Rovcott calls worry KU Olympic hopefuls
By MATT SEELEY
Snorts Writer
In 30 days the XIII Winter Olympics will be history.
In 30 days, barring a Soviet military withdrawal from Afghanistan, the United States' part in the Summer Olympics may be history.
President Carter's announcement Sunday that the United States will boycott the Games unless the Russians withdraw from Afghanistan within a month has sent shock waves through amateur athletics.
Athletes have attacked Carter and other politicians for using the Olympics as a political tool. Politicians say that the Olympic Games cannot be separated from politics.
Bob Timmons, men's track coach and a former member of the U.S. Olympic Track and Field Committee, said he thought the United States should use the hovercraft if other methods failed.
"Only as a last resort should we demonstrate to the world that no matter how much we love sports, our hearts are not in danger."
ALTHOUGH ANY decision by Carter would have a great effect on the country's participation in the war, it could also force a boycott. The USOC is strongly opposed to a boycott, but the committee's president, Robert Kane,
has said the committee would "be receptive to any admonition from our government."
Timmons' main concern is the athletes. He coached 21 athletes who went to the 1976 U.S. Olympic Trials, and in 1986, he coached medal winner Jim Ryun. He said he planned to coach as many this year.
"The Olympics mean more to the athletes than any other competitive event from the standpoint of a nation." The 2016 shotgun one shot in two film. It's not like the Super Bowl where you only buy the only best in America come together to compete.
What worries Timmons most, is that the United States might be the only nation to boycott the Games. Saudia Arabia has indicated that it would boycott, but although Saudi Arabia did not attend the Committee, the Saudis have never had a team in the Olympics. Egypt and Fiji have said they would go along with a U.S. decision. Australia and Great Britain are considering support of the United States. But yesterday France rejected the move.
"If the United States is the only one to boycott, Timmons said, "it would be a complete shame for the U.S. government."
But Theo Hamilton, assistant women's track coach
and a possible participant in the 1980 Olympics, disarrond.
"I don't think we should go over there," he said.
"There's too much turmoil. Athletes aren't politicians. I just hope that everything gets resolved soon, whether I go or not."
HAMILTON, a former KU long jumper who won the NCAA Inland Championship in 1975, missed the 1976 Montreal Olympics by a few inches. He said this would be his last try for the Olympic team.
hamilton isn't the only athlete with KU ties training for the Olympics. Lester Muckenbach and Jeff Bass have been competing in the national title.
for the Olympic Trials, Swimmers Janet Lindstrom and Lanny Shaffer and basketball player Lynette Woodward are headed for the Trials. Darnal Valen-Torres is also a player, probably will receive an invitation to the trials.
"There nothing we can do to stop the Russians," Lindstrom said. "There are too many people who have beer; working too long and hard for us to pull out."
IF THE UNITED does go through with the boycott, it will mark the third time in Olympic history a nation of nations has withdrawn from the Games.
In 1956, Spain, Switzerland and The Netherlands withdrew from the Melbourne Olympics in protest of the Soviet invasion of Hungary. Twenty years later in Montreal, 28 African nations withdrew in protest of New Zealand's participation. New Zealand had close ties with the apartheid government of South Africa.
Timmons said, "The worst part of all this is the tremendous respect Russian and American athletes have for each other. I know our athletes would be disappointed if they were to compete." SO WHAT options does the U.S. have?
Timmons said it was not practical to move the Games.
"There has been some interest in postponing the Olympics for one year," Timmons said. "That's not a bad idea. But, any more than a year's wait, forget it." The Olympics would be cancelled to Timmons, would be to scatter the Games events.
"This would mean boxing in one city, track and field in another, and so on," Timmons said. "The Games might lose some excitement, but that's better than losing them completely."
Marian Washington, women's basketball coach, said she knew how an athlete might feel about losing a chance to compete in the Olympics. She tried and failed three time to make the Olympic track team as
Washington, like Timmons, would favor an alternate site for the Games.
