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The University Daily
Wednesday, September 24, 1980 Vol. 91, No. 23 USPS 650-640
Senate to studv clubs for duplication of service
By DIANE SWANSON Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
The Student Senate finance and auditing committee voted last night to investigate the Latin American Solidarity Club and the Latin American Club for duplication of services.
According to Senate rules and regulations, "No funds shall be allocated for projects, services or materials which are duplicated functions or services of the Student Senate."
The Latin American Solidarity Club presented its $1,050 supplementary budget funding request last night, the second night of preliminary discussion of student organizations' supplementary budget requests. The club requested supplies, telephone expenses, expenses, library supplies, telephone expenses, and co-sponsors to conferences on Latin America. The group received no Senate funding last spring.
THE LATIN AMERICAN Club, however, was allocated $43 in the spring for advertising, office and merchandising expenses.
production of Latin America Night. It is not requesting supplementary funding.
Bren Abbott, Senate treasurer, called for the investigation. However, he said, "I'm not going to talk."
He said the situation was similar to funding the Iranian Student Association and the Iranian Student Organization last spring. The two groups were funded by a number of the hearings and were funded as one group.
Although Abbott initially called for a freeze on Latin American Club's account, he later amended his motion and called only for the investigation.
Rhonda Neugebauer, coordinator of the Latin American Solidarity Club's budget, said the organization was concerned with making others aware of Latin American social, economic and political situations. While interested in political concern she does not endorse political candidates, she said.
According to Neugebauer, the Latin American concerns itself only with students from Latina.
A finance and auditing subcommittee meeting to talk with the two groups about their activities and membership is tentatively scheduled for 4 pm.
THE FINANCE AND auditing committee will automatically accept the subcommittee's
In other preliminary decisions, the committee voted to cut the Hispanic-American Law and the Federal Election Law.
The committee said it could not pay for the association's $12.10 photocopying bill from the last fiscal year, its $35 typewriter repair bill on a newly-owned typewriter or study guides for its library.
Two of the items, the committee said, fell under Senate rules and regulations that say no Senate funds can be used on bills incurred during the impeachment process. The state did specifically to fulfill academic requirements.
The committee also said it should not pay for repairs on University-owned equipment.
THE SENATE AND committee funding philosophy, which recommends no funding to the senate in this respect.
programs, was the committee's rationale for not funding $835.60 in travel expenses.
The committee also voted to temporarily cut travel expenses and two film rents from the KU German Club request, cutting the amount from $1,000 to $87.50.
Discussion was started on Kansas Law Review's request for $871.50 to buy a new typewriter, but the discussion was tabled until Monday night.
Abbott suggested the group charge a Lawyer's prescription price to make money to buy the Two-Wheeler.
The Kansas Undergraduate Business Council failed to appear before the committee to present its justification for a $414.40 request. The committee action until the group could explain its absence.
The other 10 groups presenting their requests for supplementary funding were the Psychology Club, $507.70; Consumer Affairs Association, $646.94; Hilltop Child Development Center, $628.34; University of Kentucky Defender Project, $1,536.69; Kansas Engineer Magazine, $900; Blacks in Communication,
$1,910; KU Accounting Club, $818; and KU Folk Dance Club, $300.
Mikl Gordon, committee co-chairman, submitted his written interpretation of the Senate rule that says no funds shall be allocated for sending delegates to conventions, meetings, or
According to Gordon, the rule precludes the committee from recommending that Senate funds be allocated for transporting delegates to meetings in person or by mail, and attaching them from sending a chair to sing at a convention.
In the memo, Gordon wrote that he hoped committee members saw the "irony" of being able to send singers but not students wanting to receive information about programs to conferences.
He suggested the rule be amended so future committees could allocate funds to send delegates to the congress.
Iraqis bomb Iran's giant oil refinery
The committee will hear 14 more groups' requests tonight.
Abbott said that all decisions were preliminary and that the committee would make final decisions.
