INSIDE
The last call
The new Kansas drinking laws will dry up entertainment for 18-year-olds and change Lawrence's nightlife. Focus.page 6
Focus, page 6
A helping hand
A hardware store owner from Wetmore and a KU student join forces to assist financially strapped Kansas farmers.
Story, page 9
The forecast
OUTSIDE
Today...Partly cloudy, showers possible, high 92
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Tomorrow...Partly cloudy, high 81, low 63
Friday...Mostly sunny, high 83, low 64
Weekend...Sunny, highs 80s, lows 60s.
The University Daily
WEDNESDAY
June 26,1985
Details, page 3
Vol. 95, No. 150 (USPS 650-640)
KANSAN
Published since 1889 by students of the University of Kansas
NCAA toughens rules but KU safe, officials say
By David O'Brien
Sports Editor
With the passage of 12 new proposals at its special convention on integrity and finance last week in New Orleans, the National Collegiate Athletic Association is known that it's time to play hard ballet with repeat violators of NCAA rules.
No more slap-on-the-wrist penalties for repeat offenders. It's now two strikes and you're out — literally.
A proposal by the NCAA Presidents' Commission calling for a new penalty system passed with almost unanimous approval by NCAA members. Violations will be divided into secondary, major and repeat-major categories.
If a school is found guilty twice of major violations within a five-year period, it could lose the program the second violation occurred under for a violation. It would be regardless of whether that program was responsible for the first violation.
"It should be clear that the presidents and chancellors from NCAA institutions are committed to
Discipline of Members
and resolutions approved by NCAA delegates
Establishes "major" and "secondary" violations of NCAA regulations, creating specific penalties for each — including repeal major violators, who receive three points or some sports. Allows special consideration for schools that disclose their own violations before the violations are reported to the NCAA administrator.
Coaches Involved in violations
Mandates punishment for a coach or other staff member who commits NCAA infractions, even if he or she currently is employed by an institution at the time when the violations occurred. Effective immediately.
Institutional Self-Study of Athletics
Requires a university to conduct a study of its intercollegiate athletic program at least once every five years. Effective Aug. 1, 1986.
Academic Reporting
Establishes an academic reporting program requiring Division 1 schools annually to report the number of athletic recruits who do not meet schoolwide academic standards; to report on the continuing eligibility of athletes; and to report the graduation rate of such students. The reports will be bilingual, with students and teachers both French and English. The NCAA will use the reports to compile nationwide figures. Effective Aug. 1, 1986.
correcting the course of athletics." Chancellor Gene A. Budd said Monday. "We want programs with unquestionable integrity.
Institutional Control and Responsibility
Mandates that a school's athletic budget be controlled by the institution, not by the athletic department Effective immediately.
Institutional Control
Requires annual audit of all athletic expenditures by an independent individual or group. The audit will include expenditures by alumni groups, booster clubs and other outside groups.
Eligibility of Athletes
Resolution that calls on NCAA to develop legislation to be considered at annual meeting in January 1986 entitled *Recommendations* for table for serious violations of NCAA
"Our actions could not have been more decisive."
rules and regulations in which they knowingly participate. Number of Courses
Resolution that calls on NCAA to develop legislation to be considered at annual meeting in January 1986 limiting the number of contests in which a team may participate in one year.
Number of Games
Compliance Program
Resolution that calls on NCAA members to administer affidavit to all variety and recruited athletes disclosing financial assistance and athletically related benefits being received by the student.
schools that already has one strike against it. KU was placed on two-year probation in November 1983 for infractions in its football program. If the new rule were to be between Sept. 1, when the new rule goes into effect, and November 1988,
Kansas is one of more than a dozen
The group of 400 delegates comprises university presidents, athletic directors and other university officials.
KU could be stripped of one or more of its athletic programs.
"What happened in the past had nothing to do with the current program," Johnson said. "We'll continue to operate the same quality program that we have operated in the 2½ years that I've been here."
The violations that resulted in KU's conviction in 1983 occurred before the hirings of Johnson, head football coach Jimmy Banks, and head basketball coach Larry Brown.
orado, California, Florida and Oregon.
