KANSAN
The University Daily
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
Wednesday, February 11, 1981 Vol. 91, No. 93 USPS 650-640
DAVEKRAUS/Kensan staff
Sam Lappman (right), St. Louis junior and Scott Dold, Wichita sophomore, braved slippery sidewalks and big 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 alpine conditions brought bus traffic to the midnight express route.
Also abandoned were night bus riders, who patiently waited at stops, unaware of the crowd.
"We decided not to run the nighttime express because we were having trouble getting sand put on the street," Steve McMurray, Student Senate Transportation Board chairman, said last night.
McMurry said he notified KU Information, the
Choi, Phillipines freshman, ferried about 25 people from man bus stop to campus last night (April 17).
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 main 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.
Should your car refuse to start, the Parking
sign will be illuminated as you jump service to
students, staff and faculty.
damning claim.
"We don't anticipate any problems." he said.
The jumping service was temporarily halted yesterday when its batteries ran down.
"Basically, the jumpers were not out 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 disabled slips, according to the Parking Services. But cars that are stuck in the roadway, blocking traffic, will be towed.
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KU must disprove athletic allegations
By REBECCA CHANEY 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 charges from the Big Eight Conference or the NCAA.
Prentice Gautt, assistant commissioner of the conference, said yesterday that such requests were "just policy" in 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, entrusting students to the university transportation for a basketball player's mother.
THE NEWSPAPER also reported that academics standards were easily manipulated by the paper.
"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 until the conference that such a choice must be made.
"We have said that we would cooperate fully with the NCAA or BIG Fight." 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.
"Without all allegations being cleared, the chief executive could not do that." Gaunt said. "It was not able to clear itself, it would certainly be obligated to 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, Gauld 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 team would conduct its own inquiry into the allegations.
"I've been out of town and haven't had time to start looking into it yet, but we certainly will learn."
"If they ask us to respond, we will. However, that will be up to them."
THE ALLEGATIONS reported by the Times did not 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 your school, they 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 state university, times, 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."
"I if I knew Washington was going to in- or out of the University, I wouldn't be able to release 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'Dullivan, D-Hutchinson, introduced a bill this week to make those motorcycleists pay for more expensive nontax insurance if they choose not to wear helmets.
O'Sullivan's bill amends 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."
Branson added that the bill would cut down on health care costs.
He said that since most states had repealed helium laws, motorcycle fatalities had increased 45%.
Kandas repealed its helmet law for all 19 states have helmet laws, O'Sullivan said. only 19 state have helmet laws, O'Sullivan said.
The bill, which will be heard before the House Committee next week, was accompanied by a letter from the
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."
O'Sullivan said a recent KU study showed that the average health care cost for a person injured while not wearing a helmet was $18,000. The average person injured while wearing a helmet was $6,000.
If a motorcyclist does not have the insurance
See HELMET page 5
isits Reagan and spending
federal rules, and with Reagan that it is a needed move," Dayen said. "It appeared that the president was involved."
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 was that there would be cuts straight across his knees.
Reagan also called for the cooperation of the legislators to make tough adjustments in the tax law.
"I don't think there will be any problems with
the anatomy and will I need it?" "I think
Kansas was likely to survive."
DOYEN 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.
"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.
HE ALSO SAID Kansas benefited from the hail facility. Dote's wife, Elizabeth, on the affair.
"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/JKansan staill
The statue of the Sacred Heart 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.