The University Daily
KANSAN
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
Tuesday, November 25, 1980
Vol. 19, No. 66 USPS 650-640
Bill "Killer" McLeanan, Salem, N.H., sophomore, gawks at live mannequin Diane Doyle, Shawnee junior, in the window of the Jayhawk Bookstore, 1420 Crescent Road. Members of the Mega Kappa sapper modeled KU outfits for 15-minute shifts in the store's windows afternoon.
Italian quake death toll exceeds 1,000
By United Press International
NAPLES, Italy—The death toll in Italy's devastating earthquake soared past 1,000 yesterday, and more than 2,500 missing people were feared dead in the shattered towns and villages where new aftershocks hampered rescue workers searching for bodies.
The Interior Ministry said 100 or more cities and villages were hit by the earthquake.
inner ministry officials in Rome confirmed that at least 1,012 bodies had been pulled from the rubble by last night. Thousands of people were injured.
"We've asked the authorities to send us 500 coffins," said a city worker in the village of Laviano. "Whole families are missing, and they're all under the debris."
Almost all of Laviano's victims are believed to
be women. Most of the town's men work in West Germany and northern Italy.
THE OBSERVATORY on the slopes of the Vesuvius volcano, near Naples, reported about 100 aftershocks Sunday night and Monday after the first tremor. The initial shock registered between 6.5 and 6.8 on the Richter scale. Any amount of damage could more than 6 on the scale can destroy buildings.
The earthquake was the most powerful one to hit southern Italy since the turn of the century, and it threatened to exceed the death toll of a 1930 mike east of Naples that killed 1,425.
Worse hit were the southern provinces of
Mexico, the Guatemala and Salarón, with a
owned nomination.
At an emergency cabinet meeting, Prime Minister Arnaldo Forlani declared a "state of natural calamity" and ordered a day of national mourning.
Thousands of tents and blankets were sent to the strenken areas to house tens of thousands of people who were spending a second night in fields and city squares. They feared another major shock such as the one that occurred after the last major Italian earthquake in 1976, when 1,000 people were killed in the northeastern Friuli region.
ON THE HEELS of devastation in Italy's most poverty-ridden areas came the dangers of disease and epidemic. Water supplies were cut or rendered dangerous in many places, including Naples, where part of the ancient aqueduct was destroyed.
Pope John Paul II sent messages to the archbishops of Naples and Potenza that expressed to victims his "deep grief and participation in their unspeakable sufferings." He announced he would fly by helicopter to the disaster area to pray with the survivors.
Campus activity to slow during break
Thanksgiving vacation begins after tonight's classes. Classes will resume Monday.
All University libraries except the law school library will be closed Thursday and Saturday during break and will be open from 8 a.m. until 10 p.m. The law school libraries will return to normal hours on Sunday.
The law library will be closed Thursday and Friday but will be open tomorrow from 7:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. Friday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday frx. m11 a.m. to midnight.
University residence halls will close officially for the vacation at 9 a.m. tomorrow. McColum Hall will remain open during the break. Students wishing to stay in McColum halls may enroll in the program of residential programs, 123 Strong Hall. The residence halls will reopen on eon Sunday, Nov. 30.
The Kansas Union will be open tomorrow from
Friday, Saturday and Sunday to be closed Thursday,
Friday, Saturday and Sundays.
The Museum of Natural History also will be closed Thursday. Tomorrow and Saturday, the museum will be open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. On Friday and Saturday, the museum will stay open
The Satellite Union will be closed tomorrow through Sunday.
The Helen Foresman Spence Museum of Art will be closed Thursday but will open from 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. tomorrow. Friday, October 26. On Sunday, the art museum will be open from 1 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICES for the
Administration of the
programming will be closed Thursday and Friday.
ROBINSON GYMNAISUM'L pool will stay open from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. tomorrow, but will close Thursday, Friday and Saturday, opening as usual on Sunday. The Robinson gym will be open regular hours, 5 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. Wednesday. On Thursday and Friday, the gym will be closed until closing regular hours on Saturday. On Sunday, the gym will be open from 1 p.m. to 10:30 p.m.
Starting tomorrow, the campus bus system will stop running. Service will resume Monday morning.
According to KU Parking Services, only the parked blue parking zones will be enforced during brush.
The KU Information Service will remain open over Thanksgiving for additional information.
