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 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 buoyット if other methods failed.
"Only as a last resort we demonstrate to the world that no matter how much we love sports, our hearts are in danger."
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 have the most influence, but roberts, butcvett, to the committee's president, Robert Kane.
has said the committee would "be receptive to any admition 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 a standpoint of athletics. We know that they are one shot in four years. It's not like the Super Bowl where every year only the best in America come out."
"If the United States is the only one to boycott, Timmons said, "it would be a complete shame for the United States."
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 send a team 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 the US bid. France accorded the RUSSIA's invitation to Moscow.
But Theo Hamilton. assistant women's track coach
and a possible participant in the 1980 Olympics disagreeed.
"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 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 Mickey and Jeff Bornstein have been part of the team.
for the Olympic Trials, Swimmers Janet Lindstrom and Lanny Shaffer and basketball player Lynette Woodward are headed for the Trials. Darrin Valentine, KU basketball player, probably will receive an award at 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, 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 athletic ties with the aparaged府国 of South Africa.
`Immons 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," 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 war, forget it." Timmons also said that the Games would be to scatter the Games events.
"This would mean boxing in one city, track and field in another, and so on," Tromsheim 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 three times to make the Olympic track team as
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 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. D) He could get away.
Joe is the type of person that State Rep. Sindah, Solibach, Dr. Lawrence, hopes would pass on his estate. He has been 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.
He said the amendment would "put a remedy into the Landlord-Tenant Act where one does not now exist."
Such work might include fixing broken plumbing or landlord-applied appliances. Solbach said, but not such things as repainting or recarpeting.
SOLBACH SAID the bail, which is expected to get a house Judiciary Committee order. The judge did not have a legal, affordable means of forcing neqiomant landlords to comply with the law.
Sollbach said that in Lawrence, the lack of a remedy for getting necessary repairs done most affected students and the elderly—low-income individuals—to bring legal action against their landlords.
Under Solchbäll's bill, a tenant using the 'self-belief' provision would have to notify his landlord in writing that the tenant intended to have a renew 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 fails to make the repair, the landlord 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 repairs.
If the landlord wished to protest paying for the repair, he would notify the clerk. The clerk would inform the landlord 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.
Solbach said he thought tenants would use the "self-help" provision only when everything else failed.
CONTRARY TO WHAT most landlords believe the amendment means, Solbach said, no new responsibilities would be created for the landlord.
"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 record." he said.
The Kansas resident Landlord/Tenant Act, passed in 1975, required landlords to maintain minimum health, building and safety codes in their rental units.
"I think it's very important that landiors' interests be protected, and they are protected in this bill," he said. "It won't be the tenure any good to use this bill if it's got too much."
"It's difficult to high-quality facility like Erickson," Rudledge said. "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
Joacha 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 "renair and deduct" provisions.
Landlords have vigorously oppose Solbach's "self-help" bill on the ground that rents would have to be raised, because maintenance costs would increase and because they feared tenants would be able to afford the provision to make unnecessary repairs.
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 sala called uncompetitive,
However, Solbach and lobbies in suport of the bill said that many landlords misunderstood the bill and that once it was passed, responsible landlords would not oppose it.
The Kansas Board of Regents has recommended to Gov. Carlin that $3.05 million be appropriated to the 1981 KU budget for a meritorial salary increase for the
But the proposal, which represents an 8 percent average increase, has been called inadecent by some faculty members.
By GRANT OVERSTAKE
IN ADDITION to a $9,000 per year raise that Erickson received for taking over the pharmacology department at Texas, he
Several KU faculty members now are concerned that an increasing number of professors will be lured away because of the University's inability to pay competitive
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Charles Rutledge, chairman of the department, said yesterday that he had been sorry to see Ericsson go and worry 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, Susan, moved to Austin and the University of Texas.
"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."
According to information in the budget request, the average KU salary levels for teachers are $72,500. The assistant professors for the 1978-79 school year ranked between the 30th and 50th percentiles.
"The facts are that we're behind and $ percent probably won't close the gap entirely," he said. "I think we will continue to improve it in keeping highly qualified people."
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said, he has received $3,000 in raises dur the last two years.
"If they aren't going to be paid what they're worth, then they won't even show up the interview," he said.
