Running on the grass.
CLOUDY
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
The University of Kansas
Vol.88.No.28
Thursday October 6,1977
—Lawrence, Kansas
Staff Photos by ELI REICHMAN
Working in cramped quarters, Father Nick Weber applies the finishing touches to his makeup shortly before yesterday's performance of the Royal Lichtenstein $1 \frac{3}{4}$ Ring Sidewalk Circus. Above right, Weber finds himself ad libbing during the performance, even though the entire show is well-planned.
Show time
Circus brightens day
By JOHN P. THARP
Staff Writer
An unconventional Catholic priest has fulfilled his lifelong dreams and his vocation in the priesthood. Father Nick Weber answered his dual calling by organizing the Royal Lichtenstein $^{1/4}$ Ring Sidewalk Circus, which played for its third year at KU yesterday.
At the beginning of the show's performance, ringmaster Weber said "We're working for laughter in your eyes and sunshine in your heart."
The crowd laughed and the only sunshine on the gloomy day must have been in the hearts of the fans as Weber performed his ministry.
"The Jesuit order allows me to do the circus as my ministry and the circus is my whole life. I haven't tried anything like it as much as the circus," he said yesterday. "I have been part of the 13-year program. He started his circus in 1971. Now he touches 40 states in eight regions with his two assistants, Mitch Kincamon and Jim Jackson, and a van load of animals."
WEBER SAID HE loved the audiences in the shopping centers and universities he played at as much as he did the circus. He said he tried to pick persons who loved the circus as he did and who could "live the life on the road" to perform with him.
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Two unhappy Senate chairmen decide to stay
By LINDA STEWART
Staff Writer
Two student Senate committee chairman have said they once considered resigning their committee posts because of an error in the Senate but now have changed their minds.
Don Green, Senate Communications Committee chairman, and Tim McCarthy,
cairnman, said they had thought about resigning but had decided against the move.
Green said he was unhappy with many things in the Senate, including the methods of the nomination process.
"He doesn't utilize committees," Green said. "He didn't take the issue of the Senate's discontinuing funding of women's athletics to a committee for consideration."
NIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Capsules From the Associated Press, United Press International
Cable threatens treaty's chances
Dole used the confidential cable as proof that Panama is denying U.S. trust interpretations that guarantee U.S. control over its communications.
WASHINGTON—The Panama Canal treaties are not to be ratified by the Senate unless questions raised by the commission against R-Kan, are answered, Frank Church, D-Idaho, acting chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee,
Jaworski denied classified access
WASHINGTON-Leen Jaworski, chief investigator of the congressional Korean influence-buying investigation, and his chief deputy have been denied access to classified information because they lack security clearance, according to an FBI spokesman.
The spokesman said yesterday that the House Ethics Committee did not ask for the necessary clearance until last week, although Jaworski was named chief counsel. The committee also asked Mr. Hosleigh to testify.
During the investigation, secret information has been gathered from the CIA and other government agencies, but access has been limited to staff involvement.
Explosion prompts NASA inquiry
WASHINGTON - The possibility of sabotage in the explosion of two successive satellite launches at Cape Canveral has prompted an investigation by the U.S. Air Force.
The space agency has found no evidence that the two expensive failures were deliberately caused, a NASA spokesman told a House subcommittee yesterday.
British party attacks upper house
when you have two and a week, you *get to go on suspicion*. "The staff." He said investigations so far showed that the explosions had entirely different causes.
BRIGHTON, England—The Labor party voted overwhelmingly at its annual convention yesterday to abolish the House of Lords, Britain's upper house of Parliament.
A party leader denounced the House of Lords as "a symbol of paralysis and reaction in which three quarters of its members are by birth because their ancestors were cattle robbers, land thieves and, in a few cases, court prostitutes."
He said the second chamber was unselected, unrepresentative and out to frustrate elected Labor government. The Labor party is in the majority in the House.
using the excuse that time was very important."
Locally...
Fighting the fat through physical fitness drives has prompted jogging, calisthenics and practice of a technique developed within the past 15 years—aerobics. A program initially developed for the U.S. Air Force, aerobics recently has caught on with the general public. The technique uses activities like running, walking, dancing and swimming to increase the body's capacity to process oxygen and get or stay in good physical condition. See story page 11.
LEBEN HAD SAID the resolution to discontinue funding women's athletics had needed to be decided last spring so the KU administration could include funding for women's athletics in its budget request for fiscal year 1978.
But Green said the resolution did not need to be decided quickly because Rick Von Ende, executive secretary of the University, had said that the KU administration was not going to fund women's athletics for that year — regardless of what the Senate did.
McCarthy said that he had seriously considered resigning his position as committee chairman, but that he decided it was more important to stay on.
