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Vol. 90, No. 61
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The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
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Pig-out
Maggie Bellone, Fort Collinson, Colo., freshman, watches as Pete Gust, Prarie Village freshman, takes part in a pig-out, part of regular rituals of the Miss Piggy fan club (above). Bel馨 helps Gust clean up (above right) and Gust smiles in reps to pig Hassler Hall residents (below). photos by Chris Todd.
Miss Piggy charms KU club members
By AMY HOLLOWELL
Staff Reporter
Like any symbol of sex and l'amour,
Miss Piggy, the Marilyn Monroe of the
puppet world, has her fans.
The platinum blond dream-pig of Jim Henson's Mupetees are the sweetheart of some Hashingr Hill residents who formed a Miss Piggy fan club this fall.
Sue Kessler, Ken莎a, Wis., junior, is the founder of the 15-member group of both men and women devoted to the pig-beauty.
"We all just love Miss Piggy," Kessler said.
She started the club in September when lists for interest groups were posted in Hashing. The groups are financial, hall's educational literacy program.
The program finances clubs such as theater groups and art and craft groups.
MEMBERS OF THE fan club began meeting weekly to watch the Muppets on television, and later decided to make costumes for themselves.
Kessler said they attached pink felt ears to headbands and started wearing their pig ears to dinner in the hall cafeteria once or twice a month.
"Now we have pig-ups once a week," she said. "We wear our ears to dinner and snort our food. It mostly just being foolish."
She said that when the cafeteria served
pork, the Miss Piggy fans sometimes
retaliated by instigating food fights.
Mike Fein, topkea senior, and "just a common pig", in the club, got into the group because he happened to see the sign-up sheet and thought it sounded like a rabbit.
Fein said he went with some members of the club to see "The Muppet Movie" in Tooneka earlier this year.
Kessler said the club also would like to bring one of the Muppettees to KU as a speaker. She said Hashner sponsored a career-sponsored internship in interacting with a Muppeteer.
But Fein had a slightly different interpretation of the Miss Piggy fan club.
"I think there's some social stigma against the pig," he said. "It's definitely a way to revolt against the establishment by being a pig."
Lawrence campus to oust AMS
By PAMELA LANDON
Staff Reporter
The University of Kansas has decided to end its problem-placed relationship with American Management Services—a relations company was made worse by recent budget cuts.
noderger Orke, University director of support services, announced last week that the AMS contract for the Lawrence campus will be renewed. The contract expires Dec. 1.
Oroke, who was in charge of contract negotiations, said the University would begin managing its housekeeping department on Dec. 1.
Oroke said AMS had not properly trained custodians, had sent interim experienced SAM supervisors to the campus and generally had not cleaned the University as it should.
THE UNIVERSITY had been evaluating the AMS contract since the summer 2015 semester. The AMS headquarters in Englewood, Colo., in August saying the University was not interested in the new contract.
He said resistance to AMS by the Custodians Action Committee or any other custodial group played no part in the nonrenewal of the AMS contract.
AMS has had problems at the University from the beginning, including a turnover of three campus housekeeping directors during the first four months of the program.
But continual problems worsened the AMS-University relationship:
AMIS-university relationship
* An alleged lack of custodial training.
- All injured back or custom-fit training.
* Custodial complaints of overwork. AMS has estimated that based on company
standards, custodians should be able to
about 3,000-square-feet an hour.
- And protests about AMS procedures. Complaints that begin one month after the AMS contract at the University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kan., started on surface periodically up until this past month.
- Allegations of inexperienced AMS supervisors. KU officials were not convinced that the three-week AMS supervision team had adequately prepared AMS supervisors for the job.
- Alleged insufficient communication between AMS supervisors and KU superviseurs concerning custodial management.
AMS, founded 20 years ago, offers housekeeping, hospital engineering, laundry and supply distribution and service areas related to Mike M.AEE. AMS area manager.
AMS is a division of American Hospital Supply Corporation, a multi-national corporation that manufactures and distributes products used primarily in the health care
ORGANO SAKED that he was not sure why custodian left the stall because they needed from AMS, but AMS's failure to train employees properly had contributed to his decision not to renew the lease.
The bulk of AMS's contracts are with hospitals, but AMS has several university contracts, he said.
"There should be more on-the-job training than there has been," he said.
