The University Daily
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
KANSAN
Wednesday, February 11, 1981 Vol.91,No.93 USPS 650-640
DAYE K8A US Kansas left
sam Lappeman (right), St. Louis junior and Scott Dold, Wichita sophomore, braved slippery sidewalks and high winds on their way down.
Irving Hill Road to class yesterday morning. The two students live in Ellsworth Hall.
Nighttime bus riders get cold surprise
From Staff and Wire Reports
KU on Wheels was KU in the garage last night
when slippery condition stopped bus
passengers in the nighttime emergency
Also abandoned were night bus riders, who also waited at stops, unaware of the nightly rainstorm.
"We decided not to run the nighttime express because we were having trouble getting sand put on the street," Steve McMurry, Student Senate Transportation Board chairman, said last night.
McMurry said he notified KU Information, the Student Senate office and area radio stations and relay upon them to spread the word to students.
But many never knew the cancellation, as two Elsworth Hall residents discovered.
Laurie Rornan, Lenexa sophomore, and Gisela
Choing, Phillippines freshman, ferried about 25 people from main bus stops to campus last night.
The temporary taxi service began when the two took some friends to a chemistry test. On the way they picked up some pedestrians. Before returning to Ellsworth, Roman said she decided to drive by the bus stops and pick up the shivering, would-be bus riders.
Roman and Choing gave rides from 6:30 to 9 p.m.
According to McMurry, the busses will be running tonight.
"We don't anticipate any problems," he said.
Both the daytime and nighttime buses should be on schedule.
For those who drive to school, KU parking lots were not plowed yesterday, but should be plowed today, according to KU Parking Services.
Should your car refuse to start, the Parking Service offer a free battery jumping service to keep it running.
The jumping service was temporarily halted yesterday when its batteries ran down.
"Basically, the jumpers were not out but because they had too many jumps to do," a dispatcher for Parking Services said. "Hopefully they'll be recharged tonight and out tomorrow."
Disabled cars in the wrong parking zone will not be ticketed, but will be given disables slips, according to the Parking Services. But cars that are stuck in the roadway, blocking traffic, will be towed.
"If the car is blocking a roadway, the owner should try to get it out of the way," a Parking Services dispatcher said. "If it's just stuck in the wrong zone and not disabled, well. I don't know."
See WEATHER page 5
Winter's icy winds chill KU dorm residents
BvKATHY MAAG
Staff Reporter
Chilled outside by subzero temperatures and gusting winter winds, some residence hall students have found their indoor refuges aren't much warmer.
"People are wearing coats and quilts in there. You can even feel the draft on the floor."
Drafty windows and broken heaters were the most common complaints made yesterday by residents.
"Snow's coming in the windows that are sapposed closed," Erin Marphy, Leavenworth freshman and Lewis Hall resident, said. "We go on vacation to watch television and it absolutely freezing.
Murphy said ill-fitting window frames created the drafts. She said she puts pillows in her windows to keep the cold out.
"You turn the heat on low and just sweat," she said. "You turn it off and freeze to death from the heat."
J. J. Wilson, director of housing, said that there were some caulking problems where the bricks were too small.
"We know there are some problems, but we try to keep up," he said. "We do have quite a bit of insulation on the roofs and double doors on the walls." Obviously we don't have everything we need."
Other Lewis residents complained about the heating system maintenance.
Susan Stuckey, Overland Park freshman, said that two of her hall neighbors had been sleeping in her room for a week because their heater was broken.
"It's frustrating to be shelling out all this money for a dorm and not even receive the necessary maintenance, like for heat." Stackey tells us about his dorms, "I digg, We'll fix it tomorrow," but he never does.
Other hall's residents were concerned about heat loss in their rooms.
"My windows are really dry and get ice over, especially in the mornings when it’s cold,"
See DORMS page 5
By REBECCA CHANEY
KU must disprove athletic allegations
Staff Reporter
The University of Kansas has been told it must present evidence that it did not violate National Collegiate Athletic Association guidelines or face criticism from the Big Eight Conference or the NCAA.