He said he was fed up with too many issues being started by a small number of senators who pushed the issues through the Senate.
"A LOT OF senators have seen this going on and are really turned off by it," he said. "Many of them come to the Senate meetings and feel alienated because there is not nearly as much information available to them as to the people at the top."
He said that some senators might not care what happened at the meetings, but that many of them did not have access to information about the issues.
"Steve lobbies for his position," Robinson said. "He decides his position on an issue and then calls in senators and tries to persuade them to vote the same way he is going to."
Reggie Robinson, Senate Rights Committee chairman, said that he thought Leben had not overstepped his bounds, but it was those things Robinson would not have done.
Ralph Munyan, student body vice president, said he thought some of the leaders of the Senate, including Leben, were concentrating too much on internal issues instead of concentrating on issues that have an effect on the entire student body.
"The issues just aren't aired enough," he said.
ROBINSON SAID he did not see Leben's method as wrong, especially if Leben thought a certain side to an issue was the right one.
But Robinson said he would not do many things that Leben did if he were in Lebanon's place.
Leben said the internal problems the Senate recently had considered, including making all Senate records and meetings public and keeping them important for the Senate's credibility.
"I DISAGREE with Ralph," Leben said.
"The major programs that we are working on right now are in committees and organizations, but we can't be presented to the Senate right now."
Leben said it was not true, as Munyan told
Senate meeting last week, that the Senate was
not going to vote on the bill.
He said that the Senate had made significant progress, but that it should be done on a bigger scale.
Randy McKernan, Lawrence senior, said he and other senators thought the committee structure had not been used to any benefit.
He said the $60,000 allocation by the Senate to recreational services last spring had not been considered by any committee because Leben had said it was important to pass the allocation so the improvements could be done during the summer.
"IF A COMMITTEE had studied the allocation, it probably would have found that nothing was going to be done with the summer anyway." McKerrain said.
The $60,000 now is being held in the Senate's unallocated fund. Improvements to be made, including the lighting of the tennis courts behind Robinson Gymnasium and improvements to theatrical playing courts and low-tier streets, are scheduled to be done this spring.
Leben said the Senate voted overwhelmingly to consider the $60,000 allocation to recreational services at the Senate meeting when the money was
He said the Senate vid provided the University with the money and has just signed a bill to fund research.
"In hindsight, it's easy to see that we
program the improvements," he said.
The threatened resignations come in the wake of the recent resignations of Bert Dunley from his positions on the Senate Communications Committee and on the Senate committees and of Don Green, chairman of the Senate Communications Committee, from the University Daily Kannan Board. Conflicts of interest and Senate pressure are reasons for the resignations both cases.
Walker seeking costlier tickets
By DENNIS MINICH
Staff Writer
The price of University of Kansas football tickets will be raised next year if a plan, proposed by athletic director Clyde Walker, has been approved by the KU Athletic Corporation (KUAC) approval.
The plan would raise football student tickets 50 cents a game—or $3 on season tickets—starting next fall to finance a proposed $2 million renovation at Memorial
The financing also could increase the price of basketball tickets if the football increase was insufficient to meet financial requirements. The price tickets have not been determined.
THE PROPOSALS are to be presented to athletic directors and faculty representatives of the Big Eight schools at a Big Eight Conference meeting in Kansas City, Ct.
The proposals drew objections from Steve Leben, student body president and a student representative to KUAC, who said that some of the expenses seemed extravagant and that students were not being given a chance to comment on the possible rate increase.
Leben was not alone in opposing the proposal, but the plan received preliminary approval by a vote of 85. All four student leaders signed an agreement to representative votes against the proposal.
The proposed plan consists of waterproofing the stadium, replacing the present synthetic turf and remodeling dressing rooms, public restrooms and concession areas.
Also included are expanding the Victory Club and press box and adding VIP seating and a wall around the south end of the stadium.
THE TOTAL COST of remodeling would be between $2 million and $2.5 million. Of that figure, about $700,000 would be for the turtle and $500,000 for the new turtl and $500,000 for the wall.
The rest of the cost would be divided among the other proposed projects.
Walker said the most feasible way to finance the project would be a surcharge on the building costs.
With the $3 increase, season football tickets next year would cost $23.
Besides the rate increase for students, tickets for the general public would increase as well.
$8.25 a game to $9.25. Faculty and staff would increase in cost up to 75 cents a game.
THE BIG EIGHT would have to approve KU's use of a surcharge. With the exception of surcharges, all money received for a Big KU is not directly between the home and visiting schools.
Leben said he didn't think it was fair to charge the students and public more for tickets to improve facilities that would be used by so few people.
Another proposal criticized by Leben was the Victory Club expansion.
The Victory Club is an area for contributors of $500 or more to the Williams Educational Fund, an athletic scholarship fund, to eat and lounge before games.
