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The University Daily
KANSAN
Vol. 94, No.63 (USPS 650-640)
Published since 1889 by students of the University of Kansas
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Wednesday morning, November 16. 1983
NCAA hands down decision on KU; possibility of probation undisclosed
Sports Editor
By ANDREW HARTLEY
Sports Editor
The National Collegiate Athletic Association has rendered its decision regarding the KU athletic program and has sent its findings to the University general counsel said yesterday.
Vicki Thomas, the general counsel, said that the University of Kansas had received a letter from the NCAA on Monday stating the findings in the lawsuit. The court said which heard KU's case Oct. 28 in Overland Park.
BUDIG, CONTACTED last night after he returned from a research center dedication in Spain, said that he had a package of information from the NCAA at his residence.
However, he said, he hasn't read the contents of the package.
"I'm really in no position to comment at this time." he said.
The Lawrence Daily Journal-Report reported yesterday that the NCAA had placed KU's program in danger.
report said that KU would be restricted from television and bowl appearances for the 1984-85 season but not for the 1985-86 season.
The story did not list violations of NCAA regulations that would have been contained in the letter. The newspaper also said it could not be used for that reason, so it could be leavened against the basketball program.
The newspaper did not attribute the information
Athletic Director Monte Johnson said he would not comment on the newspaper report. Del Brinkman, KU faculty representative to the NCAA, was in Coffeyville yesterday and said he was not aware that KU had received a letter from the NCAA.
HEAD FOOTBALL COACH Mike Gottfried
and he knew nothing about the NCAA's
decision.
David Berst, director of enforcement for the NCAA, said that once a school had received the decision of the infractions committee, the school has 15 days to either accept or appeal the ruling.
Budig said that he would meet today or tomorrow with Johnson and Thomas to decide what would be the plan.
The NCAA Council, which meets next in
January, hears all appeals of Infractions Committee decisions.
If KU were to accept the findings of the infractions committee, Berst said, the University would still have to notify the NCAA office in writing.
Berst said that any official announcement about sanctions dealing with an NCAA university would come directly from its main office in Mission
KU IS BOUND to secrecy until the official NCAA announcement, Berst said. If KU were to release the information before that time, it would further sanctions or court action by the NCAA.
"Actually, any information released at this point would be premature, since the school would still have the opportunity to appeal," Berst said.
In any event, Berst said, an official announcement about the KU athletic program could come as soon as five days or as late as mid-January.
Berst said that if the Journal-World report was correct, the second year of probation would allow the Committee on Infractions to monitor the athletic program.
The last time KU was on probation was in 1972.
6 candidates favor financing student groups
Bv PETE WICKLUND
Staff Reporter
Student Senate should continue to allocate money to student organizations, six student body presidential and vice presidental candidates last night at a candidate's debate in the Senate.
But the two candidates representing the Freedom Coalition continued to maintain their stand that mandatory activity fees should be abolished, and that students should contribute money for those groups in which they have an interest.
The issue of financing student organizations was but one of several that candidates discussed in the draft plan.
Black Caucus. About 80 students attended the debate.
CANDIDATES FROM THE four coalitions each drew up a question for the debate and answered all candidates' questions. Each team and about one minute to respond to the questions.
Steve Bergstrom, Winnetka, Ill., junior and the Freedom Coalition's candidate for president, continued to push his campaign promise to cut financing to most student organizations.
But candidates from the Costume Party, Momentum and Priority coalitions said that
financing of student organizations was essential
financing of student organizations was essential. Carla Vogel, Overland Park senior and the College President, said that student organizations gave students a chance to further their university educations.
"By shutting down organizations, you're shutting down a channel for different ideas," she
PRIORITY'S PRESIDENTIAL candidate, Scott Swenson, Topeka junior, echoed Vogel's sentiments.
"We should continue to learn outside the classroom as well as in the classroom," Swenson
Momentum's presidential candidate Kevin Walker, Webster Groves, Mo., senior, said he
See ELECTION, p. 5, col. 1
Muslim gunmen continue east Beirut attack
By United Press International
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Muslim gunners blasted Christian east Beirut with mortars and rockets for the third day yesterday and pounded a key Lebanese army outpost in the worst breach of the cease-fire in seven weeks. Police said at least four people were killed.
U. S. F-14 Tomcats streaked across the hills east of Beirut to locate the Muslim batteries after shells fell into the sea far from 30 ships in the Gulf of Oman, miles offshore, Lebanese security sources said.
In the northern port of Tripoli, Palestinian rebels struck Yasser Arafat's last strongholds with tanks, artillery and rockets in a three-front battlefield, capable of thousands of civilians in deadly crossfire.
RED CROSS AND hospital officials reported that at least 15 people had been killed and that at least 18 had been wounded.
There were conflicting reports on the success of the blitz, which capped a 12-day rebel siege of the sprawling port and the decimation of the dugout and refuge camp — Arafat's last outpost in Lebanon.
State-run Beirut Radio said that the Syrian-backed rebels, opposed to Arafat's rule of the Palestine Liberation Organization, captured land up to the outskirts of Tripoli.
It also said that the Arafat loyalists still in the Bedawi camp would retreat and stage a last stand with 5,000 conrades who had retreated from Tripoli to Juba and came to Tripoli's densely populated neighborhoods.
But Christian Phalange Radio said late yesterday that Arafat's fighters had regrouped
WAFA, THE PRO-ARAFAT news agency in Cyprus, said that the blitz was repulsed and Arafat's outnumbered troops destroyed 14 tanks and 32 aircraft, leading the leaders of two rebellious PLO factions.
and launched a counterattack, taking back some hillside positions over the camp.
