Iranian students react to changes
By PATRICIA MANSON
Staff Reporter
Some Iranian students at the University of Kansas apparently were pleased with Sunday's resignation of Prime Minister Shahpour Bakhtiar.
Members of the Iranian Student Association passed out doughnuts in front of the Kansas Union yesterday afternoon to celebrate Babbitt's resignation...
There were 235 Iranian students enrolled at KU last fall.
One of the students, Manuchehr Moarez,
Aabatan, iri, senior, said, "We are
celebrating the end of 37 years of dict-
torship and fascism."
Bakktiar was appointed prime minister three weeks ago by Shah Mohammad Reza Pahaji after months of demonstrations and attacks on the government. The shah now is in France.
Ayatullah Rubilah Khomeini, a 78-year-old religious leader, returned to Iran Feb. 5. He attended a session of government and set up his own shadow government and vowed to establish an Islamic republic in the country.
BAKHTIIR RESIGNED Sunday after the chief of staff of the armed forces said he would support Khomeini's government. Bakhtiar was rumored to have fled the country, committed suicide, or gone into hiding in Iran.
A student who stopped by the association's table, Cucci, Kanaan City, Oklahoma.
Moeare said that none of the passers-by at the Union had expressed support for the protesters.
"I think the government of the shah, which Baktiikari represented, did not represent the people," Scully said. "It was criminal. I am happy the people overthrew him."
SOME IRANIAN students said they were glad Baklart had resigned, but expressed differing views of Khomeini's proposed government.
Mohammad Ares, Shirze, Iran, sophomore, said, "Khomiune in power can give the best leadership through the teachings of the Koran."
Ahad Tazakoli, Iran, freshman,
said he thought Khomeini would modernize
the country and distribute Iran's goods more evenly.
Ashraf Gholami, Tearamdaz, Iran,
special student, he said knowledge would be better for the people of Iran under a Khomeini government.
Although other students said they supported Khomini, they were less enthusiastic about his plans for an Islamic republic.
BIZHAN NASSERI, Tehran junior, said, "i think many other students like me doubt that he will be perfect for the head of government. I hope he gives freedom to the people to choose the kind of government they want."
"He is a holy man. He wants the rights of the people. I might disagree with some of them."
Mooreans said that fears of some people of the possible harshness of an Islamic Moor would have been unacceptable.
"There's a lot of misunderstanding about Khomeini," Moerez said. "He won't go back to the dark ages and chop off hands and put women back into vells. He will be in favor of protecting the rights of men and women."
The students said that the fighting in Iran and stopped mail service. They said they were waiting for a response.
THE KU SUBSTATION of the U.S. Postal servicer stopped sending letters from last week
The students said it was difficult to contact their families by phone.
"After two or three days you might get a call through, 'Tazakali told.' The lines are common."
Some of the students said many Iranians studying in the United States had gone home in the past few weeks. Others, however, said that there were large numbers large number had left the United States.
Norman Forer, associate professor of social welfare and adviser to the Iranian Students Association, said, "I think we see a general exodus of Iranian students these last six months. They saw an opportunity to participate in the changes in their country."
Nasseri, however, said that he did not anyian student enrolled at KU
Lawrence snubs gas conservation
Staff Renorter
By LYNN BYCZYNSKI
A presidential plea for gasoline conservation seems to have fallen on deaf ears in Lawrence, despite warnings of an impending gas shortage.
Energy Secretary James R. Schlesinger told the Senate Energy Committee last week that political strife in Iran could cause a fuel crisis, which would have caused by the 1973-74 oil embargo.
Last month, President Jimmy Carter asked citizens for voluntary gasoline conservation to compensate for the $5 per gallon cost of fuel sold in oil supply, formerly imported from Iran.
"There will be no saving until we're forced to cut back. They're still going to fill up."
But *Lawrence gasoline dealers* and suppliers say in business in the past month has
Ray Folk, who supplies Amoco gasoline to six Lawrence Standard stations, said yesterday that his sales had remained little and saving little gas conservation by his customers.
POLK WAS one of many local gasoline dealers who said the gasoline crank was晃动.
"It will be 30 to 60 days. But I think the public should be bracing themselves for
what's coming, because it's not too far off," he said.
But the gas situation has not yet reached crisis proportions in the minds of most Lawrence dealers and consumers. Although many distributors said they thought a gas shortage would be felt by April, none of the dealers nor any notice of cutbacks from their suppliers.
DOUG THOMPSON, manager of the Clark station, 511 W. Wint St., said forced Sunday closings should solve the problem, but causing a serious hardship for the station.
Foring gas stations to close on Sundays is one of the controls the government is considering to help alleviate the shortage. Ginger told the energy committee last week.
Sundays constitute 15 percent of the time gas stations are now open. Closing for that 15 percent should immediately compensate the greater percent shortage of gasoline, Thompson said.
