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KANSAN
Thursday, February 11, 1982 Vol.92, No.94 USPS 650-640
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
The University Daily
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TRACEY THOMPSON/Kansan Staff
In freezing temperatures, Craig Rice attempts to round up his horses at Westermain Farms in north Lawrence. Westermain is owned by KU ma. professor Paul Moster.
Fights in Towers prompt tighter patrol
By JAN BOUTTE and BECKY ROBERTS Staff Reporters
Recent fights at the Jayhawker Towers prompted the KU director of housing yesterday to ask for additional security patrols from the KUpolice department.
J. J. Wilson, director of housing, met with Jim Denney, director of KU police, to discuss possible solutions to the recent fighting at the Towers.
Wilson and Denney agreed that the KU police would be patrolling the Towers this weekend, while police and housing officials worked on a more permanent solution.
During the past three weekends, KU police were called to the Towers twice because of fights that broke out at private parties.
"Somebody got beered up and did something they wouldn't have done ordinarily," Wilson said.
Early in the morning on Sunday, Jan. 24, police responded to a call concerning a fight in Tower A. Several students were badly bruised and one student was injured. Police from Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City, Kan.
After investigating the incident for two weeks, KU police sent reports to the Douglas County district attorney's office, where a decision would whether charges should be filed. Denney said.
Last weekend another fight broke out during a party in Tower A. No notice report was filed.
These two fights and other incident led to his decision to ask for increased police patrols,
But Denney said extra police patrols of the Towers would strain his already short-handed force. Because of the extra work load caused by basketball games, KU officers now work 44 to 48
Denney said that a solution to the problem lies in the individual apartment owners controlling the energy usage.
"It if it was rampant crime and rampant violence like robbs, raps and muggings, I'd say yes, we need a cop there. But we're not talking about that," Demey said.
Watson, Commission had 1977 confrontation
By STEPHEN BLAIR Staff Reporter
City commissioners in 1977 wanted to fire City Manager Burd Watson because they thought he was making policy in addition to implement former Mayor Marte Ararguesi and yesterday.
"I think it was 4+1 if we had taken a vote," she said. "We had a confrontation with Buford. We told him we would run the town—we were the policymakers, he was the administrator."
policy makers, he was better than BatWatson said yesterday. "That's when they set up the evaluation system. There was not a request for a resignation."
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Former Mayor Ed Carter said, "Six months later we gave him an absolute vote of confidence and gave him a hall of a raise."
Carter did not say he had been on the verge of wanting to fire Watson.
The most recent evaluation of Watson's performance by the commission was last October.
The commission suggested many areas in which they wanted Watson to improve.
She said those issues discussed last fail still were relevant to the present dispute.
were like this: Watson, who was not given a raise after the last evaluation, has said that he was trying to comply with the commissioner's wishes.
In the last week, all five people who served on the commission in 1977 said Watson was a good city manager and they wanted him to keep his job.
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This past weekend it was revealed that Commissars had written to him and asked him to resign.
Because of an editing error, yesterday's Kansan said Gleason said he would fire Watson at that time. It should have said Gleason said he would move to fire Watson.
The commission, which discussed Watson's performance at this week's meeting, will meet in closed session on Feb. 18 to consider Watson's job performance.
In response to Gleason's letter, a group that included the letter is forming a petition drive to remove it.
Argersinger said she supported Watson but
had not decided whether to support the effort to recall Gleason.
Argeringer said she had difficulty stating particular reasons for having wanted to fire Waltham.
"You never know which straw it is that breaks the camel's back" she said. "It was a lot of employee discontent, a lot of citizen discontent, a lot of feeling they didn't have their hands on things."
remember saying to him, "Buford, your job is as long as you let the team run the club."
"We wanted the commission to make policy and the city manager to do the administration."
Yesterday, Commissioner Don Binns said, "We told him in no uncertain terms that it was his job to run the city and the commissioners to play politics."
The changes in Watson's role included removing him from a direct role in labor relations and removing him from a local radio talk show.
Watson said he did not want to comment on each specific item in the 1977 commission's report.
Argerstein said the commission lowered Watson's profile in Lawrence.
One of the problems was with labor relations.
"Ine expression we used more was 'profile'," she said. "We were hearing, 'he is too powerful, he is too powerful, he is too powerful.'"
One of the problems and features
"The workers are talking to organize a union with
men" "Bims said."
"We removed him from being the negotiator between employees and the city."
between employees and the city.
Argersinger said, "This eliminated Buford as a major employer."
Carter commented on Watson's previous position as a negotiator with employees.
During that period, changes were made in the structure of local government, Carter said.
"We completely reorganized city government," he said. We split government into two.
"It put him in an impossible position," he said.
"The president of the company does not sit down and negotiate with employees. It created a lot of hard feelings."
MacNeil, Lehrer comment on journalism, accept award
See WATSON page 5
By BARB EHLI Staff Reporter
Robert MacNeil and Jim Lehrer, editors and co-anchors of the MacNeil/Lehrer Report, yesterday criticized television news programming for simplification and catering to attention spans.
MacNeil and Lehrer, who are public television journalists, were at the University of Kansas to accept the William Allen White Award for Journalistic Merit from the School of Jour
It is the first time in the award's 33-year history that it has been shared by two journalists. The award is given annually to journalists who exemplify White, the late Emperor Gazette editor, and his "service to his profession and his country."
the award presentation followed a luncheon at the Kansas Union Ballroom, at which both MacNeil and Lehrer commented on television journalism.
"IF JESUS CHRIST appeared on earth and began to talk to the multitudes, TV would cut away for livelier pictures," MacNeil said yesterday.
