Boycott calls worry KU Olympic hopefuls
RvMATT SEELEY
Snorts 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.
oimumms, 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 hotov屯 if other methods failed.
"Only as a last resort should we demonstrate to the world that no matter how much we love sports, our team's needs are more important."
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 approve the bid. The committee, boycott, but the committee's president, Robert Kane.
has said the committee would "be receptive to any admonition on 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. The Olympic shot in four years. It's not like the Super Bowl, but only the best in America come together to compete."
What worries Timmons must, 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 is a member of the 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 a boycott. France accepted the Russians' invitation to Moscow.
"If the United States is the only one to boycott,"
"Timms 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 disaeared.
"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 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 isn't the only athlete with KU ties training for the Olympics, Lester Minkers and Jeff Sauer have been part of the team.
for the Olympic Trials. Swimmers Janet Lindstrom and Lanny Shaffer and basketball player Lynette Woodard are headed for the Trials. Darnell Valentine is also 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 1956, 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 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 compete." "We compete," he added, "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." Timmons added 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," Tromsued said. "The Games might lose some excitement, but that's better than love 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" Lonberg 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.
Joe is the type of person that State Rep. John Sobach, D-Lawrence, hopes would be able to help him with his education 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 exists provisions in the act.
Such work might include fixing broken plumbing or landlord-appliances. Solbach said, but not such things as recapiting or recarpeting.
He said the amendment would "put a remedy into the Landlord-Tenant Act where one does not now exist."
SOLBACH SAD the bill, which is expected to get a House Judiciary Committee approval. The judge did not have a legal, affordable means of forcing negligent landlords to comply with the new law.
Solach said that in Lawrence, the lack of a remedy for getting necessary repairs done most affected students and the elderly—low income groups that cannot afford to move or bring legal action against their landlords. Under Solach's bill, a tenant using the landlord's name would be免由 to留 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 on his own expense. If the tenant had a valid claim, the landlord should submit a receipt for the work, his next
If the landlord wished to protest paying for the repair he would not reply the chair. The landlord may take 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 CLERK would then notify the landlord that the work had been done, and send the landlord the rent check--minus the cost of the remains.
month's rent and a $2 fee to a district court
clerk.
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, Solbach said, no new responsibilities would be created for the landlord.
But the proposal, which represents an 8 percent average increase, has been called inadequate by some faculty members.
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.
WHEN THE Kansas Legislature passed the Landlord-Tenant Act in 1975, both the House and Senate versions contained "renair and detract" provisions.
"It's difficult to lose high-quality faculty like Ericsson," 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 others, 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. "It won't do a lot of good to good use this bill if it's got good landlords."
Landlords have vigorously oppose Solbach's "self-help" bill on the ground that rents would have to be raised, because maintenance costs would increase as because they feared tenants would be afra to use the provision to make unreasonable
However, when the bill went to a conference committee to iron out differences i the two bills, the remedy was stricken from the measure.
However, Solbach andLOBJists in s.10 port of the bill said that many landlord misunderstood the bill and that once it wu oppose it, responsible landlords would oppose it.
IN ADDITION to a $ 8,000 per year raise that Erickson received for taking over the pharmacology department at Texas, he
The Kansas Board of Regents has recommended to Gov. Carlin that $0.65 million be appropriated to the 181 KBU budget for a mission space战力 for the Kansas numbers.
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
Proposed faculty sala called uncompetitive,
By GRANT OVERSTAKE
Charles Rutledge, chairman of the department, said yesterday that he had been sorry to see Dickinson go and say that no financial means of convincing him to
Two years ago, Carl Erickson left his tenured position in KU's department of pharmacology and toxicity, and with his son-in-law, have moved to Austin and the University of Texas.
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"The facts are that we're behind and *percent probably not close* the gap entirely," he said. "So I think we will continue to tighten it in keeping highly qualified people."
According to Joseph Philier, dear School of Business, the lack of major increase puts the school in a position where it is not or professors with a 'wider quality.'
"I was perfectly satisfied with the somel at KU," Ericson said yesterday was just the fact that a better offer aliened."
said, he has received $3,000 in raises do the last two years.
"The ace we have up our sleeve is a 56-year history of exceptional quality, but this can be overed time if people leave."
PICHLER SAID the 8 percent raise not be enough to keep quality professe the School of Business.
Rutledge said that KU needed to adequate salaries in order to compete the few toxicologists who were availab
According to information in the request, the average KU salary levels for assistant professors were 54 and 56; assistant professors for the 1978-79 year ranked between the 38th and 56th in the list.
the two couchbacks who are a man.
"If they aren't going to be paid we are worth, then they won't even show the interview," he said.
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Vol 90 No.76
free on campus
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Oklahoma State
Willie Smith. 1976 Big Eight Player of the Year.
presented such a deliberate style that it scored over 50 points just twice in 25 games.
