THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
Thursday September 8,1977
The University of Kansas
Vol.88, No.8
Lawrence, Kansas
Tentative accord reached between city and police
Staff Writer
By STEVE PARSONS
A tentative agreement reached yesterday may end a summer-long salary dispute between city police and the Lawrence City Commission.
The agreement, reached in a meeting between representatives of the Lawrence Police Officers Association (LPOA) and the city commission, is similar to an agreement reached Tuesday between the city and Local International Association of Fire Fighters.
Fire fighters met last night to vote on the Tuesday agreement but were unable to gain a majority vote. Alvin Samuels, head of the fire fighters organization, said last night that only about one-half of the membership was available to vote, not enough for a
SAMUELS IAS, however, that effort would continue to reach all members to get them to attend.
Police and firemen had protested a six per cent salary increase passed in August by the city commission and had demanded an extra four per cent. Talks had broken off between police and representatives after August 8, and did not resume until this week.
The fire fighters and police agreements
concern the longevity limit pay plans and salary
continuity.
The longevity pay plan would give a $33 bonus every January for every year an employee worked, beginning after an employee's sixth year of service. The maximum bonus, starting January 1978, will be $60 for 20 or more years of service.
TO HELP AVOID future pay disputes, an April 15 deadline for beginning next year's contract talks was set. In the past, contract bearings have started in June.
In case an impasse occurs next year, the agreements have provided for formation of a committee of two representatives each from the city staff and the police or firemen, depending upon which group encounters the impasse.
According to Mike Wilden, assistant city manager and major spokesman for the city in the talks, the police and firemen's tentative agreements are identical except for additional items in the agreement with police.
He said that the major additional item is a skill-incentive program in which police officers may receive up to a five per cent salary increase in 1979.
WILDEN SAID that for officers at the top of the pay range ($12,270 per year), a two-and-one-half per cent pay raise would be given for proficiency in such areas as emergency medical training or marksmanship instruction.
He said that an officer could only get one raise a year and a maximum of two raises, with rays beginning after six months at the top of the pay range. A minimum four-and-one-half years on the force would be raised if an officer could resis- ture, he said.
ANOTHER RESULT of the meeting was the proposal of a "Bill of Rights" that would put into writing the procedure used when an individual under criminal investigation, Revisis said.
David Reevis, head of the LPQA, said last night that the agreement also included a call for the more to be done with the selection of the officers off, he said, would be up to the discretion of the supervisors.
Revisis he thought the talks went well, but added that the real decision would come Friday night when the LPOA members meet to vote on the agreement.
Also discussed, but left for later consideration, was a police request for the relacing of the city residency between the police and the commission have been set.
Police and firemen agreements are subject to approval by City Manager Buford Watson, the city commission and the police or firemen groups.
Bias hearing result expected soon.
Staff Photo by JOHN SHARKEY
By KARYN GIBSON
Staff Writer
A decision is expected by Monday on whether a racial discrimination suit brought against the University of Kansas by a black KU medical student will go to trial.
The student, Iace Gregory, filed the suit in Kansas City, Kan., federal district court July 29. A hearing was held Friday. The suit charges that the grading policies in two KU Medical Center classes Gregory failed last school year were racially discriminatory, according to David Dysart, legal counsel for the Med Center.
immediately after he filed suit, Gregory obtained a restraining order that allowed him to remain in school until a decision was reached after the district court hearing. The order was necessary because Gregory's case depended in part on his being a medical
student with a grievance against the school,
Dvsart said yesterday.
THE SUIT was brought against the University of Kansas, and it also names as individual defendants Chancellor Archie R. Dykes, all nine members of the Board of Regents, all five Med Center faculty members.
Gregory was admitted to the Med Center's School of Medicine in 1975. He was recommended for dismails from the school in 1976 after he failed all three first-year courses, and then was immediately mentored by a student promotion subcommittee, Dysart said, and Gregory appealed to the next level in a series of com-
mputations in a study and decide
potential dismissal cases.
Campus jam
Gregory, of Kansas City, Kan., said yesterday he had originally thought the matter he worked out at the university level he declined to comment on the specificity level of the inquiry.
At the second level, an academic committee recommended that Gregory be during the 1980s to repeat his degree in the three of the four courses at the second time.
THE STUDENT promotion subcommittee again recommended dismissal last spring and was seconded by the academic committee. A special ad hoc committee was called to hear the case, and when it also recommended dismissal, Gregory appealed to the fourth and final level of committee members at that meeting, at which faculty members may vote on dismissal. They favored Gregory's dismissal by a majority vote.
stein, Overland Park sophomore, sits near Flint Hall and strums a few bars in the afternoon.
Dysart said, "Traditionally there are
SEE HEARING page pine
Taking advantage of yesterday's pleasant weather, Barry Bern-
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County eligible for disaster funds
Because of storms June 16-26 that caused an estimated $450,000 in property and crop damages, Douglas County has been reduced by nearly 90 percent. Gov. Robert Bennett announced yesterday.
Douglas County was among Kansas counties that together suffered an estimated $6 million in hail, wind, flood and tornado damage. Benedict had sent aid for 17
Travis Brann, county emergency preparedness director, said yesterday that most of the damage in Douglass County was caused by individual losses averaging from $500 to $1,000.
qualified county residents who suffered damages to seek low-interest Small Business Administration disaster relief loans.
