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 bovetchot if only other methods failed.
"Only as a last resort should we demonstrate to the world that no matter how much we love sports, our teams need to play well."
ALTHOUGH ANY decision by Carter would have a great effect on the country's participation in the Games, it is the U.S. Olympic Committees' goal to try to secure that opportunity opposed to a boycott, but the committee's president, Robert Kane,
has said the committee would "be receptive to any admission from our environment."
Timmons' main concern is the athletes. He coached 21 athletes who went to the 1976 U.S. Olympic Trials, and in 1984, 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 their standpoint. The Olympics are the only one shad in four years. It's not like the Super Bowl, which is 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 not participate in the International Olympic Committee, the Saudi 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 Russia bid, but France accepted the Russians' 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, disaired.
"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 can or not."
HAMILTON, a former KU long jumper who won the NCAA InDOlympiad Champions 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 Mckee and Jeff Cousins were named to the All-Star team.
for the Olympic Trials, Swimmers Janet Lindstrom and Lanny Shaffer and basketball player Lynette Woodward are headed for the Trials. Darnell Vaileniel and John Riese, who probably will receive an invitation to the Trials.
there 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.
"ummons 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 comfortable to compete." *SO.WAIT* 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." The Games will be moved to Timmons, who 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 thrower.
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 Neasmith.
Tenant problems focus of Solbach
By STEVE YOUNG Staff Renorter
Joe rents an apartment in Lawrence with some fellow students. His landlord laughed when Joe told him that the heat was not working.
But Jou 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 sue his landlord.
Joe is the type of person that State Rep. John Sobach, D-Lawrence, hopes would work with students to be 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 rearmint or recarpeting.
SOLBACH SAID the bill, which is expected to get a House Judiciary Committee approval, said it did not have a legal, affordable means of forcing negligent landlords to comply with the law.
Solbach said in *Lawrence* the lack of a remedy for getting necessary repairs most affected students and the elderly—lowly paid teachers—may be to brine lead action against their landlords.
Under Solbach'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 receipt 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.
Repairs would be limited to $100 or one-half the monthly rent, whichever was greater.
If the landlord wishes to protest paying for the repair, he would notify the clerk. The landlord will have to appeal the small claims court to be reimbursed and to prevent the landlord from receiving the full amount.
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 resort," he said.
CONTRARY TO what most landlords believe the amendment means, Sobach said, no new responsibilities would be created for the landlord.
Solbach said he thought tenants would use the "self-help" provision only when everything else failed.
The Kansas Resident Landlord-Terman 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 lan diors' interests be protected, and they areprotected in his bill," he said. "It won'td't the tenant any good to use this bill if he's go
Sobach said his bill was designed to offer tenants a remedy and protect landlords rights at the same time.
"It's difficult to high-quality facility like Ericsson," 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."
WHEN THE KANSAS Legislature passes the Landlord-Tenant Act in 1975, both the House and Senate versions contain "remir 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 as they fear feared tenants would be abjacent to use 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 lobbies in part 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
But the proposal, which represents an 8 percent average increase, has been called inadequate by some 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
The Kansas Board of Regents has recommended to Gov. Carin that $3.05 million be appropriated to the 1881 KU campus for research for the University's faculty members.
Charles Rutledge, chairman of the department, said yesterday that he had been sorry to see Erikson go and sorry that he no longer financial means of convincing him to not financial means.
Two years ago, Carl Erickson left his tenured position in KU's department of pharmacology and toxicology and with his wife, Loretta, moved to Austin and the University of Texas.
IN ADDITION to a $9,000 per year raise that Erickson received for taking over the pharmacology department at Texas, he
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"Theace 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 en tirely," he said. "So I think we will continue to maintain fecundity in keeping highly maligned people."
"I was perfectly satisfied with the son at KU, 'Erickson said yesterday. was just the fact that a better offer can along."
According to Joseph Pichler, dean of School of Business, the lack of major air increases put the school in a position wilted for professors with a set of lesser quality.
Rutledge said that KU needed to do adequate salaries in order to compete the few toxicologists who were available
said, he has received $3,000 in raises du the last two years.
"If they aren't going to be paid what are worth, then they won't even show up the interview," he said.
According to information in the budget request, the average KU salary levels for 1978-79 were $45,000 for assistant professors for the 1978-79 year ranked between the 38th and 36th ranks.
PICHLER SAID the 8 percent raise not be enough to keep quality professo the School of Business.
