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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
The University of Kansas
Vol. 89, No. 50
Friday, November 3, 1978
Lawrence, Kansas
Inside job
With winter approaching, mechanics known to get into their work are in high demand
around Lawrence, A1 $5, Ed Rockhold, B8 Locusst, has almost no other choice in order to reach the deep recesses of a large pickup truck engine.
Staff photo by BRUCE BANDLE
By JAKE THOMPSON
Education Week may lose support
Staff Reporter
Higher Education Week might not be sponsored next year by the Student Senate, the original organizers of the event, because the administration has taken increasing control, Sam Zweifel, graduate student senator, said yesterday.
"Since we started the event in 1973, the administration has gotten more and more involved, until this year when Chancellor Schiller announced that he would "think this is the final year we will do."
Reggie Robinson, student body vice president, said, however, that Zweifel's opinion was premature and that the Senate approved this year about Higher Education Week.
He said the administration gave away complimentary tickets again this year and vetoed the speaker chosen by the Senate to speak at the banquet.
"There's a possibility, but it's an un-founded assumption," Robinson said. "I don't think what Sam said was accurate based on what has happened so far."
The Senate had scheduled Jonathan Kozol, who the administration reportedly said was not well known and was too comfortable with the American education system. It chose, instead, Stephan Bailey, a Harvard University professor and the American Council on Higher Education.
Robinson said he would make recommendations concerning Higher Education Week in a report to the Senate next week, but he declined to say what they would be.
Zweifel said the week was organized by the 1973 Student Senate to bring state legislators to the campus and to "let them know we're a serious university."
"The administration has always had the right, but this happened to be the first year it has felt the speaker was too controversial for the University," Zweifel said. "That's the one thing that put the ice on the cake." The legislators' function to bring the legislators here."
He said the administration's involvement had increased last year to the point of giving away complimentary tickets to the banquet for legislators.
Zweifel made the statement that the
Senate might suspend its involvement at a University Council meeting yesterday.
Also during the council meeting, a council member said he would not attend the banquet because the administration had vetoed the students' recommended speaker.
The member, Robert L. Shelton, associate professor of religious studies, said he would send a letter to Dykes informing him why he would not accept the invitation.
"I'm going to send a letter that I will not attend the banquet, out of protest, to the chancellor." Shelton said. "What appeared to be an established procedure and the choice by students was overruled by the chancellor."
Shelton said he was protesting because he thought the administration had been fundamentally and morally wrong in overriding the student's choice.
He said he had talked to other faculty members who thought the action concerning controversial speakers was not in the best interests of the University.
"A University is a place where being open to controversy is important," Shellton said. "I can't conceive of a university not having people on programs just because somebody considers them controversial. A major problem with the university is to be critical of what it is involved in."
"It is both unfortunate and potentially harmful for the administration to overthrow the government," said Alas. "I am in going to a banquet that is intended to be a public relations activity with the government."
Snelton said Higher Education Week was a time to evaluate and be critical of institutions. He said that was the reason officially-known speakers had been chosen.
when I first heard Kozol was speaking, I was interested in coming to the banquet, but after reading and hearing about the changes, my feelings changed." Shelton
Shelton said if the administration wanted Higher Education Week to be directed toward the legislators, it should publicize the event that way.
"If that's what they want, I don't have to go," he said.
By JOHN P. THARP
Staff Writer
Elmer Bond doesn't like President Carter's anti-inflation program.
Bond said he thought the voluntary wage and price guidelines included in Carter's program would not work.
Bond is not his real name. He said he didn't want his real name in print because he feared government inquiry.
Bond may be a typical Lawrence working man who feels hurt by government programs.
Right now, Bond thinks he is caught in the middle, trying to make ends meet for his wife and children.
Big business, he said, and big labor unions will not go along with the inflation fighting program, and people like him, in his group. "You are going to be caught in the middle."
Bond said he is working two jobs during the week and another job one day of the weekend. His wife, Mary baby-sits for him and she works five days a week to make extra money.
BUT, HE said, there is no extra money, just enough to pay for food, shelter, transportation and clothing—the necessities that keep jumping in cost.
For eight hours work with a local business, Bain is paid $45 an hour. For three additional hours at an evening job, Bain is paid $120 an hour for an 11-hour working day, he makes $45.
Then, on the weekends, he does some more work, worth about $60 a month.
Mary Bond said she made between $60 and $7 a week baby-sitting. Of that amount, between $12 and $30 a week is food on for the children. That leaves between $30 and $58 a week for other bills.
BUT THEY said they also were disturbed because the money from the weekend job and the baby-sitting was earned income not reported to the Internal Revenue Service for income tax purposes. The State Security Administration for deductions.
"WE'D HAVE to pay it all in taxes."
The Bonds said they were disturbed that their income still was not enough to buy better food, better clothing and a house. They are renting a house now.
"WE D HAVE to pay it all in taxes. Bond is alarmed at the high percentage of his income that is paid in taxes, and
"I thought about reporting the income and we're not only going to lose what we get refunded but we're also going to have to pay cuite a bit."
Last year, Bond said, he paid more than $1,350 in federal income tax and received about $80 in a refund check, but no refund for repairs to the truck he drives to work.
"I'm an honest person," Mrs. Bond said, "but I feel the government made me not as honest as I'd like to be—just to survive.
It was partly because of last year's tax bill that Bond chose not to report his family's entire income.
