THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
Vol. 90, No.47
Assistant police chief resigns
10 cents off campus
The University of Kansas—Lawrence. Kansas
Tuesday, October 30, 1979
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Custodians to seek ACLU aid in dispute with AMS
Rv PAM1LANDON
Staff Reporter
The KU Custodian Action Committee will file a complaint against American Management Services today with the state legal panel of the American Civil Liberties Union, according to a local ACLU official.
Daniel Wildcat, vice-president of the Lawrence chapter of the ACU, said at a CAC press conference yesterday that the complaint would charge AMS with "the rights" to free speech and peaceful assembly.
The state legal panel of the ACLI is comprised of attorneys who decide which cases the ACLI will take.
The CAC, a group of about 40 to 50 Lawrence campuses custodians, has been meeting since last
August to research and document allegations of barassment of KU custodians by AMS.
AMS, a custodial management service, was hired to improve the efficiency of housekeeping department in 1977. AMS initiated its program at the KU Medical Center in Kansas City, Kan., and in December 1977, it took over the job.
THE CAC SAID at a press conference Oct. 19 that the contract which the University has with AMS encourages AMS to terminate workers, especially nurses, in seniority, receive the highest pay and are handcanceled.
AMS receives $78,163 a month from the University for its services at the Lawrence campus. After custodial wages are taken from this amount, the difference is AMS's actual payment.
The CAC has said that by reducing the number of employees, AMS increased its profit margin. The CAC has also said AMS harassed custodians to get them out.
At the Oct. 19 press conference, the CAC also alleged that AMS officials had tried to harass members of the meeting. CAC members and members of their support group AMS officials tried to gain entry into an O.3 meeting, looked in the windows during the meeting and took the names of custodians coming out of the meeting.
THEY ALSO and K two CUATUAL supervisors had been asked by AMS officials to go to future CAC
- Rodger Oroke, University support services director, said recently that he thought complaints the
CAC made at the Oct. 19 press conference were unbound.
Wildcat said yesterday at the CAC press conference that the ACUL had affidavit from people affected by the attack.
"It is quite clear in our eyes that the First and Fourteenth Amendments of the Constitution have done nothing to curb it."
"This situation is represehnable. The ACLU would hope KU would take immediate action on this issue."
NORMAN FORER, associate professor of social welfare and a support group member, said that the CAC would charge AMS with violation of the sections of clause 5 of the Public Employee Relations Act.
Forer said that this section of the act prohibited, among other things, interference in the formation of
Members of the CAC's support group include social agencies, community service organizations, faculty
Both Broke and Dave Baldwin, AMS director of housekeeping on the Lawrence campus, said they would have no comment on CAC allegations until today.
Right-to-abortion demonstrators lobby Kansas senators by mail
Howe said CAC members and others would distribute leaflets on campus today explaining the benefits of using the program.
Bv JUDY WOODBURN
Staff Reporter
Sporting blue and yellow "Choice" badges, about 30 people walked across campus yesterday to mail more than 3,000 tickets at a women's court to have an abortion.
The mailing of the cards, addressed to Kansas senators, marked the end of the National Abortion Rights League Week, which began Oct. 22.
During a rally in front of the Kansas Union before the march to the post office in Strong Hall, Dee Dae Appel, coordinator for the Kansas NAIL, said the postcards were not the only weapons officers are not the majority in this issue. *Pro-life groups oppose legal abortions.*
Appel said more than 3,000 other post cards already had been mailed to the two Kansas senators in Washington.
LAST WEEK, the NARL, the KU Commission on the Status of Women, the Women's Condition and the KU-Y collected student's signatures on the post cards, which read
A press secretary for Sen. Robert Dole, R-Kan, said Dole had received "a quite few" of the post cards sent earlier. He said Dole had received "more than 1 million campaign emails with form letters."
The form letters, he said, usually stated "extremist on both sides are so vocal that it is almost impossible" to discuss the issue objectively.
Dole, who has said he disproves of abortion for personal reasons, voted for legislation providing federal funds for rape and incest victims.
Emerson Lynn, press secretary for Sen. Nancy Kass楚baum, R-Kan., said Kass楚baum also responded to the post cards with form letters.
THE FORM LETTER told constituents that the Kasbamah believe "told us to take the bishop's advice," but that there should be a choice. The letter also said that the "tragedy of abortion is best addressed by education," but for that reason, she would not support a constitution amendment granting abolition.
