KANSAN
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
Wednesday October 15, 1980 Vol. 91, No. $3\%$ USPS 650-640
ROBERT POOLE/Kansan staff
ROBERT POOLERKRASSKAN
Kerry Brundt, Paola sophomore, works on a homecoming float for the Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity and the Delta Delta Epsilon sorority. The float will be part of the homecoming parade, which begins at 1:30 p.m. Friday. The parade will start at the Chi Omega fountain and proceed along Jawhay Boulevard.
Robinson rules upset patrons
--an unenforced old policy and anunapproved new policy at Robinson Gymnasium have students and faculty and staff members confused.
By CINDI CURRIE Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
The old policy required everyone entering the building to show a valid KU ID to use the facility.
The new policy will allow members of faculty, staff and student families to use the facilities on certain days, but only after purchasing a family plan.
But this policy has been causing problems because it was put into effect before being applied.
The old policy came under fire when a volleyball team, consisting mostly of Watson Library staff members, was refused entrance of the players did not have valid KU IDs with them.
Kendall Simmons, Watson Library stack supervisor, said she wrote a letter to Tom Wilkerson, director of recreational services at Robinson, protesting the policy.
In the letter, she objected to faculty and staff not being notified of the policy, to guests not being admitted to watch the game and that the students were building with tax dollars, was denied access to it.
In response to the letter, which was signed by 13 library staff members, Wilkerson wrote that the KUID law had been in effect for more than 50 years and that students had requested the closed policy.
Students had requested it because they thought there were too many students from Lawrence High School and other areas using KU's facilities, Wilkerson said.
However, he said, the policy was not always strictly enforced.
He said that until this year the building had not
see ROBINSON page 5
Anthropology professor files slander suit for $1.5 million
By ROB MCNEELY
and RAY FORMANEK
Staff Reporters
A KU anthropology professor filed a $1.15 million slander suit Monday in Douglas County District Court against two KU doctor cancels and filed a complaint against him in January 1977.
The professor, Michael Crawford, charged in the suit that Liz Murray, 29, doctor candidate in genetics, and Nancy Sempolski, 48, doctor candidate in anthropology, along with five other defendants, slandered him with complaints about his professional ethics.
"I've been instructed by my lawyer not to comment on the case until the litigation is over."
Crawford refused to comment on the suit yesterday.
THE LAWSUIT CHARGED that the defendants "combined to hinder and harass the plaintiff in the conduct of his profession, to diminish his earning capacity, to injure his personal reputation and to inflict him with intense mental distress."
The lawsuit stems from a complaint in January 1977 by Murray and Sempoliaki. The case was dismissed.
research methods on human subjects and that he misappropriated federal grant funds.
The 1977 complaint led to several investigations into Crawford's research techniques used on a federally funded research project in Belize, formerly the British Honduras. Two of the investigations still are being conducted.
CRAWFORD SPENT about six weeks in 1976 in Belize leading a group of eight graduate students in nickel cell anemia research. While in the U.S., the group conducted about 1,000 blood samples for genetic research.
Murray and Sempoliis contended that Crawford misled the volunteers who gave blood by allowing them to believe he was a medical doctor.
"He never told the people he was a medical doctor," Murray said last night. "But he never corrected the misunderstanding that he was one either."
Murray said that the donors were sometimes told that they had a genetic disorder when all the tests actually showed was that they had inherited the trait for sickle cell anemia.
In addition to misleading the patients when they participated in the study, Murray said, the researchers also did not obtain proper consent to take the samples.
THE FUNDING ALLEGATIONS center on
Murray's charges that Crawford demanded she return $d of her salary to Crawford for use as a
Murray, an assistant on the field trip, said the fund was used for expenses on the trip.
In addition to the slush fund charges, Murray and Sempoliis charge that Crawford missed federal funds when he used money from another grant for the Belize study.
Murray's and Sempoliakis' charges are being investigated by two branches of the National Court.
The misuse of funds charges are being investigated by the NIH office of Management, Survey and Review. The NIH Office for Protection from Research Risk is investigating the allegations that Crawford misrepresented himself and misled the donors.
Previous investigations by university and professional ethics committees and the U.S. attorney's office have proven inconclusive. Although reports by the American Anthropological Association and the Advisory Committee on Human Experimentation ruled that no violation occurred, a report by James Hicks of the U.S. Department suggested that the now defunct Department of Health, Education and Welfare consider taking administrative action against Crawford.
See LAWSUIT page 3
By ARNE GREEN
expected from football
Staff Reporter
The KU athletic department expects football projections to coordinate a financial release request.
Susan Wachter, athletic business manager, told the University of Kansas Athletic Corporation board last night that low ticket sales use the projected loss in football revenue.
Budget problems last winter caused $84,000 to be cut from non-revenue producing sports. But Wachter said that the projected loss probably would only cause cash flow problems.
