Halloween has eerie folklore
By ELLEN IWAMOTO Staff Reporter
When dusk desks upon the campus
and the Memorial Campanile
dofully lighten the sky for a night
hours, Halloween spirits will creep from
hidden nooks and crammes for a night of
The celebration of Halloween has a past as varied as the ghosts and goblins that will stalk the streets tonight performing tricks and seeking treats.
Hallowen has not always meant trick-or-treating, though. It used to be called All Hallow's Eve, a relic of pagan times. It was the eve of the New Year that was celebrated by the Celts, the first Aryan people from Asia to settle in Europe.
It was a fearful night for the Celtics because they believed that all witches, demons, hobgoblins, trills, and other evil nights could roam the earth on that night.
According to the Celt's beliefs, on the last night of the old year the souls of the dead were allowed to return to their homes and mingle with the living.
HALLOWEEN falls on the eve of All
Martin's Day. It was established early in the seventh century by Pope Boniface IV. The data originally
was for May 1, but was changed to
March 25, 1863.
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An event similar to Halloween called Dead Man Day is celebrated in Mexico. At the end of October, pastry shops and bakeries stock items with the dead supposedly like to eat.
An old Scottish belief said that anyone born on All Saints's Eve would have "double sight" because he would be able to see clearly. He commanded have the eyes be wound over the scribes he saw.
ON THE EYE of All Saints' Day, the Druids lighted fires to protect themselves against evil spirits and wore protegue costumes so the spirits would stay afresh.
Many current Halloween traditions
one can be named to next European customs.
Bobbing for apples originated with the Romans, who honored Pomona, the goddess of orchards and particularly orchardials, during their pre-winter feast.
IRish children used to carve out and place candle inside large rutabagas, turnups and potatoes, much like children would jack-o'-lanterns out of pumpkins.
*"trick or treat" is a phrase that will be heard often tonight. Mischief Night, as Halloween used to be called, refers to the trick part.
KU IDs here at last; distribution date soon
By DAVID LEWIS
The new KU student identification cards arrived yesterday, according to Edward Julian, University director of special programs.
Staff Reporter
The IDs had been delayed several times since Sept. 15, the original arrival date because of defects in the cards.
Julian said he did not know the exact date of distribution, but said officials at admissions and records would announce distribution plans soon.
Julian said the cards would be distributed by KU's office of admissions and records after registration stickers were placed on the back of them.
Dyck said earlier that the IDs could be
Gil Dyck, dean of admissions and records, was not available yesterday for comment on the distribution of the cards.
distributed in two shifts at the Kansas Union, the Satellite University or Wocse Hall. Students who last names begin with a letter in the first half of the alphabet would pick up their cards the first day, and the students would pick up their cards the next day.
Julian said samples of the IDs were sent to Watson Library yesterday for final inspection.
Earlier ID samples could not be read properly by the Optical Character Recognition, a part of the Watson Library computerized check-out system.
The uniform IDs will be used to check out books in KU's new library system.
Temporary identification cards, which were issued at enrolment, expired Sept. 17. However, KU officials have said that the cards are not accurate because no replacements have been issued.
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Wednesday, October 31, 1979
Vol. 90, No.48
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
KU to discuss custodians' charge with union representatives only
By PAM LANDON Staff Reporter
The University of Kansas will discuss custodial complaints only with the union that represents the custodians. Rodger Williams, director of support services, said yesterday.
Ogre said the union, Kansas Public Service Employees Union Local No. 1422, which serves the Lawrence campus, was the lawful representative of KU custodians.
"We must deal with the union on custodial matters because of a memorandum of agreement the University has with the union," he said.
The agreement said the union would be the sole bargaining agent for facilities operations employees, he said.
Oroke made the statement in response to two press conferences held by the Custodian Action Committee. The CAC, a group of 40 to 50 Lawrence campus custodians, has been meeting since August to research and document allegations of harassment of KU Management Services, a custodial management service based in Englewood, Colo.
