THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
Vol.89, No.12
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Tuesday, September 12, 1978
Housecleaning complaints continue
Problems with the housecleaning firm hired by the University of Kansas last December continue to hamper the efficiency of the department of facilities and operations, according to Rodger Orok, director of facilities operations.
The firm, American Management Services, assumed the juntiorial contract at KYD.
Complaints about the company's service began to surface last spring. Most of the complaints were about dirty hallways and entry ways and cluttered classrooms.
In July, Russel Mills, University director of support services, told American Management officials at a meeting at the company's Denver headquarters that if
housecleaning service did not improve, KU would end the contract.
NOW TRASH removal, or the lack of it, is causing complaints from faculty in several departments.
Ten days ago, Mills and Oroke toured three University buildings. They said conditions were improving but neither was completely satisfied. They called the improvements "reasonable," and said they expected more to come.
Ouroke troiled another building, Smith Hall, on Friday. He said it was disappeared shortly after.
Complaints about other buildings also have been made by some KU faculty.
"I KNOW I'm in no official capacity to assess the job the jantorists are doing," a graduate student who has an office in Learned Hall said Friday. "But I do know my trash can hasn't been emptied in over a week, and the dish is piled up about a foot over the rim."
A newspaper dated Aug. 28 was found in the bottom of the can. The graduate student also said his office had not been swept for several days.
three boxes, partially filled with trash, were stacked on top of a trash can.
In each of the rooms, according to the gentle student, the cans had not been emptied.
Ron Hiser, who directs American Management's housecleaning at KU, said American Management had 88 workers on its night crew. He said absenteeism was causing the biggest problem in the janitorial service.
DURING THE last work week, he said,
there was an average of 17 absences each day.
Hisar said getting his employees to follow a routine for cleaning the buildings was a challenge.
Kassebaum says viewpoints differ
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By TIM SHEEHY
Staff Reporter
Nancy Landon Kassabe, Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate, said yesterday that the issues of time extension for the Equal Rights Amendment and inflation were beginning to separate her from Bill Roy, her Democratic opponent.
Kassbaum appeared in *Lawrence yesterday* to dedicate the new Republican Party headquarters, 84 W. 23rd St., and to honor internets and sororites on the KU campus.
At the ceremony, which was attended by local and state Republican candidates, Kassebaum said her position on the Equal Rights Amendment extension differentiated her from Roy. Kassebaum opposes the extension and Roy favors it.
"THE DIALOGUE concerning the ERA has become sharp and misunderstood." Kassebaum said. "I think we should marshal our strength for specific legislation designed to further the cause of women's rights."
Kasshembau said that, like her opponent, she thought inflation was the overriding issue in the campaign. She attacked Roy's idea of starting a separate department of education, saying that such a move could have cost as much as $8 billion to the federal budget.
Cutting government spending is the key to fighting inflation, she said, and the Senate will vote on a budget amendment.
"The Senate is becoming a bureaucracy in itself," Kassebaum said. "The constant addition of staff is only serving to isolate the Senators."
Kassebam said massive tax cuts would be unnecessary until inflation was controlled.
"WE NEED to prove the strength of our convictions by cutting government spending before we venture to cut taxes," Kassebaum said.
However, she said she would support a 25 to 35 percent cut in the capital gains tax.
Kassebah also said she opposed tuition tax credits for parents with students in
college. She said the tax credits could add $1.2 billion to the federal deficit.
Kassbaum defended her position against legislation that would require 100 percent parity for farm products. She said she should be achieved in the marketplace.
"I DON'T say 'I'm for parity because it would be a false promise,' she said. "It's just not going to pass the Congress. Solving inflation would greatly relieve the troubles of the farmers since essentially that is where their problem began."
Kassbaum said she would support actions to strengthen efforts to market agricultural goods abroad, such as using the internet for leverage for foreign bargaining power.
Roy has said during his campaign that his previous experience in Congress and his previous lawyer made him more qualified than Kashese for the Senate. Kassebeau said she thought she was equally qualified to serve because she had experience in the standing of the issues and knowledge of politics.