Terry Dirks, a lobbyist for abortion rights, said at the rally that a woman's right to legal abortion was under attack.
"The assault on women's rights takes a long time. But the United States consistently to deny each woman the right to control her own reproductive capacity, and to put that control into the hand of the man."
Dirk's talk was followed by a speech by Linda Thurston, president of the Kansas City Urban National Organization for Women.
THEURSTON SAID CARES' vote in 1974 to deny federal funding for abortions to Medical recipients was "the first step in reducing the number on the most vulnerable class of women."
"This incredible injustice places our government on the record as being morally opposed to the right of women to control their own bodies," she said.
The Rev. Jack Brenmer, director of Ecumenical Christian Ministries in Lawrence, also spoke at the rally.
He said the major Protestant religions had joined the Religious Coalition for Abortion Rights, which includes national churches and the Catholic and other religious organizations.
"We recognize that abortion is neither an unqualified good nor an unmitigated evil," he said.
"Consequently," Bremmer said, "we do not recommend abortion except in those tragic conflicts of life with which justify such action in terms of its effect on the lives of involved—the fetus, the mother and father family members, and larger society."
Mail march
Members and supporters of the National Abortion Rights League march along Jayhawk Boulevard to mail postcards advocating
abortion to Sen. Robert Dole and Sen. Nancy Kasshese. the marches held a short rally by the Kansas Union dayafter her arrest.
Official calls for energy dialogue
Bv AMY HOLLOWELL
Staff Reporter
Although much has been accomplished in the crusade to remedy America's "dire" energy situation, a U.S. Department of Energy official said on Thursday that an ambitious plan to the oil and gas industry and the federal government.
"Consumers, the fees and the oil and gas industry haven't had meaningful dialogue on what energy价格 should be," he said. Steve McGregor, deputy assistant secretary for oil and gas in the U.S. Department of Energy, speaking at the annual meeting of the American Petroleum Institute.
MeGregor was speaking as part of a course that former Kansas Sen. James Pearson is teaching this fall.
McGregor said that U.S. oil policy has dealt with the issues of decontrol and windfall profits, but has not done so with gas.
McGregor said major policy decisions needed to be made to maintain a substantial strategic petroleum
reserve and to establish a definite policy on domestic refining of crude oil.
A strategic petroleum reserve is necessary, he said, to offer possible political disruptions in foreign oil export countries and to preclude the possibility of United States becoming the target of an oil embargo.
He also said that U.S. refineries should be encouraged to purchase domestic oil.
McGregor said leaders of both the House and the Senate had indicated that the windfall profits tax now pending in Congress would be completed by the end of the year.
"Rewvenes from the windfall action will be used to lessen our dependence on foreign oil," he said.
He said the tax revenue would be used to finance the development of alternative energy sources, for both low income assistance and for mass transportation development.
The government also is in the process of developing
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Television producer, Norman Lear, right, clowns on for his audience while his co-producer, Bud York, answers a question. Learn and York are guest lecturers in two radio, television and film classes yesterday.
Good times
Room rate increase proposed
Rv ROR PITTMAN
Staff Renorter
The residential programs advisory board has proposed an increase of about 9.7 percent for next year's University residence hall rates, Caryl K. Hudson, president and chairman of the advisory board, said yesterday.
Under the proposal, base rates for a double-
occupancy room in a University residence hall would be $1497, an increase of $132 over the present base rate.
The single-occupancy room base rate would be $2277 under the proposal, an increase of $373 over the current base rate of $1900 for single-occupancy rooms.
However, Lance Tomlin, chairman of the Association of University Residence Halls contracts committee, said residents would be paying even more than the base prices.
"You've got to keep in mind that no one would be paying the base price." Tomlin said. He said the base prices did not include surcharges for residence hall fees and had to enter the base价 of every residence hall contract.
FOR EXAMPLE, although the base price for single-occupancy room is $1385, residents a of this building are charged $150 each. R. Pearson, Lewis and Templin Hall pays $15 in surcharges, which brings their contract prices to $1625.
Residents of McColm Hall pay $25 i.e. surcharges,
residents of Hixingham Hall pay $15, and residents of
Huxley Hall pay $7.
