Bovcott 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, bans 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 buoycot if other methods failed.
"Only as a last resort should we demonstrate to the world that no matter how much we love sports, our sport requires us to be strong."
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 lead to a ban from the games, 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 national team. It's like one shot in four years. It's not like the Super Bowl where every year only the best in America come out."
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 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. but yesterday France announced plans to boycott the Games.
"If the United States is the only one to boycott, Timmons said, "it would be a complete shame for the U.S. to join them."
But Theo Hamilton, assistant women's track coach
"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."
and a possible participant in the 1980 Olympics disagree.
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 isn't the only athlete with KU ties training for the Olympics, Lester Muckenbin and Jeff Tebbutt were both selected.
for the Olympic Trials, Swimmers Janet Lindstrom and Lanny Shaffer and basketball player Lynette Woodward are headed for the Trials. Darrel Valine, KU basketball player, will probably receive an invite.
"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, spam, 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 apartheid government of South Africa.
IMMUNS 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 more successful to 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 added that the Games will be to scatter 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 blower.
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
Joe rents an apartment in Lawrence with some fellow students. His landlord lored 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 use his landlord.
Joe is the type of person that State Rep. Jon Solbach, D-Davanture, hopes would be elected to the state legislature, introduced 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. Solbach said, but not such things as resaiting or recarpatring.
He said the amendment would "put a remedy into the Landlord-Tenant Act where one does not now exist."
SLOBACH SAID the bail, which is expected to get a House Judiciary Committee order. The judge did not have a legal, affordable means of forcing negligent landlords to comply with laws.
Solbach said in *Lawrence*, the lack of a remedy for getting necessary repairs done most affected students and the elderly—low-income residents, who need to brute legal action against their landlords.
Under Solbach's bill, a tenant using the "self-behalf" provision would have to notify his landlord in writing that the tenant intended to have a remair 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 wants the landlord to do it, the tenant must 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 remiants.
If the landlord wished to protest paying for repair, he would refrain from the tenet that the tenant will inflict a failure 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.
IN ADDITION to a $2,000 per year raise that Erickson received for taking over the pharmacology department at Texas, he
Solbach he thought tenants would use the "self-help" provision only when everything else failed.
The court then would decide whether the tenant had made unnecessary repairs or whether the landlord had been negligent.
a *circum* to lose high-quality faculty like Erickson." Rutledge 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 jobs, but salaries are a very important one."
"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.
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.
But the proposal, which represents an 8 percent average increase, has been called inadequate by some faculty members.
"I think it's very important that landlords' interests be protected, and they are protected in this bill," he said. "It won't be good to good to use this bill if he's got a road landlord."
Solbach said his bill was designed to offer tenants a remedy and protect landlords' rights at the same time.
WHEN THE Kansas Legislature passured the Landford Tarmant Act in 1975, both the House and Senate versions contained "renoir and deduct" provisions.
The Kansas Board of Regents has recommended to Gov. Carlin that $3.05 million be appropriated to the 1881 KU campus, a cost estimated for the University's faculty members.
Landlords have vigorously oppose Solbach's "self-help" bill on the ground that renters would have to be raised, because maintenance costs would increase are because they feared tenants would be shipless and 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.
However, Solbach and lobbystars in support of the bill said that many landlords misunderstood the bill and that once it was passed, responsible landlords would oppose it.
Proposed faculty sala called uncompetitive,
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
By GRANT OVERSTAKE
Staff Reporter
Charles Rutledge, chairman of the department, said yesterday that he had been sorry to see Erickson go and that he had no financial means of convincing him.
"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."
"The facts are that we're behind and" percent probably won't close the gap entirely. he said, "I think we will continue to increase in keeping highly qualified people."
According to Joseph Pichler, dean of School of Business, the lack of major an increases put the school in a position wishing to appoint for professors with a lesser quality.
PICKLER SAID the 8 percent raise n not be enough to keep quality professo the School of Business.
According to information in the budget request, the average KU salary levels for students were 60 and 70 percent of assistant professors for the 1978-79 school year ranked between the 30th and 50th percent.
said, he has received $3,000 in raises dur the last two years.
Rutledge said that KU needed to @ adequate salaries in order to compete the few toxicologists who were available
"If they aren't going to be paid what are worth, then they won't even show up the interview," he said.
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Vol. 90, No. 76
free on campus
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
marked a long rebuilding process by coach Jack Gardner. No one standout dominated this power-house, which used a two-platoon team. The team averaged almost 70 points, one of the nation's highest and one better than its opponents. It was a loose group—one that once put birth of Magness in the milk shop. Gardner would drink from during a game. That made for an "interesting evening." Gardner said later.
