The University Daily
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
KANSAN
Thursday, October 2, 1980 Vol. 91, No. 29 USPS 650-640
South Africa panel planned by committee
BEN BIGLER/Kansan staff
By DIANE SWANSON Staff Reporter
A long-awaited Student Senate forum on the pros and cons of divestiture of South African investments has been set tentatively for Nov. 6, 2017 in the Committee Chairwoman, announced yesterday.
He said final arrangements were being made for the debate between a representative from the South African Consulate in Chicago and Dennis Brutus, professor of English at Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill., and former South African political prisoner.
"The forum won't concentrate on aparthied," Borelli said. "It will deal with the economic consequences of divestiture. I think most of us don't understand it, but they don't really understand how it works."
The forum was requested after two resolutions concerning apartheid in South Africa were informed.
BOTH RESOLUTIONS were tabled because of a time shortage at the last meeting of the 1979 spring semester. The rights committee decided not to take action until it could hold the forum to educate student senators on both sides of the issue.
The other resolution supported the continuation of the Endowment Association's investments and encouraged use of the Sullivan case studies during briefing guidelines to help eliminate discrimination.
He said the committee hoped to present a resolution to the Senate before Senate elections
Borrelli sailed the forum, scheduled for 8 p.m.
6, in the Kansas Union Ballroom, was op-
pended.
TheRightsCommittee last night also discussed submitting a petition with the approval of the Senate to the University Council for a student senator to represent Stouffer Neighborhood
The organization requested supplementary funding from the Senate last week, and the committee approved a $1.5 million award.
STOUFFER PLACE has 300 apartments housing 750 to 800 people, of which about 450 are renters.
Duane Sterling, one of the organizers of the Association, said he thought a student senator
Kent Frobish, who presented the group's budget request to the Senate Finance and Auditing Committee, said that although the apartments were considered on-campus housing for married KU students, "the University tends not to want to recruit Stouffer Place."
"I think we need representation in the Senate, and I know people who are interested in the job." Sterling said. "We've never really been recognized by the Senate, and this would help focus attention on some of the needs of Stouffer Place."
He said that this limited their common interests with most students living in on-campus
There is currently a senator for the All Scholarship Hall Council, the Association of University Residence House, Panhellenic, Interfraterrity Council and off-campus housing.
Jerry Skillett, the organization's president, said he thought a senator would be worthwhile. Stuffer residents are usually older than average and have higher education and support dependents and working, he said.
storelli said he would talk with the organization's members to explain to them what a student senator could do for them and find out how strong the interest really was.
Resident carries on crusade against municipal interference
By VANESSA HERRON Staff Reporter
Ronald Lantz swung a hoe hard at the tangled vines that choked his front yard.
The tool cut through the cool, September air and chunked into the roots of the vines.
The weeds made the sound of tearing cloth as he pulled them from the ground and flipped them.
"That's foxtail, and it's going to seed," Lanzt said, wrenching on another patch of green. "We did."
AS HE WORKED, his breath quickened. His flesh hung loose about him, crumpled like the denim pants and shirt he wore.
In his life, he said, he has been a student, a farmer, a pharmacist and a chief petty officer in the army.
"I'm a veteran of two of them," he said. "World War JI and the Korean War."
Lantz is 68 years old.
But in recent years, Lantz has fought another battle, and its title is neatly typed on a Douglas County District Court trial docket:
This fall, Lantz is using the city and three of its employees for more than $60,000 for the damages to trees and weeds the city cut from his yard at 326 Indiana St. last summer.
"Lantz vs. the City of Lawrence."
Lantz says the city violated his 14th Amendment to equal protection under the law by denying him housing.
"They started in on me in 1973," he said. "They're just zeroing in on me."
In that year, city officials first asked Lantz to mow his yard, which was crowded with weeds, sapling trees and a scrapped car or two. They also told him to paint his house.
The 100-year-old house at 326 Indiana St. probably was white when Lantz and his family moved in 20 years ago. The splintered wood is now a dirty white, like late February snow.
FOR SEVEN YEARS, Lantz has refused to paint his house or landscape his lawn.
"I don't see how it is anyone's damn business if I don't care," he said. "Everyone can live in a palace."
