Roll call
JEFF HARRINGKansan Staff
**mark Rafferty**, Topka senior, and Executive Secretary for the Student Senate, announces the results of the roll call after a Senate member asked for a quorum. The senate voted to approve the results.
EPA to investigate hall insecticide use
By SUSAN SCHOENMAKER
Staff Renorter
An Environmental Protection Agency investigation into insecticide safety precautions in the Hashinger Hall cafeteria is expected within the next couple of weeks, according to Joe Joskin, Officer at the EPA in Kansas City, Mo.
The investigation is the result of a number of student employee and resident complaints during the past two weeks about the use of insecticides near
A fine of $1,000 could be assessed if the Hashinger cafeteria is in violation of EPA standards, according to Poskin.
However, he said first time offenders normally were just issued a warning. He said that the investigation would be freed from an EPA, branch office in Toneka.
The insecticides in question are Johnson Wax's "Bolt" and "Baygon," Poskin said Friday.
"BAYGON" WAS sprayed throughout all of the residence hall cafeterias, according to Surendra Kumar, of Lawrence Termite and Pest Control Company.
He said that his company has a contract with the University of Kansas' Food Service Housing.
Kumar's contract called for an increase from monthly to weekly spraying Nov. 1, according to Lenor Ekdahl, director of food service housing.
She said the increased spraying was to better protect resident food facilities from pests.
Fred McElhenie, director of the office of Residential Programs, said that he was unaware of the EPA's impending investigation.
"TIM A LITTLE embarrassed because I have not heard anything," he said. "How can we take action when people don't let us know what the problem is?"
He said that he thought that the EPA investigation was unfortunate because the problem could be handled by the housing administration.
A cafeteria employee, Susannah Myers, Kansas City, Mo., junior, said she and fellow employees had suffered headaches, stomach aches and nausea, and that she suspected these symptoms of interleukin in Haskinsher's cafeferia.
She told her father, a retired biologist, who then called the EPA about the spraying.
Myers said that she contacted her father about possible insecticide misuse after she saw the spraying of chemicals near uncovered food and dishes.
"I WAS WORRIED that is was getting too hard," he said, "really exhausted and having headaches after work." Myers said. "It was really bizarre because it never happened."
According to a nurse at Lawrence Memorial Hospital poison control center, Hassinger were ingested or inhaled, they could result in the kind of side effects she experienced.
"The insecticides aren't all that toxic or harmful, but I can see why the employees might not be feelable well if they work around the spray," said the nurse.
"SOME PEOPLE are more sensitive to products like that than others," she said.
However, a doctor at the University of Kansas Medical Center poison control center, who also asked not to be identified, stated that these were related to the use of insecticides.
"Someone would almost have to pour the insecticide over the food for anyone to get really sick," he said.
Delbert Haid, Hashinger Hall food supervisor, said he took adequate precautions when the insecticides were sprayed.
He said the insecticides possibly could cause symptoms such as vomiting, headaches and stomach aches, but that it was highly unlikely.
"Anytime we spray we are going to have food out." Haid said.
HE SAID THAT he made sure the exterminator stayed at least three to four feet away from the food and insecticide was not aimed at the food.
"I was really surprised when people came up with these insecticide complaints. Had said. "I have enough knowledge of it, and I determine what is right and what is wrong."
He said that spraying was done once under a salad bar while food was being set out on top, but that was the nearest the insecticide ever got to the food.
"I'm aware that the exterminator sprayed right around lunch time," said Ekdahl. "we are working correct that. We have an intention to cause anyone to become ill."
Edkahl said the insecticide complaints resulted from poor scheduling of exterminator visits.
HAID SAID THAT the exterminator now sprayed at 9:30 a.m. as a result of the complaints.
The EPA reported reports that insecticide was sprayed on food and dishes, Movers said.
Posekin said that the insecticides did not pose a significant threat, but he questioned the cafeteria's spraying procedures.
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"You should never spray the cafeteria when people are present," Pookin said. "People have allergies, you just shouldn't tris spray around them."
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However, he said that the insecticides were not dangerously toxic.
"As far as harm goes, I don't know that there is much of a problem," he said.
"But the EPA doesn't put warnings on labels and not mean them."
THE LABEL ON Johnson's "Bolt" reads, "Any exposed food equipment, or packaging materials must be removed or covered before spraying."
Karen Morrison, Topea senior and former caterer employee, blamed the pest problem on a general lack of cleanliness in the cafeteria.
"WHENEVER YOU see pests it is a problem, but it was not really bad," he said, referring to conditions at Hashinger's cafeteria last year.
However, Dale Landkamer, food manager at McCollum Hall, said that roaches were a routine kitchen problem.
"The last two years I worked here I only saw one roach, but this year it is terrible." Morrison said.
Landkamer said that the insecticide's psychological effect on employees and residents could be responsible for the物理symptoms.
"Whenever you walk down and smell something offensive, you tell them, you "Oh my God, now I've got a headache," he said. "I think the amount of influence over the body."
But cafeteria employees said that the side effects were not imaginary.
