The University Daily
KANSAN
University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas
Vol. 93, No. 159 USPS 650-640
Wednesday, July 20, 1983
Weather
Today will be hot and sunny with a high around 100, according to the National Weather Service.
Winds will be from the south at about 10 to 20 mph. Tonight will be clear with low of 75. Tomorrow will be more of the same, with the high expected around 105.
Ruling could allow union
By ANN REGAN Staff Reporter
One obstacle to the formation of a faculty union at KU was eliminated by a Kansas Supreme Court decision last week. Art Skidmore, president of the College of collective bargaining, said yesterday.
The ruling, according to Skidmore, requires the board of Regents to deal directly with the commissioners.
IN A 5-2 DECISION Friday, the Supreme Court ruled that The Regents cannot delegate its responsibility as the "public employer" of students in the University administrators as it had done in the past.
Instead, the Court ruled, the Regents must now negotiate with faculty unions on salaries and benefits.
Staunmore said that he and other faculty members had been trying for several years to start a KU chapter of the National Education Association.
Although a faculty bargaining group at KU is now deemed more likely, Skidmore said, it will probably take from three to five years before it happens.
K-NEA, A. Topeka-based group that negotiates contracts for elementary and secondary school teachers, also has bargaining groups at Pittsburgh State University and about 13 community colleges in Kansas, including Johnson County Community College in Lenexa.
PITTSBURG STATE is the only one of the seven Regens institutions with a collective
The decision is a step in the right direction, Skidmore said. It answers some of the objections KU faculty members have about the effectiveness of unionization.
Skidmore said that before the Court's decision, administrators said that they could not bargain with the faculty because it was the responsibility of the Regents. Now bargaining groups will be present.
Skidmore said that some KU faculty members thought that the Pittsburg State NEA chapter had not been successful in dealing with the administration there.
Skidmore also said that a concern that the Regents would not respond to collective bargaining efforts by faculty members had been eliminated by the ruling.
Two members of the Regents said yesterday they would not comment on the ruling until they
had studied the decision. The other seven Regeng could not be reached for comment.
Items that the Supreme Court ruled the Regents must negotiate with faculty unions include:
- Tenure — Negotiations of tenure procedures and appeal processes.
- Salary generation — Determination of faculty salaries.
- Salary allocation - The amount of money given to schools and departments within the universities.
- Out-of-state travel — Expenses for faculty members to travel to seminars and conferences.
- Promotions — Promotion decisions remain the responsibility of the administration, though some faculty members want more input into appeal procedures.
- Summer employment — Decisions about which faculty members will be employed during summer sessions.
- Retrenchment — Program or department cut-outs or elimination
- Access to personnel files - Individual faculty members have restricted access to their personnel records.
Nuke protesters appear in court
By CHARLES BARNES and MELISSA BAUMAN Staff Reporters
Four of five women arrested last week for criminal trespassing during a peaceful protest at the Wolf Creek Nuclear Power Plant made a first appearance in Coffey County District Court
Coffey County District Court Judge James Smith appointed lawyers and scheduled arrangement for 9:30 a.m. Tuesday for KU senior S. Lynn Anthony, 824 Massachusetts St.
former KU student Gail Boaz, 1020 Missouri St.; Cindy J. Parry, Route 2; and Susan Royd-Skyes of Topeka.
THE FIFTH WOMAN, KU graduate student Cindy Treaster, 1827 Missouri St., is scheduled to make her first appearance at 2 p.m. Monday in Coffey County District Court.
Coffey County Attorney Phil Fromme said the five women were arrested for criminal trespassing after they chained themselves to a gate in the basement of areek plant, near Burlington, Saturday afternoon.
Treaster yesterday described the protesters!
"When the people marching to the rally队 began to get close to the gate, KG&E security officers closed the one large entrance gate which was being allowed in allow plant workers to leave." Treasurer said.
entrance into the plant, which is being built by Kansas Gas and Electric Company of Wichita
"The security officers then saw that we had stopped in front of the gate and so they decided to go inside."
"AS THE GATE opened, we knew this might be our only chance to get inside the plant so I and
See WOLF CREEK page 5
Special to the KANSAN
Former KU track star Jeff Buckingham recently soared to new heights; setting a new American record in the pole vault at the Lawrence Open Track and Field Championships Saturday. See related story page 8.
Commission approves funds for teen community center
By GENE HUNTER Staff Reporter
The Lawrence City Commission voted unanimously last night to allocate $34,000 to fund a new library.
The $34,000 is part of about $243,000 in unused Community Development Block Grant money that the commission considered for reallocation last night.
Although no site has been found for the center,
LAURA AMBLER, a junior at Lawrence High School and a member of a group proposing the center, said last night that the center would be given a grant to help Lawrence teenagers between grades 9 and 12.
Summer, representing Young Adults Recreation Company Limited, a group of students, teachers and Lawrence residents formed to submit the proposal to the commission.
Ambler said, the group already has sponsored several parties at the Entertainer, a vacant bar at 265 W. sth. Sth., and one at Holdley Park Swim Club, at 170 W. sth. Sth., and all of them were well-witted.