Some gas stations already close on Sundays. Jack Webb, owner of University
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KANSAN
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
Tuesday, February 13, 1979
The University of Kansas Vol.89. No. 93
Lawrence, Kansas
Thick as a brick
Mike Pickens, 629 Alabama SL, wipes the remaining slush from a brickile to ready it for the spring building season. The bricks are at Morton's Building Materials Inc., 900 E. 15th Street.
the spring building season. The bricks are at Morton's Building Materials Inc., 900 E. 15th Street.
Dykes to plead KU funding case
Rv RILJ. RIGGINS
Staff Reporter
KU's budget request for fiscal year 1979-80 will undergo a crucial test today when it appears before a meeting of the Kansas House and Senate Ways and Means committees. Optimism about the outcome is not abundant in Strong Hall.
Chancellor Archie Dykes, who will be pleading KU's case before the joint committee, said yesterday that the budget hearing could "make or break" the budget that KU administrators have been laboring on for almost a year.
"When you go before the Legislature you're before the court of last resort,"乳
He said he would appeal reductions made in the budget request by Gov. John Carlin.
KU requested about $223 million for operating expenses for the Lawrence campus and the University of Kansas in a Carlin cut that proposal by about $9 million.
Dykes is pessimistic about the enthusiasm committee members will have for his
"We'll have a very difficult year in securing adequate funding," he said.
DEL SHANKEL, executive vice-chancellor, agreed that prospects were not坠
"Things seem very unpredictable over
there right now," Shankel said, referring to Topeka.
"There was not much increase in state tax dollars for the Lawrence campus this year." Shankel he thought one reason for the increase was the "Proposition 13 atmosphere."
"It's part of the whole attitude that's sweeping the nation," he said.
Sankel and Dykes said the budget had been dealt a serious blow when Carlin discarded the formula funding concept, but could eventually govern the government, could eventually sell the governor on the idea.
FORMULA FUNDING is a new method of figuring the budgets for Kansas Revents
schools. It compares the financial status of the schools with five peer universities that offer a similar degree program.
Past budgeta have been based on the number of full-time students enrolled in a course.
Dukes said he thought Carlin had not done what he wanted, and did not have the time to study it adequately.
He said today's hearing would give committee members a chance to ask questions and allow administrators a chance to respond.
"We'll make the best case we can for the items we think are most crucial," Shankel set.
Women's teams could join Big 8
Bv BARBARA JENSEN
Staff Reporter
Bob Marcus, director of men's athletics at the University of Kansas, is meeting with other Big Eight Conference representatives this morning in Kansas City. He said the possibility of bringing women's sports into the conference.
Marcum said yesterday that he would not know what the advantages or disadvantages of bringing women's athletics into the Big Eight might be until he discussed the issue with the other Big Eight representatives.
But Marian Washington, KU director of women's athletics, said she thought women's athletics might lose some of its autonomy if it joined the Big Eight rather than the Conference or the Association of Intercollegiate Athletics for Women.
"We have to look at what the Big Eight would have to offer." Washington said. "But we also have to question whether they can do that."
"WE WOULD like to take some of the good things the men's conference has to offer, but stay under AIW."
She said she met last month with Charles M. Neinas, commissioner of the Big Eight, and representatives from Iowa State University, the University of Colorado and the University of Nebraska. They discussed the possibility of forming a conference similar to the Big Eight or the Big Ten that would remain a part of AIW.
Under AIAW, KU women compete on a state level and have only two other teams in their conference, Kansas State University and Wichita State University. Washington State University will help KU's level of competition and public relations.
"A conference like the Big Eight would give the sports media something to identify with," she said. "Now, I have a lot of new jobs."
Under AIAW, schools advance from state competition to regional and national competitions.
Washington said it was becoming more difficult for women's athletic departments to remain with AIWA. She said most schools had merged departments and their athletic directors were urging women's sports to join the
KU and Iowa State are the only two schools in the Big Eight with separate athletic departments. Iowa State plans to recruit a new freshman.
Washington, Marcum and Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor, have been discussing a merger of the men's and women's athletic departments at KU. A decision is expected this spring.
Interruptions put wrench in KU fuel plan
This is the second in three part series examining the energy situation at the University.
oy DAVID SIMPSON
Staff Reporter
On Oct. 1, 1920, Raymond Moore, the state geologist, said that large natural gas deposits had been found on public land near Parsons, in southeast Kansas.
KU's most efficient and cheapest heating fuel is natural gas. To obtain this gas, the University has an intermittible contract with the Kansas Public Service Gas Company that allows service to KU to be cut off when demand for the gas is high.
Almost 60 years later, the natural gas situation has changed drastically and has had an effect on the energy situation at the University of Kansas.
