Boycott calls worry KU Olympic hopefuls
Sports Writer
Bv 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 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 bovoycot 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 play well."
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. It has been said that if Baycoot, but the committee's president, Robert Kane,
has said the committee would "be receptive to any admonition on our movement."
Timmons' main concern is the athletes. He coached 21 athletics who went to the U.S. UCSW Trials, and in 1964, 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 international competition." A one shot in four years. It's not like the Super Bowl, but it's only the best in America come together to compete.
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 has not been invited to 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 on Monday France was among those to boycott.
If the United States is the only one to boycott,
Tromsons said, "it would be公平 for the shame of
them."
But Theo Hamilton, assistant women's track coach
and a possible participant in the 1980 Olympics, disarreed.
"I don't think we should go over there," he said.
"There's too much turmul. 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 Mucken and Jeff Burchfield will lead the team this weekend.
for the Olympic Trials, Swimmers Janet Lindstrom and Lanny Shaffer and basketball player Lynette Woodard are headed for the Trials. Darnel Valentine and 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.
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 more confident if we hadn't competed." So 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." Timmons would be worried about Timmons, would do it to the Games events.
"This would mean boxing in one city, track and field in another, and so on," Tmonts 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" Lonborg and Dean Seimath.
Tenant problems focus of Solbach
By STEVE YOUNG Staff Reporter
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 laughing because he knew he only had four choices. A) He could live without heat. B) He could fix the heat at his window. C) He could see his landlord. D) He could move.
Joe is the type of person that State Rep. John Sailbach, D-Denver, hopes will be able to get him introduced to give tenants a legal, affordable remedy when landlords refuse to make
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 reaintaining or recarpeting.
He said the amendment would "put a remedy into the Landlord-Tenant Act where one does not now exist."
SOLBACH SAID the bill, which is expected to get a house Judiciary commissioner to review, did not have a legal, affordable means of forcing negligent landowners to comply with
sollach said in *Lawrence*, the lack of a remedy for getting necessary repairs done most affected children and the elderly—low birth rates, poverty and inbreeding. Fear action against 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 rearr 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 do so, the landlord 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 remarks.
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 landlord may also seek small claims court to be reimbursed and to prevent the landlord from receiving the full
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, 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.
"It is difficult to lose 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
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 areprotected in this good bill," he said. "It won't do well if we don't use this bill to use this bill he's got a good landlord."
lake the Kansas Legislature passed the Landford Tent Act in 1975, both the House and Senate versions contained "renoir 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 rents would have to be raised, because maintenance costs would increase and because they feared tenured wagers would be use to the provision to make unnecessary
But the proposal, which represents an 8 percent average increase, has been called inadequate by some faculty members.
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.
IN ADDITION to a $2,000 per year raise that Erickson received for taking over the pharmacology department at Texas, he
Proposed faculty salary called uncompetitive, i
ByGRANT OVERSTAKE
Staff Reporter
The Kansas Board of Regents has recommended to Gov. Carlin that $3.05 million be appropriated to the 1881 KU faculty for research for the University's faculty members.
Several KU faculty members now are concerned that an increasing number of professors will be lured away because the University's inability to pay competitive
Charles Rutledge, chairman of the department, said yesterday that he had been sorry to use Ericsson go and sorry that he had no financial conviction of convincing him.
Two years ago, Carl Erickson left his tenured position in KU, where he pharmacology and toxicology, and with his wife Sara, moved to Austin and the University of Texas.
According to Joseph Pichler, dean of the School of Business, the lack of major salary increases put the school in a position where students are not for professors with schools of lesser quality.
"I was perfectly satisfied with the person at KU. Erickson said yesterday." It "was just the fact that a better offer came alone."
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. "So I think we will continue to persist inichtigly in keeping highly qualified people."
said, he has received $3,000 in raises during the last two years.
"If they aren't going to be paid what they are worth, then they won't even show up for the interview," he said.
"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 1978-79 are 3620. The assistant professors for the 1978-79 year ranked between the 34th and 36th in the KU education rankings.
PICHLER SAID the 8 percent raise might not be enough to keep quality professors in the School of Business.
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does. I read the Bible quite a bit. I can find peace of mind there."
Valentine is expected to assert a stronger leadership role this season.
10 cents off campus
It would have been easy for Valentine to become smug and pampered, but he is not.
He came on the scene two and a half years ago from Wichita as part of one of the most hardened freshman class in the history of college sports at Johnson (Michigan State), Gene Duke (Buke), Hawkeye Whitney (North Carolina State), Herb Williams (Ohio State), along with Valentine who is placed on the marshal's team to power powerhouses around the country.
