The University Daily
KANSAN
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
Tuesday, November 24, 1981
Vol. 92, No. 66 USPS 650-640
KEITH FLANERY/Kansan Staff
Hoping to get his dinner before the sun goes down, this horse is outlined by the setting sun in a field southeast of Lawrence.
Horseplay
'Salina Piece' headed west; safety study still to be done
By LISA MASSOTH and STEVE ROBRAH STaff Reporters
The dispute over the location of the "Salina Piece" abstract sculpture should be effectively laid to rest when the sculpture is moved to West Campus.
chancelor Gene A. Budig and Robert Cobb, executive vice chancellor, announced yesterday that the sculpture would be moved soon because the current site has a slope, which could cause safety problems, and because the site also is used as a park and a play area.
The University has also accepted the recommendation of three faculty engineers to engage an outside consulting engineering firm to inspect the sculpture's safety.
On Oct. 23, KU officials ordered a safety inspection of the sculpture after it fell following an Oct. 9 attempt to raise the sculpture to its normal 45-degree angle.
VANDALS HAVE repeatedly defaced the "Salina Piece," and a group of alumni has threatened to begin an advertising campaign opposing the sculpture.
Because the sculpture, which was designed for private use, will now be displayed on public property. University officials want to make sure the piece is safe, Cobb said.
Stanley Rolf, chairman of the civil engineering department and one of the three engineers asked to look at "Salma Piece," said he informed about the stability and safety of the piece.
of the piece.
"How safe does the University have to make this?" he asked. "Do you think people will climb on it? How many?"
These concerns were behind the University's decision to move the 40-ton black sculpture to a different location.
Thomas Anderson, director of facilities operations, said the piece would be moved with a
"I'm going to contact people who have cranes big enough to pick it up," he said. "If they have a crane, they'll probably also have a truck big enough to haul it."
NO OUTSIDE consulting firm has yet been hired. Anderson said he thought it would take at least five weeks after the safety report before the sculpture could be installed on West Campus.
Arson squad seeks culprits in Naismith, Towers blazes
He also said he would get estimates from contractors on hourly rates and would use the longest distance between two points on campus to estimate transportation costs.
The exact site on West Campus has not been determined vet.
Dave Darwin, associate professor of civil engineering and another of the three engineers,
A second arson fire within two weeks prompted the Lawrence fire chief to call in the state fire chief yesterday to discuss resident security with KU officials.
By LILLIAN DAVIS Staff Reporter
See SALINA page 5
While that group met, the arson squad continued to investigate Sunday's arson fire at Jayhawker Towers that trapped about eight students in the upper floors of the building.
Smoke and fire caused $50,000 damage to the elevator and firefighters. Fire Chief Luke Sandall and westerntown Sara said.
The arson squad investigated 23 leads Sunday in the Towers fire and continued working yesterday. McSwain said. The squad is no longer at duty because of the fire, but detectives are still pursuing the case.
THE EARLY morning fire at Naisimith, which caused $90,000 damage, was set in a side elevator with several pieces of furniture. No one was hurt in that fire, either.
the cart was kept on the first floor of the tower to collect newspapers for the Boys' Clubs of Orange.
The Towers fire began in the south elevator when a grocery cart full of newspapers and other items fell from the ceiling.
A complaint from many of the residents was that the fire and smoke alarms did not go off until most of the residents had begun evacuating the University-owned apartment complex.
Some said they did not know there was a fire until they heard the sirens and looked out their windows.
Jayhawk Towers was inspected by the state legislature at the end of September and given a clean bill of health.
THE INSPECTION included checking the
deficiencies were reported in either
Cedric Alexander, Chicago freshman, the student who called the police, unsuccessfully confronted Mr. Obama.
"Even the cops outside couldn't get them to work" Alexander said.
Samples of the charred paper in the elevator have been taken to determine whether a flammable fluid was used to start the fire, McSwain said.
There are no suspects yet in the Towers fire there, they smoke throughout all six floors, MsMcSean said.
"Everyone is really concerned about it," said Mike Malone, Douglas County district attorney. "Setting these fires in elevators acts like a fire hazard on the carpet floor. We are fortunate no one has been hurt."
Another building might not be as lucky as the
brick structures of Naismith and Jayhawker
Towers Malone said.
IN AN EFFORT to prevent another arson, McSwain asked State Fire Chief Paul Markley to meet with local fire officials and KU administrators and housing authorities.
The group set down guidelines they hoped would insure good security in all the housing communities.
"For one thing, we are going to have extra security monitors, and then there are things that I cannot say because they are efforts to apprehend an arsonist," said David Ambler, vice chancellor of student affairs and spokesman for the group.
Ambler said that the group did look at better ways of detecting fire and smoke other than the faulty alarms but that although some ideas were being considered, others were physically im
Early warning alarm systems, including
Land and RedEdenson, start fire management.
"We want a little quicker response to fires the smoke is not such a killer." Redmon said.
BESIDES LOOKING into alternate alarm systems, the group also decided to beef up the residence hall fire prevention and awareness programs.
We will prepare information for students.
See ARSON page 5
Reagan signs stopgap budget bill keeps government in business
By United Press International
WASHINGTON—President Reagan, wielding the veto for the first time, yesterday blocked what he called a “budget-buster” emergency money bill. He then won Congressional approval of a stoppage measure delaying the spending battle for nearly a
Reagan signed the revised $400 billion stopup spending program into law less than 12 hours after using his veto to derail a $429.9 million compromised workweek over the weekend.
THE PRESIDENT also made the dramatic gesture of beginning to shut down the government on grounds there was no money for it. The administration moreover that threw the bureaucracy into confusion.
both the House and Senate to continue government funding at existing levels through Dec. 15, instead of Feb. 3 as House Democrats had sought as an alternative to the veted measure, which would have run through July 15.
