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Wednesday, September 14, 1977
University Daily Kansan
Firemen accept wage agreement
Firemen voted 20-13 yesterday to accept a tentative wage agreement made a week ago with the Lawrence City Commission.
They had said last week they could not announce a decision to accept or deny the agreement because not enough votes had been cast to establish a majority. Four votes were cast.
Yesterday, as the decision was announced, four votes still had not been cast.
Tom Teague, secretary of Local 1596 of the International Association of Fire Fighters, said he was relieved that the fire department had not been announced last week was that firemen had agreed not to release their voting results because they did not want to influence police in voting for a new mayor.
Solar negotiations for 1978 between the city and firemen and the city and police stalled Aug. 8, prior to an Aug. 9 decision by the city commission to approve the 1978 budget, including money allocated for police and firemen's salaries.
THAT BUDGET will provide a 6 per cent salary increase for all city employees, including firemen and police, who had requested 10 per cent salary increases.
Commissioners reopened negotiations with firemen Sept. 6 and with police Sept. 7, stipulating that no 1978 salary changes could be made because the city's budget deadline
The second round of negotiations also established extra pay plans for 1979.
The negotiations earlier this month yielded agreements outlining wage negotiation changes for next year that would allow earlier wage discussions and would establish a committee to serve liaison during police-city or firemen-city meetings.
although firemen have voted to accept the new agreements, they have refused to sign any official agreement until police have made a similar decision.
TRAGUE SAID firemen were waiting as a gesture of support for police, who had
Political negotiations continued yesterday as David Reavis, chairman of the Lawrence Police Officers Association (LPOA), sent a letter to Buford Watson, city manager, asking him to discuss proposals for the current police force with the city. Sunday rejected a tentative agreement that was similar to the fireman's agreement.
agreement. Reavis had said last week that police would fight the agreement chiefly because it offered no substantial salary increase for 1978, he said the discussion with Watson would concern rewording the term "containing section of the agreement."
Balfour, SenEx vow cooperation
staged a work-slowdown last month, protesting the decrease in their salary request.
Eric Smith, secretary of LPOA, said yesterday that police were not certain added days of vacancy included in the agreement were with or without pay.
By JOHN WHITESIDES
Staff Writer
William Balfour, University of Kansas ambushman, and SenXe yesterday agreed to keep formal and informal lines of communication open between each other in an attempt to improve upon the "moras" of University grievance procedures.
William, Westerbeke, SenEx chairman,
and procedural differences in each school's
programs are due to the difference.
terpresentation.
Balfour told SenEx he was willing to meet with any University committee handling other complaints.
Westerbeke told Balfour that the University governance system would be available to investigate possible changes in any University rules and regulations that Balfour felt would improve the handling of complaints.
"I have no objections to having several ways in which a complaint might go," Bailour said. "I'm certainly not trying to build an empire."
THOUGH HE SAID he had to keep confidential names and details, Balfour did list some of the complaints he had handled.
SenEx invited Balfour to the meeting to discuss his job duties and ways the governance system could assist him. Some SenEx members said earlier this year that the ombudsman job description was vague and that he left its duties open to interpretation.
- a student complaint about a University employment application form.
- a student organization complaint about
a low priority status on a telephone hook-up list.
- a student complaint about being
punished from taking as many hours as he was
hired.
- a graduate student complaint about a grade.
In the case of a student who was not allowed to take all the hours he wanted, Bailour said he had tried to convince the student that the University was right.
"A lot of this is just listening, peruand, being sympathetic and trying to get people to listen."
THAT PROMPTED Don Marquis, associate professor of philosophy, to say that the ambushed would be using value judgments in handling many cases.
"One of the things the ombudsman will do is make judgments about equitability, justice and wisdom," Marqus said. "I think it inherent in the office and you're stuck
staff four replied he was well aware he made judgments about complaint validity and about what a person with a complaint should do.
