The University Daily
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
KANSAN
Thursday, February 12, 1981
Vol. 91, No. 94 USPS 650-640
MARK MCDONALD DKengsar staff
Getting around in the snow poses no problem for Brad Herman, Smith Center junior, who uses his cross-country skis to get home after classes. Herman says his system works great, as long as he is going downhill. See related story page 10.
KU-MU game plan in air
Bv REBECCA CHANEY
Staff Reporter
The opponents of the proposed Kansas-Missouri football game in Arrowhead Stadium are warming up their final chorus of boo—which will be directed to the KU Athletic Corporation board and Acting Chancellor Del Shankel.
The proposal's opponents, who have dished out nothing but Bronx cheers for two months, are preparing for Wednesday's KUAC board meeting. A mail decision will be made by Shanken after soon.
Contrary to recently published reports across the state saying that the decision had been all but rubber-stamped, few people give the proposal a chance to be approved by anyone outside the athletic department.
However, the proposal's outcome will depend on Shankel and the Big Eight Conference and who they choose to listen to. If there is going to be any rubber-stamping, it will come from the conference, which has final say on scheduling matters.
"I hate to put too much pressure on Delbert, but it's all on his shoulders." Bert Coleman, student body president and a member of the board of the school district. "I see his concerns. He's in a tough position."
Shankel said that the views of the three groups comprising the KUAC board-faculty, alumni and students-were representative of most people interested in the University.
"I'm looking forward to hearing the entire issue discussed at the board meeting next week," Shankel said. "The responses I've heard on apology have been mixed, but generally negative."
The issue has not been discussed by the full board before.
After the meeting, Shankel he would
recommend a new team, athletic director,
to make the final decision.
If the proposal were approved, the Big Eight would consider it at a March 6 meeting in Kansas
Shankel said he thought Marcum and the athletic department would be receptive to the idea.
Stories published by the Kansas City Star and
other newspapers have said that the proposal would be easily approved at the meeting of the 20-member KUAC board. But KU officials say that is not true.
"that's just not the case," Marcum said. "You couldn't find anyone to substantiate that."
Coleman said there was no way the KUAC board would approve the move.
"I've called most of the members. I say 98
puddle, and only two or three were to it at all."
"I'm confident that the KUAC board will line up against this proposal," he said. "I know they will.
Most of the alumni he has contacted, Coleman said, were "solidly opposed" to the move. Nearly all students, even football players, were opposed too.
KU students have circulated petitions against the move and hung "Bring the Chiefs to march" in response.
Players split on moving KU-MU game
Bv RERECCA CHANEY
Marcum said that he had not spoken with KUAC board members to see how they would respond.
"I'd rather play at home where we'd have more artisan plays." Wright said. "I'd like to
Most players, even those who favored the move, were concerned about students who could not afford or could not arrange transportation for the game.
See KU-MU page 5
Ernie Wright, freshman tight end from San Diego, said he opposed the move because far more Missouri fans were likely to attend the game than KU fans.
Staff Reporter
Jayhawk football players are split on whether to move the Nov. 21 Kansas-Missouri football game to Arrowhead Stadium.
play at Arrowhead, but I'd rather not be playing Missouri when we do."
"For most of us, it'll be a one-time deal, to play in a pro stadium," Grant Therolf, junior center from Beloit, said. "I really don't consider it an old game since it's only 45 minutes away."
Wright said he knew a lot of players on the team, however, who would favor the chance to play with them.
Pucky Scribler, sophomore punter from
Lucky Valley, then the move might be a chance to
start a new tradition.
Scriffer said he had talked to several players who would like the chance to play at Arrowhead but that he was not overwhelmed by that conclusion, and already had played there once in an all-star game.
Kyle McNorton, junior inside linebacker from Topeka, said he opposed the move.
"KU is Lawrence," he said. "It's our home stadium. That's where we belong, it seems to me. I'd like to play at Arrowhead, but the students wouldn't be able to be there. They make all the noise, and that's a great feeling that I'd miss.
"I don't think it's fair that Missouri is going to play at home, we are going to be playing at Miami, theyought it was
Don Fambrough, KU head football coach, said it really did not matter to him.
