Sports chairman charged with conflict of interest
By LEON UNRUH
Staff Writer
Bert Nursey, McLouth junior, is finding it tough to avoid possible conflict of interest charges involving his positions in both the University of Kansas athletic department and the Student Senate.
And his decision to keep both positions doesn't satisfy some student representatives, including Steve Leben, student body president.
Sen. student.
The students wonder how Nunley, one of four student members of the University of Kansas Athletic Corporation (KUAC) board and also an administrative intern for the athletic department, will be able to fully represent the students' interests when he is paid by the athletic department.
HE RECEIVES $200 a month for an 80-hour schedule. Half of the money comes from federal work-study funds, the rest from the athletic department.
Nunley has been working as the sole athletic department intern since late this summer under a program devised by himself and Doug Messer, assistant athletic director of business.
Nunley is an ex officio KUAC voting member because he is the Senate sports committee chairman.
He wrote a letter last Friday, however, telling KUAC he was dropping his voting privilege temporarily but would retain his position. Mr. Schmitt said the students' voting representation from the standard four to three.
satisfies it, don't consider it a conflict. But going on on the assumption that it is, as many are, I'm removing it. The assumption that it is, as many are, I'm removing it.
"I SIT on the board and yet I work for them (athletic department). That's the only thing that could be construed as a conflict of interest," Nunley said Friday.
MESSENI SAID the matter of a possible conflict had
started with the Nunley and Nanley last spring
to start the program.
Nunley's choice of voting abstention didn't suit two student members of the board: Leben and Jill Grubaugh, a former sports committee chairman who is serving a two-year appointment to KUAC as an at-
"All if he does is abstain I would be very upset."
Leben haltet. "I told him I felt he should resign,
I was really upset."
Grubbaugh said she considered Nunley's move 'a posuitive way of getting around' the issue.
He had doubted, however, that the issue would arise.
tals at KU home football games, helping in the ticket and business offices and making surveys about sports events.
"But if I look at it from the Senate's or the athletic board's, or any rules anybody may have, you don't have to be a genius to say here's a potential conflict of interest."
Grubbaud said, "I don't doubt Bert's competency and ability to do the job. I'm sure he is conscious enough. But I don't see how he can support the team. He was not as good when his salary is nailed by the athletic department."
Nunley's work includes managing seat-back ren-
--ducts that had been cleaned and inspected a few weeks ago, according to a company spokesman. The spokesman said the automatic fire extinguisher system also was inspected at that time, but an extinguisher over the broiler failed to operate Sunday night.
LEBEN SAID Nunley' options were to quit his internship or drop his sports committee chair-
Nunley said he wasn't about to do either.
He defended his abstention by saying his vote wouldn't be missed, even though the student body
See CONFLICT page eight
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The University of Kansas
Burnina inn
The second fire in three years in the kitchen of the Holiday Inn, 2309 Iowa St., Sunday night, apparently was caused by grease burning in a broiler. The Lawrence Fire Department estimated $20,000 in damages from the blaze, which spread rapidly through flues and
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Lance implicated in embezzlement
WASHINGTON - The leaders of a Senate committee investigating budget director Bert Lance's financial affairs told President Carter yesterday that they had received serious allegations of illegalities and urged that Lance resign.
The Atlanta Constitution reported Monday that a man serving an eight-year prison term for embezzling $1 million from Lance's Calhoun First National Bank had signed an affidavit implicating Lance in his activities. See story page two.
Two charged with disco murder
KANSAS CITY, Mo.—Two Kansas City men, Calvin R. Sandidge and Melvin L. Jones, were charged yesterday afternoon with the murder of a 28-year-old man in Kansas City.
Five others were wounded in the shooting spree at the Trade Mart Ballroom in the old Municipal Airport. Police said the dead woman, Lottie M. Smith of Kansas City, and the other victims were bystanders who got in the way during an argument over a photograph being sold for $2.75.
Pressures of cadet life softened
Included in the changes are a reduction of time spent in classes and added time between classes. The purpose of the changes is to give the cadets more time for study, reflection and contemplation, according to an academy spokesman.
WEST POINT, N.Y. — The U.S. Military Academy is softening the starch of cadet life at the state's top school in an effort to ease the pressures that mount when students return home.
Man wearing armband shoots blacks
CHARLOTTE, N.C.—A white man wearing a Nazi armband opened fire with a rifle on 200 blacks attending a church Labor Day picnic afternoon. One person died of injuries from the gunfire and at least five others were wounded. The assault also was shot to death.
Police said the assailant, wearing a ten uniform and the armband, was found in a roadway in front of the church. He had been shot several times.
Locally . . .
Cross country watchers are optimistic about KU's title chances this year and one of the reasons is junior Bruce Coldham, who returns as the team's No. 1 runner. Last year, Coldham rebounded to win the NCAA Championship for just short of qualifying for the NCAA Championships. As a member of his high school rowing team in Alexandria, Va., Coldham initially ran cross country to tune up for the rowing season but fell short of qualifying for the Jayhawks prepare for their first test Sept. 16 in the Wichita Invitational. See page xix.