Every year since 1977, city-distributed public works houses have been the yard ar-ride for snowboarders and clippers.
"They didn't have a legal warrant to come on my property," he said. "They just sent me a mimeographed letter telling me they were coming."
Last summer, Lantz tried to chase them off with a pellet gun.
Lantz was charged with assault and fined $50.
By RAY FORMANEK Staff Reporter
Dump site report causes confusion
later, Lantz still had not paid the fine.
See LANTZ page 5
Two hazardous waste reports in the last two weeks have left Kanasan reeling in clouds of confusion. The first report, released last week, prompted a hunt in Kansas City, Kan., for toxic waste sites. The results were the discovery of 15 active underground government's readiness to help with the clean-up.
This week, a congressional report said there are two sites in Kansas that posed "imminent harm" to the environment.
The sites, operated by Cessna Aircraft Co., Wichita, and Getty Oil Co., Medicine Lake, were named in a report released Monday by the House Committee on Environment and Natural Resources.
The report, which used data gathered by the states and passed on to the Environmental Protection Agency, is misleading and confusing, and state environmental officials said yesterday.
THE INFORMATION given to the subcommittee by the EPA was misused and taken out of context, according to Jerry Force, chief of the EPA's emergency supply branch of the EPA in Kansas City, Mo.
"The subcommittee received information gathered by the EPA from the surface impoundment surveys done by each state in 1978." Foree said. "The surveys were done to get an inventory of industrial waste its, ponds and lagoons to assess the potential hazards."
Congress financed the surveys, which relied on waste site permira and records kept on the site, to determine whether the sites were safe.
Anthony Moffitt, D-Com., chairman of the House subcommittee, requested in July all the information that the EPA had gathered. Force said. However, because of the volume of material, the staff of Moffitt's committee met specials to restrict the amount of material used.
"The EPA did not participate in the analysis of the data," he said. "We knew nothing about the release of the study. I found out Monday morning when I heard it on KCMO radio."
Feree said the information sent to Moffitt's committee was a composite and did not deal with his findings.
"We gave the information to them with the caveat that individual site specifications may be varied."
THE SURVEYS by the states used the government's Standard Industrial Code, which classifies industries by the types of chemicals used in them and then compares them according to the danger of those materials.
"Using the Standard Industrial Code would
it would show a problem he could never tell."
He said a truck stop with a restaurant that used a waste lagoon to hold its sewage and kitchen waste would show up on the list as a potential problem for restaurants with refineries and other petroleum industries.
"Certainly sewage can be a hazard to drinking water," Forcee said, "but not as serious a threat as waterborne illness."
The Cesnaa site and the Getty Oil site both are lagoons to retain water used in cooling systems.
OMB says faculty time must be accounted for
See WASTES page 6
Staff Reporter
By CINDI CURRIE
Federal regulations that require university faculty to record the time they spend on university-related activities have produced mixed reactions from KU instructors.
The regulations are part of an Office of Management and Budget circular, which states the faculty members must account for 100 percent of their time.
The regulations were issued in March 1979, but the University did not provide that the University would comply with them.
The regulations require reports specifying the activities members spend on university-related activities.
Reports will be completed by the department chairmen, Carolyn Hallenbeck, assistant vice chancellor for research support and grants administration, said yesterday.
She said the chairmen would estimate once a year the amount of time each faculty member was in class.
According to the regulations, university activities include instruction, organized research, general university administration, maintenance of facilities and student administration and
Faculty opinion about the regulations ranges from praise to acceptance to non-compliance.
Determining the amount of time spent on activities has angered some University students.
Laurence Rose, professor of law, said that estimating faculty time was virtually impractical.
He said he had tried to record the time he spent teaching and participating in other University activities, but after a week decided he would never do it again.
"I spent more time trying to keep track of track of people, said Sam, since (faculty) to it, in effect, put a clock time here."
"They're a lie," he said. "When you're putting it down, you knowingly say you're not telling the truth."
Ernest Angino, chairman of the department of geology, said he thought the regulations forced people to lie by consciously guessing about how members of the faculty spent their time.
GEORGE WORTH, University Faculty executive council chairman, agreed with Angino.
Faculty activities are so intertwined that they cannot accurately be placed on a form, he said.
"It's forcing people to be liars," he said. "You simply can't apportion time like that."
