KANSAN
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
Monday, November 30, 1981
Vol. 92, No. 67 USPS 650-640
Allen takes leave during investigation
Richard Allen
By United Press International
WASHINGTON—Richard Allen, say he feels he has "done nothing wrong," took administrative leave as President Reagan's national security adviser yesterday so he could speak out about the $1,000 "thank-you" payment he received from a Japanese
"I certainly exercised bad judgment in not immediately taking it (the envelope containing the money) to the acting counsel to the president and writing a memo about it." Allen said in an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press."
THAT ACTION "was always in my mind," Allen said, and "I had no other intention."
But the incident occurred on Jan. 21, the first day of the new administration, when Allen said,
the money was placed in a safe and he
"simply forget."
Allen said he intercepted the envelope as it was being forced into Mrs. Reagan's hand after a brief photo session with Japanese journalists.
The money was presented by journalists working for the magazine Shufu no Tomo (Housewife's Friend) as a "thank you" to Mrs. Reagan, the Japanese said in Tokyo.
Alien said he gave the envelope to his secretary, who placed it in the office safe, and
"It was a case of forgetfulness, no matter how hard that is to accept," he said.
Shortly thereafter Allen moved to his new office and not only did not have the key to the old office but never had the combination to the safe.
Alen said he talked to Reagan Saturday about his intention to step down until the end of his term.
uncited he agreed with the decision and understood the basis on which I made it."
Larry Speakes, deputy White House press secretary, said his president "haven't passed judiciary tests."
"Dick made a request and the president honored it," he said.
SPEAKES AHIL Allen's deputy, Adm. James (Bud) Nance, former aircraft carrier skipper and retired staff member of the Joint Force who had been asked to "assume Allen's duties."
Edwin Meese, top presidential counselor, said Allen's action was his own idea, and "since he fell constrained to defend himself he made a good thing to go on administrative leave."
Meese said that Allen talked to him and to the president Saturday, and apparently before morning, then, he talked to me today and he felt the right thing to do and he decided to do it."
"There's no reason whatever why I cannot resume my duties and perform at the same level as before once the investigation is concluded." Allen said.
"I expect to resume," he said. "Certainly, I would like to go back."
Allen said that no one had asked him about the money and I "did not know how the investment" work.
Asked to whom he attributes some "anonymous and quite damaging quotes" from the Justice Department and White House, he said he did not know, but was applauded by the sensationalism and insinuated that he have been printed in the course of the case.
"I don't know if anyone was interested in promoting such confusion," he said. "I certainly feel I have done nothing wrong, and I reason I am here, to answer all questions."
Check finds some extinguisher empty
By MICHAEL ROBINSON
Staff Reporter
A KU housing department check of fire extinguishers at Jayhawker Towers Apartments, prompted by charges from Towers residents that some extinguisherds did not work, has turned up several imperative extinguishers, a housing official said yesterday.
J. J. Wilson, director of housing, said that a department equipment cheek, begun last Monday, had turned up "five or six" extinguishers that needed recharging.
Towers residents charged last week that some of the extinguishers in the apartments did not work during a Nov. 22 fire that caused $50,000 damage to Tower B.
Firefighters rescued six students from the
mortal building.
Wilson said that the extinguishers were
checked last July, and a state fire marshal's review of the equipment in September, including a check on the alarm system, did not turn up any problems.
"They were all checkered recently, but there was some question about usage," Wilson said, smiling. "I don't know."
"We're asking the residents also to turn in equipment if it's been discharged," he said, "They know better than we do if they've been discharged for any reason."
ree said that housing officials were still in the process of checking the Towers, and would check
we estimated that there were about 500 extinguisherers in University-owned housing. The buildings that will be checked are the residence apartments and the Place Apartments, as well as the Towers.
The empty extinguishers have been replaced with full ones from a pool of extinguishers and an additional supply.
The Jahayawk Towers fire is being investigated as an arson, as is a Nov 6 fire at Naismith Hall, a privately owned residence hall. The Naismith Hall fire caused $90,000 in damage.
Besides the ineffectiveness of some of the fire extinguishers, other complaints related to fire safety at the Towers
Several residents said that smoke had reached the sixth floor of Tower B before the fire alarmes
One resident said that he was crawling across the sixth floor hallway when the alarms went off.
