Friday, March 12, 1982 Vol. 92, No. 115 USPS 650-640
KANSAN
The University Daily
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
Recall election gets go-ahead
By STEPHEN BLAIR Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
Spokesmen for the two sides in Lawrence's first-ever recall election, which is directed against City Commissioner Terry Glenason, said Monday that they had not made campaign plans.
But one side, the Lawrence Committee, which forced the recall election through a petition drive that collected signatures validated by the county clerk yesterday, already has volunteers that will be mobilized for the campaign, said Marie Arniesinger, member of the committee.
Within 20 days, the county clerk will schedule the election between May 10 and June 9, D.E.
The recall petitions were circulated in response to a letter from Gleason six weeks ago.
to City Manager Buford Watson suggesting that Watson resign or face the possibility of being fired.
HOWEVER, last month, during closed sessions to evaluate Watson's job performance, no commissioners moved to fire him.
Because the election to recall Gleason cannot be held before May 10, the committee does not want to start the campaign too soon, said Argershinger, a former Lawrence mayor.
"You can't just keep up a fever pitch," she said. However, she said, "We've got all the precincts organized and volunteers in every precinct."
Gleason, who is out of town, could not be reached for comment.
A member of Gleason's original campaign,
John Naughton, 1647 Vermont St., said he would
campaign for Gleason again, but had not begun any organizational work.
GLEASON SUPPORTERS will wait for Gleason to return this weekend before they act, he said.
Gleason has been criticized by the Lawrence Committee for acting without the knowledge of the full commission in writing the letter to Watson.
"It's his ball game; he's calling the shots," Naughtin said.
Argersinger said she thought Gleason still planned to try to fire Watson.
"I think he’s still going to try to fire Bufurho at 60 to 90 days," she said. "When he comes out of executive session and says 'I'm not going to kill you,' he will do it." I think he’s still got his hidden agenda coming.
See RECALL page 5
Official to oppose Lady on divestiture
By KEVIN HELLIKER
Staff Reporter
The chairman of the Kansas University Endowment Association's board of trustees is actively opposing a bill in the Kansas Legislature that would divest all state money of companies doing business in South Africa and Poland.
Olin Petefish, a Lawrence lawyer and a top official with the Endowment Association, has threatened to oppose the expected gubernatorial candidacy of Kansas House Speaker Wendell Lady, R-Overland Park, if Lady continues to support any divestiture of state funds.
"If they're trying to force American companies out of business in South Africa, then who do they want to do business there—the Russians?" Petefeish said yesterday.
In a letter sent to Lady, Petefish called the proposal to halt any state investments in South Africa or Poland "short-sighted and unrealistic."
AMERICAN COMPANIES in South Africa do more to help the oppressed majority of blacks there than divestiture—an act of disapproval—could possibly do. Petefish said.
"I predict there would be an outbreak of
1.5 million people in South Africa if
divertiture occurred," Tesfahil said.
"I haven't discussed this matter with the other trustees," Petekish said. "I'm taking this stand as a citizen. I don't believe public funds should be used for political purposes."
However, the KU Committee on South Africa printed an official statement suggesting that the Nairobi police had uncovered a drug
his fellow trustees have close corporate ties with South Africa."
"At least four of the Endowment Association trustees, at on the Board of Directors of Petra Peterson Management."
"Phillips helps market and refine oil for South Africa, much of which goes to the South African province."
"The fact that the chairman of the Endowment Association is now politicking against the state divestiture bill suggests that the Association is no longer satisfied simply to stonewall on the divestment issue, but is, in fact, entering the political process as a pro-anarthid lobby."
BUT PETEFISH said his opposition to the bill, sponsored by State Rep. Norman Justice, D-Kansas City, was not related to his position with the Endowment Association.
See DIVEST page 5
Corky Westen, an employee of the Bradton Corporation of Kansas City, Mo., welds cross pieces onto the new bridge between Duncan Hall and the Art and Design Building. The $234,000 bridge, which will span 815 feet, will be located at the intersection of North Broadway and Lincoln Street.
Weather
It will be cloudy today with a chance for thundershowers. The high will be in the low 70s, and the low tonight will be in the mid-30s.
Winds will be from the south at 15 to 25 mph.
The extended forecast calls for mild temperatures and a slight chance for showers Sunday and Monday.
Visiting Regents get earful
Staff Reporter
By ANNE CALOVICH
Jim Dumas and John Montgomery yesterday found out what it's like to look firsthand at the problems the Kansas Legislature only talks about.
The two newest Kansas Board of Regents members, who took their positions last December, are acquainting themselves with all the Regents campuses this spring and are fin-
They visited the University of Kansas yesterday.
"It was a very interesting visit," Dumas said.
"We had the privilege of hearing some very
frank comments. We'll be able to understand concerns much better."
Montgomery said, "I have a greater appreciation for the problems from getting it from the factory."
THE REGENTS met with Chancellor Gene A. Budig; Robert Cobb, executive vice chancellor; Deanell Tacha, vice chancellor for academic work; David Amble, vice chancellor for student affairs.
KU officials talked to the Regents about the big problems: faculty salaries, possible loss of student loans, equipment shortages and library needs. Dumas and Montgomery said these concerns were ones all Regents schools seemed to share.
See REGENTS page 5
Committee boosts Carlin's KU budget
By COLLEEN CACY
Staff Reporter
TOPEKA- The Senate Ways and Means Committee yesterday approved a KU budget that increases Gov. John Carlin's recommendation by $885.74.
The committee unanimously approved KU Subcommittee proposals that included $2,098,833 to begin construction of an addition to Haworth Hall.
