The University Daily
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
KANSAN
Thursday, October 16, 1980 Vol. 91, No.39 USPS 650-640
Board rejects Wood Creek bus proposal
By DIANE SWANSON Staff Reporter
Bus service will not be restored to Wood Creek Apartments residents this school year, despite a petition from 60 residents requesting the service, the city's transportation Senate Transportation Board, said yesterday.
Wood Creek, 255 N. Michigan St., had bus service for a year before the board voted last spring to reroute several buses, eliminating service to the apartment complex.
MCMURRY SAID that the board, which governs the "KU on Wheels" program, had examined all options and had been unable to find a solution. The board canceled service to Wood Creek this school year.
"We again went through the pros and cons of adding the service and went through our budget. Although we found ways it could be done, the business didn't find ways to do it financially," he said.
"KU on Wheels?" budget is estimated a year in advance. Revenue comes from student fees, bus fares and commuting costs.
The program is operating on a $466,000 budget this year, Mr. Murphy said, and the only way to get additional income to run another route in the county is through the $3 passes. Such an increase would require Senate approval. Alan Wells, Hutchinson junior and Wood Creek resident, said he and his wife were disappointed and angry at the board's presentation presented the petition to the board last month.
"I don't know what red tape they have to go through," Wells said, "but I just don't think they've done anything. They just didn't give us a fair chance."
Wells said he signed his lease at Wood Creek after being told there would be bus service. The information apparently was given to him by the management manager and by the Senate office, he said.
McMurry said he did not understand why some residents had been told there would be bus service. He said he informed both the Wood and Riverside counties. Senate office personnel of the change in routes.
Wells said he and his wife owned only one car,
and her work schedule and his class schedule come
To run a bus part time, as some Wood Creek residents had suggested, would cost about $12,000. McMurray said, and would not be financially feasible.
ACCORDING TO McMurray, it would cost about $25,000 to run a bus to Wood Creek full time from now until May, based on 10 bus hours a day at $18 a bus hour, or $180 a day.
Several students at Wood Creek recently have found that even car pools are difficult to coordinate.
Running a bus part time also would not be practical, McMurry said, because there would be complaints when the bus service did not coincide with residents' class schedules.
Gina Garner of Chicago and Heid Miller of Hales Corners, WI., graded students and instructors in the course.
GARDNER THIEY THEY tried car pooling with two teacher Wood Creek students but to add the drop
"We all have such divergent schedules," she said. "It just wasn't working out to drive together."
"To make it work economically, we would have to reschedule clients and classes, and no one wants to make that many compromises right now."
Roselle Harris, Chicago graduate student,
don't have a car and she said she wished the car
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Weather
RAIN
Rain and thundershowers will continue today under cloudy skies, according to the KU Weather Servi-
Winds will be from the south and southeast at 15-25 mph, switching to the southwest during the late afternoon. The high will reach 70.
It will be partly cloudy tonight as temperatures drop sharply. No rain is expected as strong southwest winds will blow from the west. The overnight low will be near 47.
The high tomorrow will be in the low 60s under partly cloudy skies.
The extended outlook for the weekend calls for highs in the low 60s and lows in the high 30s to 40s. No rain is expected over the weekend.
A plume of smoke rises above Judy Ransom, Ottawa senior, as she studies calculus yesterday afternoon in the lobby of the Kansas Union.
U.S. investigators question KU staff
By ARNE GREEN Staff Reporter
The Title I X inquiry at the University of Kansas shifted into high gear yesterday as investigators began interviewing University officials and athletic department staff members.
KU's athletic department is under investigation by the Department of Education for alleged violations of Title IX, a 1972 federal law that prohibits sex discrimination in education.
If KU is found not in compliance with Title IX, it does not make any required changes within 90 days. The KU required $272,823.
Investigators from the Department of Education's regional office in Kansas City, Mo., arrived Tuesday morning for a conference with Acting Tenderle Dol Del Shankel; Bob Marcum, athletic director; Vickie Thomas, University general counsel; and others.
The investigators spent the rest of the day touring University athletic facilities, including Memorial Stadium and Allen Field House, Thomas said Tuesday.
