THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
The University of Kansas
Wednesday September 7,1977
Vol. 88, No.7
Lawrence, Kansas
Greek view of bulb sales dims, fades
Staff Writer
By KEVIN KIOUS
At least nine University of Kansas fraternities have received calls from apparently bulb salemens who identify them as Aggie, Dave or Jerry, the bulb mug men.
People representing themselves as employees of Liberty Industries, or Lisco, have been calling KU fraternities offering a free watch and large quantities of light bulbs at
Gary Folee, Teinsville, Wis., junior, said Aggie called last week and offered his fraternity, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, a discount on bulbs.
THE LIGHT BULB sellers call fraternities and explain that because the groups have been good customers over past years, the company is sending them a digital watch and is willing to let the fraternities order phones. The program schedules price increase zones into effect.
In one instance, the house manager of Alpha Tau Omega said yesterday, a salesman from Lisco called him and said he would send him a watch and a black-and-white television if the fraternity would buy a large shipment of bulbs.
"I she tried to get very personal at first," Russell said. "She said we had been doing business with her for a long time, but I had not seen much of it. I did not have my idea what she was up to."
As of yesterday, no sororites had received bribes, the salesmen, and no other girls had been given jobs.
Paul Russell, Kansas City, Kan.
sophomore, had received
davisbender Applegate last week.
AT LEAST TWO OF the fraternities called
the Bells ordered orders for the bulbs
but later canceled them.
"she claimed she knew me and that I had ordered countless light bulbs before," he said. "She told me she was the wife of Jerry the light bulb man."
Jamie Hall, Salina sophomore, said he had ordered a case of bulbs but canceled the order when he found out the company wasn't the one Sigma Chl had ordered from
In most cases, another person calls the fraternity again the day after the initial contact and asks to confirm a large order or to cancel it. Whether an order actually has been placed.
Foote said he had never heard of Jerry the灯ight hulm man.
Although each telephone conversation took up to 20 minutes, most of the students contacted said the salesman talked so fast they missed the turn in the name of the company or the caller.
THE SALEMEN SAID they were
topka. Manitoba out of state or californian
Manhattan out of state or californian
"He wouldn't say the name of his com-
panion," she said. "I never got a straight answer out of him.
Not only did the reported location of the company vary with the calls but prices for the bulbs ranged from about 90 cents spiceies to retail Price are about 64 cents for a light bulb.
One student said he received a call of offering a fluorescent tube light for $8 apiece. He said he checked and found the same light had a $2 retail price.
Judy Kroeger, director of the Consumer Affairs Association, said yesterday she intended to notify the Kansas Attorney General's office of the companies activities.
The KU Police Department and the Lawrence Police Dept. said no complaints about the shooting.
Deb Hafleigh, leader of the Consumer Relations Board at Kansas State University, said she hadn't heard of any calls made by bulb sellers to fraternities there.
Staff Photo by ELI REICHMAN
Time out
After a near fall off the balance beam, Mandy Miller, 8. of Ottawa, and Patsy Evans, Lawrence senior, get ready to try it one more time. Evans is an assistant coach at the Elite Gymnastics Club in downtown Lawrence. See more pictures and story page six.
By STEVE PARSONS
City, fire fighters reach tentative wage agreement
Staff Writer
A tentative agreement was reached yesterday in a lengthy wage dispute between fire fighters and the Lawrence City Commission.
Included in the agreement is a longevity pay plan that would give firemen who have worked on the force more than five years a lump bonus every January.
A veterinarian fireman would receive an additional $33 every year, up to a $606 bonus for 20 years of service. At the end of a fireman's first five years, he would receive $33 for every year he was on the force, according to the plan.
The tentative pay plan needs to be signed by the city manager and firemen.
In a similar wage dispute, Lawrence police will meet with representatives of the city commission at 0 a.m. today to discuss the issues and change in the police residency requirements.
STATE SEN. Arnold Berman, attorney for the fire fighters, said at a special citizen's meeting last night that their plan to effect in 1979 with payments each January.
Another aspect of the agreement, according to Alvin Samuels, head of Local 1969 of the International Association of Fire Engineers, was that the date for negotiations next year on a contract.
Berman said setting the April date was a big decision. He also avoid an image similar to this summer's
By LEON UNRUH
Negotiations usually start in June.
YESTERDAY'S MEETING was the first between the city and fire fighters since Aug. 8 when talks stalled over a 1978 salary increase for firemen and police. The city had given all four of its 232 center maids an Aug. 10 demand, but firemen and police demanded ten per cent.
samuels said another part of the agreement was the establishment of a committee of two representatives from the city and two from the fire fighters to meet with the city commission whenever an impasse would occur in the future.
When the Lawrence Police Officers Association and the fire fighters requested the city council reopen talks in mid-January, the city commission agreed last week to talk with commission agreed last week to talk with
Sports chairman asked to resign
Staff Writer
Steve Leben, student body president, said yesterday he would ask the Student Senate to remove Bert Nunley, McLouth junior, who is the first student in New York to refuse to resign the next week.
