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THURSDAY, NOV. 7, 1985, VOL. 96, NO. 54 (USPS 650-640)
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Prof denounces choice of Tacha for court judge
A KU associate professor of English opposed the nomination of Deanell Tacha, vice chancellor for academic affairs, as judge for the U.S. 10th Circuit Court of Appeals in a letter mailed yesterday to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee.
The attorney of Myra Hinman,
associate professor of English for 25 years, sent a letter by express mail today to Sen. Strom Thurmond,
R-S.C., chairman of the committee.
Tacha was nominated for the position Oct. 30 by President Reagan. If confirmed by the Senate, she will be the second woman in history to be appointed to the 10th circuit bench.
Phelps said that Hinman filed a sex discrimination suit against the University of Kansas and some faculty members in the late 1970s, before Tacha was appointed vice chancellor in 1981. The lawsuit, which is pending in the U.S. District Court in Topeka, criticizes KU employment policies. The suit includes promotion, recruiting and tenure deficiencies for women and other minorities.
Sneak attac
Hinman said Tacha wasn't upholding an agreement signed by the University with the U.S. Department of Labor in 1982 that emphasized equal employment opportunities at KU.
The letter, written by Hinman's attn.
By Kady McMaster Of the Kansan staff
A dog carefully paddlec
Player
Phelps said Tacha hires few minorities and underpays the ones who already work at the University.
By Mike Snider Of the Kansan staff
Two football players will arguments at a hearing told that the College of Liberal Sciences interpreted the satisfactory progress rule to give them any chance of be able to play this season, course.
According to documents tailback Lynn Williar linebacker Dane Griffin in County District Court on 7 the players also say that once lege decided how it was goh terpetre the rule, the College wrong criteria to determir status.
The court documents a players' response to the University for dismissal of the caon Oct. 8. The University al for a change of venue at the asking that the case be m Douglas County.
The players had filed suit in the University Sept. 19 after declared inelegible for nplying with the satisfactory prule.
The National Collegiate Association established the sa
Faced with a Michigan judge prohibits the men's basketball playing a game with the I Louisville unless it also plays the University of Detroit, KU play neither, an Athletic Depart said yesterday.
Official
By Liz Maggard Of the Kansan staff
Gary Hunter, assistant athlet said no final decision had been in Athletic Department officials m ploring their options.
"However, it appears now that playing either Detroit or Louisv
StudEx a By Bonnie Snyder Of the Kansan staff
The Student Senate Exec Committee last night approver same Senate seat distribution rejected last week.
Student Senate elections will as scheduled.
StudEx rejected the seat distri-
tion, the first time because
numbers were based on enrolin-
g in University schools on Oct
rather than on the official 20th-
enrollment figures that the Uni-
ty used, Tony Arnold, chairman
StudEx, last night.
See related story
The 20th-day figures represent official enrollment of the Univers. They are used in figuring the Univ sity's budget.
David Day, Elections Commit
Review
Led Zeppelin book tells of group's trek to fame
By Mike Snider
Kansan Magazine writer
If you have a whole lotta love for Led Zeppelin's music, this book is for you.
for you.
Or maybe you prefer that the group just rambles on. Well, this book has something for you, too.
"HAMMER OF THE GODS:
The Led Zeppelin Saga," (Morrow, $15.95), by Stephen Davis, chronicles the rise and fall of one of history's most popular heavy metal band.
The book, currently available only in hardback, holds a place on the latest New York Times Non-Fiction Best Sellers list.
Led Zeppelin, which guitarist Jimmy Page assembled in 1968, consisted of Page, John Paul Jones, bass guitar and keyboard, Robert Plant, lead singer, John Bonham, drummer and pianoist in a role in the music business when Bonham died in 1980.
Davis, who has worked as a reporter for Rolling Stone magazine. The New York Times and the Boston Globe, told how the four musicians came together, first as the New Yardbirds and later as Led Zeppelin members. The wild sex orgasms account of the social conflicts and business of the group's many tours.
Even though Davis begins the book with Jimmy Page's birth in 1943, it is the group's rise and occupation of the music world's pinnacle, beginning in 1973, that makes the book interesting.
But problems arise with Davis' continuous immunoends to the group's supposed pact with the devil. He says in the book "Epistle to the Apostle" that he vehemently bent Page and the group had sold their souls to Satan.
group has said that
the groupies, who wouldn't
allow their names to be used, said
Jones' refusal to use the group's
Well, that's all interesting speculation. Sure, the group used symbols and referred to magic and the occult in their music. But Page doesn't have his say in this book, so I can't buy the fact that he was the sorcerer's apprentice.
pact with the devil brought the group bad luck, including the deaths of Bonham and Plant's son.
