The University Daily
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
KANSAN
Wednesday, February 2, 1983 Vol. 93, No. 89 USPS 650-640
Snowstorm disrupts campus activity
By JIM BOLE Staff Reporter
A regional storm dropped six inches of new snow on the University of Kansas yesterday, leaving some people stranded on campus and demanding operations employees to start work before sunrise.
Larry George/KANSAN
Classes after 12:30 p.m. were canceled and KU on Wheels buses stopped running about noon.
Kofi Ofou-eanau, Ghana graduate student,
kofi@ufa.ua, that he had been waiting
at 12:30 p.m.
"I have no choice but to walk," he said. "Some studio skis, some snowboards, some skis on Boulevard or cross-country skis on a slope."
OTHERS TOOK advantage of canceled classes by alding down the hill on 14th Street behind the library.
Jim Mathes, assistant landscape director for facilities operations, said snow plows, sand spreaders, tractors and a grader began working on campus and sidewalks on campus at 3:09 a.m. yesterday.
Tom Lee, landscape supervisor, said "But as soon as we finished clearing a road, the snow covered us."
Steve Schurr, National Weather Service meteorologist in Topeka, said the snow would end by this afternoon, with temperatures in the upper 40s. The snowpack, xmsh. Snow is possible again Friday or Saturday.
The storm dumped up to 14 inches of snow on some parts of Kansas, left more than 8,000 people without electricity and closed schools, roads, businesses and the state Capitol.
NORTHERLY WINDS whipped snow into eight-foot drifts that closed several highways across the state.
Topeka declared a snow emergency at 6 p.m. banning parking on emergency routes. Cars stuck on emergency routes without chains or snow tires could have been towed away and the
Lawrence police reported about 10 accidents in the city, and KU police reported three minor
Martin Wollmann, director of Watkins Memorial Hospital, said no serious snow-related injuries had been treated at Watkins, only minor sprains.
A LAWRENCE Memorial Hospital spokesman said that only two minor snow-related accidents had been reported.
After students and faculty trekked home early,
facilities operations crews were still scoping
through the area.
Tom Anderson, director of facilities operations, said last night that he expected strong winds to cause snow drifts, making it difficult to keen roads clear.
He said the crews would be clearing parking lots and streets again today, especially around Allen Field House, for tonight's basketball game.
He said he and facilities operations crews would return at 4 a.m. today to check road conditions.
"It's been rough. I've been up since 4:30 this morning." Nichols said last night.
JOHN NICHOLS, wrecker driver for Kaw Motor and Salvage Co. RFD 3, said he towed about 15 cars from snow drifts yesterday.
Patty Faler, part-owner of Jayhawk Tow and Storage, said her bittersucked to about 60 cars.
which was never truer than doubt.
"The roads were really treacherous. I guess a lot of people decided to stay at home," Faler said.
Bus service from the Union Bus Depot, Sixth and Michigan streets, to other cities was limited to Kansas City, Mo., and Tulsa since noon yesterday, said a Kansas Grayhound ticket
SLEET AND freezing rain in southeast Kansas created severe iceing problems. At midday, snowfall reports included 12 inches at Concordia, 11 inches at Russell and Salina, eight inches at Manhattan and Topaka, seven inches at Garden City and Wichita and three inches at Goodland
Barbara Singleton, dispatcher for Yellow and Union Cabs Co., 1045 New Jersey St., said all 14 taxis ran on time, with no problems driving in the snow.
three miles east of
Schurr said Blaine, 100 miles northwest of
Lawrence, reported 24 inches of snow on the
ground yesterday afternoon.
Other parts of the Midwest suffered from the snow storm while a second day of tornadoes and hail followed.
Fifty mph winds mounted massive drifts that closed roads and hundreds of schools in eastern New Mexico, the Texas Pandhandle, Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri and Nebraska.
Ternadoes skittered over the Florida Panhandle and southern Alabama, overturning cars, ripping the roof off an elementary school and destroying small buildings.
Authorities said the storm paralyzed the Oklahoma Panhandle, where roads and schools were closed by up to 10 inches of snow and four-foot drifts.
