KU
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
Vol. 90, No. 39
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
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Thursday, October 18, 1979
BARB KINNEY/Kansas staff
Quiet time
studying yesterday in the gaebee north to the Watkins Community Museum, 1047 Massachusetts st.
Paul Marshall, Kansas City, Mo., senior, spends spare time
Eight-plex restraint lifted
Staff Reporter
Bv ANN LANGENFELD
The restraining order was issued by Douglas County District Pro-Tem Judge Robert W. Fairchild when the homeowners Tuesday requested an injunction to be passed.
A temporary restraining order that late february halted construction of an eight-unit apartment building in a barbed-wire borehood was lifted at 10 a.m. yesterday when near-residents failed to raise a fire alarm.
A bearing to consider issuing a temporary injunction is set for 4 p.m. Friday in the Douglas County District Court.
The construction site is located in a section of the Oread neighborhood that was downzoned from multiple family to single-family housing light by the Lawrence City Commissioners.
Construction of the eight-plank began Monday morning, after Douglas County Police found a fire and issued a notice of a building permit late Friday to Mistletoo Master, owner of the property in the property.
The city staff had tried to delay issuing
the building permit until after Tuesday night's city commission However, King said, issuance of a building permit could not be required because an owner might change it.
AT THE COMMISSION meeting the commissioners declared a state of emergency and approved immediate implementation of the downzoning ordinance.
Under usual procedures the ordinance would not have been implemented for two to three weeks.
Frieda and Larry Caldwell, 917 Main St. were named as plaintiffs in the suit that brought against the property-struction. Frieda Caldwell said that neither she nor any other interested neighbors were liable.
She said they were disappointed that they had not been able to raise the bond because more construction could take place before Ender's hearing.
"We don't want to risk what little savings we have in what could be a long-drawn court battle," she said.
However, a part of the city zoning ordinance states that once a building permit has been issued it cannot be negated by a change in coming.
MAYOR BARKLE CLARK, a KU law professor, had said Kansas legal precedents indicated that a downsizing ordinance
At the city commission meeting, the commissioners authorized the Lawrence-Douglas County Planning Commission to consider an amendment to eliminate the partion of the boring issue that produces noise from being needed by a zoning change.
wound negate the legality of a building permit if there had been no substantial construction on a building project.
The earliest an amendment would be ready for consideration by the city commissioners would be the first part of a new plan, a member of the city planning staff, said.
State law requires the planning commission to consider the amendment before the city commission can approve it.
KERMIT BEAL, Milstead's attorney,
said construction of the eight-plex had been
resumed and would continue.
Public records bill scrutinized
W. Davis Merritt, Jr., executive editor of the Wichita Heights and Beacon, predicted yesterday that a bill to open more public spaces in the city would be approved by a legislative committee tomorrow.
"At this time we do not see any other legal actions taking place," he said. "The building will be built."
Rv TONI WOOD
Staff Renorter
one committee has met this summer and fail to evaluate the public records law in Kansas. After conducting hearings with several newspaper editors, the committee drafted a bill that would make all public records available, except those closed by law.
Merritt is one of six persons scheduled to testify today before the interim Federal and State Affairs Committee.
Current state law makes public only those records that are required to be kept.
burden of proving in court why the records were not made available. It also states that if a case involving public records is to be tried, it will be heard before all other pen-
The proposed bill states that the "custodian" of the records would have the
MERRITT SAID yesterday, "I assume that the bill will get out of committee, because they've had it now all summer.
Rep. John Solbach, D-Lawrence, a member of the committee, said, "I'm interested in finding the line between the business process and the nubra's rule to know."
"It's near final form now, but who knows what the I constitution will do with it."
the legislature to move it.
The bill has been changed four times, Merritt said, but the amendments have not been "substantial."
He said he was concerned with protecting legislators' opportunities to "brainstorm" and think proposals through before making them public.
"However, we don't want to move so far that legislation is 'fat acceptim' before the public knows about it." he said.
MEMEMS OF the committee will hear first from Robert Stephan, Kansas Attorney General. In a statement read to the com-munity, he said the court called the state law a "closed record law."
