Still Cold
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Mostly clear and cold today and tonight.
Partly cloudy and a little warmer Wednesday. High today around 35, low tonight around 12, high Wednesday about 40. Zero per cent chance of precipitation today and tonight, five per cent chance tomorrow.
Ecological Farming
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Tuesday, February 23, 1971
81st Year, No. 95
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Kansan Photo by BOR HARTZLER
Horsepower
throes of the winter storm, these Lawrence High School girls seem to have found a way to solve their transportation problems. Reverting to an earlier mode of travel are Joy Miller, on the horse, who is pulling a dog on the sled. The unconventional horsepower is provided by Glynn.
Although most Lawrence traffic was reduced to a standstill in the
Owners to Comply with City Codes
By DICK LARIMORE Kansan Staff Writer
According to Lawrence City Manager Buford Watson, the city has signed agreements with the owners of six of the eight apartment complexes which remain in violation of the city's Uniform Building Code. The agreements require that the owners make the necessary alterations to bring their structures into compliance with the code.
Watson said that of the two violators which haven't yet signed agreements, one was still working on his proposal. The city has been accused of not being the other owner who does not live in Lawrence.
Watson said most of the owners will have to make only minor changes to their structures.
Several of the owners, Watson said, planned to raise the ground level surrounding their structures, thereby qualifying as two-story buildings. He said he wasn't sure just how many of the owners would be able to correct their violations in this way.
UNDER THE CODE, fire safety requirements for three-story and higher buildings are much more strict than those for two-story structures. The number of stories is determined by the height of the perimeter of a building six feet below the second-story floor. If more than 50 per cent of the line is covered by the surrounding grade, the floor is defined to be the first-story. Using these definitions, the structures will qualify as two-story buildings with basements instead of three-story structures.
According to John W. Brand Jr., attorney for an association of city apartment owners, no in instance will more than three feet of fill needed to build the structures up to the standard.
Brand said the important factor in determining the number of stories was the distance that a person would have to jump from the second-story in the event of a fire. He said the owners who planned to raise their building's outside grade had no intention of "getting into" that part and thus that their main interest was in bringing their structures into line with the code.
BRAND SAID, many of the violations found in last October's inspection on the complexes
were because of the 1967 change of the city's building code. At the time the complexes were constructed, Brand said, they were in compliance with the old code, but after the city adopted its new code, they were not up to the new standards.
Brand said it was an unresolved legal question whether or not the city could force the complexes to comply with the new code. He said no cases of this nature have yet been
tried in Kansas courts.
Brand was displeased with the press coverage that the complex owners had received. He said he thought the landlords were "unfair." And he says they have been subjected to unjustified criticism.
Brand said the owners had made every effort to cooperate with the city and bring their apartments up to the standards of the code.
State Faces Storm Results As Students Enjoy Day-Off
The worst storm in 20 years proved that it had some pleasant aspects Monday, as all University classes were dismissed at noon. The vacation was short-lived, as Chancellor E. Laurence Chalners Jr. announced Monday night that "The University of Kansas is planning to have classrooms tomorrow (today)."
The rest of the state is still feeling the effects of the storm. Central Kansas is still under blizzard conditions and Interstate 70 is closed west of Manhattan. A spokesman from the Nassau County emergency last night that the Highway Patrol advised driving under only emergency circumstances.
Maj. Elmer Karseisen, of the 9th Brigade of the Kansas National Guard, said that about 100 guardmen were on duty in the Wichita City area attempting to rescue stranded motorists.
Attempts were hampered by 10-foot drills which trapped 300 to 500 persons in their cars about 30 miles south of Wichita, and an additional 400 persons at service areas along the roads.
The storm was termed the worst in nearly 20 years. It was part of a weather system which spawned at least 25 tornadoes in the South on Sunday and forced the closing of most of the Kansas schools and many in Missouri.
Among those stranded was the Oklahoma
State Backball team which was en route to
Columbia to play against the Missouri Tigers.
KU students did not seem to mind the kung, and many motorists on campus were met with snowballs as they passed groups of temporarily liberated students. Motorists also found the 11th, 12th and 13th Street hills closed, and their frustration was often reflected by the words of a Trans World Airline official in Kansas City Monday, who stated "Nothing's coming in and nothing's going out."
Southern U.S. Harassed By Devastating Twisters
Deadliest in 3 Decades
INVERNESS, Miss. (UPP) — the death toll mounted Monday in the wake of a barrage of tornadoes, the deadliest in the deep South in at least four months, the Delta country of Louisiana and Mississippi.
