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Further delay of legal services possible
Bv CAROL BEIER
Staff Reporter
Although Mike Harper, student body president, said Tuesday that he could see the "end of the nightmare" of setting up a legal services program at UMass in Kansas, the nightmare may be far from over.
The start of the program may now be delayed as long as three to four weeks because of a procedural oversight in complying with affirmative action hiring guidelines.
The legal services program will provide prepaid legal services, other than representation in court.
The legal services search committee did not submit a pre-interview summary to the Office of Affirmative Action before interviews began last week. Two interviews with candidates for the job of legal services attorney were canceled yesterday because of the oversight.
The summary must include a list of potential interview questions that are reviewed by the Office of Research.
monitoring the hiring of all personnel other than students or civil service employees.
HARPER SAID two other candidates interviewed last week may have to be interviewed again to comply with affirmative action guidelines on hiring procedures.
After a closed meeting last night attended by Harper; Bob Rocha, chairman of the legal services search committee; and Joan Shervow, assistant vice chancellor for student affairs, Harper said one of the four candidates for the position of legal services attorney would be out of town for the next few weeks.
"I wouldn't even want to speculate about the delay," she said. "The students, come here or high water." Harper said.
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"I THINK everything has been worked out." Harper said last night, in contrast to statements he made yesterday morning regarding compliance with the new action and the cancellation of the interviews.
Harper said yesterday morning that he would
"This is a case of the bureaucratic趴 wagging the dog," Harper said. "He just may be I’ll go ahead with it."
continue the interviews regardless of attempts by administrators to block the program.
Harper insisted that the legal services search committee had made every effort to comply with
"We can do no more. If they intend to shut us down, by God, we'll fight them." Harper said.
"I IF I HAVE to, TU go straight to Gov. Carlin. I think I have his support."
Harper spoke to Carlin about the legal services program before Carlin's election last November.
"This is not a program that can simply be damnated because of step three in their program," Harper said, referring to the provision in the affidavit that the procedure hirting that the committee did not comply with.
The provision says, "Prior to scheduling interviews, the student body president subsents Part I, Pre-Interview Summary to the Assistant Vice Chancellor..."
Harper said the committee submitted the summary to the Office of Student Affairs after interviews began.
"ILL HAVE to take the blame for this," Harper said. "I should have paid closer attention to the guidelines. The entire thing could have been avoided."
Although Harper was aware of the possibility that the interviews might be canceled when he predicted "the end of the nightmare" on Tuesday, he said last week that he had not foreseen the seriousness of the situation.
"1 never thought the interviews would really be canceled because we had done everything at that."
Harper said last night he still thought the issue should not have come up.
"As soon as we were notified of the error, we made every attempt to correct our mistake," he said.
ROCHA, WHO SAID he was not aware the committee had to comply with affirmative action guidelines until last week, submitted a pre-interview statement and received the response days after the first two interviews were conducted.
In a Monday afternoon conversation with Clarence Dillingham, acting director of the Office of Affirmative Action, Rocha was told that the interviews scheduled for yesterday might be canceled.
The legal services program has been plagued with numerous delays since it was proposed by Harper and Reggie Robinson, vice president of the student government at Columbia University. The program would be in operation by last November.
"I've just about had it with the bureaucrats on this carouss." he said.
Because of delays in administrative approval and disagreements within the legal services board, the program was then scheduled to start by the beginning of this semester. The January deadline passed before initiation of the program, but Harper had said he expected that an attorney would be hired by next week.
Harper said red tape had delayed the program from its beginning.
Harper's sentiment was echoed by Jeff Arnold, a member of the legal services search committee.
"I've seen so much bureaucratic boobism," Arnold said. "I'm feel up."
Houston ready for Teng's visit
By GENELINN
Staff Reporter
HOUSTON—Chefs here have cooked up 900 pounds of barbecued beef, the Space Flight Center has been readied at NASA and security is airtight—all this for a small, elderly Chinese, Teng Hsiayiong.
Of course, these preparations are not just for a Chinese vice premier, although he has charmed Congressmen and the press since his eight-day American tour began in Washington, D.C., Sunday.