"I explained to him (Leben) once again that my sports committee chair was not a conflict of interest and that I had no intention of resigning." Nunley said yester-
But Numley, who is embroiled in a conflict-ofinterest dispute over his athletic department internship and his University of Kansas Athletic Corporation (KUAC) student representative spot, said he would not relinquish the committee chair.
OTHER STUDENT representatives, including two on the KUAC board, said they questioned Nunley's ability to represent the students fully because of his $200 a month administrative internship with the athletic department.
As chairman of the Sports Committee, Nunley has a guaranteed seat on the 21-story board, which contains offices including a budget, renovation and ticket sales.
Last Friday, as charges were mounting about a potential conflict of interest, Nunley said that it was "not the case."
he would temporarily drop his voting privilege.
"I WAS SURPRISED by his action this
I'M A SURPRISED by his action this
taken a much more definitive hand,
to take a much more definitive
hand."
that meant, Leben said, he had expected Nunley either to resign the KUAC seat and
See CHAIRMAN page three
KU student lobby rivals statewide university effort
By LINDA STEWART
Staff Writer
The formation of the KU Student Senate's new lobbying group, the Concerned Students for Higher Education (CSHE), has widened the gap between the University and the student lobbying group which represents all other Board of Regents schools.
Suit is no threat to Med Center
Rv KARYN GIBSON
An upcoming Supreme Court decision concerning a reverse discrimination suit against the University of California Medical School at Davis would not affect University of Kansas admission policies, Bennie Ritter提议 of affirmative action, said last week.
Staff Writer
Hitter said a decision would not affect KU because KU did not have a policy of reserving slots for minorities. The university also reserves 60 percent of its places for minority students.
The Supreme Court will hear arguments on Oct. 12 concerning the case of Allan Bakke, a white male applicant to the California Medical School who was twice refused admission. Bakke is contesting the school's special admissions policy, which reserves slots for minorities. He contends he was excluded because of his race.
THORKIL JENSEN, acting associate deans of admissions for the KU Medical Center, said, "Everyone who wishes to apply at KU may apply, and if they're lucky
The Justice Department is preparing a brief expected to support present affirmative action policies in admissions and reject Bakke's charges.
enough to be accepted, then they attend classes."
Jensen said he had received no complaints concerning reverse discrimination from any applicants who had been turned down. In fact, he said, the office of admissions encouraged rejected students to get in contact with the office to discuss problems and reasons they were not accepted.
JENSEN SAID the assistant executive vice chancellor for affirmative action at the Med Center, Chester Rempson, tried to make it easier for minority students to find out about the school and helped them in the application process.
The admissions procedure at the Med Center begins with information obtained from the American Medical College Application Service. Students apply to the service and provide autobiographical information, their Medical Colleges Admission Test Score and letters of reference from college pre-medical advisers. In applying, a student also is asked to note his sex or ethnicity and financially or ethnically disadvantaged
Although there is no quota system at any of the KU schools, many of them have programs to recruit minority students to the school. Ritter said.
The medical school, Jensen said, has no trouble attracting large females, but has recruitment programs to interest minorities.
A minority student who does not consider himself at a disadvantage because of his ethnic background or does not want to take his application is considered a regular student, Jensen said. He said the terminology had no influence on the student's chances for acceptance into college.
IN THE PAST, Jensen said, the school handled its own applications, and a student was requested to send a picture of himself in an application. Pictures are no longer requests.
If a student has indicated interest in the KU Medical School and his application looks promising, he receives an invitation for an interview with one of six interviewing teams at the Med Center. The interviews are conducted before the members of the team have seen the student's records, Johnson said, and are to meet with the student who would provide the medical student and medical professional. The team then views his records and makes an evaluation.
Deb Harrison, executive director of Associated Students of Kansas (ASK), the student lobbying group for the other Regents schools, said her lobby will leave the University out of its future lobbying efforts.
See REVERSE page 10
"I'm a little resentful that KU never joined ASK," Harrison said. "It has really gotten a free ride considering the issues we've lobbed for that have benefited KU."
The Senate formed CSHE last spring as an alternative to joining ASK, a Topeka-lobed lobyform three years ago to represent more than 50,000 students at the University of Pittsburgh, University, Pittsburg State University, Emporia State University and Fort Hays State University.
HARRISON SAID ASK had never lobbied for issues which did not inclusively benefit them.
She added, however, that many issues ASK has lobbed for have benefited KU, such as landlord-tenant bills, faculty salary increases, student loan programs, a study advisory group to the Board of Regulations and educators for the decriminalization of marijuana.
the groups separately with the stipulation that no 1978 salary changes would be made.
"I think KU has a different philosophy than ASK," she said. "KU wants to benefit the University per se. ASK wants to benefit all students, not just specific universities or groups."
Samuels said yesterday's meeting met that stipulation and the fire fighters at the meeting did not even mention the 1978 salary increase.
Harrison said she considered the name of the KU lobbying group "a misnomer at best."