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A Sports Bulletin survey of eight conferences found no real trend in performance differences; all differences were evident. No schools in the Pac-10. Big Ten, Missouri Valley, or Mid-America schools did not perform as well in dcums, while every school but
Sound nice? Too nice, decided the NCAA. At the organization's headquarters, the NCAA passed a new prohibiting member schools from providing "special housing for children" and allowing an available to be at an air-tail full student body. After NCAA enforcement officials toured Kentucky's gymnasium, they make hasty alterations last summer. The bedrooms were converted to double occupancy, minus the beds. Virtually all vate bathrooms became closets, and the lobbies were walled off from the living area. Ten other students received dental by the NCAA, have requested rulings on their athletic housing facilities. If they flunk, they must move—or suit, the athletes out
"This is something that has been in playing for several years," he is saying. "In standing behind NCAA rule prohibiting athletes from receiving extra beneath."
As for athletic housing in general, the NCAA has had a resilient staff and has been advising schools not to have segregated housing for their sports teams. Many schools require or be involved with," Morgan says. Many schools choose to
Way the crackdown? Steve Morgan of the NCAA enforcement office said the new rule was adopted because many housing for athletes could be used as a recruiting inducement. The opulence of the Wiltshire Lodge—an elite high school—has all high school All-American last year—undoubtedly had some bearing on the ruling. But Morgan is pursuing an atary in school participation.
one in the Southeastern Conference does have them. In the Southwest, Big Eight, and Atlantic Coast compete separately. The schools that have athletic dome have had them for many years. These colleges case logistical problems (such as loading buses for road trips) and teams learn team. Those without a dome do not see why athletes should be treated differently from those that do.
The only school to change its policy rectly is the University of Iowa. Beginning this year, the footwear housed in one wine at a dormitory.
"Iowa has a brand-new coaching staff," says assistant Big Ten commissioner Charles D. Henry. "They are taking on a team that had to get up to it like its straight lugging season, so they'll be willing to try anything."
THE CALL OF THE WILDCAT
At Kansas State University, the scramble for student seats that have been used by the sports games used to sook the rowdy that the football coach抖 about to recruit
For the past four years, relative calm has prevailled on the Manitoba coast, camping up in snow, sub-zero weather calm. For up to a week in spring, rain and snow.
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K-State's Ahearn Field House becomes a miniature tent town, complete with heaters, latters, TVs and cameras. After k-State players.
Many of the tenants are manned by teams from fraternities and other organizations, scheduled for guarding their places in line during the hourly roll calls.
The town, which has grown to upwards of 600 on occasion, is made up of avid fans reserving their numbered places in line under the sun from fall of 1957. Instead of pushing and showing their way to the best seats, students throw Frisbees, play cards, have parties, and study while waiting for the gates to open—at which they will meet their seats as models of civility.
"basketball is real cry, really," says senior Kent Gaston. "People figure if they’re willing to camp out, they should get the best seats."
the best of the best seats, the front row of the section that (s)n reserved, invariably gets tea group membership. Members of the Familias, who appear for games clad in Wildcat T-shirts, and sometimes in yellow hats topped with revolving ropes, are lovely loved by fans and players alike.
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"It sure beats in the dorm," she tells student Kelly Madden, a veteran of the army. "Sometimes like a nutty thing do. But I guess there are a lot of nuts out there."
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Sports Bulletin readers overwhelmingly favor a national football playoff to select the best college team in the nation.
In the first Miller Student Sports Poll, 78 percent of the students rated their team highly or very high. By a similar majority (72 percent), readers say the Asozo team is one of the most competitive year-end rankings are not a fair way to pick the No. 1 football team.
Several playoff proposals have been making the rounds in recent years, but the idea is strongly opposed by bowl-ame committee
On the related subject of choosing bowl-game participants, reader opinion was divided on what arrangement to choose. A majority chose citing games. Half the readers prefer a combination of contracts with teams that have won the guaranteed bid to the conference champion—and "open" invitations. The other group thought an entirely open system would work better. Only 18% favored arranging all bids through a random selection.
A healthy majority favored a proposed rule change that would settle all football tie games by playing overtime periods. Sixty-one percent agreed with the imposition of the new rules to be voted to let tie games stand.
Sports Bulletin readers were clear on their choices to win the Heisman Trophy, and they voted the losing with 35 percent. Followed by Charles White of Southern California with 28 percent. No one won the ballot on toped 10 percent.
To take part in the second Miller Student Sports Poll—which offers you the opportunity to predict conference basketball rankings—visit www.miller.com/poll on page 20 of the Sports Bulletin and drop the card in the mail.
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"One of our professors had a job offer from a company in August of last year," Peter said. "We offered him $30,000 a year and at that time he was making $19,260 for nine months. He had a job to do."
"It's 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 this year, but I don't about the next."
Power puffs
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The only thing breaking up yesterday's clear skies were these
billows of smoke flowing from the Kansas Power and Light generating plant on the Kansas River in North Lawrence.