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Morning blaze destroys downtown building
Bv MARK SPENCER
Staff Reporter
A fire and explosion destroyed a downtown building at 706 Massachusetts St. early this morning.
BILL FRAKES/Kansan staff
One fireman, John Seriggs, was injured and taken to Lawrence Memorial Hospital about 5:30 a.m.
the scene around 2 a.m. and were still fighting the fire at 5:30 a.m. One fireman was injured. See related photo pare 10.
Smoky scene
About 30 firemen and five fire trucks had the fire under control by a 3-mm. but were still trying to prevent the fire from spreading to windows on both sides of the condensed structure.
Anthony Trevino, Wichita sophomore, said he saw fire shoots through a second floor window of the building at about 2:10 p.m. on Wednesday that exploded, creating a huge boom.
The explosion hampered fire fighters' use at the air station, and the electric power of the 20 block area surrounding the fire, Jim Sanders, assistant foreman for Kansas Power and Light Co.
By 3 a.m., he said, only the 700 block of Massachusetts St. was without power.
The building was empty and was scheduled to be rebuilt beginning next week, according to Bob Gould, whose firm purchased the property June 15.
Two buildings were gutted after a fire broke out at 706 Massachusetts St. early this morning. Firemen arrived at
Gould, an architect for Design Build Inc., valued the building at $50.000.
"From what I can tell it looks like it will be a total loss," he said.
The former owner, Kenneth Burk, said he had $750 to $1,000 worth of roofing materials stored in the basement.
He said he had not removed the materials because he was afraid the rear wall of the building would collapse. Witnesses said the wall collapsed shortly after the train stopped.
Gould said he owned the building north of the home and built in 1928 and White Light Parapetal. The building south of the fire was occupied by Big K's tavern and Freeman Real Estate
Firemen fought the blaze from Massachusetts Street and from a parking lot behind the building, pouring water from hoses on extension ladder over the corridor building. Shortly after 3 a.m. they began moving into the building bordering the fire.
There was no immediate estimate available on the extent of damage caused by fire, smoke and water to the surrounding buildings.
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Dykes to ask for faculty pay hike
Rv_IEFFSIERVEN
Staff Reporter
Chancellor Archie R. Dykes plans to urge the Board of Regents tomorrow to raise its proposed salary increase for faculty and staff, which he said would equal pay raises for classified employees.
Dykes said yesterday he had encouraged members of the Board of Regards to raise awareness of his work from 2 percent plus 1 percent for promotions, to the maximum allowed under President Jimmy Carter's new inflation policy, which have not yet been announced.
Dykes also said he would propose the increase this morning at a meeting of the
Dykes said, "President Carter's new guidelines are expected to be more closely tied to the cost of living than the 7 percent figure."
Council of Presidents, which consists of the administrative heads of all Reents schools.
Also, Dykes sent a letter 12 to Joseph Collins, president of the classified senate committee, that he would urge legislators to grant the same percentage increase to classified em-
DYKES WROTE, "the coming year, as in past years, we intend to make every effort to secure approval of equal pay for our unclassified and classified employees.
Collins said he appreciated Dykes' letter, but added that the University previously had not worked for parity in pay raises.
"This is a new direction for the University," Collins said, "and the chancellor is to be applauded for his efforts.
"It makes an employee feel pretty good to know that his chancellor is standing up for him. But if the University had represented
us all along, there would have been no need to the Classified Senate."
KU CANNOT directly provide pay increases for classified or non-faculty employees. Collins said, because the chancellor can recommend increases in pay for faculty
"Dykes cannot directly effect changes in classified employees' pay," Collins said, "because all rules governing classified employees come straight from Topeka.
"But he can recommend that the Legislature grant a pay increase equal to that received by faculty."
Collins disagreed with Dykes' analysis of the Legislature's mood in granting pay raises.
"Consequently, favorable action upon the regents recommendation for unclassified employees may be considered by the Legislature's later consideration of salary increases for classified employees."
In his letter to Collins, Dykes wrote, "Salaries for classified employees are determined by the State and are normally given in the session than the Regent's budget.
COLLINS CHALLENDED Dykes' analysis and said, "The legislature give a 10 percent increase to faculty and around and give us only a 3 percentage."
Legislative approval of a 9 percent raise
of employee salaries, classified employees
does not guarantee an increase in
percent raise, according to Collins and June
Michal, assistant to the vice chancellor for
legislation.
Michal said the Legislature approved increases in funds allocated to KU for salaries. Individual raises, however, are decided on the basis of merit.
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Title IX taxes athletic revenues
Editor's Note: This is the second of a three-part series concerning the financial story of the Iowa State football team in Kansas. The second part focuses on the athletic department's struggle to comply with state law.
By BRETT CONLEY Staff Reporter
With present expenditures of about $440,000 for women's athletics, Bob Marcum, KU student and alumnus of the college crease spending for women's sports by at least 100 percent—possibly as by as much as 300 percent, depending on the Department and final interpretation of Title IX guidelines.
Since their inception at the University of Kansas, women's athletics have had to struggle to develop sources of revenue for more and expanded programs. With the recent athletic merger, the entire athletic department will be compelled to comply with Title IX guidelines.
