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10 cents off campus The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas free on campus Friday, September 14, 1979
Handout causes stir
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Check finds clubs' policies inconsistent
Bv JUDY WOODBURN
Staff Renorter
A recent check by the University Daily Kansan has shown inconsistencies in the distribution of membership applications to two lawrence's private dance clubs.
During the check, conducted on two consecutive nights this week, members of minority groups were refused membership application forms at Shenanigans, 901 Mississippi St. and Burlingueville, 806 W. Atherton to a white person without question.
The Kansas began a check into private disco club membership policies after Mike Kaspersky, the company owner in Kansas City, Mo, told the Kansas that he had been denied membership to the club.
AT THE REQUEST of the Kanas, the following persons participated in the check: Simmons; Mansour Tahzeradeh, graduate student, and Ali Aali, sophomore, both of Tehran, Iran; Jerian Dobaeh, University City, Mo., junior, and Oceana Gills, Ge., sophomore, both black; and a white student, who asked not to be identified.
Besides Sheenanagans and Bullwinkle, the group visited the Sanctuary, 1401 W.7th, G.P.Loyd's, 701 Massachusetts, and Mingle's, 222 W.7th. At those three clubs, the officers of the group were given membership application ferris upon request.
TUESDAY NIGHT, Simmons requested an application for membership to Sheanangans and was denied.
'They told me they were all sold out,' Simmons said.
The same night, Taherzadeh also was denied a membership application at Shemanigans.
"They told me their membership was limited by state law to 750 people, and that they had already sold all of them," he said.
John Sheppard, manager of Shenanigans.
Tatheredz said he then asked for a form to fill out in a case place opened up for him. He said he was told that Shonanians would have many more members, even at a later date.
WHEN CONTACTED yesterday, Russ Collins, chief deputy fire marshal of Kansas, said there was no state law restricting membership of members private a club may sell.
said Taberzadeh had been told that state law restricted membership sales by a "informed" door attendant.
"We have half a dozen guys at the door, and none of them really understand the procedures very well," he said.
Wednesday night, a white student was given a membership application to Shenanigans without question.
"No problem," he said.
SHEPARD SAID more application forms had been delivered to the club the day after forms had been denied to Tahaeradeh and Simmons.
Alai said he was told later that right that he would have to come back during regular business hours to request an application.
However, Dabney and Gillis were given forms that night.
Taterzadeh also had been denied a membership in appraisal, and he was the first night of the check. He said he was told there were no more membership forms and that would not be available.
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BUT SIMMONS, who has a current membership at Bulwinkle's, requested at membership application form for a friend later that night and was given one.
The following night, the white student also was given a membership application form at Bullywinkle's.
Both Simmons and the white student were given applications, even though a sign was posted on their desk. They read: "Membership sales and renewals suspend until further notice." By order of Simmons,
Steve Coneau, manager of Bullinkee, said the club's liquor agent from Alcoholic Beverage Control, a division of the Kansas Department of Revenue, had recommended its membership to 1,900, which is five times the legal capacity of the building.
JOHN GILLEN, ABC liquor agent for Lawrence, said yesterday that he knew of no rule or law limiting the number of members-ships a club may sell.
Comeau said that last week he realized he had "misinterpreted" the liquor agent, so he began disregarding the sign, but did not remove it.
Wednesday night, Comeau removed the sign in the presence of a Kansan reporter. Comau said he would meet with
Railroad strike is not affecting local farmers
said he would meet today with
See CLUBS page five
By TONI WOOD
Some farmers have their own storage bins, but many depend on the Lawrence Farmers Co-op Association and the Farmer's Market. Eudora to store and transport their brain.
Local farmers reported yesterday that the Rock Island Railroad strike had not affected grain storage space in the area.
The Santa Fe Railroad carries grain for both the Lawrence and Eudora elevators, which makes local dependence on the Rock Island Railroad minipal.
Mrs. Raymond Pine, Rue 3, said she and her husband had almost finished harvesting their corn. They have their own storage and transport their brain by semi-trucks.
Jose Palmierate, 3524 Yale Road, said her husband was building two storage bins at the gym and two tables in baskets to the local elevator, she said. Pat Ross, Route 4, store his grain at his farm.
THE STORAGE situation is grimmer in southwestern Kansas. Don Jacka, assistant manager of the Rural Land Trust that Rock Island transported 23 percent of Kansas' grain, much of it from the south-
"Agriculture is hurting quite badly in 19-county area in southwest Kansas," he said.