Moore said, "There should be sufficient gas reservoirs to run the state hospitals and the military."
This year the University was off natural gas for five days in December and has been off another 44 days since Jan. 1. The 44-day span is the longest period that KU's service has ever been curtailed, and officials say it will be resumed to be resumed until the end of February.
William Salome, vice president and general manager of the gas company, said the University's natural gas supply was curtailed for only 24 days last winter. He
had not expected KU to be without service as long as it has been this year.
"IF LAWRENCE would have had a normal winter," Salome said, "the University would have been off natural gas and the university would be extremely expensive, so it's been a lot more."
Salome said the curtailment policy probably would not change for the next five years. But there was a possibility that a federal rating system, which determines how much large users can buy, could be changed. A change in the rating system would higher demand rate among the gas company's customers would be needed before service to KU would be curtailed.
"City Service, the company from which the Kansas Public Service Gas Company buys its gas, may ask for a change in the rating system and this change could come about in the next three to four years," Salome said.
Salome said that in 1978, City Service bought a large amount of gas from Wyoming and was now preparing to bring this gas to Kansas.
"MORE GAS will be available for the industrial users of Kansas because of this purchase," he said. "The purchase was made in order to provide a great concern over natural gas supplies."
Salome said City Service was now constructing a pipeline from Wyoming to Kansas, which should be completed by late 1979.
"After the pipeline is finished Kansas will have the assurance of gas for the future and larger quantities of it," he said. "If possible, City Service will try to get the federal ratings changed. It could sell more gas because there would be more available."
SALOME SAID that although more gas would be available, getting the gas to Lawrence was still a problem. Pipelines carrying gas to the city are more than 20 years old and would not be large enough to carry the additional supplies of gas.
"As Kansas City and Lawrence continue to expand, City Service may need to build another pipeline," he said. "The larger lines would alleviate some of our problems because we could get more gas to this portion of the state."
When KU is cut off from natural gas it must use its reserve fuel, which is fuel oil. This year Facilities Oerpations has had 26,000 barrels of oil and in transporting it to the carcass.
A SPOKESMAN for a midwestern fuel oil company said fuel oil supplies were low this winter and that at times an oil pinch had been caused by Kansas City fuel oil distributors.
The spokesman would not give his name, he said, because of company policy.
The University has been considering switching from No. 5 fuel oil, which is heavy, to No. 2 oil, a lighter, diesel fuel. However, diesel fuel is more expensive.
"There hasn't been that much of a problem with fuel oil oil shortage this winter," he said. "There is a shortage of the crude oil, from which fuel oil is made. However, if they are willing to pay the price, we'll make the product."
"RIGHT NOW on the market, the supply of diesel fuel is very tight and what's available is very expensive the maximum amount that can be tight and expensive is the curtailment of
No 2 oil is often preferred to No. 5 because it is lighter and is a relatively clean burning fuel. When crude oil is shipped, diesel fuel is used instead. Because of the higher fuel 5 oil fuel, which is heavier, is taken from the bottom. Because it is much heavier, the No. 5 must be kept heated at temperatures above 60 degrees. Because of lower demand for this fuel, it is supplied much trouble supplying the No. 5 fuel oil.
natural gas to industrial users. Industrial users have been forced to switch to other backup fuel sources, and many are using the No.2 fuel oil."
1978 1990
Electricity $0.25/kwh $0.86/kwh
6 Fuel oil $2.54/mL.btu $1.32/mL.btu
Coal $1.40/mL.btu $3.34/mL.btu
gas $1.32/mL.btu not available
"When utilities are cut off from natural
"THEE HAVE been times this winter when the 5 fuel oil hasn't been available," he said. "However, normally it is handy."
The spokesman said the future supply of fuel oil depended upon electrical power plants and whether they began to use more than a head of fuel oil when gas service is cut off.
gas, they use fuel oil," he said. "If they continue to switch to coal, the fuel oil usage will increase."
He said another reason for some of the shortages this winter was the lack of energy in the Northeast region of the United States, combined with that region's control over energy legislation that is passed by Congress.
"ALL OF THE energy controls used in the Midwest are there to ensure that there will be enough energy for the dense population and industry of the Northeast.
"If you would cut the Northeast out and forget about it, the rest of the country would have enough fuel oil for a long time," he said.
The spokesman said another reason for the shortages of fuel oil was that much of the crude used in its production is recycled.
"We're puttingtons of energy on the highways," he said. "An awful lot of the product that could be sold as fuel oil is lost by putting it on the roads."
The spokesman said that difficulties in transportation of the fuel oil were caused by heavy snowfalls and a deterioration of the railroad system of the United States.
"FIFTEEN YEARS ago 95 percent of the fuel oil was transported by railroads," he said. "Today only 40 percent is transported because the railroad companies are艰
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