KU-K-State scheduling disappoints bar owners
"The only thing I'm concerned about is getting a football team that can beat Missouri," he said. "I don't care if we play on the moon or in the middle of the street or wherever."
By PAM HOWARD Staff Reporter
Manhattan tavern owners reported a slump in business two weeks ago when the University of Kansas played at Kansas State University on a weeknight. Lawrence tavern owners are hoping for business as usual when the two teams play Wednesday in Lawrence.
But neither town's bar owners are particularly pleased that the biggest game, and their biggest financial night, of the season was scheduled on a Wednesday and not on a Saturday. Instead of a weekend of KU-KState rivalry, the bar owners get one weeknight.
"I kind of hated the game moved from a weekend," Fred Lechner, owner of Mother's Day sports, said yesterday. "I don't care as many people in Lawrence. I'm sure school got in the way of it."
John Funk, manager of Mel's in Manhattan,
had been hurt by the Wednesday night fight.
"There was some business, but not as much as there was on the weekends," he said. "In the past, it was packed all the way through the weekend."
The two schools, according to KU athletic Director Bob Marcum, want to meet on Saturdays, but the conference decides the schedules.
"The conference makes the schedule," Marcum said. "We only make out the non-conference schedule. We have no control over the KUK-State game at all."
KU's games with its second biggest rival, the University of Missouri, also were on weeknights. On Jan. 21, a Wednesday, Missouri played at KU, and Monday KU played at Missouri.
'the conference asked us both if we would play on a Monday for national cable TV'
Marcum said, "If we had said no, the game would have been on a Wednesday."
The executive vice president of the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce said that Wednesday K-State games would not have a serious effect on Lawrence business.
"I don't think it has as much of an impact as would change football scheduling," the official, Glenn West, said. "They aren't the kind of team that will be coming in and spending the night."
Mike Hauser, executive director of the Manhattan Chamber of Commerce, said that no businesses had reported adverse effects from the weeknight KU-K-State games.
"We haven't had any of the merchants coming in to us and complaining," he said.
Lawrence tavern owners are optimistic.
The assistant manager, Royce "Urcle Roy" Kliewer, said he was basing his crowd estimate for Wednesday's game on the Jan. 21 Missouri game.
"I think it would be better if the games were on weekends, but business is not going to be hurt very bad," the assistant manager of the Beer Garden, 1344 Tennessee St., said.
A spokesman for one tavern, the Jayhawk
detecting the Wednesday scheduled to affect business.
one spokesman, bartender Bob Timmer, said the bar's crowd would be smaller because fewer people would come from Manhattan to see the game.
"We'll probably have a pretty good crowd for it since it's televised." Troelel said.
Dean Trouel, manager of Louise's Bar, 1009
Broadway. He didn't expect his
business to decline either.
"It will have an effect—a little bit," Trimmer
told. "but it will be very large, a large crowd,
the volume for the day will be."
Former chancellor to speak at banquet
By KAREN SCHLUETER
Staff Reporter
Few KU students would recognize the University as it was 10 years ago, when F. Laurence Chalkers was chancellor.
Skirts were shorter, hair was much longer and the music was generally louder.
the most pressing issue facing students today is keeping the beer-drinking age at 18. Then students worked to get the vote for 18-year-olds. An "F" in a class today might keep a student out of law school. Then it could have sent him the Vietnam.
Chalmers, chancellor from 1989 to 1972, was a controversial figure in a controversy-hidden time.
HE ALIENATED members of the Board of Regents with his lenient discipline, and he feared that his divorce would be an embarrassment to the University.
"He had the misfortune to be chancellor during one of the most difficult times in higher education," Acting Chancellor Del Shankel said yesterday. Shankel was associate dean of the School of Liberal Arts and Sciences when Chalmers was chancellor.
"There are a lot of things he could have done that would have made things worse. Emotions were very high and one false step could have led to bloodshed on campus."
Chalmers, who is returning to KU this Sunday for the first time since his resignation nine years ago, was among the donors during the protest era that led to the growth of the University.
"At that time we felt that most of our time was spent trying to find the bomb before it exploded," Chalmers said in a telephone interview yesterday from his home in Chicago, where he is the director of the Chicago Art Institute.
