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October 19, 1979
Tenant bill equalizes
It's a basic law of our society—where there's a landlord and a tenant, there's bound to be disgrieve.
Unfortunately, the corollary to that law is that the landlord usually wins. In fact, although Kansas has a Landlord-Tenant Act that lays down the rights of both landlords and tenants, landlords are guaranteed more rights than responsibilities.
However, if all goes well for a proposed revision of the Act in the Kansas House Judiciary Committee this legislative session, tenants just may find themselves with a little more power and a few more rights.
THE BILL, introduced in the House by Rep. John Solbach, D-Lawrence, would revise the current act by including a "self-help" provision. That provision would allow tenants to make rent payments without giving landlords seven days notice.
That would be a definite improvement over the current law, which allows a tenant to do one of two equally valid actions: (1) to allow it to make repairs promised in the rental
agreement or required by state law. One is to move out after giving 30 days notice; the other is to make repairs and replace the money in small claims court.
The difference in the advantage given to the landlord in the current law compared to the proposed revision is tremendous.
UNDER SOLACH'S bill, the tenant would make the repairs after giving the specified notice, then take a receipt for the repair cost and a month's rent money to the district court where an escrow fund would be set up.
What is so appealing about the proposed revision, then, is that it evens the odds for the tenant.
If the landlord wanted the rent, he could get it -minus the repair cost. If he wanted to contest the repair, he could take that option.
Landlord-tenant relationships are a permanent part of our economic order, of course. So if they're going to always be there, they should at least be equal
Solbach's proposed revision would be a step toward that needed equality.
Big Oil wins again with price decontrol
the U.S. House of Representatives last week approved President Jimmy Carter's plan to build a new energy research which is an important part of Carter's latest billion-dollar energy program to reduce the cost of energy.
The deregulation allows the price of domestically produced crude oil to reach the same prices as foreign oil, undoubtedly double gas prices at the pumps, as well as greatly increase the cost of energy.
The price deconcentration issue was a controversial element of Carter's energy package. The president fought hard to get it underway, but regulators to act for the good of the country.
CARTER AND those legislators in favor of oil price counterpointed that the industry would receive higher selling prices would be an incentive for further expansion.
Arguing that cheap energy is no longer feasible and that the country needs to realize this, deregulation supporters argue that price decontrol would promote conservation. In order to cut energy costs, they suggest it is more important to invest in care instituting their thermostats.
In the end, this exploration and conservation will lead to a reduction in nation's dependence on imported oil, which currently is the lifeline for our country.
WHILE THESE arguments appear to be logical solutions to our energy problems, they ignore the potentially devastating deforestation would have on our country.
For instance, the increase in oil prices will add to our current sky-rocketing inflation, as oil has become more than an just another necessity every day; lives it has become a necessity.
It is used for plastics, heating of homes and businesses and, more important, transportation of goods and people. Consequently, we will be paying more for the goods we need. Many economists already point to rising energy costs as the reason why consumers are resulting in consumer losses, resulting rise in consumer prices and fuel could have a serious effect on the poor.
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while causing only some minor inconveniences for the rich.
THESE AGAINST ALSO claim also that it "will line the pockets of big oil companies." Supposedly, the extra profits resulting from the price decrease are to help defray the costs.
However, during the past several years, big oil companies already have been making good, even exorbitant, profits. Instead of using them to find new reserves, however, they have invested them—and registers think this practice will continue.
There also is the unanswered question of how much profits will have to increase to be sustainable. In fact, most companies have not set a figure, and apparently there are no government policies to regulate them.
ANOTHER ARGUMENT against price decontrol is that if there is exploration for energy sources, it is in terms of finding new oil reserves.
But it is a fact that at all is a limited resource and one that we are about to completely drain. Wouldn't the money and time be spent on improving energy, energy, wind power or energy from biomass?
WITH RESULTING INCREASES in the price of fuel, people will look toward cheaper forms of transportation. But although the high cost of transport and trans, which could serve an important function in this regard, has been derailed by Carter, Congress and their own soapy financial
Also, the price deregulation currently leaves us with very few choices of alternative forms of transportation.
