University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
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Tuesday, October 13, 1981 Vol.92,No.37 USPS 650-640
Keep lines open with Soviets, expert advises
By CATHERINE BEHAN
Staff Reporter
"We play poker with the cards on the table and the Soviets play with the cards against their chests," the director of the Harvard Russian Research Center said yesterday.
Director Adam Ulam said Americans were more open, communicative people than the Soviets, and they should strive for better communication with the Soviet Union.
Ulam said communication was a more important goal than merely discerning Soviet leaders.
HE SPOKE TO about 175 people as part of the second annual Conference on International Affairs at the Kansas University union yesterday. The main topic was "U.S.-Soviet Relations in the '80s."
Ulam said communication was important
because he was not expressive of
their real fears and objectives.
"There is a small group of old men making all the decisions," he said. "It is very difficult to discern any patterns in their decision-making because of policy-making centers on the ground."
Ulam said the Soviets did not publicly discuss their problems.
"Nowhere in Soviet military literature is mentioned the problems they have or could have with China, but you can be sure the problems are based on a topic of discussion with these old men," he said.
He also said he did not know whether the younger men who would succeed these older leaders would bring about any change in U.S.-Soviet relations.
"The new generation could be either much
better or much worse, but we really cannot say," he said.
THE CONFERENCE began Sunday night
the morning. Kassaua, R-Kan,
morning on 21 July. Soviet射手
Several experts on the relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union discussed such subjects, including:
Roy Laird, professor of political science, told participants in the session that detente failed because the Soviet definition of detente differed from the U.S. definition.
HE SAID the Soviets perceived detente as a
way to obtain technology from the Western world
their influence on the countries of
Western Europe.
"The Soviet Union only pays lip service to detente while building up a massive arms supply," he said.
HELMUT SONNENFELDT, former counselor for the U.S. State Department, said the relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union was the most important foreign and security problem Americans would face in the 1990s.
"The Soviets are against entering early, or quick or far-reaching strategies with the United
However, Sonniefeld said the most serious single aspect of the Soviet problem was the arms
unremitting commitment to that growth," he said.
"It's on a rising curve. We should be more concerned with the effect Soviet military growth."
ULAM SAID one reason for the large-scale military growth of the Soviet Union was that the Soviets needed a better perspective of the United States.
"They are suspicious by nature. The Soviets think that, by and large, Americans don't well understand the world."
But Somefenfeld said that the United States was not a strategy-oriented country.
ASK fights for life as members argue
"Our purpose, in my definition, should be to protect our interests without Soviet intervention"
* [M. P. Tsvetnov, "An Introduction to Russian National Security", 2010].*
By MICHAEL ROBINSON Staff Reporter
The Associated Students of Kamas, a
science student obbygging group, is fighting
for its life.
But ASK's opponent in the struggle is not a force—just the diverse wishes of its members.
IN SHORT, through organizational disputes and threats of withdrawal, the legislative voice for the students of Kansas is threatening to dismantle itself.
Kansas State University's Student Senate granted ASK a temporary reprise Thursday
Analysis
when it voted to pay 40 cents a student in ASK fees, the amount agreed upon by the six other member schools.
But the money was given with the stipulation that organizational changes in ASK be made, or else next semester ASK be made from K-State, its second largest member.
K-State's possible pullout is the culmination of doubts about the effectiveness of ASK as a
student lobbying group and as a representative of the students from different schools
Student senators at K-State maintained that ASK was not worth the 40-cent-a-student fee and that K-State would be better off on its own.
But as a creditible, unified spokesman for the students in the Legislature, ASK has no problem with it.
"The fact that they're there makes all the difference in the world." State Rep John Solbach, D-Lawrence, said yesterday. "They do influence the legislative process."
"You may not think that you feel the impact of them being there, but if they were not you would."
"They can have input at crucial times. I have to take the students' while to have them not upset."
STATE REP. Jessie Branson, D-Lawrence, also supported the group and said that she was glad to get the information ASK provided to the legislators.
"I think they perform a vital function," she said.
