Boycott calls worry KU Olympic hopefuls
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 basse sign 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 boxvoyot if other methods failed.
"Only as a last resort should we demonstrate to the world that no matter how much we love sports, our world needs to be better."
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 send athletes 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 team," said Scott Gayle, one shot in four years. It's not like the Super Bowl where every year only the best in America come before us.
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 Saudi Arabia does not participate in 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 boycotting the Games. 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,
disagreed.
"I don't think we should go over there," he said. "There's too much turbulent. 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 Championship in 1975, missed the 1976 Monell Olympic by a few inches. He said this would he his last try for the Olympic team.
Hamilton isn't the only athlete with KU ties training for the Olympics. Lester Mickens and Jeff Tinker were two of the best in the team.
for the Olympic Trials, Swimmers Janet Lindstrom and Lanny Shaffer and basketball player Lynette Woodward are headed for the Trials. Darnell Valeniel and Joel Ward are played, 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 1856, 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 ethnic ties with the aparthied 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 to not compete." *wrong*? What relations 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, it forgets." A more practical approach, according to Timmons, is to have an annual Olympic event.
"This would mean boxing in one city, track and field in another, and so on." Troms 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 Nesmith.
Tenant problems focus of Solbach
RvSTEVE YOUNG
Stan 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 own expense. C) He could see his landlord.
Joe is the type of person that State Rep. John Sahbach, D-Lawrence, hopes would be represented in his office. He 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-applied appliances. Solbach said, but not such things as renesting or recarpatting.
He said the amendment would "put a remedy into the Landlord-Tenant Act where one does not now exist."
SOLACH SAID the bill, which is expected to put a House Judiciary Committee on track to repeal the law, did not have a legal, affordable means of forcing niglective leaders to comply with the law.
Soliash said in *Lawrence*, the lack of a remedy for getting necessary repairs most affected students and the elderly—lowly proficient or not—to bring legal action against their landlords.
Under Solbach's bill, a tenant using the 'self-belief' 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 at his own expense. If the tenant had left the contract, 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 repairs.
If the landlord wished to protest paying for repair, he would notify the clerk. The tenant would be required to send 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.
CONTRARITY TO what most landlords believe the amendment means, Sobach 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 us harm to use this bill if it'd got a good landlord."
"It's difficult to lose high-quality faculty like Rickson, "Rutledge said. "Not only that, but when we lose them, we need be able to attract people to take their place. In any job opportunity there are several factors, but salaries are a very important
WHEN THE KANSAS Legislature passed the Landlord-Tenant Act in 1975, both the House and Senate versions contained "renair 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 renters would have to be raised, because maintenance costs would increase and because they learnt tenants would be able to benefit the provision to make unnecessary repairs.
Proposed faculty salar called uncompetitive, i
However, Solbach and lobbies in support of the bill said that many landlords misunderstand the bill and that once it was approved, responsible landlords would not oppose it.
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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 pharmacy department at Texas, he
The Kansas Board of Regents has recommended to Gov. Carlin that $3.05 million be appropriated to the 1981 KU campus to support the lease for the University's faculty members.
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Several KU faculty members now are concerned that an increasing number of professors will be lured away because of the faculty's inability to pay competitive salaries.
Two years ago, Carl Ericsson left his tenured position in KU's department of pharmacology and toxicology, and with his wife, Alison, moved to Austin and the University of Texas.
Charles Rutledge, chairman of the department, said yesterday that he had been sorry to see Ericsson go and that he had no financial means of convincing him.
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 not or professors with schools of lesser quality.
"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 rely on security in keeping highly qualified people."
Rutledge said that KU needed to offer adequate salaries in order to compete for the few toxicologists who were available.
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."
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 faculty and staff are 3420 for assistant professors for the 1978-79 school year ranked between the 30th and 30th positions.
KANSAN
Vol. 90, No. 76
free on campus
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Wednesday, January 23,1980
HERESA Grenz, women's basketball coach at Rutgers, remembers the good old days of her women college game. She remembers her and her own uniform, and paying her own travel expenses. She remembers that she had one of the best teams in the country—there was no budget for her sport. But that was a long time ago, before the 2016 season.
