THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
The University of Kansas
Crowd enjoys Brewer, Shipley
Vol.89,No.81
Lawrence. Kansas
Friday, January 26, 1979
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Point counterpoint
single, six-year presidential term. Bell spoke in Murphy Hall last night as part of the J. A. Vickers Sr. Lecture Series.
Attorney General Griffin Bell announced his support for a constitutional amendment for a
Ticket surcharge questioned
By BARBARA JENSEN Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
Student basketball and football tickets might be cheaper if a surcharge encaused in 1960 could be eliminated, according to Mike Harper, student body president and a member of the University of Kansas Athletic Corporation.
Harper met yesterday with Todd Seymour, president of the Kansas University Endowment Association, and KUAC and athletic department officials to clarify the terms of a recent loan agreement.
A surcharge of $5 on student football season tickets and $4 on student basketball season tickets was implemented in 1966 to pay a $3,000 loan from the Endowment Association for student seating additions to the east side of Memorial Stadium.
In 1978 a 50 cent surcharge was added to the price of
student football season tickets to help pay for the stadium renovation project.
THE 1968 LOAN is to be paid off by September 1980. But KUAC now must decide whether to continue the 1966 surcharge to help pay installments on the $1.8 million 1970 loan and the Endowment Association for the stadium renovation.
Harper suggested that the surcharge should be eliminated after the 1966 loan was repaid. He said that if revenue from tickets was to be used to repay the 1978 loan, all ticket prices should be raised.
He said it would be unfair for students to be paying more for the stadium renovation than other ticket holders.
"The student representatives on KUAC didn't want to use the first surcharge as a means to pay off the second loan," he said. "But they were told by Clyde Walker (former KU athletic director) that if the surcharge wasn't used as collateral, the Endowment Association wouldn't make the loan."
"The Endowment Association just wants the money repaid," he said. "It doesn't really matter where it comes."
But Seymour also said that because of the payment schedule, it was assumed that the 1966 surcharge would be
SEYMOUR SAID the association would have made the loan受损 SAID the sarchure were continued
The 1978 renovation loan stipulated that payments of $218,000 be made each year. It stated that $168,000 of the repayment would come from the 1978 surcharge. The county where the remaining $30,000 a year would come from
"Nothing legal says that the original surcharge would continue to pay for the second loan," Seymour said. "But it
Brinkman, chairman of KUAC, said the board would need to meet in February to discuss the language and intent of the resolution.
Prof studies coal plant hazards
Bv LYNN BYCZYNSKI
Staff Reporter
Coal-fired power plants may be hazardous to your health, according to a KU professor who is studying the problem of power plant pollutants.
The professor, Ernest Angio, geology department chairman, in researching what causes earthquakes.
that toxic elements contained in coal may be causing health hazards.
"I think coal can be shown to be equally hazardous, or more hazardous, in the long-run, to health than nuclear power plants." Angino said yesterday.
Nuclear power plant opponents often advocate coal as a safer fuel alternative
Wording changes delay game scheduling proposal
A proposed amendment to University regulations that would limit the scheduling of athletic contests during finals week to Saturday nights was sent back to a committee for clarification by the University Council yesterday.
The proposed amendment would force the rescheduling of three men's home basketball games during the next three weeks, or for weeknights during the final exam period.
Council members complained of vague language in the amendment, which was referred to the University Senate Executive Committee for wording changes.
But Robert Hohn, associate professor of education and chairman of the Senate Calendar Committee, which proposed the changes, said frequent exceptions had been made in the past.
University regulations stipulate that no athletic contests may be scheduled during
EXCEPTIONSWOULD still be granted,
"When they argue the health dangers attributed to energy by nuclear power, they don't make the same assessment of health hazards from coal-generated electricity. With coal, the assumption is there's no great risk." Anzino said. "That's simply not true." Anzino said.
Bob Marcum, University of Kansas athletic director, and Jerry Waugh, assistant athletic director, told Council members that he would not allow, although it might create some problem.
