The University Daily
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
KANSAN
Tuesday, April 12, 1983 Vol. 93, No. 132 USPS 650-640
Storms vacates psychology position early
By DAVID POWLS
Staff Reporter
Michael Storms, saying that he wanted the controversy of his firing to end, announced yesterday morning that he would not finish his chairman of the department of psychology
Storms' term would have ended June 30.
"I feel as if a great burden has been lifted," Storms said.
And Robert Lineberry, dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, still has not given any answer to this question.
Lineberry, accompanied by Deanell Tacha,
vice chancellor for academic affairs, met
meetday with about 40 psychology faculty
members behind locked doors in Frasher Hall.
AFTERWARDS, OFFICIALS AND professors
that were still unsure why Storms was
fired.
Lineberry had asked Storms March 7 to resign. When Storms refused, Lineberry fired him and gave him the option of leaving his position then or waiting until June 30.
Storms decided to resign after reading a psychology review committee's report about the use of force in the killing of an American.
In a prepared statement, Storms said, "I do not believe that the evidence presented by the committee or the dean warrants my termination as chair.
"Nevertheless, I do not believe that it is in the best interests of the department, nor in my own best interests, for my role as chair to continue to be a focus of conflict. Therefore, I hereby resign as chair of the department of psychology effective immediately."
STORMS SAID THE committee's 11-page report on grievance procedure and departmental staff.
Last week, psychology department officials said Storms might have been fired for paying male faculty members more than female faculty members
"The report did not find me guilty of sex discrimination," he said. "I still don't think I've been given a good reason."
But Sharon Brehm, associate chairman of the department, said, "It is my understanding that that is the case. Some female faculty members felt that in some part of the evaluation process they were not all involved. I assume that some of them took their companies to the psychology review committee."
Faculty members in the department receive pay raises based on yearly evaluations.
OTHERS HAD SPECULATED that Storms might have been fired because he openly acknowledged that he was a homosexual.
But Storms said that Lineberry had told him he was fired because of communication problems between his department and the College office.
The review committee, which Lineberry formed, was designed to evaluate the department. The committee was composed of faculty members from other departments.
Officials in the psychology department said they supported the committee because they assumed the committee would give them objective feedback.
William Balfour, KU ambudsmal, deleted unnecessary and sensitive material from the committee's report so the department could see it last weekend.
THE CONTENTS OF THE report will probably never be disclosed. Brehm said
Balfour said he did not make many detections: "Most of the deceptions I made concerned individual salaries," he said. "There was some malpractice, and people didn't get along, but that's to be expected."
B. Kent Houston, professor of psychology, said that Lineberry never explained why he fired Stiles.
"Most of the department is still unsure as to why he was fired." Houston said. "The dean mentioned communication and leadership problems, but he didn't present any evidence or information. He said that according to legal counsel he didn't have to provide reasons."
Houston also said that the issue of Storm's homosexuality was not discussed at the meeting.
"WHAT THE DEAN SAID today did not address the question squared." Houston said. "He gave a chronology of problems that have affected his department but he didn't say why he fired him.
The department will meet Monday to discuss whether to appoint an acting chairman or to form a committee to govern the department the rest of the term.
After the meeting, Lineberry he thought the department now understood why he fired
"It's a firm policy that I do not comment nublicly on personal matters." Lineberry said.
publicly on personal matters," Lineberry said. He also said that he sought legal counsel before he fired Storms.
OTHER FACULTY MEMBERS refused to comment, saying that they would rather let the department officials handle the matter.
Gardeners get growing as sun finally appears
By DIANE LUBER Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
Out came the sun and dried up all the rain, and vegetable gardeners in the Lawrence area yesterday took advantage of the first warm day in weeks to get their hands dirty and their gardens planted.
Sara Martin, assistant director of the Student Assistance Center, was planting potatoes in the fifth garden spot she has had in as many years.
She started gardening when a friend with a big yard in North Lawrence invited friends to help.
For several years, the department has rented 40 plots, each measuring 20 feet square, at the corner of East Glenn Drive and Harper Street to prospective gardeners.
FOR THOSE NOT FORTUNATE enough to have a sunny spot in their own backyards, 10 garden beds, renting at $5 each for the season, provide shade over the city's Parks and Recreation Department.
The plots were tilled in late February or early March, said Margie Young, secretary to the director of the department. Water is not permitted in gardeners are not permitted to use seed killers.
Shirley Domer, interim director of the KU Energy Research Center, said, "I've been gardening in earnest for about 10 years. I just enjoy digging in the dirt."
Domer, who gardens at her home in Baldwin, planted her early, cold-weather crops before the wet weather began. She is already getting results.
"The peas are up. The spinach is up. The lettuce is up. The radishes are un." she said.