The proposals were made last Thursday by th advisory board following the submission of the AURI proposals. AURI proposed that the increases be se at either 8 or 10 percent.
The advisory board's proposals have been submitted to David A. Ambler, vice-chancellor for student affairs, Smith said, and must be approved by the Board of Trustees and the Kansas Board of Regents before final adoption.
SMITH SAID although increases were not necessarily made every year, the jumps represent what the University needs to keep up with the cost of inflation.
Other changes made in the original AUHR proposals by the advisory board include increasing
the AUHR fund allocation to $, Currently, AUHR receives $ from every residence hall contract for funding. The AUHR proposal asked for an increase of $ per contract, or $6.
The advisory board also proposed a $15 extra security surcharge for the residents of GSP-Corbin Security that would be paid to pay for security monitors. The doubling of the cost would provide the necessary funds to hire two aid workers.
A salary increase of $10 for University residence hall staffs also was included in the proposal by the advisory board. From every residence hall contract, $130 would go to staff salaries under the proceus.
Under the advisory board proposals, applications for single-occupancy residence hall rooms would be reserved. Two such rooms are reserved for single-occupancy room. This year, single-occupancy rooms were limited to 12 percent of rooms.
Resident assistants, AUHR executive board members and hall presidents, however, would be immune from the reservation percentages, and would be guaranteed a single room.
Diet Center offers dual transformation: fewer pounds and new self-confidence
Rv DOUG WAHL
Staff Reporter
Kathy Kesinger stood up behold her desk with her hands caked on cockers on her shirt. She twirled around once and said, "I wouldn't have done this twenty pounds I would have just sat behind my desk and behind my duck帽子."
Kesinger went on a diet four years ago, which she said improved not only her outlook on herself and others but prompted her to start a Diet Center in Lawrence three years ago.
The center is at the Hillcrest Medical Center, 9th and Iowa.
"Before I lost weight, I wasn't aggressive or outgoing and I would have a waistcoat to hide my lips," she said. "I didn't want to go anywhere. Now, I'm not so obsessed with you. You really do totally catch if you lose weight."
Kesing plummeted from 147 pounds to 118 pounds on the Diet center distinguisheI while working out at a rate of 120 calories per hour.
She said the Diet Center program was a quick way to lose weight without starvation or drunkenness.
"You eat common foods like meats or fruits and some breads," she said. "If you balance out a diet, it helps you to get all the nutrients from food you do not need to eat. It totally balances food, you don't care ninths to吃."
KESINGER SAID she had noticed an interesting
difference between the men and women who came to the center. She said the men listened better than the men in the first row.
"Most men don't know a lot about dieting and they listen when you tell them they have to stick with it. Women know more about calories and they will try to substitute.
For instance they will give up a 3½ ounce piece of chicken and eat something else in its place like a burger.
'Most men do real well. They just listen to us. Women will try to do their own thing here and there'
**"I'll just stick with what I know."**
Kesinger said she had tried several diet plans but she had always rained the weight back.
She said about 10 percent of the women strapped from their diet but only 1 percent of the men tried to eat them.
SHE SAID substituting the calories in one food for the calories in another would not work because the Diet Center relied on the chemical balance of foods working together to burn each other up.
She also said a pill that contained calcium, vitamin protein, sugar substitute and B-complex vitamin.
"This is the easiest program I've ever been on," she said. "Because all the foods are common, easy to get, you don't have to live on weird stuff. You don't have to do a different meal every day."
"It's not so much weighted program that you pay for, but an investment in yourself," she said.
She said the Diet Center plan success rate was unusually high, about 65 percent. She said this represented the percentage of people who lost weight and then kept it off.
KESINGER SAID the Diet Center plan offered counseling even after the initial pounds were drop.
The Lawrence Diet Center has helped about 1,800 people lose weight so far. Kesinger said about 150 of them are overweight and have registrations, not contracts, with people," she said. "That way the person feels at ease. We never let anyone feel sick."
She said women could lose up to 3/4 of a pound a day and men could lose up to one aound a day.
She said this was because of different hormones in their bodies and because men had a higher risk of cancer than women. This reason, she is a difference in meats that men and women can eat. She said men could eat beef, but women couldn't. Beef, she said, contained too much fat in their bodies to use up men could hold the extra fat.
"Our program is not guaranteed but if a person follows the program, you get results, you'll lose money."