Friday, October 10. 1978
Staff photo by RANDY OLSON
Riding the rails
11-year-old Raymond Garcia, 333 Elm St. occupied himself yesterday by trying to balance on the railroad tracks near Locust Street.
Journalism dean satisfied with KJHK's explanation
Bv JAKE THOMPSON
After receiving a report concerning a false news story broadcast by KJH-FM, a KU student-operated radio station, Del Brinkman, dean of the School of Journalism, said yesterday he was satisfied with the investigation and prevented another such "unfortunate incident."
Staff Reporter
The report was written by Dale Gadd, faculty advisor, and associate professor.
Last Thursday, during the 5 p.m. news program, a JKHK announcer reported that the town of Waterloo, Iowa, had been destroyed by an explosion at a nuclear power plant there and that 15,000 people were killed.
According to Gadd, the bogus story had been written by a student as a prank, thrown into a wastebasket, then somehow mixed in with the legitimate news stories.
The story was read over the air by a student who thought it was legitimate. Gadget was then asked if he had checked with other news sources on the validity of the story, but that he believed
THE REPORT on the incident was delivered yesterday to Brinkman, who said he would take no action unless he learned the facts were different from the report.
"There's no need to involve myself further," he said. "They handled a very unprofessional incident in a very professional manner."
Brinkman said he was satisfied with an investigation by Gadd and other journalism faculty "to insure that it won't happen again."
A representative from the Federal Communications Commission's district office in Kansas City, Mo., visited the radio station Friday to investigate the incident.
Gadd said the representative would file a report with the FCC office in Washington,
"I was left with the impression it was a pretty low-key incident," Gadd said. "All we're expecting is a letter of reprimand. I told to file a report in our public file, also."
THE FCC'S DISTRICT office in Kansas
City could not be reached yesterday for
KJHK's license is up for renewal this fall, but Gadd said the FCC's investigation of the false story should not affect issuance of a new license.
"Let's just say the timing was not the best." he said.
Renewal of the station's license was being questioned because of a recent rulong forbidding single ownership of more than one radio station in a market area, Gadd said.
The University owns both KJHK and KANU-FM.
Because of the bogus story broadcast, the student who wrote the story and the two who were anchors of the news program have been indetermined indefinitely from the station, Gald said.
Gadd would not identify the students. He said he also did not know how the story happened.
"I still don't know why they didn't check it out, but trusting their word, it believed it was."
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Gadd said that during the weekend many radio stations and newspapers called him "the most famous."
AFTER THE BROADCAST the station received many telephone calls from persons living in areas with underground utilities.
"I think they're treating it as a brightener for their news broadcasts," he said. "Still, we're going to make sure it doesn't happen again."
Vol.89,No.32
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
By MARY ERNST and TAMMY TIERNEY Staff Reporters
The Student Senate Budget Committee finished five nights of supplemental budget requests, and that more than $10,000 be cut from the requests of 29 groups which had requested $29,000.
The Budget Committee recommended that $13,762.15 be allocated to the 29 student nurses.
An additional group, the University Daily Kansan, had requested $9,000 for additional printing expenses, but the committee tabled a bill to request the audit of the Kansan could be completed.
The committee had heard the 30 groups' proposals during three days last week, with two weeks in limbo and last night, made final recommendations that will have to be approved by the full committee.
THE COMMITTEE CHANGED preliminary allocations for four groups: the KU Falk Dance Club, the Organizations of Black and Minority Architecture Students in America, the University Association for the Engineering Engineers and the Black Student Union.
The Folk Dance Club's $40 request was cut to $15 because committee members said they did not think the Student Senate and travel expenses for a dance teacher.
OBASA's $300 request for a typewriter was cut completely because typewriters were available to students in Marvin Hall, committee members said.
UAWAE's $647 request for travel expenses was cut completely because committee members said they thought Student Senate funding should not go toward travel
THE BLACK STUDENT Union's 900 request for printing expenses was cut to $150 because the committee said a newspaper should be a duplication of the Kansan's service.
But after deliberating, committee members vote to recommend cutting all foreign aid for students of services with the Arab Students Organization, which is already funded by the U.S. government.
The Budget Committee also reconsidered its recommendation to completely cut the budget for the next year and had requested. The committee voted to stand by its original recommendation and to support it.