"That would be a great way to resolve our concerns," Washington said. "The athletes would get to compete, but it would in no way undermine our government."
Editor's note: This is the first of a multipart series dealing with KU and its ties to the Olympic Games. Tomorrow: A look at a pair of old-time Olympians, A.C. "Dutch" Lomborg and Dean Nesmith.
Tenant problems focus of Solbach
By STEVE YOUNG Staff Reporter
Joe rents an apartment in Lawrence with some fellow students. His landlord laughed when Joe told him that the heat was not working.
But Joe was not laughing because he knew he only had four choices: A) He could live without heat. B) He could fix the heat at his own expense. C) He could sell his landlord. D) He could buy a car.
Joe is the type of person that State Rep. Sheilah Solich, D-Denver, hopes would be used to support the transition to protected to give tenants a legal, affordable remedy when landlords refuse to make payments.
Under Solach's "self-help" amendment to the Landlord-Tenant Act, a tenant could
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take steps to have needed repair work done if the landlord fails to comply with the lease or existing provisions in the act.
Such work might include fixing broken plumbing or landlord-applied appliances. Solbach said, but not such things as repainting or recarpeting.
SOLACH SAID the bill, which is expected to get a House Judiciary Committee vote, said it did not have a legal, affordable means of forcing foreclosed landlords to comply with new rules.
He said the amendment would "put a remedy into the Landlord-Tenant Act where one does not now exist."
Solbach said that in Lawrence, the lack of a remedy for getting necessary repairs done most affected students and the elderly—low-income students—has to bring legal action against their landlords.
Under Solbach's bill, a tenant using the "self-belief" provision would have to notify his landlord in writing that the tenant intended to have a repair made.
If the landlord chose not to make the repair himself, the tenant could have the work done on his own expense. If the tenant fails to pay the rent or submit a request for the work, his next
month's rent and a $2 fee to a district court clerk.
The CLERK would then notify the landlord that the work had been done, and send the landlord the rent check—minus the cost of the repairs.
Repairs would be limited to $100 or one half the monthly rent, whichever was greater.
The court then would decide whether the tenant had made unnecessary repairs or whether the landlord had been negligent.
Sobach said he thought tenants would use the "self-help" provision only when everything else failed.
"I do not foresee tenants using this before they go to see their landlords on an informal basis. Tenants are only going to use it as a last resort." he said.
CONTRARY TO what most landlords believe the amendment means, Solbach said, no new responsibilities would be created for the landlord.
The Kansas Resident Landlord-Tenant Act, passed in 1975, required landlords to maintain minimum health, building and safety codes in their rental units.
Solbach said his bill was designed to offer tenants a remedy and protect landlords' rights at the same time.
"I think it's very important that landlords' interests be protected, and they are protected in this bill," he said. "It won't do a lot of harm to us to use this bill if it's got a good landlord."
WHEN THE KANSAS Legislature passed the Landlord-Tenant Act in 1975, both the House and Senate versions contained "repair or deduct" provisions.
However, when the bill went to a conference committee to iron out differences in the two bills, the remedy was stricken from the measure.
Landlords have vigorously opposed Solbach's "self-help" on the grounds that rents would have to be raised, because maintenance costs would increase and because they earned tenants would be able to use the provision to make unnecessary
However, Solbach and lobbyists in support of the bill said that many landlords misunderstood the bill and that once it was passed, responsible landlords would not oppose it.
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"The facts are that we're behind and the 8 percent probably won't close the gap entirely," he said. "So I think we will continue to maintain it in keeping highly-nagged people."
Charles Rutledge, chairman of the department, said yesterday that he had been sorry to see Ericdon go and say he had no financial means of convincing him.
Two years ago, Carl Ericickson left his tenured position in KU's department of pharmacology and toxicology, and with his two friends he moved to Austin and the University of Texas.
"The ace we have up our sleeve is a 66-year history of exceptional quality, but this can be eroded over time if people leave."
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Rutledge said that KU needed to offer adequate salaries in order to compete for the few toxicologists who were available.
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