Boycott calls worry KU Olympic hopefuls
Sports Writer
By MATT SEELEY
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 bovot only if other methods failed.
"Only as a last resort we demonstrate the world that no matter how much we love sports, our hearts are not strong enough."
ALTHOUGH ANY decision by Carter would have a great effect on the country's participation in the Games, it is the U.S. Olympic Committee that would decide whether to send its athletes boycotting, but the committee's president, Robert Kane,
has said the committee would "be receptive to any admonition on our government."
Timmons' main concern is the athletes. He coached 21 athletes who went to the 1978 U.S. Olympic Trials, and in 1968, 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 all those who participate," one shot in four years. It's not like the Super Bowl where every year only the best in America come out.
What worries Timmons most, he said, 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 is a member of the United Nations, 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 at the French Republic's Olympic event to Moscow.
"If the United States is the only one to boycott, Tunnels said, 'it would be a complete shame for the world.'"
But Theo Hamilton, assistant women's track coach
and a possible participant in the 1980 Olympics disaearred.
"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 Indoor 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 Mickey and Jeff Frost have both played in the past.
for the Olympic Trials, Swimmers Janet Lindstrom and Lanny Shaffer and basketball player Lynette Woodward are headed for the Trials. Durnall Valenell will play in the game, probably will receive an invitation to the Trials.
"There's nothing we can do to stop the Russians," Llandstrom said. "There are too many people who have been working too long and hard for us to pull out."
IF THE UNITED States does go through with the boycott, it will mark the third time in Olympic history a nation or group of nations has withdrawn from the Games.
in 1989, 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 aparthied 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 competitive." "Compete," he adds, "WHAT 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 games were delayed to Timmons, who will be to scatter the Games's events.
"This would mean boxing in one city, track and field in another, and so on," Tremissi 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 to make the Olympic team as a discus thrower.
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 Renorter
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 Jee wasn't laughing because he knew he only had four choices: A. He could live without heat. B. He could fix the heat at his house. C. He could sue his landlord. D. He could move.
Joe is the type of person that State Rep. John Sahbh, D-Lavrence hopes would be elected to the House in 2018, introduced to give tenants a legal, affordable remedy when landlords refuse to make rent.
Under Solbach'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-owned appliances. Solbach said, but not such things as resaintting or recapping.
He said the amendment would "put a remedy into the Landlord-Tenant Act where one does not now exist."
SOLBACH SAY the bill, which is expected to get a House Judiciary Committee approval, does not have a legal, affordable means of forcing negligent landlords to comply with the law.
Solbach said that in Lawrence, the lack of a remedy for getting necessary repairs done most affected students and the elderly—low-income groups that cannot afford to move or bring legal action against their landlords. Under Solbach's bill, a tenant using the landlord's name would be免付 to 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 at his own expense. If the tenant needs help, he should submit a receipt for the work, his next
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.
If the landlord wished to protest paying for the repair, he would rollify the chair. The judge told them not to take small claims court to be reimbursed and to prevent the landlord from receiving the full payment.
The court then would decide whether the tenant had made unnecessary repairs or whether the landlord had been negligent.
"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 record," he said.
CONTRARY TO what most landlords believe the amendment means, Solbach said, no new responsibilities would be created for the landlord.
Solbach said he thought tenants would use the "self-help" provision only when everything else failed.
The Kansas resident Landlord-Tenant Act, passed in 1975, required landlords to maintain minimum health, building and safety codes in their rental units.
"I think it's very important that landlords' interests be protected, and they are protected in this bill," he said. "It won't do the tenant any good to use this bill if he's got
sonach said his bill was designed to offer tenants a remedy and protect landlords rights at the same time.
It's difficult to lose high-quality faculty like Ericsson, "Rutledge said. 'Not only that, but when we lose them, we need to be able to attract people to take their place. In any job opportunity there are several factors, but salaries are a very important
WHEN THE Kansas Legislature passed the Landlord-Tenant Act in 1975, both the House and Senate versions contained "remoril and 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 rentals would have to be raised, because maintenance costs would increase and because they feared tenants would be able to afford the provision to make unnecessary repairs.
However, Solbach and lobbyists in support of the bill said that many landlords misunderstood the bill and that once it was approved, responsible landlords would not oppose it.
Proposed faculty salary called uncompetitive, i
BY GRANT OVERSTAKE
But the proposal, which represents an 8 percent average increase, has been called inadequate by some faculty members.