"I don't go around making up sicknesses for myself, and I don't think that many people would be imagining illnesses."
"I was having dizzy spells and headaches long before I ever knew about the insecticide," said Kim Hart. Port Stephens phohrmone and cateraella employee.
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Iranians free 3 hostages
From the Kansan's Wire Services
Three American hostages were released from the U.S. Embassy in Tehran early Wednesday morning after reporters at the Tehran airport said. There was an unconfirmed report that 10 more Americans had been detained.
State Department spokesman Tom Reston confirmed in Washington that three hostages had been released.
Militants occupying the embassy in Tehran will release eight black men and five women for deportation by the Iranian Foreign Ministry and CBS News reported Friday.
embassy. They had appeared at an embassy news conference last night.
Reston said he could not confirm that any in addition to the three had been released.
The three who left Iran were not officially identified. But ABC-TV said they were Marine Sgt. William E. Quarles, of the Marine Corps, and John McMahon, of Maple 23, of Earl, Ark., and Katherine Gross, 22, of Cambridge Springs, Pa., a secretary in the economics division of the
The released hostages were the first Americans freed from the embassy since Nov. 4 when the militants seized the compound and 60 to 82 Americans, demanding the United States return deposed Shah Reza Raza Phalah to stand trial for his life.
ABC-TV correspondent Jerry Kerry reported from Tehran that the released hostages were driven through the embassy gate in American-made cars and driven to
The militants said unless the shah is returned to Iran they would try the others on charges they were soiled.
Robert Gross, father of one of the hosites released believed, reportedly spoke with her from Pittsburgh on a phone hookup arranged by the pilot of the Scandinavian Airlines System plane as it flew to Copenhagen. The woman was in Copperheads 14 a.m. EST.
The releases came on the 16th day of the ordal that has become a delicate war of
nerves between Washington and Tehran, with the U.S. banning oil imports from Iran and freezing Iranian assets in U.S. banks.
The deposed shah is undergoing medical treatments in a New York hospital and the State Department has refused to return him to Iran. Mexico has said he would be granted an visa to return to that country, but the order of Egypt also has offered his asylum.
After hearing of a threat of possible any trials for the hostages, Wassau managed to escape. He was greeted yesterday that placing U.S. diplomatic personnel on trial would be "in violation of the basic standards" in the hostage crisis.
The official also recalled President Carter's statement last week that Iranian authorities would "be held accountable" for illegal actions.
With pictures of Kohlmei and anti-
terrorism agents as their backdrop, the
three hostages release videos to
out yesterday before reporters in the
embrazy compound. They sat on a makehift
shelter at the base of the building.
M. Gross and Maples, both in Iran since October, confirmed they had signed a petition, published earlier by the students, that the U.S. government to return the shah to Iran.
Ms. Gross said her capitals had asked her to relay a message to the American government about the Iranian revolution and about the shah. "I have already said I would relay the message," she said, adding, "the revolution is great for the people."
Quaries, in Iran since September, said he and mad friends among campus members had been during the shah's regime. "I was saddened about things that happened during the shah's rule."
Khomeini told NBC's John Hart the Americans were safe as long as there was a possibility the deshah was returned.
But if the crisis dragged on and if relations with the United States were bad, they would remain remaining white American men in captivity believed to be悲es would be put on trial.
Unpaid fines may delay paychecks
RV TONI WOOD
Staff Reporter
Withholding the paychecks of KU faculty and staff who have not paid parking and library fines—an amount estimated to total more than $100,000—is unattractive but necessary, according to Gerhard Zuder, a former University. Senate executive committee.
Zuther said yesterday the approval of the method last Friday by the Kansas Board of Education required that he ask the 1890 Kansas Legislature to authorize the universities to withhold checks to collect
"I don't really like this particular method," he said, "but a number of ways have already been used. The faculty will be forced to make the payments."
T. P. Srinivasan, chapter president of the American Association of University Professors, said, "I think that this is a great opportunity to share with students hacks lots of problems with unpaid fines."
"As much as it is distasteful to do this, there is no alternative."
MARGARET BERLIN, student body president, told the Regents that unpaid faculty and staff fines had been an issue at the University of Kansas for several years
because students who had similar fines had to pay before they could enroll.
"Not only would this proposal be fairer to students," she said, "but it would also help reconstruct the KU parking lots."
Del Shankel, executive vice-chancellor,
said that the majority of faculty and staff
at his institution had been treated with
frowned upon such a proposal. He said later
that unpaid faculty and staff f怠垫 totaled
$8 million.
The proposal is one of several requests that the Regents will make to the Legislature. Bill Kauffman, Regents staff attorney, will draft legislation for the
proposals and present them again at the December Regents meeting.
IF THE REGENTS approved the manifesto, they would try to find a sponsor in the general session. If the proposals are approved by the Legislature, they will be effective July 1.
Among those proposals approved Friday was a request to exempt the Regents institutions and other state agencies from having to acquire city building permits.
