Handouts protest distribution policy
By CAROLINE TROWBRIDGE
Staff Reporter
Tim Miller, assistant professor of religious studies, stood in the rotunda of Strong Hall at 1 p.m. yesterday and opened out 100 sheets of paper to passa-
It violated KU's literature distribution policy and Miller knew it.
Miller and nine other persons violated the same policy Nov. 5, when they, in two separate groups, distributed two different leaflets in protest of the selection of a Higher Education Week banquet speaker.
In the two instances, Miller violated the policy that prohibits literature distribution inside University buildings.
"This time," Miller said yesterday, "I got a little more frontal at it, but I doubt that the administration will do anything about it."
HE SAID HE thought he could be taken before the University Judiciary for violating the policy.
However, David Amberl, vice-chairman for student affairs, whose office released the policy in October, said he had received a grant from the University would penalize Miller.
"In terms of taking action," Ambler said, "I would, from what I know of the incident, save no.
"Good will and voluntary cooperation in matters such as this have usually been the University policy."
The literature Miller was handing out condemned the University's policy and urged people reading it to let Chancellor Eliot know they disagreed with the policy.
"Join me," Miller wrote, "in saying no to this abuse of power by Strong Hall. Ask why it is that KU now officially opposes freedom of expression. Do it NOW, while we have a few strokes of constitutional freedom left."
MILLER ALSO suggested that people fill out a coupon at the bottom of the page and give it to Dykes.
One woman, Miller said, gave her coupon to Dykes. The coupon stated, "I am outraged by KU's adoption of a policy
of censorship and restriction of literature, and demand that it be revoked immediately."
Dykes said he read the coupon and suggested the woman talk to Ambler because he had not read the distribution policy.
"I don't know what the policy specifies," Dykes said. "I really don't know much about it."
Miller said that although administrators probably would not react to what he had done, he would continue to attempt to get the policy changed.
"I will wait and see," he said, "and if nothing happens, I'll do something else. I've had a lot of good reactions from people I've talked to.
"ONE OF THE relatively high-level administrators in Strong Hall congratulated me and told me he thought I was doing OK."
Miller said he would consult with people before he decided what to do next.
Ambler said he did not think that Miller was going through the correct channels to get the policy changed.
"There are appropriate ways to look at it if there are objections to parts of the policy," Aambler said. "Those parts can be reviewed."
"The University Events Committee would be an appropriate forum, a primary forum that anyone could use."
"I think a policy like this is meant to be used as a general guideline."
Miller said he thought the policy was in direct violation of one of the functions of a university; to encourage the flow of ideas in print and speech.
"DISTRIBUT inside is flatly forbidden," he said. "A blanket札则 that is ridiculous. There are no exceptions made."
Miller said he did not understand how the distribution of materials in the rotunda of Strong Hall could disrupt any classes.
He said if the policy were interpreted strictly, he could be charged for violating it if he passed a syllabus in one of his classes.
"This is clearly a violation of rights," Miller said.
1966 surcharge not reviewed
An agreement that instituted a student ticket surcharge for KU football games will be carried through at least until a $1 million loan for Memorial Stadium renovation is paid by the university. A residence assistant last night at an Athletic Seating Board meeting.
By BARB KOENIG
Staff Renarter
Bonds for a 1968 expansion of the east-side student section were to expire in 1980, when the Kansas University Athletic Corporation Advisory Board was to review the need to continue the surcharge.
However, Harper said that some time last year, before the terms of the recent stadium renovation were finalized, it was decided that the surcharge would not be eliminated. Instead, it will be carried through to help pay back the new cost.
HARPER SAID that $1 from football season tickets and $4 from basketball season tickets were surcharged in 1960 to pay for the east stadium loan and now would go to pay off this year's football tickets to help pay for the remaining $2.
"We didn't know they would be using any part of the east-stadium bonds for this," Harper said.
No members of the athletic administration were present at the meeting.
At a KUAC advisory board meeting last month, former
chairman J. Hammond McNish said that the continuation of the surcharge was a "myth."
But according to minutes from a KUAC board meeting on Feb. 26, 1986, the All-Student Council asked the Athletic Board to increase in student charges for football and that tickets is to help finance the student addition to the stadium and that once the addition has been paid for the matter of more seats it will be open for review. The motion "received" and carried.
**IN A letter to Harper from Michael J. Grady, a student member of the board in 1966, Grady said that the board would not automatically terminate the surcharge "on the basis of the actual cost to pay." Costs might justify definite extension of the surcharge."
Grada said that a compromise was struck in the form of a resolution to review the need for a coronavirus later 1980.