Staff Renorter
IN ADDITION to a $9,000 per year raise that Erickson received for taking over the pharmacology department at Texas, he
Charles Rutledge, chairman of the department, said yesterday that he had been sorry to see Erickson go and sorry that no financial means of convincing him to vote.
a. Kansas Board of Regents has recommended to Gov. Carlin that $3.05 million be appropriated to the 1981 KU faculty research force for the University's faculty members.
Two years ago, Carl Erickson left his tenured position in KU's department of pharmacology and toxicology, and with his wife she moved to Austin and intervals of travel.
Several KU faculty members now are concerned that an increasing number of professors will be lured away because of the financial inability to pay competitive salaries.
According to Joseph Pichler, dean of the School of Business, the lack of major salary increases puts the school in a position where students are professors or professors with schools of lesser quality.
"I was perfectly satisfied with the personnel at KU." Erickson said yesterday. "It was just the fact that a better offer came along."
"The facts are that we're behind and the 8 percent probably won't close the gap entirely," he said. "I think we will continue to pressure it in keeping highly qualified people."
Rutledge said that KU needed to offer adequate salaries in order to compete for the few toxicologists who were available.
"If they aren't going to be paid what they are worth, then they won't even show up for the interview," he said.
said, he has received $3,000 in raises during the last two years.
According to information in the budget request, the average K? salary levels for assistant professors were 128-139 for assistant professors for the 1978-79 school year ranked between them and the 1986-87 school year as their peer in education.
"The ace we have up our sleeve is a 56-year history of exceptional quality, but this can be eroded over time if people leave."
PICHLER SAID the 8 percent raise might not be enough to keep quality professors in the School of Business.
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A obdundant, 67" score-rebounder with an ego as big as all outdoors. Banks was offered all sorts of items, including a large companionship whenever he wanted it—in unsuccessful attempts to sway his decision. No sooner had he announced his intention than the lovers in the lobby war started circulating ugly rumors about the school. Then, when Banks admitted UCLA and Notre Dame charged back into the backs. Two former Notre Dame stars from the NBA Admiral David Stern and Banks' house in February to put in a plog for the Irish. UCLA countered with telephone calls from Los Angeles may Tom Kellogg and Marquis Johnson West, and Marquis Johnson
BANKSS' experience with high-pressure tactics reads like a fairy tale compared to
like a tairy tale compared to King's. Utwilling to have his parents lives disrupted any further by being waged around him since he was a freshman in high school, King spent most of his senior year hiding behind Winston Karmin – but to little avail. Kentucky recruiter Ion Hardamik sometimes called Karim's wager for Albert. At night the phone never stopped ringing, as though Karim were sponsoring a telethon and King was the nation's leader on the phone wasn't offering anything, he was just checking in, some. However, made offers to Karim in
Despite the pressure, most prep players seem to base their decisions on what skills they can do the most for their basketball careers, or which schools they attend. So few players transfer each year is evidence that the minority make a difference.
tions usually lag about two years behind what is happening out there. I had to think about David Bentle and I doubt whether our casework will let us catch up.
Still, it isn't surprising that a recruiter would battle a rule to try to sign a play like the big bucks from gate receipts, post-season plays, and play and television contracts — in other words, what's important. What is surprising is that despite all the questionable matters on probation by the NCAA
*n course, to ask an Enforcement Committee with only eight investigators to keep abreast of exposes on a national scale is impossible. The committee can call the 20 major college teams breakouts the 20 major NCAA team, and it doesn't claim that ability. "Our investigation*
on of nen in奸ing a massive police force, which still wasn't able to eliminate all recruiting abuses, because the police schools or bishop schools to pass legislation.
k篮球 staff size to four a head coach, two full-time assistants and a graduate assistant. But this didn't help with the team's coach at Georgia, from finding a way to turn a team with no basketball heritage into a potential national star.
"The worst thing about being a recruiter is that to get the players, you first have to become a fixture in their lives. These guys are entertainers, and they're not going to warm up to you until they've seen your smiling face at courtside a half-dozen times."
The Bulldogs have never won 20 games in a season, and Durham knew they weren't about to in his
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tioned design to control each other. The schools are expected to help up the Enforcement Committee by tatting on each other whenever they see or hear a nike. Here are some examples: The schools are supposed to abide by.