Saundals said the fire fighters association members already knew of the initiative. "We're trying to keep the community involved."
college
Munyan, student body vice president, said one of the main reasons KU never joined ASK was the amount of money it would have cost to join.
it would have cost us $0.01.
"FOR THE AMOUNT of money it costs to
join ASK, we feel we can do a much better
job on our own," he said.
SAMUELS SAID NO further meetings were yet planned with the city, but added meetings would hinge upon the result of tonight's vote.
See ASK page two
The city commission met to discuss the firemen's terms in an hour-long executive session after the commission meeting last night.
After the session, Mayor Marne Argeringser said the commission favored a longevity pay plan for the 1979 budget and an earlier wage negotiation date.
In response to a citizens statement that the firemen may have "agreed to nothing" at yesterday's meeting, Berman said that was not the case.
A group of citizens also met last night and aired gipes concerning the salary disputes.
"IT'S NOT WHAT they wanted," he said, "but they (longevity increases) were reasonable salary increases, although they lived below the average of comparable cities."
Berman then made reference to a Fraternal Order of Police survey which
compared Lawrence with 144 other cities in the country in the 50,000-100,000 population range.
In that survey, he said, salaries of Lawrence city employees averaged $2,000 less per year.
Last night's citizens group meeting originally was scheduled as the launching pad for a petition drive for a referendum to approve the Public Employee Relations Act (PER) for Lawrence city. The petition drive would not start yet because the meeting drive with the city had thus far eliminated the immediate need for the PER.
The survey conflicted with a survey used by the city commission which placed Lawrence city employees on a comparable population in the cities in the 20,000-50,000 population range.
THE PER IS a state law which the city commission can use when dealing with city employees, Under the act, a board named by the governor would appoint people to mediate between the city and its employees when an impasse was reached.
Police and firemen want enactment of the PER because it allows them to form associations to represent them in talks with the city. The city now recognizes neither the police or firemen associations as bargaining agents.
The city has rejected the PER because if it says properly between it and employees can be solved in the same way.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Capsules From the Associated Press, United Press International
Language set for Panama treaty
WASHINGTON — The final text of the Panama Canal treaties were initiated yesterday by the Panamanian negotiators. The initialing of the text means the Panama Canal will be open to international shipping.
that the language cannot be used by the United States in the right manner to manage the Canal until Dec. 31, 1999, must be signed by both nations' leaders today and ratified by the United States.
Congressmen linked to Park
Atnough many current and former congressmen were named as having received gifts, none were accused of illegalities. Former Rep. Richard Hanna, D-Cal., was named an unindicted co-conspirator. See story page two.
Congressional
WASHINGTON—In an indictment unsealed yesterday, Tongsun Park, South Korean businessman, was accused of attempting to influence House and Senate members with thousands of dollars in campaign contributions or gifts.
Opinion divided in Lance affair
WASHINGTON—Budget Director Bert Lance ran one of his Georgia banks like a "family playpen", a congressman said yesterday, referring to overdrafts that Lance and family members had made at a bank he headed.
the lender and a former federal bank regulator said he did not think Lance's banking practices disqualified him from public office.
The Senate Governmental Affairs Committee met separately to consider what its chairman, Sen. Abraham Ribicoff, D-Donn., said was serious new information.
ever event President Jimmy Carter was noncommittal yesterday when reporters asked if he thought Lance should resign.
"We'll see about that later," Carter said.
Lance has denied wrongdoing and restated his intention yesterday to remain as budget director.
Gov. Wallace's wife moves out
Wallace
MONTGOMERY, Ala.-Gov. George Wallace's wife, Cornelia, moved out of Alabama's executive mansion yesterday, saying she could "no longer endure the vulgarity, threat and abuse."
She said she had instructed her lawyers to "do whatever is necessary to protect me," but that she had "nothing to worry about."
The walls reportedly have had domestic trouble for some time, and a divorce petition was drawn up in the governor's name several weeks ago but was not filed in court.
At a news conference, Wallace said the divorce was a purely domestic affair, "the business of me and my wife."
The Wallaces were married in January 1971, shortly before the governor began his second term in office.
Israel attaches secret to treaty
TEL AVIV-Prime Minister Menachem Begin yesterday said Israel would attach a secret letter "for the knowledge of the U.S. government only" to its proposal for a peace treaty with the Arabs.
In a radio interview, Begin said Foreign Minister Moshe Dyan would present the draft treaty and the secret cover letter when he met with Cyrus Vance, secretary of state, later this month in the United States.
Begin said, "The first clause of the peace treaty, as we will propose it, will say the state of war between us and Egypt is hereby terminated." He also said the draft could apply to Syria, Jordan and Lebanon.
Locally...
University of Kaspa professors, concerned about the administration's recent rejection of a proposed sabbatical leave policy, yesterday questioned whether the University's legal counsel can help faculty members in the event of a faculty-administration squabble. The executive director of the University Professors said the counsel would be forced to side with the administration, and the counsel himself later concurred.
See story page three.
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