Boycott calls worry KU Olympic hopefuls
By MATT SEELEY
Sports Writer
In 30 days the XIII Winter Olympics will be history.
In 30 days, harassing 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 buoyancy if other methods failed.
"Only as a last resort should we demonstrate to the world that no matter how much we love sports, our relationship with sport is not based on a
ALTHOUGH ANY decision by Carter would have a great effect on the country's participation in the Games, it is hard to see why the USO is strongly opposed to a boycott, 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 1978 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 competition event from the standpoint of a team," said Jefferys, who once shot one shot in four years. "It's not like the Super Bowl where every year only the best in America come."
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 move to host the Olympics, but 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 accented 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, disregard.
"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 am or not."
HAMILTON, a former KU long jumper who the NCAA Indoor Championship in 1975, missed the 1978 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 Muckers and Jeff Hirschman are one of the biggest stars.
for the Olympic Trials. Swimmers Janet Lindstrom and Lanny Shaffer and basketball player Lynette Woodward are headed for the Trials. Darnell Valine and Kate Stiles, the 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 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 ties with the apartheid government of South Africa.
14 ummons 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 competitive, but we 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.” It is likely that Timmons would be to scratch 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 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
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 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 window. C) He could sue his landlord. D) He could move.
Joe is the type of person that State Rep. John Salubch, D-Lawrence, hopes would be able to keep his power and provide a 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-owned appliances. Solbach said, but not such things as resaintting or recarpaturing.
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 Committee vote, that he did not have a legal, affordable means of forcing negligent landlords to comply with new law.
Under Solchaff's bill, a tenant using the "self-hold" provision would have to notify his landlord in writing that the tenant intended to have a renew made.
ountouch said in *Lawrence*, the lack of remedy for getting necessary repairs done most affected students and the elderly—lowly to brute force action against their landlords.
If the landlord chose not to make the repair himself, the tenant could have the work done at his own expense. If the tenant required a deposit from the landlord, submit a request for the work, his next
The CLEER would then notify the landlord that the work had been done, and send the landlord the rent check--minus the cost of the repairs.
month's rent and a $2 fee to a district court clerk.
If the landlord wished to protest paying rent, he would ask for a demand. The tenant then wished to inflate action small claims court to be reimbursed and to prevent the landlord from receiving the full payment.
Repairs would be limited to $100 or one half the monthly rent, whichever was greater.
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.
CONTRARY TO what most landlords believe the amendment means, Sobach said, no new responsibilities would be created for the landlord.
Solbach said he thought tenants would use the "self-help" provision only when everything else failed.
The Kansas Resident Landlord-Tenant Act, passed in 1975, required landlords to maintain minimum health, building and safety codes in their rental units.
"It's difficult to lose high-quality faculty like Ericson," 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 jobs, but salaries are a very important one."
"I think it’s very important that landlords’ interests be protected, and they are protected in this bill," he said. "If ‘won’t the tenant any good to use this bill if he’s got
Solbach said his bill was designed to offer tenants a remedy and protect landlords' rights at the same time.
WHEN THE Kansas Legislature passed the Landlord-Tenant Act in 1975, both the House and Senate versions contained "renail and deduct" provisions.
But the proposal, which represents an 8 percent average increase, has been called inadequate by some faculty members.
Landlords have vigorously opposed Solach's "self-help" on the grounds that rentals would have to be raised, because maintenance costs would increase and because they feared tenants would be able to receive the provision to make unnecessary resources.
However, when the bill went to a conference committee to iron out differences in the two bills, the remedy was stricken from the measure.
Proposed faculty salary called uncompetitive, i
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.
By GRANT OVERSTAKE
The Kansas Board of Regents has recommended to Gov. Carvin that $3.05 million be appropriated to the 1981 KU academic team in search for the University's faculty members.
IN ADDITION to a $9,000 per year raise that Erickson received for taking over the pharmacology department at Texas, he
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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
Two years ago, Carl Ericison left his tenured position in KU's department of pharmacology and toxicology and with his colleagues to Austin and the University of Texas.
Charles Rutledge, chairman of the department, said yesterday that he had been sorry to use Ericknight go and sorry 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 teachers are prof 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 8 percent probably won't close the door entirely," he said. "I so think we will continue to pressure it carefully 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 assistant professors were 36th and 38th; assistant professors for the 1979-78 year ranked between the 30th and 36th.
