THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
COLDER
KANSAN
The University of Kansas
Vol. 89, No. 58
Wednesday, November 15. 1978
Women to start basketball season See story page nine
Lawrence, Kansas
Disclosure proposal to exempt some profs
By DEBRIECHMANN
Staff Reporter
A change in Kansas' conflict of interest law may exempt some KU faculty and staff members next year from filing reports about their financial interests.
The proposed change would raise the minimum salary to $20,000, Keith Nitcher, University director of business affairs, said yesterday.
Now, a state employee making at least $15,000 a year must file a report of his salary, other income and positions held in the State Department. Kansas Governmental Ethics Commission
"With inflation and increases in salaries, the people who were making $15,000 when the statute was set up are now making more than that," Nitcher said. "Many of those people are filing and aren't in a position where a conflict of interest usually occurs."
JERRY HARPER, executive director of the ethics commission, explained why the law has been weakened.
"The thrust of the law is that sunshine is the best remedy of conflict of interest," Harper said. "If you get everything out on the table you discourage those who might be engaged in some kind of financial interest conflicting with their main positions."
For example, he said, "If I, as director of the ethics commission, needed to buy a typewriter and just happened to own a printer, he would tell me the public interest to contract with myself.
He said 4,500 of the 25,000 state employees filed reports to the ethics committee.
If the minimum salary an employee makes is raised to $20,000, the number of people who would have to file would be reduced considerably, Harper said.
"The NUMBER of people who have had to file has increased in past years, and it's desirable to reduce the number." Dykes added that he achieved the same goal as did the $15,000.
He said that the University supported the proposal to change the salary requirement and that it would be discussed at the Council of Presidents meeting tomorrow.
Another change in the conflict of interest regulations that would affect KU faculty is the extension of the University's name.
The recommendation will be made to the Kansas Legislature, Harper said, after the ethics commission discussed the proposal today.
Chancellor Archie R. Dykes said he did not know how many faculty members the proposal would excuse from filing financial statements.
The proposal would clarify a regulation that exempts certain faculty members, even though they make more than $15,000, if their income more than 50 percent of their mea- t teaching.
"IF WE RAISED the salary to $2,000 and then defined a way to tell who on college campuses has to file and who doesn't, the law would be easier to implement," Harper
One proposal to be discussed today would require each of the Kansas Board of Regents institutions to submit a list of those who are teaching more than half of their time teaching, he said.
Any faculty member who is required to file a report, but does not, can be penalized $10 for each day past the Jan. 31 deadline. The penalty, however, cannot exceed $300
Merger will burden Allen, KUAC says
Staff Reporter
Bv BARB KOENIG
A lack of adequate facilities within the University of Kansas athletic department may worsen if the men's and women's athletic departments are merged, according to Jerry Waugh, assistant athletic director.
waugh told members of the Recreation Capital Improvements Committee yesterday that the athletic department was considering constructing an additional building to relieve over-crowded facilities at Allen Field House.
Waugh's athletic department report was part of an overall study by the committee to determine recreation needs at KU, according to Tom Wilkerson, committee member.
BECAUSE THE field house is being used at maximum capacity from early morning until late at night, Waugh said, no more activities can be scheduled.
"A merger could put an additional demand on the existing facility." Waugh said. "If the women become part of an induction program, everybody will have to be trained care of."
Waugh said the scheduling of facilities for the women's teams was the responsibility of
ue women's department and not the men's. Women's teams now are using part of the field house, the track at the stadium and facilities in Robinson.
"Originally, the women petitioned to be by themselves," Waugh said. "If they were part of our department, we would have a need to take care of their needs than we do now."
The proposed building would accommodate off-season programs and activities.
"The NO. 1 need for the athletic department at this time would be a large indoor facility." Waugh said. "It's a dream. We want to make people aware that that is a great right now. How we are going to get there, we don't know."
Waugh said, however, that the department had done nothing more than identify the problem.
The multipurpose type building would be designed to provide more space and would not be built like an arena, having permanent seating, he said. Temporary bleachers could be moved in if seating were necessary, he said.
Waugh estimated the building would have
See KUAC back page
Tiege gleaming and musculus baling. Bob Opiej, Ritherford, N.J., junior, accepts the winner's bouquet after a mock beauty contest during which men were pitchied, fondled, and beaten by a male model.
tested his morals and playing the piano for his entry in the talent competition. The reverse-sexism demonstration was conducted at the Kansas University last night as part of 40 of the events.
There he is
Women's lib called men's gain
By KATHLEEN CONKEY
Staff Renorter
The women's liberation movement could be the best thing that has ever happened to men, according to Warren Farrell, author of "The Liberated Man," who spoke last night in Woodruff Institute in the Kansas City
The highlight of Farrell's speech was a role reversal experience based on a beauty contest, but this time the focus was on the work she did.
Bopp Oppic, Rutherford, N.J., junior, also called “Big Bulge” by Farrell, won the title of “Little Boy KU” Oppic, dressed in tight gym shorts, smiled coyly and accepted a bouquet of roses as 250 people cheered.