It was before some federal legislation called Title IX moved women's college athletes toward equal play. Then the women's college championship game was on national television, and before there was a woman's professional basketball league. It was a long time ago - way back
Since that year, when Title IX prohibited colleges receiving federal aid from discriminating on the basis of race, athletic programs have taken off, especially in basketball. Member schools in the Association for Intermediate Athletics (IAIA) have increased in number from 278 in (1972) to 916. Women's athletic budgets are rising dramatically and the game is getting more exciting.
The sudden surge of funding has created thousands of opportunities for young women who had no access to collegiate athletics but the quality of women players has been rising along with the quantity.
One quality player to watch is season is Anne Domonov, the 68th winner of the title. New Jersey, who was the most heavily recruited prospect in the history of the women's game, she has won 38 points and Dominion averaging almost 38 points a game and is considered an elite point guard on side moves. The only question appears to be how quickly she can adjust to the high college of college sports.
Opponents are now looking forward to seeing Donovan or anyone else on an Old Dominion team that will be playing champions. The Monarchs are led by Nancy Lieberman, who is considered the best woman player in the country and the game's main player. Donavan was saw her play is going to come back," Donavan says. "The team's supporting cast features 65% Ige Nissen, one of the few dominating players in the competition in its own region, which may be the toughest in the country, is likely to come from the North Carolina's
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In the East, Maryland is picked by most coaches as the team to win. Sixth-place third-benchmark in play was a result of playing on the United States silver-medal team in the Panama Cup. Second-ranked State,卫国女权和 Rangers are three
shooting Gena Beaulay, and South Carolina, which拉利 Evanino Johnson's sister Evelyn as one of its recent recruits.
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could threaten. Rutgers is just major Jim Joule-Ohmie, a member of the University of Pennsylvania University College, who greets allones of the best she ever worked with, 14. She and 9.5 rebounds a game as a freshman. She is also one of the best players in the program.
In the Midwest, the state of Kansas appears to have cornered the class of the women's game.
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In the Southwest, where last year's national run-up Louisiana Tech plays most of its games, talk centers around whether Stephen F. Austin or Texas might
phen F. Austin of Texas might be team good up from a team bad, Lady Techers. The team is more outstanding than its nickname, thanks to Pam Kelly, who averaged 23 points as a freshman, and Angela Turner, an excellent outside shooter. Stephen F. Austin of Texas went 6-4, with team members, 6-17. Rose Walker at the low post and Barbara Kenning, 6-4, advance Texas has his Pan Am team member, 6-22. Jackie Swain IA, Wagner Guinn
On the West Coast, the women's game has something in common with the men's game- UCLA wins a win. The Bruins, who won the national title two years ago, have had a solid start as a standout in San Juan for the Pan American team. Curry has a to-score with Old Dominion. He out in last year's semifinal.
Critics of women's basketball have always contended that once you got past the game's stars like Claire Blazey, Ann Meyers, and Lizbeth Murray was just a similar version to that found at any school-room. Not any more, says
Rugers Grenz "There need to be top big basketball team on the top big basketball team or fifth player, "the says, "but that is being narrowed." The reason, she says, is getting a chance to play baseball at an early age. "It is becoming more difficult," she says.
To be sure, the men's and women's games are still different. The men shoot more accurately, put their hands on the boards and are tougher defensively. But the women's game is sometimes more complicated. It relies on sharpened execution plays to get shots off. The women allow the backboard clock to move.
One thing is certain. There are more outstanding women players on the courts than ever before, and the trend has just begin.
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"One of our professors had a job offer from a company in August of last year," she added. "He made $30,000 a year and at that time he was making $125,000 for nine months. He had a job offered."
"It's going to get tougher and tougher and tougher to keep this record up if we keep getting screwed by the Legislature. I think it's this year, but I don't know about the next."
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.