Bill Hosford/KANSAN
Dan McSmoothy, Lawrence sophomore and driver of the Volkswagen, gets a push from John Koast, Prairie Village
freshman, and Jay Cronan, Overland Park freshman, after getting turned sideways on snow-covered Memorial Drive.
By JENNIFER FINE Staff Reporter
Higher costs lower sales hurt Union
He said the Union would try to make cuts wherever it could and still operate effectively.
Ferguson said the first thing that could be cut was operating costs in any of 35 categories of expenses, including supplies, advertising and repairs.
Warner Ferguson, associate director of the Union, said the combination of higher utility costs and lower sales in food services could cause the Union to make cuts in the second half of the fiscal year, which began in January.
LITTLE CHANGE in the financial situation is expected.
Utilities, Ferguson said, are one of the Union's largest expenses.
"It will take a couple of years to recover," he said.
As a last resort, Ferguson said, prices would be raised to make up for decreased sales in food services.
A continued trend of higher costs and decreased sales could force the Kansas Union to make reductions in operating expenses, a Union official said yesterday.
Ferguson said he expected the price of natural gas, used to produce the steam that heats KU boilers, to rise.
Classes canceled, but some stick to daily routine
Ferguson said that although the Union's budget had allowed for some rising costs, the increase of expenses had exceeded what was anticipated.
"You can juggle the budget to accommodate higher costs by reducing expenses, but it's difficult to increase volume," he said.
OTHER POSSIBLE methods of lowering expenses are reducing the hours of operation and the number of part-time labor and staff hours.
A report of the Union's financial status for the first half of the fiscal year will be presented at a Union board meeting Saturday.
Last October, there was a 19 percent increase in the price of natural gas, said William Salome, president of Kansas Public Service Gas Co., the local natural gas utility.
PRICES INCREASED slightly last December, and another increase is expected in April, he said.
Staff Reporter
By JOEL THORNTON Staff Reporter
To combat the problem, the Union is trying to be more efficient by installing thermal-pane windows, which will reduce heating bills, be more attractive and will require little maintenance. Ferguson said the windows were planned expenditures in the annual budget.
Heavy snow and winds caused the University of Kansas to cancel classes yesterday afternoon for the first time since 1980.
At its meeting Saturday, the board will also introduce the Union's new director, Jim Long, who began work yesterday, and recognize Frank Burge, who is retiring after serving as director
Burge also will be honored when the Satellite Union is renamed for him. The Board of Regents recently approved the name change.
But many professors, students and campus employees refused to let the weather interfere with their daily routine, as buildings on campus remained open throughout the day.
Robert Cobb, executive vice chancellor, said he issued a statement at 10:30 a.m. canceling all appointments.
COBAM SAD HE and Chancellor B. A budg decided to cancel classes after Lawrence Bus
Most University buildings remained open despite the weather, Cobb said. Staff members who live far from the University made arrangements with their departments to leave early, he said.
Classes were last canceled on Feb. 24, 1980,
when 12 inches of snow fell.
Cobb said KU officials would be decide at 6 this morning whether classes would be held today, after they spoke with officials from the Lawrence Bus Co., the KU Police Department, the National Weather Service, the Lawrence School District and facilities operations.
make arrangements with students for making up afternoon classes.
Job interviews at the School of Engineering ran as scheduled, said Georgia Torres, assistant to the dean. Representatives from various companies, that were interviewing students arrived before the snow began, she said.
Buses were having difficulty driving up hills on Naismith Drive and W. 15th Street. Cobb said. Buses actually running slightly before transportation to campus.
DEANELL TACHA, vice chancellor for academic affairs, said that professors would
Co. officials said they would end bus service at noon. He said a decision was not made earlier because the streets were fairly clear early yesterday morning.
Cobb said his office was flooded with calls from people wanting to know whether classes were canceled.
Professors could schedule a makeup day later in the semester, especially if the missed class met only once a week, Tacha said, but a makeup day entire University would not be scheduled.
Most department remained open for their regular hours.
Officials in various schools and departments said that business proceeded as usual, for the reasons explained above.