AT THE PRESS CONFERENCES, the CAC expressed dissatisfaction with the AMS contract with the University. The CAC also
has expressed a desire to talk with University officials about the contract
Oroke said University officials would meet with local union officials today to discuss the custodians' complaints.
Gary Howe, assistant professor of sociology and a member of the CAC support group, said he was glad that the University had received it with the union about civil problems.
"However, we see no legal impediment to the University's sitting down and talking with concerned citizens and faculty members about the AMS contract," he said.
The AMS contract with the University comes up for renewal Dec. 1.
"WE FEEL WE have legitimate grounds for a meeting with the University because our issue is the AMS contract, not the union contract."
Members of the CAC's support group include social agencies, community service organizations, faculty and students.
The CAC has said that the contract the University has with AMS rewards AMS with higher profits if the firm releases custodial workers
The CAC also has alleged that AMS has harassed older and handicapped workers to get them to quit and that now few
custodians are doing more work than ever before.
Richard Mann, University director of informational systems, said he had statistics that showed that the custodians' work was more a shortage of workers were unabsented.
HOWEVER, Mann said he did not want to make the information nubile at this time.
"We want to meet with the union first and present this information to them. We owe it to the union to try to let them handle these questions." he said.
Mann said the University could not meet with the CAC.
"The union is their (CAC)'s bargaining agent whether they like it or not. If we tried to deal with these custodians outside of the union, we would be violating of the union agreement." he said.
Irving VanDuyne, CAC chairman and a KU custodian, said he thought the University should talk with the CAC.
"This claim that they can't talk to us because we're not the legal representative of the custodians is a maneuver they've used all along to ignore our complaints.
"THESE ARE COMPLIANTS we have wanted to air not as a bargaining unit but as citizens of the state of Kansas," he said.
Oroke said that he had confidence in AMS'
managerial ability, but that during the time of the contract with AMS the University had recognized some difficulties.
"Some of the buildings simply aren't a clean as we thought they would be," he said. He said he was not sure what needed to be done to improve building cleanliness.
"Perhaps we need improvement in employee attitudes. Perhaps we need improvement in employee training, I really don't know," he said.
Broke said that in response to some of these difficulties the University was looking at some contract revisions, which he did not want to specify.
Daniel Wildcat, vice president of the Lawrence chapter and at a press conference yesterday that the CAC would file a complaint with the state legal panel of the
The state legal panel of the ACLU com- tries six attorneys who decide which cases he ACLU will take.
AMS was hired by the University to improve efficiency in its housekeeping department. AMS began supervising custodians at the KU Medical Center in New York City and took over supervision of custodians on the Lawrence campus in December 1977.
Med students ask for new gym
Staff Reporter
By ROSEMARY INTFEN
Students at the University of Kansa-
Medical Center will lose the free use of
recreational facilities next year when the
Kansas Regents Center shuts its gymnasium.
The closing will add to the longtime problem the Med Center has had in supplying its students with a place for training. He said president at the Med Center, said yesterday.
The Regents Center, which allowed students to use its basketball and volleyball courts for three years, will close the gym Jan. 1 to remodel it in a library.
For four years the Med Center's student union has sought approval to build a recreational building on the Med Center campus. The campus has no such facilities now.
After being on a University capital improvement lists since 1975, the $7.8 million recreation building proposal reached the Board of Regents priority list last spring and was put out of 20. Allen Wiecht, University director of facilities planning, said yesterday.
ALTHOUGH THE PROPOSAL reached the Regerm, C章呐he does not think the building would be constructed. "The administration doesn't want it. If they did, they could have gotten it there a lot sooner." The police could have gotten it higher on the list."
David Waxman, executive vice chancellor for the College of Health Sciences and hospital, said the proposal had lain dormant for years because it was not a priority site.
"We try all the time to get it on the list, but
sometimes we get shot down. We hope we can move ahead with it now," he said.