By United Press International
Iraq said it "destroyed and burnt" Iran's giant Abadan oil refinery yesterday in its one-day-old invasion of its eastern neighbor.
Iran, meanwhile, bombed the Iraqi capital of Baghdad and threatened to blockade the Strait of Hormuz, through which much of the West's Persian Gulf oil is shipped.
The IranianParliament declared a "freeze" on any moves to free the 52 American hostages and turned its attention to the war between the two most powerful states in the Persian Gulf.
U. N. Secretary General Kurt Waldheim called an emergency meeting of the Security Council.
IN RETAILIATION, Iraq said, "our brave
suppliers destroyed and burn all oil of
installations."
Iraq said Iran's U.S.-made warplanes bombed Baghdad and its military and civilian airports twice yesterday. The bombing claimed scores of five Iranian planes were downed over the city.
Iraq claimed to have crossed the Iranian border, driving as far as six miles into Iran to the disputed Shatt al-al-Rawah waterway at the head of the Gulf. A British oil tanker on the waterway has collapsed in an oil refinery, the largest in the world, was ablaze following an attack by Iraqi bombs.
Iraq said that its tanks "circled and completely cut off" Abadan and the nearby port of Kharramshar from the rest of the Iranian army. Abadan, still burning from the air strikes that killed him, told the oil refinery, was said to be about to fall to the Iraqi forces on the Iranian side of Shatt al-Arab.
A THIRD MAJOR Iranian city, Qaar- Shir, 30 miles north of Khransharzil, reported was a bombing site.
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it would be a stunning defeat for the once-mighty
post-war United States, and likely post-
revenue attacks on the Western and Middle East.
As the Persian Gulf fighting escalated, reportedly with hundreds of casualties on both sides, Iran said it had taken control of the strategic strait of Hormuz. It warned that the ships of any nation that tried to interfere risked being attacked.
The official Kuwaiti news agency said the strait, the bottleneck at the mouth of the Gulf, already had been closed, trapping 90 oil tankers. But the Pentagon and Western oil companies said that as far as they knew, the strait was still open to tanker traffic.
AS THE FIGHTING escalated, it threatened to imperil only the flow of oil to the West but could also inflict further damage.
quickly became a weapon in the war being waged by the two nations,
Campaigning in California, President Carter asked the Soviet Union not to "interfere" in the conflict and said it was "too early to assess" the conflict's effects on the hostages.
At the Pentagon, spokesman Thomas Ross said no U.S. forces, including two warships in the Persian Gulf near the fighting-bead been put on alert.
"We are not ordering alerts of any kind," he
said, as the ships are continuing normal
operations.
He also said the Strait of Hormuz remained open.
Iraq said it had shot down 67 Iranian planes in aerial duels over Iraq and Iran, and Iran said its air force bombed Baghdad and other Iraqi cities including the vital port of Basra opposite Abu Hamzah on Shatt al-Arab waterway, on 34 Oct. and causing "irresponsible losses to the enemy."
It said the Strait of Hormuz, through which 100 oil tankers pass daily to bring 60 percent of the Gulf's oil supplies to the West, "was under the control of Iranian forces."
In a warning that appeared to be aimed at Saudi Arabia and other states using the strait, Iran said any "interference" with its control of the Strait would be met with its narrowest point, would be met with force.
Post-season travel puts strain on budgets
By ARNE GREEN Staff Reporter
Although the women's sports budget has increased this year, coaches now face the problem of making travel budgets cover the cost of postseason trips.
While more travel money was budgeted for three women's sports—basketball, softball and soccer, the team paid $725.
In the past, the travel budget has not included post-season travel to championships. This year it
large enough to cover post-season costs, said Pat Collinson, an administrative assistant in the athletic department. Collinson works with the women's sports budget.
"In effect, it is not an increase," she said.
LAST YEAR, the women's basketball team spent slightly more than its $23,000 travel budget during the regular season. An additional $11,000, not in the planned budget, went for championship travel. The extra funds came from the University and the KU Athletic Corporation.
cover travel expenses if the team makes it to post-season competition.