Seventy-nine bodies were recovered, 74 of them in Mississippi and 5 in Louisiana. Rescue workers dragged a bayou near Delhi, to give five more persons who apparently were taken into it by the Sunday afternoon storm. Numerous persons were missing in Mississippi.
The twisters dipped from a line of thunderstorms that moved across the South and kept portions of Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee and Florida on turbulent alert during the early morning. Hail the size of golf balls was reported near Birmingham, Ala.
Hundreds of persons were injured mostly by flying glass and debris. So many communities and farms were hit by the 40 to 50 tornadoes that the Red Cross said it would take much more time than usual to estimate the number of dwellings destroyed. Thousands were apparently left without a home.
Late Monday afternoon, President Nixon declared the entire state of Mississippi a disaster area. His decision was announced by the State Department five few hours after the action was requested by the office of Williams. The White House authorized the office of emergency preparedness to start providing federal funds for relief activities. The White House said similar requests had not been made.
The tornadoes were the deadliest in Dixie since a series of twisters took 208 lives in Arkansas, Tennessee and Missouri in 1952 and the worst in the deep South since 419 persons died in a two-day tornado barrage in Mississippi and Georgia in 1936.
Devastation was scattered on a 250-mile line starting at the south with Delhi, La., running through Mississippi's Delta and Alabama, where more than 30 persons were injured.
Firebomb Hits KSU Building
MANHATTAN (UPI)—A firebomb apparently tossed into a basement room in the Reserve Officers Training Corps building at Kansas State University caused an estimated $500 to $1,000 by a campus security officer said Monday.
Kansan to Sponsor Debates
The incident occurred about 10 p.m. Sunday, an hour when the building sup-
pended over a vacant, the officer said. There were no injuries. The team was confined largely to the basement area.
questions from the audience. The format of the second debate will be very loose. Cause and effect is a standard.
Wednesday's debate will consist of
Tonight's debate will consist of questions prepared by Kansan staff members. Each question will be given time to answer each question. Nquestions from the audience will be accepted.
The Kansas will sponsor two debates featuring the six candidates for student body president tonight and Wednesday night. The debate tonight will be at 6:39 p.m. in the Big Ten University Union. The Wednesday debate will be at 7 p.m. in the Olive Hall dining room.
The six candidates and their vice presidential running mates are: Gretchen Miller, Wichita senior, and Sarah Scott, Prairie Village junior; Walker Hendrik, Overland Park senior, and Patricia Murphy, Wichita senior; Brad Snoot, Sterling junior; and Steve Emerson, Topeka junior; David Smith, Topeka junior; and Lewis Wall, Roeland Park junior; and George Pucci, Overland Park junior.
Those hit worst were such Mississippi Delta communities as Inverness, Cary, Delta City, Little Yazoo, Morehead City, Pugh City and Bovina.
Virtually the entire south side of Inverness was wiped out along with the town's business district. A water tower was one of the few buildings left standing, in downtown Inverness.
"I can't get no house," mowed Jesse Hudson, 67, one of scores left homeless at Cary. "It took them all down, wood houses, brick houses, church houses and all."
The Red Cross dispatched dozens of disaster relief workers to the Delta and quickly put up shelves at Morehead, Rolling Fork and Indianaola.
Most people in the Delta, a fertile crescent stretching along the Mississippi River from Worcester to Memphis, are black, and most of them live in urban areas. Many of them lived in unimpacted wood frame
The list of Mississippi dead included 22 in forecounty县, 21 in Sharkey county, 17 in sunflower county, 7 in Yazoo county, 5 in lumphrey county, and 2 in Warren county.
Kansan Photo by GREG SORBER
The current austy weather is not all bleent fenders and wet soaks. Many students took
the day off Monday to enjoy the more fervid and esthetic aspects of the heavy snow fall. Patricia Relep, Fredonia senior, and Mandel Patinkin, Chicago freshman, seem unperturbed after a slight traying mishap near campus.
Drug Arrests Will Double This Year, Elwell Predicts
Douglas County Attorney Mike Elswen predicted Monday that "twice as many" drug-related arrests would occur in 1971 than in 1970.
Fred Howard, director of the KBI,
discussed Monday the new KBI narcotics
squad established by a grant of $313,299 from
the Law Enforcement Assistance
Administration, which is part of the Federal
Omnibus Crime Act.
Ellwell pointed to the 13 arrests that have taken place for this year, compared to last year's total.