"I think it's easy to fall into the trap of thinking that all complaints are valid, and obviously, that isn't the case," Balfour said. "I don't know if by any hard-fast rules on what I should do."
T. P. Srinivasan, professor of mathematics, asked Balfour whether there was a danger of the ombudsman becoming an established part of the administration, or "another vice chancellor in the administrative set-up."
Gardner enters guilty plea receives 2 to10 years
Gardner originally was accused of first degree murder along with his brother, James, 18, in connection with the Feb. 6 murder investigation of Makesy, 46, in Gardner's apartment.
In court yesterday, Gardner admitted he had cut off those ties as part of an attempt to
"I did cut off her legs," he said. "Riuzor morta had set in and it was impossible to break them."
A Santa Fe railroad crew work crew Maxey's naked, legless body near the railroad tracks at the north end of Confluence Creek. The brother brothers were arrested later that day.
JAMES PADDOCK, district court judge,
sentenced Gardner to two to 10 years after
bearing arguments from both sides. The
usual sentence for helping a felon conceal a
crime is two to five years. However, Paddock extended the sentence because Gardner previously had been convicted of a felony.
Despite objections by Mike Malone,
Douglas County attorney, Padlock ordered
Gardner to serve his sentence concurrently
with the 20 year sentence for aggravated battery.
William Balfour
Malone argued that Gardner had shown a propensity to "influence" and should serve as a judge of conscience consequent.
Gardner's attorney, Jack Maxwell, said his brother was guilty only of trying to help his brother.
"To enhance his sentence is to punish him for something he didn't do." Maxwell said. "Cutting off a dead person's legs is not a crime despite what the media might say."
THE SIXTY-EIGHT days Gardner spen in the Douglas County Court after being arrested for the rape he could be considered for probation in 18 months, Malone said. After pleading guilty, Gardner was asked by Paddock why he understood the case
Gardner told the judge that his younger brother had killed Maxey, that he had refused to testify against his brother and that he helped to dispose of the body.
re said he had done what anyone would do to help a brother out of a bad situation.
Paddock told him there could be no appeal to the Kansas Supreme Court if the guilty plea was accepted. Gardner said he understood, and the guilty plea was accepted.
His younger brother pleaded guilty in May in Douglas County District Court to a reduced charge of second degree murder in the death of his 18-year-old daughter to a term of from 30 years to life.
The Senate also will consider a bill opening most Senate records to public inspection. The bill would make it the responsibility of the executive secretary to compile and to update an index of the Senate files.
both gardeners are serving their terms in
Hutchinson Correctional Institute for
Men
A bill that would make close meetings a violation of Student Senate Rules and Regulations is one of the issues the Secate at its first full meeting of the wear tonight.
THE SECRETARY also would be responsible for making records available to the public.
The Senate is termed an advisory group because the chancellor can veto funds allocated by the Senate. Such an incident occurred several years ago when Chancellor Laurence Chalmers veted the funds to the Gay Liberation organization.
Although the Senate has never closed its meetings, adopting the proposed bill would be very difficult.
The Senate is not subject to any open meetings laws because it is an advisory group and has to make its own rules concerning them, Reggie Robinson, Senate Rights Committee chairman, said last week.
"I CERTAINLY feel that the ombudsman has got to be impartial, no matter who is in trouble with whom," he said. "I would think the administration would be happy to help those whose complaints might otherwise go to the administration."
Meetings bill on Senate agenda
Balfour said he didn't think the ombuds would become part of the ad-hoc process.
in other business, the Senate will consider a bill requesting that the Senate Communications Committee work with the Senate Kisan to create a Student Senate column.
Action probably will not be taken on Bert Nunley's alleged conflict-of-interest with his athletic department job and Senate post, Jill Grubbaugh. Senate representative, said
The bill states information about Senate activities and issues is unpublicized and the student body is often unformed about them. The state would alleviate the problem, the bill states.
Grubaugh said that because the Sports Committee elected a cochairman Monday to replace Nunley on the board, the meeting did not be brought up at the meeting tonight.