Although price deregulation will promote conservation measures and help reduce our reliance on foreign oil, its by-products may be a source of revenue in terms of the economy and morale.
The list of chores is long for a family that relies entirely on wood-burning stoves for winter warmth.
Gene Berndosfy, after many years of experience with wood heat, thinks he knows the best way to get those chores done in preparation for the coming chill.
It appears as if the big oil companies have won again—at the expense of the public.
City order galls brush pile owner
The problem this year, though, is that the city of Lawrence thinks it knows better and has ordered Bernofsky to change his wavs.
Or. at least, to change his brush pile
ERNOSFKYS brush plume—a mound of limbs and bounds 10 feet in diameter and five feet deep—has been deemed unsightly and is a threat to the city's environmental ordinance.
"I've been a film maker for more than 20 years," Bersoftod protests, "and I feel I qualify as any someone else to make aesthetic incidences."
But the city's environmental inspector, who did not agree with the film maker's建议, visited the rambling frame house at 1201 New York St. two weeks ago. Ten cords of tape around the fence back fence and kids and cats playing in the yard were not enough to persuade Swarts Tarris.
SWARTS SAYS Bernofsky can keep his brush pile—he'll just have to arrange it more neatly for it to pass muster.
Bernofsky was given a choice: clean up the brush pile in 15 days or go before the city commission.
"They want me to make it SIGHTLY,"
Bernafeld says with a note of disbelief in his voice. "I stack it loosely in a pile so it can dry out."
"This is not equal justice under the law," Bernofsky fumes, warming up to the subtlet.
"What about the hideous town Bell was permitted to erect on Vermont Street? That's not only an eyesore dominating the city—that is dangerous!
"And how about the huge signs that everyone has been saying for years should come down? The city just gave them a six-month extension.
"IF I GOT a six-month extension on my kindling pile, it would be gone."
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Having his brush pile called a mess is not the only thing that galls Bernofsky.
"I love Lawrence, and I love this neighborhood. But I think the city fathers
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have some fancy pretensions for Lawrence. They've enacted this environmental dress code and they expect neighborhoods to look like the new neighborhoods.
"My wood lot might be out of place over in old west Lawrence, but here it fills," he says.
Bernodsky's indignation grows as he thinks about the implications of the city's order.
"IT SEEMS like you try to do something to save energy, and they won't let you," he says.
The date hasn't been set yet, but one of the Tuesday nights Bernalsky will have the chance to vent his frustrations to the team. He has chosen what was chosen over cleaning up the brush pile.
Maybe he can convince the commissioners that his need for the kindling
pile is more important than their standard of beauty.
"I feel I've got a long, cold, hard winter to face and three kids to keep warm," he savs.
OR MAYBE HE won't be able to persuade the commissioners to change the environmental inspector's verdict.
"I'll go to court." he vows.
But maybe by that time the spring sun will be melting the snow from the last few twiggs in his back yard, and it won't matter anymore.
For at least one winter, Bernofsky will have won.
Exigency dismissals a faculty issue
To the Editor:
When financial exigency strikes, the most logical procedure is for any dismissals to be
I was distressed to read in the Kansan Friday, Oct. 12, that some members of the faculty do not support the principle of elected committees of academic departments or schools being entrusted with these decisions be dismissed when and if financial exigency comes to KU.
On Oct. 8, 1976, Dr. Daniel Adler, associate secretary of the Washington office of AAPU, visited this campus and appeared at a meeting of the state AAPU at Baker University in Omaha to make the final determination on such dismissals was being debated at KU.
For some time, I have been making the point that it should be a faculty-elected committee rather than determined in a number of conversations with members of the AAUP's professional staff, of which Adler was one. Adler Dr. Adler is the co-ordinator of the faculty who decides such matters. After all, the faculty has the predominant role in the development of the entireure, who is promoted. Why should members of the faculty wish to relinquish the responsibility of the disdiscipline of financial exigency?