The payoff for both Houston and the Chinese is oil-oil to reap money for the modernization that Teng is working for, and perhaps
OFFICIALS AT both the Houston Chamber of Commerce and Hughes Tool Co. said yesterday that Teng and his party had been lured to Houston because that city typed advanced oil-drilling technology.
"Obviously we have quite a bit to offer the Chinese in petrochemical technology," a Chamber of Commerce spokesman, adds. Shell's chief.
"The Chinese are using money from oil revenues to help tool their modernization," he said.
reng will look at some of Hughes Tools' advanced oil drilling equipment tomorrow on a tour closed to the press.
A Hughes official said, "The U.S. is undoubtedly the leader in producing advanced oilfield equipment.
"Houston is the oil capital of the world."
CHINA HAS BEEN a "very good customer" for Hughes equipment, he said.
The Chinese interest in technology is not limited to oil rigs. Teng will go to the Houston Space Needle and Fang Yi, another vice president of the Chinese Media Group.
"Grain is part of a general package." Lee said at KU Tuesday.
Because of the complex ways of international relations, the sale of any advanced equipment to the Chinese in Houston might encourage China to buy Kansas grain, according to Chae Jin Lee, chairman of the KUE East Asian Study Department.
Grain is part of a general package. Because China has said that although China can buy grain cheaper from Australia and Canada, it was possible that the Chinese would buy grain from the United States to get advanced American technology.
The Chinese also would take into account the fact that America is a much bigger market than Canada or Australia, he said.
Back in Houston, a police official said, "The security effort that we are preparing for the vice president is equal to or more than what you think."
However, last night the rest of the city seemed to be taking the complexity of international relations and Teng's visit in stride.
"THE CHANCES are very good that because of the technology the Chinese can get the aircraft and our ability to buy Chinese planes is very important to sell aircraft."
Ed Dozier said that his company, Dozier's Grocery and Market, inc. had prepared the usual kind of barbecue potato salad and bread.
An unscientific sample of people at the Gulf Gate Shopping Center in south Houston seemed to show that some of the people were not as well educated.
Tracy Brooks and Leonard Brown said they thought the visit was a "very good idea."
A bookstore clerk, Leticia Rayma, was the only one who said the visit was "great."
Friday, February 2, 1979
"So what if they're Communists, we can still be friends with them," she said.
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
Lawrence, Kansas
KANSAN
The University of Kansas Vol.89, No.86
Christmas cleanup
Staff photo by RANDY OLSON
Although he's admittedly a bit late in his elephant chores, 15-year-old Joe Smart, $90 Lincoln finally had to take the first step yesterday. Still to come are all the porch decorations.
New clause could raise housing contract rates
By LORI LINENBERGER
Staff Writer
Students living in University residence halls may have to pay a fee and are in attest on their 1979-80 hall contracts because of a new class clause.
The clause, which has never before been included in a hall contract, gives the University the right to raise hall rates if prices for services such as food and utilities increase, Jay Smith. University Residence Hall contracts coordinator, said yesterday.
Yesterday was the first day students could submit residence hall contracts to their halls.
Students living in residence halls were not told of the change before the fall came out, Fred McElenhick, director of programs, said.
Housing officials gave inflation as the primary reason for including the clause in the contracts.
"TO MY KNOWLEDGE, I don't know of any campaign of sorts that informed the students of the new clause." he said.
The clause does not say how much rates would be raised.
According to Marilyn Ettilermer, Arlington Heights, III, freshman who in gertevud Sehlards Pearson Hall, some 40 minutes south of her home, has a graduate degree.
"It looked exactly the same as last year's contract and since they already raised the rate once, I just assumed it was the
"I turned mine in this morning even noticing the clause," she said. "Someone told me about it tonight, but it a' s
Basic residence hall rates for next year were increased from 1,288 a month to $1,386 for a double room and from $1,956 to $2,195 for a quad room.
However, McEllenbie said he was confident that most students would read their contracts thoroughly before signing them.
