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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
The University of Kansas
Vol.88,No.2
Tuesday August 30,1977
Lawrence, Kansas
Protest vote
Staff Photo by GEORGE MILLENER
While members of the Lawrence Police Officers Association prepared to vote on whether to continue their protest against the city's planned 6 per cent pay raise, David Reavis,
cmanar of the association, explained the balloting procedure to police officers at the meeting. The association voted 27-40 to continue the protest.
Dykes laments reduction in research funds
By JOHN WHITESIDES
Staff Writer
American universities are faced with a bleak future if a growing public distrust of scientific research is not halted. Chancellor Larry Bittner told The Washington Post his conspicuous address in Hoe Auditorium.
Dykes, speaking to about 2,500 students, faculty and staff members, said that a decrease in funding and support for research has contributed to a slow but steady decline in basic research capabilities at American universities.
"Without the continued strength of our scientific and technological research we cannot hope to reach adequate solutions for all of the world's conflicts and by the entire world." Dykes said.
AN INCREASING anti-scientific attitude
and a growing distrust of scientific research programs to university research programs, he said.
"This distrust is due in part to a feeling among many people that scientific research presents us with more problems than it solves," Dykes said. "It also stems from the slow pace at which research necessarily must move.
"As a people, we are oriented toward results and immediate returns on our investments. When, as a nation, we are faced with what seem to be overwhelming challenges, we must conduct scientific research and technological development can be especially frustrating."
Dykes said that during the past 12 years there had been a steady decline in the prevalence of AIDS.
Product (GNP) devoted to research. He said that percentage had shrunk to 2 percent, while the percentage of the GNP devoted to research in other advanced nations had either increased or remained stable.
"WHEN ONE REALIZES that a large percentage of research and development funds in the United States is devoted to our space program and applied research, it significantly less attention is given in most other countries, the decline is even more striking," Dykes said.
One of the major factors that placed the United States in its position of world prominence, Dykes said, was the development of universities and their networks.
He pointed out that since World War II, Americans have won half of all the Nobel Prizes awarded, and in 1976 all the Nobel Prizes were won by Americans.
However, Dykes warned that the work for those awards was all done in the 1980s and 1990s. "This is not a bad time," he said.
See RESEARCH page six
NIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Capsules From the Associated Press, United Press International
Wheat acreage cut mandated
WASHINGTON—Wheat farmers will be required to reduce their crops by 20 per cent every year if they wish to qualify for federal price supports and other crop benefits, announced Agriculture Secretary John White yesterday. The administration also plans to enlarge a foodgrain reserve announced earlier this year to include corn and other livestock feed grains, he said. See story page two.
KC busing begins smoothly
KANSAS CITY, Kan..." No problems at all" were reported yesterday in the first day of busing about 500 black junior high students to four predominantly white schools. The busing is the result of a controversial four-year court battle to desegregate five black schools in the northeast part of the city. See story "Desegregation."
3 arrested near Elvis' grave
MEMPHIS—Police, who were expecting an attempt to steal the body of Elvis Presley for ransom, arrested three men yesterday after a graveyard chase and charged them with trespassing.
Police said they could find no evidence to support body-snatching charges against the men. They were charged only with trespassing—a state misdemeanor—and released about 15 hours after their arrest.
The men were arrested in their car a short distance from the cemetery after officers on the stakeout saw them creep up to the door of the orate, columned mausoleum and allegedly begin meeding with it.
Presley
Labor head calls Lance unfit
WASHINGTON-George Meany, AFL-CIO president, yesterday endorsed President Jimmy Carter's proposed new Panama Canal treaty, but objected to Carter's statements. The contest is competent to run the Office of Management budget. However, much said, he doesn't plan to call for resignation. See story page two.
Osteopathy program must wait
Fall Lawrence enrollment breaks record by 1,000
TOPEKA-A The Kansas Board of Regents cannot buy admission slots for Kansas students at out-of-state schools of osteopathic medicine until the 1978-79 school year, according to Atty. Gen. Curt Schneider. The legislature recently passed a bill that would allow the slots to help train more osteopathics. See story page six.
Former Kansas football star Nolan Cromwell was back in the area last weekend, this time as a member of the Los Angeles Angels. Cromwell, selected by the Rams in the 2015 season, is one of those that he likes it in the NFL, but he has a lot to learn.
Locally . . .
Cromwell saw action on the special teams, held for placekicks and played free safety for the Rams. See story
First-day enrollment at the University of Kansas Lawrence campus has increased by almost 1,000 students over last fall's first day enrollment, according to figures released yesterday by the Office of Records and Admissions.
A record 21,639 students enrolled at Allen
College in fall 2014. The last fall's first-day
paralelum is 20.45.