To avoid the unfortunate political and personal turmoil which some are currently afraid may happen, the simple solution is to use the current structure of the promotion and tenure committees. These committees are elected or appointed by the faculty for promotion and tenure. The overall charge of these committees is faculty status.
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determined by the Chancellor, upon recommendation by the promotion and tenure committees. This works for promotion and tenure; it will work for dismissal.
Professor of Music History
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Tennis rule unfair for true competition
After playing two unusually long matches that lasted from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m., without a break, my partner and I asked to have enough time to rest and eat lunch. The girls went to bed and said we could have no longer than one half hour, hardly long enough to get in a car and drive to a restaurant and back. We explained we needed more time to rest, but our mother wanted us to go half hour more. So we chose to default, rather than play under those circumstances. We left angry and disillusioned with the purpose and meaning of a meal. She told me she had gone Hills or an intramurra activity play for fun and enjoyment.
To the Editor:
As an experienced tennis tournament player and recent participant in the Recreation Services intramural mixed doubles tennis tournament held on Oct. 13th, I question the validity of having the air balloon played at play at any time in a "recreational" event.
It is an unwritten rule of tennis elitique that you extend more time to a team who has had an unusually long match or has not played against the opponent. That rule was violated in this tournament.
WHO WANTS to play against a team that is dead trespass? What is the true meaning of this tactic in a game with no opponent my opponent plays, the more I will be challenged to play against me, and in this case we have "capabilities."
TYPICALLY, THE PURPOSE of a rule such as "You must be ready to play at any time" is to speed up play in tournaments where there are a large number of entries, few of them usually being the same, tenuous to finish the tournament within a certain time period—usually a weekend. None of these circumstances existed in this tournament because the draw was so small. There were so few entries, in fact, that the tournament was played on Saturday, the same day it started!
My partner and I wanted to provide that challenge, but under the circumstances we would not have been able to do so.
A carefully thought out decision by the tournament director to extend our rest period would have given us the opportunity to play in the final and we chose for those chose adherence to the existing rule.
I hope the purpose of future intramural tennis tournaments will be for everyone to have fun and recreate and that directors
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Violence necessary for racial defense
To the Editor:
Tuesday's Kansan story about the speech of Dr. Finley Campbell may have given some people an erroneous impression in the International Committee Against Racism (iCAR) and its members. iCAR is not a new organization. Nor is it a novel one.
Violence and non-violence are tactics, different ways that one can defend one's self. They are both appropriate and correct responses to different circumstances. To avoid being punished for being non-violent, for non-violently marching to their deaths in Nazi concentration camps. Surely, when the Gestapo kicks your open door, and, at gunpoint, marches you off to a death camp, you have the right (and responsibility) to use "any means necessary."
Unfortunately, we live in a violent society. Dr. Campbell was shot by members of the mob. He was wounded in Miss. The Rev. Emanuel Cleaver has had his life threatened, Malcom X and Dr. Marantha Hunt have been assassins. Members of incAR, like everyone else, deserve the right to defend them.
IT IS entirely proper to condemn unnecessary violence. To conder the violence of genocide is not only the violation of millions of black people in the United States. To conder the violence that sent six million Jews to the gas chambers. To conder the violence that killed another million the violence of genocide. But we cannot conder the victims of racist violence when they refuse to march, bowed and surrender.
At the same time, much can be achieved through the positive force of non-violence. The march on Shenangans, Saturday Oct. 29 at 9 p.m. will be a peaceful protest
WE ARE NOT going there to look for a fight. We certainly are not going armed. the demonstration will be marshaled by demonstrators themselves (and, presumably, we will have to use a firebrick for that no one in our group allows themselves to be baited or provoked. If we decide to integrate Shenanagans, it will be done peacefully and legally. We invite members of the club to bring in multi-craffit fighting. If available, we will not enter the premises.
We ask members of the community and students at the University of Kansas to join us in telling Jim Crow that he is not welcome here.
Ronald Kuby
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