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It's only been a week since the Chicago Cubs won the National League East, and already the fair-weather fans have flocked in from obscurity. Today, Mike Royko comes
down hard on the Johnny-come-latelies and asks, "How can you appreciate Ryne Sandberg if you didn't live through Bob Ramazotti?" See Royko's column page 4
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The University Daily
KANSAN
Vol. 95, No.27 (USPS 650-640)
Tuesday, October 2, 1984
Donovan indicted,temporarily leaves Cabinet
By United Press International
NEW YORK - Labor Secretary Raymond Donovan has been indicted on criminal charges of grand larceny and falsifying records while he was a New Jersey construction company executive in the late 1970s, sources said yesterday.
President Reagan, asked about the indictment during a campaign stop in Biloxi, Miss., told CBS News he did not have "enough information on the details" to comment.
"I have complete trust in his integrity," Reagan said of Donovan. When asked whether he retained confidence in his labor secretary, Reagan nodded his head.
IN A HASTILY CALLED news conference, Donovan said yesterday that he would take an immediate leave of absence from his
Cabin post so that his indictment wouldn't "reflect negatively on the president."
"I can assure you that this is not worth the paper it is written on," Donovan said of the indictment. He said he had not read the charges against him.
It are outraged and disgusted by the actions and the obviously partisan timing of it.
"To assure that this matter does not become a part of the current election campaign, I have asked the president today to accept my request for a leave of absence without pay, effective immediately, and he has granted my request.
DONOVAN, APPARENTLY THE ONLY active Carol member ever to be indicted on ovarian cancer charges.
"I plan to devote all my time and attention to this matter." he said.
to resume his duties as soon as the ordeal was over.
He told reporters, "My concerns are that my family has to endure this mindless inquisition and that this not reflect negatively on the president."
Just last week, Donovan waived immunity and testified almost five hours before a Bronx grand jury, calling its investigation a "witch hunt."
"I am angry," he said. "I am sick of this kind of questions. I know you are. I trust the Amma."
"With the hope, the real hope of once and for all ending this witch hunt, I submitted to a polygraph test. I was not surprised I passed it with flying colors."
THE SOURCES SAID A Brians grand jury returned the criminal indictments against
Secaucus, N.J., and seven current or former executives of the company.
The sources were unable to furnish details on the indictment but said they stemmed from Bronx District Attorney Mario Merola's investigation into Schiavone's relationship with JoPel, a Bronx-based excavation company owned by state Sen. Joseph Galiber, D-Bronx, and reputed mobster William Masselli.
Merola could not be reached for comment on the indictments.
Theodore Geiser, a lawyer for Schivone, said he had not seen the indictment but that he had been informed that the company and its executives were charged with one grand larceny, 125 counts of maintaining a grand larceny, and 11 counts of firing false business records.
GEISER SAID DONOVAN and the seven
other people would be arraigned this morning in the Bronx.
JoPel is a minority business enterprise that did work for Schiavone on the Transit Authority's 63rd Street subway extension. A federal law requires that 10 percent of the project go to minority enterprises. Gilber is black and owned 51 percent of JoPel.
Merola's investigators and the grand jury were probing charges that $8 million allegedly paid to JoPeL by Schiavone in 1979 and 1980 was based on false statements and bogus billings aimed at inflating the value of the work performed by JoPeL.
At the time, Donovan was a Schiavone executive.
See DONOVAN. p. 5, col. 4.
James R. Shortridge, professor of geography, rests in his living room. Shortridge has written a new introduction to
book originally published in 1939, the WPA Guide to Kansas. The book is being reissued by the University Press of Kansas
The Kansas of the '30s revisited
Old WPA guidebook to be reprinted
By MICHAEL TOTTY Staff Renorter
Staff Reporter
The first guidebook to the state of Kansas lists no four star restaurants or Holiday Ins Interstate 70 doesn't cross the state, and the Wakarusa River doesn't fill Clinton Lake.