The KU proposal calls for 200 to 260 such seats.
The VIP seating section is in use at many universities. It consists of seats enclosed behind glass. The seats are sold at prices higher than those sold to the general public.
"We were told the VIP section could raise as much as $100,000 per year, he said. "If this is the case, I think they could come up with a better plan to finance its construction than charging students and the general public."
"AGAIN, WITH the Victory Club we are talking about a service to a few," he said, "and they want it to be financed through the surcharge on all tickets."
Leben also criticized planned construction of a wall at the south end of the stadium.
"$50,000 to construct a wall doesn't seem necessary, especially if we are expected to pay higher ticket prices to receive it," he said.
The idea of a surcharge is not new in the Big Eight; it originally was approved for the University of Oklahoma three years ago, but now it is common for schools have instituted similar surcharges.
But Leben emphasized a difference in the Oklahoma surcharge and the one being considered at KU. At OU, the surcharge is assessed only on general public tickets.
"The difference at Oklahoma was the charge was not added to tickets for students, faculty and staff members," Leben said. "They (Oklahoma officials) also solicited contributions for the project to pay some of the expenses."
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Inspections of KU's 12 sororities ended two weeks ago. KU's scholarship halls are open on Friday, May 9 from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Markley said inspections had revealed that not all fraternities were in compliance with the fire code. But he would not specify which were not in compliance.
Report almost ready on KU fire inspection
House-by-house reports of the results of recent fire inspections of University of Kansas fraternities and sororites will be released Wednesday, Paul Markley, technical adviser to the state fire marshal, said yesterday.
INSPECTIONS OF sororites concluded that of the 12 have met state recomp
Inspections of KU's 23 fraternity houses ended Tuesday after inspectors from the fire marshal's office and the Lawrence Fire Standards' office whether the fire safety standards have been met.
mendations, five must complete one more improvement and three houses have two or three fireplaces.
Markley said that some sororities and fraternities had not met the code because contractors had been delayed in beginning work or had delivered the wrong parts.
Letters have been sent to each sorority explaining the results of the inspections, he
Further inspections will be required of houses that did not meet the fire code.
The major concern of fire inspectors is that all houses install some kind of early warning system, such as smoke detectors, Markley said.
Recommendations to improve fire safety in campus housing were prompted by a fire last year in a Baker University fraternity. Five men were killed.
Ford plans KU lecture
Former President Gerald Ford will be coming to the University of Kansas early next week.
The exact date and other details of Ford's visit will be discussed tomorrow when a representative of the company that schedules Ford's appearances will come to Lawrence, Jim Scaly, administrative assistant to the chancellor, said.
Scalily said that Ford's program and possible for bad not yet been determined but not yet attempted.
Max Lucas, a member of the University lecture series committee, said KU had been
in contact with the Ford representatives for more than a year.
Last spring Ford made tentative plans to come to KU to speak but had other commitments. At that time Ford's daughter, Susan, was enrolled at KU in the School of Journalism. She dropped out of school the same semester.
Kansas State University officials announced two weeks ago that Ford would speak at K-State next semester as part of the Landon Lecture Series.
Scaled say Ford's visits to KU and K-State would be about the same time.
Boston power nearly restored after late-night blackout
BOSTON (UPI) - A power failure blocked out more than three square miles of Boston at about 9:30 p.m. local time last night, and the city's darkened streets with matches and candles.
By midnight local time, Boston Edison officials reported power was restored to about 75 per cent of the affected area. An emergency phone line and businesses still were without electricity.
Lights temporarily flickered on in the entire area but then went out again two minutes later in about one-fourth of the affected area.
Police said the Back Bay, Park Square.
downtown theater district, South End and Kennec Square areas were affected.
Sgt. Albert Demeneh said three or four more miles of the city was affected by the blackout.
Police said a manhole explosion was reported on Stuart Street in the theater district at the time the blackout began. A spokesman said it was thought that the explosion was caused by a trunk line that snapped electricity between the South End and Back Bav sections.
"WE THINK it was a faulty transformer
somewhere in town" an Edison official said. "We're investigating the cause of the blackout right now. We don't know exactly what caused it."
The spokesman said all of the company's computers were out, and no estimate on how many residents were affected was imprecise. It was not known when power would be restored.
Park Square includes the city's "Combat Zone"—the adult entertainment section—as well as many theaters. The Back Bay area is most populated by students and young people.
The lights went out in the 23-story bay. The second-place building in the city, the second-place building in the city,
Actor Frank Langelia, in play the "Dracula" in the theater district, jokingly told a sold-out audience, "Obviously there works much greater than mine working."
The blackout struck midway through the play. The final act was played with actors and actresses holding flashlights on stage in place of floodlights.
The cast later applauded the audience for its patience.