There are 124 million bushels of storage in southwest Kansas, Jacka said. About 75 percent is full of wheat, which leaves 31 million bushels of storage.
About 45 million bushels of sorghum and 65 million bushels of corn will be harvested this fall, he said. The corn harvest has just begun and will continue into October.
Jaca said a delay in the Rock Island strike would relieve the storage situation. "Any movement at all would improve the problem," he said.
Members of the Brotherhood of Railway and Airline Clerks Union went on strike Aug. 28 because Rock Island had not paid them nearly $14 million in retrospective pay
SOME ELEVATORS have used trucks to move large equipment (some perish) via railroades, he said. Corn and sorghum plunged on the ground do not keep well and probably would result in an explosion.
Rock Island officials said they could not pay the workers because the company went bankrupt in 1975.
Vice Miem; multilateral planning engineer of the Kansas Department of Tran- port Management of Rock Island lakes in Lankas from Kanorado to Belleville, from Kansas City to Chicago
However, the 1,083 miles of tracks are not in use, except to move other company's cars off the line, he said.
Several Topeca grain elevators had depended on Rock Island for transporting grain, but quit relying on the line during the next few months.
ROCK ISLAND shares a line with Union Pacific from Kansas City to Topeka, Moser said.
Negotiations between the union and the National Mediation Board, which mediates railroad strikes, were to begin last Monday, but the union spokesman refused to
A spokesman at the Topeka Mill and Elevator Co, who asked not to be identified, said Rock Island cars had been ordered day after, but none had been delivered.
LABOR SECRETARY Bay Marshall said Wednesday that the Carter administration would try to delay or end the strike by tomorrow.
Sen. Bob Dole, R-Ramas, and Sen. Nancy Kassaehn, R-Ramas, asked President Carter to intervene in the strike by use of the Railway Labor Act.
Kim Wells, administrative assistant to Dole, said the labor act had a 90-day backlog of employees required to 90-day provision in the Taft-Hartley law. Both provisions allow the president to take full responsibility.
Back to back
Justine Marshall, Lawrence senior (left) and Debbie Planker, of Lawrence (right) take advantage of each other's back to read yesterday in front of Watson Library.
Senators not upset by dismissal
Bv ELLEN IWAMOTO
Staff Reporter
Fifteen of 18 student senators removed from Student Senate by the Student Senate executive committee this week because of a disturbance were graduate student senators.
Some of the former graduate student senators, however, expressed no regrets over their dismissal, and said they had been wrong. A group of Senate since their election last spring.
"We were sick of not having any say in Student Senate," David Merkel, one of the former graduate senators, said yesterday.
The average number of absences was 1. out of 16 roll calls at the eight meetings last spring, according to Senate attendance records.
Merkel said representation of graduate students in the Senate was difficult because she has a very limited number of Senate. The undergraduates voted in a bice whenever graduate student issues came up in their discussions.
TWENTY-ONE OF the graduate students voted into the Senate during elections last spring were geology graduate students.
Ron McDowell, a former graduate senator who resigned, said the graduate
McDowell said at that time student representation was not evident in the Senate. The move also was prompted by a remark by Margaret Berlin, then a candidate for student body president, that students needed a voice in the Senate.
students in geology had conducted a write-in camaign for themselves.
Merkel said the graduate students had intentions of attending the meetings when they were elected.
Tuesday, the Animal Care Center in Kansas sent a dead pig to the Kansas State Department for tests to try to explain the death of at least five pigs named Maltot and Mastis.
WILLOUGHBY, also a aology graduate student, said their election was "partly a joke and partly serious." He said he did not consider his removal from the Senate as a
John Mulder, University veterinarian,
said another dead pigeon was brought to the
Animal Care Center Wednesday. He also
Two products have been used in an attempt to decrease the pigeon population — intoxicated that discourages the birds from feeding and a type of birth control.
"We saw we could get elected with no effort and without paying the filing fee," he said.
A possible explanation for the deaths of several piglets last week on the KU campus has been offered by Rodger Oroke, director of Facilities Operations.
But Ralph Wilgoughy, another former senator, said the graduate senators eventually realized that it would not make a
Control feed tied to pigeon deaths
Oroke said Facilities Operations had been putting out pigeon control feed to discourage the birds from populating the campus.
By PAMELA LANDON
difference whether they attended the meetings.
Margaret Berlin, student body president, said she thought the graduate students were not effective because they never came to the
Staff Reporter
But Oroke stressed that the treated feed was not intended to kill the birds.
HE SAID the birds were a dry type of fish and they created a mess. The pigeons not only clog downspouts and gutters, but they also unwanted bacteria in some environments.*
See GRADUATES page 10
said the center had received several calls about the pigeons.