THE INVESTIGATORS will look into complaints of alleged discrimination against women filed two years ago by Elizabeth Banks, Anne Levinson, and Anne Lewison, a 1980 KU graduate.
The complaints alleged discrimination in equipment, facilities and availability of practice训
"They (the investigators) probably will interview staff members and students," Thomas said. "Perhaps they will ask for additional documentation."
Thomas said the University had supplied documents and other information to the Kansas Cancer Institute.
Milton Bridgewater, one of the investigators, conducted a similar investigation at KU in 1978. He said yesterday that it was too early for him to determine whether his changes in KU women's athletics since then.
"We can't make any determinations yet," he
we have to wait until we gather all the informa-
The 1978 investigation was the result of Banks and Levinson's complaints.
Bridgewater said the interviews were conducted by the staff both as a group and inthe assassins are given only the names of their victims, he said.
Nothing came of the first investigation, primarily because of confusion about the importance of the study.
"They are sometimes done as a group," he asks, helps if we are looking at a total athletic program.
"Doing individual interviews allows us to get more work done."
THERE ARE SEVEN investigators at KU, Bridgewater said. Six are from the Kansas City, Mo., office, and one is from the national office in Washington, D.C.
Jane Glickman, spokesman for the Department of Education in Washington, said that the representative from the department's national office worked for a bureau but a worker from the Office of Civil Rights.
KU is one of eight schools being investigated by the Department of Education after complaints of discrimination. Another 72 universities have been named for later investigations.
"A person from the national headquarters is assisting with each investigation because they are the first ones being conducted," Glickman said.
Psychology students' missions almost impossible
The University should know the results of the investigation by mid-January. Thomas said.
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Staff Reporter
Steve Bray was sitting in his living room Tuesday drinking beer and thinking about the Royals' chances in the World Series, not his assassins.
Suddenly, two squirt gun-bearing assassins attacked him, then drenched his head to ensure
Bray and about 30 other KU students are part of a psychology project called "Killing for Smoke."
As part of a requirement for Prof. Maynard Shelly's Psychology of Satisfaction class, students have been stalking and evading each other since Oct. 8.
THE PROJECT, which ends tomorrow, is designed to be as realistic as possible, Dave Crawley, the teaching assistant who runs the project, said yesterday.
"Some people are really scared," he said, "They're really taking it to heart."
He said the project made people more tense, more aware of the people around them, more aware of their needs.
"If they can't find their victims, they feel anxious," Crawley said.
That way, students are forced to hunt their
victims. They have to use any resources available and their imaginations, be said.
The ground rules state that students must obtain their own weapons—squirt guns. They must not attempt to kill their victims during the psychology class or when the victim is working. Students may form hit teams to attack their victims.
Crawley said that last year he tracked down his victim's class schedule, followed her to class with him.
IMAGINATION IS tapped to its fullest, considering the schemes for finding victims and killing.
"Two people were shooting it out in the cafeteria in Wescos," Crawley said.
He said students had delivered pizza to houses in attempts to find out who their victims were. Other students have staked out their victims' houses in cars to discover who they are and have tried to brown-nose their friends to gain access to the victims.
Hits are made in other classes, on campus, in homes and, in one case, during a karaate club
"Most of the hit will be Wednesday and
Friday," Crawley said. "Things are getting
nervous."
Bray said he had not changed any of his usual activities since he became a victim because he was not insured.
"I was living my normal life," he said. "I'm at school until 12 or one every morning."
He said he thought his assassins had cheated when they made their hit.
"I was waiting for a book from Crawley, and be brought them alone." be said.
Crawley said the assassins had kidnapped him and forced him to call Bray or face Vaseline, which he did.
"He (Crawley) wagged in a little too soon." Bray said. "They just busted right through the front wall of the house and people in the room. They must have been on the porch for a while so they could figure out who I was."
BUT ACCORDING to one of Bray's assailants,
the killers knew who Bray was before the attack.
"We had class at the Wheel," she said. "Laurie (her partner in crime) went down to the Hawk and shot him."