Football revenue, which initially was expected to be $1.3 million, is one of the main financial supports for non-revenue sports such as tennis, basketball and soccer. Other KU sport that makes money. Other income sources are the Big Eight Conference, which shares revenue from football bowl games and television appearances, and the Williams Fund, which provides KU's athletic scholarships.
*Football revenue is the only income item estimated for the rest of the year, and that amount was $72 million.*
JOHN NOVOTY, director of the Williams Fund, and the licked drive this year, despite the patrols and traffic violations.
"In student season ticket sales we stopped a decline since 1976," Novotny said. "Student season tickets for 1979 were right at 7,100 and for 1980 they were right at 7,200."
last season's 32,000 a game average, Novotny said. But total revenue will be down because there are five games this season, one fewer than the year. In 1981, KU will have seven home games.
Novotny said that a winning fobball team was necessary if $2,000-sean Memorial stadium was vacant.
"Winning is the key," he said. "This year we played up the recruiting year and last year the new coach. We need something else to take place now."
Football attendance should be up slightly from
BOB MARCUM, athletic director, said he thought the department had done a good job of marketing the football program, but he expressed concern over revenue-producing sports.
"I think people interested in revenue sports need to show their concern," he said.
Critics of intercollegiate sports claim that too much money has been spent on these sports, but Marcum said that revenue sports had been cutting back since 1971.
He said that the number of football players on scholarship in the Big Eight Conference was down more than 30 percent, and that football and coaching staffs had been cut up to 50 percent.
Acting Chancellor Del Shankel also expressed concern over athletic funding in his comments to the Senate.
"Anyone involved with intercollegiate athletics has to admit that the problems are immense," he said. "The problems with funding intercollegiate athletics are exceptionally serious."
"Even schools like the University of Michigan with 100,000 seats filled for football games have a lot of work to do."
SHANKEL RECENTLY attended a National Collegiate Athletic Association meeting of 30 executive officers from NCAA Division I-A schools.
The group heard a report by a special committee on NCAA governance, which has long dealt exclusively with men's sports. The report primarily addressed the question of whether the NCAA should sponsor championships for women in Division I-A schools. For the first time this year, the NCAA is sponsoring women's championships for Division II and III schools.
The Association of Intercollegiate Athletics for Women, the main governing body of women's sports, is against the NCAA moving into women's athletics.
THE ISSUE probably will be considered at the NCAA's convention in January, Shankel said.
Marcum said that legislation to lower the minimum number of sports required for a university to keep its NCAA Division I-A status would be introduced at the January convention.
Many athletic directors have said that unless the minimum was lowered universities would be forced to use fewer players.
Regents board selection criticized by candidate
"Unless we receive funds elsewhere, I foresee us returning to athletics around the country," Marcus Clementi said.
At the close of the KUAC meeting, Evelyn Swartz, a board member, asked about KU's policy of giving some administrators free passes to home football games.
Shankel said that for as long as he could remember 44 seats on the west side of the stadium had been reserved for visiting members of history boards and for administrators' guests.
Wint Winter Jr., Republican candidate for the 44th District seat in the state House of Representatives, called last night for a "hard look at the state Board of Regents."
Winter's remarks came at a candidate forum in New York City, Union, sponsored by the KU College Representation.
Republicans Willie Amison Jr., 46th District candidate, Kent Snyder, 45th District candidate, and Jane Eldredge, 2nd District state Senate candidate, all appeared at the forum.
"The Board of Regents, I feel, have fallen down on the job," Winter said. "There seems to be a question as to just who their constituents are."
Winter suggested better screening of Regents candidates to ensure that they "perform their function as advocates of the institutions of higher education and provide technical assistance in an educational system that we can be proud of."
**Winter was most critical of the Regents failure to support classified staff members' salary and benefits.**
Eldride again criticized her Democratic opponent, State Sen. Arnold Berman, for isolating himself from the district, for failing to keep in touch with his constituents.
salary limits last year, higher than what had been proposed by the Board of Regents.
Snyder again attacked State Rep. John Solbach, the Democratic incumbent, for missing three days during his two-year term and failing to vote on important issues.
Winter spoke about the importance of education, as did all the candidates. He listed it as one of his priorities.
"It is a little ambiguous as to whether they'll go to bat for the classified staff," he said.
Amison said that communication with the people he would represent was the most important.
The candidates, who spoke to 10 people, mainly rehbated issues that had been addressed earlier.
All four candidates opposed the self-help amendment to the Landlord-Tenant Act, but all of them were unable to be elected.
Today will be mostly cloudy with overcast skies and a high near 72, according to the KU Weather Service. There is a 50 percent chance of rain. Winds will blow from the southeast about 12 mph.
The low tonight will be 53 under continued cloudy skies.
Tomorrow it will be mostly cloudy with a slight chance of rain. The high should be 70.
DAVE KRAUS/Kansen staff
Jane Eldredge, Republican candidate for 2nd District State Senate seat, waits for the audience to arrive for a candidate's forum last night at the Kansas Union. The forum, sponsored by the KU College Republicans, attracted only 10 spectators.