THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
The University of Kansas
Vol.88,No.9
Friday September 9,1977
Lawrence, Kansas
Fire laws make work for KU,KSU
KU fraternities are making every effort to comply with state fire regulations set after house inspections last spring. Tim Metzier, Interfraternity Council president, said last night after a meeting of the IFC house presidents.
However, several house presidents 'have
not yet been waiting for workmen to
install smoke detectors.
Metzler will meet with the state fire marshal next week to set up a schedule for biannual fire inspections of each fraternity this fall.
Fraternities, sororites and other organized living groups have been involved in a year-long campaign to make their houses meet fire standards.
ATTENTION WAS focused on fire standards after a fire at a Baker University fraternity that killed five students last fall revealed the fraternity did not met the fire standards.
Since then, state fire inspectors have been cracking down on all organized University living groups, first making recommendations in the police notice of closure if renovations are not made.
The Kansas State Endowment Association, which owns the building, did not approve funds for the renovation until this summer.
At Kansas State University a scholarship house may be closed next month if not renovated to meet regulation standards, the College of Arts and Sciences student newspaper, Tuesday.
Even if funds had been appropriated earlier, Kenneth Heywood, Endowment Association director, said office workers could not have done the renovations over the summer because they were too busy renovating the athletic residence hall.
Staff PhoI
Required modifications include improved exit lighting, a hood and automatic extinguishing system over the kitchen range which was enclosed with fire-resistant materials.
Meetina again
William Scott, associate professor of English, rests for a minute while another faculty member takes the floor at yesterday's meeting of the University Council.
Faculty Council enters fight over sabbatical plan
By JOHN WHITESIDES
Staff Writer
The Faculty Council voted yesterday to instruct FacEx to meet with administrators to resolve disagreements over a new faculty building. The administration supports but the administration has rejected.
Council members said they were concerned that personal opinion had influenced the administration's decision, that the rejection of the plan might destroy faculty confidence in the faculty governance system, and that the administration's decision had been based on "casual" legal advice.
William Westerbeke, FacEx chairman, said after the council meeting that FacEx would decide Tuesday which members of the administration to invite to the special meeting and when the meeting would be held.
THE REJECTED FACULTY sabbatical plan would have allowed some sabbaticals to be granted on factors other than merit, and the length of time without a sabbatical.
FacEx is the executive committee of the Faculty Council, which comprises 39 faculty members of the University Council and many faculty in the University governance system.
Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor, explained in a recent letter to Westbeke bhat the proposed sabbatical amendments were incompatible with Kansas Board of Regents guidelines, which specify that regulations should be granted strictly on merit.
FacEx members Tuesday asked Westberke to obtain a second letter from Shankel clarifying the administration's policy against refugees in new policy conflicted with Regents guidelines.
Shanklet's response stated the policy was rejected because the Regensburg attorneys notices were being refused.
cept of relative merit” must be maintained to comply with Regents policy.
"Secondly," the letter stated, "I believe philosophically myself, and I am sure that the Chancellor and Vice Chancellor (Ron Calgaard share this view, that if we are to maintain the viability of our sabbatical system, we must retain the concept of relative merit as a prime consideration in decisions on who is to receive sabbaticals."
T. P. SRINIVASAN, council member,援 the faculty to unite against opposition to policies that pitted faculty members against staff and acceptedempt of relative merit" *pernicious principle*.
"The administration is clamoring for merit," Srinivasan, professor of mathematics, said. "Well, they ought to honor our effort, but they're laying it on a little too thick.
"What they're telling us is, 'don't hire colleagues who are any smarter than you'
"This rat-race of competitiveness, pitting one faculty member against another, is not in the academic spirit," he said. "This is what our administration refused to face."
OTHER MEMBERS of the council thought the differences between the faculty and administration could be worked out. Westerbeek, associate professor of law, told the council he thought the important thing was not to go out screaming and yelling, but to sit down with the administration and find out what could be done to ease the problem.
