Boycott calls worry KU Olympic hopefuls
By MATT SEELEY
sports 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 buy 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 bovetchow 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 has always been strong."
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 approve the bid. The committee, backed by baycoft, but the committee's president, Robert Kane,
has said the committee would "be receptive to any admission from our government."
Timmons' main concern is the athlete. He coached 21 athletes who went to the U.S. U9 Olympic Trials, and in 1988, he coached medal winner Jim Ryun. He said he helped to coach as many this year.
"The Olympics mean more to the athletes than any other competitive event from the standpoint of a team," said coach Chris Gomez, 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 withdraw from 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 hosting the Games, France appointed the Russians 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, disacreed.
"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 get or not."
HAMILTON, a former KU long jumper who the NCAA Inadmission Champions 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 Clemente were among athletes who
for the Olympic Trials, Swimmers Janet Lindstrom and Lanny Shaffer and basketball player Lynette Woodward are headed for the Trials. Darren Valentine and the team, 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.
100,000,apan, 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.
"immuns 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 competed." "Compete," he added, "compete." SO.WHAT 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." The Games should be moved to Timmons, who would be to scatter the Games' events.
"This would mean boxing in one city, track and field in another, and so on," Tromsons 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 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 Neumith.
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 only he had four choices: A) He could live without heat. B) He could fix the heat at his home. C) He could see his landlord. D) He could move.
Joe is the type of person that State Rep. Sela Bouchal, D-Laurence, hopes would lead to an end to the stigma introduced to give tenants a legal, afferable 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-applied appliances, Solbach said, but not such things as repainting or retaping.
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 give a house Judiciary Committee authority over the district court did not have a legal, affordable means of forcing neghent侵户 to comply with the law.
Soliach said in *Lawrence*, the lack of a remedy for getting necessary repairs done most affected students and the elderly—lowly educated, people who struggle to brine legal 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 rearm 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 had left the room, the landlord should 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 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 scold the clerk. The landlord should give 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.
Solbach said he thought tenants would use the "self-help" provision only when everything else failed.
"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.
The Kansas Resident Landlord-Tenant Act, passed in 1975, required landlords to maintain minimum health, building and safety codes in their rental units.
Sobach 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 "It克斯" and "Not only that, but when we lose them, we need to 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 this bill," he said. "Wit'd we not allow us to use this bill if he's got a good landlord."
WHEN THE Kansas Legislature passed the Landford-Tern Act in 1975, both the House and Senate versions contained "renail 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 tenants would be able to use the provision to make unnecessary
But the proposal, which represents an 8 percent average increase, has been called inadequate by some faculty members.
IN ADDITION to a $9,000 per year raise that Erickson received for taking over the pharmacology department at Texas, he
Proposed faculty salar called uncompetitive, i
rowever, 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.
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Staff Reporter
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
Charles Rutledge, chairman of the department, said yesterday that he had been sorry to see Erickson go and say that he had no financial means of convincing him.
The Kansas Board of Regents has recommended to Gov. Carin that $3.05 million be appropriated to the 1981 KU faculty because 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 and children moved to Austria and France of LARK.
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 proficient or 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."
"The facts are that we're behind and the 6 percent probably won't close the gap entirely," he said. "So I think we will continue to be incredibly in keeping high-quality 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.
"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 request, the average KU salary levels for assistant professors were $57,200 and assistant professors for the 1978-79 school year ranked between the 36th and 40th place.
PICHLER SAID the 8 percent raise might not be enough to keep quality professors in the School of Business.
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Vol.90,No.76
free on campus
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Wednesday, January 23, 1980
A Star Who Doesn't Take Talent for Granted
BY STEVE RICHARDSON
WETHER it's summer, winter, fall, or spring, the seasons don't really seem to matter to Darrall Valentine. They all blend together in the campus of Kansas Allen Field House.
It can be any time of year, and it curious onlooker can pop his head into the "House That Wit Burl" that he found in a young man with a physique that might make Adonis blush will be perspiring so much his light brown skin will be glistening in the after-photo that peppers through the windows.
Valentine, a 62', perfectly proportioned 180-pound point guard, will be directing a scrium of his Kansas teammates, playing in a pickup game, or working out by himself. Curiously, he is a star who does not take the power for granted. He works at being the best.
"Basketball is such a big part of 'my life' if I don't feel like I'm out doing things. I try to do it myself, and then I pass," says Valentine, a junior, who reshames a college running back in size and sometimes plays basketball.
During the last year Valentine has never stopped working, even though he reaped college honor after college honour in his first two seasons. One of the top playmings and defensive guards in the country, he is a highly sought-after to prove in the 1979-80 college basketball season.
Last year was a good one for him, but not a great one. In fact, it was an average one for Kansas. It was the Big Eight Conference title, and failed to make the NCAA team season. During Valentine's freshman season the team posed a 2-45 record and acquired both hobbies.
"He's paying the price," says Milt Gibbon, an assistant basketball coach at Kansas and former player. "He has got ability, not great strength." He wins a competition. He wins a competition, a great competition. He hates to lose.
It was a bitter pill for Valentine to swallow. He feels responsible for Kansas' failure to live up to expectations.
Kansas' Darnell Valentine isn't willing to rest on his All-American laurels. He's determined to lead the Jayhawks to a league championship.
That's why he works so hard.
Running, Healing every night. He lifts weights. If you pinpoint a weakness, he's working on it."
"I got to improve my concentration on the court," says Valenine, who had a bad shooting touch. "And I just had to do it." 79, while still scoring 16.0 points.
per game and leading the team (and conference) in steals and assists. "Mantly it is getting better," he said. I doubt it was thought so much my shooting. It was the Kid of shots I was taking. I have never had any doubts about the ball.
Nor has anyone else really, although the pressure of winning has been placed on Valentine's shoulders.
it's part of being at KU, the pressure, says Valentine, who is a nurse and said "But I don't care about any pressure by the压痛. I put more pressure on myself."
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