Harper said, "We know that they were automatically combining the increase from the 1968 bonds into corporation assets. Nowhere did they decrease corporation assets because of the expiration of the bonds in 1980."
"The corporation has refused to admit that any such agreement exists. They're trying to deny it, they're saying
*WE DO know that the student council passed a resolution making the cause for review clear and nowhere
in the files did I find that the chancellor at that time rejected the resolution. I also did not find that he accepted
"I think it is worth you to review the situation and at the same time I think they should be admonished for trying to do so."
Harper also said that business students were auditing all Senate bond commitments for all buildings on campus to determine exactly what the Senate had committed in student money so far.
Concerns about student seating at basketball games also were discussed at yesterday's meeting. According to Laura Smith, chairman of the athletic Seating Board, basketball tickets were sold for the 1975-76 basketball season.
HOWEVER, ticket sales this year were cut off at 7,200 tickets. Prompted by several calls from students complaining about a student ticket sell-out, the seating board began to look into the matter.
Now members of the board are wondering what has happened to the additional 160 tickets which they, say, they bought.
Smith said, "I think we should be able to come up with 160 extra seats because that is what they use in our '75."
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Members of the board hope to meet today with Bob Marcum, his athletic director, to discuss the issue.
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Friday, December 1, 1978
Ruling won't stop plans for audit
By TIM SHEEHY
Staff Reporter
TOPEKA - an adverse ruling by Attorney General Curl Schneider will not bark plans to improve the state's audit state colleges to determine whether community-college credit exams are being used.
In an opinion prepared by John Martin, assistant attorney general, the state said audit researchers were barred from viewing academic records, such as transcripts, because their access would violate the Buckley Amendment.
The Buckley Amendment guarantees the confidentiality of student records.
An audit was proposed because of reports that some four-year colleges and universities would accept credit hours from a student. The university not apply them toward a student's degree.
The state funds community colleges on the basis of credit hours. The auditors have said they think non-transferable credits are a waste of state money.
The opinion also said that because the Buckley amendment was a federal law, it
would be up to federal authorities to decide the fate of the orphaned audit.
Richard Brown, a post audit official, said he was expecting a ruling from the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act office in Washington either today or early next week.
Brown said that, although the opinion from Schneider had not been requested, it was welcome because it clarified that he did not believe fall under federal, not state, jurisdiction.
"The attorney general has made it perfectly clear that, under state law, there is
nothing to stop audits, unless prohibited by federal law." Brown said.
Brown said he expected the federal government's ruling on the proposed audit to be clear.
"Whatever the federal people say goes," Brown said. "The Buckley Amendment was not made to exclude authorized auditors or those who "rather, someone coming off the street."
Brown also said that if the federal government ruled against the state auditors, he would ask the Post Audit Committee to appeal to a federal court.
Socialist says nation requires labor party
By BILL RIGGINS
Socialist candidate
self. "I can't think of a better thing for a young person to do today than become involved in the social movement," she said in her speech in the Kansas Union last night.
Linda Jeenness, 1972 presidential candidate for the Socialist Workers Party, told about 45 persons that socialism was inevitable in the United States but it wouldn't happen by it.
Staff Reporter
Jennesse, who ran for the presidency as a candidate of the Socialist Workers Party, told about 45 people in the Jayhawk Room of the US embassy in Jerusalem up with inflation and unemployment and were willing to listen to the alternatives and solutions proposed by the Socialist Workers
Linda Jenness, who ran for the U.S. presidency in 1972 as a socialist, said last night that the victory of socialism in the United States was inevitable.
"The revolution isn't going to happen all by itself," she said. "It needs organization and training."
Jennese said the formation of a labor party in the United States would be the first to do so.
"WE'RE THE only major capitalist country that doesn't have a labor party," she said. "The masses of America have been trapped into a two-party system and as long as we're trapped in that system we can't move forward."
"The U.S. government is the most violent government the world has ever known, and it's going to be violent when the people want to change that government," she said.
"The more people that participate, the less violent it will be and the quicker it will happen. And when American capitalism falls, so fails world capitalism."
Jenness said the Socialist Workers Party had a solution that would make inflation and unemployment go away.
SHE SAID the program called for the reduction of the present work week to 30
hours. But workers would continue to be paid the wages they had received for a 40-
SHE ALSO called for a "cram public in" construction schools, homes and other building facilities.
"We put a $120 price tag on this program," she said. "That’s the price we buy."
Jenness said that diverting the defense budget to a public works program would not put the United States in danger of invasion from a foreign power.
