THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
Vol. 90. No.20
The University of Kansas—Lawrence. Kansas
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Friday, September 21, 1979
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Burnt out
Two Lawrence firefighters, Jerry Karr, left, and Rick Laughlin, right, took a breather yesterday afternoon after a fire in the school building.
Massachusetts Street. Karr had been fighting the blaze since he began at 2 to 8 a.m. yesterday morning. Laughlin joined him.
Cause of downtown fire unknown; inquiry starts
Staff Reporter
Bv MARK SPENCER
Lawrence frenzen yesterday continued drenching the rubble of Tuesday's early morning blaze that gutted two 100-year-old homes and caused an estimated $350,000 damage.
Don Knight, fire department captain,
said yesterday that firemen would continue soaking the fire along the east side of the road in Massachusetts Street throughout the night.
Knight also said members of Lawrence's aeroson squad were preparing for an investigation of the blaze, which he called "a catastrophic fire." Lawrence sinks on the Pier 1 fire downtown in New York.
The arson squad was assembled as a routine matter in major fires, he said.
Although Knight said the basement of the former Base Awing Aviation Goodwin could have been the probable origin of the blaze, fire department officials have yet to officially investigate the cause.
According to records of the Kansas Public Service Gas Co. gas service for the Kansas City office, a spokesman for the Kansas Power and Light Co. said the utility had not received calls.
THE FIRE was reported to firefighters at about 2 a.m. yesterday and was brought under control on one hour later. About 35 fireman, including off-duty crews who
were summoned to the scene, used five fire trucks to fight the blaze.
Flames from the fire caused a power line conductor behind the Burl building, which was used to provide the city, to are and explode, a Kansas Power and Light spokesman had said.
He estimated that a 10 to 15 block area lost power, but had power restored by about 3 a.m. yesterday.
The only reported injury was to a fireman, John Scruggs, who was injured when he collapsed and spreadding to adjacent buildings. Scruggs was standing on the third floor of the building at 708 Massachusetts St., when the fire broke out and caused the three floor to cave in.
The north end of the roof collapsed, followed by the floor. Scruggs slid down the floor about 15 feet. It took fellow workers minutes to rescue him with an extension ladder.
Scruggs suffered a fractured left shoulder, but returned to the scene of the fire, wearing a sling, before going home. She was found in a dumpster when the floor collapsed caused injury.
"THE WORST THING was that the building was condemned," he said. "It wasn't a safe Wednesday at noon, let alone the following morning at 2 a.m."
Knight said firemen had to approach the fire carefully because of the condition of the building.
Only the front facade and part of a fire wall of the building at 706 Massachusetts Ave. in Boston, Gould, whose architectural firm recently purchased the building, the firm's in-use office, has been converted.
DESIGN BUILD INC., which is in the building north of the condemned structure, purchased the building June 15. The company had intended to rebuild the structure by investing up to $180,000 in it. The contractor also valued the less of the building at $30,000.
The fire also partially gutted the building at 708 Massachusetts St., which houseged K's kitavern and Freemain Real Estate Company. Only the front 20 feet of the building was not destroyed, Knight said. The damage did not be reached for a damage estimate.
Gould, who also owns the building occupied by Design Build, said the damage to that structure was $20,000 to $30,000. It had been recently remodeled.
Two other adjacent businesses that suffered damage were King George Shirt Factory and Public Hanging, 710 Massachusetts St.
KNIGHT SAID the fire department's first concern was to make the area safe. A fireman responded yesterday as firemen doused the smoldering mountains of debris with
By JEFF SJERVEN Staff Reporter
Pay raise plan applauded
Leaders of two faculty organizations yesterday praised a decision by the Council of Presidents to approve Chancellor Arche Archie's proposal for increased faculty pay raises.
The Council of Presidents is made up of the administrative heads of all Kansas Board of Regents institutions.
Dykes proposed yesterday an amendment to the fiscal 1981 budget requests approved by the Regents that would increase faculty raises from 7 percent to the maximum 12 percent. President Jimmy Carter's new inflation guidelines, which have not been announced,
Dykes said the proposal would be considered today by the Regents Budget and Finance Committee, but he did not know what he thought about the proposal in its meeting this afternoon.
Gerhard Zuther, chairman of the Faculty Council, said, "I am delighted Chancellor
Dykes has taken the initiative in pursuing this realistic proposal.
"IF THE REGENTS approve Dykes' proposal and keep the already approved increase in pay for promotions and incentives, this should be a good year for faculty."
However, Zuther said not all faculty members would be able to keep pace with inflation, even with a higher rate raise.
"Because pay raises are banded out on the basis of merit," he said, "some faculty members will be able to keep up with inflation, but most still will be behind."
Srinivasan, President of the KU chairperson for the University Professors, credited efforts by Dykes, the AAU and other concerned individuals with securing the Council of Universities.
ZUTHER SAID he did not recall a precedent for asking the Regents to amend an already approved budget request.
"The Regents will take the proposal under
advisement," he said. "I hope they will go along."
Srivamsa said he thought chances were good that the plan would be approved by the Regents and the Legislature.
"I think it would be difficult for any public body to approve a meager 7 percent raise on top of a 6.5 percent raise last year, and I am confident consecutive of double-digit inflation."
State Sen. Arnold Berman, D-Lawrence,
asked the legislature's interim Ways and
Means Committee Sept. 6 to consider a
9 percent pay increase for faculty.
Faculty pay increases in recent years have included an 8 percent raise for fiscal 1977, a 6 percent raise for fiscal 1978, a 7 percent raise for fiscal 1979 and a 6.5 percent raise for fiscal 1980, according to Junior Michel, assistant vice chancellor for academic affairs.
