The University Daily
KANSAN
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
Tuesday, March 29,1983 Vol.93,No.123 USPS 650-640
Consumers, state gas industry look for price solution
By DAVID POWLS Staff Reporter
Consumers, lawmakers and members of Kansas' natural gas industry are divided on how to provide fair consumer prices and provide sufficient incentives for producers.
Lawrence residents could pay less for natural gas if legislation introduced yesterday by State Republicans.
Winter's legislation would allow independent gas producers with inexpensive gas in fields nearby, to sell gas to Lawrence residents and companies that supply the pipeline companies to keep lowering their prices.
The proposal, which was submitted to Congress last month by the Citizen's Labor and Energy Coalition, reduces natural gas prices, increases natural gasoline pipeline companies to buy more inexpensive gas.
ON ANOTHER BATTLEFRONT, a consumer
and labor group's proposal is gaining nationwide
So far 78 of the 533 congressmen have endorsed it, including four of the 10 members on the fossil board.
Skeet Smith, business manager for N.R. Hamm at Perry, said Hamm's field near McClouth could supply gas to Lawrence for $3.50 per thousand cubic feet, if a current law prohibiting private owners from operating pipelines was changed.
In the midst of consumer criticism and decreasing oil prices, Northwest Central Pipe
line Co., a Lawrence gas supplier, has announced it is lowering its price of gas from $6 to $4.80.
*WINTER'S LEGISLATION* would increase the maximum length of a private owner could lay gas lines.
"Our gas is not regulated," he said. "We would be able to sell it for any price we want."
He said that two years ago Hamm had drilled a gas well that could provide 1 million cubic feet of oil.
"Wells in Kansas that are shut-in could be providing inexpensive gas if these pipeline laws were changed." he said.
He also said that exploration south of Lawrence might yield more gas.
Bill Salome, president of Kansas Public Service Co., said that his company would consider buying the local gas if the producers could lay pipelines to the city limits.
WINTER INTRODUCED HIS BILL in the Senate Federal and State Affairs committee, which must approve it before it goes before the full Senate.
U. S. Rep. Jim Slattery, D-Kan., a member of the subcommittee, said Sunday that Congress would probably choose a proposal and start making amendments to it soon.
Karyn Miriam, Kansas organizer for CLEC,
said that if Congress accepted the CLEC
proposal, U.S. Sen. Nancy Kassebaum, R-Kan.
would sponsor in the Senate.
"We haven't got money, like the oil lobbyists, but we have got people," Mirriam said. "It would be unfair to decontrol old gas now when
SMITH SAID THAT if all natural gas prices were decontrolled, the chief oil companies would still control the price, because they own the pipelines.
the major oil companies monopolize the industry."
During the oil embargo in the early 1970s, when gas supplies were low, many pipeline companies agreed to pay producers a certain percentage of gas taxes. In addition, new of gas new at depths below 15,000 feet.
Now the gas supply is more than the market demand but pipeline companies must continue to honor these "take or pay" contracts by buying more gas than they need.
IN 1878, PRESIDENT Carter signed the National Gas Policy Act, dividing natural gas into 22 separate categories. The gas act also started decontrolling gas prices at different
In 1895, all gas prices except those of old gas are scheduled to evaporate.
Many pipeline companies mix old gas, gas discovered before April 1977, with new gas to keep prices low for customers. Other companies are being encouraged to increase like the new gas prices. Other pipeline companies, which
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NCAA seeks KU's response to alleged violations
By ANDREW HARTLEY
Staff Reporter
The National Collegiate Athletic Association has asked the University of Kansas to investigate and respond to the athletic department's alleged violations of NCAA rules.
Chancellor Gene A. Budig announced yesterday in a news release that he had received a letter notifying the University of an official inquiry of KU athletics by the NCAA.
The release said, "In accordance with NCAA procedures, the University will prepare a response to this inquiry and will fully cooperate with the university to resolve those matters related to the inquiry."
NO COMMENT HAS BEEN made by University officials about when the response must be submitted, how many charges had been made or what programs they concerned.
Athletic Director Monte Johnson said he would not comment on the investigation.
institution is asked to investigate and respond to in writing."
