Boycott calls worry KU Olympic hopefuls
By MATT SEELEY
Snorts Writer
In 30 days the XII Winter Olympics will be history.
Afghanistan, the United States' part in the Summer
Olympics, the United States' part in the Summer
Olympics.
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 bovocott if other methods failed.
*Only as a last resort should we demonstrate to the world that no matter how much we love our sports, our teammates or coaches, we can't fail.*
ALTOUGH 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 lead it and the host nation in buying, 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 1976 U.S. Olympic Trials, and in 1986, he coached medal winner Kim 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. They're one shot in four years. It's not like the Super Bowl where you only win the only 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. Saudia Arabia has indicated that it would send athletes to 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 a boycott of the games. France accepted the RUSSIA invitation in 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, disresearched.
"I don't need we should go over there," he said. "There's too much tumour. Athletes aren't politicians. I just hope that everything 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 was the only athlete with KU ties training for the Olympics. Lester Mackenzie and Jeff Cunningham were also on the roster.
for the Olympic Trials, Swimmers Janet Lindstrom and Lanny Shaffer and basketball player Lynette Woodward are headed for the Trials. Darnal Valencio, 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 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 disappointed if they were "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 he would be to scatter the Games events.
"This would mean boxing in one city, track and field in another, and so on," Trimms 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 Timmens, 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" Lamborg and Neesmith.
Tenant problems focus of Solbach
By STEVE YOUNG Staff Reporter
Joe rents an apartment in Lawrence with some fellow students. His student 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 use his landlord. D) He could move.
Joe is the type of person that State Rep. Sonibach, D.Lawrence, hopes would succeed him. He has been reproduced 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 reappointing 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 forcingicient landlords to comply with new laws.
He said the amendment would "put a remedy into the Landlord-Tenant Act where one does not now exist."
Sollbach said in *Lawrence*, the lack of a remedy for getting necessary repairs done most affected students and the elderly—low-income residents who had faced legal action against their landlords.
Under Solbach's bill, a tenant using the 'self-hef' 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 required payment, the landlord 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 onehalf the monthly rent, whichever was greater.
If the landlord wished to protest paying for the repair, he would notify the clerk. The clerk would then report the small claims court to be reimbursed and to prevent the landlord from receiving the full cost.
The court then would decide whether the tenant had made unnecessary repairs or whether the landlord had been negligent.
Sobach 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.
The Kansas Resident Landlord-Terman 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.
"I think it's very important that lan diords' interests be protected, and they are protected in this bill," he said. "I won't do it because good to use this bill if he go to landlords."
THE HKSAN THE KANSAS Legislature passes the LANDLORD-Tenant Act in 1975, both the House and Senate versions contain "remair and deduct" provisions.
However, when the bill went to a conference committee to iron out differences in the two bills, the remedy was struck free from the measure.
Llandandors 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 abused by the provision to make unnecessary repairs.
rowever, Solbach and lobbies in su port of the bill said that many landlords misunderstood the bill and that once it was approved, responsible landlords would oppose it.
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
Wednesday, January 23, 1980
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KANSAN
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Vol.90, No.76
free on campus
Proposed faculty sala called uncompetitive,
IN ADDITION to a $9,000 per year raise that Erickson received for taking over the pharmacology department at Texas, he
The Kansas Board of Regents has recommended to Gov. Carol that $3.05 million be appropriated to the 1981 KU campus because for the University's faculty members.
Several KU faculty members now are concerned that an increasing number of professors will be hard away because the University's inability to pay competitive
"It's difficult to lose high-quality faculty like Ericrick, " Rutledge said. "Not only that, but when we loss them, we need be able to attract people take their place. In any job opportunity there are several factors, but salaries are a very important
But the proposal, which represents an 8 percent average increase, has been called inadequate by some faculty members.
Staff Reporter
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Two years ago, Carl Ericickson left his tenured position in KU's department of pharmacology and toxicology, and with his wife, Kathleen, he moved to Austin and the University of Texas.
Charles Rutledge, chairman of the department, said yesterday that he had been sorry to use Ericsson go and sorry that he had no financial means of convincing him.
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"I was perfectly satisfied with the sonnel at KU," Erickson said yesterday just the fact that a better offer along was."
Rutledge said that KU needed to 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.
PICHLER SAID the 8 percent raise n not be enough to keep quality professor the School of Business.
"If they aren't going to be paid what are worth, then they won't even show up the interview," he said.
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According to information in the budget request, the average KU salary levels for assistant professors was $32,648 for assistant professors for the 1978-79 school year ranked between the 30th and 50th percentiles.
"The facts are that we're behind and I percent probably won't close the gap tirely," he said. "I think we will continue to improve it in keeping highly qualified people."
"The ace we have up our sieve is a 56-year history of exceptional quality, but this can be eroded over time if people leave."
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"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 going to be the year, but I don't know about the next."
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.