The University Press of Kansas will re-issue the 45-year-old WPA Guide to Kansas at the end of October. The guide, written and compiled in 1939 by the Federal Writers' Project of the Work Projects Administration, is unchanged, except for a new introduction by James R. Shortridge, professor of geography.
"NOT ONLY IS IT still a wonderful resource for people traveling through the state," said Kate Torrey, acquisitions editor for the University Press. "It is also a historical document that gives insight into the culture of the state during the '30s."
The Writers' Project, which put together
the Kansas guide as a part of its American Guide Series, was established in 1935 to provide work for unemployed writers and researchers during the Depression.
Guides for most states are out of print, but their devotion to local detail has kept them in demand. Library copies are well-worn and bookstores that deal in used books report long waiting lists for copies. Torry said. A number of different university and commercial presses have recently reissued guides from the series.
SHORTRIDGE WRITES IN his introduction that the guides remain popular because "they are literate, complete and thoroughly entertaining companions for the Kansas guidebook captures with the relative sense of place that was the state in 1939.
IN THE INTRODUCTION, Shortridge discusses the changes in the state's physical and social landscape. Besides explaining how the highway numbering system has changed, Shortridge also explores how the image of Kansas has evolved in forty-five years.
"The guide describes ordinary towns as solid, important places. These towns are still largely intact. When you visit them, you want to scratch your head and wonder why those changes took place. It stimulates your curiosity."
"Traveling with the book is almost like having an old crony in the back seat, saying, 'Look over there, turn down that dirt road, there's an old Indian site.' "Shortridge said.
The guide includes two sections on the historical, cultural and commercial background of the state, as well as descriptions of the largest cities and towns. The section on tours details sites, cities and mileage along the state's highways.
"Kansas today has something of an inferiority complex," he said. "It considers itself a backwater, not the first place things happen.
In 1939 Kansans had their greatest feelings of self-worth. They saw themselves as a society that was secure. Small towns were seen as seats of virtue.
Jones reportedly leaving basketball team
Sports Editor
By GREG DAMMAN
Tyrone Jones, this year's most highly touted Kansas basketball recruit behind Danny Manning, reportedly has dropped out of KU and is transferring to the University of Nevada Las Vegas.
Jones' cousin Anthony Jones, a basketball player at UNLV, yesterday told the Las Vegas Review Journal that Tyrone Jones and his team would enroll in college and would enroll at the university in January.
Kansas sports information director Doug Vance said that an announcement concern ing Jones would be made today.
Tyrone Jones could not be reached for comment. Kansas basketball coach Larry Brown was out of town and also could not be reached for comment.
But KU graduate assistant coach Tom Butler last night said, "He's gone. But it wasn't a situation where he was unhappy with the school."
Jones, a 6-foot-6 guard at Dunbar High School in Washington, D.C. last year was a fourth team Parade Magazine All American and averaged 19.5 points a game. As a junior he averaged 19 points and nine rebounds a game.
Kansas basketball player Chris Piper said, "All I know is that he's gone. He just didn't feel comfortable here."
During the summer, he played against Manning in the McDonald's All-Star basket ball game. He signed a letter of intent with the team, and established the early signing period in November 1985.
Jones will not be eligible to play at UNLV until the 1985-86 season.
Jones' coach at Dunbar, Roy Westmore, said last night that he called Brown two days ago after hearing that Jones had left KU. But Brown was out of town, Westmore said, and he did not receive a call back. Westmore last night at his home in Washington, D.C.
"His sister said he was still in Kansas," Westmore said. "I don't know if he's laying out or ducking out or what."
Free parking at games violates rules, IRS says
Staff Reporter
By BRENDA STOCKMAN Staff Reporter
Contributors to the Williams Fund may no longer receive free parking for football and basketball games because of a new interpretation of Internal Revenue Service regulations, the director of the fund said yesterday.
Bob Frederick, fund director and an assistant athletic director, said that next year contributors probably would be asked to pay for their season parking passes.
Jim Manuszack, IRS public affairs officer in Wichita, said that the IRS decided recently that offering benefits in exchange for tax credits is not an issue of consideration and violated its IRS regulation.
