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Wednesday, October 8, 1980 Vol. 91, No. 33 USPS 650-640
Classified Senate votes to endorse candidates
By CINDI CURRIE Staff Reporter
The Classified Senate voted yesterday to endorse candidates for the Kansas Legislature in the November election.
Jan O'Neill, Classified Senate president, also announced her resignation, effective immediately. O'Neil said she resigned because of personal reasons.
Before the motion was passed, the senators listened to presentations by eight of 10 Douglas County candidates for the state Legislature.
Joseph T. Collins, classified senator, said a new president would be chosen in a few weeks.
The Senate voted to endorse candidates only if a candidate received 80 percent approval of the senators. A small ballot will have to be answered and 27 of 30 voters for a candidate to be endorsed.
"If a candidate we endorse wins in the election, I think the University governance will become more interested in us," Collins said. "This is a pressure point on the administration."
COLLINS SAID the Senate needed to endorse candidates to legitimize the group's standing as a party.
"As a group of employees we have no representation to any Kansas legislators and unless we endure candidates we will have no clout."
He said that a realization by the administration that Classified Senate could use other channels to accomplish its goals was a "pressure point" that could move the administration to recognize the group as part of the University.
However, Collins said he doubted whether the Senate could get an 80 percent endorsement of one candidate for each of the representative districts.
The Senate will vote to endorse candidates
from the 34rd, 44th, 45th and 48th representative districts and the 2nd senatorial district.
THE CANDIDATES for the representative districts are Marlin Joe Hanning, a Democrat, and Davie Miller, a Republican, for the 43rd; and Daniel Shapiro, a Republican, for the 44th; Jr., a Republican, for the 44th; John Solbach, a
Democrat, and Kent Snyder, a Republican, for
Wilson Arms, a Democrat, and Willis Armstrong, a Republican.
The candidates for the 2nd senatorial district are Arnold Berman, a Democrat, and Jane O'Connor.
Endorsements will be announced after ballots
Candidates seek classifieds' endorsement
By BRIAN LEVINSON Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
John Solbach, incumbent Democratic state representative for the 48th District, said yesterday that he would support legislation to prevent any discrimination on an official group by the KU governance system.
Sobach and seven other local candidates for the Kansas Legislature spoke to a meeting of KU's Classified Senate in hopes of gaining its endorsement.
Kent Snyder, Solbach's Republican challenger in the 45th District, said Solbach was not in interest. "They are not interested," he said.
"I want to know why your problems were not organized," Snyder told the Classified Senate.
The Classified Senate was formed last January in an attempt to provide representation for the 1,400 classified employees at the University of Kansas.
with the economic problems facing classified employees and said that Solbach voted against a proposed state spending lid in the last legislative session.
"Your representatives have a responsibility to put a hold on economic problems," Snyder said. "State government must take the bull by the horns."
SNYDER ACCUSED Solbach of not dealing
Solbach said Snyder's charges were misleading.
Solbach said that he had voted for three spending lids he thought were effective, but he said the lid Snyder mentioned was not.
"There is the danger that an arbitrary spending Id could have detrimental effect on KU." Solubility
*Colorado instituted a spending lid in 1977 and it had a ver deterrent effect on the University of Colorado*.
According to Solbach, several loopholes in the measure allowed the Colorado Legislature to increase spending by 19 percent after the bill had taken effect. At the same time, the Kansas Legislature increased spending by only 9 percent without a lid.
"I feel it is important to have a balanced budget with an adequate tax base to support the economy."
Willie Amison, Republican challenger to Democrat Betty Jo Charlton in the 46th District, said continued support of education was his most important concern.
"I don't promise anything, but I will work to maintain the level of funding for KU, and to maintain the level of your salaries," Amison said.
Charlton was unable to attend the meeting.
IN THE RACE for the newly created 44th District, Democrat Jessie Branson is facing Republican Wint Winter Jr. Both said they were interested in KU and in classified salaries.
"The state of Kansas has to be concerned with meeting your daily needs and with allowing you to live a life not ravaged by inflation," Winter said.
Winter said funding for KU was critical to the economic survival of Lawrence.
"Funding for jobs is tied to the continued excellence of KU." Winter said.
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are returned Oct. 14, Lewis Armstrong,
classified senator, said.
Debate on the motion included whether senators could accurately represent the 1,400 classified employees at the University and would actively support a candidate's campaign.
In other action, the Senate voted to write a third letter to the Kansas Board of Regents requesting that it place a member of the boarded staff on the chancellor search committee.
O'Neill said there had been no response from Bernard Franklin, Regents chairman, to a letter sent in July requesting the addition to the committee.
The search committee is made up of faculty, students and alumni and was chosen by the Board of Regents.
O'Neill said the third letter would say, "I would like the courtesy of a response."
She said that Acting Chancellor Del Shankel recommended the search committee allow classified members to meet with finalists if the Regents did not approve the change.
Classified representatives would submit their recommendations for chancellor to the search committee after meeting with the finalists, O'Neill said.
Amityville Horror real psychic detectives say
Jacob Kleinberg, search committee chairman,
has said he has not heard from the chancellor
and his adviser.
The American Association of University Professors also has asked for meetings with the finalists for chancellor, and one senator suggested the groups work together.
By PAT WEEMS Staff Reporter
The Amityville Horror is not a hax as has been reported, two psych investigators said last night.
This was to limit the number of people who would be harassing them, he said.
Once knowledge about the happenings at 112 Ocean Ave, Amitville, N.Y., became popular, most of the people who were there during the investigations and could have substantiated reports of mysterious happenings, simply chose to sit it, it, Ed Warren, psychic investigator, said.
