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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
MONDAY, SEPT. 9, 1980, VOL. 9, NO. 11 (USPS 650-640)
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Players awaiting decision
Group to meet, may decide fate of team members
By Kansan reporters
Petitions from some of the eight football players held out of the season opening game against Hawaii for academic reasons may be on the agenda when the Committee on Undergraduate Studies and Advising meets tomorrow morning.
The committee, which reviews student petitions for grade changes and other matters concerning College of Liberal Arts and Science classes, will conduct its regular bimonthly meeting at 10 a.m.
The eight players are running backs Lynn Williams and Robert Mimbs, guard Doug Certain, defensive tackle Gug Gamble, linemakers Warren Shields and defensive backs Alvin Walton and Marvin Mattx.
Eligibility problems for four of the players are thought to be covered under the NCAA's new satisfactory progress rule, which requires students entering a fifth semester to declare a major and pass 24 credit hours in a year toward that major
Robert Lineberry, dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, said players covered by the satisfactory progress rule could present their case to the committee.
"If the players are academically ineligible, it's a cut and dried issue." Lineberry said. "The second issue of normal progress is confusing perhaps because it's new. The student would be ineligible unless the committee would decide whether a course would count (toward progress). That doesn't happen very often."
"We get several hundred petitions a year, and I don't see them personally." Lineberry said.
Lineberry said the players would have to write out and file petitions with the committee. He said last night that he knew of no petitions having been filed by football players, accused by hundred petitions.
Gordon Wiseman, chairman of the committee and associate chairman of physics and astronomy, said he did not know whether any petitioners from football players would be considered at the meeting, which would be closed to the public. He also said the committee was the final authority on such petitions.
Gil DYck, dean of educational services and the KU official in charge of certifying the players as eligible, said last week that the eight football players who were held out would not be eligible this season.
Doug Vance, sports information director, said the Athletic Department had no comment.
"I think the bottom line is all have not passed 24 hours," Deyk said. "I we've from day one this is what it is. Nothing is going to change it."
Gary Hunter, assistant athletic director, said he hoped Dyck was being premature in his comments.
The Associated Press supplied some information for this story.
Block's speech upsets farmers
By Mike Snider Of the Kansan staff
HUTCHINSON — Farmers who took the day off Saturday to attend the Kansas State Fair hoped to hear good news from Agriculture Secretary John R. Block, but found little hope in his remarks.
Leonard and Norma Blake,
Larned, were among about 30
protestors carrying signs at
Block's speech.
"We aren't activists," Norma Blake said. "We've never done anything like this before in our life. But we (farmers) are being phased out one by one."
Speaking to about 900 people at the Farm Bureau Arena, Block said that the federal government should decrease its role in agriculture to ensure that U.S. agriculture could compete in the global market.
"Farmers and rural people are the heart and soul of the United States of America and it makes my heart bleed to see this industry in the turmoil and trouble that it is," said Block, the first agriculture secretary ever to speak at the fair. "But we need to chart a course to get out of it, not a course that'll throw us deeper into it."
Also at the fair, Gov. John Carlin, Sen. Nancy Landon Kassebaum, R-Kan., and Attorney General Robert Stephen answered questions and listened to farmers' views on national issues such as the 1986 Farm Bill and the federal budget deficit.
Government subsidies and farm loan rates result in American farmers becoming too dependent on the government, Block said. All interest groups need to accept spending reductions so that the federal deficit can be reduced and interest rates can be lowered, he said.
Occasionally, members of the crowd boored or shouted after some of Block's comments.
Block said that President Reagan was committed to farmers because the government had gotten farmers into trouble and the government was obligated to help them out of it gradually.
He said the government planned to spend the same amount on agriculture programs in the next three years as was allowed in the 1985 budget. But the budget
amount must be gradually reduced, Block said. Several people in the crowd answered that statement with boos.
I. J. Stoneback, Route 6, Lawrence, a farmer who said that he had been losing money for five years before he entered interest rates, differed with Block
Byron Bell, a farmer from Lincoln, Kan. said, "We're doing the whole world and they're not doing anything. If we were a corporation, like GM or Chrysler, the government would step in."
