The University Daily
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
KANSAN
Monday, September 15, 1980 Vol. 91, No.16 USPS 650-640
CHRISTODD/Kansan staff
Pounce and rescue workers administer first aid to Kevin Malott, one of two Lawrence men injured last night in a one-car accident at the 1100 block of Kasold. Malott, Route 4, and the driver, Steve Taylor, 2611 Arkansas St., were listed in stable condition last night at Lawrence Memorial Hospital. See story page 3.
Julian Bond to speak at homecoming
By PATRICIA WEEMS Staff Rewr
Staff Reporter
State senator Julian Bond of Georgia has been selected as the 1980 homecoming speaker by the SUa Forums committee. He will speak on "Next" at 7 p.m., Friday, Oct. 17 in Auditorium.
Bond was chosen because "he is somebody that appeals to a diverse group and a lot of different kinds of people will be interested in it." He said he would speak at SILeaghard, SIA Forma chairman, said Friday.
Once a supporter of Sen. Edward Kennedy's presidential campaign, Bond announced his support for the re-election of President Carter in 1980. He also supported the Democratic National Convention in August.
IN A 1976 SUA lecture, Bond said he would vote for Carter because Rep. Morris Udall, D-Ariz.
was not a candidate and because former President Gerald R. Ford had a history of tight control.
Bond said in a speech Wednesday at Kansas State University, "Now there is no one more qualified than he running for the President of the United States."
Julian Bond
He also said that if Republican presidential candidate Ronald Reagan was elected it would be a major win.
He said he had trouble pinpointing independent candidate John Anderson's stand on the issues because of Anderson's "stereotypical conservative" background.
Bond also said that if blacks wanted their needs to continue to be met, they should vote for him.
Bond estimated that Carter would get 90 percent of the black vote, but the remaining
See BOND page 3
Hostage debate to start Iranian Parliament
By United Press International
After receiving a letter from a group of U.S. congressmen yesterday, the speaker of U.S. parliament said the Parliament would start working on a decision "on the fate of the American hostages.
It was the 316th day of captivity for the 52 hostages.
"It is now America's turn, if it has good will as regards the hostages, to prove its sincerity through action," Rafsajman sai after meeting Mr. Aifares in Tehran, who delivered the letter.
"A decision was made in the Majlis today regarding a reply to the letter by the U.S. Congress, and substantial discussion on the hostages will begin on Tuesday and the Majlis will begin on Wednesday." Ayatullah Hassan Rafsami said in a Tehran radio broadcast monitored in London.
"Since the U.S. Congress letter was read out in
the Majlis and was also covered by the press, we expect the U.S. government to publish the text of the Majlis letter of reply for the American public. If it fails to do this it will have shown its lack of goodwill, and this will have an adverse effect on our talks." Rafsantani said.
...ormen, or the second time, asked the foreign affairs committee to "take into account suggestions by Majlis deputies" and draft a reply to an earlier letter from the same group of U.S. congressmen that was sent in July as an offer to the release of the hostages, Tehran Radio省。
THE MAJLIS' open debate recommendation comes two days after Ayatollah Ruhollah Khominei said the hostages could be released if the deposed shah's wealth was returned, U.S. claims against Iran were canceled, Washington guaranteed no U.S. intervention in Iran and if frozen Iranian funds in the United States were released.
Meanwhile the border war with Iraq spread to
See IRAN page 5
ASK. Carlin to discuss issues
By DIANE SWANSON Staff Reporter
Gov. John Carlin's aides have invited the Associated Students of Kansas, the statewide student lobbying group, to talk to the governor this month about its priority issues and concerns.
Other issues that Bingaman asked ASK wanted to discuss with Carlin were its support of student
Bob Bingaman, ASK executive director, announced the Sept. 24 meeting at the ASK executive board meeting and retreat in Topeka this weekend.
AMONG THE NINE ITEMS ASK has chosen as 1981 priority issues from the Board of Regents budget are an 8.1 percent increase in student salaries, 100 percent fee waivers for graduate teaching assistants, 100 percent funding of student union rentals, 100 percent funding of student use, funding of student financial aid offices and expansion of the state scholarship program.
Other issues include funding for Kansas State University's community-based education program "University for Man," funding for building handicapped facilities, a 12 percent faculty salary and benefit increase and a 12 percent Regents staff salaries and benefit in-
representation on the Board of Regents, passage of the andorde-terman help oil bill and keeping
ACCORDING TO BINGAMAN, the request is significant for two reasons.
The ASK board also discussed a request from the Kansas American College Testing Program to provide the results.
"One, it proves that we (ASK) are a viable organization and a recognized student voice in the profession."
Second, Bingaman said, is a national piece of legislation called Truth-In-Testing that could directly affect both ACT and college students. It is an issue that ASK has been interested in.
The Truth-in-Testing bill, if enacted, would open research and statistical studies on the test questions by the testing agencies to the public. The study could be based on a certain information about their tests and scores.
THE FINAL MEMBERSHIP decision will be made by the national ACT council in the spring. If membership is granted, an amendment will have to be made to ACT's bylaws.