Wednesday, January 23, 1980
Most of all it was a talented squad, led by Erie Barrett, an All-Washington guard who injured his shoulder in the national final against Barrett's loss was no doubt a factor. State's 10-point loss to the Washington team was a disappointment.
Now, a new basketball era is dunning in the Midlands. The Big Eight a conference that has produced Bill Bridges, Bob Boozer, Alvan Herman, Eberhard Garfield Head, Dave Robbie, Wilhelm Schillery, Jerry Morton, Kirk McMullen, and Andrew Parker, is a league of nine schools. Five of the loop's schools are arenas in the past seven years, and the conference grows increasingly crowds flock to the new facilities and top recruits join the teams.
There were other great years in Manhattan, perhaps the best comedian who the Wildcats posted a perfect reference record and a 25-2 overall all-time best. After palvering DePaul, 102-70, in the first round of the Nets' season, Tex Winer's Wildcats fell to the Titans; Robertson and Cromwell, 85-75.
The Big Eight is a premier football league now, but its roots indeed lie in the winter sport created by one of its own coaches.
Oklahoma
All-America center Gerald Tucker led EU on the NCAA finals against Bocous Cay's Holy Cross team and led at halftime by three. But Holy Cross double-tamed in the second half, and the gamble paid off as Holy Cross won the national championship.
Oklaheim, the current Big Eight champion, holds the distinction of being the first Big Six champion in 1929) and was a perennial leader for the league title until their outright championship in 1947, but was also the year the Sooners really reached the summit nationally.
We now come full circle back to Oklahoma, that noted footballfactory. Contrary to popular belief, there really is a sport between the schools in Norman and the Seymour play it quite well, thank you.
HAS BASKETBALL FINALLY ARRIVED?
For two decades, it was a halftime show between fall and spring football seasons. But Big Eight teams are national contenders again.
BY DAVE DeLAND
ILLUSTRATIONS BY KEN SMITH
NCE upon a time, not so very long ago, there was a college football team.
long ago, there was a college basketball called the Big Eight. Well, called it it wasn't just a football confer- itment but a Big Eight member schools played a basketball in including basketball. Basketball helped pass the time between the game and the first thaw. However, watch the funny shots just was some thing to do to fill the gap between the game, football, and the No 2 sport.
As if basketball didn't have problems butting heads with footsie, the ppg-inkielm-ized area, the Big Eight basketball an image problem around the court. Mention Big Eight basketball and be likely be laughed out of the room.
But a strange thing has been happening in the Big Eight lately. The young ferny short appear to be coming in, and own both within the Big Eight and own both within the still don't hear many people mention homa and Nebraska basketball in the same breath with UCLA or State, but that's changing rapidly.
"I think the conference is starting to use the difference in the players," says Nebraska coach Erik Sparks. "The league's senior coaches." used to say, "Don't go to Nebraska." but they can't say that any more. But they can say that any more.
"The league gotten a lot more success since I've been here," said Oklahoma coach Dennis Bovis. "We've shown that basketball has a place here."
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"If you're winning, people be interested in *anything*, "explain Nebraska sports information director Don Bryant.
The fan interest has always been on the fringe, says Oklahoman magazine. Oklahoma sen. "The fans just want a winner." We'll be showing them something new.
the conference is also getting a little more national recognition for its basketball than it has in a while.
"Today, we're anywhere from the basketball conference," says Norm Stewart. "But at the college we're growing in stature."
The conference still has a way to reach the loft position in one hell of basketball circles. In the late 1960s, both Kansas and Kansas State were perennial national powerhouses where in the NCAA tournaments they doubled their days between 1951 and 1952 with the Jayhawks winning the national title and finishing second in both 1951 and 1952. Kansas state ranked second in 1951 and fourth place finishers. Colorado also tied for fourth nationally during that stretch, so the Big Fight had a member school the Big Four final Four in half of the final four.
At the start of that champion's basketball run, it was the Big Eight basketball programs that played by second half and first came, "says Cipriano," the Big Eight was not noted for football. Oklahoma and the Seven Dwarfs'
However, Oklahoma's national football championships in 1950, '55, and '56 spurred the rest of the
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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 run a press release company in RocSA. They were prepared to give him $3,000 a year and at that time he was making $19,200 for nine months. He had
“It’s going to get tough and tough and tough to keep to this record up if we keep getting answered 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.