Boycott calls worry KU Olympic hopefuls
BvMATTSEELEY
Sports Writer
In 30 days the XIII Winter Olympics will be history.
In 30 days, harbor a Soviet military withdrawal from Afghanistan, the United States' part in the Summer Olympics also 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 boxout only if other methods failed.
"Only as a last resort should we demonstrate to the world that no matter how much we love sports, our team can not win."
--has said the committee would "be receptive to any admonition from our government."
ALTHOUGH ANY decision by Carter would have a great effect on the country's participation in the Games, it is the U.S. Olympic team is strongly opposed to a boycott, but the committee's president, Robert Kane,
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 the sport," said Michele Bianchi, one shot in four years. It's not like the Super Bowler 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. Saudi Arabia has indicated that it would boycot the International Olympic 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 a boycott of the games. France accepted the Russians' invitation to Moscow.
"If the United States is the only one to boycott, Tammons said, "it would be a complete shame for the world."
But Theo Hamilton, assistant women's track coach
and a possible participant in the 1880 Olympics, disgarded.
"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 Mickens and Jeff Gleason have also joined.
for the Olympic Trials, Swimmers Janet Lindstrom and Lanny Shaffer and basketball player Lynette Woodward are headed for the Trials. Darnal Vernel and Craig Foster, the player, 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.
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 compete," he adds. "So WHAT options does the U.S. have?"
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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 are scheduled to Timmons would be to scatter the Games events.
"This would mean boxing in one city, track and field in another, and so on," Trimmons 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 track team as a
discuss 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" Lonborg and Dean Nesmith.
Tenant problems focus of Solbach
By STEVE YOUNG Staff Renorter
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 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 own heart. C) He could sue his landlord. D) He could move.
Joe is the type of person that State Rep. Sibach, D-Lavence, hopes would be elected to office. He was introduced to give tenants a legal, affordable remedy when landlords refuse to make payments.
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.
SOLBACH SAID the bill, which is expected to get a House Judiciary Committee approval, did not have a legal, affordable means of forcing negligent landlords to comply with the law.
He said the amendment would "put a remedy into the Landlord-Tenant Act where one does not now exist."
Such work might include fixing broker plumbing or landlord-applied appliances Solbach said, but not such things as resintaining or recarpeting.
Odonnas said that in Lawrence, the lack of a remedy for getting necessary repairs done most affected students and the elderly—low-income residents—would bring legal action against their landlords.
Under Solichb's bill, a tenant using the 'self-help' provision would have to notify his landlord in writing that the tenant intended to have a renew 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 failed to pay the rent, the landlord may submit a request 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 remnants.
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 notify the clerk. The clerk would inform the 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 resort." he said.
Solbach he thought tenants would use the "self-help" provision only when everything else failed.
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. "I won't do it until we can to use this bill if he's got a good landlord."
"It's difficult to lose high-quality faculty like Ericsson," Rudledge said. "Not only that, but when we lost it, we need be able to attract people to take their place. In any job opportunity there are several jobs, but salaries are a very important one."
However, when the bill went to a conference committee to iron out differences in the two bills, the remedy was stricten from the measure.
THE HEAN THE KANSAS Legislature passed the Landlord-Tenant Act in 1975, both the House and Senate versions contained "renoir and deduct" provisions.
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 feared tenants would be able to receive the provision to make unnecessary repairs.
However, Solbach and lobbyists in the bill said that many landlords insisted the bill and that once it was passed, responsible landlords would not oppose it.
Proposed faculty salary called uncompetitive, in
By GRANT OVERSTAKE
Staff Reporter
But the proposal, which represents an 8 percent average increase, has been called inadequate by some faculty members.
The Kansas Board of Regents has recommended to Gov. Carlin that $0.6 million be appropriated to the 1981 RACE for the University's faculty members.
Several KU faculty members now are concerned that an increasing number of professors will be lured away because of the University's inability to pay competitive
Two years ago, Carl Erickson left his tenured position in KU's department of pharmacology and toxicology, and with his wife, Katherine, he moved to Austin and the University of Texas.