"If she claimed for the baby-sitting," Bond said, "we wouldn't have any money.
when Carter announced his wage-price program, he became more alarmed, especially when he thought he might not big raise the he had been counting on for 1978.
"My hourly wage ($4.50) isn't
nothing," he said. "If you can't make $4
an hour, like the unions, youain timg making
nothing, because $4.50 doesn't go very
Union workers are going to be ahead, Bond said, if they comply with Carter's plan, because they already are making a higher wage.
But Bond said he would come out short, because his wage was far from union scale, and he wouldn't make anything under the anti-infation program.
"All these years," he said, "I've worked to get up with everybody also in salary. Then I get knocked out of it with Carter's plan. I want the raise I deserve."
"IT'S THE cheapest shot the government ever took at me."
"It all depends on what people do to him," he said, "because if his suppliers don't come down on their prices, he'll have less of them, his probably higher than Carter will."
Carter's price standard calls for companies to limit boosts in prices in 1979 to 0.5 percent below their annual average annual rate of increases during 1967-77. Bond said he did not know if his former would comply with that request.
the only item in Carter's new attack on inflation that Bond agreed with was the president's proposal implemanting the number of federal employees hired.
The president ordered that only one of every two federal job vacancies be filled. But Carter and the federal Council on Wage and Price Stability, which currently has a staff of about 30 persons, would get 100 additional employees to "enhance" collective bargaining contracts and prices for the nation's top 400 firms.
"I'm not afraid of the federal government," he said, "but I don't like going to tail."
HE SAID HE would also like to see the interest rate lowered, and a restructured income tax system aided at equitable taxes naid by all income groups.
Bond has his own ideas for fighting inflation and said he would like to see cuts in federal spending.
Bond said he would keep working three jobs at least until next year, until he can "get in pretty good shape and breathe a little hit."
And he said he still would avoid reporting all of his income, even though the consequences could be severe if he were discovered by the government.
But until those proposals occur, or unless Carter's new plan is a phenomenal success, Bond said he would keep working as he has for most of his life.
By TIM SHEEHY
First lady talks in Topeka
TOPEKA—First Lady Rosalyn Carter joined the ranks of Democratic big names who have come to Kansas hoping to aid their party's candidates.
Mrs. Carter spoke in Topeka on behalf of Democrats John Carlin, candidate for governor; Bill Roy, candidate for senator; Dennis McCarthy, candidate for her 2nd District Congressional seat.
Mrs. Carter spent as much time promoting her husband's recent civil service reforms and inflation plan as she did praising the Democratic candidates sitting beside her on the Municipal Auditorium stage.
"Jimmy has taken some drastic actions in the last few weeks." Mrs. Carter said, alluding to her husband's televised announcement of his anti-air inflation package.
The plan asks labor to limit wage increases to 7 percent, and business to limit wages to 5 percent.
"WE CAN DO a lot let away fighting initiation by monitoring those that don't follow our program." I really believe monitoring these people and putting them in the public eye will make
Mrs. Carter also had praise for her husband's Civil Service Reform Bill, which was
"For the first time we can identify those
people who are doing a good job in the system are identifying those who are not doing a good job.
Mrs. Carter told the partisan crowd it was fortunate to have a candidate such as Carlin, and said he was dedicated, hardworking and trustworthy.
"Carlin, Roy and Keys campaign posters were displayed prominently through the auditorium, as well as by many people in the crowd.
Almost out of place was a poster carried by one man, which showed a toothed grin and had the words "Where's Jimmy" written across it.
"I KNOW how important it is to have a governor in the state and a president in
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Washington who can work together." Mrs. Washington said, "You need John Carlin as captain."
She gave briefer but equally high praise to Roy and Keys, saying they had both demonstrated their capability while in office.
Following her appearance in Topека, Mrs. Carter departed for more campaigning in Texas.
Staff Reporter
Funds needed for improving intersections
By JOHN LOGAN
More than 2,500 times last year the squeal of tires and the crunch of metal signaled that another wreck was occurring on the streets of Lawrence.
More than 6 percent of the wrecks occurred at 4 percent of Lawrence's 2,500
As of mid-October, there have been 160
watches at ten intervals. Last year’s
But nothing can be done to improve the most dangerous intersections unless the city receives more street improvement funds, says Leonard Hoover, city engineer.
A federal study made in 1970 estimated that more than $19,000 would be required to rebuild Louisiana streets, where 20 accidents have occurred this year, the most at an international level.
"THE INTERSECTION requires massive reconstruction," Hoover said. "We have a tremendous right-of-way problem because the knotty's store there comes all the way down."
"You could almost double that estimate now because of inflation. We just don't have
The Lawrence Traffic Safety Commission has recommended that the city hire a specialist to study the intersection of 19th and Tennessee streets, where 10 accidents have occurred, according to Mike Garcia, Lawrence police sergeant.
"Because of the heavy traffic morning, noon and evening, it is almost impossible for traffic to maneuver through there," Garcia said. "The commission apparently rejected a four-way stop sign for the intersection because of the traffic volume."
GARCIA SAID he hoped recent improvements and proposed construction would reduce the accident rates at three other Lawrence intersections.
The proposed widening of Iowa Street from Sixth Street to University Drive would include rebuilding the intersection of Ninth and Sixteenth. 18 accidents have occurred so far this year.
The 14 accidents at Sixth and Vermont streets may have resulted from the confluence caused by the opening of the new bridge over bridge on Vermont Street, Garcia said.
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