BUT IT IS STILL not too late to plant those vegetables, she said. And those who have not planted their broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower and other cool-wather plants yet, ought to, she said.
Leta Pine, who operates Howard Pine's Garden Center at 1320 N. 3rd St. with her husband and son, said the vegetables people bought in grocery stores did not compare in flavor and freshness with the vegetables they could grow themselves.
" get the water boiling, and Howard and I go outside and pull the corn off the stalk, shuck it and drop it in the water," she said. "It's ready to eat in no time."
Pine said more people were gardening every year and thus saving money.
"ONE WOMAN CAME IN here and told me that her family had been eating last summer's produce out of the deep freeze all winter," she said.
Fred Pence, owner of Pence Garden Center at 15th and New York streets, said that more people were cutting their grocery bills by gardening.
"You've got these old experienced gardeners who know just what they want to grow," he said. "But I see more and more people who are just starting out and have lots of questions."
Martin said she had another reason for gardening.
Some people go to church to get the experience I get from gardening." she said.
"Gardening gives me a chance to be alone, a chance to work, a chance to think."
BOTH DOMER AND FENCE had some advice for bestimming gardeners.
"There are failures," Domer said. "People shouldn't expect a perfect vegetable from every
Sara Martin, assistant director of Student Assistance Center, is one of the many people who rent garden plots from the city. She and her cat "Tigger" regularly work in the garden tending to the broccoli, onion and assorted vegetable plants.
Universities still pinched in fiscal 1984
By JEFF TAYLOR Staff Represent
Staff Reporter
Kansas legislators talked a lot during the 1983 regular session, which adjourned Saturday, about biting the bullet and making sure that the state wasn't "spreading the peanut butter too much."
Some complained that Regents universities are always taking it on the chin. Others said the Regents schools must lump it along with other state agencies until times get better for the state.
The phrases change, but the problem remains that Rogenta universities in fiscal year 1961 will receive the grant.
DURING THE SESSION, the House and Senate voted to lock in more than $14 million in
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budget reductions that Board of Regents universities voluntarily made last summer.
Last July, Gov. John Carlin asked the Regents schools to hand over some of the money the city received from the state.
And because the governor asked, the Regents schools obliged and reduced their budgets 4 percent. The result was that $14 million in student aid would nearly $74 million in anticipated budget shortfalls.
But because the budget reductions were made permanent, the University of Kansas will never see $1,722,244 the Legislature approved for FY 2022 and would not spend expenses, such as library books and paper.
The Legislature dispensed $14,300,358 to KU for FY 8 operating expenses. After budget cuts, the University ended up with $12,658,112, about 9 percent less than the Legislature approved.
For FY 1984, Carlin said he wanted to increase OE 7 percent over KU's reduced budget. The 7 percent increase and money from other general fund sources set KU's OE budget at $13,943,921. That sum is still $436,435 below the FY 1983 budget originally approved by the Legislature.
IN ESSENCE, THE STATE is asking Regents universities to finance their programs next year with less money than they were supposed to have this year.
The squeeze on University operating expenses has naturally drawn criticism from instructors.
has naturally yielded criticism from most instructors. In last Friday's Kansan, several instructors complained that the 6.5 percent OEE increase would do little to ease the equipment shortage resulting from last summer's *a* percent reductions.
"If we're talking about restoring it to its original level, that's reasonable," said Marlin Harmony, chairman of the chemistry department. "If the 6.5 percent increase is after the recision, then it's awful. It's a terrible budget."
"I don't know whether the difference between 6.5 percent and 7 percent will make a hell of a lot of difference to us. It will not enable us to put the phones back in."
THE LEGISLATURE DECIDED to ignore Carlin's request 7 percent increase in OOE for Regents schools and approved a 6.5 percent increase. The Legislature reduced Carlin's OOE
See ANALYSIS Page 5
'Gandhi' sweeps Oscars with eight awards
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HOLLYWOOD — The biographical epic "Gandhi," its star Ben Kingley and Meryl Streep of "Sophie's Choice" won the top Oscars in the Academy Awards telecast last night.
"Gandhi" and "E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial," the biggest movie moneymaker in history with a worldwide gross of more than $400 million, split most of the Oscars given early in the evening, but "Gandhi" ended up with eight Oscars, including best picture, compared to four for
Kingsley, a British stage actor making his
movie debut, said he was "overwhelmed to be mentioned in the same breath as the other four gentlemen who were nominated with me," and who had 21 previous Oscar nominations between
Louis Gossett Jr., the third black in history to win an acting Oscar, and Jessica Lange, the first double award nominee in 41 years, won the awards for best supporting actor and actress.
Richard Attenborough won the best director Oscar for "Gandhi," the sweeping biography of the man whose nonviolent leadership freed India from British rule. The director, who spent 20 years putting the epic on the screen, told the academy, "I am totally bowled over by this."