City threatens to evict woodworking business
The city of Lawrence filed an eviction notice in Douglas County District Court yesterday afternoon against Bryan Anderson, the former owner of a building at 600 Massachusetts St. and another at its woodworking business in the building more than 10 days after he was to have left the building.
he was to move yet the outbuilding.
Anderson has been renting the building from
theince since it was condemned last year and
was supposed to have moved his belongings out
be on Nov. 15.
In a letter delivered to Anderson Wednesday, the letter said it was an eviction. The letter did not specify an eviction date.
Anderson will have 10 days to file a protest to the eviction notice. A judge then will decide whether Anderson should be forced to leave the county and may ask the Douglas County sheriff to evict him.
Anderson could be evicted three days after he is notified of the judge's decision.
Anderson said he would discuss the case with his attorneys tomorrow and file the protest.
CITY MANAGER Buford Watson said that he hoped Anderson would move out at the threat of eviction but that the city would evict him if he didn't.
"We hope that won't be necessary," Watson said.
The city has been fighting with Anderson over the building since it was condemned in January to make room for a 25-space parking lot for City Hall.
Court-appointed appraisers awarded Anderson $102,000 for the building this summer.
Anderson said he was trying to delay the building's demolition until the State Court of Appeals in Topeka decided whether the conderation was just.
Anderson said he probably would move if the court decided he should be evicted.
"I might just wait until they throw me out," he said.
No one signed the petition.
IN AN EFFORT to prove public opposition to demolishing the building, a group of Anderson's supporters circulated a petition supporting the commission's decision. It was circulated at a meeting last night at the Lawrence Public Library.
"It's admittedly a stunt to show that the city commission doesn't have any support for what it's trying to do," Richard Kersenbaum, a member of the group, said. "I haven't heard anyone defend the city's position. The closest they've come was somebody saying, 'Well, maybe they've backed themselves into a corner,'."
The group also had a petition supporting an ordinance to keep the city from demolishing downtown buildings without a comprehensive redevelopment plan.
Kersenhain estimated that more than 1,000 signatures were signed the petition. About 1,000 signatures are required for the petition.
Kerabenhaum said some had suggested occupying the building "as a last resort" to stop the
Memories of colonists' thanks expressed in convenient meal
When KU student go home for Thanksgiving, we can put them on at a table laden with steaming platters of food.
In some homes, the platters will bulge with instant stuffing, instant mashed potatoes and self-basting meat. The meals will end with hot pumpkin pie and cold, non-dairy whipped top-
Turkey also was served at the first Thanksgiving in 1621, but if today's dinners were completely faithful to tradition, side dishes like bass, codfish, carp corn and fresh deer meat.
Non-dairy whipped topping? It was unknown in the wintry, barren Plymouth colony, and the wild turkeys that were killed for the occasion were a bad-tempered, tough-muscled lot.
They probably were well-known. According to a letter one pilgrim sent home 300 years ago, the first Thanksgiving was proclaimed by William Bradford, governor of
the colony, to celebrate the pilgrims' successful harvest.
"Our harvest being gotten in, our Governor sent four men on fowling, that so we might, after a more special manner, rejoice together after we have gathered the fruit of our labours," the letter said.
AN INDIAN tribe helped with the hunt, and the celebration that followed lasted three days, said Stitt Robinson. KU professor of history.
"It wasn't a single dinner," he said. "This was a three-day affair."
The exact date of the first Thanksgiving is not unclear, he said, but records place it during the early 1600s.
In the winter of 1621, the people of Plymouth were tired. Extreme heat and cold had plagued their crops, and almost half of the original 102 pilgrims suffered disease or exposure.
See THANKSGIVING page 5
2 of 7 complaints resolved
The final Student Senate seat has been decided, and two of the seven complaints filed during the elections have been withdrawn. The last time a student Senate Elections subcommittee, said yesterday,
Viveros said that Tim Trump, an Impact Coalition candidate, won the law school seat with 16 votes. Ten write-in candidates received a total of 17 votes.
The results came in later than the others because the law school ballots were misplaced after they were taken to the Kansas Union where the counting was done, Viveros said.
The ballots were found and counted early Friday morning, he said.
Two election complaints, one by David Henry, unsuccessful independent candidate for a liberal arts and sciences seat, and the other by Christopher Mehl, election day coordinator for Impact, were withdrawn yesterday, Viveros said.
