University Daily Kansan, February 21, 1983
Graduate students to discuss contracts
By ELLEN WALTERSCHEID Staff Reporter
Graduate students and KU administrators tonight will reopen an old wound when they discuss options for teaching assistant contracts that probably will be required to include a dismissal clause.
The meeting, sponsored by the Graduate Student Council, is scheduled for 7 p.m. in the Kansas Room of the Kansas Union.
Last August, graduate students were angered by a new clause in the contracts that said teaching appointment is only valid if today's notice of funds were not available.
The dismissal clause had been added the month before by KU administrators during a furry of budget-cutting preparations.
BUT LAST November, administrators announced they would stop using the new contract because the clause requires that they without solicitation of student comment.
Although the older contracts are now being used, the Board of Regents staff is developing a new contract that would include a 36-day dismissal notice clause for all Regents university teaching assistants.
Deanell Tacha, vice chancellor for academic affairs, said yesterday she thought some sort of dismissal clause should be included in the contracts with faculty members without a dismissal clause, as KU has now, had been questioned.
At a meeting of the Graduate Student Executive Council Friday Tom Berger; executive coordinator of the council, said he thought the Regents proposal would at least let individual schools decide at what point during a semester or year the 30-day notice could or could not be given.
BERGER OUTLINED several contract options that he said KU administrators had offered in light of the
Regents contract proposal.
At the meeting tonight, he said, graduate students and administrators will discuss those options and any others that might be brought up.
Burger said the options suggested by administrators werrp:
- Semester contract.
- Academic year-long contract with a 30-day dismissal notice period either at the start of the first semester only or at the start of both the first and second semesters.
- "Mixed bag" - each school would decide its own contracts.
*Phased — any teaching assistant already employed would have the option of either the old or the new contract.
Because teaching assistant contracts for many departments are due in March, Berger said, a contract decision should be made tonight.
Tacha, Frances Horowitz, vice chancellor for research, graduate studies and public service, and Robert Linceberry, dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, will attend the meeting. Tacha said.
Last summer, the University volunteered to make a 4 percent reduction in its budget after Gov. John Carlin asked all state agencies to reduce theirbudget.
Most of the graduate students at Friday's meeting said a contract with a dismissal clause was probably preferable to a completely flexible contract with no dismissal clause at all because it was more secure.
BUT THE STUDENTS said they wanted to be sure that a contract could not be terminated unless budget reductions were made by the state.
John Lomax, teaching assistant in the department of history, said students should bring up the question at tonight's meeting.
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"They're going to have to solve their problems themselves," he said. "They can't volunteer our money away."
A crowd of people waits to get into a performance of Encore. Saturday night's show was sold over nearly a week in advance.
Sigma Nus, Kappas win top Encore honors
The Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority and the Sigma Nu fraternity won the Best Overall Production award after Saturday night's Encore performance
Encore, a new musical variety show,
wished "Titles: Spoofs and Goofs"
Beauford Woods, producer of the show, said 50 percent of the revenue from the show would go to the Lawrence United Fund, 40 percent would go back to the houses and the remaining 10 percent would be placed in a fund for next year's Encore performance.
The winning act was about a farm girl in the 1940s who made the big time when the star of a Broadway show cannot perform. The production also won awards for Best Costumes and Best Set.
The Phi Gamma Delta fraternity and the Alpha Phi Omega sorority won the
Best Production Number award, and Sarah Scovel, Independence sophomore, won the Best Original Song award.
The two Best Performer awards were given to Kathleen O'Boyle, Topeka junior, for her role as Nun Tack in the Delta Upla fraternity / PBI Beta Phiorosity's version of the Robin Hood classic, titled, "Rob bem Good," and to Scovel for her role in the Alpha Chi Omega-Phi Gamma Delta act, in which a singing director tried without success to shoot a movie about the Old West.
OTHER GREEK organizations that participated in Encore were the Gamma Phi Beta sorority and the Beta Theta Pii fraternity, who presented "The Wizard of Odds," and the Alpha Delta Pi sorority and the Kappa Sigma fraternity, who presented "Camel Lot."
Residence halls conserving energy to claim prize
By WARREN BRIDGES Staff Reporter
"Captain Energy" has come to the University of Kansas.
And his arrival has many KU students thinking seriously about energy conservation.
The fictitious character is a part of a month-long residence hall energy conservation contest, sponsored by the state Department and the office of residential programs.
After three weeks of the contest, several residence hall officials are sure their halls will lower their consumption by 5 percent.
The contest, which began Feb. 1, was designed to decrease the residence halls' electrical and gas usage by at least 5 percent from last February.
MILTON SCOTT, East St. Louis, Ill.
 junior and president of Elwisworth Hall,
said his hall would surpass the 5 percent goal.
"Personally, I'm looking at about a 10 percent decrease." Scott said.
To raise the residents' awareness of energy conservation, a hall resident constructed a model of a residence hall that would provide that energy could be conserved, he said.
Joyce Chiff, assistant director of residential programs, said the housing department would give each hall that lowered its consumption by at least 5 percent a prize of its own choosing worth $500.
Tom Coombs, Lawrence special student and resident director of Ellsworth Hall, created the character "Captain Energy" to help get the message of energy conservation across to the students.
COOMB'S SAID the character was part of a film he and other members of the company were in.
