THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
The University of Kansas
Vol.88,No.3
Wednesday August 31,1977
Lawrence, Kansas
City remains adamant in police salary dispute
By STEVE PARSONS
Staff Writer
The Lawrence City Commission voted in executive session last night to remain adamant in its refusal to discuss 1978 wage and salary terms with protesting police and
However, the commission decided to invite the Kansas representative of the Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) to assist in other talks.
The Lawrence Police Officers Association (LPOA) and Local 1596 of the International Association of Fire Fighters have demanded a 10 per cent 1978 salary increase instead of the six per cent approved by the commission. The two committees are working together to force and about 20 per cent of the fire fighters.
THE COMMISSION'S vote reiterated a written response to fire fighters earlier this week. The commission discussed anything but 1978 wages and salaries with fire fighters and police. The fire fighters had given the commission until October to respond to a request to reopen salary talks.
At last night's meeting, LPOA secretary Eric Smith read a letter from Roy Wiltrot.
FOP Kansas representative, offering Wiltroot's services to assist the police and city in reaching an agreement. Smith said that Wiltroot could not attend the meeting because his wife had a baby yesterday afternoon.
Wiltrout was asked by the LPOA earlier this month to assist them in dealings with the city. No POP contact was made with the city until last night's commission meeting.
THE COMMISSIONERS said Wiltrou could not in the strictest definition be considered an unbiased mediator because he wished the other side gave him a high position in the dispute.
"He (Wiltruit) speaks for every law enforcement officer in the state of Kansas."
Smith said Wiltrot was asked to represent the LPOA before the commission. The LPOA thought a recent city policy prohibited police from talking directly to the commission and Wiltrot could serve as the LPOA's contact with the commission, Smith
The LPOA thought all police requests to the commission would have to be made through police department heads, Smith said.
However, Commissioner Don Binns said police have met directly with the commissioner.
"I THINK THAT was a misinterpretation of the policy" he said.
Mayer Marnie Argerings quickly said, "We'll discuss this in executive session."
After returning from executive session,
however, no mention was made of the
issue.
In response to the city commission action, David Reavis, chairman of the LPOA, last night he would be willing to dis use anything that would lead to a settlement.
"It's got to be an equitable settlement," he said. "I like live like we'll drop the 1974 salary demand."
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Reavis said that even if the city would not budge in its stand, he thought it would be good for Wiltrout to enter talks to review the situation.
Reavis said as soon as he hears an official word of the commissioners' decision, he will call the city manager and discuss the situation.
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NEW YORK- David Berkowitz, the man accused of the Son of Sam murders, was declared mentally unfit to stand trial yesterday. If the decision stands, he will go to a state institution to attend court and stand trial. As attorney, won the right to have his own psychiatry examines Berkowitz. See story page two.
Berkowitz declared unfit for trial
Police last week had staged a three-day work slowdown and earlier had talked of using a strike to protest the six per cent salary increase.
Tito gets warm welcome, predicts conflict over arms
Carter asks for peace in Ireland
Begin says Israel ready to fight
HONG KONG-Yugoslav President Tito was warmly welcomed in China yesterday. At a banquet for Tito, Chairman Hua Kuo-feng said to the United States and Japan he would be because of "feverish" arm expansion. See story page two.
TEL AVI – Israel Prime Minister Menachem Benidad said yesterday that the Arabs were making a Geneva conference impossible. Israel wants peace, he said, is ready to fight a war. However, Cyrus Vance's talks with Middle East leaders could change that, Begin said. See story page three.
Staff Photo by PAUL ROSE
WASHINGTON—Pleading impartiality, President Jimmy Carter asked Americans yesterday not to support violence—financially or otherwise—in Northern Ireland. The President said he aided with those who sought peace in the United States had ties with both parts of the country. See story page three.
WASHINGTON—Speaker Thomas O'Neill denied a report yesterday that Korean businessman Tongsin Park, alleged leader of a Capitol Hill influence peddling ring, operated out of O'Neill's office when he was House Democratic leader.
The Los Angeles Times report said Suzi Thomson, a Korean-born clerk in former House Speaker Carl Albert's office, told congressional investigators that she saw Park in O'Neill's office several times during the years that Park allegedly ran the coupt lobbying effort.
O'Neill denies Park used office
TOP2KA - Workmen on the new Kansas Supreme Court building are ripping
80,000 dollars a day to design a mistake that will cost the state about
80,000 dollars said yesterday.
Chief Justice Harold R. Fatzter toured the uncompleted building Tuesday afternoon and saw the ductwork in question. As it was installed on the second floor, it would have been below ceiling level. The state must pay for corrections that were not completed by the district caught before work was accepted by the state architect's office, Fatzter said.
O'Neill was at home in Massachusetts, but an aide issued a statement that quoted him as saying "Mr. Park was in my office at the mast on two or three
Design error delays court building
John Butterfield, Kansas City, Kan., junior and former KU high jumper, never had ridden in a rodeo before Friday night. He got his introduction at the first River City Rodeo and found the sport different from others he had competed in, because "you didn't know what was going to happen next." See story, pictures page six.
SALIBURSY, Rhodesia—Prime Minister Ian Smith, in a final election appeal, asked Rhodesian voters to give him a mandate to ward off "British and American administrations united in their apparent determination to encompass our downfall."
Locally...
Reavis said he did not know if police might again use a slowdown or a strike to get him down.