- An athletic scholarship pays for room and board, books, tuition, and fees, and nothing more. Cold weather clothes are required. Cornette, airline tickets for the girl back home, cost-free housing, academic manipulation, expensive favors from alumn - the most prestigious degree system - are strictly forbidden.
- An athlete can make an expense-paid visit to a maximum of six schools, but a weekend of lavish activities is also a wealthy program from offering租金 $4,000 a week at a New York Times writer Crag Clariborne, and keeps Nevada Las Vegas from getting a nightly midnight visit to the Sand.
- A school is allowed only three visits to talk to a prospect in his hometown. But this can't prevent the popular practice of "bump-in's," where a recruiter 1,000 miles from home accidentally plays the player in the country at McDonald's in Harrisonburg Virginia.
- Any school that violates an NCAA rule in the process of signing an athlete cannot use him in an NCAA tournament or the "David Thompson rule," this piece of legislation resulted from the fact that North Carolina State University has committed in landing the much-acclaimed Thompson, and then later used him to upset Bill Walton and UCLA on the way to winning the national title.
In a rather limp attempt at carving the number of recruiters who can be on the road at any one time, the NCAA has restricted has
first year in Athens. So last season he single-handedly ran the team and sent his assistant to the road as well, who led the 10 Georgia games, but they recruited what some experts consider the No. 1 freshman class in
(empty beer carts, piles of old newspapers, dirtly clothes) suggests that someone actually lives in this car.
The man who made Durham's rebuilding job a lot easier was Roger Banks, a recruiting specialist who had previously resurrected the team in Pawlins and Georgia Tech. Banks' description of how he landed Dominique Wilkins, a wondrous 70-foot forward from Washington, North Carolina, is typical of what a top-tier coach has to go海拔 earn his kick.
"When I recruit a player from inside my state, I try to draw a circle around him," says Banks. "I say he looks like someone he plays ball with during the summer, a teacher—anyone he likes to or looks up to. First, I sell him the shirt and the staircase close to home—the they can come and see him play or watch on him IV whenever they want, dumurs will pay for it. Second, they hear people market, and so on. They then pass this advice along to him in their own words. The circle gets tighter and lighter and that helps. It also hears people that he knows and loves telling him exactly the same thing I've been telling him. That's what he's doing." Macon, Georgia, but Wilkins was out of state, so I played it the opposite way. I stressed the importance of getting away from
Banks gets away from home a good deal himself. His 1970 Cadillac looks snazzy on the outside, but inside it's showing the effects of the 000-000.000.000.000. Besides the general wear and tear, the extent of the debris
"The worst thing about being a recruser is that to get the players, you have to be nice and put in their lives," says Banks. "These guys are entertainers, and they're not going to warm up to you until they've been in front of you; courside a half-done times. When you've got a line on as many players as I do, that means you're not going to put up."
Last year, for instance, he was pursuing three places in two states. The first place was in Tennessee; it but there were days when I made an appearance in all three places.
"The job wouldn't be so bad if you didn't have to be away from your family so much - sometimes you get sick. You know, you get down is that the situation with a recruit will never hold still for you." Just when he thought Wilkins was looking good last week he got hit by a car and was in North Carolina in moving at Hard. At that point in the season Georgia had won about hull as many games as North Carolina, and Banks was under pressure to
Banks got an assist on "those two glorious days in March when all five ACC teams in post-season play had been announced. I had been promised Durham, with no proof; that we were going to get a player with national ability. When Wilkins signed with Georgetown he finally believed me. Georgetown finally believed me."
HE most demeaning part of the job—the aspect that both recruiters even more than the travel — is that after a hard day at work, they return to the whim of a 17-year-old. For George Fearer, that feeling was most overpowering when he and several other recruiters had to face the same challenge in their hotel room, all of them wanted to speak the same player
"You had to see it to believe it," says Fayer. "One of us would step forward and be the ball game." I then the next man would come up and say, H. Good to see you. Nice bail! He was a great athlete. I always hung around on the off-fance that nobody else would. The player could be so sick of the ball play that he sign with me out of sheer frustration. That may not sound too pretty or in keeping with college athletic should be like. But when you're up against that kind of competition, you learn to take 'em any way.
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"It is going to get tougher and tougher to tougher to this record up if we keep getting screwed by the Legislature. I think it's this year, but I don't know about the next."
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The only thing breaking up yesterday's clear skies were these
billows of smoke flowing from the Kansas Power and Light generating plant on the Kansas River in North Lawrence.