The Office of Records and Admissions estimated that the Lawrence campus enrollment total would reach 22,920 by the time the official count is taken on the 20th
ENROLMENT FOR both the Lawrence campus and the KU Medical Center-Kansas City campus is expected to reach 24,800, according to the office. First-day enrollment for both campuses was 23,588 and for 2,389 on the first day of classes last fall.
THE OFFICIAL COUNT is compiled the 20th day of classes.
Despite the increase in the number of students pulling cards at AU1 Field House, enrolment went smoothly, said William Kelly, associate Dean of records and academy staff.
Kelly, who handles many of the
enrollment complaints said yesterday there were no unusual problems with enrollment.
HE ALSO SAID he had not received many complaints about this semester's $50 fee increase. The increase was well publicized through the timetable and newspapers this summer, Kelly said, so students were not surprised.
Del Shanker, executive vice chancellor,
met with all the academic deans yesterday
to discuss enrollment and said it was
possibly the best ever.
Monte Nighswoner, Hill City junior and an enrollment supervisor at station nine, said cool weather helped enrollment proceed smoothly. He said lines moved well, especially Wednesday and Thursday when there was unseasonable rain which was initiated last year, also helped everyone escape the afternoon heat, he said.
Students' enrolling before their scheduled time was only a minor problem, Nightwonger said, especially at the station he supervised because it was one of the last
"Staff members aren't primed to look out
for potential threats," he said. "We are not really a
policy painter."
City police set dispute deadline
By STEVE PARSONS Staff Writer
Staff Writer
The Lawrence Police Officers Association (LPOA), which has used a recent work slowdown and the threat of a strike to vie for a salary increase, voted unanimously last night to give the Lawrence City Commission today on to repoinen salary negotiations.
Twenty-seven members of the LPOA, which represents 43 of Lawrence's 65-man team, had to agree to take further action if the city commission refuses to reconsider LPOA's request for a 4 per cent salary increase not approved in the plan. 'We did not know what specaction they might take.'
The commission had approved a 6 per cent salary increase for all city employees; LPOA wants a 10 per cent increase for police.
The International Association of Fire Fighters Local 1596 had set the 5 p.m. deadline today in a similar bid for a 10 per cent salary increase.
LPOA chairman David Reavis said the LPOA would "continue with our program until we can reach a satisfactory settlement with the city."
The commission has refused to reopen salary talks, saying that the budget already had been approved.
The program of actions by the LPOA began last Thursday night with a "work slowdown" that lasted until 7 a.m. yesterday. The slowdown was a cutback by police officers in all "self-initiated investigations," issuing traffic citations, where there was a reduction in such citations from a past average of 18 to about six last weekend.
Although citizens knew of the slowdown, no problems were reported resulting from it.
Although it did not change a tgalentate in talks with the city in effect since Aug. 8, Reavis said last night that the slowdown had caused by bringing the issue into the public eye.
Reavis said last week that the purpose of the downstairs was to get public attention and promote a brand.
Reavis would not disclose what further actions might be taken by the LPOA but said they would "have something after the fire fighters hear something."
The commission released a memo last Saturday saying that they accepted "a share of the responsibility for the gimp project" to its employees next spring in working with the 1979 budget.
"I think if they (the city commissioners) agree to meet with the firemen, they'd work together," he said.
FOP Trustee Roy Wiltrot said that he was at the meeting "to lend any assistance to a fellow brother" to members of the FOP, committee of the FOP, Lodge 2, Lawrence.
Stanwick said later that the city commission now is "tough" and could fire employees if their actions went against the commission's rules. How would you know whether the commissioners would soften.
Lawrence Police Chief Richard Stanxin told LPOA members last night that he saw the commission's memo to be a sincere effort by the city.
The “tough” stand by the commissioners may have been strengthened when a plea by the LPOA for supporters to call and demand the release of the mayor Marie Argersinger said that instead of getting calls supporting the LPOA, she got 20 cells supporting the commissioners and LPOA.
Commissioner Don Bimnis he got 'one or two support police and seven or eight officers' to help with the attack.
They said, however, that they considered the military and wars issued package (for 1978 civil service) less important than the 1960s.
Fire fighters want salary negotiations reopened. See story page six.
The LPOA has also asked for assistance from the National Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) in its efforts to gain salary increases. Although no official assistance has been given to the LPOA, FOP two members of the National FOP from Kansas City attended last'might meeting.
Commissioner Ed Carter said he had received 10 to 12 telephone calls with opinions all supporting the commission decision.
If talks are set up with the city, the LPOA and firefighters have said they would want them under the authority of the Public Enmolver-Employees Relations Act. (PER)
City Manager Buford Watson said the PER is an act in which each city commission has a choice to participate. He said that "the PER" city Commission has chosen not to participate.