Applications to cover physical damage to homes, businesses and farm buildings can be filed until Nov. 1, Bennett said. The deadline to apply for loans to cover such
The governor said the designation
economic injury as lost wages and sales and other hardships is 2, June 2978, he said.
Stadium no longer mouse house
According to Bennett, as many as 2,400 could qualify for loans in the 12 counties.
Staff Writer
By CATHY CRIST
Staff Writer
The other counties receiving the disaster area designation are Chase, Dickinson, Geary, Harvey, Johnson, Marion, Miami, Morris, Riley, Saline and Wabausea.
For 17 years, Memorial Stadium was the home of mice as well as the Kansas daiphys.
However, last month the mice were removed when a National Institute of Health (NIH) contract, which paid KU to raise the cancer-infested mice, ended. The contract ended because the NIH uses bacteria-free mice in its experiments.
KU and several other centers had raised mice for NIH since 1960.
According to John Weir, director of the mouse project and professor of physiology and neuroscience at Yale University in 1960 to build a large enough to hold several thousand mice. An old barn of Daisy Hill was considered for use before the area below the stadium's base was excavated.
small rooms during the post-World War II housing shortage, and more recently, the genetics laboratory staff used space there. But even when a new genetics laboratory was built behind Snow Hall in 1961, the mice staved in Memorial Stadium.
Students had lived under the stadium in
STAINLESS STEEL CAGES lined the three mouse rooms, Weir said. Automatic timers kept the rooms light half the time circulated and were difficult to circu- cated and were hygienic.
"Floyd, I think we're really on to something BIG this time. Floyd . . . Floyd? . . . Floyd???? Staff Illustration by David Miller."
"We worried about people contaminating the mice, not the opposite," Weir said.
Atlmost directly below thousands of screaming fans during football games, the mice showed no signs of skittishness after the games, Weir said. Some strains of mice die when subjected to loud noise, but no such deaths occurred here. Weir said that most mice are football game, but, he said, he believed that most noise did not reach the mice.
Every Monday, orders were received from research centers for mice and every Friday, mice were packed with food in cardboard boxes and flown from Lawrence to one of the genetics centers throughout the country.
"KU had a good reputation." Weir said. "Our mice were known to be raised in good conditions."
"Our mice were conventional!" Weir said,
"And although we could have got the bacteria-free mice, we declined and ended the contract with NIH last month. The new mice are expensive, and we can't afford them.
NIH PROVIDED from $7,000 to $100,000 a
condition to insure completion of these condi-
New bacteria-free mice were introduced recently and are used exclusively now.
All of the mice, used exclusively for cancer research, had some kind of cancer growth, according to Albert G. Smith, a former KU professor, who helped with the project. Researchers worked to control these growths with different chemicals
Also, the stadium has not been in its best condition lately."
we said that the project was fairly well-known around KU but that it was kept low-know.
"Actually, it's amazing that the whole thing lasted so long," he said. "It succeeded because of the skill and dedication of the employees and Facilities workers."
SOME MICE were used to feed snakes, and the rest were killed with carbon dioxide.
It is unlikely that research will take place under the stadium again, Weir said. The stadium laboratories are used for storage, and they have thousands of maces are now dark and quiet.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN-
New Panama Canal treaty signed
Lance's Georgia loans disclosed
WASHINGTON—President Jimmy Carter and the head of Panama signed the new Panama Canal treaty last night at a 30-minute internationally televised ceremony attended by 400, including former President Gerald R. Ford and Lady Bird Johnson. The signature ended a century-long national social action led by Beatriz Vieira, one of Western Hemisphere nations. The treaty still must be ratified by a two-thirds vote in the U.S. Senate. See story page two.
WASHINGTON—Federal banking investigators have released another report on Budget Director Bert Lance, showing that he and his wife obtained about 800,000 loans from a Georgia bank by depositing free-funds from his own Calumhon, Ga. bank. The Compass Group said the loan was being issued and had been violated. Press secretary Jody Powell said President Carter still does not intend to ask for Lance's resignation. See story page two.
Ethiopian troops in 'all-out war'
NAIROIB**H**, Kenya—Ethiopia broke diplomatic relations with Somalia Wednesday and said its troops have launched all-out war against Somali invaders in the Ogaden desert. The move apparently will lead to a formal declaration of war. See story page two.
First-day K.C. busing goes well
KANAS CITY, Mo.—No problems were reported yesterday in the first day of busing 6,350 Kansas City students for desegregation purposes. Several school board members and city officials rode buses as a public transportation plan and did disruptions. Police were prepared for possible racial disturbances, but were not needed.
Bell wants money before decision
WINFIELD—Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. yesterday asked Cowley County District Court to grant a temporary $5.9 million rate increase. The company said its request was an attempt to recover revenue that otherwise would be lost while the company appeals a Kansas Corporation Commission decision that cut a permanent rate increase request from $25.9 million to $7.7 million. If the temporary increase is allowed and Bell loses the appeal, the money would be returned to the customers. Also pending is the company's April request for a $27.1 million increase.
Locally . . .
Franklin
Texas A & M kicker Tony Franklin may be KU football coach Bud Moore's biggest headache Saturday when the Jayhawks square off against the Aggies at College Park. The game was connected on 29 of 48 field goal attempts, including 10 of 19 from more than 50 yards. He holds five NCAA records, two Southwest Conference records and six school records. And to add insult to injury, Franklin said he's kicking a 36-yard line at any point in the past two years. See story page six.