He said that he realized the purpose of the University was education and that the athletic department would try to reschedule the games,
Hohn said, but more justification would be required under the amendment.
"We are required to play a lot of home games through December but because of finals we run into a number of dates when we can schedule no games whatsoever."
The games that would have to be rescheduled are: Morehead State University, Dec. 10, 1900; Bowling Green University, Dec. 15, 1900; George Washington University, Dec. 14, 1901.
detrimental effects of burning coal, Angino said.
In other business, the Council passed a mail-ballot provision that would allow the council to schedule a mail ballot for the University Senate.
Some of the elements that be concerned about are iron, lead, zinc and manganese, which are concentrated in fly ash, the material used for construction, usually stored in ooze lakes outside a plant.
"TO A GEOLOGIST, coal is nature's junkpile. There's dozens of toxic elements in it."
The effect on human health varies with each element, but could include damage to the respiratory, circulatory and nervous systems.
Other toxic elements present in coal are mercury, cadmium, selenium and arsenic which Angio said could escape into the atmosphere as coal burned.
John Newburger, a University of Kansas Medical Center physician who teaches a course in environmental health, said the byproducts of the coal-burning process present a health hazard, but could not say how serious the effect might be.
All those elements are known to be dangerous to humans in certain quantities. What scientists do not know is whether enough of those toxic elements are escaping into the air and water to pose a health threat.
"OBYIUSLY, NO! of it is good for you, but whether it will harm you or create any clinical symptoms is another question. It depends on the dose level." he said.
Angino said the problem of the health hazards from burning coal was one of
growing importance because of the push to burn coal rather than oil or er natural gas.
"As more coal is converted into electricity, there's going to be a tremendous increase in the amount of flyash we'll have to dispose of," he said.
A power plant the size of Kansas Power and Light's Lawrence plant could produce 100,000 gallons of water a day.
Angino's research is designed to determine which elements might be dissolving out of flyash and washing into ground water supplies.
Angino and his assistant, Deborah Kopsick, Lawrence graduate student, are working with samples of fyssh that they collected from power plants.
In the first part of the experiment, she rinsed the flyash samples with distilled water and analyzed the chemicals that dissolved.
So far, Kopsick said, very few toxic chemicals have leached out of the flasch. However, the second part of the experiment may be less encouraging.
THE FLYASH will be rinsed with an acid solution and the toxic elements she is testing contain hydrogen.
Angino said, "That could make a difference. What we're trying to do is simulate an acid rain. We know that we're generating acid rains in industrial parts of the country, but we're not sure if the rains in the Midwest are also acid."
Angino and Kopick will not have any conclusive results until they complete their research in May. In the meantime, the mission of the Detection Agency also is studying the problem.
Bill Brinck, from EFA's Kansas City office, said the agency probably would issue guidelines for power plant waste disposal within six months.
Bell proposes six-year term
Bv BILL RIGGINS
Staff Reporter
Grittin Griff, U.S. attorney general, last night urged adoption of a constitutional amendment that would allow a president one six-year term.
"This change will enable a president to devote 100 percent of his or her attention to the office," Bell told a full house at University Theatre in Murray Hall.
"No time would be spent in seeking re-election."
Bell said a four-year term was too short to achieve any large changes and improvements.
"A single six-year term would permit the long-term, steady planning and implementation that our government has done in recent years with now lost to camarooning." he said.
He said he and President Carter were doing their best to return power to state and local governments.
"WE MUST return to government by directly accountable public officials," Bell said.
"The only other alternative, I predict, is to have an increasingly costly and inefficient form of government, wholly removed from democratic control."
Bell also called for a complete review and reduction of the regulating and lawmaking authority of independent federal agencies.
"The president has the authority now to curb those departments within the executive branch of the government, but, to the surprise of most Americans, it is the Federal Trade Commission, the Consumer Products Safety Commission and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission are wholly separate and not subject to his
Bell said the rule-making power of federal agencies was a substitute for the executive, legislative and judicial branches.
"The point is that rule-making has none of the safeguards of the legislative process, he said.