"I watched to who it was, and that was how I found out what he looked like."
She said that her victim was fairly easy to find, and that she traced him through the old phone numbers.
Bixby's victim, Bop Oppić, was rubbed out when she and Laurie Wiedemann, Overland Park senior, knocked on Oppić's door and shot him after he opened it.
Birby said Bray was difficult to find, so they resorted to kidnapping.
"We kidnapped our TA and dressed up," she said. "I had hose on my head with the legs handing down, a stocking cap with a funny duck on it and a raincoat.
"It was pretty funny. We were laughing all the time."
had, however, that before they decided to kidnap Crawley it was difficult to get information.
"For a while it was really hard," she said. "We couldn't find any information about them. I kind of got frustrated and almost didn't want to do it anymore."
CRAWLEY SAID HE TRIED to help students if they had trouble finding their victims.
"I'll help you a little bit," he said. "I give them some chicks so they don't get too discouraged."
He said, however, that he tried to stay as uninvolved as possible.
The project is an opportunity for students to learn by experience instead of from books, he said.
"The class is based on experience, realizing that things taught on campus are not all books." Crawley said. "It's how we react instead of how a book says we should react.
"You learn a lot about yourself. it's one of the more relaxing classes. It's a chance to look out and reach out to what is around you and to use resources to find what makes you happy."
Crawley said he would conduct another kill in November because there were students who wanted to kill him.
He said the class would discuss the experience and what it was like. He felt as they were either pursuing or being pursued.
Iran-Iraq conflict stirs KU Iranians' concerns
Staff Reporter
By KATHY BRUSSELL Staff Reporter
EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the first of two effects on KU students from those countries and its effects on KU students from those countries.
The eyes of the world are turned toward the Middle East, where the Iran-Iraq conflict is stirring the coals of a traditional hotbed, but others in the region are watching with more interest than others.
The nature of the conflict has left many of the 241 Iranian students unsure about how the fighting will affect them personally and usually about whether to return to Iran to join the army.
Iranian students attending the University of Kansas read daily of the attacks and counte-
"The whole point is that I don't trust the news from the media," Abbas Beza-yazid, Tehran junior, said this week. "When you watch the news, all the films are of Iraq. But no one can get down to the border, so they must get the films from the government."
"Nothing is seen about Iran. Maybe they can't get anything or maybe they don't want to, I don't know. But only one side of the story is being told."
SEVERAL OF THE Iranian students, especially those who have been in the United States for two or more years, sait it was hard for them to now exact what was happening in the fighting.
Because reliable information is hard to obtain, the outcome of the fight cannot be predicted.
He said that a cease-fire would not be agreeable to Iran, but that the border conflict was not the type of war in which one country would completely overtake the other.
Reza-yazdi agreed that the government of Iran would not accept a cease-fire.
"There's no way it will say it will give up all that land," he said. "Iraq says a cease-fire so it can move its own troops and get more land. They want a more stable position."
The tension between Iran and Iraq dates back to the rivalry between the Persian and Ottoman empires. Neither side has ever totally defeated the other, and both now are jockeying for the most prominent position in the Persian Gulf region.
The current fighting intensified in the last week of September when Iraq launched an estimated 50,000 troops against Iran's border. According to some analysts, the conflict may have been triggered by each country's attempt to undermine the other's government.
FIGHTING HAS BEEN most intense along the border and at the northern tip of the Persian Gulf, the site of important oil refineries and shipping ports for both countries.
During the last week, air strikes have been aimed more at northern cities in both Iran and Iraq, including the capital cities of Tehran and Baghdad.
The conflict already has lasted longer than most military experts predicted. Many Iranian
students, however, said they were undecided about burrowing homes to fight in the war, even if it would be costly.
"I really have no idea whether I'll go back and not," said the顾问 Reya-zayad, who supports the current revolutionary government in Iran. "It's kind of like I'm being sorgible or something. I
want to go, but I feel like I don't have a full view of the situation, even if I talk to my mom.
"I go back, I'll lose my visa and won't be
in trouble. I will be trapped there, even if
I survive the war."
Tohidi said that if the Iranian government
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