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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
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Vol. 90, No. 16
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The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Mariners trounce Royals 6-3
Monday, September 17, 1979
See story page seven
Oraanized confusion
Michael Franano, Kansas City, Mo., sits among the many antiques for sale in his mother's booth at Quartell's Fla. Market (11 New Hampshire). Franono's booth is one of
40 open every Saturday and Sunday at Quantrill's from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. See story page 10.
Officials discount false Ph.D case
Staff Renorter
"The positions he held did not require a Ph.D.," Christoffersen said. "He was fired independent of his academic credentials."
Staff Reporter
By DAVID LEWIS
Williams, who was fired last summer for "poor job performance," alleged he had a bad temperament. Shortly before he was fired, it was determined that some of his academic credentials
University officials are discounting the significance of the hiring of Calvin Hunt, a former university (OU) football player, had filed some bogus academic credentials, and are saying that no major changes will happen.
"CALVIN WAS NOT hired for a permanent tenure position. Those are the ones we really look at and screen carefully."
Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor,
said yesterday that the hiring policy would
not be a big issue.
Williams was not available yesterday for comment.
"We should just warn those who do the hiring. I don't think much has to be done."
Ralph Christoffersen, vice chancellor of academic affairs, said yesterday that Williams was fired for other reasons than his academic credentials.
Christofersen said any person applying for employment was required to provide references.
"I think this is a very isolated incident," Shankel said. "I don't think this is a big issue."
Several local Democrats yesterday entertained the notion of unseating Sen. Robert Dole, R-Kansas, in the 1980 general election.
By TONIWOOD
"Reference letters remain an important part of the screening," he said. "Regardless of the position being applied for, we ask for letters of recommendation."
Democrats hope to replace Dole in 1980 election
Reference letters often warrant as much attention as academic credentials, he said.
Rep. Dan Glickman, D-Wichita and a possible candidate for the Senate seat, and John Simpson, former Salina state senator and declared defender for Dole's seat,
DYKES SAID the meeting would be scheduled for next Tuesday if the group did not meet tomorrow.
Glickman said it would be several months before he decided whether to run for the Senate position.
spoke to about 45 people at a Douglas County Young Democrats' picnic in Clinton Park.
"We might not have the meeting (tomorrow)," Dykes said. "We have to prepare for a Regents' meeting that will be held this Thursday and Friday."
Shankar recommended yesterday that the Lawrence Campus Executive Management team meet with him on the issue of hiring administrative staff members on the agenda for tomorrow's
But Chancellor Archie R. Dykes said yesterday that the meeting could be delayed
Christoffersen said he did not anticipate any problems in the future.
SHANKEL SAID the University did not plan to press charges against Williams. "I don't think there is any reason to," he said.
"I have worked to build a reasonably secure House seat in the fourth district," he said. "Running for senator would be a great risk, for my family and the district."
Williams was hired in 1970 during former Chancellor E. Laurence Grainger's tenure.
Shankel said there had been no relationship between Williams' alleged doctoral degree and his annual salary.
Glickman is the lone Democrat among six
For almost 10 years, Williams was employed by the University in a variety of positions. Williams worked in the urban afield as an associate professor and vice chair and the division of continuing education.
Williams also was a part-time instructor of Spanish and Portuguese and served as a special education adviser to former Gov. Robert Docking.
other members of the Kansas Congressional delegation.
Dole announced last spring he would run for president in 1908, but his option for
He said he recently paid for a poll to measure the strength of Dole's support in Kansas.
Current KU officials said they did not know the details of Williams' hiring.
"The poll showed that our senior senator is weak—not as weak as I would like to have seen—but beatable," he said.
Christopherson and it was difficult to check academic records of potential students, because forbade outside sources from checking a person's college record without the person's name.
running for Senate re-election will be open until June 20. The first primary is Feb. 28 in New Hampshire.
SIMPSON ANNOUNCED in late May his nomination to be Democratic party At. the same time, he resigned his state senator's seat and announced his candidacy for the national
Since establishing headquarters in Topeka, Simpson has been to about 40 counties in Kansas and plans to visit all 105 counties by the end of the year.
He said Democratic party members had been very receptive.
"Naturally, in making such a move, I was a little apprehensive," he said. "But the Democrats have been very, very cordial and extremely supportive."
David Berkowitz, chairman of the Douglas County Democratic central committee, said Simpson's party switch had caused a backlash of his liberal record in the Legislature.
PARTY MEMBERS would support Simpson in the Senate race, he said, unless Glickman decided to run for the position.
New ASK director seeks student input
See PARTY page 9
Staff Reporter
By ELLEN IWAMOTO
If Robin McClellan, hired Friday as the KU campus director for the Associated Students of Kansas, is as effective as she is in teaching, KU voice in the lobby could be strong.
"Friday afternoon when they called me to tell me I was hired, I was also told about an ASK retreat in Teopela this weekend that I had to go to," she said.
Despite the late notice, McClellan attended the retreat.
McClellan, Paice minor and a transfer student from Colby College in Nevada, Mo., said she had two goals for the year—improving students' recognition of ASK as a group on campus, and working with the faculty to better her Education, a KU student lobbying group.
