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 withdrew 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 Timms, 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 bovoncott if other methods failed.
"Only as a last resort should we demonstrate to the world that no matter how much we love sports, our hearts are not filled with excitement."
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 govern the event. The committee, boycott, 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 athletics who went to the 1976 U.S. Olympic Trials, and in 1986, he coached medal winner Jim Rynu. 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 sport." There is 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 boycott the games if France were not 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 whether they would boycott France acceded the Russias' 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 turnal. Athletes aren't politicians. I just hope that gets resolved soon, whether I go or not."
HAMILTON, a former KU long jumper who 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 training for the Olympics. Lester Mickers and Jeff Holm have won titles in doubles and mixed doubles.
for the Olympic Trials, Swimmers Janet Lindstrom and Lanny Shaffer and basketball player Lynette Woodward are headed for the Trials. Darrell Valentelli 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 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.
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 compete," he added, "compete." **NO 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 wint, forget it." A more practical idea, according to Timmons.
"This would mean boxing in one city, track and field in another, and so on," Timms 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 Dean Neasmith.
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 sue his landlord.
Joe is the person of person that State Rep. John Solbach, D-Lawrence, hopes would be made aware of his role and produced 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-applied appliances. Sollbach said, but not such things as repainting or recarpeting.
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 Judiciary bill, is not going to protect individuals did not have a legal, affordable means of forcing compliance to comply with law.
Sobach said in *Lawrence*, the lack of a remedy for getting necessary repairs done most affected students and the elderly -lowly enough to brute legal 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 renai 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 does not want to do it, he submit a request for the work, his next
If the landlord wished to protest paying for the repair, he would reaffirm the check. The landlord has a small claims court to be reimbursed and to prevent the landlord from receiving the full payment.
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 remarries.
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.
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.
"I amunc to use high-quality faculty like Frickson, "Ruledge said. "No only that, but when we lose them, we need to attract people to take their place. In any job opportunity there are several factors, but salaries are a very important
The Kansas Resident Landlord-Terren-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 landlords' interests be protected, and they are protected in this bill," he said. "It won't do anything to use it so that it'll go a good landlord."
The Kansas Board of Regents has recommended to Gov. Carlin that $3.05 million be appropriated to the 181 KU budget for a salary increase for the district.
Bonach said his bill was designed to offer tenants a remedy and protect landlords' rights at the same time.
WHEN THE KANSAS Legislature passes the Landlord-Tenant Act in 1975, both the House and Senate versions contain "renail and deduct" provisions.
Landlords have vigorously pressed Solbach's 'self-help' bill on the ground that rents would have to be raised, because maintenance costs would increase an理由 they leased fears would be added to 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.
But the proposal, which represents an 8 percent average increase, has been called inadequate by some faculty members.
Proposed faculty sala called uncompetitive.
However, Solbach andLOBystats in support of the bill said that many landlord misunderstood the bill and that once it was approved, responsible landlords would not oppose it.
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
BvGRANT OVERSTAKE
IN ADDITION to a to $9,000 per year raise that Erickson received for taking over the pharmacology department at Texas, he
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Two years ago, Carl Ericison left his tenured position in KU's department of pharmacology and toxicology and with his wife, Annette, moved to Austin and the University of Texas.
Charles Rutledge, chairman of the department, said yesterday that he had been sorry to see Erickson go and say that he had no financial means of convincing him.
"The ace we have up our sleeve is a 36-year history of exceptional quality, but this can be eroded over time if people leave."
"The facts are that we're behind and $\dot{1}$ percent probably won't close the gap entirely," he said. "I think we will continue to improve it 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 wishing to teach or professors with a skill of lesser quality.
PICHLER SAID the 8 percent raise n not be enough to keep quality professe the School of Business.
said, he has received $3,000 in raises dur the last two years.
on the last twenty-fourth day satisfied with the p. speaker at KU. "Erickson said yesterday, was just the fact that a better offer can alone."
According to information in the budget request, the average KU salary levels for staff were 680.3 USD for assistant professors for the 1978-79 school year ranked between the 30th and 50th percentiles.