Henry had charged that members of Impact took down copies of a letter Henry and four
other students had co-signed. The letter endorsed unsuccessful candidates Larry Metzger and Kristy Kossover of the Spectrum Coalition for student body president and vice president.
Henry, in dropping his complaint, said he wanted to "bury the hatchet," Viveros said, and did not want to cause bad feelings because the elections were over.
Mehl's complaint on behalf of the Impact Coalition was against the Elections subcommittee for bringing the ballot boxes to the nighttime nooning places late.
Viveros said the complaint was made because Impact leaders thought their supporters might not have had a chance to vote. The complaint was no longer pertinent, he said.
Viveros said he was pleased with the turnout and with the way all the candidates conducted
He said the remainder of the complaints dealt with until after Thanksgiving vaccine.
Football's dollars bring life into athletic program
Staff Reporter
By ARNE GREEN
For the schools with good football programs, it means the income necessary to build lavish new facilities and to pour money into non-revenue streams. For the schools that mean tightening the old athletic department belt.
Not many universities have top-ranked football teams, but one thing is certain. Every school wants one.
Bob Devanyan, athletic director at the football
league, said he acknowledged the
advantage of a solid football program.
Devaney should know. Nebraska's football team always fills its 76,000-seat stadium for home games, and the rewards have been numerous. In the last few years, Devaney has won three titles for basketball, a new natatorium for swimming and an indoor track with its football income.
"In order to carry on a number of other sports programs, I think it important." Deviney said.
THE UNIVERSITY of Kansas not only was unable to expand, but it also had to cut back. Last year, Bob Marcum, athletic director, dropped men's and women's gymnastics because of economic problems. This year all the men's non-revenue sports took budget cuts.
But at schools that lack the football tradition of a Nebraska or Oklahoma, the athletic directors can only dream about expanding their athletic programs.
Still, the football budget expanded and Marcum remains convinced that football is the only way to get the athletic department back on flaggerically solid ground.
"Without football, the athletic program couldn't survive," he said. "I look at the impact it has. A major part of the money we receive from the Rip Eight television corner goes from football.
The Williams Educational Fund is made up of private contributions and is used to pay for the education of students.
"And why do people give money to the Williams Fund? Football."
Susan Wachter, athletic business manager, agreed that football was the key.
"It's very important," she said. "Football is the main revenue producer. It is the revenue produced by football that enables other sports to exist."
THIS YEAR'S University of Kansas Athletic Corporation budget reflects the department's thinking. Football expenditures for 1980-81 are expected to be $1,366,253, a substantial increase from last year's budget. The university has three times that of men's basketball, the only other revenue sport.
The athletic department thinks the big numbers for football are justified, however.
"The more successful the football program
the better off, others should be." *Wangterreid* said
"The more successful the basketball program the better off other sports," Ward said. With 103 boys and 57 girls, the football program is measured by the amount of money received at the state. KU has not yet arrived.
Although the football team was expected to net $1,322,300 at the ticket window, Wachter told the KU athletic board in October that a new estimate of the figure at $1,282,300, $50,000 less than budgeted.
Marcum thinks the football program must win to make money.
"I don't think people come to watch you play," he said. "They come to watch you win."
ONEWAY TO win more games, Marcum said, to schedule a little easier non-conference schedule.
"It is best to schedule a mixture when your conference is very strong," he said. "I don't see where it would be our advantage to schedule strong teams for our non-conference games."
"This year we had the 10th toughest schedule in the country. Of the top 10 teams, only two had a winning record. Over the past 10 years, we have had the only time their schedule was the toughest."
"If I could, I would prefer to play a Big Ten team and maybe an academy pretty much on our
"I would like to see it because we play in the Big Eight and it's such a tough conference," he said. "I'd like to play one ranked team and maybe three not in that category."
Don Fambrough, KU football coach, agreed the lighter non-fundamental schedule could help
See FOOTBALL page 5
Weather
It will be clear to partly cloudy today, with a high of 5 or 40, according to the National Weather Service in Topeka. Winds will be mostly at 3-5 mph. It will be mostly cloudy tonight, with a low in the teens.
Tomorrow will be mostly cloudy, and the high will be in the low- to mid-40s.
Thanksgiving Day will be partly cloudy, with a high in the 40s.