Mistaken identities
Democrat Mike Glover and Republican Jim Flory, the candidates for Douglas County district attorney, say they are often seen as people they're not — Glover as the radical
young legislator "Marijuana Mike," and Flory, pictured in the foreground at left, as a conservative. But they say experience, not images, should decide the race. See page 3.
The University Daily
Dreary High, 50s. Low, 40s. Details on page 3.
KANSAN
Vol. 95, No. 44 (USPS 650-640)
Thursday, October 25, 1984
Members of the press gather around Monte Johnson, athletic director, as he explains features of the new Anschutz Sports
Pavilion. The formal opening for the building will be at 10 a.m.
Saturday
Sports pavilion to open its doors
Reagan said that Mondale "said every nuclear weapons system would be subject to a freeze, even though his running mate now admits they don't verify Soviet violations in the form of stockpiling or warheads. That's the record, not rhetoric."
Bv BRENDA STOCKMAN
With paint fumes heavy in the air, workmen hurried yesterday to put the finishing touches on the Fred B. Anschutz Sports Pavilion before the building's dedication Saturday morning.
"MR. MONDALE CLAIMED he would keep America strong," Reagan said, declaring his challenger had the "worst record" on defense during his 12 years in the Senate.
It marked the second time this week that Reagan has faced hecklers. His first encounter was at the University of Portland, Ore. Tuesday.
Attached to the front of the pavilion is the new Shaffer-Holland Strength Center, which will also be completed this week. Monte Johnson, athletic director, said yesterday.
strength center, said that his firm had built several similar buildings and that KU's was the nicest and most modern. Bucon Inc. is a subsidiary of Butler Manufacturing Co.
By BRENDA STOCKMAN Staff Reporter
Reagan was cheered loudly by most of the 13,000 people at an indoor rally at Ohio State University, but was taunted by a cluster of 50 to 75 protesters who frequently chanted in unison "It just ain't so" as the president attacked his Democratic rival.
The building will be dedicated at 10 a.m. Saturday, said Doug Vance, sports information director. An open house, spon-
sored by the school's athletic coaches and athletes, will begin at 5 p.m.
Shortly after Reagan's exchange on the nuclear freeze, some of the crowd began chanting: "Fritz is a wimp, Fritz is a wimp." A smiling Reagan told them, "You're tempting me beyond my strength," but refrained from further comment.
The remark touched off taunting chants of "You can't pull back" from the hecklers.
ROBERT STANCLIFT, SOFTBALL coach,
said, "I feel it will be a tremendous boost to
The crowd repeatedly shouted down the protesters with chants of "Four more
The softball, baseball and golf teams as well as the football and men's and women's track teams will use the pavilion, Temple said.
Floyd Temple, assistant athletic director, said the two new facilities would give the University of Kansas the only multisport indoor practice area that included a football field in the Big Eight Conference.
Anschutz Pavilion, which covers 2% acres, has a 90-yard football field and a 1/4 mile track that includes an Acutron timing system under the surface around the track. Johnson
CHARLES A. JACKSON, project manager for Bucon Inc., which built the pavilion and
each of our athletes . . . This will provide us with the space to do almost everything we could outside
President Reagan was confronted by hecklers again yesterday while Walter Mondale made an emotional plea to voters to change their minds by the millions and give him an upset victory like Harry Truman's on election day.
By United Press International
THE REAGAN AND Mondale campaigns are feeding whether or not the president once said nuclear missiles could be recalled after they were fired. Reagan says he was referring to the submarines and bombers that carry some of the weapons.
Reagan, who dismissed earlier chants by saying, "I know it's going to break their hearts, but I can't understand a word they are saving," got the message this time.
Meagan closed by referring to the hecklers. "America's best years are yet to come," he said. "And they're going to hate this, but you ain't seen nothing yet."
Reagan faces hecklers; Mondale asks for upset
Temple said the final practice schedule for the teams was not complete, but tentatively the track teams would practice from 1:30 until 4 p.m. The football team would practice from 4:30 until 7 p.m. From 7 to 9 p.m. the pavilion would be used by the softball, baseball and golf teams.
Mondale, campaigning in rural areas along the Mississippi River also provoked rebellion.
sitting together in the second tier of the arena.
Nets and batting cages for hitting baseballs, softballs and golf balls haven't been installed yet. Temple said, but the nets and netting are by December when winter practices start.
Temple said the pavilion would not only offer the football and track teams indoor
"MY OPPONENT HAS no plan or vision for farmers," Mondale said, standing in front
See ANSCHUTZ, p. 5, col. 4
See POLITICS, p. 5, col. 1
Program helps jobless manage
BY HOLLIE B. MARKLAND
Staff Reporter
One man is afraid he will lose his house.
Other unemployed people in a workshop at the University of Kansas struggle to find work.
The program, which lasts for three hours each day, includes a combination of role-playing in interview situations, contacting employers by telephone, exchanging job leads and writing resumes and cover letters to help the workers find jobs, Ryan said.
The man is one of 14 former Stokely-Van Camp Inc employees who are in the final days of the workshop designed to build their self-esteem and prepare them to find other
The workshop is not only for Stokely-Van Camp workers, Ryan said. The Adult Life Resource Center could counsel any unemployed person.
The Stokely Van Camp plant in Lawrence
but down on Oct 1, and 125 employees lost
job.