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"We've got a lot of big farm boys around who are 220 pounds and 6'4", and you can teach those guys how to play football in six months. But not basketball."
conference schools to build up their grid programs, which they promptly did with great success. The team was the only one always had at least one football team in the national Top 10, usually more. The conference suddenly left the lame-heart, and the basketball teams themselves largely forgotten.
And, while some of the conference basketball coaches will still play, many of them that the cage programs were not really down, almost every Big Eight school suffered because of the lack of conference as a football power
During this down cycle, even the Kansas schools weren't faring well in post-season play. Kansas won its last game (1974 fourth both times), but during the rest of the 1966 to 1975 span, the Big Eight's NCAA tournament entry quietly bowed out more than one post-season game.
For a number of years in the 60s and early '70s, Kansas State and Kansas were the only big college football top dog. And this created another problem for the conference basketball programs, namely that the two Kansas schools were being worn with disarrhanting regularity.
Oddly enough, the event which signaled the beginning of the Big Eight's basketball resurrection was a game team as it was a rebuilding of the gymnasiums. In the past eight years, five conference schools—Miami, Oregon, Nebraska, and Oklahoma—have built new basketball facilities, while the teams and Kansas upgraded their facilities. The Eight, after a prolonged snooze, suddenly realized just how important faculty is to a basketball program.
"I think there's no doubt it imitated the rest of the conference coach Jack Hartman. Kansas State until 1975, only one other big Eight school (Colorado in 1969) participated in the NCAA tournament."
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"I think it's amazing the way Kansas and Kansas State have dominated (haskellian) in the last 25 years, but their facilities were not as developed," says Crippaine. "I think that has a to do with a development to do a program. A younger wants to see a team. You have to sell attendance to them."
The Big Eight also got help in the all-important recruiting department, although untenitiously, although unintentionally, came in the form of the 15-scholarship rule for basketball, a ruling which kept the perennial basketball player on the court they had in the past. As a result, many of the players who used to go to the UCLA and North Carolina to attend their way to the Big Eight clubs.
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INCE the mid-'70s, the league improvement has been steady and encouraging, and the conference has also registered a sense of excitement among four different NCAA tournament participants (Kansas City, Missouri, Kansas, and Kansas State) in the last four seasons, and the conference representatives have also been confident in conference and post-season play.
"We've gotten better. You only have to go to our record to prove that none team won the conference challenge season and made its first NCAA tournament appearance in decades. We have good record against tonconference."
nation. Big Eight officials believe that the sparral media coverage the conference gets (in comparison to 2013) is partly to blame for that. Pace-10) is partly to blame for that.
"In the NCAA Midwest Region, we are a skeptical sayet," the "Big Eight" said. The team recorded against nonleague pennants in an NCAC competition. So in the Midwest Region at least, it wouldn't be likely to somebody tell that the Big Eight.
"The only way to get the recognition we deserve is to move the camera," says Bliss. "That's the only way. You've got to be around the media." She says, "there's something that will always hold the Big Eight back from where it came."
Still, the conference is rated by most as no better than the No.4 college basketball league in the
Another thing which is holding the Big Eight back from re-enerting the highest echelons of college basketball is the very nature of the game itself. Basketball has become one of the cities and suburbs, and their very many of either in Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Kansas.
"In the last 10 years, the majority of the good players have come from the city, "Cripiano says. "The new sports complexes help, but we are still waiting. For us to put on a team, we have to go farther away to recruit."
"It's more of an urban game. You've got your black kids who have seen they can make it in basketball and spend nine years to learn how to play football. We've got a lot of big farm boys around here who are 22 and 30, and you can teach those guys how to play six months. But not basketball. It takes a lot longer to refine the skills. Football is able to live off a team with players with quick and keenness. That hasn't skills."
The problems the conference has had getting quality players are the beinming because of the 15-year-olds' aggressive recruiting policies, and the Big Eight's rising attractiveness to prospective recruits. The Big Eight has new players, and a new attitude toward basketball, there is still one thing the Big Eight must do as it recognizes as a national power.
"The thing they are a national championship," Hansen said. "I tell everybody that everybody was saying, 'Hey, what happened to the Big Tigers? Then we go and play for the Panthers. Gan State won, and now the Big Tiger's right up there with the ACC."
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"One of our professors had a job offer to teach," he recalled. "Rossen said. They were provided to give him $3,000 a year and at that time he was making $19,200 for nine months. He had a master's degree."
"It's going to get tough and tougher and to keep to this record up if we keep getting screwed by the Legislature. I think it's going to be a 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.