Paul Hack, associate dean of the School of Education, said many education professors stayed at work yesterday afternoon, although a number of secretaries went home early.
LINDA SHIFFLETT, general chemistry secretary, said most chemistry professors were in their offices yesterday.
Albert Burgstahler, professor of chemistry, still planned to hold a test review session despite the weather, Shifflett said.
Wescoe Hall, normally clogged with professors and students, was nearly deserted yesterday afternoon.
The Language Laboratory at Wescoe closed at 4 p.m., an hour earlier than usual, said Linda Pennington, Lawrence junior and lab employee.
Pennsylvania, L.A., that only 10 to 15 students had used the laboratory by 3:30 p.m. Normally, more than 20 students an hour use the lab, she said.
Vernon Chamberlin, professor of Spanish and Portuguese, who was in his Wescos office yesterday afternoon, said the storm allowed him to get some work done.
"The main reason I'm here is because it's nice and quiet," he said. "I can do some research."
Weather
Today will be cloudy and windy with snow continuing, according to the National Weather Service. Winds will be from the north at 15 to 30 mph. The high will be in the 20s.
Tonight will be cloudy and cold with a chance of snow flurries. The low will be 10
Tomorrow will be partly cloud. The high will be in the mid-20s.
Salvadoran guerrillas hold city after 2 days of fighting
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — Leftist guerrillas yesterday occupied the biggest city to fall in three years of civil war, driving off two army reinforcement columns, government officers said. Sixty civilians were reported dead in the fighting.
By United Press International
An occupation force of 500 rebels from the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front held Berlin, 50 miles east of San Salvador, after capturing the city in two days of round-the-clock
The capture of Berlin left the entire western half of Usulutan province in rebel hands and put a large guerrilla force a few miles from the Pan American Highway, the only link between San
Salvador and the eastern 40 percent of the country.
IT WAS THE first time in three years that guerrillas had been able to occupy and hold a city as big as Berlin, which in 1979 had a population of about 30,000. It dwindled to 15,000 as residents fled the war zone.
Relief organizations said 60 civilians had been killed and 32 seriously wounded in the 34-hour battle between 500 guerrillas and 70 national forces, bombing and stranding from U.S. made aircraft.
Rebels said at least six national guardmen had been killed and 21 captured. The fate of about 50 other guardmen was not known. Guerrilla said two rebels had been killed and 30 were captured.
See SALVADOR page 5
Rape bill gathers legislative support
By DIANE LUBER Staff Reporter
Most of the women in the Kansas Legislature agreed this week to push for legislation eliminating any protection of spouses from rape charges, a local legislator said yesterday.
State Rep. Betty Jo Charlton, D-Lawrence, said the women decided at a meeting Monday that a bill already introduced that merely limits the number of charges have from charges of rage, did not go far enough.
The women agreed. Charlton said, to support an amendment that would eliminate the existing laws, he said.
The existing law defines rape as the act of sexual intercourse committed by a man with a woman who is not his wife, without her consent when her resistance is overcome by force or fear.
THE BILL, now being considered by the House Judiciary Committee, 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.
"We need to learn to play the political process," she said. "We've been too ready to compromise."
separate it from Wanda Fuller, R-Wichita, said the women agreed to be more bold in going after what they wanted than they had been in the past.
amendment. The committee plans to make its final recommendation on the bill to the House tomorrow.
Fuller, who is not a member of the Judiciary Committee, offered the amendment to the committee last week. She said committee member Neal Whitaker, R-Wichita, agreed to move tomorrow that the committee adopt the amendment.
FULLER SAID the Special Interim Committee on Judiciary, which introduced the bill now under consideration, had discussed eliminating the exemption.
A tie vote on the issue had prevented it from being included in the bill, she said.
"It will be really close," Fuller said. "It depends on whether we can talk 11 people into hearing it."
But the women are not sure the amendment will pass.
"I thought the interest was strong enough to bring it again, in committee," she said.
The House Judiciary Committee has 21 members. Both women members support the amendment.
One of them, State Rep. Joan Wagnon, D-Topeka, said she thought there were eight committee members in favor of the amendment.
See RAPE page 5