THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
Vol. 90, No. 49
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Thursday, November 1, 1979
Kings defeat Jazz, 125-108 See story page nine
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Storms, flooding torment Kansas
TOPEKA, KA. (AP) - Gov. John Carlin warned an aircraft set off in disaster in 12 cities on Friday that heavy snowy snows. He ordered the Kansas National Guard to assist residents in areas affected.
In his disaster proclamation, Carl said flooding had affected areas in McPherson, Reno, Harvey, Kingman, Sedgwick, Harper, Sumner and Cowley counties.
Between four and eight inches of rain fell along the Ninemachi River, South Fork of the Ninemachi, the Little Arkansas River caused severe causing severe flash flooding. Carin noted.
Families along the river front area of Kingman were evacuated as were some residents of Halstead in Harvey County.
In addition, Carlin said, blizzard conditions existed in northwest Kansas, with four to nine inches of snow on the ground and a stockman's advisory issued.
The disaster designation is the first step toward making residences of affected areas eligible for low-interest loans, as well as formalizing emergency efforts of the National Guard
THE GOVEORN declared Choyney, Rawls, Sherman and Thomas counties to be in a state of disaster as a result of the heavy snowfall.
Carlin said no deaths were known to have occurred as a result of the weather.
Six members of the Kansas National Guard were ordered to assist in flood rescue work at Kingman and a helicopter unit. The group also check on downed powerlines, Carlin said.
Bill Ohlemeier of the Kansas Electric
Cooperatives, Inc., an association of more than 35 rural electric cooperatives, said that the count was continuing. He said 20,000 to 20,000 rural residents and persons lived in cooperative areas.
HE SAID much of the electricity should be restored by tomorrow night, but in some areas the work will continue into the next few weeks; in areas may not be fully restored for days.
Ohlmeier said the hardest hit rural area was about 40 miles north of headquartered at Scott City; Pioneer, headquartered at Ulyses; Great Plains, headquartered at Colby, and the Northwest.
Southeastern Bell Telephone Co. reported the storm also caused telephone outages in parts of Louisiana, where a spokesman said the company knew of 108 long-distance circuits that t<sub>w</sub> were out as of March 23.
Six to eight inches of snow fell over much or western Kansas-up to 10 inches was throughout the area were closed for much of the day yesterday, although the snow had not yet melted.
AUTHORITIES SAID cars and trucks abandoned in snowdrifts hampered efforts to reopen many highways.
The Kansas Highway Patrol's division of Norton reported that Interstate 70 from Kansas to Missouri opened last night. The only highway reported closed was K-27 to Goodland north. Overcast skies were reported, with termite infestations on highways in the western group of counties.
KU to be included if custodians file suit
By PAMELA LANDON Staff Reporter
The KU Custodian Action Committee will include the University of Kansas in any legal actions it takes against American companies. UCAC and its support group said yesterday.
In a press release yesterday, the CAC said it had not planned on involving the University in any of its actions against AMS, which agreed to broker an agreement with them.
Gary Howe, assistant professor of sociology and a support group member, said, "Previously our accusations were against AMS, but now it is evident that the University is in collusion with AMS. From this perspective, you will enjoy the University as well as AMS."
He said the meeting was postponed when representatives of the Public Service Employees Union Local No. 1422 could not attend the meeting.
Norman Forer, associate professor of social welfare and a CAC support group member, said David Lewin, director of the CAC program. He agreed to meet with the CAC on Tuesday.
THE UNION serves the Lawrence campus and is the bargaining agent for classified employees in facilities operations and housing.
Forer said the University, after failing to meet with custodians, then met with union representatives yesterday without inviting the CAC to the meetings.
"I'm furious at the duplicity of the administration, particularly since we approached them in good faith," he said.
Lewin said he remembered the conversation with Forer differently.
Francis Jacobs, international representative for the union, said yesterday that custodians who thought they had been fired were asked to accept his claim and said the CAC should work through the union.
"I basically told him that as long as the union was representing the CAC I could meet with them," he said.
THE CAC will file action today with the Public Employee Relations Board in Topeka in regard to alleged harassment of CAC members.
The CAC had filed a complaint Tuesday to make the state legal panel of the American Cancer Society's AMS to court for alleged violation of customs' rights "free to speech and peaceful
Mike Davis, University general counsel said he had no comment on the ACLU or PERB filinos
However, he expressed confidence in the University's general legal position regarding legal action from the CAC.
One never welcomes legal differences.
but we are sanguine about our legal position," he said.
University and union officials met yesterday to discuss custodial allegations against AMS, according to Rodger Orke, University director of support services.
The CAC had alleged Oct. 19 at a press conference that at least 25 custodians had been forced from their jobs by AMS during the past two years.
LEWIN SAID yesterday this was not true.
He said that during the 20 months before the AMS contract became effective, 10 permanent employees were dismissed and 22 were suspended.
In an equivalent period since the AMS contract started, eight employees have been dismissed and there have been 32 suspensions, he said.
He attributed the higher number of suspensions to "tighter managerial supervision."
Lewin said two of the suspensions had been appealed in the past 20 months.
At the Oct. 19 press conference, the CAC also said AMS had made $717,735.48 since the start of the AMS contract.
