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 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支 post shock waved 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 buoyant if other methods failed.
"Only as a last resort should we demonstrate to the world that no matter how much we love sports, our lives are better off."
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 decide whether the United States will backyout, 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 Ruml. 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 Steve Tinkham, one shot in four years. It's not like the Super Bowl where every year only the best in America come out.
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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, disseed.
"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 Leo or not."
HAMILTON, a former KU long jumper who the NCAA Inland 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 Mickens and Jeff Gendron were among the 2014 team.
for the Olympic Trials, Swimmers Janet Llandstrom and Lanny Shaffer and basketball player Lynette Woodward are headed for the Trials. Daren Valenfur invitation to 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 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 athletic ties with the apartheid government of South Africa.
"iummons 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, "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 would be to trommish the Games's 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 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 or a multiplayer dealing with KU and its ties to the Olympic Games. Tomorrow: A look at a pair of old-time Olympians, A.C.D "Dutch" Lomberg 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 use his landlord
Joe is the type of person that State Rep. Joe Sibach, D-Dr Lawrence, hopes would be nominated in the race, 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 repainting or recarving.
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 Judicial Committee approval, said it did not have a legal, affordable means of forcing relegated landmasters to comply with new regulations.
Solbach said that in Lawrence, the lack of remedy for getting necessary repairs done most affected students and the elderly—low-income residents—could be brine legal action against their landlords.
Under Solchab's bill, a tenant using the "self-help" 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 at his own expense. If the tenant fails to pay the rent, the landlord may 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.
month's rent and a $2 fee to a district court clerk.
If the landlord wished to protest paying for the repair, he would have to force the landlord to inflict 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 record." he said.
Solbach 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.
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 diarists' interests be protected, and they are protected in his bill," he said. "Ifn't wont the tenant any good to use this bill if he's got
"It's difficult to high-quality faculty like EricKresson," 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 reasons, but salaries are a very important one."
Sobach 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 "tenure and deduct" provisions.
Landlords have vigorously oppose Solbach's "self-help" on the ground that rents would have to be raised, because maintenance costs would increase an why they feared tenants would be able to keep the provision to make unreasonable 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 lobbists 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.
By GRANT OVERSTAKE
The Kansas Board of Regents has recommended to Gov. Carlin that $3.05 million be appropriated to the 181 KU budget for a muni salary increase for the university.
But the proposal, which represents an 8 percent average increase, has been called inadequate by some faculty members.
Staff Reporter
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 Ericsson left his tenured position in KU's department of pharmacology and toxicology, and with his wife and four children move to Austin and New York.
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.
Several KU faculty members now are concerned that an increasing number of professors will be bored away because of the University's inability to pay competitive
The facts are that we're behind and I percent probably won't close the gap en end. And I said, "I think we will continue to experiment efficiently in keeping highly qualified people."
According to Joseph Pichler, dean of School of Business, the lack of major s increases put the school in a position w which is needed for professors with set 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."
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According to information in the budget request, the average KU salary levels for 1978-79 were $62,000 and assistant professors for the 1978-79 year ranked between the 36th and 56th in KU.
"If they aren't going to be paid what are worth, then they won't even show u the interview," he said.
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BASKETBALL HAS A TALL TRADITION IN THE BIG EIGHT
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"One of our professors had a job offer from a company in August of last year,"屠俊华说, "to teach me $30,000 a year and at that time he was making $19,260 for nine months. He had a job."
"It goes to get tougher and tougher and to keep to this record up if we keep getting screwed by the Legislature. I think it's about the year, but I don't know about the next."
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