KUS FUTURE will be the topic of Chalmer's speech Sunday at the Higher Education Week Banquet. He agreed to speak at the banquet after receiving an invitation from Matt Davis, former student body vice president and chairman of the Higher Education Week Committee.
"Our time was spent largely reacting to problems. Now we're entering an era in which university administrators can engage in very significant change."
"Actually it's a wonderful opportunity to thank a lot of people who gave me support during the three difficult years I was chancellor."
"The letter was so persuasive that both my wife and the woman who heads my office at the Art Institute said I couldn't refuse," he said.
Special to The Kansan
Former chancelor E. Laurence Chalmer speaks at the 1970 Convection ceremony in lieu of dose. Chalmers is to KU to speak at the Higher Education Center.
Chalmers said the lack of student concern for issues affecting their future was a change that worried him.
"It is a source of concern to me that students may feel overly-impetled to direct their education at obtaining work and may overlook the fact that they're going to be spending a good deal of time outside of work living with the issues," he said.
CHALMERS SAID THAT he had never regretted the support he gave to student protesters during his years at KU.
"That support was for freedom of assembly and expression, fundamental parts of our Constitution," he said.
Chalmers said that if he were chancellor now he would actively solicit the help of students to carry the message of the University to the public.
Although the times have changed, Chalmers said he believed the qualities required of a good chancellor had remained the same.
Weather
It will be warmer today under partly cloudy skies with the high in the low to mid 30s, according to the National Weather Service in Topeka.
Alleged abuse of funds at KU under investigation
It will be continued partly cloudy through Friday with a low tonight in the mid to upper teens. Winds will be out of the southwest at 15-25° and gusty.
Tomorrow will be partly cloudy with a high in the upper 30s.
By BRAD STERTZ
Staff Reporter
TOPEKA-The House Ways and Means Committee has been investigating charges of fund abuses at state universities, the committee chairman confirmed yesterday.
The chairman, State Rep. Mike Hayden, said he was not totally satisfied with the answers the universities' administrators gave in response to demands made by the Kansas City Times last week.
In a series of investigative articles, the Times said it had found numerous violations of NCAA rules at the University of Kansas, Kansas State University and Wichita State University. After the allegations were made, several state legislators, including Hayden, became concerned about possible misuses of state-appropriated funds.
Hayden, R-Atwood, said that the ways and means state staff are investigating the schools have changed last week.
"When the administrators replied to the articles and to our concerns, our concerns were not completely dropped." Hayden said. "It wasn't because their answers were unsatisfactory but that they failed to answer a lot of questions that we had about their budgeting of state funds."
HAYDEN SAID his staff was looking into the athletic budgets to the extent that there might be misuse of funds or illegal action by state employees.
However, State Rep. Bill Bunten, R-Topke and the vice-chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, said he was unaware of any legislative investigations into the allegations.
He said as far as he knew, no committee had initiated serious action to find state fund
"I have not heard of any investigations,"
But Hayden guaranteed that there was a serious investigation underway.
"If there are NCAA violations, that is their business."
"From what our staff has found so far," Hayden said, "there have been facts that have led us to believe that there needs to be further investigations.
Bunten said. "I don't think that there should be any legislative action. I feel that it is a matter of concern solely between the NCAA and the schools."
The investigation is to ensure that state funds were spent according to appropriations and that there had not been unethical conduct by any member of the universities' staffs, he said.
THE ETHICS CODE of the NCAA, Hayden said, would not be the code of conduct the state would use. His staff would look for violations of the law regarding state funds.
Although Hayden said his staff was out investigating the charges of state fund abuse, he refused to say where they were investigating or how they were looking into the matter.
"I am very hesitant to divulge our staff is because it might jeopardize our sources and the investigation," he said. "It is simply too investigation to have our sources dry up now."
Hayden said another reason for not wanting to reveal information on the investigation was to keep down undue suspicion.
"If the universities find out that our staff is on
my watch, they try to cover up any
missured the staff would find."
"Right now, however, we are waiting to get more information on the subject. The important thing is to be sure of what we have and to avoid anything on anyone's integrity unless it is warranted."