1 CENTIMETER = 0.3937 INCHES -
1 METER = 39.37 INCHES OR 3.26081 FEE I OR 1.0936 VDS -
1 INCH = 2.54 CENTIMETERS - 1 DECIMETER = 3.937 IN OR 0.328 FOOT
1 FOOT = 3.048 DECIMETERS - 1 YARD = 0.9144 METER
KANSAN
The University Daily
University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas Vol. 94, No.1 USPS 650-640 Thursday.August 18 1983
AT&T,union leaders meet Phone-strike talks begin
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — For the first time since the nationwide telephone strike began 10 days ago, company and union negotiators conducted a call on a contract for nearly 700,000 striking workers.
The high-level bargaining, which occurred amid recent reports of vandalism associated with the dispute, took place between eight American Telephone & Telegraph Co. vice presidents and 10 representatives of Communist America, the largest of the three striking unions
"The fact they are back together is hopeful," AT&T spokesman Charles Dresen said.
"They came here to discuss the areas of movement," he said. "I don't think we can get it."
ASKED WHETHER the two sides were closer to an agreement. Dynes said, "I certainly hope so but I just don't know. They got a long way to go."
"They're exploring all of the issues that kept them apart", said union spokeswoman Rozanne Weisman, after negotiators broke for lunch. Union spokesman Duayne Trecker said the
"It's a simple matter," he said. "Things break down from time to time."
Sources said a healthy exchange of ideas took place between the two sides. Employment security and money issues were said to be the key topics under discussion.
TELEPHONE COMPANY officials also were conducting separate bargaining sessions with the state commissioners.
The formal talks at a Washington hotel followed several informal discussions between staff and visitors.
Despite the talks, Southwestern Bell reported yesterday that some vandalism to telephone support lines occurred Monday night near Wichita.
The Wichita local of the Communications Workers of America has denied involvement.
For the second time in two days, meanwhile,
vandals sliced through a long distance phone
cause that served 14,000 residents of Butte County in northern California.
A spokesman for Pacific Telephone Co. in Sacramento said the damage left the community of Paradise, about 100 miles north of Sacramento, without long distance phone service.
ON MONDAY, vandals dang the long distance cable out of the ground, cut through a 30-foot section and tossed the severed cable into a fire. Phone service was restored in about 10 hours.
In Sacramento, vandals slashed the tires of 15 cars parked at a telephone company parking lot. A 100-pair cable in the small community of Gilmont, N.H., was severed by four blasts
Charles Dynes AT&T spokesman
"The fact they are back together is hopeful."
from a rifle or handgun, leaving 30 customers without service for several hours.
And vandals struck a telephone junction box in the east Texas town of Marshall, cutting off service to about 100 Southwestern Bell customers.
ON STRIKE are the 252,000 members of the CWA, 100,000 members of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers and 50,000 members of the Telecommunications International Union. Many of the issues center on the workers' futures followed the planned spin-off of 22 Bell operating companies from AT&T early next year.
The three unions have rejected the company's proposal to increase wages by up to 3.5 percent, instead, they have called for wage and cost-of-living increases at the firm.
Bell System supervisors have been filling in for striking phone workers to keep the system on.
Stephen Phillips/KANSAN
Mike Alexander, a repairman for Southwestern Bell Telephone Co., and Laura Davis, a service representative, have laying ten 14-month-old daughter, manned the pickets yesterday at the Bell Center, 810 W. Washington St. 810 West 66th Street.
Bell strike spurs delay in hookups
By DOUGLAS FARAH
Staff Reporter
But this year they are waiting longer in time to buy the furniture they might have to wait as long as a week before their wedding.
Students returning to the University of Kansas are flooding Southwestern Bell's Phone Center Store in their usual back-to-school numbers. Students send their telephones and reach out and touch old friends.
long as a week before their phones are installed.
The week old strike of the Communication Workers of America against the American Telephone and Telegraph Co. has caused the delays, telephone company officials said Monday.
THE STRIKE began Aug. 7 after contract talks between the company and the 320,000 member union broke down. The main reason were jobs security and working conditions.
Ginger Wehner, manager of the Lawrence Phonecenter Store, 816 W. 43rd St, said that because of the strike, customers could expect to receive their phones as well as be used for telephone service to take about a week.
If the apartment is not wired for telephone service, she said getting a telephone connected is unnecessary.
The Lawrence PhoneCenter Store usually handles about 1,000 service orders a month. Weber said, but the number of students in August generally raises that number to about 1,300.
GEORGE CHITTLE, district staff manager for Southern Westland in Kansas, said that of the 13 local employees, its had gone on strike because it was not receiving people to deal with the increased work load.
To fill the gap, Chaffee said, supervisors and managers have been installing telephones
The company has also extended the hours that the service center stays open, be said. The center is open from 8 a.m to 6 p.m on Saturday, and from 10 a.m to 4 p.m on Saturday and Sunday.