THE CASE INVOLVED a young couple and their three children. All said they saw
Warren and his wife, Lorraine, presented a slide show and lecture to about 150 people in the Kansas Union Ballroom last night. They discussed the effects of the psychic phenomena reported at the house.
The Lutz family moved into the house in December 1975 and 28 days later fled, never to return.
frightening and demonic manifestations in their newly purchased home.
Each member of the family claimed to have seen demonic faces appearing in the night, doors being ripened off hinges and windows thrown open.
A New York television station called the worms to investigate the house in February 1986.
"Nobody knew what Amityville would turn into," Mrs. Warren said.
Mrs. Warren, who calls herself a psychic, said that she had bad feelings about the case when she
She said that before entering the house, she asked or spiritual guidance and protection from SEEKING.
While walking in the house that day, she said,
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Unemployment, money worries no strangers to local woman
By ROSE SIMMONS Staff Reporter
Cora Galloway was not surprised at the figures released last Friday by the Department of Labor, which showed a rise in unemployment among blacks and Hispanics.
Galloway, of 1244 New Jersey St., is a 77-year-old black Lawrence resident who has lived through periods of depression, recession and economic downturns. He had not changed much for blacks over the years.
Unemployment increased to 14.2 percent among blacks and 11.3 percent among Hispanics in September, according to the Department of Labor report. In August, the unemployment rates among blacks and Hispanics were 13.6 percent and 10.6 percent respectively.
Galloway said that when she lived on a farm in Mississippi, life was simple. It was easier then to meet the needs of her husband, Lester, and her nine children.
THINGS HAVE GOTTEN WERE for Galloway on the years as her knees have stiffened with impulsion.
"I haven't noticed any recessions," she said.
"I haven't always had it hard and it doesn't get any better for you."
Now she lives in a small, corner lot house with her granddaughter Charly. She relies on her grandmother for much of her food.
children and 45 great-grandchildren—and a social security check to get by.
She has been a farmer, midwife, cook and babysister. These days, she said, she spends a lot of time visiting her family or sitting in her tiny living room, which is crowded with tables, cabinets and couches. But she rarely sits alone. Her worn and faded carpet shows traces of an endless stream of relatives who pass in and out of her home.
"When I was younger, I cooked for a living," she said. "Now I'm not able to."
A few months after Galloway arrived in Lawrence, she found a job as a cook but her husband, who now is deceased, could get only odd jobs, she said.
"I wanted to be with my children," she said. "I went to come up here where my mother and daddy live."
Galloway came with her husband to Lawrence at age 59.
It was a no-frills existence, she said, but they managed to feed and cloth themselves and wash their clothes.
"When the family lived on the farm, we had very little money, but we were able to provide a house for our children."
WHAT THE FAMILY couldn't raise on the farm, she said, they purchased on credit as a loan.
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"Food prices are so high now it's hard to make meets, "she said.
Today's high will be near 84 with fair skies and a few high clouds, according to the KU Weather Service. Winds will become northeasterly at 10 mph by afternoon. Fair skies with light easterly sky in a low near 52 are forecast for tonight. Tomorrow and Friday will be mostly sunny with highs in the low 80s.
Michelle Deal, playing defense, cuts in on Denise Boozer (wearing visor) on the fields south of Allen Field House. The KU women host Emporia State during women's field hockey practice. The team practices every afternoon Friday.
Senate OKs supplementary budget requests
BY DIANE SWANSON AND MIKE ROBBINS
Staff Reporters
The Student Senate passed all but two of the Senate's Finance and Auditing Committee's first 26 budget recommendations last night with little debate.
In the first night of full Senate budget hearings, only the committee's recommendations for Blacks In Communication and KU Model United Nations were altered.
The Senate vote to allocate Blacks in Communication an additional $240 for a tape recorder and cassettes for use in the group's radio show, measuring its total supplementary allocation to $900.
Colorado for the Big Eight Conference on Black Student Governments. The motion was defeated.
The Senate also voted to eliminate KU's Model UN allocation of $66.70 for postage and printing.
The Black Student Union originally requested
them to both delegate and gospel choir
members.
THE BLAKE STUDENT UNION last night
allocation for travel expenses to send its chair to
According to Senate rules and regulations, however, the Senate cannot finance a delegate's travel expenses to conferences, meetings or trips; however, finance the chair's travel expenses.
She also said that it was unfair that some groups such as Associated Students of Kansas could be allotted travel money but that the Black Student Union could not.
Robin McClellan, Student Senate executive committee chairman, said that ASK was a revenue code allocation and therefore was financed differently than Black Student Union.
The student organizations' budget requests
Tanya Ivory, Liberal Arts and Sciences senator, and president of the Black Student Union, said that it was unfair that the choir could be financed but that delegates could not.
were divided into two bills by the Finance and Auditing Committee. The Senate acted last night only on groups that had been funded in the last quarter of 2015, and not currently funded will be considered tonight.
OTHER GROUPS that were turned down for funding last night were Alpha Rho Gamma, Architecture Student Council, Biology Club, Engineering Student Council, Fencing Club, German Club, KU Crew Club, KU Folk Dance, Minority Business Students Campus, Minority Business Students Campus, Thai Association, University Daily Kansan and Iranian Student Association.
Other groups allocated funding last night were Consumer Affairs Association, $1,546; Friends of Headquarters, $3,294.43; KU-Y, $191.14; Psychology Club, $141; Student Occupational Tau Sigma Dance Ensemble, $70.84; KIAM, $1.58; Tau Sigma Dance Ensemble, $201.50; Women's Cooperation, $164.
The Senate allocated $11,842.42 last night.
Attending to Bren Abelsen Senate treasurer,
the Senate allocated $39,057.24 last night.