The University Daily
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
KANSAN
Friday, February 4, 1983 Vol.93, No.91 USPS 650-640
Dobra Bates/KANSAN
"Thirty-five days till spring break," at least that's what the sign "eads next to this bikini-clad snow-woman on Seventh Street between Ohio and Kentucky streets. Not counting today, 35 days are left until spring break.
Delora Bates/KANSAN
Violence to truckers builds
By United Press International
Highway bushwackers pressed their attacks on non-striking truck drivers yesterday, shooting, stoning and burning rigs across the country in the fourth day of a strike by independent
No action was expected in Congress to reverse the cause of the strike.
By last night, a UPI survey showed at least 314 shootings had been reported across the nation, 41 people had suffered injuries in strike-related violence and more than 600 violent incidents had been reported. A trucker who died as a result of his wounds was buried yesterday.
PENNSYLVANIA AND OHIO became battlegrounds with 63 shooting and 100 acts of violence reported in Ohio. Truckers in Pennsylvania were also shot and killed by 57 shooting and 238 other acts of violence.
A spokesman for the Los Angeles-based Independent Truckers Association blamed steel-healers for the violence in Ohio.
"Steel-hailers must be to prone to violence," said ITA spokesman David Kolman. "It seems to be a bad area; exactly why I don't know," he said.
Officials at the U.S. Department of Transportation said truck deliveries were most likely due to weather conditions.
"The New York to Chicago area is impacted and truck traffic through the entire area is down," said DOT spokesman Tom Blank, He
said truckers who feared violence in Pennsylvania were taking other routes.
"Congress is not going to do anything."
BLANK SAID there was no mood in Congress to roll back on a 5 cents a gallon fuel tax hike and other road-use tax increases passed in December. "I think there's a mood on Capitol Hill whereby the shutdown is counter-productive," he said.
A shortage of fresh fruit and vegetables was threatened. Dealers fought back by ordering goods by plane and rail but said the immediate effect on prices — first on potatoes and Valentine flowers.
Victime hit Alabama, Arkansas, Canneroa
Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida,
Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa,
Kentucky, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan,
Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, New
Jersey, New York, Nevada, North Carolina,
North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas,
Utah, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia,
Wisconsin and Wvoming
The 100,000 independent drivers, who own their tractors and haul trailers for a fee, are outnumbered about $2\frac{1}{2}$ to 1 by Teamsters Union truckers who work for wages and have little
BLIZZARDS AND blowing snow also slowed non-striking drivers from Texas to Minnesota, forcing many off the highways.
Kolman yesterday estimated the strike was keeping 60,000 to 70,000 trucks off the road.
sympathy for the strike, especially since
Teammates are bearing the load of the strike.
One teammate, George F. Caps, who was totally shot while in his rig Monday night, was
SOME TRUCKERS have refused to drive at night. Others demanded — and got — "compat pay." They have stuck close together and have touch with "Smoke Bears" on their CB's.
The reward for information leading to the conviction of Capp's killer has grown to $20,000.
"He loved to drive a truck," said the Rev. Kenneth Thompson, pastor of the Church of Prophecy at Clayton. "He loved to shift those gears; he loved to hear those wheels hum."
Others are carrying guns.
"I've got a shotgun in there and it's fully loaded," said Michael Bevel of Huntsville, Ala., at a truck stop in Columbus, Ohio.
State troopers in North Carolina and Georgia were riding shotgun on convoys of i-wheeleds. In Oklahoma, members of the Fraternal Order of Police patrolled bridges and overpasses.
Committee debates rape statute
"The strike is the only reason I'm carrying it and if worse comes to worse, believe me, I'll use it."
FOP President Charles Bishop said, "We disagree with all the violence. We know that truckers have children and we have children. Truckers have a right to exercise their rights."
SPOT CHECKS showed that the strike curtailed fresh produce deliveries.
By DIANE LUBER
See TRUCKERS page 5
Staff Reporter
The amendment was added to a bill revising the state rape statute but after three hours of debate, the committee could not agree to pass the bill as amended.
The House Judiciary Committee yesterday passed an amendment that would eliminate protection for spouses from rape charges
The amendment, proposed by State Reep Neal Whitaker, R-Wichita, was passed after committee Chairman Robert Frey, R-Liberal, broke a 9-9 tie by voting in favor of it.
The bill being considered would limit the existing rape law's complete protection of spouses from rape charges. Under Kansas law, men cannot be prosecuted for ransom their wives.
Under the amendment, spouses would still be protected from charges of sexual battery and aggravated sexual battery, which were created in the original bill.
Without Whitaker's amendment, the bill would allow a spouse to be prosecuted for rape if it occurred when the couple were living in separate residences or when either spouse had filed for divorce, separation or annulment.
STATE REP, JOHN SOLBACH, D-Lawrence, also proposed an amendment creating two categories for rape offenses but he said his attempt was folded by Frev.