Coldsmith
Balfour vows stress on rights in new job
By JOHN WHITESIDES
Staff Writer
After three weeks of official duty in the new ambushman position at the University of Kansas, William Balfour, professor of history at the University of Iowa, recently is bailing complaints as they roll in.
"The first week was a little hairy, but the people who have been in with complaints haven't been hostile," Balfour said. "They are just looking for a little relief."
He said Friday that new complaints and hold-over cases from other offices had combined with his teaching duties to give him a full and hectic schedule.
He said he had been meeting with as many as 30 students a day. Most of the complaints he has handled so far have been about hiring practices, he said, although the complaints haven't included charges of racial or sex discrimination.
THE POSITION of ombudman was created to attempt to resolve complaints of students and faculty and to recommend process changes to the University to update these complaints.
Balfour resigned from the vice chancellor position in May 1976. He said that if he found that a hiring or grading process was unfair, he would try to see that the process was made fair.
"IF THAT DIDN'T get results, I would tell him to go to the school and talk to the people there. If the grade still wasn't
"MY MAIN JOB will be willing to protect human rights," Balfour said. "I'm not going to be an attorney; I'm not going to change decisions that have already been made by me."
"Most of them deal with a person not being hired because they have, say, a beard or long hair, or because they are somehow from the previous job-holder," Balfour said.
"Actually, many of the complaints I've handled are the same types of things I dealt with when I was vice chancellor for student affairs."
He said some situations might arise where he could do nothing more than lend an ear.
"If a student came me with a complaint about a grade he had received from an instructor, I would tell him to go to the course and talk to the people there," Balkou said.
changed, I could only lend him a shoulder to cry on."
He said that while he was embudsman he was guided by the guideline for student employe erprience practice and for student employe erprience practice.
employee help they have as vice chancellor, I was trying to get grievance procedures for student employees," Balfour said. "Hourly help in particular don't have any place to turn about working conditions and so on. There is a grievance procedure for full-time employees, but it probably wouldn't work well for student help."
Balfour discussed with comments that the obudman job description was too vague and could lead to his defining the position himself.
"I had a flash of 'maybe I'm the only damn fool in the place,'" he said. "The job was well advertised, so everybody knew it was being formed."
in his case he thought the search process for applicants for the job had been fair and thorough, although he said he was surprised to find he was the only applicant.
"Obviously, I'm going to do the job different from anybody else. A job description for this particular job is hard to come up with," Balfour said. "From my standpoint it's a good job description because it gives me some leave."
Fire talks begin again
A month of stalled talks will end today with a meeting between representatives of the Lawrence City Commission and Local 1986 of the International Association of Fire
Fighters.
The meeting at 10:30 this morning is the first between the groups since Aug. 8, when they discussed 1978 salaries.
the firefighters may also meet
the city also will meet on the same terms
tomorrow with Lawrence Police Officers
Association representatives.
The commission since has refused to discuss 1978 salaries and wages, specifically a 4 per cent salary raise above the 6 per cent it already gave all city employees. It has agreed, however, to discuss any other topics the fire fighters may choose.
Student lobby to seek recruits
By LINDA STEWART
Staff Writer
The students will be asked to join CSHE's Home Force, a mailing staff of about 500 students who will write letters to legislators about particular issues during the year.
A University of Kansas lobbying group, Concerned Students for Higher Education (CSHE), will be contacting students this week about the group's lobbying efforts for the proposed legislation, according to David Duncan, committee chairman.
that represents the other board of Regents colleges and universities in Kansas.
IT WOULD HOW cost each student 25 cents a semester if KU had joined ASK.
murqueya received the state legislature about ASK.
They received responses from 106 of 165 legislators, or 64 per cent of the legislature.
They found that;
ASK has endorsed legislative issues, such as landlord-tenant bills, faculty salary increases and a student loan program. ASK representatives also have testified before the legislature on suing the decriminalization of marijuana.
75 per cent had they been contacted by ASK; 22 per cent had not; 3 per cent had
o option.
* Only 17 per cent thought that ASK had
See LOURV page five
See LOBBY page five
The participants will be Dennis Quinn, professor of English and director of IHP, and Arthur Skidmore, assistant professor of philosophy.
The HPC recently lost University sponsorship of its annual trip abroad because of illness, and who say
the director of the Pearson Integrated Humanities Program (IHP) and an assistant professor of philosophy will participate in a debate about the HP at 7:30 p.m. Sept. 13 in the Big Eight Room of the Kansas Union.
Professors to square off over humanities program
that three of its professors, including Quinn,
students to Catholic during class lectures.
During the debate, both professors will have opening statements and will direct questions to each other. They also will field audience questions and may have closing remarks.
The debate is sponsored by SUA Forum Series. The entire range and limits of the debate have not been set yet, Barnes McCormick, director of the Forum Series program, said.
For the kids
Staff Photo by ELI REICHMAY
Gloria Transmier, working for the nationwide Labor Day telethon for muscular dystrophy, accepts donations of any amount during the weekend in Lawrence. Transmier says she devotes her time to the fund drive for "Jerry's kids."