Rhodesia's Smith seeks mandate
Smith, who is expected to win the election by a landslide, will meet tomorrow with U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young and British foreign minister David Cameron in London on Wednesday.
Butterfield
Listening intently
or marque Argresinger, along with city commissioners Don Bims, left, and Ed Carter, listen to arguments put forth
Suit likely over Med Center projects trouble
by a spokesman of the Lawrence Police Officers Association at last night's city commission meeting.
By STEVEN STINGLEY and MARTHA FASSETT
Staff Writers
Mechanical and design problems with KU Medical Center expansion projects have spurned a House Ways and Means sub-unit to take legal action against the projects' architect.
The subcommittee has urged state officials to file suit immediately against the Kansas City, Kaup, firm of Marshall and Rowe, a legal adviser in conduct, before a statute of limitations expires.
the proposed suit involves the recovery of damages by the state for alleged problems and delays in the planning and construction of a campus. The clinical facilities on the Kansas City campus
Kansas Att. Gen, Curt Schneider said yesterday it would be another month before the team's first playoff game.
SCHNEIDER SAID damage claims still were pending against the state by two of the projects' subcontractors. A full assessment must be made before he can take action.
Schneider also said the statute of limitations, which expires next spring, would not affect any civil suits filed by the state.
IN ADDITION, Evans Electric, another
Truglich-Nymph, Inc., of Kansas City, Mo., a subcontractor on the construction project, has won a $260,000 arbitration award for its use of software to spend to compensate for problems with architectural drawings. The Kansas Legislature last session postponed paying
subcontractor has won an arbitration
of $24,324 which also has not been granted yet.
A claim by a third subcontractor, Thomas Construction Co., is scheduled for arbitration in September or October. Thomas is seeking $240,000 from the state.
Max Lucas, director of facilities planning, said last night most of the project's problems involved the coordination of construction and was a question of whether the contractors had performed all of their functions properly.
Lucas said the Kansas Board of Regents would be in charge of dealing with the
FRANK ZILM, director of facilities planning at the Kansas City campus, said there had been serious problems with the projects, especially the heating and cooling system in Orr-Major Hall, the basic appliance most of the problems would be solved soon.
The project has been plagued by troubles from the start. Marshall and Brown were also involved.
Kan, architect Norbert Sidorwicz, were the only defendants convicted by jury out of 24 indicted for bribery conspiracy in connection with the original architectural contract award. Sidorwicz, fighting on a prison term, is appalling the conviction.
autorowicz and other defendants were indicted in an alleged trade to trade a $30,000 contribution to the 1972 re-election campaign of former Gov. Robert Docking for the $500,000 design contract for the clinical and basic sciences facilities.
SenEx disputes ombudsman hunt
SenEx members yesterday questioned the process of creating a new onboarding system at the University of California.
Carl Leban, professor of East Asian Studies, said he thought something must have been wrong with the search company. "But it could only find one applicant for the job."
William Bailour, professor of physiology and cell biology, who was eventually selected for the position, was the only applicant. He started the job Aug. 17.
- you have to assume that it wasn't that the faculty wasn't interested in the job but that the search wasn't carried out correctly, so we should reopen the position and look again.
"After taking several years to convince the administration to provide funds for $+
William Westerbeke, SenEx chairman, pointed out that faculty members had been able to nominate either themselves or other faculty members yet none but Bailour had needed the job.
job. I don't see why there was any rush to fill the position."
Perhaps only one person applied, Leban said, because the job duties were not well defined.
"I inavoiding the difficulties brought by defining the specifics of the job, even the general duties were ignored," Leban said. "Will he be a traffic cop, directing people to the proper channels, or will he be an advocate of those with complaints?"
According to the University Senate Code, the function of the ombudsman is "to receive and attempt to resolve individual grievances of members of the University
community, and to recommend procedural changes within the University in response to experience acquired in investigating individual cases."
Leban said the regulations still were undefined and added that he had written a letter to Balfour earlier this year asking him not to take the job by default.
Because the job had not been defined, Leban said, there was the possibility that the man who got the job could define it. He said he would have a voice in deciding the jobs's functions.
It was never intended that the job should be defined by who ever took it. Leban said,
Jeannette Johnson, assistant to executive vice candleman, said after the StudEx meeting that by necessity all new jobs are defined by the person who fills the job. She
See SENEX page 11
Alone at last Already burdened with homework, Kathy Miller, Overland Park freshman, chose to escape the racket of dormitory life to spend an afternoon in a secured area of campus.
Staff Photo by ELI REICHMAN
IHP lacks sponsor for Ireland trip
Staff Writer
By JOHN WHITESIDES Staff Walter
The Integrated Humanities Program (HP) at the University of Kansas is facing the loss of its annual foreign study trip after a university recently decided not to sponsor it this year.
Although the administration sponsored previous HIP trips abroad, it withdrew its support for this winter's scheduled trip to Hawaii. It is encouraging for the search for alternative sponsors for the trip.
DENNIS QUNN, professor of English and director of the program, would not inform me of his own plans.
Despite the setback, Quinn said recently that enrollment in the program this fall was 80 students, an increase over last fall's enrolment of 59. Quinn added that after the initial enrollment, 100 more students that might push total enrollment in the program close to 100.
The decision against the trip to Ireland was made by the administration after consideration of its value to students. Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor, said.
THE IRELAND TRIP was not sponsored on the basis that the University already has a number of foreign study programs, and we're beginning to dilute our ability to support them all," Shankel said. "It was decided that there was a limited opportunity
See IHP page 10