"Why would getting out of agriculture be any different now than in the Hoover administration?" Stoneback said. "It didn't work then and it won't work now."
Bell, a graduate of Kansas State University and a seventh grade teacher at Tescott Junior High School, said he and his wife made $50,000 a year as teachers in addition to their farming. Yet they still can't make ends meet.
"It's not because I'm inefficient," he said. "Our personal expenses are practically nil."
Bell said he was not sure what could be done about the crisis on U.S. farms.
"Some sort of bail out is needed," he said. "Lower interest rates are needed. Everyone that we borrow from is raising the interest rates and the price of our land is dropping. It can't be sold."
Block said that Congress would return this week from its summer recess, bringing the pain of their constituent farmers with them. But, he said, the question is: "What do we do?"
Kassebaum, who was at the fair talking to other fair visitors, said Congress would pass legislation that would help farmers for a few years.
The people that Kassebaum talked with in the crowd seemed discouraged that Block wasn't more specific on how Washington would deal with farmers' problems, she said.
Farmers have significant problems and these set off a "ripple effect" of other problems that affect the entire country, Kassebaum said.
Agriculture problems increased this week when Donald E. Wilkinson, head of the regulatory body that oversees the Farm
See FARM, p. 5, col. 3
Suzy Mast/KANSAN
HUTCHINSON—I. J. Stoneback, Route 6, Lawrence, discussed Agriculture Secretary John R. Block's speech on farm issues with Sen. Nancy Landon Kassabwe, R.Kan., on Saturday at the Kansas State Fair.
Schools cool rivalry at fair
By Mike Snider Of the Kansan staff
HUTCHINSON — The mercury reached 103 degrees here Saturday. But that didn't scare off the more than 44,000 people who attended the Kansas State Fair to ride rides, test their skill at games
Monday Morning
along the midway, listen to Willie Nelson & Family or catch a glimpse of some of Kansas' best agricultural products.
A. J. Yarmat, associate vice chancellor for academic affairs at the College of Health Sciences, and his wife, Sonya, represented the University of Kansas at the fair for the ninth straight year. This is the third year that KU and Kansas State University departments have jointly operated an exhibit at the pair.
"It's fun to be with our friends from KU and K-State," Mr.
Yarmat said, "I enjoy meeting parents of students who come by and tell us of the good work going on at the school.
"It seems more fun since we've cooperated with K-State. It's almost like a summer camp. We hate to leave at the end."
Norma Ross, research and planning specialist for university relations at K-State, said that until three years ago, the schools operated separate booths that were in the same vicinity.
"We realized we can and should work together," she said. "Our schools can battle it out on the football field."
The booth gives prospective students a chance to talk to representatives from both universities. Ross said.
"A lot of times professors don't get to visit with a student except as an adviser," Ross said. "We try not to make the booth a recruiting situation."
The booth shows student projects from the two schools. KU projects on Saturday included an
exhibit of non-poisonous snakes from the Museum of Natural History.
K-State exhibits include a cancer quiz and an informative display on the Konza Prairie Research Natural Area in the Flint Hills. Other K-State exhibits that will be shown during the fair include tightrope-walking rats and a roving robot that sings the KU and K-State fight songs.
"We try to get exhibits that are crowd stoppers." Ross said.
Mementos and schedules from the schools and bags from the bookstores are the most popular souvenirs that the booth gives out, Mr. Yarmat said.
Mr. Yarmat said more KU fans than K-State fans came by the booth.
"Mere numbers gives KU the edge," Mr. Yarmat said. But both sides are equally passionate about their schools. Mrs. Yarmat said that once, a Wildcat fan approached her, asked her for a KU bag and then ripped it up in front of her.
Thai soliders beat back attempted coup
United Press International
BANGKOK Thailand — Rebel tank commanders who spearheaded an attack on the nation's military headquarters surrendered to loyalist forces today, ending a coup attempt engineered by a former prime minister, the government said.
The surrender came about 12 hours after the tank-backed rebellion began.