Chernoff said the student union was seeking other methods to get the building constructed. "Our major frustration is that we don't want you we could up our own building," he said.
CHEMNOFF SAID that land surrounding the funded Center has used for the construction of a new facility owned by the Kansas University Endowment Association. A bond issue through the University has been approved.
Bond issues are granted through the Regents bond council. The council makes a bond prospectus that is submitted to a bond solicitor and awards bonds are then made available to the University.
Chernoff said the student union had approached the Endowment Association with
its proposal and the association said "it would be happy to give some land."
However, Chernoff said, the Med Center administration was keeping the Endowment Association from granting any land for that purpose.
Waxman said he had not heard of the student union's proposal to build on Endowment Association land.
CHERNOFF SAID the student union now offered a short-term program to provide students with recreational facilities.
"We set up a volleyball league, which is the first venture by the school in recreation. Before, everything was done by individuals," he said.
Chernoff said the large turnout in the volleyball league indicated the students interest in obtaining recreational facilities.
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Carter, Bush to campaign in state
Kansas Secretary of State Jack Brier said last night that President Jimmy Carter and George Bush had confirmed that they would invite their parties' presidential nominations.
Brier wrote letters to three Democrate and eight Republican potential presidential candidates, he said, to explain Kanas' first presidential preference primary.
Of those who responded, Carter and Bush, a Republican and former CIA director, were the only candidates who said they intended to campaign in Kansas, Brier said.
Brier spoke last night to about 35 College Republicans about the presidential primary to be held April 1.
"The primary is an opportunity to shake hands with someone, to meet someone, who may well become the next president of the United States," he said.
However, there will not be a space in write-in candidates. Brier said, because the
Two persons already have flipped to their names placed on the ballots. They are R.W.Yeager, a Republican from Norton, and Robert Maddox from Hollowell, Florida.
Not many candidates have filed for the primary, Brier said, because it is too early in the campaign.
Brier said Kansas" primary would be "an opportunity to be a bellwetter to the nation, to express the mood and temperament of the area,"
"THE KENNEDY people want to have him filed very quickly, so he may be the first mayor or candidate to file," he said.
The first Tuesday in April was chosen as the date for the primary to save money, he said, because 54 school districts and cities also will hold elections that day.
However, the importance of the primary school in New York also will have primaries April 1. Brieer said the date for New York's primary might be changed because of a Jewish influence.
KANSANS WHO ARE registered voters and affiliated with the Republican or Democratic Party can vote for a candidate on the ballot for "none of the names shown."
procedures for filing are so simple. Candidates must pay $100 or submit 1,000 signatures from Kansas registered voters to have their names placed on the ballots.
The primary is expected to cost about $1.1 million.
"This could be an extremely expensive experiment," Brier said.
The 1979 Kansas Legislature voted to have a trial primary in April. Future primaries would require more legislative action.
Brier promised that there would never be another primary if cost more than $5 a
vote. he said he expected Kansas to set new records in voter participation.
BRERI SAID THERE were about 1.1 million registered voters in Kansas. Of those, 386,000 are registered Republican, 45,000 Democrats and 455,000 are unaffiliated.
"That means that 40 percent of all the people registered who have taken the time to vote have said they are unwilling to have them vote with do either major political party."
Brier urged the crowd to persuade voters
to affiliate with the Democratic or Republican Party so they could vote in the primary. A vote in a primary carries more votes than a vote in a general election, he said.
About 67,000 people voted for Sen. Nancy Kassebaum, R-Kan., in the Republican primary in 1978, he said.
"That means that less than 7 percent of the voters made the decision as to who the Republican nominee to the United States will be, a candidate who went on to be the senator."
Lasting laugh
Jack Brier, Kansas secretary of state, right, highlights a comment made by Randy Sheer, president of the College Republicans.
Brier spoke to the College Republicans about the Kansas presidential primary.
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