Vol. 90, No. 76
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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A TALE OF TWO TRADITIONS
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Once St. John's and Ohio State were champions, but scandal and disenchantment tumbled them from basketball's pinnacle. Now the rebuilding strategies of two remarkable coaches are starting to pay off.
BY TIM WENDEL
HUNDREDS of people were gathered outside the old Jackson Square Garden in downtown Dallas on December 29, 1960. Most were looking for the Christmas gift that had not shown up to date; they rushed to the ticket to the Holiday Festival basketball tournament and a chance to see Si.
Their opponent, the Ohio State Buckeyes, had won the National Collegiate Athletic Association tournament. San Francisco and was rated No. 1 in the nation. Coach Fred Taylor's team included four holdovers from that championship team All-America, T.J. Martinez, Larry Siegfried, and Bobby Knight. A crowd of 18,499—one of the largest ever for a college game in New York—watched Ohio State win first-half deficit to win 70-65
Both teams were a collection of All-Americans and other famous names. The St. John's Redmen were coached by Joe Lacekchup, the Hall of Fame. His team featured the best that the New York City playgrounds could offer, highlighted by the shooting of All-Americans Jackson and the playmaking ability of guard Kevin Lounghey.
If either school had known what the future held, they would have wanted to stop time and hold on to them. But the paucity for both schools there were dizzying falls ahead. St. John's came face-to-face with the world of gambling, and as a result found itself again larger universities for the services of the New York basketball player. More than a decade later, a bloody brave during a game shocked Ohio State's head.
coach and left him dislusioned and distressed; within four years the Buckeyes were in the Big Ten basement.
Wednesday. January 23,1980
Yet both teams managed to preserve their basketball traditions and rise again today. St. John, Ohio State are nearing the day that the Cincinnati eve in 1906. This story how they rebuilt.
St. John's university named on a hill at the intersection of a山 hill at the intersection of Queens. The Memorial School offers a half-hour drive away, Built by the Vincenna Fathers, the school companies on the hills. The 109-age campus. Administrators joke that it covers "one acre more than the hill," but St. John's has no dormitories and no fraternity law, only a long basketball hallway. While teams like Duke play here, St. John's established and maintains its tradition with players from the national basis. St. John's
The Redmen's teams and stars have reflected the times. The Wonkers lost to the Hawks, which last only four games in three years, was made up of Jewish schoolboys from Brooklyn. In the 1980s, the Irish backcourt of Al and Dick McGuire. The school shestered in the era of the black star in the early 20th century.
10 SPORTS BULLETIN
Basketball, New York City style,
seemed inviolable in the spring of
1961. But Ohio State went to the
NCAA final for the second time
in its history. The team struggled
to keep its basketball program alive in the wake of the 1961 point-shaving scandal. Gambers were bringing players throughout the state in their efforts to play below their ability, in
order to affect the final game
scores. Two St. John's players were among many who were implicated in the scandal.
At the time of the gambling furor, Lour Carneusea was an assistant coach at St. John's Carneusea, a basketball school on the wall of his office. In the lower right-hand corner, above the artist's signature, are the words "To Lou (The Best) Basketball Survivor" *H* was Carneusea during the school's effort to save in the ball program.
It was not an easy task. Many New York area schools—among them New York University, City College of New York, and Long Island University—had bad publicity from the scandal by either de-emphasizing basketball or, in some cases, dropping it altogether. And wealthy schools in other states, sending a vacuum, could not recruit the playground and athletics.
"Prior to that time outside schools didn't recruit in New York, Carolina only competition for players was with cross town rivals. But then teams like UCLA, North Carolina, South Carolina and Florida broachures and offers of free room and board, convinced many students to come from all over, and what has happened is that the competition has become much more keen."
While other New York schools played down basketball and silently watched larger universities get involved, John's counterattacked. "Instead of de-emphasizing basketball at this time, we re-emphasized basketball as a skill that requires ignoring the scandal, St. John's used it as a lesson and stressed that basketball could teach young people the skills of couple of people up on a bank
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1957, said that only four people had left the department since he arrived.
"One of our professors had a job offer to a company in August of last year. Rossus will be hiring him $3,000 a year and at that time he was making $11,200 for nine months. He had a salary of $49,000."
"It's going to get tough and tougher and tougher to keep it 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.