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University Daily Kansan, September 22, 1981
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Justice Department drops preferential hiring remedy
WASHINGTON—The Justice Department will no longer seek preferential hiring of blacks, women or other minorities as a settlement in employment discrimination law.
William Reynolds, head of the department's civil rights division, said that the Reagan administration would continue to enforce the nation's civil rights laws vigorously but that it would look for other solutions in employment discrimination cases.
"The feeling of the administration is that it is no more correct to grant a preference to whites in the job market because they are white than it is to grant a preference to blacks in the job market because they are black," Revolds said.
"It's similarly the same for males and females."
In the past, settlement in an employment discrimination case often included requiring an employer to give preference to the group discriminated against over other applicants.
Iran denied embassy in Washington
WASHINGTON—The United States will deny Iran its embassy in Washington and freeze $2 million of Iran's assets until the revolutionary Islamic government restores the U.S. Embassy in Tehran to diplomatic control, the State Department announced yesterday.
Iran's embassy on fashionable Massachusetts Avenue, the site of lavish parties during the reign of the late shah of Iran, has been closed since former President Jimmy Carter broke diplomatic relations with Tehran in April 1980 and evicted its diplomats.
"We are holding Iran's property only until Iran returns our embassy and other diplomatic and consular assets in Iran, property held in violation of international law and which the International Court of Justice ordered Iran return to us in March 1800. 'State department spokesman Alain Romberg said."
California nuke gets OK to operate
AVILA BEACH, Calif.—The Nuclear Regulatory Commission gave final approval yesterday for operation of California's Dibao Canyon nuclear reactor as protesters renewed a week of peaceful demonstrations that crammed area tails with more than 1,300 prisoners.
The commission, meeting in Washington, issued a license authorizing Pacific Gas and Electric Co., owner of the plant, to activate the construction permit.
As the commission met, the Abalone Alliance, a coalition of 71 anti-nuclear groups, once again tried unsuccessfully to blockade the reactor. Protesters sat down to block workers from entering the main gate, while others hiked through the hills to the reactor site.
The San Luis Obispo County sheriff's office reported that about 320 were arrested yesterday, bringing to 1,328 the total arrests since the demonstration.
Among them was one man, who was charged with carrying a loaded pistol, and a 14-year-old boy, who had a note from his parents approving his parental consent.
7 killed, 66 hurt in war games
INDIAN SPRINGS AIR FORCE BASE, Nev.—An Air Force C-130 cargo plane crashed and exploded "like a bomb" during nighttime military maneuvers near a desert runway yesterday, killing seven soldiers and inuring 61 others.
The transport, a supply plane for rangers in the Army's 75th Infantry Division, is deployed to part in war games. The seven killed were Army troops, Army officials said.
Larry Speakes, White House deputy press secretary, told reporters President Reagan had "expressed his regret over the loss of life."
In Asslar, West Germany, five American soldiers were injured when a U.S. army missile launcher careened off an autobahn during NATO war games that have claimed three lives and injured 54 people, a military spokesman said yesterday.
He said the five soldiers were injured Sunday when a fault in the launcher's steering mechanism sent the vehicle crashing through a guardrail on the highway at Asslar, 10 miles west of Giessen.
Leaders call for defense cutbacks
WASHINGTON—Congressional Republican leaders indicated yesterday President Reagan may have to reverse his plans and make heavier defense cutbacks instead of delaying Social Security cost-of-living increases to save money.
Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker and his House counterpart, Robert Michel, said after a joint leadership meeting they would present their suggestions to the president before he addressed the nation on his latest budget proposals.
And the chairman of the Senate Social Security Subcommittee said proposals for a major revamping of the retirement system might be dead for years.
Chairman William Armstrong, R-Co., said, "I just can't see taking time on a busy Senate calendar for a bill that's not even going to come up in the H候."
Albanv judge rules for rugbv team
ALBANY, N.Y.—A federal judge ruled yesterday that Gov. Hugh Carey has no right to bail South Africa's Springboks rugby team from playing in the Olympics.
U. S. District Judge Howard Munson said the team's constitutional right to play the game was made more dramatic because of the transition from the state system.