Donna McCoy, professor of history,
will represent the Kansas History Teachers
Association. He is concerned about open
records as they relate to research.
Others scheduled to tertiary are卡利 Monk, dean of the Washburn Law School; a spokesman for the League of Kansas Teachers; and a spokesman for the Department of Corrections.
Final action on the records legislation is expected to be taken by the committee tomorrow. If members approve the bill, it will be approved by the Association Committees of the 1800 Legislature.
Classified Senate granted rights but not recognition
By JEFF SJERVEN
Staff Reporter
Chancellor Archie R. Dykes announced yesterday that the University of Kansas administration would "acknowledge the existence" of the Classified Senate.
In a letter to Joseph T. Collins, interim chairman of the Dykes, the Dykes acknowledged would allow the Senate to use University rooms for its meetings if the meetings are
Dykes wrote, however, that the administration would not grant formal recognition to the Senate because of fears that the Senate could suddenly become a union.
"I must state for the record," Dykes wrote, "upon the advice of counsel, that I cannot formally recognize the Classified Senate. For if I were to do so, that body should be automatically as a collective bargaining unit for public employees under Kansas law."
DYKES SAID he realized that the Classified Senate had no plans to act as a union.
"But if those objectives should ever be achieved, the university would have waived its legal rights law to participate in any formal determinations about how much time to contain within the bargaining unit.
As I am sure you understand, to waive
such rights would compromise the Universal Declaration of Relationship you have described in your written communications regarding the establishment of
Mike Davis, University general counsel, said formal recognition would have eliminated the administration's voice on the issue and would be formed to represent employees.
"THERE ARE two ways a union can be formed in "KANSAS," Davis said. One "involves holding hearings with employer and employee representation on whether a certain group should be unimited. The final decision will be made by Public Education Relations Board.
"The other way involves an employer recognizing an employee group as a unit. The employer must be aware that in that employee unit to determine whether a union will be formed. The latter is the case."
By just acknowledging the Senate's existence, Davis said, Dykes avoided that situation.
"We understand that they don't want a union now," he said. "But attitudes can change down the road."
COLLINS SAID he would call Davis for more details on the legal significance of recognition.
"We might just ask whether Davis would
want to write an amendment to our senate code that would allow for recognition," she said. "But don't ever know if recognition will provide more benefit than we've received today."
Although formal recognition was withheld, Collins said, the Classified Senate is pleased by Dykes' assurances of administration cooperation.
The Student Senate already has granted recognition to the Classified Senate.
"The chancellor has given us the use of University facilities for our meetings." Collins wrote. "I will become a part of University governance if recognized by the Student and Faculty groups."
IN HIS LETTER, Dykes urged the Classified Senate to work for its objectives through the University administration in order to ensure that legislature or other government bodies.
Since the University of Kansas employs close to 20 percent of the total number of students, they are actively factively in behalf of all its employees than smaller groups can in behalf of them.
Dykes also said, however, that the administration could not accept recommendations concerning employment conditions of members of the Public Service Employee Union Local 112, which has represented about 600 UDI classified employees.
Senate allocates additional funds
Staff Reporter
Bv ELLEN IWAMOTO
The Kansas Defender Project's request of $1,750 was completely cut during budget hearings last week, but at last night's meeting the group raised the group $200 for supplies and expenses.
After lengthy debate on budget requests to the UKE Student Body, the BKU Student Body the UKE Student Senate last night passed one of two bills appropriating supplementary funds for the UKE Student Body.
Law students in the Kansas Defender Project travel to the Federal Penitentiary in Leavenworth and the Kansas State Prison in Lansing to counsel prisoners.
Matt Davis, chairman of the budget committee, defended cuts in the request to award class credit for their work, the project did not benefit all KU students, and also because a rider attached to the group's vehicle was requested that the group not return for funding.
"The idea is to help people who are paying the fees," he said.
Although the project does benefit some prisoners who are KU students, Davis said, the prisoners do not pay student activity fees.
STEVE CRAMER, Nunemaker senator,
said, "We should not put students' money toward a group which is strictly owned by whose membership is strictly limited."