Monday, the committee will take action on recommendations for the rest of the Board of Regents institutions. The budget package will then be considered by the full Senate.
A total of $13.8 million was recommended for the Haworth addition, with the remaining money to be used for other purposes.
"Haworth Hail is finally on track," Committee Chairman Paul Hess, R-Wichita, told the committee. KU requested money for the addition last year, but it was denied.
FACULTY IN the biology department, now housed in Snow Hall, have complained that conditions in Snow are hopelessly outdated and not practical for modern scientific techniques.
The addition would include a walkway to connect Haworth and Malot Halls, and would move the departments of biology, chemistry, and physics to the new Haworth-Malot complex. sciences in to the new Haworth-Malot complex.
The committee also approved a total operating budget of $148.8 million, which includes a 7.5 percent faculty salary increase, an 8.75 percent student salary increase, a 6 percent increase in the operating expenses budget and a 12 percent increase for utility fees.
The recommendations adjusted Carlin's proposed method of adjusting funds for changes in enrollment. Carlin used a method based on changes in full-time enrollment each fall, which would cut KU's budget by $292,722 and 15 faculty positions.
The committee returned to a method the Legislature adopted last year, which uses gradual changes in enrollment to figure changes in funding. The committee recommendations added $405, 444 and 16 new faculty positions to KU's budget.
The committee recommendations for general operating expenses cut $1.2 million from Carlin's $150 million budget, but it added more than $2 billion in overall improvements that Carlin did not recommend.
BESIDES THE Haworth addition, the panel approved transferring $150,635 to the Bureau of Child Research to replace federal funds the bureau stands to lose.
The bureau, which specializes in research and training of handicapped and retarded children, is one of the largest and $1.000 in other operating support. The money would come from the sponsored overhead
research fund, federal grant money that is restricted to subsidizing research projects.
KU Subcommittee Chairman Ron Hein, Ropeka, said the subcommittee had concluded that the bureau was doing important work and replicating research done elsewhere in the state.
"It's a good program—one of the leading ones in the nation." He said.
But the subcommittee denied the University
but asked for a proposed addition to Summers
fieldkill.
THE UNIVERSITY raised $1,050,000 in private funds to add five stories to the building, then requested an additional $2.4 million from the Legislature.
Bogina said the University should have first gone to the Board of Regents with its building proposal, instead of raising the funds on its own before asking for money to complete the project.
State Sen. August Bogina, R-Lenese, chairman of the Joint Committee on State Building Construction, said the Summerfield addition was not on the building committee priority list.
Hess said it was commendable that the University had raised the $1 million on its own.
"They did this completely on their own," Hess said. "They just forgot one thing — they didn't tell the Leopard."
"It's just too bad we weren't involved and couldn't have helped."
KU students and area residents lined up behind telescopes early yesterday morning to see the planets aligned in the "Jupiter Effect." About 1,500 people waited from one to two hours outside the Clyde W. Tombaugh Observatory on the roof of Lindley Hall. See related story page 3.
JOHN EISELE/Kansan Staff
Television writer's KU roots penetrate Hollywood veneer
By LISA GUTIERREZ
Staff Reporter
Mike Robe, television writer and KU graduate, has never lost sight of his roots, according to his mother, and his former boss, head football coach Don Fambrough.
The crimson and the blue of KU lives in Studio City, Calif.
Never mind that he has directed more than 400 television commercials, including some for Continental Airlines, Chrysler-Plymouth and Dole Bannanas.
Never mind that CBS aired a television movie written by Robe Ribet Tuesday and will air tomorrow.
UNDERNEATH IT all, Robert is still a 1966 KU graduate who met his wife, Lynette, at The Wheel, and whose written career started with co-working Rock Chalk Revive skirts for the Sigma Chi.
"I've grown to like Los Angeles, but I prefer Midwestern life. My year-old Robe said in a question last week that she felt like a 'girl.'"
The Arkansas City native spoke with the
steady pace of an off-interviewed
personality.
"I think probably much of the glamour and beauty of Hollywood is true, but overblown," he said.
"I enjoy going back and recharging my battery."
“There are a lot of good things about L.A., but there is also a lot of superficiality.”
NOVAZIAM IS AN EMBASSY IN MICHIGAN
Kansas life in life on the West Coast.
"There 'no permanence,'" he said regretfully.
But transitory living is nothing new to Robe.
After receiving a master's degree in radio-TV-film, in 1987 Robe worked briefly as a production assistant for KDK-A-VBS in Kansas City. Mo. He worked yearly at VBS. Force as a motion picture production officer.
Then, in 1978, he made a decision that surprised and injured his mother, Marcale Rabe, Carnegie.
"He just quit commercials, and I thought, 'Oh, my,' she said.
He was a partner in the company for seven years.
Moving to Hollywood, he created Robe/Ackerman Inc., a film production company that specialized in television commercials and documentaries.
HYOU KOBE had discovered the judge wrote
that he found a real place behind the camera,
he said.
That place is writing teleplays for television movies and series.
His credits include episodes for "Salvage I" on ABC and "Knots Landing" on CBS.
Robe also has written four television movies.
The movie includes all the three
"In episodic television, reality is the last thing the stories are based on," Robe said, when asked
"But in television feature writing, it's based on reality."
PRODUCTS OF his imagination were the ones that helped them find life, he said, when others found their basis in true life.
Once he finds a story idea, the actual process of writing takes anywhere from two to six minutes.
He worked for four to six weeks on the televi
See PRODUCERS page 5