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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
83rd Year, No. 6
KPL Surcharge Could Create Budget Problem
Tuesday, September 5. 1972
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Kansan photo by CAROLYN OLSON
A warm summer afternoon in the first week of classes does not provide ach incentive for studying or, in fact, any great ac
tivity. For these three KU women, paddling around Lungat Poder Lake on an inflatable raft seemed to fit the occasion perfectly. From the left are Janet Lusk, Wichita sophomore; Faye Dottheim, sophomore; Caroline Carmyn Topema sophomore. The roft belongs to Lask.
Housing Officials Question Report Of Safety Hazards in Corbin Hall
Rv MARY LIND
Kansan Staff Writer
Although it was stated that a "severe threat to life safety existed" in Corbin Hall in a 1971 life safety survey, University Housing officials still do not consider the situation to be as extreme as the report indicated.
The survey was filed with the University Dec. 10, 1971 by J. Walter Coon, manager of the health and safety division of a Mission, Kan., firm.
J. J. Wilson, director of housing, said Friday that he did not think the situation at Corbin was as severe as Coon's survey stated. He said his opinion was based on previous inspection findings of the State Fire Marshal and the firm that handles the Corbin insurance policies, Murray Insurance Inc, of El Dorado, Kansas.
IN A LETTER dated December, 13, 1971, to former Chancellor E. Laurence Chalmerls Jr., Coon said there was imminent danger in the old section of Corbin.
"Two major items complicated by myriad violations constituted Corbin qualifying as extra hazardous. KU is not, Corbin is but an isolated case." Coon said.
"If I were an official inspector, or KU's Fire Protection Engineer, I would demand immediately relocated until the stairs were smoked smoke detector and or automatic sprinkler installed, an approved fire alarm completed and approved exit signs installed."
Coon said Friday that he still was "concerned from a personal and professional standpoint" about the condition of the hall.
Coon, who is a consulting fire protection and safety engineer for a mechanical engineering consulting firm, offered his services to the University with the university's commercial or product affiliations. In a letter to Chancellor dated Nov. 23, 1971, Coon said:
"THIS SURVEY will be made by a
made of the Society of Fire
Protection Engineers."
The survey is the result of a tour of Corbin Hall made Dec. 10, 1971, by Coon and E. Sanford Bell, an insurance agent. They were accompanied by Wilson and Dean Milroy, maintenance engineer for the residence hall system.
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"Of most critical concern, the older section of Corbin Hall involves a severe threat of life should fire occur. It does not even reasonably comply with the requirements and intent of the National Board or nationally recognized building codes.
"Of critical concern is the open stairways, which can readily become impassable by the smoke from even a relatively small fire.
"THEY ALSO provide an obvious passageway and flue for the fire and smoke to spread to upper floors, compounding the emergency from the standpoint of time. In the newer section doors are normally left in the open position and the stairways can also become impassable from smoke."
"Previous inspections by the offices of the Fire Marshal and the State Architect do not indicate a similar degree of concern for the open stairway to Mr. Coon's. The insurance carrier also has not raised the point."
The survey gives recommendations for corrective procedures and suggests the installation of an approved and properly installed sprinkler system throughout the building.
Concerning Coon's survey and letter to the Chancellor, Wilson said in a letter to William Balfour, vice chancellor for student affairs:
An inspection report from the State Fire Marshal Department was filed with the
Housing Office on May 21, 1971, concerning Corbin Hall. This report listed 18 defects and hazards to be corrected or removed, six of which were mentioned in Coon's Law.
Wilson said some of the corrections recommended in the Fire Marshal's report had been made. He did not specify which ones.
"We're continually working on repairs and continually have upgrading going. It's a question of finances. Money for the Housing Office for operating expenses, maintenance and repairs comes from student fees," Wilson said.
McGovern Stumps While Nixon Rests
President Richard M Nixon spent a relaxing Labor Day at the Western White House, in spite of the fact that Labor Day traditionally has been regarded as the true beginning of presidential campaigns. By contrast, Nixon's Democratic opponent, Sen. George McGovern, spent the day in California, Arizona, two crucial states in this fall's election. McGovern is considered to be trailing in both.