"I'm at a loss for words," Oppici said. "I'd like to thank my mom for bringing me up."
FARRELL SAID he conducted a male beauty contest to show men how it felt to be viewed as a sex object and to show women how men are forced into treating women as sex objects by social pressures.
"Women are part of a beauty contest every day," he said. "They have no choice but to be judged, and men are pressured into being the judges. If men refuse to comment on a woman's body, they are called fags."
Farrell said that he did not enjoy the beauty content but that it was the strongest method of showing people how to look.
For men, the accountumed role is that of a success object, Farrell said, and for woman the role is that of a failure.
Men are trained to think their only worth lies in their success in the business world and women are taught their only worth comes from their attractiveness, Farrell said.
FARRELL SAID the women's liberation movement was helping women break out of that role. But his work with men's consciousness-raising groups during the past six years showed him that men do not know how to deal with liberated women or how to liberate themselves from their role as success objects, he said.
"When women share the responsibility of earning an income, men are free to take risks in their jobs, instead of restricting their creativity in the name of financial security," he said.
This problem prompted him to write "The Liberated Man" in 1794 to show how the women's liberation had affected him.
He said the liberation movement could do much to stop what he called a perverted form of sexuality in America.
"PEOPLE ASK me if homosexuals are sick," he said.
"I any yes, of course, but so are heterosexuals. Everyone grows up in America with a sick sense of humor," he says. "Rapists and women are trapped to be mini-muschias."
He explained that women are taught to enjoy their bodies only if they are overpowered by a man. In turn, men are forced into overcoming women to fulfill their sexual needs. He said men must put their eggs in a
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Veteran vaudevillian
Staff photo by RANDY OLSON
Heury Hogan, who says he is 107, relaxes at the Kansas City, Mo., strip tie when he is at ticker tape and occasional stand-up comedy events. (AP)
prefers television to the X-rated shows downstairs and longs for the traditional burlesque that dominated his show business career over the past nine decades. See story and pictures page seven.
Proposed acid plant called safe
Rv PHILIP GARCIA
Staff Reporter
OLATHE-Pollution emissions of a proposed sulfuric acid regeneration plant at the Sunflower Army Ammunition Plant near DeSoto will not reach dangerous levels, an Environmental Protection Agency official said last night.
In a public hearing sponsored by the EPA at the Johnson County Courthouse in Olathe, 32 Lawrence and Deoato towns, the EPA's staff, senior environment engineer of the Air Support of the EPA, that standards for sulfur dioxide from an old plant than those for an old plant now at Sunflower.
because the new facility will be emitting less pollutants than the old, air quality can improve.
However, the plant has been inactive since 1971, emitting no pollution.
A CONSTRUCTION permit for the new facility has not been issued by EPA.
Public concern over air pollution near DeSoto started when a notice appeared, saying a new sulfuric acid plant at Sunnyside was constructed, *Aflert Dena*, DeSoto mayor, said.
"The term sulfuric acid scares people," he said. "We wanted to know what a sulfuric generation facility is. After our questions were answered we could see the benefits for us."
However, some residents still expressed concern.
Harold Vestal, superintendent of Unified School District 222, Debo, asked, "What are you going to do?"
BOB BACON, county commissioner for the 3rd District, asked, "Would this construction permit be issued if the generation plant would be in the center of DeSoto?"
be safe for children over a long period of time at a school one-and-a-half miles
Witmore则的 permit for construction of the new plant would be issued regardless
William Moorehead, commander's representative for Sunflower, said any possible air pollution would not be the cause of emission would be in small amounts.
"There will be a monitoring system on the plant to detect the emission," he said. "If the plant meets these requirements there won't be any deterioration of the air."
"For every ton of acid that we regenerate, the nature of air emissions cannot exceed three."
Sulfuric acid is a dehydrating agent in ammonium systems.
Moorebead said regulations on the construction permit are as stringent as the 1977 rules.
"WHAT WE'RE doing is just recycling the sulfuric acid," Moorehead said.
The acid must emissions cannot exceed one-tenth of one pound, he said, which is the rate of emissions.
The new regeneration plant will allow sulfuric dioxide to be recycled into its environment.
The limit established by the Clean Air Act is four pounds a ton, he said.
Moorehead said the old plant could legally
emit 470 tons of sulfuric dioxide a year while operating every day, which is 309 tons a year more than the 164 tons the new plant would be allowed to emit.
THE OLD plant was allowed to emit 940 tons of sulfuric acid mist a year at full operation, but only six tons of acid mist a year can escape from the new plant, he said.
Financial aid applications are due today
Today is the deadline to apply for financial aid for the spring semester. Applications will be accepted in the of file of student financial aid, 26 Strong.
"Any student who wants to be considered for any aid that becomes available needs to fill out a financial aid form," said the director of the office, said yesterday.
The amount of aid available for next semester is still being determined, Weinberg said. Students can receive aid in the form of a study program or the Work-Study program.
A financial aid statement also must be mailed to the College Scholarship Service to receive aid.