Wednesday, January 23, 1980
Last year, Johnson was persuaded to turn professional, and likewise the pros were迎ed for Valentine. But he did not seize the opportunity to win, but decided to make a decision that was characterized in his work-ethic background.
**V ALENTINE'S family in Wichita was not financially well. dell'Aronnet's father, a drubber, did not work. But it is a close-knot and religious family. Rose Valentine, Darnel's mother, has managed to send her four children to college; she makes ends meet. Valentine says.
Darmell, the youngest child, is his mother's boy. Her inference is that she values personal time personality—hard-working, vibrant, easy to get along with, briable.
On the Kansas campus, as could be expected, Valentine blends neatly into the background off the sidelines. "Somewhat of a lone" by one of his coaches. That doesn't mean he don't have friends, but Valentine does on his basketball game and at his studies than to party every night.
Darlene didn't try professional, although his family could have used the money. Rose might have been more successful with her children, not at school classes.
"Of my goals in life is to help
People who have helped me," Valentine says thoughtfully. "It's not easy, but I can make a difference with some positive things. The first person I want to make happy is her (mother). If I could give her the gift of love, it would be worth it."
"His on-court relationship with players are directly attributed to him," Norwood, assistant coach at Kansas and Darnell's high school coach. "She worked very hard to place players in the game, and beliefs are very reflective in his personality of how to get along with people, to have goals and success."
"I have some good friends here who own some clubs (bars)," says
Valentine, his ever-present smile broadening. "I'm just like any other 20-year-old. But I really recognition off the court. I don't get on off by a supreme being in camp. As long as I'm not a superhero, I recognize me, recognize me, recognize me, all that's 'all I worry about'."
Valentine, who has a steady girlfriend but only giggles when asked about her lives, lives with two brothers. He is in the suite at Jayhawk Towers the Kansas athletic dorm. On the wall of their bedroom are two prominent pieces—one of Dr. J. K. Gorman and one of the leman (George Gevlin).
While grooving to some disco blaring from the stereo system in Kauai, Ms. Jebsen made his reasons for staying at Kansas while the dollars were wasted.
"Both of their kinda revolutionized the game," said one of Valentine's roommates, forward John Hankison, a knight 6'4" from Kansas City.
"It was a perfect situation for (Earl)vin Johnson to turn professional," says Valentine. "There was just too much out there for him to play, and weren't in the same situation. His team won the national championship. He had everything going for him.
The atmosphere is relaxed. "Hey, we try to keep Darnin in line," Crawford says with a chuckle. Valentine laughs.
"I still place a high value on education, " adds Valentine, who has been teaching for 20 years does on it to maintain a A average in business. "she (his mother) definitely wants me to finish school and I am not ready, that many black athletes who graduate on time. There aren't any many athletes period who graduate on time."
"I don't care about any pressure by the fans. I put more pressure on myself than the public does."
A As a result, Valentine turned down the opportunity to play in the Pan American Games. Linas won the summer school so he could play for the United States Olympic team in 1980 and she wouldn't
Before the Olympics, though, there's some unfinished business in the United States that was wrestled the title from Kansas last year, and neither Valentine nor the winner is the man.
On defense last year, Valentine was his usual intimating self, hoarding the opposition's ballpark in 1913. At stairs 91. Although his field-goal shotgun wasn't up to par, he paced the Jawhawks in scoring and led in assists with 110. Valentine comes to drive into traffic, rushes
But last year's young team three sophomores and a freshman starting with a senior—appeared
to lack the strong leadership of a veteran player and lost several close games in the final minutes. I needed to take more care.
"in those games where Darnell took command," coach Ted Owens said. "I'm not one in the country do it better. Darnell on some occasions has taken him on a consistent basis. I'm not condemning him. I just take him on."
Valentine should be helped this year by the fact that Kansas rancher Wiechta of Ricky Ross, a wing guard who broke Valentine's high school scoring record and the top recruits in the country.
Besides picking up the scoring load, Ross's outside shooting will be a major factor. The lanes as much as, thus opening up the lanes for Valentine's marvelous drives. And they are tremulous, so much so that his teammates are nervous.
"It's his ability not to be scared anybody when he goes to the gym," said Amanda or that of Al' Beal (Okahoma center), says Dave Magee. "A guy built him up, a 'Guy built like him you usually see running the ball up the middle."
"The thing, though, that makes Darnell not his heart," he said. "It's remarkable. It is remarkable. You see him after a game and he has an elastic jaw, a wide chin, and a big nose. That's why he is so great, I have never seen him not bustle."
Nor has anyone else.
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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.