Boycott calls worry KU Olympic hopefuls
Snorts Writer
By 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 boycotx 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 is not going to do it."
ALTHOUGH ANY decision by Carter would have a great effect on the country's participation in the Game of Thrones, the USOC is strongly opposed to a boycott, 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 sport," said former teammate one shot in four years. It's not like the Super Bowl where every year only the best in America come up.
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 send athletes from other countries to 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 this year. France acceded the Russias' 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, dishearted.
"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 or not."
HAMILTON, a former KU long jumper who won the NCAA Indoor Championship in 1975, won 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 and adidas wickets. Heelfield is a star in the lineup.
for the Olympic Trials. Swimmers Janet Lindstrom and Lanny Shaffer and basketball player Lynette Woodward are headed for the Trials. Darnel Valentini is the tennis 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.
**comments 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 confused," 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." He also added that "you would be forced to Timmons, would be forced to the Games events."
"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 team, 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 Timms, 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" Lomborg and Dean Neasmith.
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 apartment. C) He could save his landlady. D) He could move.
Joe is the type of person that State Rep. John Sollah, D-Lawrence, hopes would be elected to office. He has been traded to give tenants a legal, affordable remedy when landlords refuse to make rent.
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-owned appliances. Sollbach said, but not such things as resinating or recarpatting.
SOLBACH SAID the bail, which is expected to get a house Judiciary bureau. Mr. Kelley did not have a legal, affordable means of forcing negligent landlords to comply with laws.
He said the amendment would "put a remedy into the Landlord-Tenant Act where one does not now exist."
sollshaff that in *Lawrence*, the lack of a remedy for getting necessary repairs done most affected students and the elderly -lowly- have been blamed for not brining legal action against their landlords.
Under Solchb $'bill, a tenant using the 'self-help' provision would have to notify his landlord in writing that the tenant intended to have a repair made.
If the landlord chose not to make the repair himself, the tenant could have the work done his own expense. If the tenant did not submit a receipt for the work, he next submit a receipt 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 repairs.
Repairs would be limited to $100 or one half the monthly rent, whichever was greater.
If the landlord wished to protest paying the rent, he would have to present the tenant then would be unable to action in small claims court to be reimbursed and to prevent the landlord from receiving the full rent.
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.
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. "It won’t do that if we use to this bill it’s got a good landlord."
WHEN THE Kansas Legislature passed the Landlord-Tenant 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 tenants would be able to refuse the provision to make unnecessary rentals.
However, Solbach and lobbyists in support of the bill said that many landlords misunderstood the bill and that once it was approved, respondents : landlords would not oppose it.
Proposed faculty salary called uncompetitive, i
By GRANT OVERSTAKE
Staff Renorter
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 see Ericsson go 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 181 KU faculty to create 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 help he moved to Austin and the University of Texas.
It's difficult to high-quality faculty like Ericson, "Rutledge说, "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 one."
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
According to Joseph Pichler, dean of the School of Business, the lack of major salary increases puts the school in a position where business professors 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."
said, he has received $3,000 in raises during the last two years.
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 increase it carefully in keeping highly qualified nudge."
"The ace we have up our sleeve is a 68-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.
PICHLER 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 and 1979-80 were assistant professors for the 1978-79 year ranked between the 30th and 50th percentiles.
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"It's going to get tougher and tougher and tougher to keep to this record up if we keep getting screwed by the Legislature. I think we're doing it a year, but I don't know about the next."
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.