Gossett, a hard-driving but soft-hearted Marine drill sergeant in "An Officer and a Gentleman," thanked several people, including "my great grandmother who died at the age of 117 and my mom and dad, who I know are watching."
"Gandhi" also won Oscars for best original screenplay, film editing, costume design, art direction and cinematography. It was only the first film in history to win Hollywood's ten award
"E.T."," a modern fairy-tale about a boy who befriends a gentle creature from outer space, took Oscars for best sound, sound effects editing
See OSCAR page 5
Colonel says Israelis to leave Lebanon if border is peaceful
By ANNE FITZGERALD
Staff Reporter
Only when Israel's northern border with Lebanon is quiet will Israeli forces leave Lebanon, a colonel in the Israeli army said last night.
Zeev Livne, the colonel, said that Israel had never intended to seize Land when it invaded Lebanon, and that the Israeli occupation probably would continue until peace in the region was assured.
And for that to happen, he said, Israel will have to be convinced that its border with Lebanon will not be threatened as it has in the past.
LIVNE SPOKE TO ASOBU 50 people in Alderson Auditorium in the Kansas Union. He also showed two films about Palestine Liberation Organization's terrorism, and Israeli military operations in the Middle East, as well as slides showing maps of the region.
Peace in the Middle East rests on two conditions, Liveve said. First, the PLO must stop terrorizing Israel, as it has been along the way to do so. The military must be strong enough to defend itself.
He said the first condition would be difficult to meet, given the extreme position of the PLO's leader, Yassar Arafat. Lived said not all Palestinians agreed with Arafat's position. In fact, some PLO members are ready to settle now on Israel's terms for peace, he said.
"Officially, I am studying." he said. "Unofficially, I am on vacation."
THE SECOND CONDITION, Lebanon's milli-
Today will be cloudy with a 40 percent chance for showers, according to the National Weather Service in Topeka. The temperature will be from the south at 10 to 20 mph.
Tonight will be mostly cloudy with a 35
percent chance for rain and a low near 40
Latin American nations try to revise peace plan
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PANAMA CITY, Panama — Foreign relations ministers from four Latin American nations conferred yesterday to revise a plan for peace in El Salvador and to stop fighting along the Nicaraguan-Honduran border.
The ministers from Mexico, Venezuela, Colombia and Panama held closed-door talks at a Panama City hotel to review a document they drew up in January on Panama's Contadora Island. A panamanian ministry spokesman said.
The ministry said the talks centered on the conflicts in Central America, mainly the Salvadoran civil war and recent fighting inside Nicaragua near the border with Honduras.
the surprise meeting, first announced during the weekend, came immediately after Colombian President Bellisario Betancur wrapped up whirlwind talks on the possible peace plan with the leaders of Venezuela, Mexico and Panama.
DURING HIS STOP IN Mexico Saturday, Betancur said the ministers would form a commission to visit the countries involved in the Central American conflicts.
The Contadora plan calls for talks between warring factions in El Salvador and a withdrawal of foreign military advisers from Central America — an obvious reference to U.S. Green Berets in El Salvador and Cuban advisers in Nicaragua.
In El Salvador yesterday, rebel threats halted most transportation throughout the country and fear of renewed attack near the nation's power
The Reagan administration and El Salvador's U.S.-backed regime have rejected talks leading to a sharing of power with an estimated 5,000 to 6,000 Marxist insurgents in El Salvador, wracked by 41 months of civil war.
Most bus operators refused to drive vehicles into northern and eastern El Salvador because of guerrilla threats to burn buses in their "national campaign of sabotage."
stations forced hundreds of families to flee, the government said.
DISPATCHERS SAID NO RUSES traveled the main northern highway to Honduras or the Caribbean.
On the Pan American Highway, the only other major route into eastern El Salvador, only six buses left San Salvador, compared to the normal 75, dismatches said.
The shutdown, coming after a week in which rebels burned some 20 buses and tractors, affected 158 bus drivers.
An hourlong firefight closed the Pan American route at Santa Cruz Michapla, 9 miles east of San Salvador, military sources said. There was no report of casualties.
Four employees of the city hall in Ciudad Delgado, a working-class suburb of San Salvador, were shot to death in their homes and may unidentified gunmen, judicial authorities said.
GUERRILLAS AMBUSHED A military patrol yesterday outside the Mariona Prison in Apopa, about 6 miles north of San Salvador, wounding "several" soldiers, military sources said. They had no other details.
The sources also reported a four-hour repel attack on a sub-station of the government electricity company, but said there were no casualties.
Nicaragua yesterday announced it set up special "popular tribunals" to try supporters of exiled rebels fighting to overthrow the leftist government.
In a statement read over national radio, the government junta vowed to take action against anyone responsible for "war crimes or crimes against humanity."