Boycott calls worry KU Olympic hopefuls
BvMATT SEELEY
Sports Writer
In 30 days the XIII Winter Olympics will be history.
In 30 days, harring 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 shark waves through 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 boxcock if other methods failed.
"Only as a last resort should we demonstrate to the world that no matter how much we love sports, our country will not suffer."
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 opposed a 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 1978 U.S. Olympic Trials, and in 1968, 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," said the coach. "One shot in four years. It's not like the Super Bowl, which only the best in America come together to compete."
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 boycott, but although Saudi Arabia was 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 joining the Olympics, France accented the Rivers' 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. disagreed.
"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 Mackenzie and Jeff Hook have both been selected.
for the Olympic Trials, Swimmers Jannet Linstrom and Lamia Shaffer and basketball player Lynette Woodard are headed for the Trials. Darnell Vallencolli will 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 1900, 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.
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 be more competitive." 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." A more proper time would be Timmons, as the Games go on, at the games' events.
"This would mean boxing in one city, track and field in another, and so on," Tromsah 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 Titmus, 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 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 house. C) He could see his landlord. D) He could move.
Joe is the type of person that State Rep. Jon Salbach, D-Davantage, hopes would be elected to serve in the state legislature, introduced to give tenants a legal, afferable 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-appliances, Solbach said, but not such things as resinating or recarpatting.
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 be a house Judiciary Committee agreement, did not have a legal, affordable means of forcing相邻 landlords to comply with
Sollach said that in Lawrence, the lack of a remedy for getting necessary repairs done most affected students and the elderly—low-income people who have to brine leaked action against their landlords.
Under Solubell's bill, a tenant using the 'self-belief' provision would have to notify 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 submitted a request to submit a receipt 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 remarks.
Repairs would be limited to $100 or one-half the monthly rent, whichever wn greater.
If the landlord wished to protest payin for a repair, he would notify the clerk. The tenant would reply, "We want to reimbursed small claims court to be reimbursed and I prevent the landlord from receiving the fu
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 befor they go to see their landbords on an informal basis. Tenants are only going to use it as last resort." he said.
CONTRARY TO what most landlords believe the amendment means, Solobá said, no new responsibilities would be created for the landlord.
Solbach said he thought tenants would use the "self-help" provision only who everything else failed.
The Kansas Resident Landlord-Terna Act, passed in 1975, required landlords I maintain minimum health, building an safety codes in their rental units.
"I think it's very important that diars' interests be protected, and they are protected in this bill," he said. "It won't be good enough to use this bill if he's a good landlord."
Solbach said his bill was designed to offen tenants a remedy and protect landlord rights at the same time.
"It's difficult to lose high-quality faculty likerickson, Rutledge said. "Not only that, but when we lose them, we need be able to attract people to take their place. In any job opportunity there are several factors, but salaries are a very important
WHEN THE KANSAS Legislature pass the LANDING-Termant Act in 1975, both its house and Senate versions contain "reinar and repair" provisions.
Landlords have vigorously oppose Solbach's "self-heal" bill on the ground that rents would have to be raised, because maintenance costs would increase as because they feared tenants would be abused by the provision to make unnecessary repairs.
However, when the bill went to a conference committee to iron out differences the two bills, the remedy was struck fro the measure.
However, Solbach and lobbies in support of the bill said that many landlords misunderstood the bill and that once it was passed, responsible landlords would not oppose it.
Proposed faculty sala called uncompetitive,
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But the proposal, which represents an 8 percent average increase, has been called inadequate by some faculty members.
Staff Reporter
The Kansas Board of Regents has recommended to Gov. Carvin that $3.05 million be appropriated to the 181 KU faculty for research for the University's faculty members.
Several KU faculty members now are concerned that an increasing number of professors will be bured away because of the University's inability to pay competitive
Charles Rutledge, chairman of the department, said yesterday that he had been sorry to see Ericsson go and sorry that he had no financial means of convincing him.
IN ADDITION to a $9,000 per year raise that Erickson received for taking over the pharmacology department at Texas, he
Two years ago, Carl Erickson left his tenured position in KU's department of pharmacology and toxicology, and with his son, Jacob, moved to Austin and the University of Texas.