Other schools one strike away from the NCAA "death penalty" include Winston State, Southern Methodist, Houston State, Oklahoma State, State Arizona, Illinois, Colson,
Budig said, "It is especially heartening to have hired coaches like the ones we have at the University of Chicago without question, are of high integrity.
Despite KU's current probationary status, athletic director Monte Johnson said he didn't think there would be any pressure on the Athletic Department.
"Furthermore, they are committed to following the established rules and regulations of the NCAA."
Gottfried is on vacation this week and could not be reached for comment. Recruiting coordinator Bud Rattif said the new regulations would not affect the football program.
"We're operating our program in a way now that we're not going to get a second strike. We're going to make sure we don't cross that line.
Children cautioned by notices
"That's why we've got Dave Di
See NCAA, p. 5, col. 1
Program alerts kids to dangers from strangers
Staff Reporter
By Jill Ovens
Two weeks ago, an 8-year-old girl was heading toward a Lawrence playground when a man in a white van drove by. He circled the block and when he drove by a second time, he tried to tempt her into the van with a Cabbage Patch doll.
But the girl had heard about a suspicious person in a white van from a notice that circulated through Lawrence schools in May. And her mother had told her what she should do if something like this happened.
So she run home to her mother, who reported the incident to police. Police have a description of the man van. He has not been apprehended
The agency also encourages school districts to adopt a policy so parents will be notified if a child does not show up to school in the morning,
Partly because of the school alert notice, the girl may have avoided becoming another name on a list of abused, missing or dead children.
Bob Avery, crime prevention officer with the Lawrence Police Department, said the school alert program began in August 1983.
When abductions or attempted abductions are reported to police, Avery calls Robert Taylor, assistant superintendent for curriculum and instruction at the district district. Taylor then sends an alert memo to all 17 schools in the district.
Scott Teese琳, crime prevention coordinator for the Kansas Bureau of Investigation, said the alert program was made a deadline effort to prevent abductions.
"We wish it weren't necessary, but given the facts of our society, I think it is" Taylor said "It takes us to some effort, but we feel it's worth it."
Officer Jessie Treu, who specializes in prevention of rape and child sexual molestation, said she had talked to children at three schools during the past school year and to PTAs at two other schools.
Taylor said the Lawrence school alert program had been well-received by parents and teachers.
As part of the Lawrence Police Department's crime prevention program for schools, a police officer also teaches children from potential molesters.
On Thursday, Trieu spoke to a group of preschoolers at the Edna A. Hill Child Development Lab. 151
The Denning sisters — Catherine, 8, Angela, 9, and Joy, 11 — enjoyed yesterday's weather by taking a spin on the merry-go-round at Central Park, Sixth and Tennessee streets. The trio are daughters of Mary Ann Henry, Route 1.
See ALERT, p. 5, col. 2
Round and round
Staff Reporter
By J.P. Conroy Staff Reporter
SAE's KU charter will remain active
The national headquarters of Sigma Alpha Epsilon has decided to decline KU's request to suspend its local fraternity's charter, a national officer for the fraternity said Monday.
Ken Tracey, executive director of the national fraternity, said the organization had declined KU's request and had decided to let the chapter continue to function. However, he said the KU chapter would operate under the authority of a chapter alumni commission.
The University of Kansas suspended SAE, 1301 W Campus Road, from being a registered campus organization until the university's SAE's national headquarters in
Evaston, Ill., remove the chapter's operating license. The suspension was for violations of KU regulations on hazing
David Ambler, vice chancellor for student affairs, was in Indiana and said yesterday he could not comment on the national fraternity's decision until he had talked with national SAE officials.
Stan Strom, director of chapter divisions for national SAE, said the University request had been made in a preliminary correspondence. But the University did not respond. The university had was to suspend the KU chapter as a recognized organization
Tracey said, "I have no difficulty with the University's decision and I
See FRATERNITY, p. 5, col. 2
Service wants 4 buses without federal rules
By Shawn Aday Staff Reporter
The KU on Wheels bus service needs the four new buses that might be obtained with the help of a federal grant, but not at the price of more governmental regulation. Tim Boller, transportation coordinator for KU on Wheels, said Monday.