"We have already filmed about 11 sketches," Coombs said. "Most are humorous, resembling the format of 'Saturday Night Live.'"
He said the filming would be done by this weekend and would be ready to show by the end of the month.
now by the side of the Moon.
Coombs said Ellsworth would purchase new weight room equipment with the prize money if the hall reaches its
Hashinger Hall will have a candlelight dinner to help conserve energy, Rosemary Podrebarc, president of the ball said.
Pedrobarak, Roeland Park senior, said that "Captain Energy" stickers were being placed on the doors of the apartment to light their lights on when they were gone.
"We had a dinner in the dark to show the residents just how difficult it would be to eat without lights," Rose-Mockry said.
Despite the other hall's efforts to meet the 5 percent decrease, the resident director of GSP/Corbin Hall was not very interested in the contest.
Lewis residents voted to have a big-screen television put in the hall if it reached its goal, she said.
KATHY ROSE-MOCKRY, Los Angeles graduate student and resident director of Lewis Hall, said residents are being more aware of energy conservation.
"The hall is not doing a whole lot for the contest," director, Linda Lentz. Brookfield, Wis., graduate student, will come to have other things to think about."
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The Lawrence City Commission will decide tomorrow whether four group homes for the mentally handicapped residents of the neighborhood. The meeting is at 7 p.m.
Three of the proposed sites have received no opposition, but some residents of the fourth site have said they did not want a group home in their neighborhood. The site of that proposed group care home is 701 Overland Drive, and it applauded by the committee up to four clients of Cottonwood Incorporated, a local agency that serves the mentally handicapped.
City to vote on homes for mentally impaired
IN OTHER BUSINESS, the commission will consider what guidelines the city should use in selling nine lots in the 800 block of Pennsylvania Street.
At least two people who live close to the site are expected to voice their opposition to the group care home at tomorrow night's meeting.
They said last week that they thought a group care home in the area could lower property values. They also said they did not know how closely the home would be supervised and they feared for their children's safety.
The lots will not be sold for less than
86,455 and prospective buyers must
conduct a thorough market research.
The city's developer of record,
Sizeler Realty Co. Inc., Kenney, La.
will show a modified version of one of
the proposals it presented last month.
Residents of the area have complained in the past that because of a lack of adequate off-street parking, the city has imposed an unfair burden on them.
The Downtown Improvement Committee, a group of citizens which acts an advisory group to the city commission, approved of the proposal earlier this month, but asked Sizeler to make changes in the plan.
THE COMMISSION will also make plans for the presentation of plans for downtown redevelopment on March 2.
The commission will take final action on an ordinance that would make part of the Oread Neighborhood an exception to the city's 48-hour parking rates that if a parked car has not been moved in 48 hours, it can be towed away.
Magazine says mob helped find Dozier
If approved, the ordinance would allow cars in the area bounded by Ninh, 14th, Kentucky and Oread to go up seven days without being towed.
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NEW YORK  The rescue of Brig. Gen. James Lee Dozier, kidded by Italian Red Brigades terrorists, was arranged by the Mafia with the help of an illegal immigrant living in Paris. Time magazine reported vesterguy.
Dozier, abducted from his home in Verona, Italy, on Dec 17, 1981 by terrorists posing as plumbers, was held captive for 42 days until his rescue by Italian police. Duzier, 30, of Arcadia, in NATO's deputy chief of staff at the time.
TOP OFFICIALS at SISMI, the Italian intelligence agency, reportedly contacted Marcelo Campione, a military attache to the United Nations, for help in contacting a Mafia consiglierie in Brooklyn who makes his living by helping Italians move to the United States.
Both Italy and the United States claimed Dozer's rescue was the result of dogged police work and confessions of Red Brigade members captured during the six-week search. Time, however, reported high level intelligence officials turned to the Mafia for help two days after the abduction.
The Mafia arranger, known only as the Fat Man, put Campione in touch with Dominic Lombino, a lawyer from Milan who had fled Italy in 1898 when he beened his father about to be indicted. The Italian immigrant, was living in Brooklyn.
Lombino suggested a former client.
Marifosio Franchino Restelli, might be able to give police precise information. Campione reportedly developed a plan to sneak Lombino out of the United States and into Italy so he could talk to Restelli in a Milan prison.
With the help of The Fat Man and a sympathetic priest, Lombino was given a new identity and a baptismal certify which to apply for a U.S. passport.
He was to meet Campione at the U.S. Passport Office on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, but when he got there the place was filled with men clad in trench coats and reading newspapers. Lombino fled. The trench coat wearers turned out to be FBI agents who had heard an Italian Miaffa associate living illegally in the United States was trying to get a passport.
CAMPIONE CONTACTED an SISMIM official in Italy who got in touch with the CIA and explained the play. The CIA reportedly called the FBI off the case and began negotiations with Lombino, who insisted on a promise he could legally return to the United States after he went to Italy to see Restell.
On Jan. 23, 1982, Lombino flew to Italy and met with Restelli, whom he had already contacted through intermediaries. From his jail cell Restelli, who hoped for a reduced sentence in exchange for cooperation, had already sent out his troops to track down leads on Doveri's whereabouts.
Restell had also ordered the supply line of heroin cut in order to encourage tips from addicts.