State attorneys asked Munson to stay his ruling, but the judge refused. The state said it would appeal the decision to the 2nd Circuit U.S. Court of Ap-
Hyatt disaster claims 113th victim
KANSAS CITY, Kan.—A man injured in the collapse of two skywalks at the Hyatt Regency Hotel two months ago died yesterday, becoming the 113th victim of the disaster.
Evlynym Gerster, a 62-year-old dentist, died at the University of Kansas Medical Center from massive injuries he received when two skywalks collapsed during a crowded tea dance on July 17 at the Kansas City, Mo., hotel.
Gerster was the second person to die since the rescue operation was completed July 18. Almost 190 other people were injured in the disaster.
Bahamas vows to support Belize
Paul Adderley, Bahamas minister of external affairs, attended ceremonies in the tiny Central American country marking the end of British colonial rule in the Americas and the beginning of an independent government.
NASSAU, Bahamas—The Bahamas government pledged its support yesterday to Belize, the world's newest independent nation.
In Nassau, the Ministry of External Affairs stated,"... the governments of the Bahamas, Barbados, Canada, Guyana, Jamaica, Trinidad and the United Kingdom have agreed that in the event of an armed attack against the United States they must consider what measures should be taken in relation to such an attack."
The statement of support against an attack appears to be a warning to Guatemala, which claims Belize as part of its territory.
THE COMPLETION date set for their house on Sigma Nu Place was originally August, but because of a lack of money, AOPi members postponed the date until January and later postponed that date to next fall.
AOPi hoping for house completion by fall
After being denied a house for the 1981-'82 school year because of high interest rates, the members of Alpha Sigma Fpsilon have their security bone to materialize next fall.
president of AOPI, said they were waiting for either the interest rates to drop or for an agreement with a bank for lower interest rates to be worked out. The house could cost as much as $1 million at current interest rates, she said.
"At this point we have no exact date," said Kay Sutherlin, the AOPi executive board director. "We want to start building as quickly as possible."
She said that the sorority purchased the land on Sigma Nu Place almost two years ago, but since interest rates have gone up, they could not finance the building.
Even when they receive loan money and put a builder into action, their structure will take over ten months to build, according to Dale Glenn of Peters, Williams and Kubota, the architectural firm that designed the AOPI house.
NORA FISHER, Topeka senior and
Glenn joked, "They're definitely not going to have a house by this January."
But to the original members who recolonized AOP in the fall of 1978, not only are they no joke. Some of them are now seniors who may never live in a society house.
Most of the sorority's officers said the housing situation created no problems, except for a little disappointment to the members. But hopes of having a house sooner and living in a residence hall for a whole year disillusioned other members who were tired of waiting for the building plans to get off the ground.
INSTEAD, THIS YEAR all but one of the 75 members are living in apartments scattered throughout Lawrence, Fisher said. Last year, the AOPi members lived on two floors of Gertrude Sellars Pearson Hall.
Sutherlin, Fisher and the vice president of the house, Sandy Winters, all agree that the lack of a house had imparted on the strength of their chanter.
Other members expressed discontent with having to find alternative living
arrangements for two consecutive years and having to pay a building fund
Dana Schiemann, an AOPI alumnus-status member, said she had to pay a $240 building fund for upkeep on their house, which was never built.
"I had a lot better things I could have done with that money." Schiemann said.
Another AOPI member who did not come back to the University of Kansas this year said that not having a house to stay at was the decisive decision to go to a community college.
"At first when they told me it wasn't going to be done, that was the major let-down," Estela Blancarte, the former KU student from Kansas City, Kan., said. She disappointed because the house itself really does make a difference."
Athletic equipment in good shape despite cuts
By EILEEN MARKEY Staff Reporter
As college athletic departments cincin their belts in an effort to combat high operating costs, KU athletes can train and play in good quality equipment.
"Our equipment is the best that money can buy," said Mike Hill, head football equipment manager. "We don't try to skimp on anything."
Every third year football helmets must meet National Collegiate Athletic Association standards. Hill said that they require helmets and helmets and shoulder pads yearly.
Hill said he bought more than 150 footballs a year, as well as several new helmets and shoulder pads. He also replaces jerseys that are in bad shape.
Hill said on an average home-game day, student managers handed out more than 800 towels to KU and the visiting team.
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Managers are paid between $80 and $110 a month, but receive other benefits. They travel to away games with the team, receive shoes and occasionally get training table privileges, Levra said.
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