In between those glory years for Kansas, a school now in the Big Ten in the Missouri Valley - Oklahoma team most dominant basketball school America. In consecutive years (1948 and 1950) the team then known as the Aggies won NCAA championships. Agnes won NBA championships (1949 and 1951) it was
Figuratively, the standout of this era was coach Henry Ibri, literally. The standout was three-time All-America star Kurland Ibri, who ranks just behind his career winnings with 767, was afounder in preaching ball and control and defense. He coached at Sillwater for no doubt his top achievement in the nation, finishing back-to-back national titles first time that he had been responsible on the team. The man most responsible on the team those titles was a gentle giant Kurland, one of the game's first well-coordinated 7-foots, well-informed enough, that is, to single-force a major rule change.
While he was a strong offensive player, leading the nation in scoring his senior season, Kurland was best in passing and particularly his goal-tendency. he would pose position himself inside the opponent's basket and slap the ball to score. He proached the hoop. He had no perfected this art by his junior team, but with Kurland he ruled specifically with the mind. The new standard, which included their team two points if a ball was bailed on with flight to the basket, "made kur
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land a more valuable team member, said Isa at the time. With no other teammate on the court, his team's basket, the big man, can counter better and assume
the next great Goliath to the conference after Kurland and Lovelace, who came to Kansas in hamburger
Chamberlain was an All-American in both his years at Kansas, and while he will hold some league records, he records, it was through his intimidation that he left his biggest imprint on the Big Eight.
Nebraska
A game against Nebraska involves Chamberland stands out as the 10 basketball memory in the team. Don Husker university director Don Husker has joined Lain's senior season, Kansas landed its one of its worthwhile history. 102-46. One month ago, he again in Lincoln and it was a great win.
Bryant takes it from there; "We went into a slow-down game for the close. We had a guard named Jordy and had a knee injury and was sitting on the bench in civilian clothes. All of us bugged the Kuback kept bugging coach him suit up. Bush ignored him suit up midway through the second half, and he got to go get his suit on Kuback's raft and put him room and suited up, and Bush put with a couple of minutes left and the two of them two or three seconds left in the Kuback had the ball, and he let it Kuback had the ball, and he let it the bourcher half court. The bourcher half court."
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in the air, and it wished through to give us a two-point win. I can still rememberamberland standing their helplessly, watching that shot go in."
Iowa State
A similar situation occurred at Ames, Iowa, the year before when against Chamberlain the ball down against Chamberlain, hawks and won on a last-second shot. 30-37. It was the only concession of the NCAA final BU that it made.
Gary Thompson, Iowa state's All-America guard on that team, remembers the end of the game where the ahead by two when Wilt matched to tie it. When we called time to watch about 30 seconds left, and (coach) Hannah called for me to take the ball. We set up, I got loose on a pentagon behind his left man (Don Medkser) to pick me up. I dumped it back to the top of the circle, and he hit the jumper as the gun went off."
Needless to say, one of the wildest celebrations in the town's history followed.
Neither尔里哈 State nor Neiburka has had much else to cheer about on the basketball floor since neither a league title since Franklin Roosevelt is President. So those wins over Kansas are true David versus Goliath tales.
Missouri
Missouri has won a Big Eight title in the 1970s, but only in the past dozen years have Missouri fans had much reason to cheer. In 1967 Mr. Storm Bear, a former All-American pitcher, left a coaching job at North Carolina to take over the Tigers. In the two years before Stewart赔, the Tigers
Dick Peek, a member of the 1950-51 national runner-up team that averaged more than 70 points per game.
Yes, this 8'2" being played baseball or on basketball for quite a while. This is the 1928 team. The 1928 was the first Big Six champion.
racked up all of six wins and 43 defeats.
Things could only go up, and that's where Stewart has taken him. During his tenure, the team has gone and gone to five post-season games.
One of those post-season games provided Tiger fans with a thrilling NCAA Midwest Regional game. Regional games was tracing Michigan by 13 pounds at the hall. Down but not out, the N.C.A.R. beat heat in the second half. Guarded
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handed on for a hard-carryed 95%
end in the end of the season.
No. 2 in the NBA.
Colorado
Although recent years have been lean, Colorado has had its share of success during the league in 1948. The Buffalo's outright four times and tied for it once. The biggest name in CUage is indeedoubtedly All-America Cliff Meldt. Co-founder leading scorer of all time and record-holder, for among others, scoring average in a conference, the Buffs to a loop title in 1969.
Before entering the conference, he made 1942 Buffaloes, led by center Pauley Perkins, in the NCAA final after winning a tournament favorite, Kansas. Third-ranked Burdette Halderson paced the Bufs to a second straight league crown and another third place at the national tournament.
Kansas State
The most successful Big Eight team other than Kansas has been its sister school, Kansas State. The Wildcats have won or shared the WIS times, including four times in the NCAA-KState has stayed in the NCAA journey 13 times—those finishing fourth one second.
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"One of our professors had a job offer from a company in August of last year," he said. "We've made $30,000 a year and at that time he was making $19,200 for nine months. He had to quit."
"It is 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 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.