Maria McDougall, ASK board member from KU, said that the organization had problems but that they were largely because not enough students were involved in ASK.
See ASK page 5
Weather
CLOUDY
The forecast from the National Weather Service in Topeka is for cloudy skies and a 30 percent chance of rain until tomorrow. The highs today and tomorrow will be near 70 and lows will be around 50.
The extended forecast for Thursday to Saturday is for highs in the 50s and 60s and lows dipping into the 30s, with a slight chance of showers.
Athletic department to select KU's new ticket manager; application deadline today
By EILEEN MARKEY and BOB MOEN Staff Reporters
THE ATHLETIC DEPARTMENT will narrow
the selection of four applicants, who will then be hired.
Bob Marcum, KU athletic director, will be one step closer to hiring a new ticket manager when he stops accepting applications for the position tomorrow.
"It's difficult to say when we'll decide," he said. "The interviews might take awhile."
"We've received about 70 applications for the leb. "Marcum said yesterday.
NAMES OF OTHER applicants were not available, and Marcum said that he had not considered hiring someone from within the ticket office.
"Most the applicants don't have experience as ticket managers," Marcum said. "He applied for the job."
Afford was task manager at Iowa State while Marcum was associate director of the Air Force Research Laboratory.
One of the few applicants who has previous experience as a ticket manager is Dan Allard,
Since applying for the KU position, Aford said,
"I haven't talked to anybody, and I haven't been contacted by anybody."
Alford, who now works for a local retail store,
was ticket manager at Iowa State from 1988 to
1977. He resigned and began working fulltime at a real estate office in Ames and later managed a store there.
Susan Wachter, athletic department business manager, said she had acted as Welsh's supervisor for two weeks prior to her resination.
THE TICKET MANAGER position has been open since September 25, when manager Nancy Welsh resigned. Welsh had been at KU since 1976.
THE WILLIAMS FUND sponsors all KU athletic scholarships with money from alumni donations. Williams Fund members receive priority seating and parking at games, and therefore the ticket office and the Williams Fund office must work together.
Alfred moved here in July with his wife, Marlene, who is a Lawrence native. Alford is the founder of the Punisher program.
"She had been working under John Novotny, who was the Williams Fund Director at that time," Wachter said. "She then reported directly to her, sometimes this fall, and then she worked under me."
Novotny resigned as Williams Fund director last spring, and the new director, Bob Frederick,
Rich Konzm, who was hired as assistant warrant F and director in July, has been acting as chief of staff.
Because football ticket sales are continuing
See TICKETS page 5.
Between showers, two runners are silhouetted as they cross the Clinton Lake Dam.
Wheat Meet speaker damage discussed
By STEVE ROBRAHN
Staff Representative
Staff Reporter
A two-week controversy about sound equipment allegedly damaged at the Wheat Meet charity fund-raiser concert may get untangled today when KU officials meet with promoters.
"We want to get the facts and to find out exactly what happened," said Thomas An-
nah, the chief investigator.
ANDERSON SAID he hoped a conclusion to the problem could be reached during the meeting.
James Waller, president of Pyramid Sounds of Lawrence, said he would tell the administrators that they should be worth of damage when University personnel turned off electric power to the concert Sept. 26.
"If they're willing to pay for it, things will work out fine," Waller said yesterday. "If not, I believe the (Alpha Kappa Lambda) fraternity will take legal action against the University."
THE UNIVERSITY of Kansas should be held responsible for the damage, he said.
"It if looks as if everyone's going to blow it off, I have a law that legal action I can take I have."
Similar power shutdowns have caused damage on two other occasions, he said.
"I felt they were responsible for damage the last two years at Hawkstow." Walker said.
The worst damage was to tweeters, small speakers used to reproduce high-pitched sounds, he said. Distortion can harm tweeters, and the poor sound quality is heard during the entire Wheat Meet concert
because the amplifiers weren't given enough
from a portable generator owned by the Univ ersity.
IN ADDITION, when power was abruptly shut off, the surge occurred that also hurt the tetherer, beating his pulse.