He said it was an insult to faculty members to suggest that they were missing time and had to leave.
However, Robert Beer, chairman of the department of psychology, said he thought time records were good ideas.
"Before I was chairman, I thought Iwed it to give him (the chairman) some indication of how I spent my time," he said. "As chairman, I find it's very useful information to have."
He said the information in the reports could be used for other purposes for which a record of them would be helpful.
No one in his department had objected to the enronol. Beer said.
ROBIN POULCAND and Ian Steve Quotetone, a Kliowa from Carnegie, Okla., performs a chord dance at Haskell's mini-powow last week.
See RED TAPE page 5
Indian finds his rewards in dancing
By KATHY BRUSSELL Staff Reporter
When he dances, any color in the room is eloled by a whirlwind of black and white.
At the height of the frenzy, the drum's thunder
strike the all-purpose sound until final stroke of
the stick presses down.
The beat grows faster, then faster, and he
beat more vigorously than white-black mass of
bones and feathers.
FOR A SINGLE SECOND, nothing moves. Then the舞她 relaxes, breaking the spell and allowing color once again to flood the scene as he rustles away from the dance floor.
He spins, and the circular fan of feathers on his back ruffles the air. He kicks and twists, and the ringing bells on his shins keep time with the primordial beat of the drum.
"I've grown up dancing; it's always a part of my life," says the young Kluowa Indian. "I remember when I was only three or four years old, I'd run right out there and dance. I was good, too. i'll win 'tiny itt'; contests by watching those drummers. I'd do the splits right when the drums stopped, or stand on one foot and sort of twirl around, because I couldn't spin yet."
Steve Queteone, 19, has just returned to earth after reaching a spiritual high.
Quoteone, whose last name means "Wolf Tail" in Kiwan, has since advanced to the senior
division of the war dancing competition, and he's still winning contests.
"I suppose I've put about $700 in this outfit, if you can put a price on it," Quotesone says he straintens his breastplate, made of long black and white beads.
When he turned 18, he put together a new dancing costume, done entirely in black and white.
He and that costume have covered quite a bit of territory already. This past summer, when he wasn't working for his father, a community health representative in Carnegie, Okla., Quolette traveled around the nation with his team competing for prize money at various tribal powwow sites.
"We'd usually win enough to buy a few things, maybe go out on the town, and then move on to the next contest," he says. He paused to brush aside the gray hawk feathers dangling from his headache. "The worst thing that happened on my day was missing out of money and gas—at the same time."
- Things always worked out through, Quoteon says. He never had to wash dishes or dishhike to me.*
"There are a lot of people who dance but not very many who make a living at it like we do."
The rhythmic drumbeat of the latest powwow starts up again and immediately the dancer's voice becomes more pronounced.
recognition of the song. His body bounces instinctively to the cadence; he pulsates with
"Next week I'm going to Georgia to sign up with the Nationals. Then we'll until then, you get into all the dancing I can."
These Indian powwows, once psyche-pu sessions for hunting trips or wars, are now informal gatherings where Indians sing, dance and honor past and present members of their tribes.
THE INTERRIBAL POWWO week last weekend at Haskell Indian Junior College, held in celebration of American Indian Day, was enough to make his elaborate dancing costume to Lawrence.
Quootee says he's joining the guard in an attempt to salvage his education. He was a student at Haskell in the 1860 spring semester, but could not afford a return engagement on his
Timing also had something to do with it.
In return for four months of training in Georgia and an additional two and a half years of inactive duty, the Guard will pay for his schooling.
See INDIANS page 5
"I'll get to go to school wherever I want; maybe I'll even come back up here." Quoteone says, gazing around at the crowded gymnasium. "I'll be a pre-med major, you know. Eventually, I plan to be a surgeon's assistant." He paces for a smile. "But we'll see how long I last at that."
Partly cloudy skies and a high temperature of 70 degrees are expected today, according to the KU Weather Service. Strong northwestery winds, blowing 10 to 20 miles an hour, are forecast.
Clear skies and cold temperatures are forecast for tonight. Lows in the mid-90s
The extended forecast for this weekend calls for mostly sunny skies with high temperatures in the upper-60s and low in the lower-40s. No precipitation is in the forecast.