Kansas Kennedy backers ready for announcement
BvTONIWOOD
Staff Renorter
If Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass, would to announce his presidential candidacy tomorrow, he probably could count on a block of campaign workers in Labor.
Two Lawrence law students, John Scheirman and Julie Craft, have been drumming up Kennedy support in Douglas County.
"I fully expect him to run," Scheman said. "When he does, he's going to have a very complete organization within a couple of weeks after he announces.
"But I think people will hold back their support until Kennedy declares his candidacy."
Kennedy has indicated he will announce his decision in November.
Meanwhile, Scheirman and Craft have
been collecting names of supporters and sending them to John Petty of Hays, who is helping coordinate Kansans for Kennedy.
About 20 people in Lawrence have shown interest in barking, Kennedy, Scherman president of D-Lawrence, who announced his support for Kennedy last Thursday at the AFL-CIO meeting.
CRAFT SAID she had looked to local Democrats for support rather than students.
"At this point, we're just collecting names," she said. "We don't have anything really concrete."
"We're basically just getting names together to have a base of supporters."
Petty said the names that had been sent to him had been filed for future reference. "I've been in touch in one way or another with each person," he said.
He said supporting Kennedy instead of President Jimmy Carter had been a hard decision. "I like Jimmy Carter," he said. "I think he's the second best presidential candidate."
HAYS IS ONE of three areas in Kansas where action is brewing to support Kendy. Activity in Kansas City, Kan, and Wichita beaten in September.
"But Kennedy is capable of demonstrating much more leadership."
Spearheaded the action in Kansas City, Kan., is Richard Williams, the Kansas coordinator for Democratic Alternatives for 1980.
"I'd also like to get a meeting going on the KU campus."
"We've made many contacts, but nothing definite is going yet," he said. "I've talked to a number of people in Lawrence and I know they are looking to be a steering committee set up."
He said about 8,900 people bought tickets to a Kennedy rally in Kansas City, Kan., on Sunday. He spoke at William Stark's, national field representative of the Kennedy campaign, spoke at
MUCH OF THE Kennedy support in Kansas can be traced to involvement in earlier Kennedy presidential campaigns.
Petty worked on Robert F. Kennedy's presidential campaign in 1968 when he was 18 years old.
Williamson campaigned for John Kennedy in the 1960 presidential race, serving as the teenage youth coordinator for Kansas.
In Wichita, Robert Allegrucci,
Democratic chairman of the 4th
Congressional District, has headed a petition drive to get Kennedy's name on the presidential primary ballot in Kansas.
Allegrucci was the campaign coordinator in California for Robert Kennedy in the presidential race in 1968.
He said he had gotten calls from across the state from people who wanted to help in the campaign, but that the organization was still in limbo.
"PART OF THE problem, whenever you have an officially undeclared candidate," he said, "is that you're limited on what you can do.
"We don't want to tell too much structure established. I think he'll run, but still, politically and strategically, we have to be prepared before pitting in an organization."
Allegrucci launched the petition drive
with the help of State Sen. James Francisco, D-Mulvane, who is co-chairman of the Kennedy organization.
Allegruge's first action was to get enough signatures on a petition to enter Kennedy University. Only one, 1,000 were needed, he said, but the Kennedy organization collected 'three or four times
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The next action will be to set up a steering committee in each congressional district.
Many of the Democratic party leaders are lee-ors of opposing an incumbent president in the party, he said. "I have no illusions. I have to a hell of a time carrying the state."17
Allegraue said the Kennedy organizations from Hays and Kansas City, Kan., would meet in several weeks at Wichita with the Kennedy supporters there.
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Tow train
Sante FF Railroad officials and workmen coner in the foreground prior to the departure of the remaining cars involved in
Tuesday's dermalation. One official said the cars would be towed at 5 a.m. to topkha where they would be repaired.