CONSIDERATION IS THE receipt of tickets or privileges to a monitory contract.
Now, Frederick said, if someone donates money to the fund, which solicits money for the athletic department, and the contributor buys a season ticket for football or basketball, the fund provides him with free parking for the season.
"So in a sense we're providing parking for a contribution," Frederick said.
The fund reimburses the University of Kansas Parking Services for use of the parking spaces, Fredrick said The Fund supports the basketball games for both football and basketball games.
Parking Services charges the fund $2.50 a space for each football game, and $1.50 a space for each basketball game.
THE WILLIAMS FUND has reserved all of the parking lots surrounding Memorial
Stadium, except for spaces used by game-management officials, University of Kansas Athletic Corporation staff and the disabled, Frederick said.
For basketball games, the fund has all the lots surrounding Allen Field House, except half of the O-zone parking lot south of the stadium and the grass lot behind Oliver Hall.
Jim Hersberger, a contributor to the fund,
said of the potential charge for parking
spaces, "Who cares? That's so little. I don't
even use all my parking places."
Hershberger he received six to 10 parking places each year because of his own driving skills.
The tax on parking places would be so minimal compared 'o the donations that the IRS decision would have little impact on fund contributors, he said.
Frederick said he did not know what impact the ruling might have on the ticket sales policy. Fund contributors now have the power to make the tickets are available to the general public.
HERSIBERGER, A WICHITA oilman,
contributed $125.00 on board to the
building of the Oil & Gas Company.
Jerry Waugh, a contributor to the fund, said, 'I don't support the University of Kansas or the athletic department for what I think I believe in what the institution stands for.'
Waugh, vice president of Alvamar Golf and Country Club, said that some people might be affected by a policy change but that many contributors would feel as he did.
THE ATHLETIC DEPARTMENT is seek
See TAXES, p. 5, col. 4
Supreme Court upholds rape law; ruling praised
Staff Reporter
By LAURETTA SCHULTZ
The U.S. Supreme Court's decision yesterday to uphold a lower-court ruling on a 1969 Kansas rape law has secured an important protection for rape victims, some local rape prevention advocates said.
The Kansas law considered in the case states that rape victims do not have to prove they resisted a sexual attack and defined rape as sexual intercourse without consent when a woman's resistance is overcome by force or fear
"This is great," said Jana Svoboda, co-director of the Douglas County Rape Victim Support Service. "Well over half of all rape victims don't show external signs, such as bruises, that they resisted attack. But 80 percent say the attack involved the threat of force or the use of force."
ANN ORZEK, THE other support service director, said the service dealt with the matter of resistance in most rape cases they handled.
"The Kansas law legitimizes the fact that you have to use your common sense in interpreting your actions."
"The question of resistance plays in several different factors in a rape case, especially in the area of guilt." Orzek said. "A woman may think 'I should have resisted more if the law says I have to do that.' Kansas laws help avoid this."
Jerry Harper. Douglas County district attorney, also said the law was important
"Prior to the 1969 law, you had to demonstrate at the trial that the victim had resisted almost to the point of death," he said. "But in fact, a person can be intimidated simply by somebody's physical presence.
"SOMETIMES WHEN A rape had obviously been committed, a guilty person could just walk away because it couldn't have caused the victim had been physically overcome."
The Supreme Court action was a refusal to hear an appeal by Joseph Cantrell, who was convicted in 1982 by an Olathe district court jury of rape.
A Johnson County jury convicted Cantrell in November 1982 and he was sentenced to 5-20 years in prison. Cantrell then appealed his case to the Kansas Supreme Court twice and finally appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court on grounds that the Kansas law was unconstitutionally vague.
Harper said, however, that he thought the law involved in the case was not too vague and that the court had ruled correctly.
"THE VAGUENESS ARGUMENT can be applied to a lot of laws and should be if it’s appropriate," he said. "In this case, it is. This law is not vague and it’s a good ruling."
He also said that in order for the law to be unconstitutionally vague, the average person would not be able to understand what behavior was expected by the law.
"A person is entitled to understand what the law is prohibiting if they read it."