Vicki Thomas, University general counsel, will will draft KU's response to the charges, said work would begin immediately to investigate them and respond to the NCAA.
David Berst, director of enforcement for the NCAA, said, "An official inquiry is a list of alleged violations of NCAA rules that an
He said he could not comment specifically on the RTL investigation.
A university is given from one to four months to respond to the charges, he said, depending on the complexity of the allegations.
DEL BRINKMAN, FACULTY representative to the NCAA, said, "I have received a copy of the paper."
"The NCAA doesn't even want schools to acknowledge that they have received a letter. But we knew that there was a lot of speculation and interest in the matter."
"There will be no further comment until the whole thing is over."
Berst said that once the University had responded to the allegations, KU officials would meet with the NCAA Committee on Infractions, a group of faculty representatives, which would decide whether further action needed to be taken.
"In all probability, an official investigation would result in at least a hearing," he said.
In some cases, the NCAA will take no action against an institution after an official inquiry.
HOWEVER, MOST OFFICIAL inquiries result in some punitiveumes, Berst. said. Sanitizing equipment is recommended.
of NCAA privileges or a letter of reprimand or notification of closer monitoring by the NCAA
KU officials received a letter from the NCAA office on March 18, 1982, that a preliminary inquiry of the KU athletic program would be conducted.
A preliminary inquiry, Berst said, is an investigation conducted by the NCAA on campus. The information then compiled and a report was sent to the school for a response as part of an official inquiry.
Officials at two Big Eight schools — Kansas State University and the University of Missouri — publicly acknowledged last March that they had supplied the NCAA with information about alleged illegal recruiting in the KU football program.
ACCORDING TO NCAA rules, the enforcement department cannot initiate an investigation. A complaint must first be registered by a U.S. law office in Mission for an inquiry to be started.
The coaches alleged that several KU football assistants, including John Hadi, now with the Denver Broncos, used illegal recruiting methods in attempting to bring athletes to KU.
Some of the complaints registered by the Big Eight football coaches were reportedly about the way they were handled.
from Kansas City, Kan, who was sought by many Big Eight schools.
In June 1962, the Kansas City Star quoted two former high school football players who said that Hadi offered them up to $30,000 each to enroll at KU.
United Press International reported yesterday that another possible source of the allegations concerned Kernin Bell, Jayhawk running back. The NCAA ruled last fall that Bell had been academically ineligible to play football in the fall of 1980.
The University, however, has never given official word on which programs or practices were being investigated.
MIKE GOTTFRIED, head football coach who took over after the preliminary inquiry had been started, said, "We have no control over it. We have enough after to think about with the next 20 days of practice. We can't worry about anything else."
Laurence Rose, professor of law and chairman of the head basketball coach search committee, said he did not think the investigation would an effect on finding a replacement for Ted Owens.
"Sure, any coach will want to know if the basketball program will be affected," Rose said. "But I don't think that will change the level of interest coaches have shown in KU."
Women penetrate traditionally male occupations
Debra Bates/KANSAN
Helen Cox, right, a second-year apprentice in plumbing, is one of a growing number of women who work in occupations that traditionally have been limited to males. She says she enjoys her work despite being one of the few women on the job site.
By JENNIFER FINE Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
Fifteen years ago, if a girl was asked what she wanted to be when she grew up, chances were good that she would answer a teacher, a secretary, a nurse, a homemaker or any of the above.
But traditional occupational roles have changed
"I think it is funny. I get strange looks on campus. But you do what you do." Jody Karson, an equipment operator on the landscaping crew of KU facilities and operations, said recently.
KARSON'S JOB INCLUDES running landscaping equipment such as tractors, lawnmowers and snowplows, as well as smaller equipment.
"If guess I'm just fascinated by the equipment and learning how to operate it and operate it
Women, those with and without a college education, are beginning to try their abilities in such fields as mechanics, construction and skilled crafts.
The number of blue-collar women — women in skilled job jobs that are not traditionally white or Hispanic.
A recent report from the Department of Labor, "Perspectives on Working Women: A Databook," shows that during the first half of 1980, the average number of women in blue-collar jobs was nearly 14 percent of the total number of people in blue-collar jobs.