Amtrak conductor interviewed; investigators puzzled by speed
By MARK SPENCER
By MARK SPENCE
Staff Reporter
A conductor on the train that derailed here early Tuesday told federal informants he knew the train had been traveling at high speed, it was slowing for curves and maintaining safety speed limits, according to a National Transportation Safety Board report.
Elwood T. Driver, vice chairman of the NTSB, said the speed record taped in the first and third engines of the 18-car train indicate the train was traveling 78 mph with speed zone. The tapes, which have to be double checked, could vary 3-4 mph.
the spokesman, Brad Dunbar, said the conductor, J.D. Gunek, was interviewed by investigators yesterday afternoon after a basis based from Lawrence Memorial Hospital.
The conductor was one of the first crew members investigators were able to interview, a step investigators said was necessary in determining the cause of the accident.
THE TRAIN was running 40 minutes late, according to a railroad official. Dustbins were filled and the driver had lost time adding cars and an engine in Newton, but that he and the engineer had to wait.
Des Moines prepares for Pope
From Kansan Staff and Wire Reports
DES MOINES - On the eve of Pope John
P.16's historic visit here, entrepreneurs
and students pedal souvenirs and
traffic build-up classes of highways as the
city braced for the arrival of thousands
of papal visitors.
"The main thrust of our investigation is why the train was going fast at that point," Driver said.
More than 20,000 people, mostly selected handicapped and elderly persons, are expected to greet the pontifit at 1 p.m. at Des Moines Municipal Airport.
Two Santa Fe Railroad crew members were killed in the accident and 69 persons were injured.
The largest crowd, about 200,000 people, is expected to be at Living History Farms, where the pope will celebrate a 45-minute Mass at about p. 2.m today.
An estimated 400,000 people will converge on the city to view the postfight during his four-hour visit to Iowa's capital city of 325,000.
From the airport, the pope will travel by helicopter to St. Patrick's Church for a brief service before going on to Living History Farms.
The two dead crewmen were identified as Robert Charles, 61, of Omaha, Neb. and T.R. Sligh, 39, of Chicago.
Twenty persons were admitted to Lawrence Memorial Hospital. One person
See DERAILMENT page three
Supplemental food stations and portable toilets were being placed across the rolling hills of the farm. Workers were busy placing 25-five-gallon barrels 6 feet in the ground. The barrels have pipes attached to them, and they lie in which contributions can be denoted.
Within a mile of Living History Farms, hundreds of campers had gathered as traffic began to line the freeways, scheduled to close at 16 last night.
Access to the area will be limited today with priority given to mass transportation. More than 5,000 chartered and city buses will carry spectators from seven points in
In streets filled with a festival-like atmosphere, vendors made final bids to sell week-old paraphernalia ranging from papal point pens to resinaries made from Iowa
The contributions will help finance the visit, which will cost the city $1.2 million.
He also said that sex must be limited to marriage and that freedom is discipline.
John Paul also stressed his belief in priestly celibacy and later, to a group of seminarians, he referred to celibacy as a "gift."
the city to as close as a half-mile from the farm.
In Philadelphia yesterday, John Paul II called for Americans to follow the strict moral standards of their past. In his homily on Monday, the late John Paul II pontified note that Philadelphia was the home of the Declaration of Independence and said he found in the document "strong connections with basic religious and spiritual beliefs" among the million people looked on during the Mass.
Today, after three hours in Des Moines, the pope will go to Chicago.
Bv DAVID LEWIS
FacEx to discuss tenure
Staff Reporter
Recommendations to change KU's promotion and tenure policy will be discussed tomorrow by the Faculty Executive Committee.
The recommendations, which were made by the University Committee on Promotion and Tenure, would allow the UCP to appoint associate professors without granting
"Whoever refused to accept these norms, and to act accordingly, who seeks to liberate himself from these norms, is not truly free," he said.
The UCUP is a group of KU officials that grants promotions and tenure to instructors. KU's current policy considers promotions for teachers, coaches, and requests for tenure as the same thing.
For example, a petroleum engineer who had been working in an industry 15 years could seek employment at the University as an instructor.