"When you turn off a system of this size, it must be turned off in a certain order." Waller said. "Even if you don't turn it off in the right order, things can get blown up.
However, Anderson contended that no damage was caused from the turning off of the generator.
"When power is pulled on a system all at once, all you can do is cross your fingers and hope."
was caused from the turning off of the generator:
"I am sure nothing happened to that equip-
"I am sure mending happen 'bout equipment because of the loss of power," he said.
Jeff Sharp, Wheat Meet chairman, said Alpha
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Computer would speed placement
Computer would speed placement Hall application changes proposed
By SHARON APPELBAUM
Staff Reporter
Every year, around the end of January or early February, a line begins to form outside the office of residential programs.
These people are equipped with sleeping bags, prepared to spend the night to insure their being near the first of the line at 8 a.m. the next day.
THEY'RE NOT WAITING for concert tickets. They want their residence hall complete.
University officials said yesterday they wanted to eliminate the ritual, so they're proposing a new computer system to handle requests.
"There is no need to have an administrative procedure that makes students sleep all night in Strong Hall," said David Ambler, vice chancellor for student affairs.
But along with that proposal a $25
charge for new residents to finance the
computer.
The vignil is caused because the office begins processing room request only after contracts are approved.
WITH THE COMPUTER, incoming students could apply early for space in the hall. Although contracts would not be sent out early because living rates aren't determined until November, students would still be invited to place a in a residence hall, he said.
The office cannot handle the application process manually, Amber said.
‘It’s an overwhelming task in terms of clerical help to keep track of all the matrices and tables.’
These choic vs include roommates, smoking
no-smoky, roommates, and particular
balms.
THE REGEN'S will be the proposal at their meeting Friday, but will not vote on it until their November meeting.
"Any fee proposal takes two months."
Amberly will can approve the fee, but her internal system
Fred McElhene, director of residential programs, explained how the system would
He said the admission application for new undergraduates contained a section where students could check their housing records or residence halls or fraternities or sororities.
The office of admissions and records would transfer that information into the student data base in the University's computer system.
"That generates information to us," McElhenie said.
THE COMPUTER would print out address labels coded with the students' preferences. The office would then send pamphlets explaining each of the students' choices.
The student can then apply to live in a residence hall by sending in a card and the
McElhenie said that he was still working on the design of the card but that a computer would probably be able to read it.
Students who applied in the fall would then know where they would be living. Ambler
Because only new residents would pay the
"We know each year the number of spaces available," Ambler said.
"Now we don't send anything that confirms they have a hall until February," he said. "This insures that a student coming to KU would get a response much quicker."
THE SYSTEM would still allow those who had been living in residence halls first choice in school.
In February, the computer would print up personalized contracts, complete with name, address, residence hall and fee schedule, he said.
$25 fee, the Association for University Residence Halls has not objected.
"The residents new to the system will help offset the costs rather than returning residents," said Rod Brumby, chairman of URH Contracts Coordinating Committee.
DAVID ADKINS, member of the University Senate executive committee, questioned the fairness of the fee for those living in scholarship halls.
Adkins, who lives in a scholarship hall, said that many incoming freshmen applied for spaces in residence halls only to back up their scholarship hall applications.
He said that when incoming freshmen found out in May that they were accepted to a college, he said it was not a big deal.
McElhenie said that he and others working on the system would consider making scholarship hall residents an excursion, but not to go in and take photos to go the University would still lose their $25.
Ambler said the University would probably have to charge the fee for only two or three years. He said that by 1884 the developmental costs should be eliminated.
MCELHENIE SAID the University would have to expand on a computer system bought in 1970. Other costs include new terminals and contracts.
Ambler said that the office would begin planning a commercial center in next year that would be complete by the end of this fiscal year.
But McElhenie said the office would begin using the application system as soon as possible.
"I'll add some work, but we're prepared to accept the extra handling as a prelude to the rest of the day."
Amber said that the computer might not save the University money in the short run because of the high costs of residence halls, the University wouldn't have to hire more people to handle the volume.