The clause reads, "In view of the unusually low increase in residence hall costs, it may be necessary to reconsider the rates listed. The Office of Residential Programs reserves the right to review a student if unexpected and further increases in costs so warrant."
"I have to assume that they would read any contract before signing it," he said.
"This clause would not make it really easy to up the rates whenever someone thought it was necessary," he said. "A proposal would have to go through the Residential Programming Board and it would take some doing to get it through."
MELHENIE said prospective hall residents should not panic over the new clause.
"The University would use every available at its disposal to avoid implementing that clause." We would have to be careful.
Smith said the clause would be difficult to implement and would not be enforced at a moment's notice.
"I really don't anticipate that we will have to resort to that clause next year."
Smith said he thought the clause was necessary even though hall rates for next year had been increased already.
"If food continues to go up and energy costs keep rising," he said. "we'll have to be able to do something to meet the costs.
"Sure we can read the Wall Street Journal and try to predict what's going to happen, but if we want to keep operating and don't want to shut down, then we have to have the option of raising rates if it becomes necessary."
Committee kills death penalty bill
By TAMMY TIERNEY
Staff Reporter
TOPEKA-A  A bill that would have reinstated capital punishment due a slow death at the hands of the Kansas House Judiciary Committee yesterday.
The legislators went into a two-hour meeting to take final action on the bill and voted to send to the House a bill that substituted a mandatory 30-year prison sentence for the death penalty. They sent it without recommending that it be passed or defeated.
Under the amended bill, people convicted of first-degree murder or murder while committing a felony would be sentenced to 30 years, with eligibility for parole after 30 years.
A PERSON convicted of murder would not be eligible for probation or suspension of his sentence. His 30-year term could not be reduced by the application of good behavior.
Before the bill was amended, it provided that people convicted of first-degree murder or felony murder be executed by an intravenous injection of a lethal amount of a
The amendment was proposed by State Rep. Douglas Baker, D-Pittsburg. Baker said he based the amendment on moral and logical considerations.
“There are two reasons I suggested this amendment,” he said. “First, I believe many people in this room and in the state of Kansas find the death penalty personally unbearable because there are people who are saying, ‘Do something constructive. If you’re not
going to kill these people at least make sure they don't bother us any more. "."
they don't bother us any more.
The envelopment passed 10.8
State Rep. Robert Frey K-Iberman, one or the authors of the original bill, said he preferred the death penalty because it made him less likely than keeping a person in jail for 30 years.
FREY SAID he based his conclusion on the current overcrowded conditions of the
State Rep. John Stites, R-Manhattan, referred to Baker's amendment as 'a 30-
State Rep. Arthur Douville, R-Overland Park, told Frey he did not think the answer to overcrowded prisons was to, "kill off" prisoners.
"What we need to do is work on our
community corrections. We need to start on the positive end first." he said.
Several other amendments were considered by the committee.
One, proposed by State Rep. Richard Brewster, D-Topena, provided that people could take up to 10 days of execution by public hanging. Brewster's amendment passed 10-7, but approval of the bill was still on hold.
DOUVILLE TOLD committee members he favored public hangings over execution by injection because injection had been used by the Nazis in World War II.
"It would be to our real shame to use any method of execution that was used by the machine."
"We've used injections before to save people. People identify a needle coming at them."
Russian flu cases hit KU
The first of the cases of Russian flu in Kansas has appeared at Watkins Hospital, Martin Walker, director of health services, said yesterday.
Wollmann said he received confirmation from the State Health Department earlier this week that a physician sent last month contained the virus.
He said that specimens from two or three more patients had been sent to the health department and that he was "pretty sure" those cases also would be confirmed as Russian
Wollmann said the health department conducted extensive tests on the specimens and it sometimes took two weeks before confirmation was received.
"It's not a very severe flu, fortunately," he said. "I think the number of cases is beginning at level off."
He said symptoms of the flu included a fever, aches and sometimes a cough. He said the flu lasts about two days.
Cases of the same flu, known as Russian Type A, have been reported in five other counties in Kansas.
ten years ago classes at KU were canceled three days before the fall-spring semester break because of an outbreak of the Hong Kong Flu.
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