Although the conversion to non-traditional jobs has been slow, it has increased in recent years.
THE STUDY ALSO SHOWS that the number of women mechanics in 1979, 49,000, was nearly double what it was in 1960. The number of carpenters was five times greater, jumping from 3,000 to 18,000 over the same period. Jobs more than doubled between 1970 and 1979, increasing from 189,000 to 388,000.
But Shrirley Harkes, associate professor of sociology, said the changes have not happened
markets, who teaches a course called Women in Occupations, said that changes had occurred but that because women composed 42 to 43 percent of the labor force, the percentage in
non-traditional jobs should be closer to the percentage held by men.
Women in these fields agreed. Karson said she was pleased that women were getting into jobs like hers, but she wished more women would try them.
"There are a lot of equally talented women, it's just so slow. To be quite frank, I think they should have more women out there," she said, referring to the women on the 35- to 40-member landscaping crew.
KARSON, WHO EARNED a degree in ceramic design from the University, has been working full time with facilities and operations for two years and has been engaged part time while she was an undergraduate.
"It's kind of hard, working all around these men," she said. "You have to put up with a lot of, well, their attitudes. I don't know if you should say this, but a lot of them are sexist. Even though they won't admit it, you still pick up on their jokes."
But she said that since she began working, the attitudes, which she attributed to society, had been easier to deal with.
Several of the men Karson works with in facilities and operations said they had no qualms about providing them.
BRENT HILL, ALSO AN equipment operator with facilities and operations, said he was not bothered by women working in blue-collar jobs, and he thought women were as capable as men. He also said that all men thought this way.
"I hear snide remarks sometimes. Probably they feel threatened. It's hard to say," he said.
He said that many of the comments were from older workers and people who were not equipment operators. He said the younger workers were more open-minded because they had grown up with women moving into blue-collar occupations.
MILDERD HUNT. A 52-year-old woman who works for Hamm Construction Co., as a truck driver, said she had good and bad points, the bad being harassment from male co-workers.
Tom Lee, supervisor of the landscaping crew, said that it had never seemed unusual to him for Karson to be doing the job she holds. He said that he would be a part of a titled position with facilities and operations.
"Men will make dirty remarks. I guess it's just lealousy, 'I don't know,' she said.
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Officials request release of report
By DAVID POWLS
Staff Reporter
A review committee's report may reveal why the chairman of the department of psychology was fired recently, but so far officials in that department have not been able to see the report.
The chairman, Michael Storms, was fired effective June 30, after refusing a request to resign on March 7 by Robert Lineberry, dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
Sharon Brehm, associate chairman of the department of psychology, said yesterday that Lineberry had seen a psychology review committee's report before he fired Storms.
"We are not sure whether the report is relevant to the firing," she said. "The issue is whether the report should be released to our department."
SHE SAID THAT officials in the department had supported the review committee, assuming it would provide them with objective feedback.
Storms was unavailable for comment.
Last October, Lineberry formed the ad hoc committees of faculty from other departments to serve as a liaison.
Before the committee made its report, officials in the department were told by Lineberry that they would receive a copy of the report. Brehm said
"I know everyone involved in the report worked hard, but there was a misunderstanding," she said. "We never received the report."
"All further action is up to the dean because the committee would not give us the report."
LINEBERRY SAID THAT the committee had not shown the report to officials in the psychology department because it contained sensitive information.
"I had the presumption that the department would receive a report," Lineberry said. "But now that I have it, I have to decide whether to release it.
"And I have not made that decision vet."
Brehm said that the department had written letters asking for the report, but that the committee had refused to release it and the jerryberry had not answered the committee's letter.
Elinor Schroeder, chairman of the review committee, said, "We reported to the dean. If the psychology department had arrangements, they were with the college office."
This week, Brehm said, Lineberry is expected to write a letter to the department, and officials in the department are scheduled to meet with him on April 11 to discuss the firing.
Weather
DREARY
Today will be mostly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of showers, according to the National Weather Service in Topesa. The weather will be 45. Which will be variable at an 18 mph.
Tenight will be mostly cloudy with a low of 35.
Temerrow will be partly cloudy with a high of 55.
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