Prentice Gautt, assistant commissioner of the conference, said yesterday that such requests were "just policy" in all cases where allegations of NCAA violations had been made public.
The Kansas City Times alleged last week that KU had violated several NCAA rules, including the promising of employment to a recruiter, entrenching the position in the transportation for a basketball player's mother.
THE NEWSPAPER also reported that academic standards were easily manipulated by the administrators.
"What we do in situations like this is make sure any and all allegations are cleared," Gaunt said. "It is up to the institution to cooperate with us."
Acting Chancellor Del Shankel said he could not comment on the Big Eight policy cited by Gaunt that he had received official notification the conference that such a choice must be made.
"We have said that we would cooperate fully with the NCAA or Bic Fire." Shankel said.
GAUTT SAID that the chancellor of each NCAA institution was required to sign a compliance form each year stating that the university was conforming to NCAA regulations.
infulnations* being cleared, the chief executive* being cleared, if KU is not able to clear itself, it would certainly be expected, in terms of ethical conduct, to alert the conference."
Further investigation would be conducted by the Big Eight governing body of member athletic directors and faculty advisers if the University could not clear itself. Gaunt said.
GAUTT SAID he hoped the University would either alert the Big Eight that the allegations could not be substantiated or invite the conference to help them clear the charges.
Bob Marcum, KU athletic director, said the athletic department would conduct its own internship.
"I've been out of town and haven't had time to start looking into it yet, but we certainly will need it."
"If they ask us to respond, we will. However,
that will be up to them."
THE ALLEGATIONS reported by the Times to surprise people involved with college athletics.
Mary Harshman, president of the National Association of Basketball Coaches and University of Washington coach, said that various athletic violations were occurring at universities across the country and had been for years.
"Athletes, coaches, even officials have been caught manipulating athletics," Harshman said.
"Our organization has no power to indict schools," he said. "But we recognize the situation. When you hear the same stories in schools, you have to over again, some of them are bound to be true."
HARSHMAN SAID no such stories about KU had been brought to his attention. Earlier, he had said that Wichita State University, another university, would publish Jones, was reputed to be "breaking all the rules."
The coaches association will voice any concerns or ideas about problems to the NCAA at the coaches' convention in March and during the season when it meets with the NCAA, Harshman said.
He would not speculate on whether the association would suggest that KU be investigated, but said the association would try to document any members heard about.
"The public probably wouldn't know about it until the NCAA had completed the investigation and announced its findings," he said. "Charges or recommendations of investigations must come from a specific institution or conference or the school itself."
"If I knew Washington was going to investigate the University, I would not be able to relegate it."
See NCAA page 5
GENE GEORGE
Staff Reporter
Cyclists may pay the price for traveling without helmets
A Hutchinson lawmaker wants to make motorcyclists 18 and older pay for the privilege of not wearing a helmet.
The lawmaker, Rep. Timothy O'Sullivan, D-Hutchinson, introduced a bill this week to make those motorcyclists pay for more expensive insurance if they choose not to wear helmets.
O'Sullivan's bill amends a law passed last year that reinstated the statute requiring helmets for motorcyclists.
"I voted against the amendment making the law mandatory last year," he said yesterday. "But since then I've seen how many fatalities we've had in my district around Hutchinson."
he said that since most states had repeated helmet laws, motorcycle fatalities had increased
Kandas repealed its helmet law for all motorcycles three years ago. Currently, only 19 motorcycles are registered in India.
The bill, which will be heard before the House Insurance Committee next week, was co-sponsored by 10 legislators.
One of the co-sponsors was State Rep. Jessie Branson, D-Lawrence.
"It's a way of reducing serious injuries." Branson said of the bill. "If we can use some incentive to make them wear helmets, I certainly will favor it."
Branson added that the bill would cut down on health care costs.