In the Towers' alarm system, one alarm is in each apartment and never than four smoke detectors.
Fire officials said that both fires began in the building elevators. So far, police have no
Wilson said that housing checks should be completed by the end of December.
von Ende's duties include rugby and trouble-shooting
Staff Reporter
By LISA MASSOTH
Rather unusual attire for a University administrator, his dress was a sure target for him.
"I never knew you had such cute knees," said a coworker on way out the door.
Richard von Ende, executive secretary of the University, paced back and forth in a black and white striped rugby shirt, navy shorts, white knee socks and cleats.
He walks toward the field roughly rotating his arms to warm them up. He waits for just the right moment, then joins onto the field, grabs his mitts and blocks a pack of his teammates and shoves like a bull.
Finally, he snatched the papers from the secretary and strode out the door carrying his gun.
Bill Boyle, rugby team captain, said von Ende had fit in with the young team very well. "We don't think of him as the executive
A DAYS WORK OF administration was done and it was time for his twice-a-week release—rugby. Von Ende is a member of the KU Rushy Football Club.
He was waiting for a secretary to run off the agenda for the governor's budget hearing, but his mind was a mile away, on the field at 21st Street. He noticed the cone-shaped roof of the chancelary in the complex.
secrecy of the University.
The rugby team begins its "Death Run,"
jogging, sprinting, hopping on one foot, the other, then both. Von Ende, 39, lags a little behind some of the youngest in the secretary sows to a walk, then steps and throws up his lunch.
"I knew I shouldn't have eaten that ham salad sandwich," he said, walking to the middle of the field. As the team approaches, he slid in the巾袋 the pack, jogging, hooping and spiraling.
VON ENDE LOVES to play rugby,
especially when it rains.
"It slows everyone down to my speed." he said.
sail.
Von Ende's speed is usually slow. He is a
Although he talks softly, it's his job to talk a lot.
Maybe this mannerism developed during his years of quiet conversations to discuss a sensitive legislative issue or an administrative concern.
He speaks so softly, even when giving presentations at meetings, that it is often difficult to hear him. Whole sentences can be lost if someone shuffles papers too loudly.
He says he is shy with people he doesn't know, but there don't seem to be many people around him.
quiet and reserved person, who calls himself "a country boy from Abilene. Texas."
Monday Morning
ONE OF VON ENDE'S most important duties is that of trouble-shooter for the chancellor. He has to dive in headfirst and deal with people in difficult situations, enabling the chancellor to remain above as an authority figure.
Richard von Ende
"I have to take a lot of shit," he said. "It
football games, making sure they are all in the seats they want. He talks with legislators over lunch at the Topeka Club. He talks with Chancellor Gene A. Budig and other administrators to help him. And he meets with the University of Kansas Medical Center personnel to solve disputes.
See Von Ende page 5
Fans rush to request Stones tickets
K.C. concert sold out
Students huddled around radios, raptly listening to the announcement.
No, just the unexpected announcement last week that rock group the Rolling Stones would come to Kansas City, Mo., in December for two concerts.
By JOEREBEIN
Staff Reporter
Workers use a crane to lift the "Salina Piece" from a truck that transported the gift to West Campus.
A declaration of war, the death of a national leader?
News of the concert, which came about noon last Tuesday just before Thanksgiving break, sparked a flurry of note-taking as students scribbled on notebooks, newspapers or anything handy to get the instructions on how to send for tickets.
The Rolling Stones had not planned to stop in Kansas City, but were persuaded by rock promoters during their St. Louis concert to make a detour in their schedule to come to Kansas
Rona Brinck, Kansas City, Mo., sophomore,
THE CONCERT, scheduled for Dec. 14 and 15 in Kemper Arena, sold out in less than 24 hours, with more than 30,000 tickets snapped up, according to officials at Contemporary Productions, the St. Louis firm that is promoting the concert with Kemper Arena.
Because it was a first-come, first-serve basis, there was almost a riot as students hustled to the mall.
"I was working in the cafeteria when I heard," she said. "Everybody was running around trying to find pencils and paper to get the ticket information."
"All of the sudden, around noon on Tuesday,
there was a tremendous rush of people," Cheryl Farmer, secretary at the Lawrence Post Office,
645 Vermont St., said last week.
said there was almost "mass panic" at Temple Hall when the concert announcement was made.