REPRESENTATIVES OF THE Arabian Peninsula group said that they did not feel that their club offered the same services as the Arab Students Organization.
The Arabian Peninsula Students Club had requested $800 but a decision not to fund the group was tabled so that members of the committee there during deliberations of the committee.
Matt Davis, a member of the committee, said that he felt the Archonian Club served as a sub-group from which Zeta Pha Beta, a sorority, later would draw its members.
Several committee members expressed some concern over the funding of a group
"In order to put a stop to the oppression, we advocate the immediate withdrawal of investment by American corporations from South Africa," he said.
Browning said the Africa committee was trying to persuade the Endowment Association of Africa to take greater interests in South Africa because of the racial and economic injustices in that country.
Before making final recommendations last night, 11 of the approximately 35 members of the Budget Committee made several recommendations that had not been delivered on. The committee also reconsidered two groups, the Arabian Peninsula Students Club and the Archonian Club of Zeta Phi Beta whose budgets had been cut on earlier nights.
Seymour said a current list of the Endowment Association's investments could not be released without approval of the association's committee will not meet for a few months.
A group with about eight active members is to persuade to握 the Kansas University Endowment Association to divest itself of final investments in companies in South Africa.
According to a report dated Feb. 26, 1978, obtained by the committee, the Endowment Association and investments totaling more than $4 billion in corporations that have interests in South Africa
Staff Renorter
Besides the investments in companies that have interests in South Africa, the report showed that the Endowment Association invested $12 million investment in 42 other companies.
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The group, the KU Committee on South Africa, sent a letter last week to the Endowment for Development to discuss the association's investments in South Africa, Gene Browning, a member of the group.
Todd Seymour, president of the Endowment Association, said he did not know how accurate the figures were because he did not understand the association still owned stock in the companies.
CURRENTLY, South Africa operates on an apartheid system. Its policy of separate public facilities for blacks and whites and numerous policies that eliminate racial con-
expenses to promote the organization or to seek scholarship money.
"PROBABLY THE STOCKS have increased in value if we still own them," Seymour said. "Depending on stock market conditions, we sell stocks from time to time."
But Seymour said he did not see anything wrong with the Endowment Association investing its money in companies that had interests in South Africa.
tact in daily life have come under sharp criticism in recent years.
The Endowment Association, which has reported assets of $82.5 million as of last June 30, is a tax-exempt, charitable organization that all private gifts made to the University.
"We feel some moral obligation," he said, but our obligation to the University is to attend.
Its board of trustees establishes guidelines for investment, and the association's finance committee acts on the recommendations of a New York investment counselor
SEYMOUR SAID that only a couple of times had donors specified limitations on times to receive donations.
"We have an obligation to the donors to follow their wishes if it is within the realm of their own power."
Although he has not yet received the Africa committee's letter, Seymour said he would distribute it to members of the finance committee for discussion.
But he said no action would be taken on the request until the finance committee met on Wednesday.
"I personally can't see that dropping our stock in companies with interests in South Africa would do a bit of good," Seymour said.
"Those companies provide a lot of jobs and if they pulled out, the conditions would
Bus drivers find work interesting
However, Ed Dutton, associate professor of social welfare and a member of the committee, said that the presence of U.S. commerce with Africa maintained the apartheid system.
"The system won't change until it is forced to change." "Dutton said." "Blacks deserve better."
ByLORILINENBERGER
Staff Renorter
Companies in which the Endowment Association has invested that have interests in South Africa include the Exxon Corporation, Moral Motors, U.S. Steel and Honeywell.
On an early Monday morning, few things seem worse than riding to campus in an overcrowded, stuffy bus with the weight of three or four textbooks in your lap—unless you're standing up.
The only hope for entertainment during the jolting trip may rest in eavesdropping or being lucky enough to have a bus driver who is capable of coaxing a smile with his old Hee Haw hokes.
Heward Howard is such a driver. Hood has been driving for the "KU on Wheels" system for six years. During that time, he says, he has kept students amused by playing trivia quiz games and then repeating corney Hee Jhows jokes over and over.
"Why. I ask one young man who Walt Disney's favorite cartoon character was," he said, "He guessed Donald Duck. I don't care if you're 12 or 40, everyone knows it's Mickey Mouse.