O'Sullivan said a recent KU study showed that the average health care cost for a person injured was not wearing a helmet was $18,000. The average injury cost per person injured while wearing a helmet was $6,000.
ocyclist does not have the insurance See HELMET page 5
Closed meetings bill OK'd
By GENEGEORGE
Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
Opposites of a bill that would alter the Kansas Open Meetings Law were surprised by committee action Monday. They plan to fight the bill when it goes to the House.
Proposed by Rep, James Lowther, R-Emphoria, the bill was on the committee's Monday calendar for possible action if time allowed.
The bill, which would allow more meetings to be closed to the public, was unexpectedly approved by the House Federal and State Affairs Committee.
Committee members said the chairman, Neal Whakler. R-Wichita, scheduled the bill that way because he wanted the measure killed.
The committee members said Whitaker
As it stands now, the bill defines a public meeting, which cannot be closed, as one at which quorum of a public body is in attendance. The majority of a quorum can be closed, however.
thought the Lowther bill would interfere with
Cynthia Currie, president of the KU chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists, Sigma Delta Chi, said her group did not learn of the action until yesterday.
Opponents said that the change would cripple the open会议 laws by keeping them unchanged.
Whitaker was not available for comment yesterday.
"Now that we have the time," Currie said.
See MEETINGS page 5.
The Lowther bill was opposed last month in committee hearings by Attorney General J. Ben Scalia.
See MEETINGS page 5
Weather
Sunny but cold today with a high near 10 degrees, according to the National Weather Service.
tonight with a low around 0. Winds will be westerly at 10-15 mph.
Tomorrow will be partly cloudy with an expected high of 25-30.
State senator visits Reagan discusses taxes and spending
By BRAD STERTZ Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
Kansas Senate President Ross O. Doyen says the air in the nation's capital is much better this year.
Doyen, however, is referring to the political air of Washington, not the pollution index.
"Compared with the Carter years, the atmosphere is much more upbeat and relaxed." Doyen, one of six state legislative leaders invited to the White House last weekend, said yesterday.
DOYEN'S VISIT was part of a series of meetings President Reagan has scheduled with city, county and state leaders. Kansas Gov. John Carlin met with Reagan yesterday.
Doyen, R-Concordia, the purpose of the meetings was to inform the legislators about the Reagan administration's plans to change funding programs.
"The whole theme of everything was uniform deductions." Doyen said. "They told us they planned to institute a spending reduction, but to do that they would need a tax reduction.
"They also told us that they wanted to give the grass more freedom in distributing federal grants."
DOYEN SAID administration officials told the legislative leaders they planned to change all categorical grants with dispersal guidelines to allow them to allow more state leverage in distribution.
"It is definitely a movement towards less
federal rules, and I agree with Reagan that it is the most of the other legislators there also accept.
DOYEN, HOWEVER, added that while the states would have more control over the funds, there would probably be fewer funds because of the planned tax cuts.
"One of the main things they told us," Doyen said. "was that they had a nervousness touching almost all programs."
Reagan also called for the cooperation of the legislators to make tough adjustments in the law.
DOVEN SAID the legislators pledged their support for Reagan's plans over the weekend but they asked him to pursue the budgetary cuts before the tax cuts.
"I don't think there will be any problems with the reductions in Kansas," he said. "I think Kane County will have them."
HE ALSO SAID Kansas benefitted from his wife's wife, Elizabeth, on the domestic affairs staff.
"The top group of the administration said they were still fine tuning their plans," Doyen said. "They just wanted to fill us in and get our support before they introduced anything."
Doyen said that at the meetings the legislators talked with Reagan, Vice President George Bush, Secretary of Transportation Drew Lewis and several special assistants to the president.
"It is fortunate for Kansas to have someone inside the administration," Doyen said. "Almost every time we have needed something she has been able to come through."
ROB POOLE/Kansen s t a f l
The statue of the Sacred Purt of Jesus is one of three statues that stand forgotten in the decaying St. Peter's Catholic Church in Big Springs. The former parishioners are fighting to save their century-old parish and preserve the church. See story page 8.