But Oroke said the University had paid $210,455 to AMS since the contract began on Dec. 1, 1977 for its services on the Lawrence campus.
However, Oroke said Tuesday the University could discuss custodial cost only with the union, which represents the university. The university must deal with the union on custodial matters because of a memorandum of agreement the University has with the university.
The CAC also had expressed a desire to talk with University officials about the contract, which comes up for renewal Dec. 1.
OUT OF THIS amount, AMS pays for supervisory staff, training and all equipment and supplies. Oroke said.
Members of the CAC's support group include social agencies, community service organizations, faculty and students.
The CAC, a group of 40 to 50 Lawrence campus custodians, has been meeting since the fall of 2017. The delegations of harassment of KU custodians by AMS, a custodial management service provider, have met.
The memorandum says the union will be the sole bargaining agent for custodians, as well as several other classified University employees. Oroke said.
AMS was hired by the University to improve efficiency in its housekeeping staff. In 1977, the custodians at the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City, Kan., in April 1977 and took over supervision of college custodians in December 1977.
Halloween spirit
Above left: Johnny Estes, 6, and his sister, Amy, 7, double the fun at at Halloween party at Broken Arrow Eagle High School. They two two-headed clown. They are the children of Mr. and Mrs. John Estes, 611 West 28th Street, and Mrs. John Estes, 91st West 28th Street, and assistant, helps her broom arise long enough to look for a book in Watson Library. About 25 library employees are present. The costumes for a lunch-hour party. Right: Dave Bohanen, left, and George Crawford, right, impatiently wait for Bohanen x car to fill up with gas during their lunch hour. The ghoulish st�ppers stopped to fill up at the Harringer, bar Kirsty McKean and Scott Smith.
Glover accused of finance breach
Bv TONI WOOD
Staff Renorter
State Rep. Mike Glover, D-Lawrence, filed the name of his new campaign chairman, who announced yesterday but a local Republican said the action was an admission to a violation of the law.
William Halvorsen, a Republican precitc committee member in Glover's 410th District, filed a complaint with the Kansas Govorern to have him removed. Glover had distributed campaign literature without an official campaign treasurer, which would have been a violation of the law.
The act requires that a candidate file his
treasurer's name with the Kansas secretary of state.
Glover said yesterday the "Legislative Highlights" literature that he distributed Sept. 23 was not campaign literature.
"I think you can argue it either way," he said. "But obviously, I don't feel I was in violation of the law."
"If you're going to inform the public and be able to represent them and know their views, it's important to communicate with them in this way."
Jana Atchison, acting executive director of the Ethics Commission, said that she could not say whether the Commission had heard what she said. She could not discuss the details of the case.
However, she said such a violation would be designated as a class A molderemoon. She said that the most common complaints during their monthly meetings, she said. The next meeting is scheduled for
The Commission allows time for compliance after a decision has been made, she said and, because Glover had filed a new lawsuit against the secretary of state, he could not be found.
Glover dissolved his campaign Aug. 29, and drew the name of his treasurer from the office of the secretary of state.
He said he had considered Dean Radcliffe for treasurer in August when Betty Jo
Charlton, his former treasurer, resigned from the position.
The 1979 Kansas Legislature reapportioned the state districts, and Glover's 44th District, which had been dominated by Democrats, now compares a more affluent area of Lawrence.
On Sept. 23, Glover and about 20 supporters distributed to the new 48th District literature titled "Liberal Signals Highlights," which issued a registration pass during the 1979 session.
The literature Glover distributed was paid for by the Democratic Central Committee.
The highlights were ordered back in May soon after the legislative session was
See GLOVER page seven
Panel suggests faculty versatility
By JEFF SJERVEN
By JEFF SJERVES Staff Reporter
The prospect of declining enrollment at the University of Kansas in the next decade will not stop students from submitting proposals that would enable faculty members to teach a greater variety of courses.
T. P. Srinivasan, professor of mathematics and a member of the task force, said yesterday that because declining enrollment would make it impossible to hire directly members would have to increase their expertise to accommodate enrollment shifts.
George Worth, professor of English and chairman of the task force, said the faculty exchange would be limited to related fields.
"We didn't want to suggest that a piano professor be recruited to teach a business course," he said.
Srinivasan said that when enrollment was not increasing, state funding procedures required the University to stabilize faculty size.
The concern about decreasing enrollment is based on studies that show a decrease in the number of high school students across the country.
"Development assignments might lead, for example, to the design of new courses, to the acquisition of administrative experience
"The lack of new blood in terms of younger faculty increases the need for faculty training. In addition, programs should be programs that provide for different collaboration among faculty in different contexts."
In a report to Chancellor Archie R. Dykes last month, the task force proposed changes to how members are members to expand and develop professional skills while drawing normal
For example, an increase in the popularity of economics could be offset by recruiting mathematics professors to teach economic theory. Srivasan said.
or to new insight into the processes by which students or potential students are advised and counselled," the report said.
The task force also called for measures to make it easier for professors to take courses and share knowledge with one another.
"Particularly because the professional qualifications of faculty members in certain academic units may need upgrading, existing barriers that make it difficult or
See FACULTY page five