"I have reason to believe that we are not far apart as many suggest," he said. "If we are interested in the viability of the governance system we would take the responsible approach and sit down and find out what the differences are."
Don Marquis, associate professor of philosophy, said Shanker's "philosophical" objection to the plan was a new basis for administration opposition.
MARQUIS SAID the administration now was saying that if the faculty and administration differed on an issue, the faculty position would be rejected regardless of the care or reason that went into the faculty argument.
*This raises serious questions and strikes right at the heart of the faculty governance structure.*
Srinivasan agreed and said faculty confidence in the faculty governance system might suffer because of the added pressure on his "casual and summary rejection."
Felix Moss, professor of anthropology and East Asian studies, said the administration cited two legal councils as sources for its research on human rights in legal counsel to turn to for a different opinion.
Paul Muester, professor of mathematics,
and the director of the legal opinions
cited by the administrator.
"IT'S ALWAYS convenient to grab a lawyer and get him to say something," he said. "For every lawyer you can get to say this you can get two more to save the other."
Some council members said they thought the issue was important enough that the administration should have gotten more than an oral opinion.
"I'm concerned with the procedure used by the vice chancellor, and I think it has serious implications in our relation to the administration," Ray Hinter, professor of law at the University of Iowa. "I like to see any opinions by an attorney put in written form so we know their basis."
In a separate University Council meeting, Westerbeke announced that William Balfour, University ombudsman, would meet with SenEx next week.
SenXe had asked Westbeker on Tuesday to invite Bailour to a meeting to discuss his job duties and any possible assistance the governance system could provide him.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Capsules From the Associated Press, United Press International
Beame, Abzug out of mayor race
Cuomo
NEW YORK-New York's Secretary of State, Mario Cuomo, and Congressman Edward Koch yesterday won the two runoff positions for New York City's Democratic mayoral nomination, ending Mayor Abraham Beame's long political career and dashing a comeback bid by former congresswoman Bella Abzug.
**name**, 71, who was elected in 1973 with the campaign slogan "He knows the buck," ranch third, followed by Abzug. Seven Democrats competed in the race, which drew a negro candidate voter turnout.
In the Republican mayoral primary, State Sen. Rory Goodman easily defeated radio personality Barry Farber, who already had the Conservative Party nomination. With 52 percent of the vote, Cuomo's Kock each had about 20 per cent of the vote.
Zero Mostel dies of heart attack
PHILADELPHIA-Zero Mostel, the rotund comic actor who queued that success had gone to his waist instead of his head, died last night of a heart attack.
Mastel, famous for his role of Tevey in the Broadway play "Fiddler on the Roof," died at Thomas Jefferson Hospital shortly before 8 p.m. He was in Philadelphia to play the role of Shylock in an updated edition of Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice."
House deletes B1 bomber funds
WASHINGTON—The House voted yesterday to halt production of the Bi bomber by voting to delete funds for the BI from a defense appropriations bill. Although production of the bomber already had been halted by President Jimmy Carter, the House vote is considered the final decision to end produc-
KANAS CITY, Mo.—Police said yesterday they had identified five possible killers in the eight deaths of young women in Kansas City since the first of the year, although there is not yet enough evidence to file charges. The five suspects each might have been responsible for five separate deaths, police said. Earlier speculation was that the killings, most of them of women believed to have been prostitutes, were the work of one man.
KC police identify killer suspects
U.S.. Canada agree on pipeline
The Canadian route was chosen over a land-scenic route because it will save U.S. consumers an estimated $6 billion in fuel costs, do less damage to the environment and provide greater safety, President Jimmy Carter said after the Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau about the $10-billion project.
WASHINGTON - The United States and Canada agreed yesterday to construct a 2,700-mile pipeline across Canada to bring natural gas from Alaska to California.
Locally . . .
A new radar device, invented and manufactured in Kansas, will give highway patrolmen a temporary edge in the fierce war between troopers and speeders. But there is money to be made from the battle, companies are sure to provide a new defense for long-distance drivers who can't seem to live with 56 miles an hour. A huge wave of have Johnson suggests a method to end the war, but it could give speeders a more妙 surprise when they return home from their trip. See column page four.