Jenness she didn't think the defense budget was used for defense but for "propping up vicious dictatorships around the world,"
JENNESS ALSO denied charges made by members of the audience that socialist democracy in the United States would result in a loss of bureaucracy for socialistic bureaucracy.
SHE SAID that bureaucracy was not inevitable, and that it arose from specific circumstances.
"The only guarantee of democracy is mass participation." Jenness said.
Jennesse also stressed that the Socialist Workers Party was opposed to the socialist governments of the Soviet Union and the United States, she said should be "booted out on their ear."
She said those governments were totalitarian and bureaucratic and did not represent the "socialist democracy" that the Socialist Workers Party was fighting
Jenness' speech was sponsored by the KU Young Social Alliance,
Red Lion's bite worth carefully-guarded roar
By EVIE LAZZARINO
Staff Reporter
One of Lawrence's most popular, most talked about restaurants isn't listed in the phone book, doesn't have a sign and is carefully guarded from strangers by its owner.
The Red Lion, 609 Vermont St. is a sort of underground retreat known for its hearty, inexpensive food and service.
The food is cheap *a* 22 special, such as German roast beef with mashed potatoes and gravy and all of the toppings. The meat is not anyone full. And the sandwich section, including mounds of roast beef on bread for a thin 90 cents, is good.
Eating at the Red Lion is a ritual. Once inside the small, pine-paneled dining, a customer must order rapidly from the cafeteria line when Bill asks, "Would you be demeaning?"
When customers' hesitation exposes them as strangers, Bill usually throws them out.
Even though he makes threats, yells and forgets
the normal restaurant guidelines, customers love it and keep coming back for more.
Friends who are Red Lion regulars told me it would be impossible to talk to Bill.
"YOU'LL GET kicked out—or worse," one of them said.
"Now, he'll say, 'How 'bout ya darlin', and just ask for a name. Friend said, 'Don't take long to answer,' he says, looking eagerly at my wife.
But he finally agreed to take me there for lunch. On the way to the Red Lion, I was briefed on how to stay there.
I was a little insulted that I would have to practice to order a simple meal. However, when we stepped inside and ill, a Burl Ives look alike in a red apron and red, cook's beret, asked, "How 'bout ya', darlin'?" I answered, "a special," relieved that I didn't embarrass myself and my friends.
We finished our special—chicken and noddles in a rich sauce—and made our way to the front door. We served it on platter.
And, true to the ritual, he shouted, "Thank ya",
dear. Thank ya "darlin".
It hadn't been eventful at all. I wondered what the larger than life legends were about.
Several regulars, all KU students, told me However, they flatly refused to be identified.
"LISTEN, I always eat there," one of them said.
"I print my name I could get another apple."
"I saw him make an old lady leave once because she took too long to order."
"Two little girls came in once by mistake, and they got a yelling they never forget."
"Well, let's just say that Bill takes care of his regulations."
I kept going back to the Lion, as regulars call it, to absorb the atmosphere and prepare myself for my journey.
The banter began to the sound the same
"Try that peach cobber, dear," Bill said to a customer. "It'll blow the roof off your mouth."
"Need more Coke, darlin'—or are you drinking water?"
Refills of drinks are free at the Lion.
Several people told me that the framed warnings Bill received for yelling at strangers in the Lion are gone now. Also gone is the picture of Bill smiling, exposing his diamond capped teeth.
I talked to some Lawrence businessmen about the Red Lion.
THEERE IS, however, a proclamation naming Bill "Mister Nicev."
"Those lunches were always incredible, and part of the fun was being with Bill." Hedges said.
Charles Hedges, of Hedges Real Estate, said heite at Bill's years ago, when it was called the Beeefeeper, and was next to what is now the Lawrence Opera House.
He said he once saw Bill drop mashed potatoes on a man's head.
"Someone came in and asked for the special with no gravy. Well, Bill put gravy on all his spectacles, and I had to just keep it there."
could just leave,” Hedges said. “The man started getting angry, and before you knew it, Bill just flung the mashed potatoes over the counter and onto the man.
"But, if you're nice to Bill, he'll bend over you and give you some extra gravity or a larger piece of meat."
Glenn West, president of the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce, said he hadn't eaten there often, but
"I think the proprietor is rather notorious. If you like that environment of a sense of杰杰, you should take his advice."
THE BEST insight about Bill came from a local restraurateur who said he has known Bill for about 15 years.
"Bill's pranks started out to keep business down, but 'it's turning out making people want to eat there. The joking and yelling is always at somebody else's face," he said. "I will tell you this, he one's great cook."
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