At least two people, including an NBC News reporter, were killed and eight wounded before a dozen rebel
Thai national television, controlled by the government, said the rebellion was over and warned national and provincial officials and citizens to listen only to official broadcasts.
ank commanders who spearheaded the uprising complied with Prime Minister Gen. Prem Tinsulanonda's order to lay down their weapons, officials said.
The surrender of the tank commanders came shortly after a 3 p.m. deadline set by Prem before he left Indonesia to return to Bangkok. Prem was in Jarkata for foreign
The surrender of the tank crews followed a government announcement that former Prime Minister Gen. Kriangsak Chomanan, who reportedly masterminded the coup attempt, had surrendered.
policy talks when the coup began at dawn.
Television showed the soldiers laying down their arms and later shots of civilians milling around the empty tanks.
Shortly after the surrender deadline imposed by Prem, a Thai military officer was seen going from
tank to tank along rebel lines near Parliament and speaking to the tank commanders.
Moments later, the tank crewman, their eyes bloodshot, unloaded their weapons and trooped into the nearby Supreme Command military headquarters.
Loylist troops were seen moving slowly up the street toward the Parliament building.
The Thai royal family was at its summer retreat in southern Thailand
Teinchai told a news conference Krianskias was behind the rebellion.
military commander in chief, said Col. Manon Roopkachorn, leader of an unsuccessful coup attempt in 1981, was the field commander, and that Gern. Serm Na Nakorm, former military supreme commander, was "forced" to join the attempt.
Teinchai Sirisamphan, acting
Kriangsak, forced out of office in 1979 when he lost a confidence vote in Parliament, is head of the Social Democratic Party, the fourth and smallest faction of the coalition government headed by Prem.
Chairman for SenEx quits post
Robert J. Friauf, professor of physics and astronomy, resigned as chairman of the University Senate Executive Committee at its weekly meeting last Thursday.
The announcement was made by the presiding officer of the University Council, Arno Knapper.
Friufi said yesterday that he resigned because of "personal reasons" and would not comment further. He was not at the meeting.
Switzerland.
Friauf was arrested on charges of lewd and lascivious behavior Aug. 25 when several witnesses saw him sitting naked between two cars on the sun block of Harvard Road.
2016. 04.28. The hearing has been moved from Douglas County District Court to Lawrence Municipal Court. No court date has been set.
Knapper said a new Chairman would be given the authority of one of his meetings Thursday.
John Lachfiter/KANSAN
Swimming hole
Finding a way to beat the heat and story at the same time. John Carter, Parkville, Mo., senior, spent Sunday afternoon reading in a yard pool in the shade of his front yard. See story, page 3.
Foreign students face difficulties with I.D.s
By Kady McMaster Of the Kansan staff
But some businesses in Lawrence practice strict policies regarding the forms of identification they will accept when a foreign student tries to cash a check, get into a tavern or private club.
Foreign students often have enough problems adjusting to new cultures, climates and customs when they come to the University of Kansas, without having to worry about cashing a check.
"**The people in the stores usually fetch their manager and I end up having a long, persuasive monologue with them. There is always a big deal**
"I have no problem cashing a check at the bookstore." Bess Frimodig, Malmo, Sweden, sophomore, said yesterday. "But the minute I step into a store that has a larger clientele, the problems start. When I tell them I don't have a driver's license, they look at me like I'm retarded.
and it annoys me. I don't like to drag my passport around."
Frimodig's international student I.D. isn't always accepted as valid identification.
"It's just a piece of paper, so it would be easy to forget," she said.
Some businesses have check-cashing guidelines that cause problems for foreigners.
Nina Ahl, Upplands Vasyb,
Sweden, freshman, said she tried to
cash a local check at Dillon's
Grocery Store, 1740 Massachusetts
St, last week. She presented her KU
LD, card, Sweden driver's license,
passport and international LD., but
she still couldn't cash her check.
Steve Cassity, a cashier at Dillon's, said that because the store had a problem with checks be returned for insufficient funds, it only accepted drivers' licenses or L.D. cards from within the United States.
"We carry quite a load of returned checks," Cassity said. "In order to have any kind of case against them." See IDENTIFY, p. 5, col. I