"Several of the ones we use now are 20 years old." Boller said of the buses that are contracted from the Lawrence Bus Co. We do need them, maybe not brand new, but we do need newer ones."
Nevertheless, Boller said, KU on Wheels will not want the new buses if the federal money involved federal anti-discrimination regulations about where and how the buses can be used.
A request for the grant was
authorized by the Lawrence City Commission last week. If the grant is approved and if the Lawrence Bus Co. agrees to invest $118,000, the Urban Mass Transit Administration will pay the remaining 80 percent of the cost of the buses. The grant would amount to about $472,000.
"They've just applied for it," he said. "Until the grant is approved, you just don't know what you're dealing with."
be the first in the Lawrence Bus Co. as general manager of the Lawrence Bus Co., said Monday that he would not comment on his company's plans.
The city would own the buses and lease them to the Lawrence Bus Co.
Ogle has said in the past that his
See BUSES, p. 5, col. 6
Area readies for stiff shots of new liquor laws
Bv J.P. Conrov
Staff Reporter
Lawmakers across the country are clamping down on drinking laws, faced with growing public concern about drunken driving and the loss of millions of dollars in federal highway funds.
Kansas legislators this year followed the national trend and toughened the state's drinking laws, which will go into effect Monday. The legislators also endorsed a constitutional amendment that will give Kansas the opportunity to vote for liquor by the drink in 1986.
After Congress passed legislation last July, many state lawmakers were forced to raise the drinking age from 18 to 21 according to the federal law, any state that does not raise its legal drinking age to 21 by Sept. 30, 1966 will lose 5
State Sen. Wint Winter Jr., R-Lawrence, said Thursday that the package of laws was a mixed bag. Winter opposed raising the drinking age but supported tougher drinking rules and lower penalties for drunken driving.
percent of its federal highway funds
A state will lose an additional 10 percent
of its federal highway money if
it does not comply by Sept. 30, 1967
"I think it was the right thing to do for two reasons." Winter said. "One, to get rid of our archaic and hypocritical club card system. Second, it is generally right to limit some of the abuses of alcohol. It's right to toughen some of our drinking regulations."
The new drinking laws will affect law enforcement, business practices and KU students, on campus and in Lawrence.
The principal change affecting KU students is the change in the drinking age from 18 to 19 for 3.2 percent beer. People born on or after July 1, 1966, will have to wait until their 21st birthday to consume beer, wine or hard liquor locally.
However, a number of changes strengthened laws that were already on the books.
Sgt, John Brothers, KU police community relations and crime prevention officer, said enforcement procedures were not going to change because KU police already enforced alcohol violations. But, he said, officers from KU, Lawrence and Douglas County will be conducting seminars to review the new drinking laws.
Brothers said there would be no official grace period for people who were not aware of the new laws.
"Our function and responsibility is to enforce the law and we'll do what we have to enforce the law." Brothers said.
"We feel that if we can get the information out to the public, we won't have so much of an increase in violations," Brothers said. "We expect the underage violations to increase initially."
He said the department was in the process of designing a pamphlet and a program to present information to KU students and organizations.
According to Kansas Bureau of Investigation statistics, there were 47 arrests for driving under the influence and 106 for driving under the influence. Police made 328 arrests for driving under the influence, and the Douglas County sheriff's department
made 39 arrests. Twelve arrests were made for other liquor violations on the KU campus.
Under the changes passed by the Legislature, a person convicted of a DUI could lose his or her driver's license and go to jail for up one year.
Besides raising the drinking age and stiffening penalties for drunken driving, the Legislature has banned drinking specials, such as "happy hours," at private clubs and taverns and the practice of offering an unlimited number of drinks at a fixed price
John Lamb, director of the Kansas Alcohol Beverage Control division, said the ABC would be reasonable in an effort of educating the state's new laws.
See ENFORCEMENT, p. 6, col. 1