Boycott calls worry KU Olympic hopefuls
By MATT SEELEY
Snorts Writer
In 30 days the XIII Winter Olympics will be history.
Afghanistan, the United States' part in the Summer
Olympics.
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 bovocott if only other methods failed.
"Only as a last resort should we demonstrate to the world that no matter how much we love our sports, our families and our communities, we must
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 make this happen and give it buyout, 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 athletes. He coached 21 athletes who went to the 1976 U.S. Olympic Trials, and in 1988, 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 its standpoint of value." The team had one shot in four years. It's not like the Super Bowl where every year only the best in America come up for a shot.
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 allow American players to participate in 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 support of the United States in France during France's Olympic Games in Moscow.
"If the United States is the only one to boycott, Timmons said, 'it would be a complete shame for the United States.'"
there.
But Theo Hamilton, assistant women's track coach
and a possible participant in the 1980 Olympics, disreseed.
"I don't think we should go over there," he said. "There's too much tumult. 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 will be the only athlete with KU trainers for the Olympics. Lester Muckenbach and Jeff Wittmann will head to the U.S.
for the Olympic Trials, Swimmers Janet Lindstrom and Lanny Shaffer and basketball player Lynette Wochard are headed for the Trials. Darnell Valenfield is the soccer 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 history a nation or group of nations has withdrawn from the Games.
In 1986, 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.
**mammals saus.** "The worst part of all this is the tremendous respect Russian and American athletes have for each other. I know our athletes would be compete." **so.WAIT** 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 are set to be scrapped by Timmons, to be scattered at the Games's 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 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" Lomborg 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 lagged 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 house. C) He could use his landlord D) He could move.
Joe is the type of person that State Rep. Sandh, Dr. Lawrence, hopes would join the legal profession. He was traded 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.
When work might include fixing broken plumbing or landlord-owned appliances, Solbach said, but not such things as repainting or recarpeting.
SOLBACH SAID the bill, which is expected to get a House Judiciary Committee vote, that the government did not have a legal, affordable means of forcing gentling landlords to comply with new laws.
He said the amendment would "put a remedy into the Landlord-Tenant Act where one does not now exist."
Sollach said in *Laurence*, the lack of a remedy for getting necessary repairs done most affected students and the elderly—low income, working-class or to bring legal action against their landlords.
Under Solschar's bill, a tenant using the "self-help" provision would have to notify his landlord in writing that the tenant intended to have a rent 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 did not pay for the repairs, 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.
Repairs would be limited to $100 or one-half the monthly rent, whichever was greater.
If the landlord wishes to protest paying for the repair, he would solicit the clerk. The tenant will pay the rent. If the small claims court to be reimbursed and to prevent the landlord from receiving the full amount, he may do so.
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, 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 damage to use this bill if it's got a good landlord."
WHEN THE Kansas Legislature passed the Landlord-Temant 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 rent 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
towever, Solbach and lobbies in sup port of the bill said that many landlords unresisted the bill and that once it was good, responsible landlords would not oppose it.
Proposed faculty salary called uncompetitive, i
By GRANT OVERSTAKE
Staff Reporter
"It's difficult to lose high-quality faculty likerickson, "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 factor."
Several KU faculty members now are concerned that an increasing number of professors will be bured away because the University's inability to pay competitive
Charles Rutledge, chairman of the department, said yesterday that he had been sorry to see Ericson go and sorrow that he had no financial means of convincing him.
Two years ago, Carl Erickson left his tenured position in KU's department of pharmacology and toxicology, and with his wife and four children moved to Austin and Florida.
The Kansas Board of Regents has recommended to Gov. Carlin that $3.05 million be appropriated to the 1981 University for the cause for the University's faculty members.
But the proposal, which represents an 8 percent average increase, has been called inadequate by some faculty members.
IN ADDITION to a $2,000 per year raise that Erickson received for taking over the pharmacology department at Texas, he
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According to Joseph Pichler, dean of the School of Business, the lack of major salary increases puts the school in a position where it must compete for professors with schools outside the city.
"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 prioritize suitability in keeping highly educated people."