David Hoffman, Lawrence senior, said that at first, he had thought the announcement about the
"People were calling in an afternoon asking about the concert. All I could say was, Who are you?"
NOT ALL OF THE STUDENTS who wanted to go to the concert got their ticket requests in on time.
Farmer said more than $8,000 in money orders was sold Tuesday afternoon and that more than $1 million was sold the previous week.
"Some students drove to post offices in Kansas city and mailed their orders there to save a little time."
'ny me训 I got the $17 scrap together, the concert had sold out," said Dave Holmberg. Overbrook sophomore. 'I not surprised it sold out so quickly. I'm amazed day that the concert came to this area.
"When a friend called and told me about the concert, I figured it was just a hoax," Hoffman
"I wasn't upset that the Stones came to this area after I had traveled to Colorado," he said. "But I think that the price per ticket was outrageously expensive.
"But for the Rolling Stones, I am willing to sacrifice."
Hoffman, who traveled to Boulder, Colo., earlier than the Rolling Stones, said this messy man was one of them.
Sculpture gets new location; original site to be restored
Staff Reporter
BvSTEVEROBRAHN
After months of being trampled in controversy, the park area at 16th and Indiana streets will return to its normal grassy state.
A concrete base that had been built for the abstract sculpture "Salina Piece" will be removed, Thomas Anderson, director of facilities operations, said yesterday.
"The triangle will be restored to its original contour." he said. "And it will be grassy again."
Anderson revealed plans for the park area after the sculpture stubbornly resisted a moving crew Friday as it was taken to a new home on West Campus.
THE FIRST TIME that the crane used by the crew tried to lift the 40-ton black sculpture Friday morning, it shifted evasively, tipping the crane off balance, Anderson said.
The sculpture was quickly lowered back to the ground until it was finally loaded onto a heavy
Anderson said he had been put in charge of moving the "Salina Piece" last week after KU officials announced that the grassy area at 16th Street would be appropriate for a sculpture of that magnitude.
Roy Holwick, president of Holwick Heavy Moving Co. of Topeka, told Anderson that he had been surprised at how heavy the sculpture really was. Anderson said.
"He had to go right to the maximum on what the crane could do." Anderson said. "We knew how much it weighed, but when it was checked the crane would be the cab of the crane, it really surprised him."
THE SCULPTURE was not damaged during the move, he said.
Lawrence and KU police cleared a path to move the sculpture through traffic, Anderson said. Traffic was blocked at 19th and Naimuth Street and entered streets while the sculpture was being moved.
"After we got it on the trailer, the move went just like clockwork," he said. "The University police had everything in place and the caravan rolled to West Campus without stopping."
The crane unloaded the sculpture near the facilities operations storage yard just west of Iowa Street where it will remain until a structural engineering study is completed, Anderson
The move took a little more than five hours.
The University of Kansas accepted a recommendation of three faculty engineers to engage an outside consulting engineering firm to inspect the sculture's safety.
KU administrators asked that the faculty engineers examine the sculpture on Oct 23, after the "Salina Piece" fell following an Oct 9 attack on the angle to its normal degree angle.
During the time that it rested in the grassy triangle area, vandals repeatedly defaced the sculpture and a group of alumni threatened to been an advertising caiman ominously it.
Because the sculpture was originally designed for private use and will now be displayed on public property, the University wanted to make a sculpture by Coch, executive vice chancellor, said last week.
"The University will locate a suitable West Campus site for the 'Salina Piece.'" Cobb said.
THE UNIVERSITY was committed to the timely installation of the sculpture in a manner befitting it, the sculptor's creativity and the donor's generosity, he said.
Cobb said that by erecting the piece as quickly as possible, he hoped tore assure all future donors of art work to the University that the Salina Piece" received the care that it deserved.
The exact site on West Campus has not been determined he, said.
John M. Simpson, KU alumunus and former state senator, donated the "Salina Piece" to the University last spring when he moved from his home near Salina to the Kansas City area.
RAIN
Weather
Today will be rainy with intermittent showers and a high in the lower 40's, according to the National Weather Service in Tomeka.
Winds will be from the northeast at 16 to 20 mph.
Tomorrow will be cooler under partly cloudy skies with a chance of continued showers.