Barbara Wilkins, Kustodian who works on the first floor of Wescoe Hall, said
The AMS contract stated several times the need for training "walt" supervised and directed the cleaning equipment would provide all cleaning equipment, some cleaning supplies and jd descriptions for cleaning equipment.
"And it was about hospital cleaning. There's just one comparison between a hospital and here," Wilkins said.
SHE SAW HER first training film after she had worked at the University for four months, she said.
that when she first came to the University in October, 1978, AMS did not train her at all.
"I was shown my area and handed a cleaning cart. I didn't even know what any of the cleaning products were or what they were used for; I was very nervous for fear I'd make a mistake. I had to keep running around in the hallway, bow to how to use the different products," she said.
Baldwin said that when he became director in March he knew of no formal training procedures for the campus.
Dave Baldwin, AMS director of housekeeping for the Lawrence campus, said he also had not been happy with the training program.
RECENTLY, HE HAD begin writing procedures for supervisors to follow when conducting on-the job training and had tried to schedule regular training sessions.
He said some on-the-job training and a few training films were offered, although not on a regular basis.
He said Wilkins' case could easily have happened.
He said that training had not received the attention it should have because he had spent much of his time at first writing
current job descriptions for all the custodians.
"It is difficult for an assistant director or a supervisor to sit down and show training films when they have to go out and help work an area," he said.
He said another problem that had slowed development of training procedures was a high rate of absenteeism among custodians.
Baldwin said absenteeism was running 15 to 17 percent a day for Lawrence campus custodians.
There are 135 custodial positions, 132 of which are filled now, he said.
OROKE SAID he did not think absenteeism was any higher now than it was before AMS came to the University.
however Josephine Coffey, a KU custodian, said she thought absenteeism was higher because AMS overworked cutlips.
"AMS wants you to keep your nose to the grindstone and you can't even take one second of extra breathing until she just get in the next day," Coffey said.
U. N. Secretary-General Kurt Waldburn yesterday called for an urgent meeting of the Security Council on the U.S.-Iranian war, it posed a grave threat to world peace.
The work areas are based on standards the company has developed over a period of time. The work assignments and work assignments to make sure space is equally distributed and not abnormal in use.
Baldwin, however, said he did not think any GK custodians were overworked.
He said he tried to equally divide among custodians the approximately 2.8 million square feet the company was responsible for cleaning.
In Washington, the Carter administration said it "strongly supported" Waldheim's request.
By the Associated Press
Security Council to discuss Iran
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It was 3 a.m. in Tehran when the secretary-general issued his appeal and Iranian officials were not immediately available for comment.
BALDWIN SAID that some larger classrooms covered an area of about 1,000
State Department officials in Washington denied that the administration's support of Waldheim's appeal represented a conspiracy. But the administration had sought a Security Council meeting.
BUT THE State Department earlier had opposed Iran's request, insisting that 49 Americans being held hostage at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran be freed first.
A State Department official told reporters the United States agreed to the meeting because it would allow the agency would adopt a strong resolution supporting the American contention that the hostages be released immediately and the situation be contained. The official asked not to be identified.
Diplomatic sources said the 15 council members would hold private consultations starting at 10:30 a.m. today, and if they agree the council request, a public meeting will be held.
THE EMBASSY in Tehran was seized Nov. 4 by two militans who said the Americans would not be released until deposed Shah Mohammad Rae ZhiPAhli, who is undergoing medical treatment in a Iranian Hospital, was returned from Iran to train them.
Waldheim he said he wanted the 15-nation council to "deal with the crisis situation in the relations between the United States and Iran."
"In my opinion," he said, "tension has now escalated to such an extent that a threat
has been created not only to the peace and stability to the region but to the entire world."
WALDHEIM requested the meeting under Article 99 of the U.N. Charter that empowers the secretary-general to bring to the Security Council's attention "any matter which in his opinion may threaten the existence of international peace and security."
Iran's official Pars news agency had announced earlier yesterday in Tehran that the Revolutionary Council's acting Foreign Minister, Abhissan Babbani Bani, would飞 to New York today to address the council on Iran and the United States see the back shank in Iran.
But hours later, a government spokesman said Bani Sadr's trip would be postponed for a week because of a religious holiday and a constitutional referendum.
