.
Other options to deal with the mistake include taking final action despite the printing mistake or re-considering the bill and voting again after the change has been fixed on the floor.
"I don't think that it would be a good idea to go through all the details of this issue on the House floor." Farrar said. "What you would get is less money and you want to fix a complicated bill. It just won't work."
AS THE BILL stands with the mistake, Farrar said, it will not stand a chance of passing the final vote. Branson, however, said there would be no challenge to the reconsideration and then a quick final vote.
Farrar said one problem that the opponents faced in re-shaping the bill was that they could
See SEVERANCE page 5
By AMY S. COLLINS Staff Reporter
Kansas axes KU concert
Kansas couldn't come to Lawrence last night. But the group may make it in April.
The concert was cancelled about 10 a.m. yesterday, just 10 hours before the 8 p.m. concert. The stage had been set up Saturday and was dissembled yesterday morning.
Robby Steinhardt, group violinist, announced yesterday in KLZR-FM that a member member was ill and that they would take the next two days off from their tour. Steinhardt would not reveal the name of the sick member of the six-member band.
The band hopes to reschedule the concert for the middle of April when the tour ends, Steinhardt said. The tour is scheduled to end April 14.
According to John Conrad, KLZR program director, the station received more than 100 calls concerning the rescheduling of the show. Are they asking if they should hold on to tickets
Eight thousand tickets had been sold for the assurance that was to be held in Allen Field Hockey.
A spokesman for KYYS F in Kansas City,
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Weather
Terminal abuse does not compute
It will be warmer today with the high in the lower 50s, according to the National Weather Service in Topeka.
The low tonight will be in the upper 20s. Winds will be light and variable from the west and northwest.
Tomorrow's high will be in the lower 50s.
BY DOUG BURSON and BOR MOEN
The Academic Computer Center has the most sophisticated security system on campus. Its James Bond architecture is riddled with card keys and electric doors and the system is constantly updated.
But every time a student sits down at a computer terminal there is the possibility of theft or valuation computer time along with data.
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While the total cost of known abuse so far this fiscal year has only been a little more than $600, out of an $800,000 budget, there is the potential for large scale abuse of the computer center's Honeywell 66/60.
"It's not the biggest problem we have, but it's a nuisance—move of a hassle than anything else," Warren Carrington, a former staff member of Microsoft.
We just don't know how much abuse there really is that we need about, "Paul Wolfe, coordinator of computer services."
THE PROBLEM, felt nationwide, has been compounded by the phenomenal growth of KU's computer use. Since 1977, use of KU computers was up 35 percent.
The number of students and courses using the computer has
increased as well. This year alone, 17,475 students will have some kind of instructional use of the computer.
The computer science department is the biggest user of the computer with a 37.7 percent share of the use, followed by the School of Engineering, 24.1 percent, and the physical sciences, 21 percent.
Much of the misuse takes place because the system is set up
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with a network of accounts that have different amounts of money in them.
Computer money is actually time with regard to computer accounts. The computer center charges each account according to the amount of computer time used. Money does not have a limit, so each department that the account is assigned to is charged.
All computer-related courses have accounts and almost any student, with an instructor's approval, has the opportunity to establish a computer account to run programs or work on research projects.
AFTER A STUDENT obtains an account, he chooses a 12-character identification number and a password. With these,
See COMPUTERS page 9