IN ADDITION to a $8,000 per year raise that Erickson received for taking over the pharmacoogy department at Texas, he
Charles Rutledge, chairman of the department, said yesterday that he had been sorry to see Erickson and go sorry that he had no financial means of convincing him.
According to Joseph Pichler, dean of the School of Business, the lack of major salary increases puts the school in a position where it must compete for professors with schools
"I was perfectly satisfied with the personnel at KU," Erickson said yesterday. "It was just the fact that a better offer came along."
Rutledge said that KU needed to offer adequate salaries in order to compete for the few toxicologists who were available.
"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 grow in compliance in keeping highly qualified people."
"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.
"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."
According to information in the budget request, the average KU salary levels for faculty were 58,000 and 62,000 assistant professors for the 1978-79 school year ranked between the 30th and 50th.
PICHLER SAID the 8 percent raise might not be enough to keep quality professors in the School of Business.
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I was the morning after her husband's goaway party at the office, and Pam Fearer was having to explain to an aunt how she got to assistant coach like George Fearer was leaving Purdue University and big-time college basketball to work with his new-in-law's stern wrist window company.
"You don't want to hear the whole story," she said, "but we were there." He played for 12 months out of the year chasing high school basketball players. He would get home from one game and come back by eight a.m. on another. Last December he was here for dinner exactly one night and it wasn't long before he came back.
"He'll be making a big change," said the caller, referring to the new job with her father's business.
"It not really," she said. "Gear be doing the same thing for storm windows that he did for Purdue basketball, taught up."
The recruiter faces long days of hard travel, bad food, and intense pressure—but he drives on in pursuit of the next Earvin Johnson or Larry Bird.
Regardless of how they see their role – as salesman, guidance counselor or head hunter—today's college basketball players are responsible for their teams' success as the head coaches they work for. Nobody can win consistently without talented players. And what that's good for is to de- deliver the goods.
Though he carries the title of assistant coach, a recruiter does little coaching. His aim is to teach talent. To be good at it, he can't be overly concerned about what's going on back home with his family or that he's making up next year's team. To make points with the best prep players in the country, he might see as many as 50 players on his team, and only two or three on campus. To get the best results, he must be brazen enough to stick his foot in front of the player and his parents would rather be left alone. But once he gains access to the family living room he must be ultrasensitive to the low-toned, heart-to-talk signal.
BY KENT HANNON
The sales pitch will vary accord-
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to the personality and interests of the athlete involved. So for an especially bright prospect, a recruiter might recite the latest figures from the university law school. For a physical education major interested in a good time, he might mention halftime to recall or many days the local temperature when he talks to him, he tries to create the feeling that he will be a big brother and family friend for life. In reality, his loomeness concerns what impact on the particular player in "W" columns.
Why do I lesus the head coach Denny Crum have a '782 winning percentage? It may well be because he learned to play about a '82 success rate on every blue-chip project he zeros in on. And when Owen gets involved with a player that does it, his other school is after him, and other schools are after, his track record puts added pressure on his competition to deliver this success. The coaching hype, overwork, and one-upmanship that turns the recruiting process into an impersonal and chafficual effort for all part-time players.
When a prospect still hasn't decided after reading all the offers in the newspaper, sales pitch in his home, and visiting campus in the tail, it's no laughing matter. No spring, this battle of words has blossomed into open warfare. June and April are the
high school stars are signing letters of intent with the school they want to play, a point, a largely unpoliced force of 1,000 recruiters – head coaches included – is scouring the country making last-ditch attempts to win. The United States can lead a team to the national championship. Both Duke and Maryland feel they accomplished that feat but the United States only the most widely recruited players in college - Gene Banks of Philadelphia and Albert King of Brooklyn. On the way to make that happen, the United States and King got a look at how far recruitors will go.
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“One of our professors had a job offer from a company in August of last year,” he said. “He was making $80,000 a year and at that time he was making $19,200 for nine months. He had made $46,700.”
department since he arrived.
"I's going to get tough and tougher and to keep to this record up if we keep getting screwed by the Legislature. I think about next year, but I don't know about that."
Power puffs
The only thing breaking up yesterday's clear skies were these
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billows of smoke flowing from the Kansas Power and Light generating plant on the Kansas River in North Lawrence.