The University Daily
KANSAN
University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas
Vol. 93, No. 153 USPS 650-646
Wednesday, June 29,1983
Weather
Today will be mostly cloudy with a 30
percent chance of thunderstorms, according
to the National Weather Service in Topeka.
The weather around 8th with southwest
winds 5 to 15 mph.
Tonight will be fair with a low around 70.
Tomorrow will be mostly sunny with a high in the mid- to upper-80s.
Residence hall dwellers confused by fire alarms
Staff Reporter
By MICHAEL PAUL Staff Renorter
Students in KU residence halls this fall may receive notices that explain how fire alarms sound in their residence hall — a move that should clear up confusion that has arisen from the different sounds that alarms make in the halls, a KU official said Monday.
that students in Joseph R. Pearson Hall were unsure of what JRP3's fire alarm — a cycle of a long loud buzz followed by two short loud buzzer impatient during a fire, Sunday.
THE FIRE, which police suspect was arson,
was confined to an office in the basement. No one
knows where it is located.
But several students living in JRP this summer were unsure of the alarm's meaning.
"I didn't know what the alarm was," said Mary Schlaiman, Goodland graduate student "It
See ALARMS page 5
President to come to KC to make speech today
By DAVID SWAFFORD
Staff Writer
President Reagan will arrive in the Kansas City area today to speak at a national conference of nearly 1,800 student council advisers and student leaders.
The 47th annual conference of the National Association of Student Councils and the National Association of Student Activity Advisers will be held at Shawnee Mission Northwest High School in Shawnee. Reagan is scheduled to address the delegates at 1:30 p.m. in the school's gym.
THE PRESIDENT IS expected to discuss education.
The conference began Sunday and will conclude tomorrow afternoon.
Lewis Armistead, public relations director of the National Association of Secondary School Principals, which sponsors the NASCNASAII conference, said at a news conference Friday, "This is the first time that a president of the United States has spoken at the conference.
"Also, the attendance at this year's conference is in the largest in its history."
ABC TV'S "Happy Days," will speak at 9:15 a.m. today.
Plumb lives in Overland Park and has written two books about his experiences in Vietnam.
Other featured speakers at the conference include Vietnam veteran and former POW Charlie Plume, who spoke Monday, ABC News, a spokesperson for the Coalition to Spoke yesterday, and Anson Williams of
"WE'RE TRYING TO PULL in speakers who will benefit the students." Armine said. "The thrust in this conference is to get students to become better leaders."
Shawnee was selected as the 1983 conference site three years ago.
Jill Neptune and Ann Wooster, chairmen for this year's conference, said that three years of hard work had gone into preparation for this year's conference.
Both Neptune and Wooster will be seniors in the Shawnee Mission school district this fall.
Regarding the final stages of preparation for the conference Wooster said,"We lived on aspirins and pain-killers for the past two weeks."
NEPTUNE AND WOOSTER said that about two months before the conference began students prepared a list of speakers they wanted at the conference.
"Every year the president is invited," Neptune said. "But no one in Kansas City knew President Reagan was coming until we all heard it on a newscast on TV one night. Someone leaked it out of Washington and needless to say, we were very surprised."
Reagan is scheduled to be in the Greater Kansas City area for about two hours.
Winding its way to completion, this staircase leads from the first to second floor in the new K.S. "Boots" Adams Alumni Center. See story on page 9.
Regents kill plan to reclassify University police
By ANN REGAN
Staff Reporter
Soviet team visits Lawrence commissioners
The Board of Regents recently refused to consider an $86,645 budget request from the University of Kansas that would have provided funding for the reclassification of the 29 law enforcement positions at KU.
The budget request came after a joint study was done in 1982 by staff members at the Regents institutions and the state division of personnel, according to Richard L. Mann, director of institutional research, information systems and personnel services at KU.
RODGER OROKE, director of support services, said he planned to take a proposal to Chancellor Gene A. Budig that would provide funding for reclassification by using money available from positions now vacant in the KU police department.
