Boycott calls worry KU Olympic hopefuls
By MATT SEELEY
In 30 days the XIII Winter Olympics will be history. In 30 days,baaring 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 Timms, 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 should we demonstrate to the world that no matter how much we love sports, our hearts are not as much."
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 manage the bid process for the games, buoyett, 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," he added. "It's like one shot in four years. It's not like the Super Bowl where every year only the best in America come."
What worries Timmons most, he said, is that the United States might be the only nation to boycott the Games. Sauda Arabia has indicated that it would boycott, but although the United Nations 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
But Theo Hamilton, assistant women's track coach
and a possible participant in the 1980 Olympics, disheartened.
"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 won the only athlete with KU tussle training for the Olympics. Lester Macken and Jeff Curran were the top two scorers.
for the Olympic Trials, Swimmers Janet Lindstrom and Lynch Shaffer and basketball player Lynette Woodward are headed for the Trials. Darnell Valenell, a former player, probably will receive an invitation to the Trials.
there's nothing we can do to stop the Russians." Lindstrom 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 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." "Compete," he added, "compete." SO.WAH! 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." A more likely reason is that, to Timmons, it was the Gates games. Eventually,
"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 to make the Olympic track team as a discus thrower.
Washington, like Timmens, 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 or a mumps... dealing with KU and its ties to the Olympic Games. Tomorrow: A look at a pair of old-time Olympians, A.C. "Dutch" Lomberg and Dean Nesmith.
Tenant problems focus of Solbach
BY STEVE YOUNG 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 only had four choices. A) He could live without heat. B) He could fix the heat at his landlord. C) He could use his landlord. D) He could move.
Joe is the type of person that State Rep. Jon Sailbach, D-Lawrence, hopes would become a leader in the state. 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.
Such work might include fixing broken plumbing or landlord-appliances. Solbach said, but not such things as reacquiring or recarpeting.
SOLBACH SAID the bill, which is expected to get a house Judecary Committee to approve, did not have a legal, affordable means of forcing negligent landlords to comply with new laws.
He said the amendment would "put a remedy into the Landlord-Tenant Act where one does not now exist."
solbach said in *Lawrence*, the lack of a remedy for getting necessary repairs most affected students and the elderly —low-income groups that cannot afford their landlords.
Under Solbach's bill, a tenant using the 'self-help' provision would have to notify his landlord in writing that the tenant intended to have a renai 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 has paid for the work, he must 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 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 rolls the check. The律师 asked him to present 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 said he thought tenants would use the "self-help" provision only when everything else failed.
CONTRARY TO what most landlords believe the amendment means, Solbac 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 because we use to use this bill if he's got a good landlord."
However, when the bill went to a conference committee to iron out differences in the two bills, the remedy was stricken from the measure.
WHEN THE KANSAS Legislature passed the Landlord-Term Act in 1975, both the House and Senate versions contained "remir and deduct" provisions.
It's difficult to lose high-quality faculty like Ericsson, "Rutledge said. 'No 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
Landlords have vigorously opposed Solbach's "self-help" bill on the grounds that rents would have to be raised, because maintenance costs would increase and because they feared tenants would be able to refuse the provision to make unnecessary repairs.
"moreover, Solbach and lobbists in support of the bill said that many landlords misunderstood 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.
several KU faculty members now are concerned that an increasing number of professors will be hired away because 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 first book to Austin and the University of Texas.
Charles Rutledge, chairman of the department, said yesterday that he had been sorry to see Ericsson no and sorry that he had no financial means of convincing him
The Kansas Board of Regents has recommended to Gov. Carlin that $3.05 million be appropriated to the 1981 KU students' case for the University's faculty members.
IN ADDITION to a $9,000 per year raise that Erickson received for taking over the pharmacology department at Texas, he
According to Joseph Pichler, dean of the School of Business, the lack of major salary increases puts the school in a position where teachers are hired 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."
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.
"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 effectively in keeping highly qualified people."
PICHLER SAID the percent raise might not be enough to keep quality professors in the School of Business.
"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 48,000 for assistant professors for the 1978-79 school year ranked between the 36th and 56th
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