She said her one-year term as a caseworker for Sen. James Pearson alone
Roy, in reference to Kassebaum's party affiliation, said she would be a "minority within a minority" if elected and would not be an influential committee assignments.
"ON THE contrary," Kassebaum said.
think a freshman female senator would be given quite good committee assignments.
and recognize the value of the female vote.
Kassbaum, daughter of Alf Landon, former Kansas governor and 1936 Republican presidential candidate, said she thought voter recognition of her maiden campaign was the most important campaign but wasn't sure what it would have in the Nov. 7 general election.
"I realize it is an advantage, but I don't want to overdit it." "Kassanbaum said.
Kassbauer sandwiched her visit to Lawrence between morning and evening
State fair
State fair brings crowds, carneys together
Day and night, people crowd the midway (above) at the Kansas State Fair to ride the ferris wheel, the most popular ride, which includes a ticket taker patiently waits outside an exhibit of museum figures. The exhibitions include images of Elvis Presley, John F. Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe. (Below). The harkers can passertily to try their game.
Staff Photo by TRISH LEWIS
Bv CAROLINE TROWBRIDGE
Staff Renorter
HUTCHINSON—The ticket takers are wandering to their places in the boots outside the fairgrounds as the team leaves.
One by one the carnival boops open, and the midway
one to life with aids of, 'Hey, get me some coffee. I
would like you to help.'
Crowds won't hit the midway for about two hours, but the clean-up crews from the Kansas State Industrial Reformatory have their broths out to sweep the debris carelessly dropped by weary people the night before.
Two men take teddy bears from carts filled to the brim with stuffed animals and toss them onto the floor of the hula hoop booth. They stop their work when someone comes to show them his picture in the newspaper. A hero again.
THEN IT BEGINS. The shouts luring people and their money to the booths are sporadic at first. The workers don't
"I'll take them all—short, fat, thin or tall. Who's going to be the one to fool the guesser?"
"Come on in. Yeah, we're open. Come on, come on. Yeah,
yeah, you're next."
The crowd fills the midway and carners become aggressive as more and more people pass them by.
SUDDENLY THE ACTION intensifies. The crowd decides it's time to try its luck at the basketball toss, or get a minute-and-a-half thrill from the double roller coupler. The workers are happy to obligate the money-spenders.
The music from the T-shirt and food booth is disco, loud disco, and the people are drawn to the beat.
"Step right up and buy your corn dogs. Let Fred show you what a cheese puppy is."
The energy of the crowd and workers rise and fall. For a while, the crowd is content just to walk up and down the street. The crowd falls and slams down.
"Here, I'll show you how to toss the ball in so it won't pop out."
Strangely, the customer is never quite as accurate as the men who have been working the same booth for three or four
"Yeah, that's it. You almost got it. Nice and easy. Nice and awful, Aw, awfully, but you gotta it more."
Some of the workers stay with the company only a few months and move on for various reasons.
"A LOT OF CARNIVAL people are out here because they're running from something," said one carney. "There are a lot of Canadians working here that don't have any job or anything, I started here because I wanted to travel."
The chatter slows down again while the people walk off the hot ashcraft on the midway into the food stands for breakfast.
The company does travel. From March 29 to Oct. 29 it goes through the routine of setting up rides and boots, working the crowds for sometimes 15 hours a day, and then going to another town in a train for days just to repeat the schedule in another town.
When they emerge, the lights are on and the barkers again are vocal.
"Hey, I'm a hometown boy, born and raised in Hutchinson. Next week, I'll be born and raised in Lawton.
"WE'LL SHOW you the way in and you find the way out of the glass house."
The roar of the engines propelling the rides competes with the barkers until the crowds grow tired and their steps deplete.
It's time to go home. It's time to get some food—not any more of the cotton candy, corn dogs or candied apples. It's time to slide into bed after a day of tramping up and down the midway. It's time to meet those dates that probably won't come through but you have to try because it's your first night in town.
It's time to close down and wait for the day to repeat itself tomorrow.
Staff Photo by TRISH LEEWIS
Ready for rain
Rain hats, coats and boots are unnecessary precautions yesterday afternoon, when it looked as if it would rain. A 40 percent chance of rain is predicted for today.