McClellan said she nope to improve students' awareness of what ASK was about and what it could do for them.
"We're spending the students' money—about $9,157," she said. "I hope students will become involved."
ABOUT 46 applications for KU's delegation to the ASK legislative assembly had been received, she said.
McCllenan said she would like to see most of the applicants involved with ASK to help debrief her on her experience as legislative assembly, which chooses issues ASK will lobby for during the state election.
Although KU's own lobbying group, CSHE, has not organized yet, McCellan said she was looking forward to working with the errom.
See ASK page three
Oread association seeks recall vote on downzoning
Rv ANN LANGENFELD
A member of the Oread Neighborhood Association is checking into the feasibility of a recall vote of three Lawrence city commissioners on a police-related vows against downizing.
Staff Reporter
The three commissioners under scrutiny by the association are Bob Schumm, Ed Carter and Don Bombs, who voted last duty to downsize on the Oradne area
Dick Martin, who suggested the idea at the association meeting last week, said yesterday that the issue would be discussed in more detail at the group's Oct. 1 meeting.
As a result of the vote, the neighborhood zoning has remained residential dormitory, allowing landowners to build multi-person units.
Neighborhood residents last summer that the zoning would bring unwanted style contrasts with the older homes in the area. They say the zoning will reduce population, which could lead to crime,
MARTIN SAID the Lawrence-Douglas County Planning Commission recommended the downwating, but the city should have been against the recommendations of the city at.
The downzoning, a controversial element of the Oread Neighborhood Plan, would have encouraged a less dense population in the area.
excess traffic, and too few parking places,
residents said.
He said he would be checking between now and the Oct. 1 meeting to see if there was support for the recall from the other neighborhood associations.
He said, "We want people on the commission sympathetic to our cause."
"We can't do this on our own. We need support from all the neighborhoods," he said.
He also will be looking into the legal aspects of the issue, he said.
"I am conservative about the outcome of my efforts," he said.
See OREAD page 10
Piano playing easy for sightless child
Bv KATE POUND
By KATE POUND Staff Reporter
Seven-year-old Mindy Knepp nonchalantly sat down at the family piano and played "Clair de Lune" and "Long, Long Aren."
When she was done, Mindy announced assuredly, "Playing the piano is easy." Mindy is blind.
In her second year of piano study,
Mindy only differs from her peers by
being more advanced than many of
them, her piano teacher, Karen Grisate.
Mindy, daughter of Karen and Don Knepp, 255 N. Michigan St., said she had learned to play about 100 songs with the help of her piano teacher. She has learned to memorize the music by playing able to read music. Mindy said.
Blind since she had surgery for cancer of the eyes when she was 11 months old, Mindy began to play the piano a year ago, her mother said.
According to Karen Knopp, Mindy's piano teacher had not had any previous experience teaching the blind.
"She really prayed before she took Mindy. It was a real challenge for her," Knepo said.
Her instructor was Bette Krolick, a member of the Music Committee of the National Ballet Association and author of *Music for Musical Painting*. Her music "Krolick lectured on teaching music to the visually impaired in three music education classes on Friday at and after midnight."
ON SATURDAY, at the statewide convention in Murphy Hall of Sigma Alpha Iota, a music sorcerity on campus, Mindy learned to read music.
On the stage of Swarthout Recital Hall, Kroklick introduced Mindy to the Braille music code and gave members of SAI his teacher's lesson on teaching the blind.
The code, developed by Louis Braille, a French music teacher in the 19th century, consists of "cells" of six dots pressed on paper, Kroick said. The dots
are arranged in various ways to signify letters, numbers and notes.
Krolick said there are three Brulee codes: literary, mathematical and musical books; the sheet music from the library is available free from the Library of Congress. Krolick said. There also are volunteer organizations that provide hot meals and hats for their blind students.
Kroelick, a professional violinist with four symphony orchestras in Illinois, gives five or six lectures and workshops a year on teaching music to the blind, else.
"I was introduced to the music code about five years ago," Krolick said. "And I realized there was a real need for teaching it."
According to Krolek, blind children in the past were educated in schools for the Blind, Now, she said, blind students are attending public schools, but often are left out of music programs because few of their others know about the Braille music code.
"THERE'S NO need for them to be left out of music," Kroikle说, "Bind children can participate in all levels of music education, orchestra, band and choir."
The Braille code is easy for blind students to learn, Kroik said, because they are familiar with Braille and the code is logical.
"I DONT SEE what's so hard about it," she said, shaking her head.
Blind students must memorize their music, Kroelk said, but most of them have little difficulty.
"They're used to memorizing and play soon, the other kids in the classroom are doing their homework," memory. He's pretty good. "And Joe hears that, and sits up straight," memory.
Mindy willingly supported Krolick's patient of the music code in less than 20 minutes. She worked quietly with Krolick on stage, unbothered by the 100 people in her room.
Braille music
Preparing to play, 7-year-old Mindy Knepp, knaws her fingers over the keyboard to locate the proper keys. Knepp learned how to read brass music from Betty Krøllac, a member of the National Brass Association, who spoke at the state convention of Sigma Alpha lta., a music sorority, at KU this past weekend.