THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
The University of Kansas
Vol.88.No.24
Friday September 30,1977
Lawrence, Kansas
Nunley resigns lambasts Leben
Staff Writer
By LEON UNRUH
Burt Nurley, forced from his seat on the University of Kansas Athletic Corporation (KUAC) board earlier this month, resigned after a dispute with the university, and several Senate committees yesterday.
The sports committee removed Nunley from the KUAC seat because he worked for the athletic department while on the board as a student representative.
Nunley, who was removed after a conflict of interest battle, wrote a letter to Mike Harper. Studios chairman, yesterday, with poor management and petty politics.
Members of the committee, Studex and Steve Leben, student body president, had said they wondered whether Nunley could adequately represent the students while being paid $200 a month by the athletic department.
BESIDES THE SPORTS chairmanship, Nunley also resigned his seats on the recreation and hoc advisory committee, the sports advisory board and several subcommittees.
He is succeeded as sports chairman by Barney McCoy, who was elected coo Joseph R. Pearson residence assistant
Larry Miller said yesterday, "The state has
really come down hard with regulations.
We've gotten a lot tougher this year."
Fire rules force dorm to get tough
Staff Writer
Staff Writer
New state fire regulations, limiting the materials allowed in remodeling residence hall rooms, have caused at least one residence hall to crack down on violators.
Another residence assistant at Pearson, J. R. Hobbs, explained what violations were committed by the residents.
"SOME GUYS were building loeds—beds suspended from the ceiling. The loeds would impede exit in case of fire. Loets are still permitted, but only if not considered a fire hazard. So there is still a gray area where the rule is unclear."
Exit precautions are only part of the regulations stated in the code. Improvised wiring, floor height, bed height and wall height are regulated in system systems also are regulated in the code.
Other residence hall officials said they had not found violations of the new code.
THE NAIMSHT HALL manager, Bill
in building in rooms at Naimsht
was not allowed
Fire regulations, such as what appliances can be used in rooms, are printed in housing information pamphlets. Stores, televisions, computers, refrigerators, coffee pots and noon corn oopers are allowed.
Sunlamps, hot plates, and electric skillets are not allowed.
Nunley retained his position as member of Allen Field House Utilization Committee.
chairman so he could replace Nunley on the KUAC board. McCoy previously had no committee administrative duties.
In his letter yesterday, Nunley said that the Senate was overly concerned with the "petty bullshit" of student politics and that the Senate was led by one person who controlled the strings of Senate deliberations.
See FIRE page 12
Nunley said later that the person he was to was taken to Jabez. He was a favier of his father in the KUAC board.
"WITHOUT LEBEN, I wouldn't have been removed," Numley said. "It would have been something that would have sputtered and died had not Leben been so
Leben said Nunley had been presented with seven notes on how to avoid con-
flict between religious and secular institutions.
He said Nunley chose to make a non-declared effort, putting his voting membership on hold.
"I didn't笑, 'Because of morality, Bert, you have to resign,' " Leben said. "I said, 'Because you're not, because I'm a very important policy-making board, I'm asking you to resign.'"
Nunley said Leben's inner circle of politicians was trying to hoodwink the Senate membership in the current debate registration and recognition of student groups.
LEBEN HAS HEADED a drive to alter the University's process of administrative registration and recognition of student groups that request student activity funds
The groups now have to register in the
room. The students will chancellor for student
offices and meet.
The groups "must not be oriented toward support of or opposition to particular
See NUNLEY page 15
Pitchin'
itt of concentration and a lot of style, Oscar Stoebener, a Facilities Operations employee, makes a ringer Thursday during a noon-time horseshoe throw.
Faculty upset with appointments
Staff Writer
By JOHN WHITESIDES
Some faculty members are upset with FacEx for its appointments to the Faculty Senate Research Committee, claiming those appointments do not provide representation by faculty members from the active research areas of the University.
FacEx also has been criticized by research committee members for creating the ad hoc research committee, which was charged with investigating whether the full research committee should be split into two new committees.
The criticism surfaced in letters received by the University of Chicago's EF Chairman during the last two weeks.
Letters from John Landgrebe, professor of history, and Henry Snyder, research committee secretary and dean of research administration, said that a notable imbalance existed in the composition of the committee. Landgrebe's letter noted the lack of representatives on the committee from the physical sciences, engineering or
pharmacy fields and said these were among the most productive research areas at the University.
THE RESEARCH committee is responsible for advising on and distributing awards from the General Research Fund and for monitoring the procedures and administrative activities that affect University research.
The committee, excluding the chairman and the KU Medical Center representative, currently is composed of one representative from each of the architecture and Urban Design and of Education, two representatives from the natural sciences, three from the humanities and three from the social sciences. FacEx appointed the committee in July for a year's work.
Snyder said yesterday that there were three major areas of research at KU: child behavior, engineering and chemical industry, and related work in the biological sciences.