Solbach's proposal would have added the category of marital rape to the bill. He said he considered marital rape to be a less severe crime which should carry a lighter penalty.
He defined marital rape as sexual intercourse with a person to whom the offender is married without the person's consent.
But after Solbach attempted to explain his amendment, Frey ruled Solbach's motion out of
Solbach sought to overrule the chairman, but a committee approved the chairman's ruling.
Solbach's proposal also added to the bill's definitions of rape sexual intercourse without the victim's consent when the offender and the victim were married and bodily harm occurred or the offender threatened to use force or a deadly weapon.
SOLBACH SAID the courts would have difficulty obtaining convictions in marital rape cases if spousal protection was completely eliminated. His proposal was a tool, he said, for the courts to prosecute rapists in and out of marriage.
Solbach
State Rep. Michael Peterson, D-Kansas City, proposed that the committee send the bill to the House without recommendation, but the motion failed.
"Removing spousal exemption is going to screw this bill up and may prevent its passage." Peterson said.
State Rep. Arthur Douville, R-Overland Park, said, "If we allow women to charge their husbands with rape without any sign of force or physical assault, family ties will be broken."
After the lengthy debate, State Rep. Arden Mattack, Clearwater, made a motion to table discussion at the call of the chairman, meaning
See R.A. paper no. 1586.
See RAPE page 5
Unpaid bills may force gas shut-offs
Staff Reporter
By NED STAFFORD
The president of the local gas company said yesterday that unless some customers start paying outstanding gas bills, their gas would be shut off.
Bill Salome, president of Kansas Public Service Co. Inc., said hundreds of customers had not paid their gas bills and that 30 to 40 of those could have their service shut off within the next couple of weeks unless they paid at least part of their outstanding bills.
The company may discontinue service to those customers it has not been able to reach who have not paid their gas bills in three or four months, he said.
VOLUNTEER AND government programs coupled with the mild winter have helped to make shut-offs unnecessary. Salome said. But
the last week has been colder, and heating costs have gone way up for most people.
KPS would not follow the no-shut-off policy issued by the Kansas Corporation Commission earlier this winter, he said.
The company is not under the KCC's jurisdiction. Because KPS serves only the city of Lawrence, the Lawrence City Commission is required by state law to regulate KPS.
Last fall the KCC ordered gas companies to renew service to homes disconnected because of nonpayment and banned any further shut-offs until after March 15.
"I don't particularly like to shut anyone's gas off," Salome said. "
"IF IT MIGHT endanger the life of someone,
    turn gas off," he said. "We try in every case to go for it."
But he said disconnecting service was the only alternative his company had for unaid bills.
He said KPS tried to contact delinquent customers to set up a payment plan first by
telephone. If the company is unable to reach the customer, it sends a registered letter. But, he said, some customers cannot be contacted.
Salome said that KPS had not shut off gas service to anyone for nonpayment since November and that it shut off gas service only as a last resort.
"I think we're quite fair with our customers," Salome said. "We feel like we work with people better than many gas companies."
HE SAID THAT Warm Hearts, a program that collected more than $60,000 in voluntary contributions last December to help low-income students bills, had already paid about $20,000 to KPS.
The Lawrence City Commission earlier this winter had considered adopting a Lifeline program which would have helped low-income residents meet their heating expenses. The proposal was dropped after a public outcry and questions concerning its legality arose.
Athletic department debates selling radio broadcast rights
See GAS page 5
By ANDREW HARTLEY
Johnson said athletic department officials had discussed the rights with about six radio stations in Kansas City, Topeka, Wichita and Lawrence, all high-wattage stations.
Staff Reporter
The KU athletic department is considering selling exclusive broadcasting rights for basketball and football games to one of several area radio stations, Monte Johnson, athletic director, said yesterday.
First announcement of the discussions came during the University of Kansas Athletic Corporation board meeting Wednesday after a series of messages the stations had contacted the department.
Although department officials would not comment on which stations had contacted the University about the broadcasting rights, an official for Stauffer Communications, Inc., said yesterday that his company was one of the interested groups.
THE KU RADIO NETWORK, exclusive broadcaster of all KU games, showed a net profit last year of $30,000. However, department offices have shown significantly through private broadcasting rights.
Robert Frome, assistant to the vice president for broadcasting at Stauffer, said he had contacted former athletic director Jim Lessig to suggest that Johnson and Jackson about rights to KU athletic events.
Stauffer operates the Kansas State University, Drake University and Kansas City Royals sports networks. The K-State network comprises 25 teams. The Kansas City Royals host basketball. The Royals network has 110 stations.
"WE EXPRESSED our desire to carry KU
games because we think we know how to set up a
game."
He said the benefits of carrying KU athletic events would be advertising profit and the attention and recognition that individual stations would receive from KU fans.
Sid Wilson, KU sports information director, said at the KUAC meeting that the athletic department was in only the preliminary stages of discussion with the various stations.