The proposal for the increase in faculty raises will be considered by the Regents today.
Financial exigency proposal's fater rests before Board of Regents
By TONI WOOD
Staff Renorter
A financial exigency proposal was amended and approved yesterday by the Council of Presidents and the Academic Committee of the Kansas Board of Recents.
The proposal would go into effect if a Regents institution suffered a financial crisis, in which case tenured professors could be released.
Final action on the proposal will be taken today at the Reengits meeting.
Ole McFarlane, Regents academic officer, said the proposal defined the point at which a university would be considered in a
state of financial exigency. It also defined the process a president or chancellor would follow in that event.
The Council of Presidents, made up of administrative heads of Regents school officials, would have to the Regents would not have to ratify administrators' actions during financial
The Regents would be informed, however, of reasons for administrative action.
THE AMENDED PROPOSAL then was referred to the Academic Committee, which made one or two editorial changes, McFarland said.
"The Board of Regents may or may not approve the proposal," he said.
The Regents asked each state university two years ago to develop a method for dealing with financial exigency
Although the council spent much of the meeting discussing financial exigency, it did deal with other issues.
Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor,
said the council considered a long-range
planning proposal for academies in state
institutes, but recommended further study.
run Amour, aregens officer, said the
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Night light
Paul Kuhl, St. Louis freshman, decides to study outdoors by a
sidewalk light between Hoch Auditorium and Wescoe Hall rather than to study in Marvin Hall.
Title IX's long-range implications hard to foresee
Editor's Note: This is the final part of a three-part series concerning the financial implications of the economic status of Kansas. The final part focuses on the current economic status of women in Kansas.
By BRETT CONLEY Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
Coaches and athletes within KU women's athletics seem to be pleased with the past success of their sports program, but they also want to be financial and competitive future of women.
KU's women's program is one of the most successful in the Big Eight. Last year, KU women teams won four conference championships out of the nine sports they compete in.
Bob Stancifel, KU football coach, said that although KU had made progress in the fun factor, there was still room for schools had been making faster progress, resulting in tougher competition within the league.
"I think it's unfair for women to expect financial miracles overnight," Stanciflid said. "I am aware of the long growing process that men's athletics have gone through,
but we're still behind everyone else because we're near the bottom in funding in the Big Eight."
STANCLIFT SAID that the nonrevenue sport coaches were all waiting to see how they would fit into the recent merger of athletics at KU.
"We knew whether she expected us to be competitive on a state, regional or national level, but it was clear that we see what Bob Marcuar's priorities will be." Marcum is director of men's and women's basketball at the University.
Gary Kemp's swimming coach, said. "It is difficult to keep a wide variety of kids in the water, but even point in the budget. In five years we may only have five men's sports and five women's."
"We had all come to grips with where we fit into Marian Washington's plan when she was director," Stanclock said.
Most of the coaches of women's sports are concerned about possible financial cuts in the athletic budget in the future.
"STILL. I SEE no reason that women's sports should not be funded equally with men's. The participation is virtually the
same and the women are now willing to pay the same price by putting time into training."
Michelle Brown, women's track team member, said great improvement had been made in her four years at KU, but more recently she attended for scholarships and travel expenses.
"We skiw a lot on our trips." Brown said. "Even though we have a larger budget than we used to, we have a 30 percent increase in the out of money towards the end of the year."
KATHY PATTERSON, KU women's basketball player, said that although she felt women athletes could use more
scholarship money, the progress the women's program had made was good.
"As long as our money keeps increasing, we will do fine," Patterson said. "Sports provide an opportunity for people like me to play basketball. I couldn't afford to do it."
KEN SNOW, women's and men's gymnastics coach, said that women's athletics would truly be equal to men's when each team gave money for travel and recruiting.
"I think that within a year or two we can be equal in scholarships," Snow said, "but the travel budget becomes an important factor. That is more of a recruiting factor to top-level gymnasts expect to be able to level and compete when they are at college."
Snow said he felt positive about the merger because no program had suffered funding cuts and there were more people to handle with the administrative duties of the coaches.
"We may not have your Title IX wants to have, but then we wouldn't have gotten that anyway without the merger," he said. "Now that women's athletics is the
responsibility of Marcum and the other administrators I think they want to make it the best they can."
SOME DISAGREEMENT with the merger was expressed by Annelle Levinson, a former University of Georgia Athletics for Women representative and field hockey player, who said the merger was not an improvement.
"Now we have to be so much like the men's program," Levinson said. "I think there is an over-emphasis on winning and losing. The men just don't believe in the same things."
"We had reached a point with women's
SNOW'S ASSESSMENT of the situation, however, conflicted with Levinson's.
Levinson said that she felt women's programs could become equal within five years if pressure was applied for Title IX compliance.
"The athletic department won't do anything until they're forced to," she said. "If they had started when they were supposed to start building up women's sports five years ago, then they wouldn't be in the spotlight." So go up with the money so quickly now.
athletics where the fund had stopped increasing, "Snow said. 'We ran out of avenues for getting new revenue and the merger gives us more available contacts for
All of the coaches agree that there has been a marked increase in the talents of women athletes during the past four to five years.
Terr Anderson, women's track coach, said Title IX had helped start good high school programs, in addition to sparking greater social acceptance for women's soocs.
Snow echoed the sentiments of most women's sports coaches when he said that women's athletics probably would turn out much like men's athletics.
"I don't see any other way for women's ability to go but to be the basic way men's ability to go," she said, under the rules, which some of the women object to, came about because of the NCAA has tried to change them.
"The women are acting as if they won't have heavy recruiting of athletes and athletes who are not greatly interested in them, but they're just fooling themselves."