McGovern delivered a Labor Day appeal to the traditional Democratic loyalies in Ohio and California and charged that they should be given up $10 million American dollars to the welfare rolls.
M. Geovern spoke at rallies and picnics in heavily Democratic areas of the two states.
Spending a quiet day at his oceanside
sphere, President Nixon wrapped up a late
summer stay at the Western White House
to bring a party for the traveling press
corps.
About 75 newsmen, photographers and technicians who came to California with the President 10 days ago were invited to attend a reception at Nixon on "La Casa Pacifica."
McGovern made three major stops Monday—a rally in the Akron, Ohio, suburb of Barberton, a union picnic spot. The governor, a union picnic at the Alameda County Fair outside Oakland, Calif—and criticized Nixon's assertion that the election matched McGovern's support of a "welfare" program and the President's support of a "work ethic."
"It is Richard Nixon who has given millions of Americans welfare instead of Clinton," he said.
BULLETIN
MUNICH (AP) — Terrorists armed with sub-machine guns broke into the Olympic Village today, killed two israelis and held more 13 Israeli guests in their living rooms.
The Arabs, who had boxes of explosives,
threatened to kill all the hostages unless
200 Arab Terrorists held in Israel were
released.
They first set a deadline at 8 a.m. (CDT). Later a West German spokesman said an extension of the deadline was achieved in negotiations between the German commanded Ghaith, head of the Arab League offices in Berlin, who had rushed to Munich.
Anti-Government Protests Stall Roman Food Trade
ROME (AP)—Housewives went shopping under police supervision in Rome on Monday, when they were lucky enough to find an open store.
It was the start of what promised to be the worst week of strike and unrest this summer in Italy—with a nationwide train strike starting Monday evening and chemical and other industrial workers slating walk-outs for later in the week.
In Rome, butchers, grocers and fruit vendors closed to protest a price freeze. There was a buying rush at supermarkets, which stayed open, but shoppers found many of the counters had run out of food—particularly meat. fruit and vegetables.
Police stood by supermarkets and municipal stores Monday to prevent violence. But even some of the municipal butcheries and fruit stands closed for the day. Their managers said they were being threatened in threatening anonymous phone calls.
Shop owners clashed with police and beat up merchants who opened their stores
Food merchants appeared determined in their antigovernment protest as a 60-day freeze on retail food prices went into a second week in Rome and its province.
Students Face Taxation Question
The situation might get worse in the next few days. Rome's only slaughterhouse was idle Monday with no one showing up with cattle to kill for the meat market.
Rome's Butcher Association called a strike for Monday and today and threatened to extend it through the week. Fruit and vegetable vendors also closed down for two days, leaving Rome's usually congested street markets deserted. Farmers and grocers joined in the protest by closing in the afternoon Monday and Tuesday.
They want the government to call off the price freeze. They particularly resent the fact that controls have been imposed only on retail prices, leaving wholesalers unaffected and that Rome alone in Italy has been put under the freeze.
Kansan Staff Writer
By JERRY ESSLINGER
The tax exempt status of colleges and universities across the nation is likely to come under question in the next few months because of a new "tuition tax" that a midwestern city has proposed for its college students.
Evanston, III., a city roughly twice the size of Lawrence, has proposed an ordinance that would tax each student $30 annually and about $300,000 for the city's governance.
Northwestern University and three other private institutions in Illinois would be affected by the ordinance, which reportedly has been designed to replace
TRADITIONALLY, the University of Kansas and other state-supported universities throughout the country also have been exempt from local taxation, but different hassis—such a tax would be, in effect, a local law imposed against the state.
the costs of civic services to the institutions and compensate for local property tax exemptions to which they are entitled, by law, as nonprofit institutions.
Although some officials at public as well as private institutions have expressed alarm at what the possible effects could be if the tax were allowed in Illinois, University of Kansas administrators indicated recently that they considered the
Charles Oldfather, University attorney, said he had "read about the case with interest" but was not overly worried about its effects here. What was being proposed, he said, was "probably vaguely similar to an admissions tax" that was proposed in connection with the University of Colorado at Boulder, but was declared unconstitutional.
matter controversial but not one that required their immediate concern.