Bell said a restriction of the staff size of the president, members of Congress and federal judges also would cut inefficiency in the government.
"MORE STAFF” means more time in which to evolve more ideas about how to increase government control over the lives of the American people," he
Bell said he thought it was important to restore confidence and non-partisan support to the federal government.
"The most important thing I've done in office is to make the Justice Department into a neutral zone where it is non-partisan," he said.
The problems, he said, included appointing new judges and reorganizing the Immigration and Naturalization Service.
Bell said he intended to remain in office until he finished his "problems with the Justice Department."
"We at the Justice Department have tried very hard over the last two years to erase the ugly stains of the Watergate industry, the independent, professional organization."
"I feel like I've done three years work in two years, but I feel I can't leave until I finish."
Bell said it was up to the American people to decide where governmental power should lie.
"I HAVE often said that the wisest use of power is not to use it at all. But if such power must be used, use it sparingly."
"That is the prescription I would write for our federal government today."
Bell was appointed as attorney general in January 1977. A native of American City, Bell graduated from the 1960s and as an adviser to Georgia's segregational governors. Samuel Van Buren appointed him governor.
He was criticized by civil rights leaders during his confirmation hearings for his rallies in some civil rights cases.
Bell was brought to the University by the J.A. Vickers Sr., Memorial Lecture Series.
Staff Reporter
By BILL RIGGINS
Bell greeted by protesters
Griffin Fell was warmly received by the capacity crowd inside University Theatre last night, but about 25 demonstrators outside of Murphy Hall had nothing but cold words for the U.S. attorney general.
Iranian students and members of the KU Young Socialist Alliance and the Socialist Party Party greeted Bell by asking the slogans and handing out literature.
Although the demonstration was peaceful, police kept a watchful eye on the group.
Mike Hill, director of KU police, said no arrests were made but would not comment on the security precautions that were taken.
A federal judge ordered Bell to release the documents but Bell refused, saying it was not in the national interest to do so.
Brent Bactert, a member of the KU Young Socialist Alliance, said the group was protesting Bell's refusal to hand over its phone number about the Socialist Workers Party.
The party has filed a $40 million lawsuit against the U.S. government for engaging in illegal activities against the
party and is seeking use of the documents as evidence.
Bell was subsequently cited for contempt of court. He is currently appealing the charge.
“If the Supreme Court orders me to turn them over, I’ll do it,” Bell said during a press conference just before the speech.
Carrying a sign that asked "Isbell above the law?" Waasker said that Bail wouldn't release the files because they proved that U.S. intelligence organization into Socialist party offices and party members fired from their jobs.
Iranian students, shouting anti-shah, anti-Bakhtilah and anti-U.S. slogans, were apparently protesting Bell's role in the Carter administration. Shaphouk Bakhtilah is currently prime minister of Iran.
After Arab students created a disturbance in Beverly Hills, Cal. several weeks ago, Bell had said he thought they should not violate U.S. laws should be deported.
Snow stops buses, exam
Snowfall, which may amount to four inches, prompted a traveler's advisory for the Lawrence area today, according to the Highway Patrol Weather Service.
The snow, which began falling yesterday, about 4 p.m., caused yesterday's bus service to be canceled at 6:30 p.m. because of the storm. Mr. Olsen, president of the Lawrence Bus Co.
Weather conditions also forced the postponement of an English 101 examination that was to have been given last night from 7 to 10 p.m. in Wescoe Hall.
Lawrence police reported five weather-related accidents between 5:30 and 7 p.m.
yesterday, but no injuries were reported,
according to a dispatcher.
Blowing and drifting snow with a 60 percent chance of snow today, tonight and tomorrow are in the weather service's forecast for southern Louisiana. More information familiar to Lawrence residents.
Temperature will be in the upper teens to the lower 20s today and are expected to drop tonight, with lows of five to 10 degrees predicted, a spokesman for the weather
The storm that blanketed the north-central portion of the state is expected to subside by Monday, according to the Highway Patrol.