The softball team got a $1,000 travel increase, but last year the team spent $2,300 on travel to
This year's travel budget is $27,434, but it must
Travel is traditionally a problem when money is tight, Collins said, because coaches' salaries, equipment and other areas are necessary and difficult to cut back.
"There aren't a lot of variables left that can be cut." she said.
Additional problems are caused by a rise in travel costs in the last year.
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Lawrence pizza parlors panning out
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Randy Hird, manager of the New Yorker, 1921 Massachusetts, removes a freshly cooked chicken dish from the kitchen and mixes dishes and other dishes, pizza accounts for the majority of the business on any night of the week.
By COLLEEN KEEFFE Staff Reporter
Another pizza was on its way to a KU student's stomach.
The students standing in the residence hall cafeteria line just looked on hungrily as a delivery boy, cradling a large toasty-warm box, nudged his way toward the elevator.
At some family pizza parlors, such as Godfather's Pizza, 711 W. 23rd St., students constitute about 25 to 40 percent of their business. But, the owner of Pyramid Pizza, 507 W. 14th St., said almost all of its customers were KU students.
Pizza is still a popular commodity among KU managers and the managers of several local pizza establishments.
Most of the managers of 10 local pizza parlors said that about 50 percent of their business came from them.
ROV ANDA, Pyramid's owner, said that most of his customers were students because of his store's location below The Wheel, a bar, and because of Pyramid's delivery service. Most of the restaurant's revenue comes from deliveries, Davis said.
"A lot of students don't have cars in town, so it's easier to call out for a pizza." he said.
Bruce Borkosky, manager of Domino's Pizza South, 145 W. 23rd St., said more than half its orders came from KU residence halls. Domino's North, 610 Florida St., caters mostly to apartment dwellers. Domino's is strictly a pizza business.
On a good Friday night, between 3,000 and
3,000 pizzas are sold in Lawrence, pizza parlor
Courtyard.
PIZZA CONNOISSEURS can relish a variety
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PHOTOGRAPHY
Jesse Brown, Tonganoxie, removes the hook from the mouth of a fish he caught yesterday while fishing in the Kansas River just east of the Massachusetts Street bridge. Brown says he likes to fish and relax at that spot while waiting to pick up his grandchildren from school.
Bad grade appeals increase; success rate remains stable
By CINDICURBIE
Staff Reporter
Although more students are appealing grades now than they were a decade ago, the chances for student success have not increased. William Balfour, university ombudsman, said yesterday.
He said one reason they had not increased was that decisions on appeals were made within KU departments and faculty members were reluctant to overrule their peers.
As I see it," he said, "it is difficult for a committee in a department to disagree with a committee.
"One of the biggest problems is that nobody faced competent to tell another professor that he'sgré-
féé."
"It's part of academic freedom that a teacher has complete control in grading his class. He doesn't expect to be told that any particular grade should be given to any student."
A GRADE APPEAL is reviewed by the department chairman of the class the student is
taking, the dean of the school and finally the candidate to the position, cannot be recruited between the student and the department.
Balfour said most grade appeal cases that came to him were settled between the instructor and student without further action in the department.
However, he said, when the case moved into the department there was a possibility the designation might have been
A way to provide impartiality would be the formation of an entire University committee that would handle the appeals separate from the departments of the University, Balfour said.
For the past three years, Balfour said, his report to the University Senate executive committee has recommended an impartial University committee to deal with appeals
HE SAID THAT WICHTT T State University approached a program that had been successful for its programs.
James J. Rhatigan, vice president for student
APRIL 5
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It should be mostly fair today with a high
weather 77, according to the KU Weather
Tonight, a weak cool front will push through eastern Kansas with a slight increase in humidity and showers in the region. The front will bring cooler temperatures with a low
Tomorrow should be mostly sunny with northerly winds at 10 miles an hour and a cloudiness of up to 65%.
high of 73.
The extended forecast calls for little or no precipitation and mild temperatures.