Shortage of cables delays phone service
Staff Renorter
By PHILIP GARCIA
Jill Dillon, Pomona junior, had a phone installed Aug. 28, but it will be the end of the month before she will be able to dial out on the phone for the first time.
A lack of cables to handle new telephone installations at the Kappa Alpha Theta Sorority, 1433 Tennessee St., has left Dillon and 19 other members of the sorority unable to use room phones until the end of September. The Bell Telephone Co. official said yesterday.
"There is a problem near 14th and Tennessee streets where there are not enough cables to provide service." Paulu Knight, manager of Southwestern Hell's local office, said.
Knight said more cables had to be placed in order to get more transmitter-receiver connections.
SARAH TOEVS, Shawnee Mission senor and sorority member, said the problem was that the sorority was installing room phones for the first time. The phone company was having trouble with the wiring of about 10 phones, she said. About 40 phones were
installed this fall. Members of the security used four telephone house lines before the attack.
She said that the problem at the sorcerry was an isolated incident and that the normal waiting period after installation was two weeks. She insisted that she had to wait, she said, the wait was usually one week.
"IT IS A hassle," she said, "because you cannot call out or I have to make expensive calls."
Dillon said she first discovered her phone did not work when she received calls on her line that had been dialed to nearby Sellartis Scholarship Hall.
She said she was told by telephone installation personnel that cables had to be installed and that it would be Oct. 5 before she could make calls.
Knight said an order to install extra cable in the area had been made before fail enrollment, but installation had been delayed.
Members of the sorority were not informed of the cable problem because the company's installation department could not dialed until the installations were made.
Staff Reporter
By JAKE THOMPSON
Entrance examinations cause some to worry
Dave Baker, St. Louis senior, is talking to friends, reviewing English, math and logic, taking sample tests and becoming more nervous each day.
Baker will take the Law School Admissions Test Oct. 14. He said yesterday the test was too hard.
"I if mess it up, that's all she wrote," he said. "Next fall I'd be out job hunting."
Baker, who took the LSAT last summer,
he said he was taking it again to try improve
his test scores.
“It’s very important to me,” he said.
“I wanted to go to school for a long time. If I don’t do well . . . I don’t even want to think of it.”
He probably is not the only KU student with this attitude. There are more than 500 KU students who have been given in September and October for law, medical and dental and school ap-
plications.
Some students, however, are not worried about the test they will take. For example, Merid Hodge, Salina junior, who will take the Medical College Admissions Test Sept. 12, was not worried because he was taking the test a year before most students regularly do.
To prepare, Hodges has enrolled in a course offered by the Stanley H. Kaplan Institute of Applied Mathematics.
Students usually take the MCAT during the second semester of their junior year and Hodges said he planned to take the test again at that time.
"I'm not that worried about this one," he said. "You realize you're going to be grab out of the saddle on a few questions, but you can come. Can spring, I will be upright."
provides lectures, tapes, curriculum reviews and mock MCATs.
Kaplan also offers courses preparing students for the ISAT, the Graduate Admissions Test and the Dental Admissions Test. The courses last from seven to nine weeks and cost from $275 to $375. After a few months, complete, $30 is returned to the student.
The courses are scheduled to end one week before the actual test date and Hodges said a student could spend four to 20 hours in reviewing the material Kaplan provided.
"You could put a whole semester's work into the review." Hodges said. "But I'm going to spend the last week before the MCAT cramming."
Last year, more than 2,000 KU students took the five admissions tests, according to Henry Wigington, an employee at the Counseling Center. Wigington organized and supervised four of the tests given on the KU campus.
Wichita, Manhattan and Kansas City, Mo., will be the sites for this year's DAT Wingington said last week. The first DAT date is Oct. 7.
The first testing dates of the other tests are MCAT, Sept. 30; LSAT, Oct. 14; GRE, Oct. 21 and the GMAT, Oct. 28. In the first semester the students took the four tests given on campus and Wigington said he expected the same number would take the first test this year.
Students may register for the remaining three MCATs at the Counseling Center, 116 Bailey Hall. Registration for the LSAT is in Green Hall.
Registration deadlines for the remaining
areas are: LSAT, SEAT, 14; GRE, Sep; 25;
ESAT.