Ambler said that the group stressed that the parties and the center would be "non-alcoholic but not anti-alcoholic" because they didn't want to alienate any of the students.
"WE DON'T TELL anyone that they can't drink. We just tell them that they can't bring it in." she said.
Ambler said that there had been some problems with students sneaking liquor in with them to the parties but that it was not widesread.
The $34,000 will be used to pay for the rent of a building, a pool table, a big-screen TV, a sound system, an ice machine and furniture, according to the group's proposal.
The commission approved the allocation See CITY page 5
Still no progress in search for student
By CHARLES BARNES
"We have issued a statewide missing person alert," he said, "but we still haven't located him."
Staff Reporter
MARK'S FATHER, the Rev. Homer D. Henderson of Lawrence, said he notified Lawrence police Sunday afternoon that his son was not home and failed to show up for his job Sunday morning.
KU sophomore Mark Henderson still is listed as missing after his abrupt disappearance early Sunday morning, Lawrence Police Sgt. Larry Loveland said yesterday.
The Rev. and Mrs. Henderson live at 1332 Strong Ave.
Henderson is the senior pastor at Plymouth Congregational Church, 925 Vermont St.
Henderson said he knew his son was missing when he didn't show up for his job. He said his son worked at Alvamar Golf and Country Club, 4120 Clinton Parkway.
Mark Henderson
He said the younger Henderson enjoyed his
work and was scheduled to work a 6 a.m. to 9
a.m. shift.
Henderson said that friends reported seeing his son leave a party at 12:30 a.m. Sunday.
"Mark had parked his car at a friend's house and had gotten a ride with him to a party, which was on the other side of the Lawrence Country Club golf course." Henderson said.
"SINCE HIS CAR wasn't at his friend's house," he said, "we assume that he left the party, walked across the golf course and got in his car."
Henderson said that the "next clue" was that at about 1:30 a.m., $100 was withdrawn from the younger Henderson's bank account at the bank in Iowa. Insta Bank machine at 27th and Iowa streets."
"We are not sure if he withdrew the money or if someone forced him to reveal his secret Insta-Bank card number and then withdrew money from his account." Henderson said.
renderson said that the residence where Mark was last seen **and** the bank where the money was found.
Henderson said that Mark had been recruited as a backfellow for the 1983 Jayhawk football team and that he had been training to get in shape.
This dog probably has had better days. To the horror of many held a free dog dip Saturday to rid the animals of their fleas and area dogs, Lawrence Feed and Farm Supply, 545 Wisconsin St., ticks. See related story page 3.
Nicaragua issues peace plan; calls for non-aggression pact
By United Press International
LEON, Nicaragua — Nicaragua issued a six-point peace plan yesterday on the fourth anniversary of Sandinista rule and accepted a ceasefire agreement from leaders to end the threat of a Central American war.
The plan — which adopted some of the key peace proposals developed at a Latin American summit in Cancun during the weekend — will allow Turkey to turnarab in the policy of the fledgling nation.
IT PREVIOUSLY HAD said it would only accept bilateral talks to avert hostility between it and its northern, U.S.-backed neighbor — Honduras — where rebels have waged a guerrilla campaign to topple the Managua government.
"We do not have economic investments abroad, or dreams of imperial domination, and therefore, our country neither needs nor wants a military force. We have 80,000 people in Leon during the ceremonies.
The plan called for the immediate signing of a non-aggression pact between Nicaragua and Honduras and a halt in all arms shipments to all forces fighting in El Salvador.
IT ALSO CALLED for a complete halt in outside military aid to any group in the region, a commitment by Latin American nations not to interfere in the affairs of their neighbors, an end to economic discrimination and suspension of all forms of bases or exercises by foreign agents in the area.
Ortega also said he "accepts the multilateral peace talks" called for by the United Nations to address Venezuela and Panama — "so that those who say they are interested in peace concrete steps
toward developing the process of setting the basis for peace."
In Washington, the State Department also backed the Contadora plan that called for a region-wide cease-fire, elimination of superpowers and an end to the arms flow into the troubled area.
Meanwhile, the United States has dispatched one eight-ship aircraft carrier battle group to the Pacific Ocean off the Western coast of Central America. The United States is interested in the region," the Navy said yesterday.
THE SHIPS WILL STAY in international waters and conduct "routine training and operations off the Western coast of Central America as a demonstration of U.S. interest in the region and to underscore U.S. support for the North Atlantic region," the Navy said in a terse announcement.
Administration officials have said the United States plans to conduct major military exercises in the Caribbean region later this summer as a result of the war. U.S.'s ability to send power swiftly to the area.
U. S. intelligence sources reported that the Soviet Union apparently has boosted the rate of flow of weapons and other military equipment to Cuba, having sent 20,000 tons of material to the island nation in early 1983. The sources could not determine any of it was later sent on to Nicaragua.
The White House and the Pentagon declined to comment about the war games, which will be the first in Honduras since February when 1,000 U.S. troops arrived in Honduras in exercises near the Nicaraguan border.
NICARAGUA HAS CHARGED the United States and Honduras with staging covert operations against the Sandinista regime in Managua.
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