Police in Beirut said that at least four people were killed and 12 were wounded in the new attacks there. Three people were killed in shelling Sunday and Monday.
Fifteen shells crashed into residential areas in the morning, including Sin el Fil, where President Amin Gemayel has a home. He was at the suburban Baada palace at the time.
A shell also exploded on the steps of the Palace of Justice and a rocket hit a hospital in the Ashrafiye area, forcing doctors and nurses to evacuate patients.
Gary Smith/KANSAN
Capt. Stan Ray of the Lawrence Fire Department hoses off a 20-gallon barrel of hydrochloric acid after it fell from the back of a flatbed truck at 13th and Connecticut streets, spilling a gallon of its contents. Russel Birckell, center, and Maj. Don Beckner, right, helped clean up the spill, which occurred shortly before 12:30 p.m. yesterday. Lawrence police said the spill was not serious. The barrel contained a solution comprising about 28 percent hydrochloric acid. Firefighters neutralized the acid with soda ash before they housed it off the street. The truck was driven by an employee of Fender Pipe and Supply, RFD 5.
KU hopes appeal will help increase Regents budget recommendations
Staff Reporter
By DONNA WOODS
made to Gov, John Carlin.
The University of Kansas will appeal lower-than-expected state budget division recommendations for its 1985 fiscal year budget to the department's agents, KU's executive secretary said yesterday.
"I don't think that the University of Kansas tared so well," he said. "We have more work to do."
Richard Von Ende, the executive secretary, said the appeal to the Regents would be the first step in a process that might eventually alter the recommendations the state budget division
VON ENDE SAID recommendations for both the Lawrence campus and the University of Kansas Medical Center were comparatively low, supporting financing for Kansas University.
Budget division recommendations for the Lawrence campus were $1.4 million below level
See BUDGET, p. 5, col. 4
Judicial Board hears grade disputes, but lacks authority to overrule profs
By GINA K. THORNBURG Staff Reporter
Two years ago, a KU student filed a complaint with the University Judicial Board to protest a penalty for filing an absconding
His professor, he said, had told him, "You'll never get anything better than a 'F' from me."
After meeting with both the student and the professor, the judicial board decided that the student's case was well-documented. It recommended that his grade be changed.
"And that was the end of the ball game," said Francis Heller, who was chairman of the judicial committee.
THE STORY, HELLER said recently, is an extreme example. But during his tenure on the judicial board, more students came to him with grade complaints than with any other problem.
The professor, however, declined
the judicial board is a group of 58 faculty and students who try to resolve student and faculty conflicts at the University. When a student or faculty member files a complaint with the board, the faculty or students assigned to help the case. The names of students and professors in such cases are confidential.
But Heller, who also is the Roy A. Roberts distinguished professor of law, said that he had to tell those students that the judicial board "couldn't do anything."
out although some students have legitimate grade complaints, Heller said, the hearing committee cannot require an instructor to change a grade. It can only recommend a
SANDRA CRAIG, ASSOCIATE professor of law, is chairman of the Organization and Administration Committee, which is writing a proposal that would establish a panel specifically to address grade appeals. She agreed that there was a problem with the present system.
A committee of the University Council, however, is working to amend this.
"The government's documents do leave instances where a stubborn instructor could say I'm not going to change this," "Craig said. "Our committee will definitely define a proposal."
Under present University grievance procedures, all types of complaints are handled first by the departments in which they are made, then by the schools. Students dissatisfied with the decision of a department or a school can appeal the decision to the judicial board.
William Balfour, KU's ambudsman, said that students do not think the present grievance system gives them much of a chance to reverse their grades.
Craig said, "I'm not sure that a student would be well-advised to go to the judicial board because they can't do anything for you, unless they have an instructor's opinion would help change the instructor's mind."
UNIVERSITY RULES AND regulations state that the only person who can change a student's grade is an administrator.
"The professors," he said, "don't change more than 20 percent of the grades."
But there are three exceptions. A de-
See APPEAL, p. 7, col. 1
United Press International
GREENHAM COMMON, England — British policewomen drag away a woman protester from one of the gateways of the Greenham Common Airbase. Yesterday's protests continued outside the base as U.S. planes reportedly brought cruise missile equipment into Britain.
Missiles arrive in Britain, spark heated protests
By United Press International
About 125 women were arrested at Greenham Common air base west of London, where the missiles were arriving, after they blockaded the main gate in a chanting and singing demonstration. The first batch of cruise missiles arrived Monday.
As they stopped traffic, a U.S. C-5a Galaxy and a C-141 Starlifter landed on a runway guarded by paratroops and a vehicle-mounted gun.
In another outburst, demonstrators sprayed red paint in the British defense
LONDON - Giant American transport planes apparently carrying a second batch of cruise missiles and possibly nuclear warheads landed yesterday at an air base west of London, sparking protests and at least 425 arrests in separate demonstrations.
REPORTERS AT THE scene said that six or eight long crates were wheeled toward the missile storage silos and that other cylinders, too, were loaded, heads, also were unloaded from the planes.
The defense ministry refused to comment on the cargo of the planes.
Police also arrested some 300 anti-nuclear protesters outside the House of Commons in London last night. A representative for Scotland Yard said the protesters were arrested under an 1899 law that prohibited them within a one mile of parliament when in session.
"They were repeatedly told to move on," the representative said, adding that the protest was passive and that "at no stage was there violence of any kind."
See MISSLE, p. 5, col. 4