"The facts are that we're behind and I percent probably won't close the gap entirely." he said. "I think we will continue to work constantly in keeping highly qualified people."
According to Joseph Pichler, dean of School of Business, the lack of major sr increases put the school in a position wilted for professors with aid of lesser quality.
"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 a adequate salaries in order to compete the few toxicologists who were available
said, he has received $3,000 in raises due the last two years.
PICHLER SAID the 8 percent raise m not be enough to keep quality professor the School of Business.
"If they aren't going to be pain we are worth, then they won't even show up the interview," he said.
"I was perfectly satisfied with the ponsonel at KU," Ericsson said yesterday, was just the fact that a better offer called."
According to information in the budget request, the average KU salary levels for 1978-79 were $60,540; for assistant professors for the 1978-79 year ranked between the 30th and 56th percentiles.
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Vol.90,No.76
free on campus
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Wednesdav. January 23,1980
BASKETBALL HAS A TALL TRADITION IN THE BIG EIGHT
Legendary coaches and imposing players have highlighted 60 years of conference play.
BY DAVE REYNOLDS
HILE football may be king in the Big Fight, basketball certainly does not deserve a class-citizen title (often given to
The league has had a rich tradition of excellence since it was formed in 1929 by the Big Six men's basketball state in New York. All but two of the present eight schools have made it to the Final Four of the NCAA post-season tournament, three national titles between them.
If anyone still has doubts about the Big Eight's cage legitimacy, Dr. James Naismith, was the first coach at one of the conference charter schools, Kansas. And the team had been building and rebounding record in the National Basketball Association's last season was a standout at the same school.
Kansas
The Jayhawks have had to share the loop limewash in recent years with their state rivals. Kansas State, a former conference rival, and Kansas "season" since the league became the Big Eight 20 years ago, has lost its head coach to conference's top dog. And it all began with a student of Naishtim's, Dr. Forest C. Allen, better known as
If you get the idea that Kansas is to league basketball what Oklahoma is to football, you're not far off. The current edition of the Missouri Valley Conference, the Jayhawks, currently eight were in the conference championships. They have been among the Final Four of the NCAA tournament six times, winning the game in 1952 and finnishings in 1957. In fact, Kentucky is the only school in major college basketball history with more cage victories than opponents.
Allen, a star player at KU in the early 1900s, became the Jayhawks'
2. Kansas greats. Will Chamberlain was unforgettable on the court. Chloe Lovewilde (mnt) led the 1982 championship and the Olympic gold.
3. Ed McMahon (mnt)
Oklahoma State's Bob Kurland, whose legacy includes the goal-tending rule.
head coach in 1908. His team went undefeated in conference play that earned him career提名, would include 77 wins and one of his players, Adolph Rupp, Kentucky's longtime mentor. He led the team only to coach to top that win.
Allen was a man with strong opinions about the game he跑挫. As a licensed oepsteph, he also was always at the forefront when it came to research and area discoveries in the area of injuries.
His methods were obviously successful, as he turned out a successor in the game's best college coaches. Besides Rupp, others who learned the game from Allen include Dutch Hammond and John Stanford, western John Bunn at Stanford, Forrest Cox at Colorado, Louis Washington, and Dean Smith at North Carolina.
But what Allen wanted most for Kansas was a national title. He gave it to the team and received an additional bonus when his top seven players were selected. They played States in the Olympic Games at Helsinki, Finland. They brought home the gold medal. It was a team effort by coach Jon Lovette, whose outstanding hook shot helped him establish many records. Ku'u KU: In his senior season of 1952, Lovette led the country in scoring with nearly 80 points and a 28-4 win.
An earlier Kansas team to reach the NCAA final was a wholly Omaha-based team which finished second in Indiana and was led by Roy Engleman.
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"One of our professors had a job offer from a company in August of last year," Rossus said. "He paid $30,000 a year and at that time he was making $19,200 for nine months. He had a job."
"It is 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 the year, but I don't about the next."
Power puffs
SCOTT SMITH/Kansan staff
The only thing breaking up yesterday's clear skies were these
billows of smoke flowing on the Kansas Power and Light generating plant on the Kansas River in North Lawrence.