ACT regional coordinator in See ASK page 5
Black awareness symposium stresses student involvement
Staff Reporter
By KATHY BRUSSELL
The tempo was upbeat, the atmosphere positive. The message: black students at the University of Kansas have a job to do; if they believe in themselves and work to improve themselves, no one can keep them from succeeding.
The forum was the Black Awareness Seminar/Symposium held Friday and Saturday in the Kansas Union. Using the theme "Now's the time... Let's Get Serious," the seminar brought together black students, alumni and faculty who shared ideas about how to increase involvement of blocks in KU programs and in society.
you think you've got it made because you can come to KU and live in any dorm you want; you can pick your roommate or apartment house; you can walk into any restaurant, through the lobby, to a coffee shop or go into Strong Hall and sit in the front row of a lecture class," Franklin told the audience.
E. BERNARD FRANKLIN, chairman of the Board of Regents, addressed the seminar Friday night. He emphasized the danger that exists when black students assume they "have arrived" in the world, or achieve the goal get good grades. KU. He urged the students to be competitive, to work toward a complete education and to get involved in college activities.
But blacks still have a long way to go toward achieving true equality, he said. Basic human rights were acquired by blacks not so long ago, and they can be taken away if not protected, he
More than anything, black citizens need good educations to secure jobs and increase their political power, Franklin said.
14. 1 A RECENT study by the U.S. Department of Education showed that 42 percent of black 7-year-olds were unable to read, write or spell. Another study beyond the first or second-grade level, he said.
"This is not progress in any sense of the word." Franklin said.
Despite the statistics, however, some administrators think American universities already are doing too much for minorities, such as providing special tutors in math and English, he said. Those people would like to cut finding for such programs.
To prevent cutbacks, black students must speak up for their rights and justify the existence of cuts.
"Wake up! KU's not heaven," he said. "This is a predominantly white campus, and you shouldn't take that lightly. Your first goal should be arm, to better yourself and not to socialize."
THE PROBLEMS facing black students on a predominantly white campus were also the focus of the seminar's second speech, given Saturday by Gilbert Parks, a Topeka psychiatrist.
Moreover, every black student must decide for himself his true purpose for being in college, he
--promoter Chris Fritz knew a good thing when he saw it. This thing could be bigger than a wet T-shirt contest, more intense than pnock fluces, more satisfying than a good
"I don't recognize such a creature as a minority," Parks said. "The whole concept of minority is someone else's definition of you. If See SEMUNA8 page 5."
Blacks have come to think of themselves as a minority, because they have been denied basic rights by other whites.
CLOUDY
Weather
See SEMINAR page 5
It should be partly cloudy and warmer this afternoon with a high in the mid 80s and a 20 percent chance of rain, according to the National Weather Service in Topeka. Winds will be from the south at 10 to 20 mph.
15 should be partly cloudy tonight with a low near 70. The high tomorrow will be near 90.
Mud wrestling is the latest craze from the West Coast. At Benjamin Stables in Kansas City, Mo., spectators were paying $5 last week to see womens wrestle.
Fans wallow in mud wrestling craze
RV MARK PITTMAN
Staff Writer
MY GOD! What am I doing here? These people are animals. They clutched at my clothes as I entered the gates. Their tongues lolled, drolled, droolled. Flecks of beer foam at the edges of their mouths and oil-spilled the construction hats perched sideways on their beards.
They pleaded. They begged. They mowed. Prostrate at my feet, they asked for admittance. The cop at the gate began to look at me. "Where are you?" The king of Heaven, I had a press pass.
The place had a capacity of 5,000, and thousands more milled outside.
"What are you doing?" I demanded.
SCALPERS AT THE gate were asking twice the $5 admission charge.
He coughed and sputtered. "I drove 40 miles to see the mud wrestling."
I turned and stalked off, disgusted. This was it. The Midwest's first taste of the rage on the West Coast: mud wrestling.
I snatched my jacket from the grasp of a wild-eyed lunatic in a Harley-Davidson T-shirt, threw a haymaker that missed and looked him straight in the eye.
The premise is simple: take two scantily clad women and drop them into a 20 by 20 pit of grime. Oh yeah, and count the receipts when it's over.
The crowd ostensibly had gathered at Benjamin Stables in Kansas City, Mo., to witness a tractor-pull competition. While the trucks swam in the mud, the crowd waited for
"It was disgusting, degrading—a sorry spectacle of what America has come to," said one bystander. "And it was worth 10 times the price of admission."
the real drawing card. The rodeo arena burned with anticipation.
A man lost his footing on the cooler he was standing on and sent himself and four others caterwailing into a makeshift fence stretched between the crowd and the building where the "wrestlers" were being interred, for their own protection, under tight security.
I sidedestead the guys picking themselves out of the fence and stood in the beer line next to a guy who was intent on baptizing all recent converts with Budweiser. My glare brought a host of reinforcements, and I pulled out my notebook and went off in search of Chris Fritz.
I FOUND THE HIGH priest also in search of alcohol, which was duly purchased. We headed toward the stockade, parting a sea of security.
Inside the temple were the sacrifices, three blondes and a brown-haired woman. They leaned against the plywood walls and didn't look especially fierce despite their beauty.
See MUD page 5