STAFF MEMBERS CONCLUDED that new job qualifications, job duties and salary levels were justified as a result of legislative action taken by institutions institutions full police authority, Mann said.
The Regents have said that they would not approve system-wide funding unless all the Regents institutions express interest, Mann said.
Although the state division of personnel has approved the new classifications, Mann said, they will not be activated until one of the new classes, upon them, has the money to fund the new positions.
By GENE HUNTER Staff Reporter
The proposed reclassification system would change the civil service classification of campus police from patrol officers to a new classification—university police.
Staff Reporter
Police classifications now are aimed toward security guard positions, said Jim Denney, director of police. The positions have been "band-aid" to throw in law enforcement responsibilities.
The women's national basketball team from the Soviet Union visited the Lawrence City Commission last night and presented Mayor David Longhurst with a beer mug and a pendant
Mann said to up now. Wichita State University, the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City, Kan., and KU were the first to express interested in the new classifications.
LONGHURST THANKED the Soviets for the gifts and told them that Lawrence was a community that has great respect for the feelings people ought to have for each other.
A spokesman for the group thanked the commission for the warmth and hospitality the team provided.
John M. Thomas recently resigned as director of public safety, Oroke said, and the vacancy will not be filled.
He also told the group that Lawrence had invited the leaders of the Soviet Union and the United States to come to Lawrence for a summit meeting.
Because of the limited interest, Mann said, it up to those institutions to provide funding for the project.
"Take back our feelings of good will and our desire that this might take place," he said.
Security officers have the same authority as a citizen, Demney said, while patrolmen are not.
The Soviet team was in town last night to meet the mavor and to see the movie "Octopusyy."
Denney said that campus police officers were expected to perform the same duties as city police, including crime prevention, making arrests, inspection and detection.
Bob Swan, chairman and founder of Athletes United for Peace, a local peace group responsible for bringing the Soviet teams to Lawrence on both occasions, said that the team had wanted to see a detective movie so he recommended the James Bond movie.
"I UNDERSTAND that there is some conflict between Soviets and Americans in the movie so I told the interpreter to warn them," he said. "I think everything came out all right."
IN OTHER BUSINESS last night the commission unanimously approved the site plan for a 60-unit residential development to be located at the southwest corner of the property, the north front road along Clinton Parkway.
The commission also heard a report from George Williams, director of public works, about a tentative agreement that has been reached with the Dallas County road lead to the Douglas County landfill.
After the movie, the team was going dancing at Gammels, a private club at 1601 W. 32rd St.
Swan said that the team signed the Declaration of American and Soviet Athletes United for Peace, a petition that calls for world peace. The document also was signed by members of
Reagan states innocence in use of papers
The agreement is for Jefferson County to maintain the road and charge Lawrence a surcharge of 15 cents a ton on the rock used on the road.
the Soviet track team when it was here in April for the Kansas Relays.
The road runs along the county line separating Douglas and Jefferson counties.
During a nationally broadcast news conference, Reagan denied that the material his aides secretly obtained from the opposition gave him the advantage in his only campaign debate with President Carter.
Reagan, who just last week called the flap "much ado about nothing," was questioned repeatedly about the briefing book controversy with formal news conference of his presidency.
WASHINGTON — President Reagan insisted yesterday that his 1980 campaign staff's use of inside information from the Carter White House "wasn't too much different from the press rush into print with the Pentagon Papers."
He stressed he has asked the Justice Department to investigate and "take whatever action is appropriate" if evidence of illegality is found.
"EVERYTHING THAT was used in that debate had been used over and over again out on the campaign trail," Reagan said, adding he learned only from recent news reports that aides who coached him for the crucial debate three years ago had used Carter briefing materials.
Williams said the surcharge would cost Lawrence residents $ 5,400 a year.