The impasse arose because Congress had yet to approve any of the principal appropriations to keep the government running through this fiscal year.
Reagan won a key victory in the long-running battle of the budget by persuading
Several members of Congress said approval of the three-week stoppage was as much
See related story page 2
a sign of Congress' desire to go home for the Thanksgiving holiday as it was a big victory over the Democrats.
CONGRESSIONAL Democrats were furious yesterday and Republican leaders were exasperated—some openly at President Reagan's aeon of the budget bill.
House Speaker O'Neill used the strongest language he has ever used in attertion.
"He knows less about the budget than any other president in my lifetime," said O'Neill. 69. "He can't even carry on a conversation about the budget."
See BUDGET page 5
President Reagan
Athletic department names manager
Staff Reporter
By EILEEN MARKEY Staff Repertes
KU's acting ticket manager, Rich Konzem, will be named the athletic department's ticket manager today.
Sources within the athletic department, who asked not to be identified, said Konzem would begin work today. He has been working in the office since Nancy Welsh resigned as ticket manager Sept. 25. Welsh had been at the University of Kansas five years.
"I've been very pleased with the work Rihan has been doing for us," said Bob Marcum, athletic director. "I've seen a change in attitude there, and I think he enjoys what he's doing."
Konzem was selected from 128 applicants and a field of four finalists. He is a native of Salina
and graduated from Salina Central High School in 1976. He received a bachelor of science degree in accounting from KU in 1980 and was head coach under track coach Bob Timmons for four years.
KONZEM IS a few hours short of receiving his master's degree in athletic administration from the University of Southern California.
Members of the University of Kansas Athletic Corporation Board, who are usually consulted about hiring important athletic department positions, had not been consulted about the ticket manager position, Del Brinkman, board chairman, said yesterday.
"I don't know anything about it." Brinkman said last night. "There's really no requirement that we get involved, although the KUAC bylaw state that we should be consulted when the
department is hiring football and basketball coaches."
Brinkman said that several KUAC board members had asked him whether they would be involved in the decision. The questions, he said, probably were prompted by a statement that Chancellor Gene A. Budig made at an October board meeting.
Budig said that board members should be involved in "important" decisions regarding the hiring of new athletic department officials. It was reported that Budig, as referring to the new ticket manager position.
MOST BOARD members, including David Ambler, vice chancellor for student affairs, said that they did not expect to be consulted about the ticket manager selection.
Konzem was appointed as the assistant Williams Fund director in July and has been doing double duty since then.
Grad students may be barred from grad faculty
By MICHAEL ROBINSON
Staff Reporter
The proposal, part of a new committee policy that would go into effect in July 1982, is designed to prevent students from receiving graduate classes taught by other graduate students.
the committee will make a final recommendation next Monday. It adjoined yesterday.
The Graduate Council's Graduate Faculty Committee is considering barring graduate students from the program.
"I think it's a rip-off, in some ways, of the graduate students." Gene Martin, professor of pharmacy, said of allowing graduate students to take courses at law courses. "I'm philosophically against it."
The proposal states that graduate students may not be members of the graduate faculty, but may serve as adjunct faculty.
on who would be allowed to teach graduate level courses and who would not.
HE SAID that some limit needed to be placed
But in a letter to Margaret Schadler, chairman of the committee and associate professor of psychology, the Graduate Student Council criticized the proposal.
- Departments would be forced to hire students from outside the University with the same qualifications as KU graduate students, discriminating against KU graduate students.
- "There has to be a judgment call and a line drawn somewhere," he said.
- There was no evidence in favor of or against such a policy and that such evidence should be considered.
- The letter said that the change was unwarranted because:
- Departments not wishing to hire instructors from outside the University would be forced to detach them.*
- The policy would not provide more tenured positions because departments could still hire temporary instructors, as long as they were not KU graduate students.
- The individual departments were best qualified to determine who should teach in their schools.
CECIL MISKEY, associate vice chancellor for research and graduate studies, said no more than 10 graduate students teaching other graduate students were involved in courses at the 500 and 600 level, courses that were available for graduate credit.
But Harland Prechel, graduate student in sociology and a member of the committee, said his department alters common exam each year to accommodate requests from other departments for graduate level courses.
Preechel said that if graduate students were not allowed to teach these courses, the courses would be discontinued.
John McKay, professor of design, said that he thought experience was an important factor in who should teach and that allowing graduate students to teach did not take that into account.
But George Crawford, associate professor of education policy and administration, said that the program has served a number of students.
I think it would be arbitrary and capricious to
categorically exclude *graduate students*"
"Crawford said, "I think we need to concentrate"
"on graduate students."
Schadler said that the policy would not stop graduate students from teaching.
"We cannot say who can teach," she said. "We simply can say who can be a member of the class."
She also said that she was surprised by a letter from the Graduate Student Council opposing the change because it would cut down the number of jobs for graduate students.
HOWEYER, SCHADLER said this wasn't the central argument.
"Our concern should be with strengthening the graduate faculty," she said.
"I was surprised to see the letter from the Graduate Student Council concerned more with graduate student employment and less concern with the quality of graduate education, she said.
The committee's final recommendation will go to the Graduate Executive Council and then on to the Governor.
Weather
The forecast for today from the National Weather Service in Topeka is for partly cloudy skies and a high in the mid-60s today. The low will be in the low 48, and the winds will be from the south at 10 to 15 mph.
The outlook for the holiday weekend is for continued mild weather tomorrow, with a high in the mid- to upper 60s. There will be a chance of rain later in the week, but the latter in the weekend, temperatures will be seasonally cool, ranging from lows in the teens to highs in the 30s to 50s across the state.
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