Boycott calls worry KU Olympic hopefuls
Bv 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 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 bovocot if only other methods failed.
"Only as a last resort should we demonstrate to the world that no matter how much we love sports, our teams must be able to win."
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 participate or boycott, 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 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 team. The Olympics are one shot in four years. It's not like the Super Bowl where everyone is only the best in America come together."
What worries Tummons most, be 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 not a member of 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 accepting the Russians' invitation. France accepted the Russians' invitation to Moscow.
If the United States is the only one to boycott, Timmons said, "it would be a complete shame for the United States."
But Theo Hamilton, assistant women's track coach
and a possible participant in the 1980 Olympics disaered.
"I don't think we should go over there," he said. "There's too much turnover. Athletes aren't politicians. I just hope that everything gets resolved soon, whether I go or not."
HAMILTON, a former KU long jumper who the NCAA Inland Championship in 1975, missed the 1976 Montreal Olympics by a few inches. He said this would be his last triv for the Olympic team.
Hamilton isn't the only athlete with KU ties training for the Olympics, Lester Mackenzie and Jeff Sullivan both compete in the team.
for the Olympic Trials, Swimmers Janet Lindstrom and Lanny Shaffer and basketball player Lynette Woodward are headed for the Trials. Darrell Vallentine, KU basketball player, probably will receive an award.
"There's nothing we can do to stop the Russians," Llandstrom said. "There are too many people who have been working too long and 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 1966, 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 athletic 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 the Russians didn't compete."
Timmons said it was not practical to move the Games.
"There has been some interest in postponing the Olympics for one year," Timmans said. "That 'n not a bad idea. But, more than a year's wait, forget it." They were hoping to scatter the Olympics would be to scatter the Games events.
"This would mean boxing in one city, track and field in another, and so on," Trommels 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 times to make the Olympic team as a junior.
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 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 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 landlord. C) He could see his landlord. D) He could move.
Joe is the type of person that State Rep. John Salbach, D-Dr Lawrence, hopes would be more involved in the process and 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.
He said the amendment would "put a remedy into the Landlord-Tenant Act where one does not now exist."
Such work might include fixing broken plumbing or landlord-applied appliances. Solbach said, but not such things as repainting or recarpeting.
SOLBACH SAID the bill, which is expected to give a house Judiciary Committee power over certain local courts did not have a legal, affordable means of forcing negligent landlords to comply with the law.
Solbach said in *Lawrence* the lack of a remedy for getting necessary repairs most affected students and the elderly—low-income adults with limited ability to bring legal action against their landlords.
Under Solschl's bill, a tenant using the "self-heip" provision would have to notify his landlord in writing that the tenant intended to have a remair 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 leaves the property without submitting a submit 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 udopt the check. The landlord could have insisted small claims court to be reimbursed and to prevent the landlord from receiving the full payment.
month's rent and a $2 fee to a district court clerk
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.
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.
"It's difficult to high-quality faculty like Crickson," 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
"I think it's very important that landlords' interests be protected, and they are protected in the bill," he said. "If it won't the tenant any good to use this bill if he's got
Solbach said his bill was designed to offer tenants a remedy and protect landlords' rights at the same time.
WHEN THE KANSAS Legislature passed the Landlord-Temant Act in 1975, both the House and Senate versions contained "remain and deduct" provisions.
But the proposal, which represents an 8 percent average increase, has been called inadequate by some faculty members.
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 Solach's "self-help" on the bills that renters would have to be raised, because maintenance costs would increase and because they feared rented would be able to reduce the provision to make unnecessary repairs.
rhowewer, 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, i
By GRANT OVERSTAKE
Staff Reporter
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 that he had no financial means of convincing him.
Several KU faculty members now are concerned that an increasing number of professors will be bured away because of the University's inability to pay competitive
Two years ago, Carl Ericson left his tenured position in KU's department of pharmacology and toxicology, and with his new position he moved to Austin and the University of Texas.
The Kansas Board of Regents has recommended to Gov. Carin that $3.65 million be appropriated to the 1981 KU faculty to increase the震感 for the University's faculty members.
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 offered 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 alone."
The facts are that we're behind and the 6 percent probably won't close the gap entirely. he said, "S I think we will continue to experience difficulty in keeping highly educated people."
Rutledge said that KU needed to offer adequate salaries in order to compete for the few toxicologists who were available.
"Theace we have up our sleeve is a 56- year history of exceptional quality, but this can be eroded over time if people leave."
"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.
PUCHLER SAID the 8 percent raise might not be enough to keep quality professors in the School of Business.
According to information in the budget request, the average KU salary levels for 1978-79 were $26,000 for assistant professors for the 1978-79 year ranked between the 30th and 56th percentiles.
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"One of our professors had a job offer from a company in August of last year," he said. "I got the $30,000 he was paying him $30,000 a year and at that time he was making $11,250 for nine months. He had a job offered."
"It is going to get tough and tougher and tougher to keep this record up if we keep getting screwed by the Legislature. I think it is this year, but I don't know about the next."
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