By United Press International
Just hours earlier, the White House released 850 pages of documents showing the Reagan campaign had copies of memos and other details — some leaked by an "intimately connected"
THE PAPERS, GLEANED from the files of administration officials who served in the Reagan campaign, included notes on a "brainstorming session" by staff members who prepared Carter for his Oct. 28 debate in Cleveland with Reagan. Some political observers believe Reagan's showing clinched his election.
Reagan was asked several times whether it had been proper for his campaign to use the material. Each time, he emphasized his aides did not know whether the information was leaked or stolen, drawing the line of impropriety at what might have been legal or illegal.
"It probably wasn't too much different from the press rushing into print with the Pentagon Papers, which were stolen," he said.
The Pentagon Papers case involved publication of a secret* government history of U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War and raised concerns about the right of the press under the First Amendment.
"I BELIEVE IT (politics) should be beyond reproach and I don't think unethical things should be done in campaigns, including calling your onponent a racist and things like that."
The president suggested in response to a question that the debate material had been "handed to us by some disgruntled person" in the Carter camp.
Reagan said he did not believe in playing "dirt, tricks" in political campaigns.
"For all I understand this was a very serious loss to our campaign." Carter said yesterday. The papers involved were "very valuable documents, but I don't know anything further about it, and I don't care to make any comment," he told ABC.
"Is it stolen if someone hands it to you?"
"Briefing book or no briefing book, our candidate was extremely unpopular in the last election," O'Neill said, discouraging a congressional investigation.
On Capitol Hill, Speaker Thomas O'Neill said he would have lost his re-election bid anyway.
University police lured away by higher pay, director says
Sergeant Ed Pearson of the KU Police Department patrols the KU campus. Pearson, who has been on the force for more than four years, said that despite the University's low salary for officers, he would like to stay on the force because his family is from Lawrence.
By ANN REGAN Staff Reporter
The University of Kansas is spending thousands of dollars to train campus police — but it often is unable to keep them because of low pay. Mr. Denney, director of KU police, said last week.
"We have officers in police departments all over the state that we've trained." Denney said.
SALARIES NOW BEING offered at KU can't compete with those available at other law enforcement agencies, Denney said, and that, he said, led to high turnover.
John Courtney, KU police captain, said yesterday that since July 1, 1982, KU had lost 10 of its regular force of 29 patrol officers and that now KU had five vacancies to fill and two men in training who would not be available for duty for several months.
THE SALARIES BEING paid to campus police are "ridiculously low." Denney said.
"I would say they left because of the money. Most of them left to get jobs elsewhere for more money."
The maximum salary paid KU police is $1,223 a month, compared with $1,684 for Lawrence
According to city and KU personnel offices, campus police at state institutions earn a starting salary of $1,004 a month, compared with $1,315 a paid by the Lawrence police department.
"It costs approximately $12,000 to replace an officer who loses, when you consider salary paid during non-productive time during training, the cost of the people it takes to train him, travel costs to the training center, training materials and other costs," Denney said.
Kevin Johnson, a Douglas County court services officer who left the KU police department in May, said he considered the KU department one of the lowest paid in Kansas.
"It's hard to raise a family on the money you make at KUPD." he said.
Johnson said he earned about what he would have been earning at KU if his position had been renamed.
RECLASSIFICATION WOULD redefine qualifica-
tions for the job, job duties and adjudge the
Ed Pearson, a sergeant with the KU police, said that although he was staying with the department because he had ties with the Lawrence area, staying is a financial hardship.
"I'm making ends meet," he said. "But I'm not making the salary and benefits I should."
Courtney said that officers are working overtime just to keep the minimum number of police on the streets.
"We've already had to cut back on services," he said. "We don't always have the people available to provide escort service, supervise concerts and parties, provide security for visiting dignitaries or guard money at registration."
PEARSON SAID THAT having the department so understood and forced the department to implement the changes.
"We have the training sergeant, the detective sergeant and the community services officer out there."
Pearson said that he regularly worked overtime but that he was ineligible for paid time off.
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He said that patrolmen were the only officers who qualify for state overtime compensation.