Aavital affects the nervous system of the birds. They usually use a "intoxicated," and associate this feeling with their feeding place. This should prompt them to leave the
Oroke said the pigeon population on the KU campus had grown steadily in the past two to three years.
Facilities Operations has been using two products, Avitrol and Ornitrol, to control the pigeon population, he said.
"We've got an increasing bird problem and we want to turn it around." Oroke said.
AVTIROL HAS a fatality rate of 5 percent to 8 percent, he added.
"We know there's a sensitivity to this sort of thing. If we could drive the pigeons
away without any fatalities that is what we would do," he said.
Jim Mathes, assistant director of land maintenance, said the officer Aviltron only for about 10 days. He said Facilities Operations last put out the feed
Facilities Operations now uses Ornitorl.
The feed prevents the embryo from forming in a pigeon's eggs. This temporary sterility does not harm the birds. Mathes said.
Ornitrol is not supposed to cause death, he said.
AVITRIL WAS used only on a temporary basis while Facilities Operations waited for the Ornulto to arrive. Mathes said. The feed is effective only in the fall and spring when it rains.
Oracle said there were many companies that used similar methods of pigeon control. Alton Coffman, assistant manager of Schendel Pest Control, said he thought his
company was the only one in Lawrence that controlled piceons.
He said the company used three methods of pigeon control: a mechanical method, a grease and Avitrol.
He said the mechanical method involved destroying pigeon roosting areas. It is the first method his company tries.
Avitrol can be used only by government agencies or pest control operators, Coffman said.
"Pigeons can look dead if they get a large dose of Avitrol, and then could later fly off when the effects wear off," he said.
COFFMAN SAID the next thing the company used, if the mechanical method failed, was a grasse, which is totally harmless but very annoying to the birds.
He said the company had only normal, routine pigeon problems this year.
The last thing the company tries is Avitrol. he said.
See PIGEONS page five
Title IX order does not worry Big 8 official
Staff Reporter
By BRETT CONLEY
Charles Neimas, Big Eight commissioner, said yesterday that the commission was carried out by the commission and its mens' commision in a memorandum that equal per capita funding of men's and women's sports begin imminent.
IF HEW approves the commission's recommendation, universities would have to spend the same amount on a female athlete as they did on a male athlete.
"It's only a recommendation to Health, Education and Welfare and I don't expect them to do it." She does adopt it, I wouldn't be surprised if an education from universities spread the country.
Nenas said he was afraid that adoption by EWL of the commission's recommendation would result in an increased reduction to only women's sports and men's football and basketball, which are revenue-generating.
Wade Walker, athletic director at the University of Oklahoma, said Title IX guidelines should be interpreted to mean that students will not necessarily equal funding per capita.
A staff member of the United States Commission on Civil Rights, which issued the recommendation Monday, disagreed with Neilas and Walker.
Helen Laukson, project director for the U.S. Civil Rights Commission, said that according to information supplied to the Commission by the National College Athletic Association, most schools lose their football programs or barely break even.
"SUCH A RULING would make a complete alternate of the sports programs at high school, instead of wind up with two male sports, football and basketball, to have money for women's
"They could cut out it a lot of the extra money," she said. "There should not be first-class treatment for athletics in the men's football and basketball programs. Many of the costs are related to training."
THE AVERAGE expenditure for each athlete in football is more $9,000. Lookas said, while athletes in other sports receive an average of $91,424.
"We figured out that for all colleges in the "u" large and small, it would cost an amount comparable to a company with equal per capita funding," she said. "We could, for larger colleges, it would cost more."
Louks said she thought HEW would consider the commission's recommendation very seriously as it has with past recommendations.
Although HEW is supposed to make a binding decision next month, Lokas said, the issue might be too political and could be delayed until after the 1980 presidential election.
LOUKAS SAID universities were not completely unwilling to comply with Title IX guidelines, but many of the arguments used against it were outdated.
"The Tower (John G. Tower, R-Texas) amendment, which exempted revenue sports such as football and basketball from the conference in a conference committee in 1974," Lookus said. "Another bill sponsored by Tower dealing with the same thing didn't make it out of the subcommittee on education of the University and Public Welfare Committee in 1975."
"That was when Congress had the opportunity to play basketball, but the bill didn't even make it out of committee. They even eliminated all reference to revenue-producing sports officials."
Louks said women at small colleges were closer to equal per capita funding than in large colleges, and should be able to comply with HEW if they follow the commission's recommendation,