Wiltort repeated his claim made at a
demonstration this month that "there will be
no lock-in to Lakota."
Watson said that under the law a state board set up by the governor makes recommendations to the public employers and employees in disagreements by commission.
As a possible explanation why the LPOA is pushing for the PER implementation, Watson said. "They're in favor of anything that makes the decision making to the city government."
Here is how the police salary dispute developed :
Police problems at a glance
June 22. Lawrence Police Officers Association (LPOA) asks for 13 per cent salary increase
*July 11: City offers 6 per cent cost of living adjustment, which would raise the average salary for a Lawrence policeman to $10,149 from $9,566.*
*Mid-July:* LP0A asks for 7 per cent cost of living increase, a 30-cent hourly pay increase, longevity pay and additional days of sick and vacation leave.
*Aug. 3: City officials stay with original 6 per cent pay increase offer, but the city's negotiator says he will recommend longevity pay plan for all city em-
- Mid-August: LPOA again revises demands and asks for 10 per cent pay increase.
*Aug. 28. City announces negotiations are closed.
*Deals on work groundown.
Aug. 25 - Four major events
• last night: Police vote to continue protest.
KU fire inspections to resume
Rv KARYN GIBSON
Staff Writer
University of Kansas living groups will be inspected late next month for progress on a year-long campaign to bring organized units up to par with state fire standards.
The inspections, prompted by a tragic fire at Baker University one year ago yesterday, are to be made annually at all state educational institutions.
Paul Markley, technical adviser to the fire marshal, said Friday that the inspections would probably be in late September.
"THEER WILL probably be a few things that have not been done, but I don't know of anyone who has defied by not complying," he said.
The fire last year at the Kappa Sigma fraternity house at Baker University in Baldwin killed five men. In September, state authorities made a full-scale inspection of the KU campus and ordered them to comply with current fire safety standards.
The only residence hall required to make major changes in its fire safety equipment,
Scholarship halls have installed smoke detectors.
This fall, inspectors will be looking for indications that the living units have adequate alarm systems and safe escape routes as ordered in the 1978 inspection.
STATE FIRE MARSAL Floyd Diberm said Friday he had added three fire inspectors this year for a total of 11 covering the entire state.
"During the school term, all colleges and junior colleges must be visited by inspectors. There are around 80 such schools and over 400 off-campus buildings alone." he said.
Because it was uncertain how long each inspection would take, Dibbern said an exact date for the KU inspection could not be set.
State inspectors used to visit college campuses during the summer when buildings were unoccupied. However, Markley said, authorities now want to see how the safety code stands up when a unit is fully occupied.
ALL 12 KU sorteries and most of the 23 wretches were told to install approved smoke detection systems after they were inspected last fall. A plaque in a living unit so that they are audible to everyone in the building. The also must be interconnected so
that when one alarm sounds, the others will be electrically tripped to sound.
Some houses also were ordered to install fire doors on stairwalls and exits. However, in some instances, houses were allowed to forego installing fire doors if such major changes would have detracted from the appearance of the house.
ROBERT TURVEY, assistant dean of men and adviser to the Interfraternity Council said Friday he did not believe any of the fraternities would need to ask for an extension of time to make the necessary improvements.
One exception, he said, was the Phil Kappa Theta fraternity, which initially had been
"one state fire code allows for a judgment factor," Dibbern said. "If a building meets the code without the installation of smoke detector alarms, then we don't require that they be put in. Likewhee, in some buildings there is no fire alarm, so if it would ruin the decor of the building. In those cases, if a smoke alarm system will suffice, we allow that."
"Most of the houses have installed fire doors at each of the stairwells exe. "Turvey said, "One house, Lambda Chi Alpha, had adequate escapes and didn't need alarms. The other houses have installed alarms, or have contracted for them."
approved in September 1976 by the state inspectors. However, at an IFC-requested inspection of all fraternities in 1977, the house was said to not comply with state regulations. Turvey said word on the status of the house was still pending.
MARKLEY AND TURVEY both said that it was not required that all house improvements be completed by the time inspectors arrived at KU. A contract to have the work done was sufficient indication that a house would comply, they said.
Turvey said that one company, Automatic Electric Alarms, had contracted with the majority of the fraternity to complete work at all houses by Sept. 22. However, he said, the company had obtained a deadline delay of six months to all the simultaneous orders it had compiled.
The average cost for installing an approved alarm system, according to Turvey, was $2,000 a house. Costs for installation of the alarm system in each house were not constant; doors needed in each house was not constant. Two houses were told to install new fire escapes, which could each cost around $10,000. Turvey said. One house had condensed fire escapes and the other intended to contract for a fire escape.
See FIRE INSPECTIONS page seven