For instance, in the book Davis tells of Page's thoughts on the group's first jam session: "Four of us got together in this room and started playing. Then we knew. We started laughing from relief or from the knowledge that we could groove together."
But I think most people who grew up with and still listen to Led Zeppelin and their music will read this for the fun of it, listening to the band, and it informs the reader about the creative musical process.
If you don't like the band and want another reason to hate them, read this book. It contains enough graphic accounts of decadence to turn your stomach and make you yearn for your Air Supply albums.
Whatever the shortcomings, the book capsules the British music scene of the 1960s, a vibrant time when sparkled and blinked out ill starry.
It is ridiculous to take Davis' word as gospel. He doesn't include the surviving band members' opinions on the issue of black magic. Instead, he bashes his hints of Page's magical dabblings on nameless testimonies, newspaper articles and magazine accounts.
groove together.
I enjoyed reading about how a supergroup like Zeppelin put it all together. But that's all I'm buying.
You'll enjoy this book if wishing Chage, Plant and Jones play "Whola Lotta Love" and "Stairway to Heaven" on the Live! screen. Then send your shivers up your spine, for what in and what should ever be.
Rumor of Kansas skiing once true
By Theresa Scott
By Theresa Scott Kansan Magazine writer
There have been whispers on campus about it for years, but not many people know anything about it. Many doubt that it ever even existed.
These doubters can't be blamed for not believing the rumors.
Downhill snow skiing in Kansas seems improbable, but before 1980 Lawrence had what could have been one of the finest ski areas in the Midwest, a former owner and manager of the resort said recently.
Kansan Magazine
blue Mount. a 230-foot peak five miles southeast of Lawrence, is the highest point in Kansas. The mount's north face was developed into the Mount Blue ski resort in 1955. The slopes, which were opened in 1900, feature a snowy ground and augmenting system used to augment the winter weather.
In its hiyad, the resort had a T-bar rope tow, a ski school taught by a former Czech Olympian, a ski shop, snack店 and a fireside lounge. It had a 140-foot advanced skiing course, 250 foot training slope, Mt. Blue at 250 feet and 400 people on snow weekends and even had its own telephone number for snow reports.
patrick Rapp, who owned and managed Mt. Blue during its last year, said the economy and the weather caused the demise of the ski resort.
Rapp said climate patterns in Kansas had changed during the last few years so winters were not strong enough for good skiing and for him to earn a profit.
resist.
He closed it during the recession because of high interest rates. "Rapp said, 'Also, there was not much snow. I'll never open it again.'"
earn a profit.
"The slope has to be opened about three to three and a half months for a profit," he said.
prep.
The last year that the slopes were open, skiing was possible for only four weeks, he said. He had intended to keep the runs open 24-hours a day, but the weather and economy made this impossible—of all other country skiing when there was not enough snow for downhill skiing.
onWood! He said the ski slope wouldn't be too expensive because it would be too expensive to repair the lodge and the artificial snow-making machines.
but not start an airplane. Happ said anyone running a ski resort in Kansas would have to be a "true farmer" because he would have to rely on the climate for good business.
"The pipes are still there," he said.
"And there are three ponds to make snow from, but they're obsolete and outdated. You would have to rip them out and start all over again."
Cold temperatures on the weekend were needed to make the tons of man-made snow covering the slopes. To make artificial snow, below-freezing weather is a must, especially when weeksend when most people skied. However, artificial雪we were too keen to make enough artificial snow, Rapp said.
When the weather and the market no longer made skiing a profitable business, Rapp said, he got out.
business, HAPPY
Arley Allen, Lawrence native and
manager and general manager of Allen Press, 1041 New Hampshire St. said he had skied at Mt. Blue many times since it first opened in 1965.
Colorado.
"It was a great place for skiing on weekends to get ready for Colorado."
Allen said. "It's a good place for those who had never skied to get used to it and for those who hadn't skied in
"It was great," Allen said. "I have skied in Colorado and they are not comparable at all. It's a totally different situation. Kansas is not Colorado."
a while to get their legs under them"
"Everybody that came out really enjoyed it," he said. "But the climate wouldn't allow it."
beginner,
"It was also a nice way to get out doors in winter instead of being huddled around a TV all the time."
a white to get their legs under.
In 1970 it was reported that 75 percent of the skiers on the hill were beginners.
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