Davis also said he thought the Defender Proofed was a beneficial program.
Speaking in favor of reinstating the
"We have $4,000, a fantastic amount of money," she said. "It should go to a worthwhile project."
"But we can't fund every program we
group's budget request, Claire McCurdy, Liberal Arts and Sciences scientist, said she was "all for fiscal responsibility," but said she thought the Senate was being "cheap."
think is beneficial." he said, "otherwise we'd run out of money."
Mike Pepco, a student director of the project, said the lack of funding would affect the number of students who could afford to join the project and also would affect its
states.
"It's confusing because we can't get an idea if we're legitimate or not," he said.
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Rex Gardner
Lack of financial support plagues KU's black sororities, fraternities
By BOB PITTMAN Staff Reporter
Lack of national funding and a shortage of alumni has hampered the growth of the black Greek system at the University of Kansas, Skip Helmstein said in an article published by the council and yesterdays.
"It is a matter of numbers," Holmes said. "Most of the students and fraternities have as much or larger membership as do the others on campus. We simply do not have as many of them."
Of the seven black fraternities and surely some of them are in Alabama, Alpha Psi Alpha, 104 Mississippi St. house. The other fraternities are Kappa Alpha Psi and Omega Psi Psi. Another is Phi Gamma Delta.
Black sororities include Alpha Kappa Alpha, Delta Sigma Theta, Gamma Gamma Rho, and Zeta Phi Beta.
Holmes said there are about 80 undergraduates black reeks at KU.
U. Alonzo Wharton, president of Alpha Phi Alpha, agreed that funding was a problem for black grekets at KU.
"Financial support for black sororities and fraternities is a large problem," he remarked. "I rarely do you ever find a middle-aged person who is an alumni of a black sorority."
WHEN ALPHA Phi Alpha was established at KU in 1917 it was the first black fraternity west of the Mississippi River. Wharton said
Holmes said the lack of houses for black greets at KU was not unusual.
"Black schools get the greatest amount of money from our national organizations," he said.
He said housing for Greeks was common at black colleges, such as Howard University in Washington, D.C. Morgan, Jr., of Houston, taught at Hampton Institute, in Hampton Roads, Va.
the house used to be a gathering place for black greeks in the 190s, but that today black greeks have no real meeting place.
EMPORIA STATE University also has five black Greek institutionalbuses, but none of them have a house, according to Mike Dilmunen. The university is located at Emporia State University.
She said, however, that her sorority never had considered living together in a house.
Twila McFall, secretary of KU's Black Pan-Hellenic Council, said her sorrow, Sigma Gamma Rho, had always had trouble with finances.
"Our sorority is basically a service sorority," she said. "If we had a house, it would defeat our purpose."
Although Kansas State University has only black fraternities and secretes, only one fraternity, Kappa Alpha Pi, has a house, the Kappa Alpha Pi House, Thompson, KState Faculty affairs secretary.
"Pledging was quite expensive for us," she said. "We had to raise money for all of our expenses ourselves. There are no Sigma Gamma Rho alumni here at KU."
However, a second service sorter, Zeta Phi Beta, has been trying to obtain funding for a house, according to its president, Kimi J. Walker.
"Getting a house has been one of our major goals," she said. "We've had to work hard, but it’s a very good position for us being in a security here. We stand out."
WHARTON AGREED. "It is just as impressive for a black be to be in a fraternity or sorority up here as it is for a white be to be in one," he said.
Alpha Phi Alpha has an associate membership in the Interfaith Council, the only one of the three organized black fraternities to have such a tie.
"They participate in all of our activities except those that pertain to rush," Jim Bloom, IPC president said.
He said the fraternity could not have a full membership because it and the other 25 fraternities in the IFC had different national organizations.
No black sororites have memberships in the Panhellenic Association, an organization that includes representatives from 15 KU sororites.
In the spring bf 1978, Sigma Gamma Rho considered joining Panhellenic as an associate member, but finally decided against the move.
WALKER SAID her sorority, Zeta Phi Beta, was interested in joining Panhellenic as an associate member.
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