Any increase in funding would have to come through the three main sources of money for the athletic program- football and basketball donations and legislate appropriations.
An increase of 300 percent would mean that the $3.8 million KU athletic budget would have to be increased by $1.2 million.
The only alternative KU would have, to be eliminate non-revenue sports or to decrease spending in men's football and basketball, is the KU's athletics to comply with the guidelines.
"The anxiety level of the non-revenue coaches is very high right now, but I really don't want to lose my job. We sports. We are just going to need more financial assistance from outside the team."
"IT IS NOT realistic to expect us to cut football expenditures." Marc said. "We would have to pull out of the Big Eight and we would lose a major source of revenue and we would lose a major source of revenue."
Marian Washington, women's basketball coach and former women's athletic director, said there was no reason to look upon women's athletics as detrimental to
"The alumni are going to have to address the problem and be willing to donate to women's athletics, and the student body may have to change and be willing to pay to attend certain events. Also, the state will have to change and increase their support of women's athletics."
the financial stability of the athletic department.
MARCUM SAID that increased women's scholarship money through alumni donations was not the total answer to the question. MARCUM said money to travel and to recruit athletes.
"I think there can be an advantage given to the men's program from the women's because we have an excellent competitive record," Washington said. "When they the athletic department begin give alumni money for their college education, it will help with scholarship money."
"I think if we want to get more revenue, a keen deal depends on making our football team better and getting more students in the stadium. My money," "Also, we will have to get money from the state because it would be difficult to get all the money we will need from football."
Marcum is a member of a task force set up to look into the financing of intercollegiate athletics with state funds.
The task force also has representatives on the office of the State Board of Regents school district. The State University, Fort Hays State University, Pittsburgh State University, and Naval Air School.
The objective of the task force is to make the legislature aware of the expendures we have to make, and I think we will make them aware of the problems we have,"
STATE FUNDS have in the past played a large part in the funding of women's athletics. They now provide about $315,000, or nearly 75 percent of the $440,000 spent on college sports.
It is football, however, that provides much of the revenue for the athletic department. In 2014, the school expected revenue of $1.5 million which means an expected profit of $200,000 for the team.
But the largest single money-making area for athletics is the Williams Educational Fund, which provides all athletic scholarships from alumni donations.
The project income from the fund this year is $80,000 of which $120,000 will go to fund women's athletic scholarships. John Novotrv, director of the Williams Fund,
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Marchers demand action soon on new LMH birthing room
Staff Reporter
Chris and Tami Petit of Baldwin are willing to travel 20 miles to Topeka, Kansas. The couple want their children to be born in a birthing room, which is not available at the hospital.
They were among 50 persons, including women carrying babies in back packs, pregnant women, fathers, older men and women small children, who marched yesterday morning in front of Lawrence capital to support a proposed birthing room.
By ANN LANGENFELD
A birthing room is an alternative to a standard delivery room. It is decorated in a home-like atmosphere and has a baby monitor. The father may be present at the birth.
The room is usually stocked with medical emergency equipment, but it is placed out of sight. Depending on hospital regulations, the couple and their child are allowed to return home about the birth if there are no complications.
The signs the demonstrators carried read, "I wished I was born in a birthing room," "Give women the choice," and "Women give birth . . . ask them."
THE MARCH was held before a regular meeting of the hospital board of trustees, who considered a request from the hospital medical staff that installation of a proposed birthing room be studied so safety questions could be studied.
"It is a less intensive delivery process and we question if it is really safe," he said.
He did not outline specific safety considerations.
Richard Blair, chief of the medical staff, said last night that the idea of birthing rooms was relatively new.
Genie Burnett, board chairman,
directed that the medical staff gain
knowledge of the patient's needs to
reconsider its position on the birthling
room. The board requested the staff to
complete the job.
Last month the hospital board of trustees had given its approval to install the birthing room at the hospital, which the medical staff, a group of 60 physicians, mainly supported. The birthing room would be used on a six-month trial basis.
IT HAD BEEN expected that IT HAD been formulated recent events staff will have to deal with the installation and use of a birthing room, but the staff decided to delay action until it could be confirmed.
The protest group, calling themselves the Birthing Room Support Group organized after the surprise decision of the medical staff.
Bob Campbell, director of community relations for the hospital, said there was room available to take care of the room. The state has safety standards for surgery and delivery rooms that would be used by patients.
Kathy Morris, spokeswoman for the hospital, asked the medical staff to statement to the board of trustees. She asked if the medical staff could identify the patient and would accept an documentation of the birthing room safety; and how soon the birthing room would be installed if it was needed.
SHE SAID the hospital should have a birthing room so women could have a choice about where their babies were born.
Morris said the group would encourage women to consider other hospitals in the area that have birthing rooms if the hospital is not available in Lawrence in two months.
Although a birthing room delivery would cost at least half as much as a standard delivery, which averages $175,000, it was not the group's primary objective.
Chris Petr, 30, chairman of the Lawrence Association of Parents and Professionals for Safe Alternatives in Home Care. He will also provide a compromise between home deliveries
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