Police, firemen to vote on wages
Lawrence police and firemen will decide today whether to accept tentative wage agreements reached with the Lawrence City Commission.
The Lawrence Police Officers Association
(LPOA) will vote tonight on longevity pay
Open meetings to be considered
Although the Student Senate never has closed a meeting to the public, the Senate Rights, Privileges and Responsibilities Committee last night passed an amendment proposing that closed meetings not be allowed.
That bill, along with one opening most Senate records to public inspection, will be presented for consideration Wednesday at the first Senate meeting of the semester.
Reggie Robinson, Rights Committee chairman, said last night that the Senate was not subject to any open meetings or records laws and had to make its own rules
A ruling this summer by Kansas Aty.
Gen. Curt Schneider said Kansas State
University's Senate did not have to have
open meetings in order to vote on the state's president and not to the state. The president was answerable to the state, however.
The Kansas open meetings, or sunshine
meetings, must have access to a wide
range of government agencies.
ROBSONN SAID the same situation existed at KU.
The Senate is an advisory group because the Chancellor can veto funds allocated by the Senate. This an incident occurred several years ago when Chancellor Laurence Chalimers veteded the allocation of funds to the Gav Liberation organization.
"Because we are an advisory group we aren't subject to the open meetings law,"
The committee's proposed amendment to the Rules and Regulations regarding Senate records stated an index of what was in the files must be made available upon request and the files must be made available within two days.
A proviso was allowed to permit University administrators to request confidentially, in writing, certain letters and files.
Robinson said this semester the committee would investigate student representation in advisory committees, administration-appointed committees, examine a crime prevention study on the KU campus, renovate the Rules and Regulations department of administration procedures and decide whether budget hearing should be open.
and salary negotiation plans. Officials of Local 1968 of the International Association of Fire Fighters will announce their decision made yesterday on an almost identical pay
Both plans call for a $33 bonus for every year a policeman and fireman works, beginning after his sixth year of service. The maximum bonus, $669, would begin in January 1979 for those with 20 or more years of service.
They both also call for an April 15 starting deadline for next year's salary talks. In the past, contract hearings have started in June.
THE TENTATIVE agreements were conceived in meetings between city commission representatives and police and firemen after police and firemen protested the city's approval of a 6 per cent salary. The group demanded a 10 per cent increase.
Talks last week between police and firemen groups and commission representatives were the first since talks
Talks resumed last week with the
participant no 1978 salary changes
would be made.
broke off Aug. 8. When the commission stuck by its original salary increase and refused to further discuss 1978 wages with police and firemen.
Instead, a 1979 longevity pay plan tentatively was agreed upon.
Mike Wilden, assistant city manager,
said Wednesday that he was satisfied with
both agreements and would try to convince
commissars that they were the best possible.
THE COMMISSION approved the inn's fee for Tuesday night but has not yet approved it.
Mayor Marrie Arkersinger said the commission's approval of legally regulated facilities is a support of care.
It will be necessary, however, for City Manager Buford Watson to sign both agreements. Watson, who met with the group's representatives, said he would sign
The additional items include a skill-incentive program, in which police may receive up to a 5 per cent salary increase in 1979, a request for three more days off each
See POLICE page three
both agreements when they were approved by firemen and police.
"Our team operated in good faith, and I don't intend to make any changes," she said. "I am proud of the city in the talks, said police and firemen's tentative agreements were identical except for additions."
Street to close
Weather permitting, Memorial Drive will be closed to all traffic and parking tomorrow for repaving. Memorial Drive is the street that runs through the center between West Campus Road and Mississippi Street. Normal use will be resumed Sunday.
Kittens. anyone?
Feeling the need to give away four of her kittens, Sharron Clark, a freshman stationed herself in front of the Kansas
Staff Photo by PAUL ROSE
unny yesterday. But after the first kite was taken she realized that "it's going to be so different without them."