He said there were no engineers and only two chemists on the committee, leaving
thems as the only representatives of two of the three most important research fields at
SNYDER ALSO said that even though there were three humanities faculty members on the committee, there were no representatives from the fields of literature and languages, which make up the majority of the humanities department.
"Obviously, we can't have a seat on the committee, but we do"
"understand that this is what needs to happen."
Westerbeke agreed that the sciences were a major area of research at KU and that they are one of its strengths.
"With the aid of bindsight I think we have paid more attention to it," Snyder said.
Snyder said FacEx also had slighted the recommendations of the committee chairman in appointing the committee members.
He said that the chairman traditionally submitted recommendations to FacEx of
See RESEARCH page 12
Locomotive chugs in imagination of children
By ALLEN HOLDER
Staff Writer
The engineers may chew baby teeth, play with toys and lose their baby gum, but not the bones.
Central Park are limited only by their imaginations.
like Casse Jones, engineer of the 19th century. Their trips never take them physically further than the locomotive's permanent station in the park, between 6th
Those engineers, along with the passengers on the chase, preface this report.
Staff Photo by JOHN SHARKEY
In retirement
Although it has been stuck in Central Park since 1966, the old Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad locomotive has the logged
871,114 miles in its lifetime. of those miles were logged between 1908 and 1922, when the locomotive was retired.
The locomotive was a gift from the Atachi, Topeka and Santa Ft Railway Co. to Lawrence in Feb. 1956, according to Gil Sew, regional manager of public relations of the railway company. It logged 871,114 miles between 1908 and 1952.
and 7th streets and Kentucky and Tennessee streets, but the children play anyway.
FRED DEVICTOR, director of parks and recreation, said other cities also received similar gifts from the railway company.
"A lot of cities put upences around their trains," DeVictor said, "but we use it as a piece of play equipment so children can use it." It lets them see what it was really like.
DeVictor said the locomotive probably would wear out much faster being used for play than it would if it were only on display.
Some vandalism does occur to the
bureau. But it is sturdy and
difficult to vandalize.
"We have to periodically check to make sure there are no real hazards. We've had to remove valves and other things," he said.
An airplane, which was used as play equipment in Centennial Park, between 8th and 9th streets and Iowa Street and Rockledge Road, was removed. The park years ago, for vandalism, but the police did not think the locomotive would have to be removed.
The locomotive, with the number 1073 passed on its side, attracts many patrons in the park. Dedicated to the park.
persons to the park.
"Most of the kids just know it as Train Park," he said. "I take my kids there just because of the train."
Senate natural gas fight continues
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN-
Capsules From the Associated Press, United Press International
WASHINGTON — The Senate was called back into session this morning to attempt to work out a compromise on natural gas legislation. Majority leader Robert Byrd, D-W.V., called a recess last night after a third night-session of faint attempts to result from a 10-day filibuster. WASHINGTON has no legal deregulation.
opponents or natural gas price equilib-
Earlier yesterday, President Jimmy Carter criticized Congress for weakening his energy program and delaying a vote on it. He also reaffirmed his opposition to removal of natural gas price controls.
Carter also said that reasonable progress had been made in the Soviet SALT talks and that Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev had a standing invitation to visit the United States. See stories page two.
Graham
Graham agrees to open finances
MINNEAPOLIS - After receiving criticism from the Better Business Bureau about his religious organization, the Rev. Billy Graham said yesterday he would recommend that the finances of his group be made public.
The Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, which Graham said receives between $23 and $3 million a year, was criticized for its unwillingness to provide a financial guarantee. The organization's reorganization on a "give, but give wisely" status.
Graham said he would make the disclosure recommendation to the 28-member board of directors but would consult with other religious leaders before taking any actions. Graham's organization was formerly a religious and received tax exempt status as a religious group in a religious group, it is not required to publicize its finances.
Carter signs $11 billion farm bill
WASHINGTON — President Jimmy Carter yesterday signed an $11-billion farm bill that will boost grain farmers' incomes, revamped the federal food stamp program and expand agricultural research. The bill, which took nearly three years to prepare, also continues and revises almost every administrative statute of the Agriculture Department. It will be in effect for the next four years. See story page three.
Neutron bomb research approved
Neutron bombs WASHINGTON — Research on the controversial neutron bomb was overwhelmingly approved by the House yesterday. A bill including the research amendment was sent to the Senate for final approval.
President Jimmy Carter asked for the research funding and said he would decide after further study whether to propose development of the weapon, which can be developed as a warhead on an artillery shell or as a bomb.
which can be developed as a windband to send that heat to the earth. Radiation from the neutron bomb is said to kill people but to cause only slight property.
Locally . . .
The stoic figure of Moses is slowly and steadily taking shape in Learned Hall. Elden Telfon, professor of art, is forming a 10-foot bronze statue of Moses to adorn the lawn in front of Smith Hall, which houses the department of religion. The statue is 10 years in old age and says finally that it will be completed next summer. But he is sure promises its completion date. He says simply that it will be done "when we finish it." See story page six.
Moses