No extra local money has been spent this year to explain the increase in arrests, he said, although increased assistance is being provided for Lawrence law enforcement agencies by the Kansas Bureau of Investigation.
The federal money will be matched by approximately $8,000 in state funds to create a squirt of nine officers and a supervisor, or Jack Williams is to be the supervisor.
He added that the funds are also to be used for purchase of equipment for the squad. This will include walkie-talkies, tape recorders for transmission of daily reports to Topeka, and "older model automobiles." These are being purchased, Howard said, because "We want to create the image necessary for them (agents) to work in that (drug dealer) element. It is necessary just as suitable dress, appearance and demeanor are.
"We're quite excited about this because of the number of requests we've had from local agencies." Howard said.
HEW Reviews KU Adherence to Civil Rights Act
BY BOB HARTZLER Kansan Staff Writer
Last May, the Civil Rights Office of the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW) conducted a routine review of the University of Kansas to check how closely the University adhered to the non-renewal standards in the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
The findings and recommendations of the office were returned to the University during the summer. Last week the University replied, explaining what it had done in the intervening months to follow the recommendation of HEW, and what will be done in the future.
The HEW report made observations regarding maintenance of racial statistics, integration of fraternities and sororities, and recruitment of students to certain material athletic scholarships, off-campus housing, recruiting of graduates for employment and hiring of civil service workers.
IN ITS STUDY of fraternities and sororites, HEW found "minimal integration of fraternities and no integration of sororites on campus." They recommended that every student be written assurance that it did not discriminate with "respect to 'race, color or national origin'"
The report noted that federal law requires
maintenance of racial statistics. It indicated that there was some question among the University staff concerning the legality of maintaining such statistics.
Concerning the printing service's refusal to print the Black Student Union's newspaper last spring on the grounds that it contained the HEW report said the Chancellor or Board of Governors should appoint someone to judge the legality of the printer's find questionable in the future.
The duration of athletic scholarships was described by HEW as an area of "considerable misunderstanding." The report noted that HEW had charged that black athletes on scholarship to leave the University before graduation because, when their scholarships ended after
four years of competition, they could not afford to continue their educations.
The report said, "The Director of Athletics stated emphatically that the rules under which athletic scholarships are available must be modified to permit an athletic scholarship until the athlete obtains a dereggraduate degree." It went on to recommend the University clarify its agreement with scholarship athletes and publicize the scholarship aid after the regular eight semesters.
THE REPORT praised the University's policy towards integration of housing, commending the University on its system of handling complaints of discrimination, and on its "forbright statements" regarding its antidiscrimination policy.
The report also noted the absence of off-campus housing inspection and listing by the University, suggesting that an inspection program be implemented.
Regarding employment recruitment, HEW sated that letters of compliance from all employers are required.
portunity employers should be obtained.
The hiring of civil service personnel, was assessed as having "much room left for the possibility of discriminatory hiring practices."
The report indicated that HEW found no consistent method for hiring civil service personnel being followed. The report suggested that all job candidates be selected based on performance and competency according to score of three or more candidates who passed a particular civil service exam.
RESPONDING TO THE HEW report, Chancellor E. Laurence Chalmers Jr. said he would recommend "eminently sound and effective groups of minority groups and of the University."
Other University officials responded to the different items in the report in the following manner:
Chalmers commented that racial statistics have collected, as required, since the fall 2015.
Regarding discrimination by student organizations. William Bailour, vice chancellor for student affairs, said, "written assurances have been obtained from fraternities and sororities and other student organizations to ensure their activities without discrimination.
Attempting to clarify the position of the Athletic Board, Athletic Director Wade Stinson reiterated the Board's policy that the expiration of athletic scholarship eligibility.
The policy statement said the requirements for continuation of an athletic scholarship
(A University statement of non-discrimination with regard to student organizations was published Monday in the Kansan.)
after the last semester of intercollegiate competition are: the student's need for continuation of financial aid; the student's intention to complete his undergraduate program; the student's compliance with Big Eight and NCAA financial aid eligibility standards.
THE STATEMENT concludes, "Although this statement fairly reflects past and existing Board policy, the boards of the Board's policy a matter of record for the future."
Discussing off-campus housing, Vice Chancellor Buffaloud said, "We are in the process of examining the policy concerning off-campus housing. Our plan is to continue to use the form which requires the landlord to pledge nondiscrimination and state that his property complies with the Lawrence minimal housing code."
Balfour said the University would continue to help students file complaints against unsafe housing; but he said he did not think the University could "mount an inspection team
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