The proposal stemmed from a lawsuit filed by Kansas City. Kan., against the state
See REGENTS page five
Appeal of libel decision planned
By ROSEMARY INTFEN
KANAS CITY, Kan.—The attorney for four black former students at the University of Kansas Medical Center who were found guilty of gassing a former Med Center professor said he planned to appeal the way to the Supreme Court if necessary.*
James Meyerson, attorney for the case, asked the district delivered Saturday in Wyndoe County District Court that the decision could hamper affirmative action efforts in the county.
"It (the decision) is a statement of the position of our society at this time on the status of race relations, and it's not a good one," Meyers said.
The decision awarded Dante G. Scarpelli $1,100 in compensatory damages and $10,000 in punitive damages from each of the defendants. The plaintiff had asked for $5,000 from each. The jury of eight men and four women each had been deliberating since
THE FOUR FORMER students were
being tried for the second time for allegedly libeling their former instructor in a complaint charging him with discriminatory practices. The complaint, which was filed in 1974, resulted in Scarpelli filing the libel suit in 1973. The first trial in 1878 ended in a hung
The defendants were Charles Lee, a heart surgeon at the KU Med Center; Charles Green, a dentist; Angeles; Ernest Turner, a California pediatrician; and Nolan Jones, who is in charge.
"I am very pleased with the verdict. The evidence proved that I was wronged and justice was done," Scarpelli said Saturday.
THE MAJOR THING was to have my name cleared. I've been under this thing for a while now, but Scarpelli now is the chairman of the pathology department at Northwestern.
Scarpell's attorney, Reid Holibrook, said that despite the claim by the National Association for the Advancement of Women (NAACW) that could prevent minority and students from voicing future
discriminatory complaints, the verdict would have no effect.
"This was a local libel suit. It had no national signification," he said. "We had the situation where four men defamed a man in the country who was accused of damages in the framework of the law."
"The fact that these students are black is somewhat immaterial."
MELVIN WILLAMS, director of affirmative action at the Med Center, said he was grateful but William Hogan, assistant executive vice-chancellor, said yesterday he was not sure if the department (of the future effects on students) —my only hope would be that the decision would not go through.
Holbrook said he was not sure what action would be taken against the Med Center's former affirmative action officer, Chester Brennan, who was originally named in the lawsuit.
Rempson's case had been severed from the former student's case because of his failure to appear and defend himself in the first trial.
HE SAID a notice would be issued to
Rempson and if a response was not received
by Nov. 30, judgment would be entered
against him for the sum of $55,000.
Holbrok said he was not sure why the NAACP became involved in the case.
"They had unmeritorious cause for getting involved. We have been totally mystified at their interest," he said.
Holbrook said they had to prove actual malice in addition to defamation because Scarpelli was considered to be a public officer in his position at the Med Center.
Under the libel law a public official has to prove that any allegedly libelous statement made was made with the intent of purposefully harming or discrediting him.
"THE JUDGE NEVER said why he took the case, a public official. His apparent rationale was (Scarpelli) was dean for faculties and academic affairs at the Med Center, he was a professor."
"I think the fact that the jury found malice shows the independent strength of the case," he said.
Gurtler receives HOPE award posthumously
Frank Gurtler, a part-time lecturer in KU's department of occupational therapy for students with learning disabilities, was named as the recipient of the Honors for Outstanding Progressive Educate Award
Beaizeel Benjamin, professor of architecture and urban design, was the runner up.
The HOPE Award is presented annually to an outstanding KU faculty member by the senior class.
According to Mike Webb, co-chairman of the HOPE award committee, more than 500 seniors voted this year, a record turnout. Some 72 percent were old and good publicity during the Webb.
HOPE award
An emotional Catholic Gurtler, center, was supported by her daughter Jean Turvey, right, and her son-i-da, Mike Turvey,
left, as she learned that her husband, the late Frank Gurtler Jnr., the领着 the HOPE award posthumously, died Nov. 30. Her daughter
Gurtler's widow, Cathy, accepted the HOPE award plaque during ceremonies before the KU-COLLOR football game. The game was called "The Gurler" by a banner saying "Frank HOPER' Gurtler."
said. Webb also said that the voting was close.
"It would have been his proudest moment," Mrs. Gurtler said yesterday."He was never happier than when he was in the lab working with his students.
Gurtler, 61, came to Lawrence in 1947 to set up a cabinet-making business. His reputation gained him a spot on KU's occupational therapy staff.
"He never wanted any of his students to say 'I can't do that' because he knew that they could do it and he gave them the courage to try.
"He had fun with his students. He had a great sense of humor. He was not just a teacher, he was a friend."
He served as a part-time lecturer for the past 10 years and continued his cabinetry-making trade. Gurtier did not receive a salary, but he says this did not hinder his effectiveness.
Bill Howard, MJ, Tolly, N.J., junior, said. "He was not only a great teacher, but he was a friend." Howard said he became close friends with Gurtler last summer.
"I think one of the most outstanding ones to show him was his sincerity and honesty, but I don't know how to problem and he knew you were sincere, he would drop everything, no matter how little
"He would never forget a student. The students were the utmost thing in his life along with his family."