ACTING RU KCHANCELLOR Raymond Nichols said Friday that the University had "never considered compensation for city services or in lieu of property taxes." He said the proposed tax on students at Northwestern and other institutions
"sounded like an effort to get the camel's nose under the tent. What starts out to be a minor thing can always develop into a major problem for everyone concerned."
Nichols and other KU administrators pointed out that University students "contribute greatly to the local economy" and, probably, enough so as to offset any special services the city has provided to students during recent years of campus unrest.
"KU students pay a tremendous amount to local business by their purchases of gasoline alone," Nichols said, "not to mention other contributions and the jobs
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in remarks for the last gathering here,
adding that Nixon's record showed "praise
for the work ethic on Labor Day but more
of the work ethic to cultivate eagle every other day of the year."
He accused Nixon of causing high unemployment that "did more to undermine the work ethic than any president since Herbert Hoover."
MGecover added tough language to his prepared remarks at every stop of the day, accusing the Republicans of distorting his military fare, amnesty, marijuana and other issues.
Both in the Barbarton speech and talking a somewhat larger gathering at the meeting would have been
Chippewa, McGovern stuck mainly to economic issues, seeking to enhance his Democratic credentials in an area that has always supported the party.
McGovener served special scorn for Nixon's contention Sunday that the election was between McGovener's ad-hoc plan and his own support of the "work ethic."
"I know something about the work ethic," the South Dakota senator declared. "I came out of a poor family. I worked my way through school. I fought for this country. I worked for a dear II. I worked every day of my life—harder than Richard Nixon has worked."
Issues Still Paramount To Candidate Manning
By RANDALL BECKER Kansan Campus Editor
Mike Manning, Democratic candidate for Kansas secretary of state, said Monday that he intended to "press on with the issues" after a published report last week that disclosed that his driver's license has been suspended four times in four years.
Manning, a graduate student at the University of Kansas, said he thought the leak of the information showed his camaraderie finally made a mark in Kansas politics.
"It is showing that my campaign is causing some concerns among some people who don't want us elected and to say, 'We programs we've talked about,'" he said.
"We really have the old guard worried."
"It has really obscured some of the issues," he said. "I have never hidden the facts, but I don't think they are german to the case and aren't part of the cannamon.
were one owner glider warrior, MANNING, who we called a week-long, who caught the swing through the state, said he did not expect any changes in his campaign because of the report.
"We will press on with the issues. We be that people who know that it is a thing of the heart."
"This is a part of the reason some good people don't get into politics. The misrepresentation of facts can obscure the issues," he said.
Manning said he saw similarities between his own attitud and that of Sen. Taft.
According to the report, Manning lost his license the first time Aug. 14, 1969, after conviction on two speeding charges and one illegal passing charge.
AFTER REINSTATEMENT, his license
was revoked on 23, 1970, after an
an illegal turn convict.
His license was suspended again Nov. 19, 1970, for failure to comply with financial responsibility laws after a non-injury accident in Emporia.
The four suspension came July 1, 1977,
because he failed to maintain liability
in his case.
'I felt I shouldn't be driving without insurance, so I gave it up,' he said.
MANNING he was not pleased with the way the information was released. He said that on two occasions, he gave up his job because he could not afford liability insurance.
Presently Manning is not driving, although he said he passed a license test this summer. He said he would resume training soon. He received confirmation of his insurance.
According to Manning, the case involving the non-injury accident is still in court. He said he tried to avoid striking a bicycle and was struck by another car.
"I went to court on that," he said. "I didn't have an attorney and the judge said if I pleaded guilty, the sentence would be hung." The judge didn't make, because my license was suspended.
“This points up a real problem for people who can't afford attorneys,” he said. “An attorney at Emporia has advised the case could have been defeated.”
Since the published report, Manning said he had received 40 telephone calls from supporters telling him to continue his campaign.
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Kansan Photo by DAN LAUING
Kanan Ponce Porto d. LAKERGOS
Several University and health officials say that the dogs running loose on campus may carry harmful parasites. The
parasites can penetrate the skin of humans and cause intestinal disorders. Officials say dogs should be kept medicated or locked up. See story page 8.