Under KU's policy, the UCPT could not
appoint the engineer to associate professor without guaranteeing him a permanent position. The professor would be an instructor instead of an associate professor, regardless of his
T. P. SKRINVASAN, chapter president of the American Association of University Professors, said yesterday that both the University and the University were harmed by the bollers.
"This recommendation certainly merts serious consideration because the University ties tenure and promotions together," he said.
The recommendations also would allow each school in the University to handle its own promotions and would require them to evaluate a prospective employee.
For example, the UCPT would ask the
School of Engineering to review the qualifications of an applicant to that school.
Christoffersen said it would be beneficial to the UCPT if evaluations from other schools were required.
RALPH CHRISTOFFERS, vice chancellor for academic affairs and chairman of the UCUP, said he thought the promotion would undelete the promotions instead of each school.
Srinivasan he considered the recommendations a call for major changes. The decision to promote or grant tenure both the, UCPT, and
Christofferss also said that the recommendations were only minor and that the current policy of tenure and promotion was well established.
The complete de-centralization is not the
The decision to promote or grant tenure should rest between both the UCPT and individual schools, he said.
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Staff Reporter
Value of faculty salaries declining
Bv JEFF SJERVEN
University professors and instructors but suffers more than their share of the stress associated with the study released last month by the American Association of University Press.
The study, conducted by W. Lee Hansen, chairman of the national AAU Commission on the Economic Status of the Profession, concluded that faculty salaries in real dollars had decreased by 16 percent in the past year and that salaries had shown modest gains in salaries.
T. P. Srinivasan, KU chapter president of the AAPU, said the study pointed to a nationwide threat to the standard of living of university instructors.
"If faculty salaries continue to decline at this rate, it is going to hurt higher education quite seriously."
"We are no longer quibbling over a few dollars and trying to get a piece of the cake," he said. "It is much more serious than that."
SRINVASN SAID faculty members had to tolerate present pay levels because professors traditionally had not formed best groups to pressure legislatures.
"Third, it will inhibit seriously the entry of bright young people into the academic profession."
"Three things will happen because of the need to be quick. First, there will be a wholesale division. Second, many faculty will be forced to take second and third jobs which I am certain will be worthwhile."
Data compiled by KU's office of institutional research and planning indicate that although the average salary for continuing faculty from fscs 1971 to fscs 1979 rose by 60 percent, in the concre- tion of the increase in a nidine in buying power of 7 percent.
The University of Kansas ranked fifth in average salary and average compensation among the top 10 colleges in institutions, according to AAPU data. Average compensation comprises salary, benefits, and training.
KUER *PSE* institutions are the University of Colorado, the University of Iowa, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the University of Oklahoma and the University of Oregon.
KU ranked fourth out of the six peer schools in salaries for full professors. The average salary for KU professors in fiscal
1979 was $27,300, or $744 under the average for all peer institutions.
Associate professors made $29,500, $79
under the peers' average. Assistant
professors at KU earned $16,000, $83 under
the peers' average. Assistant professors
at KU earned $16,000, $83 under
the peer institutions' average.
Average compensation for all faculty at KU lagged behind the peer school average by at least $1.000.
The Legislature granted a 6.5 percent pay increase for Kansas Board of Regents schools for fiscal 1980.
THIS YEAR, full professors earn an average of $29,588, associate professors make $21,420, assistant professors make $17,868 and instructors make $13,614.
Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor,
said KU's salary levels were causing some
problems in keeping faculty members.
"We've lost some faculty who have gone to institutions offering $3,000 to $10,000 more than we can pay," he said.
Shankel also said KU salaries were not high enough to attract professors whose fields were in great demand among universities.
The KU administration will attempt to use its influence with the Kansas Legislature to gain higher raises for faculty members, Shankel said.
Count down
Thelaine Shatter, left, Athene junior, rests his eyes while he and Alden Wilson, Pierre, S.D., sophomore, wait for election returns
at the cafeteria at GSF-Corbin Hall. They described the voting as "moderately heavy." See story page two.