WALHEM#7's request for the meeting will be announced to the council president for November, Bozom Ambassador Sergio Palacios de Vizzio. The meeting, called the crisis coercing and damaging,
"I ask that the Security Council be convened urgently in an effort to seek a peaceful solution to the problem in question and to establish principles of justice and international law."
Waldheim said his action was his own decision.
In Iran yesterday, tens of thousands of asians marched to the occupied U.S. headquarters hours after some of the 49 hostages held inside had them captured by visitor-knives. Rangoon, Burma.
HANSEN, 49, was sentenced four years ago for campaign finance violations.
But the Idaho Republican survived that low point in 1975 and has won favor with the voters in Idaho's 2nd Congressional District with battles against its surrender of
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By JUDY WOODBURN
ID check causes Iranian concerns
Iranian students at the University of Kansas has voiced a number of reasons for their concern about checks of student status in S. Immigration and Naturalization Service.
The checks begin today and continue Wednesday in KU's Office of Foreign Trade. Students must present proof of enrollment, residence, visa and up-to-date arrival and passport information.
Students found to be out-of-status will face deportation.
The check was ordered earlier this month by the Carter administration in response to the recent attacks on Iranian traders at the U.S. embassy in Tehran. The Treasury Department would register with the immigration office by Dec. 15.
Irish students have said one of their concerns was that they would not be able to complete their educations if they were denoted.
SAID *PNRAZAR* an instructor in political science, and a professor at the university, and that strict entrance examinations for universities in Iran were a "strong incentive" for Iranian students to study abroad.
"During the last four or five years, the educational system in Iran underwent drastic changes," he said. "Since about 1980, there were 46 million of Iranian students into the United States."
Pirmaraz said political turmoil during the last two years of former shab Mohammad Raza Pasha's rule in Iran also had been a result of number of students who left the country to study.
"During these two years, the universities in Iran were closed at least half the time," he said.
CLARE KOAN, dean of foreign students at KU, said there was now a large number of college-aged people in Iran who wanted an education that was not readily available. Many of these people, he said, have middle school education and afford to send their children abroad to study.
Coan said there were between 45,000 and 50,000 Iranian students in the United States.
Norman Forer, professor of social welfare and adviser to KU's Iranian Student Movement had favored sending Iranian students to the midwestern United States because the Midwest was seen as conservative, and he might not be exposed to radical viewpoints.
He said most of KU's 289 Indian students were either self-supporting or were supported by their parents during their stay in the United States.
Pirnazar said he was not sure how Khomini's government would receive students returning from the United States.
HE SAID THAT some students may have earlier obtained scholarships to study in the United States that were continued when Ayatollah Ruhollah Khamenei came into power. But he said, he is unaware of any evidence that he was being issued under the Khamenei regime.
Pirzaraz said that before the shah was overthrown last January, students educated abroad enjoyed a certain amount of prestige upon return to Iran.
"They (students) knew a foreign language," he said, "and often their technical knowledge allowed them to get better jobs."
"I THINK THE element of prestige may be the power that will power eventually realize that they need expertise in all fields. The needs of the county are to determine how well we are prepared."
Vahid Razavi, Tehran, Iran, junior, said he was concerned about possible deportations because of rising unemployment in Iran.
"By holding the Americans hostage," he said, "the Iranians back home are hurting us here as well as the Americans. If all the Iranians in the United States and Europe were forced to return, they would have to work for them." The workers' work for the people who are in the country now.
"What could I do if I went back to Iran? don't want to sit in the street and burn the American flag."
SOME IRANIAN students who are not in favor of Khomeini's government say they might face political harassment in Iran if they are forced to return.
"But this all depends on how hard you get on the Khomini government's case," said Parroh Nourzad, instructor in economics. "The school is not sure what sense that you can't say just anything against the new government. But the situation is much better than it was under the old government."
During political protests at KU against the shah in 1976, some Iranian students were arrested. They were allegedly alleged SKAVAK agents, who were the shah's secret policemen. The students jailed for their actions.
Nourad said Iranians who were of the Bahai faith, Kurdish, Christian, or homosexual could possibly face persecution under Iran's Muslim government.
U. S. LAW prohibits the deportation of any foreigners who would face persecution upon returning to their homeland. Coan said someone who thought they would face
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