"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
10 cents off campus Wednesday, January 23, 1980
INSIDE SHOTS
A Collection of Short Reports: Tournaments, A Tent Town, Athletic Dorms, Polls, and Greener Pro Pastures
BY TIM SMIGHT
OVER 'THERE
Yanks Find
Pro Careers on
Foreign Courts
Most teams in each European country's top three divisions have at least one American player playing there, and the teams, nominally "amateur" local clubs, are supported by industries and corporations. Most pay their American players from $20,000 to $40,000 a season. They stretch from September to May.
A spot on an NBA team is the dream of many a college basketball player, and for most, that's what it remains. Only a few old players grad cracks the 342-player league each year. But午休, an astonishing number of former college ball-players are finding employment elsewhere.
From the halls of Barcelona to the streets of Italy, basketball is blooming—and most American colleges are a couple of talented Americans crashing the boards and leading the fast break. In fact, over 2,000 Americans now play for pay in the league allures over Western Europe.
To keep the amateur states, most players are hired by the companies supporting the team as coaches. Paul Calzine, Calmine Carnatone, a former St.
"The whole amateur thing is pretty absurd," he says. "But since the games are only played on weekends, a lot of the European players do hold down jobs. One student, an engineer, a student, and an auto mechanic."
John's University player who spent 10 years playing and coaching in France.
According to Calzoni, only one American player—whose usually the star of the team—can be on the court at a time. Played under international rules, the game is slower than pony in the ball.
"The lane is wider, and there is a twelve clock," says Calaronto. "You can see it in the same game. The refitting is a little less thought, though so there's more."
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"The language barrier is rough at first," says Caltonzio, "but a lot of players try to learn the native Americans are sort of local heroes."
To college players, especially those a hair below NBA caliber, such as that gas wells the money in the ball game, you might call the playing ball (can be quite appealing. "For me, it was a choice between basketball in Europe or football in America."
Spillane, a former UCLA guard who was offered a $50,000 contract (plus an apartment and a cart to store his belongings) that business school could wait.
THE GUEST LIST GROWS FOR POST-SEASON PLAY
"The more, the merrier seemed to be the catch phrase of college basketball. For the fourth time in nine years, the College Athletic Association (NCAA) has expanded the field for its post-season basketball tournament this March, 48 teams are scheduled for the national championship. That's more than one-fifth of the 261 school competitions basketball's past.
"The feeling on the Executive Committee (the NCAA body) that meets each year to review the tournament format) was that the overall calibre of teams warrants the expansion, says Dawson Cayne, executive office. "There may well be more expansion in the future."
The NCAA also abolished its rule limiting each conference to two representatives in the journey. As in last year's event, 23 teams will qualify automatically for a tournament, the rest will be chosen at-large.
While most schools undoubtedly welcome the expansion, the heart of the challenge among the organizers of the rival National Invitation Tournament, held in December, has been that of
passed over by the NCAA.
"Naturally it hurts," says Peter Carlesimo, president of the Intercollegiate Basketball Association, a group of five New York City college students that sponsor the NCAA basketball league good basketball played in this country to support two major championships. "The NIT is backuping this sentiment with an expansion of its own - from 24 to 32 teams, all of which are located in the state set. That brings the post-season participation to 80 teams.
STORM
OVER A DORM
Blueprints for
Kentucky Shangri-La
Altered by NCAA
When the University of Kentucky opened a new private dormitory in 1978, a total of 1978, all of its eagles arched upward. The Wildland Lodge looked more like a skist than a dorm. It was equipped with two-level lobbies, complete with huge fireplaces, hardwood walls, tile floors, and plush leather furnishings. There are also places for all 16 players, each equipped with a seven-foot bed, large desk, telephone, color TN, and bathrooms, dining room, library, and base recreation area housing a post, table, and large-screen TV.
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"One of our professors had a job offer from a company in August of last year," Rosemary said. "He made $30,000 a year and at that time he was making $19,200 for nine months. He had a job."
1957, said that only four people had left the department since he arrived.
"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 the same year, but I don't know about the next."
Power puffs
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billows of smoke flowing from the Kansas Power and Light generating plant on the Kansas River in North Lawrence.