"We didn't solicit any attention so far on this."
Whalen said. "This is something that various companies do."
Johnson said, "It's safe to say that we were involved in dialogue but not in negotiation.
"I would like to think that we wouldn't entertain a change unless we could improve on what we show now and a net benefit to the University."
KU IS THE only Big Eight school and one of the few universities in the nation that operates its own exclusive broadcast network, Wilson said.
"At one time that was the best way to go," Wilson said. "That's not to say that we won't continue that practice in the future."
He said the income of the KU Radio Network had not slipped in the past few years.
"In an athletic program there are only so many sources of income. If we have a chance to make money, it is through sports."
The network now reaches across Kansas and parts of Missouri, Oklahoma and Arkansas. Wilson also. It also includes a station in Huntington Beach, Calif. In all, the network includes up to 28 stations for basketball and 26 for football.
JOHNSON SAID, "The interest has been very impressive so far — in the high five figures or low six figures.
"This is just one of the many ways the athletic program is exploring options to bring in more revenue. There will be a number in the future, but they may not develop into anything."
In the discussions with the various stations, Wilson said, the athletic department is trying to ensure that the whole state would be covered as well as areas that are important for recruiting.
Wilson also said KU would reserve the right to approve the announcers used on the programs and that the stations showing interest would agree to that provision.
"Basically, what the contract would say is that we guarantee that we'll put a team on the field and on the floor and that we'll be paid for the rights to broadcast." Wilson said.
He said he was working also to provide a set number of public service announcements about the University during halftime of the games.
Wilson said the chances for proceeding further into a deal were good.
Johnson and Wilson said it was too early to determine whether Tom Hedrick, the "voice of the hawks," would be retained as announcer. They said the matter was not part of the discussions.
Job recruiting down, business officials say
Editor's note: This is the second of a three-part series studying the job market facing KU graduates this May.
By SALLY OMUNDSON Staff Reporter
By SALLY OMUNDSON
Some business officials call it a hire freezer, others a hire front, but either way only the company can determine the cost.
Employment needs of businesses with a long history of recruiting at the University of Kansas have drastically declined with the sluggish economy, business officials said yesterday.
THIS MEANS the few students the companies
were hiring were the best available, the officials said.
Recruiters repeatedly said the students with the best grade point averages, good communication skills, a professional appearance and attitude to work. Their career objectives were most likely to find a job.
Technical fields, such as engineering, seem to have suffered the most. University placement officials say employment recruiting is down as much as 40 percent at KU.
MOST NOTICEABLY missing from this spring's recruitment lists were the large oil companies, who in the past had offered a wide variety of employment opportunities.
But some officials say that in the tight job market, businesses are reluctant to hire some KU graduates, saying certain KU programs are not standard and do not adequately prepare students for jobs.
Students who have had summer jobs in related fields fare better in finding permanent jobs than students who opt for better-paying jobs in unrelated fields, recruiters said.
James R. Henry, director of placement for the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, said geology was a great field to go into a few years
ago. There was an oil shortage, but now there is an oil glut and the companies are not hiring, he
Exxon, which recruited at KU last fall, will not be interviewing this spring.
And Fam Madi, director of placement for the school of engineering, said that a large contributor to the school. Phillips Petroleum Co., would not be recruiting this year.
An official for Phillips Petroleum said the company had canceled all of its recruiting schedules at the 101 campuses it had planned to visit during the 1982-1983 school year.
OFFICIALS IN Kansas City with Black & Veach Engineering, Butler Manufacturing Co., and Burns & MacDonald Engineers. Architects hold positions in engineering at best limited.
Charles F. Thomas, vice president of sales and marketing for Butler, said this was the third slow year in a row, and many companies in Kansas City were laying off engineers.
These companies are trying to rehire laid-off employees and when a new position opens up, be said, it usually can be filled by a laid-off engineer with more experience.
The only area significantly growing for
engineers is in aerospace, where increased government defense spending has spurred
Officials at all three local firms said their companies were still planning to do some recruiting at KU, even though they probably would not be hiring very many students.
THEY ALSO SAID they thought that the market had bottomed out and that they would be more profitable.
Fredrick Madaua, director of placement for the School of Business, said companies were hiring on projected needs and had given no response. "We're looking how many students they were planning to hire."
Business administration is a general study of business, he said, and KU students seeking a
See SERIES page 5
He said other universities offering a more specialized study of business were having an easier time placing graduates in a specialty-thirsty job market.
Business students seek a business administration degree, one of two degree options to business majors, may not be seen as qualified by graduate graduates from other universities. Madaus said
Weather
COLDER
Today will be cloudy with the high in the 30s, according to the National Weather Service.
will be light and variable.
Tonight will be cloudy with a 30 percent chance of snow. The low will be from 10 to 15.
Tomorrow will be cloudy with a high in the mid-20s.
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