"I was perfectly satisfied with the person 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.
"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."
Rutledge said that KU needed to offer adequate salaries in order to compete for the few toxicologists who were available.
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"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 were 50 and 56 assistant professors for the 1978-79 year ranked between the 36th and 56th.
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The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Eldon Miller (in short sleeves) and Lori Carneseau (top) led Oleh
Store. St. John's back to responsibility.
Wednesdav. January 23, 1980
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are you going to shut the bank down?" Carnesecca asks.
A scrapbook of newspaper clippings about the scandal became the source for team members. The athletic department brought in policemen and the FR to lecture players on "the wounds of the gang." The ticket is still held
But the quick fix was not the expected outcome of the St. John's game plan, which was this; to attract the city's best players by being a strong, voice force in the game. That's what he做了—a stray gear for the long haul.
HE results were not immediate. St. John fell to a 9-15 record in 1963. The team quickly recovered, and played a tournament, but then left level off to a steady and un spectacular leap. The Redden fared poorly in NCAA competition. He ended up on a season-plus playoff.
One sure way to be visible, win or lose, is to show on a show, and display it with colorful clothes on the court and an outspoken person off it, he is a star of the New York些. Many spectators are drawn to St. John's University.
In one game, Carneacca was constantly on the bench encouraging his team. The referee, irritated by Carneacca's conduct, later came twice less minutes later. Carneacca again became caught up in the game and started following his team down场, yelling instructions. The referee, deciding that Carneacca was Carneacca with a technical foul, thinking he was near the team bench, the coach quickly sat down in the lap of a bewildered woman. The crowd forced an uneasy forearm about the technical
A 1950 graduate of St. John's and originally from Manhattan, Carneiscue sells players on his school with the same philosophy he discovered nearly 30 years ago that is where your roots are.
St. John's helps its cause by sinking its own roots deep into New York City but has long been one of the high schools annually hold their championships in the Reddin Hall, all but many players hear about St. John's on television.
"People know us," Garnesco says. "We can't bring a kid down, but we can help." We don't have a meeting with the governor. The kid knows us. He's in town for games, playing his high school ball games, here we're looking for the kind of people who want to learn."
Carnesacte teaches clinics and directs summer camps to stay in contact with the playground. He taught Lou about I became it to his camp a couple of years ago in high school, says Reggie Carter, a starting guard.
Evidence of Carnegie's success is that three playground all-star's used to be playgrounds to be play for St. John's. Carter spent one year at Hawaii, Bernard Rencher returned from France and came from Kansas State. "I had to travel more than a thousand miles to find out my belongings."
with a basketball tradition, but still wants to stay close to his family."
"I's really an amazing thing."
"What kind of kid are you kids who are talking about going out of town, Fellows, it isn't strange that three kids left here and then I came home."
a real test of Carnevale's stay-at-home philosophy came three years ago when he was the director for the services of Wayne McKoy of Bayside, New York, one of the most sought after students in the school. John St. John's been one of the finalists for the last big man out of New York. Lew Aldon (alas doctor) from Pennsylvania will center from Power Memorial in Manhattan decided to attend UCLA. This time Carnevale is staying at McKoy enrolled at St. John's.
"I knew that Regester, Carter, or teammate of McKoy's in high school) was coming back and we were going to have some other good idea," he said before, so I felt comfortable here. McKoy says, "No matter where you play ball, if you produce and you have a good coach and good player around, you're going to be at North Carolina or UCLA."
Lou Carnesecca could not have said it better himself.
HILLE ST. John's stands in New York's shadow. Students can visit the biggest attraction in Columbus. Cows graze less than half a mile from campus, and pickup trucks drive along two roads toward downtown.
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"One of our professors had a job offer from a company in August of last year," Romaine told me. He earned $30,000 a year and at that time he was making $12,000 for nine months. He had a job with the company."
“It is going to get tougher and tougher and to keep it record up if we keep getting screwed by the Legislature. I think it's not the year, but I don't know about the next.”
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billows of smoke flowing from the Kansas Power and Light generating plant on the Kansas River in North Lawrence.