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Thursday, February 1, 1979
University Daily Kansan
Labor...
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said several workers had asked him to report complaints because they feared for their life.
"They said they had been told they would lose their jobs if they pressed the complaints," he said. "But they wouldn't say where the pressure was coming from."
Phil Rankin, acting University personnel director, said he did not know of any threats
"We DON'T even know who the union members are," he said.
Rankin added that Brouhard's transfer was not based on union activities and that he thought the union members had overreacted.
"Everytime something goes wrong they say it's because they're union members," Rankin said. "We're not picking on them. The problem is generated the transfer system."
Brouhard said he disagreed with Rankin and that he intended to file a grievance if the transfer was made official. The grievance would challenge the transfer on the coundts that is was a result of his union activities, he said.
Brouhard said he currently had several
Grievances are filed with the employee's supervisor, Brouhard said. If they cannot be resolved by the supervisor they are sent to the public Employee Relations Board in Toeka.
complaints pending before the board. The grievances include complaints on working conditions.
BROUHARD ALSO accused FO officials of ignoring unsafe working conditions.
"There are a large number of safety things that don't work or are unsafe," he said. "The supervisors look at them and say 'I don't see them.'"
"We work in some steam tunnels that are 165 to 185 degrees," he said.
But Tony Bermudez, Brouhard's steamship supervisor, denied the charges.
Brouhart, who was critically injured in a steam pipe accident at KU in 1967, said workers reporting the defects were told to stay quiet.
Regents ...
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WINTER ALSO attacked Carlin's choice of MacDonald as a possible regent, saying Carlin had chosen someone powerful who the senators would be reluctant to oppose. MacDonald is the chairman of the board of newspapers and radio stations.
changes of the media in Salina, Ottawa,
to be to him who crosses MacDonald.
MacDonald
THROUGHOUT THE debate, supporters of Smith and Hiersteiner accused Carlin of injecting partisan politics in the nominations.
"The senators would not want to oppose Peter MacDonald, who is the scion of the Harris empire, the Harris newspapers," Winter said. "He can call down his ar-
Sen. Robert Talkington, R-Iola, said, "Give me a reason, other than a purely political reason, why Walter Hiersteer should not be recommended."
"THE ONLY basis for the vote not to
Black History Month begins activities today
Films, cultural performances, and speeches that highlight Black History Month at University of Kansas.
Black History Month has been observed nationally during the month of February since it was started in 1926 by Carter G. Woodson, a noted historian and scholar.
The theme for this year's observance,
"History: Torch for the Future," was set by
the association for the Study of Afro-
American Life and History, founded by
OTHER EVENTS scheduled for the month are a Feb. 4 performance by the band.
Samuel Adams, professor of journalism,
will begin the activities on the KU campus
with a Black Faculty and Staff Council
that will be held in the Jayhawk Room
of the Kansas Union.
The featured speaker at KU is to be the Rev. Emmanuel Cleaver, Regional Director of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Cleaver's speech Feb. 28 will be a presentation of the Ellsworth Hall Black Caucus.
Parker Foundation in Kansas City, Mo.,
Stoppiper, black student theatrical
singer.
February was chosen as Black History Month because President Abraham Lincoln had been a great friend of Frederick Douglass fall during the month, according to Vernell Spearman, assistant director at the Library.
Douglass was a well-known orator, dimilitar and abolitionist during the 1800s.
Woodson established the association in 1926 to instil pride in blacks for their American and African berdage, and to bring the culture of the American people into the hands of all Americans. Searman said.
Until 1940, the observance was known as Black Heritage Week, Spearman said.
DURING THE period around 1970, a tumultuous time in Lawrence, according to Spearman, a brotherhood Banquet was held in Lawrence to mark the occasion.
Notices of Bladk History Month activities can be found in the 'On Campus' section of www.sciencedirect.com.
confirm are purely political reasons."
Supporters of Bennett's nominees also said that it had been a tradition for the outgoing governor to fill vacancies that occurred during his term. In 1975, Gov. Bennett signed Smart and Herstester to the board of five days before he left office, they said.
Sen. Franklin Gaines, D-Augusta,
however, said people have on people
who could work with him.
After the vote, Sen. Norman Gaar, R-Westwood, and House majority leader, said he thought the Senate had compromised between the demands of both governors.
"It's a bad, bad deal." Gaines said. "The ingogaon governor should name the new
"I think the middle course was taken by the Senate," Gaar said.
"He is purely lying as far as I'm concerned," Bermudez said. "As to the temperatures, the highest I've ever measured in a tunnel was 147 degrees."
Bermudze admitted to personal differences with Brouhard but denied his transfer was proposed because of Brouhard's union membership.
Brouhail, who has worked for KU for 17 years, disagreed.
"HE WAS transferred because he wasn't doing his work," he said.
In the press conference, Howe told reporters that in four job evaluations during the last few years, Brouhard had been rated "very good" by his peers. In the fourth evaluation he was rated as good.
"As far as I was, I've been doing a good job," he said.