MaeNell described the television medium as a "prisoner of its own commercial success," and said that television nightly new programs were broadcast daily, but presented events but did not link them together.
"Nothing can replace the talking head (the single newsman) for getting over the news," he said. "When you say, 'I love you,' or 'I hate you,'—to get the message across, you don't need a window over your shoulder flashing cartoons."
MacNeil is a native Canadian who began his career working for radio stations, and later moved to England as an aspiring playwright before returning to journalism.
THEY HIRED REPORTERS but not researchers, and assigned them to cover specific issues, not specific institutions such as the White House or the State Department.
The format of two interviewers discussing a single topic each night allows them to introduce guests "as editorial logic requires," MacNeil said. One is able to adjust his questions while the other
With money from public stations WNET in New York and WETA in Washington, D.C., they began the MacNeil/Lehrer report in October with a slightly different outlook.
"We created a new form of journalism," MacNell said.
story to another.
He also criticized the way television deliberately distracts with the use of pictures from the expensive anchor talent it hires.
MacNeil said they wanted an in-depth program which did not rush to get from one to another.
In his speech, Lehrer, a Wichita native and a University of Missouri graduate, said that
William Allen White would roll over in his grave if he knew about some of today's journalism.
WHITE WAS A KU alumnus and editor of the Emporia Gazette, for whom the School of Journalism was named. The merit award is awarded only on Feb. 10, in honor of White's birthday.
Lehner said that he felt honored to receive such a prestigious award and that he had read many books on the subject.
"He'd be particularly annoyed that reporters could sum up nuclear disarmament in 20 seconds." Lehrer said of White. "He also would be upset by public opinion polls that list only politicians, ayatollahs and lawyers below journalists in respect."
Lehrer said White's advice to journalists today would be "to work harder, hardier, try harder, and remember the responsibilities that go along with freedom of the press."
At a reception held later in the Flint Hall,
they discussed MacNeil and Lehrer discussed
some criticisms.
"PEOPLE THINK I doole too much," MacNeil said.
The two met while covering the Senate Watergate Hearings for public television's National Public Affairs Center for Television, the National Democratic Folk Award in 1974 for their coverage of it.
"And people think I'm dumb." Lehrer said he said that one views counted the number of times he had spoken.
MacNiel said that one-sixth of the cost of producing the program was paid by Exxon and AT&T and that $5 million of the $7 million it cost to produce the show came from public television
They also said criticism came many times from people more knowledgeable about a topic than others.
Public broadcasting officials warned Congress yesterday that administration proposals to cut money for public broadcasting threatened its very existence.
Because their program is a news show, the two don't expect all of their money to come from corporations. They said that the money they did receive influence the type of programming they had.
"An adequate federal share of support for public broadcasting is essential for our survival." Edward Pflitzer, president of the Correctional Association, told the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee.
"AT&T AND EXXON is the cleanest money we'll ever get," Lehrer said.
THE NEW BUDGET also calls for funds to be slashed to 885 million by 1985.
The administration has proposed cutting $21 million from the 1983 budget for the Corporation.
The remaining one-fourth of the cost is covered by government grants, which are in danger of
falling.
MacNeil and Lehrer said that they did not See LEHRER page 5
FRACEY THOMPSON/Kansan Staff
William Allen White award winners Robert MacNeil (left) and Jim Lehrer (center) talk with Brett Wood, Springfield, Ill., senior, after the awards banquet in the Union Ballroom yesterday.
Weather
It will be partly cloudy today with a high of 31 degrees and a chance for light snow this evening, according to the National Weather Service in Denver.
The warming trend will continue into the weekend with Saturday's rainfall at 40%.
Senate delays fee decision
Staff Reporter
By ANN LOWRY
The Student Senate sidestepped a resolution to hold a student referendum on the University of Kansas Athletic Corporation Board's $3 campus fee, which the university is currently ruling out the effectiveness of a referendum.
weeks.
LOREN BUSY, holdover senator and co-sponsor of the bill, said that the two weeks until the next Senate meeting, and then the four weeks allowed the elections come to a close the referendum could have an effect on Chancellor Gene A. Budig's 1983 budget recommendation to the Kansas Board of Residents in March.
The Senate did, however, vote to send the bill to the Senate Sports Committee to clarify its wording. The sports committee can then present the bill to Senate again at its next meeting in two weeks.
affairs and KUAC member, said at the last Senate meeting that KUAC had passed the fee increase for another year to help offset its budget deficit.
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David Amber, the vice chancellor for students
"The chancellor assured us he'd allow Senateample time to sit down and debate this thing."He said. "I can't believe it."
"Somebody has successfully aet on this thing.
Students will not have a concrete voice except
they are confident.
Abbott said the KUAC would meet next week and make their recommendations to Budig, who would in turn go to the Regents with his recommendations.
"NOW THE CHANCELLOR is going to have no choice but to recommend to the Regents, and they're not going to have the voice that we—the alumni, faculty, staff, students, everyone on the KUAC—wanted the students to have," Abbott said.
The Senate also voted not to suspend the rules to allow a bill to provide supplemental funding for the Associated Students of Kansas onto the floor. Senate's Finance and Auditing Committee had voted unanimously against passing the bill to Senate Tuesday.
The bill would have provided $360 from the Senate's $55,000 unallocated account to hire a second KU ASK campus director. The bill stated KU needed a second campus director to allow the KU delegation to maintain influence in Topeka while building the KU delegation's membership.
"It's surprising to me that students would not even think of considering the bill on the floor."