Bovcott 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. U.S. Olympic Track and Field Committee, said he thought the United States should use the boxvoyot if other methods failed.
"Only as a last resort should we demonstrate to the world that no matter how much we love sports, our team can make it happen."
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 to send the boys' basketball bouty, 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 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 Aaron Spiegel, one shot in four years. It's not like the Super Bowl where every year only the best in America come up."
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 send a team 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 reunion of the French accented the Russians' invitation to Moscow.
"If the United States is the only one to boycott, Tummins said, "it would be a complete shame for the United States."
Bat Theo Hamilton, assistant women's track coach
and a possible participant in the 1980 Olympics,
disaearred.
"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 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 on the Olympics. Lester Mokenk and Jeff O'Connor are among the few who have been involved.
for the Olympic Trials, Swimmers Janet Lindstrom and Lanny Shaffer and basketball player Lynette Woodward are headed for the Trials. Darien Valine III, a player, probably will receive an invitation to the tournament.
"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 1966, 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 respect Russian and American athletes have for each other. I know our athletes would be disappointed if they didn't compete."
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 practical idea, according to Timmons, is to have them at the Olympics.
"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 fallen bronze winner.
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 to the Olympic Games. Tomorrow: A look at a pair of old-time Olympians, A.C. "Dutch" Lonberg 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 was 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 save his landlord. D) He could move.
Joe is the type of person that State Rep. Joe Silbach, D-Davleurance, hopes would be given a chance to have his needs 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-appliances. Solbach said, but not such things as repainting or recarpeting.
SOLBACH SAID the bail, which is expected to get a House Judiciary Committee order that he did not have a legal, affordable means of forcing够landlenders to comply with the agreement.
He said the amendment would "put a remedy into the Landlord-Tenant Act where one does not now exist."
Solliack said that in Lawrence, the lack of a remedy for getting necessary repairs done most affected students and the elderly—however not all of them—would bring legal action against their landlords.
Under Solback's bill, a tenant using the "self-help" provision would have to notify his landlord in writing that the tenant intended to have a reseller 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 has received a receipt for the work, submit a 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 remains.
Repairs would be limited to $100 or one half the monthly rent, whic' greater.
If the landlord wished to prefor the repair, he would motivate the client to pay a small claims court to be reimbunprevent the landlord from receiving the payments.
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everything else.
"I do not forsee tenants using it they go to see their landlords on basis. Tenants are only going to the last resort," he said.
CONTRARY TO what most believe the amendment meant, said, no new responsibilities created for the landlord.
The Kansas Resident Landla Act, passed in 1975, required larm maintain minimum health, buil safety codes in their rental units.
Solbach said his bill was designe tenant's a remedy and protect 1 rights at the same time.
"I think it's very important diors' interests be protected and protected in this bill," he said. "We should use to build this a land lotlord."
WHEN THE Kansas Legislature the Landlord-Art Act in 1975, House and Senate versions of "remain and deduct" provisions.
However, when the bill went t ference committee to iron out differe the two bills, the remedy was strict measure.
Llandorchs have vigorously Solbach's "self-help" bill on the that rents would have to be raised, maintenance costs would incur because they feared tenants would provide the provision to make久修 repairs.
However, Solbach andLOBystar port of the bill said that many it misunderstands the bill and that one who responsiblely landwors o wpose it.
Proposed faculty sal called uncompetitive
By GRANT OVERSTAKE
Staff Reporter
Charles Rutledge, chairman of the department, said yesterday that he had been sorry to see Ericson go and sorry that no financial means of convincing him to leave.
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
The Kansas Board of Regents has recommended to Gov. Carlin that $0.5 million be appropriated to the 1981 KU for research in nuclear engineering at the University's faculty members.
Two years ago, Carl Ericickson left his terned position in KU's department of pharmacology and toxicology, and with his wife, Evelyn, he moved to Austin and the University of Texas.
"it's difficult to lose high-quality faculty like Ericson," 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
But the proposal, which represents an 8 percent average increase, has been called inadequate by some faculty members.
IN ADDITION to a $9,000 per year raise that Erickson received for taking over the pharmacology department at Texas, he
According to Joseph Pfeier, dear School of Business, the lack of major increases put the school in a position which is not appropriate or professors with of lesser quality.
said, he has received $3,000 in raiser the last two years.
"The facts are that we're behind an percent probably won't close the gtI tirely," he said. "I think we will continue to maintain efficiency in keeping highly qualified people."
"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 adequate salaries in order to comp the few toxicologists who were availi-
PICHLER SAID the 8 percent raise not be enough to keep quality profes the School of Business.
"If they aren't going to be paid who are worth, then they won't even show the interview," he said.
According to information in the budget request, the average KU salary levels for staff at the 1978-79 academic assistant professors for the 1978-79 school year ranked between the 36th and 56th percentiles.
"I was perfectly satisfied with it sonnel at KU," Erickson said yester was just the fact that a better offer off along."
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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 a year, but I don't know about the next."
Power puffs
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 generation plant on the Kansas River in North Lawrence.