The demise of Country Club Week prompts applause and lamentation
By SUSAN WORTMAN Staff Reporter
Monday was a good night for the Mad Hatter. The club was bulging to capacity. Music was blaring, and friends were yelling to each other across the crowd. The line of people waiting to get in curved out the door, onto the sidewalk. Country Club Week at the University of Kansas.
However, KU's long standing tradition of orientation week has faded in the past three years.
Because of pre-enrolment, University officials say, students no longer need to come to Lawrence early to wade through enrollment at Allen Field House.
"This gives students an opportunity to work longer and it reduces costs of having the computer."
vice chancellor for student affairs, said this week.
THE DISAPPEARANCE of part of Country Club Week is the end of a long University truce.
In the 1940s, KU was known as the Country
"They got into a routine not conducive to academic work. We need more activities to orient them toward being students."
David Ambler
Vice Chancellor
for Student Affairs
Club college because wealthy people supposedly went to school here, said John Webb.
manager of Green's Fine Wines, 800 W. 23rd St.
So when students showed up in their new cars
and spent the first week having parties, it was a
lot like a country club.
It was one big party, he said.
If I had one big policy, he said.
Cutting back on Country Club Week, or Fall Orientation Week as University officials call it,
was done purposefully. Ambler said.
A shorter week saves the University a substantial amount of money, he said.
FRED MCLIHENIE, director of residential programs, agreed
"Records and administrations does not need the time, nor do we. So why make the students come back early?" It saves money, especially on utilities and food," he said.
Tiffany Merkel, Derby sophomore, arrived to move into Oliver Hall around 11:30 a.m. yesterday, only to find she had to wait until
Eliminating Country Club Week serves another purpose, Ambler said.
"We were concerned that some kids were nomsessed and anxious about their school life," Ms. Cohen said.
Stephen Phillips/KANSAN
nnoon to be allowed in. She had been on the road since 5 a.m. See story Page 8.
U.S. admits aid to Barbie
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — U.S. intelligence officers in post World War II Germany acted on their own to shield Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbe from prosecution for war crimes in France and then aided his escape to Bolivia, the Justice Department said yesterday.
The department's 218 page report, which came out of a five-month investigation, was the first official acknowledgement by the United States Department of Justice for helping Barbie avoid facing trial in France.
As a result of the findings, the U.S. government formally apologized to France.
A message sent Friday to the French Embassy expressed deep regret over the actions taken in
Germany in 1907 to conceal flurries from the French, presidential spokesman Larry Spoken-
der.
BARBIE, KNOWN as the "Butcher of Lyon," is accused of having ordered the murder of as many as 4,000 French Jews and deported 7,000 others to Nazi concentration camps while he was chief of the Gestapo in Lyon, France, from 1942 to 1944.
Barbie, a 69 year old former captain in the German secret police, was expelled earlier this year from Bolivia by a new civilian government and is now in a French prison
Investigators found that five or six intelligence officers in Europe up to the rank of brigadier general, might have illegally obstructed justice. See RMHMH.
See BARRIE page 5
Stress linked to new freedom
Staff Reporter
By ANA DEL CORRAI
The anxieties encountered by freshmen arriving this fall at the University of Kansas are similar to those newcomers before them have experienced.
And yet, these difficulties will cause a large percentage of freshmen to become depressed or take refuge in either alcohol or drugs, and as many as one-fourth will consider suicide, said Javad K. Hassani, a University of Missouri Columbia professor of psychiatry.
"Freshman who come to college feel less," he said. "They are away from home, away from their families, away from many of their friends. They are under pressure to do well academically."
THOSE FRESHIMEN often find that the family that used to give them a sense of security is not there any more and they find nothing to replace that security in college, he said.
Other psychologists agree that new students face insecurity when they enter college.
A study by Kashani published in the August issue of the American Journal of Psychiatry said that a larger percentage of freshmen than of upper-division students would seek counseling for psychiatric reasons and because they felt a sense of worthlessness.
environment there are enormous amounts of stress, said Charles Snyder's program
"Whenever people are entering a new
NEW STUDENTS OFTEN find that the
rebellion they might have wanted to deter
outbreaks is far more powerful.
"As much as they may have rebelled and thought they were independent, they are shocked to find how sheltered they really were." Snyder said.
"Paradoxically, they experience a kind of anxiety producing freedom," he said. "Even mundane things like doing laundry or cooking sometimes become a problem."
Freshmen also are often overwhelmed by bureaucracy and by the fact that when they seek help, they are referred from one place to another. Benjamin, associate professor of counseling at KU
"We encourage students to talk to teachers and friends, he said. "Faculty, if given a chance, will help."
KASHIAN SAID that it was important that students knew what to expect and that teachers provided part of the emotional support freshmen left behind.
Snyder said it was also important that new students realized what they were going through.
"There is research to suggest that it helps if we can convey to a freshman what that he or she is going through is similar to what other freshmen are going through," he said.
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