SHE CONDUCTS THE workshop with Elie Le Compte, a counselor and a graduate student in counseling psychology. They will
actually, do things," said Colleen Ryan, counselor at the Adult Life Center with a doctorate in education policy and administration.
"It's really worthwhile." Le Compte said. "One woman came in angry and frustrated, and she wanted to work a production job.
"It's an experiential project where people
conduct another workshop for unemployed Stokvel-Can Camp workers on Nov. 7.
See STOKELY, p. 5, col. 4
Faculty petition favors rights of GLSOK group
By DAVID LASSITER
Staff Reporter
Some faculty members plan to ask Chancellor Gene A. Budig and the University administration to condemn attacks against Gay and Lesbian Services of Kansas or its members.
A letter and petition have been circulating within the University soliciting the signatures of faculty members in support of keeping GLSOK on campus.
The petition says that recent attacks on CLSOK are in violation of the civil rights of those who were attacked.
"We insist on a sane, orderly and humane campus," the petition says. "We are confident that the administration of the University of Kansas will act forthwith."
ROBERT SHELTON, associate professor of communication studies and religious studies and a supporter of the petition, said, "We want the administratio- nary to be more involved in University community that the civil rights of students are going to be supported."
Some faculty members who signed the petition said they did not know when the petition would be submitted to the administration.
William Tuttle, professor of history, said the petition was started because of a lack of response from administrators in Strong Hall.
"There's an ugly atmosphere on cam pus," he said, "that has to be stopped."
Tuttle said recent student actions had demonstrated an increase of homophobia, the fear of everything that has to do with the lifestyle of homosexuals.
THE ADMINISTRATION has made general statements denouncing discrimination in any form, he said. They have been accused of anti-Semitism, racism and sexism.
"They have got to make a specific statement now that denounces homosexuality."
He said the statement should come from Budig or another high level administrator
The letter attached to the petition contains the names of 26 faculty members from various schools and academic disciplines.
"The number of signatures doesn't matter," said Tuttle. "It doesn't matter if there is one or 1,000. There is a serious moral issue involved."
Ruth Litchwardt, president of GLOSK, said that she knew about the faculty petition and that any statements that would come from it could help calm the feeling of homophobia on campus.
"THE STATEMENT COULD point out to people that we have the same civil rights as everyone else," she said, "and
See PETITION, p. 5, col. 3
Baseball's loss of Nitcher was University's gain
By JOHN HANNA Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
Notcher, now 69 and the director of business and fiscal affairs at the University of Kansas, admits he has little time to follow the game today. Instead, he follows the progress of KU's budget.
A filling station in downtown Pomona kept a chalkboard and radio in front of the building. The sounds of baseball drifted from the radio.
"One day, several of us went down to listen to the ball game." Nitcher said. "We missed half of the afternoon."
And a young Keith Nitcher and his friends from Pomona Rural High School spent their lunch hours downtown.
A man at the station kept a line score on the chalkboard.
HOWEVER, WHEN HE was growing up on his family's 160-acre farm outside of Pomona, a town in northwestern Franklin County that had fewer than 500 inhabitants, the radio that broadcast the games was one of his few contacts with the rest of the world.
and Hall of Fame pitcher Dizzy Dean won two of them.
That radio brought him the St. Louis Cardinals — the famous "Gas House Gang" of the '30s In particular, Nitcher remembers the 1934 World Series, when his team defeated the Detroit Tigers in seven games.
The radio also gave Nither a desire to be a play-by-play announcer like Mel Allen or
"I guess I struck out too many times when I was playing," he said. "Let's just say I was not one of the great hitters. I saw play by chance as a chance to be a part of the action."
BUT TEACHING WAS a more secure profession, Nitcher said. In 1941, he started teaching seventh and eighth grade at a local high school in Palo Alto, Lobo, about 30 miles, southwest of Pomona.
He was drafted the next year, and he spent four years with the U.S. Army in the Philippines and Korea, where he worked mainly as a clerk in Army Intelligence.
Nitcher said his interest in accounting started in the army, when he met an officer from the Army.
After his discharge, he went back to college and graduated from Washburn University in Topeka. He later held jobs at Washburn related to accounting and at an accounting firm in Ottawa. In 1954, he received his certified public account certificate.
"It sounded like he had a a good job," he said.
HE ALSO TOOK A job with the Kansas Department of Administration, a job that would bring him to the attention of KU officials who dealt with the state.
In 1857, Raymond Nichols, then executive secretary to Chancellor Franklin Murphy, hired Nitcher as comptroller because he wanted to bring modern methods to the job.
Modern methods, Nichols said recently, meant hiring a man with a CPA certificate who kept annual budget reports. Nitcher compiled the first one himself in 1958.
"I think he'll be remembered for bringing the University accounting system into the school."
Nichter also had a reputation for order. Nichols said his desk probably was the first one he ever worked at.
Today, four or five stacks of computer printouts and other papers sit neatly on his desk in a Strong Hall office. A small jar of candy rests there, and an adding machine is
AND NITCHER POINTS with pride to 20-year-old pictures of the University's business staff in his office.
"My desk is more cluttered than it used to be," he said. "The University is more crowded."
"I like to cross all my t's and dot all my t's. I like to think that if Keith Nitcher says it's, so writes a report or issues a financial statement, it's not window dressing."
Nitcher served as compretter until he replaced Nichols as vice chancellor for
See NITCHER p. 5, col. 1
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