"I think this is a classical scapegoating of those people in leadership positions." Howe said. "They have targeted in on one particular person."
Howe said he thought the transfer was a planned effort by FO officials to rob the union of their leadership and to discourage workers from joining.
HOWE SAID he became involved in the protest after Brouhard called on him for advice. Along with several other faculty and students, Howe organized the free speech group, the KU Blue Collar-White Collar Committee for Free Speech.
Members of the committee handed out several thousand leaflets on campus to students.
Howe said Brohardt's union local and the free speech committee would meet next week to organize efforts to get the transfer rescinded.
"We want the University to end their strategy of intimidation." Howe said. "We want them to let the union organize without harassment."
Books...
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Fullwider said there had been cards for the collection he had been looking for but the CAT card didn't.
Library officials said they would like to list each book separately, but that lack of time and money prevented such listings. Library officers who catalog incomprehensive books
"THIS COLLECTION I was looking for had been laying around the library for years uncatalogued," he said. "Let's say that the library has been collecting resources now to catalog the film them have."
"What the library should do then is to
pace at the disposal of its patrons a list of
libraries, and a library directory."
"It would us take forever to type up all the cards," a librarian in the microfilm section, said.
Ideally, a book would be listed under five cards—title, author, publisher, subject and
Books in series that are not on microfilm are listed individually. Books in series that are on microfilm usually are listed only under the series' name.
IN E N E F O R T to keep up with deteriorating magazines and books, the library has a policy of replacing a word or phrase in the catalog as soon as said. And the library system is frequently using microfilm not only as a replacement for old books but also as a way to store more books.
Ranz said it was common for libraries to put many of their books on microfilm.
"If all the books that were on microfilm were hard-bound books, they wouldn't fit in."
Recreation Services
RECREATION REMINDERS
Intramural Basketball Free Throw Contest (Preliminaries)
Saturday, February 3 from 8 am to 12 noon in Robinson North Gym
Recreation Services Citizens Cross Country Ski Tour begins at 1:00 pm on Saturday, February 3, on the West Campus of the University of Kansas. All people interested in participating in this event are advised to show up by 12:45 pm at the Intramural Playfields parking lot by 23rd and Iowa.
There will be a water polo organizational meeting Sunday, February 4th in Room 205 Robinson Center at 5:00 pm. All people are advised to bring their swimsuit.
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Deceitful drivers cut parking space
KU Parking Services is planning to crack down on students who buy residence hall parking permits instead of paying higher prices for other lots.
Don Kearns, director of parking services, said yesterday that starting next fall students probably would be required to prove that they live in a residence hall before they could buy a parking permit for the hall.
Kearns said the University Parking Services Board had already approved such a plan.
"It's being written up right now and it still must be approved by the University Senate, the University Council and the Board of Regents," he said.
CHRIS CLINE, Youngstown, Ohio graduate student and a resident of Lewis Hall, said yesterday that she told Learn about the problem in late November.
Kearns said that if the Board of Regents accepted the proposal, it would become effective during the 1979-1980 school year.
Cline said that the residence hall lots on Daisy Hill were extremely overcrowded during the day and that the
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problem was caused in part by nonresidents using the lots.
At registration any student can buy a residence hall parking permit for $18. Students can also buy a permit for X and O zones for $25.
Cline said the ID card might also be helpful in preventing non-residents from checking out equipment at the halls.
Cline said she had seen many students drive their cars to the residence hall lots and then take the bus from there to campus.
Exactly how a student will prove he lives in a residence hall before buying a permit has not been decided yet.
Kearns said residents might be given a proof of resident sticker that could be attached to their student ID cards, or they might be issued a separate card.
J. J. Wilson, director of housing, said that he had discussed the possibility of using ID cards for purposes other than parking, but agreed that it could help ease the congestion in the hall parking lots.
"We feel that this problem is some of the reason for the overcrowding." Wilson said. "This should remedy the parking problem considerably."
Law students study for moot court trials
The competition will second-year law students who give oral arguments on a predetermined case before a panel of legal court is a simulation of an appellate court.
A group of KU law students has begun preparing for the moot court competition to be held in March in the School of Law, associate professor William Westberek, associate professor of law.
Westerbeke said the debates concerned a case that the contestants researched. This semester's topic is a proposed Federal Agriculture Advertising of sugar products aimed at children.
Twenty-five students are participating in this semester's competition. The field will be narrowed in preliminary competition to two pairs of finalists.
THE SCHOOL will use third-year law students as judges on the preliminary panels, Westberke said, but for the final competition, professionals will be judges. Westberke said the final panels could be used by lawyers to state supreme court justices.
He said the competition would begin in March and run until the middle of April. Finalists receive monetary awards from a team of five finalists, plus Eberhardt, and Eberhardt, that sponsors the contest.
Also, students who do well in the competition may be selected to represent KU at the national and international competitions in Washington, D.C.
The national competition will be next fall and the international competition will be
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Feb. 9 & 10—CAMARATA BAND
Feb. 14—MARSHA BALL
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