Nunley was involved in a conflict-of interest dispute over whether his paid athletic job conflicted with his position on the Athletic Association Corporation Board (KUAC)
available for examination within two days upon any request.
However, Nunley could still be removed from his position as Sports chairman by a vote of the board.
Student charged in bomb threat
David Shapiro, Lenexa freshman, is to appear in court this week on charges that he telephoned police Monday night with a bomb threat. Police received the call at 6:14 p.m. It said there was a bomb in Naismith Hall. Naismith was evacuated for half an hour until police searched the building and no bomb.
Shapiro was arrested Monday night after police reportedly traced the phone call to his room at Oliver Hall, across the street from Naismith.
Shapiro was arrested about 10 that night.
Mike Wildgen, assistant city manager,
told the Kansan Sunday that it had been
understood from the beginning that those
two days of vacation were with pay
power, but not to work. A portion of this.
He is on vaction until next week
and is unavailable for negotiations.
Watson said he had not yet heard from police and would wait.
Two KU students from Venezuela pleaded not guilty yesterday in U.S. Magistrate Court to charges of importation and possession of cocaine valued at $190,000. Bruce Miller, assistant U.S. attorney, said.
Use of local emergency center sparks city debate, disagreement
Disagreement about when to use the Douglas County Emergency Operating Center (DOC) was the only outcome of a case in which the DOC planned for the center in case of disaster.
there is and needs to be duplication of services here," he said, "but unless we have a nuclear attack or for some reason the power goes off and the other system is incapacitated, there's no reason to send everyone over to use the EOC."
BRANN SAID the EOC should be used whenever possible. He said the county should develop a plan for its use during a nuclear disaster, so that smaller emergencies like flood, fire or tornado would be easy to handle.
"We can develop a plan where the EOC would not be used except in the case of a nuclear disaster." Bram said. "But if we were to look like something paid for and not needed."
Braun said any disagreement could probably be cleared up and the plan further developed when he meets with each county and city official involved in the plan.
Bufford Watson, city manager, said the EOC should be used only when the Law Enforcement Communications Center (LEC) handles emergencies, is operative.
Travis Brann, county emergency emergency preparedness director, said the EOC should be a place where local leaders could gather to make decisions during an emergency.
Watson said the LECC could handle all emergencies short of a nuclear attack.
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ree said that in a nuclear disaster the degree of potential physical damage to the
KANSAN
On Campus
Juan Jose Rodriguez Iriarte and
Inacio Blanco Iriarte, both Caracas
seniors, were arrested last week in
Lawrence by Federal Drug Enforcement Administration officials after allegedly transporting cocaine in a travel bag from Kansas City International Airport (KCI).
TOMORROW: will meet at 7:30 p.m. at the South Park Recreation Center, 1141 Massachusetts. KU BALLOONING ASSOCIATION will meet at 7:30 p.m. DR. PAUL EHRILICH, population biologist from Stanford University, will lecture at 8 p.m. in the Union Ballroom.
TODAY: Sigma Chi's 23rd Annual DERRY DA Drinking contest will start at 6 p.m. in Broken Arrow Park, 31st and Louisiana streets. COLLEGE REPUBLICANS will meet at 7 p.m. in the Regionalist Room of the Kansas Union. KUHG GLIDING CLUB will meet at 7:30 p.m. in the Union's Council Room. A CONCERT will be held at Hoch Auditorium. KU DAMES will have a general meeting and fondue party at 7:30 p.m. in the Pinetree Community Building, 149 Pinecoe Drive.
JAZZ THIS WEEK AT Paul Gray's Jazz Place
Fri: Tom Montgomery Quartet
Thurs: Free Jam Session
Sat: Claude "Fiddler" Williams
customs officials inspecting the bag upon its arrival at KCI found more than 81 grams of cocaine in a false bottom. At the airport, the agency found that 60 percent of cocaine were found in their possession.
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