HOOD, WHO IS 59 but says he lives 30 years younger,
one of his favorite games was quizzing students on the
tower.
"Can you tell me three months that begin with the letter M'??" he asked. "The reason you can't is because there are only three—Montgomery, Madison, and Montpelier—that's what makes it so hard."
A quiet moment with Hood is hard to find. But when it does occur, the conversation flowing around the bus proves that we can have fun without being a showbuster.
"I saw someone O.D. the other night at Louise's."
"Oh, you gotta be kidding."
"No! He just collapsed and the ambulance came and everything It was strained."
"You don't hear much about people O.D.ing anymore."
"That's because there's no pure drugs around here anymore."
"Yeah, what can you expect from Kansas?"
"WELL, WE could always go to Berkeley."
In between telling jokes and anecdotes, Hood constantly checks his watch to see whether he is running on time.
"If it's one thing students don't like, it's a late bus" he said.
that is connected with the Greek sorority system.
As he pulled the bus up to a bus stop, one student got up to leave. He patted her on the arm as she walked by.
The Association of Students of Political Science (ASPC) had, in 1960, its budget completely cut by the company, the grounds that its budget proposal had not sufficiently justified the allocation those funds to.
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The Egyptian Students Association had requested $100 and it also was cut completely. One committee member said that because the 12 group members were primarily graduate students, they should be funding from the Graduate Student Council.
The KU Advertising Club's request was cut from the requested $899 to $495
Budget Committee members said $89 that was requested to take two bus loads of club members on a field trip could be cut back to $298 — enough to take one bus load. Committee also cut $100 for long distance expences that the group had requested.
The Non-Traditional Student request was cut from $125 to $80, primarily because of what one committee member said was the "strict adherence" with more than $200 to get the group started.
The Budget Committee also made a preliminary recommendation not to fund the KU Students for Radioactive-Free Kansas, which had requested $800.
"It's very possible that if we fund this group, a political debate could be started with another group of the opposite feeling that requested Senate funds." "Winter said."
Richard Winter, Senate treasurer, said that he thought the group presented one side of what could be an emotional political issue.
The Society of Physics Students had its budget cut from $195 to $150. Committee members said that $25 requested for film rental had not been justified very well and that $20 in phone expenses should also be cut.
Women in Communications Inc. had requested $200 and the committee suggested approving the proposal.
Committee members said that $35 requested for a half page ad in the Jayhawker Yearbook was not the best way to publicize WCI because it came out directly before the end of the semester and effectiveness during the summer break.
Brinkman is named to head KUAC board
Staff Reporter
Bv DEB RIECHMANN
Del Brinkman, dean of the School of Journalism, has accepted the position of chairman of the University of Kansas Athletic Corporation Advisory Board. He will serve as director to strive to keep athletic programs at KU in balance with other university programs.
"I don't think there is an imbalance at KU, but at some places the athletic programs are the tail wagging the dog," Brinkman said.
"The person who is in this position is representing faculty and students to ensure that the relationship between academic and athletic programs is a good one."
The KUAC Advisory Board comprises 21 members selected from KU faculty, staff, students and alumni and meets three times a year. The KUAC Advisory Director, on policy and budgetary matters.
BRUNKMAN ALSO WILL be the faculty representative to the Big Eight Conference and the National Collegiate Athletic Association.
The first meeting Brinkman will attend will be on Oct. 31.
At this meeting, however, J. Harmon McAulish, adjunct professor of business, will preside.
McNish, who has been the chairman for more than four years, resigned last month to devote more time to teaching and other interests.
Besides Brinkman's responsibilities as dean of the School of Journalism, he is also chairman of the University Daily Kansan Board.
he said, however, that his position on the KUAC Advisory Board would not conflict with his own views.
Chancellor Archie R. Dykes, who made the appointment, and Brinkman was highly regarded by his fellow faculty members and would serve with distinction as chairman of the board and as faculty representative to the Big Eight Conference and NCAA.
"IF I WERE editor of the Kansas, that might be a different matter," he said. "I don't see in either role that I'm a person establishing any policy."
Behind the wheel
Staff photo by BRUCE BANDLE
Providing transportation for about 2,800 students is only part of the job for Joe Hicks. 1801 W. Fourth St, who constantly plays some music to break up the day.