The University Daily
KANSAN
Lawrence, Kansas University of Kansas
Thursday, September 4, 1980 Vol.91, No.9
Watkins criticizes Winn's legislation
By BILL VOGRIN Staff Reporter
Democrat Dan Watkins presented evidence yesterday to back up his contention that Rep. Larry Wim Jr., R-Kan., had not passed any laws to help the people of the 3rd District."
Watkins is challenging Winn for the 3rd District seat.
In his 14 years as representative to the U.S. House, Winn has sponsored 159 public legislation bills and said at a press conference in the Lawrence of Not one of these bills has been passed, he said.
He also blasted the incumbent for what he called a poor attendance record.
"Larry Winn's public record speaks for itself." Wikkins said. "It is a record of absenteeism—many notes on the floor of Congress and not even showing up for committee sub-committee hearings.
"It is also a record of ineffectiveness—after 14 years in Congress the incumbent hasn't even been able to pass one piece of legislation to help the people of the 3rd District."
ALTHOUGH THE Democrat conceded that Winn's absentee problem only started within the past two years, he said that it indicated several things.
"His absenteeism and frequent trips to foreign countries tends to show a picture of a man frustured, tired and disinterested in his job," Watkins said.
Winn was in Lawrence Tuesday night to open his campaign headquarters, but he flew back to Washington D.C. yesterday. He was defended, however, for his sponsorship of bills and attendance record by Jack Brand, 3rd District Republican campaign chairman.
"Watkin's charges are ridiculous and irresponsible, and I think he better go do his research." Brand said. "Larry Winn is one of the most influential representatives in the House."
"He is a ranking member of the Foreign Affairs Committee and the senior Republican on the Science and Technology committee. He is also a representative committee if the Republicans control Congress."
BRAND SAID Winn had one of the best attendance records for his years in the Congress for any legislator.
"For his 14 years, Winn ranks in the top 10 percent in attendance of all congressmen."
Brand also noted Winn's selection last year to join the U.N. staff, and said Winn had been instilled with leadership for projects in the Lawrence area. The Cairnham and Parkway are two such probrams, he said.
"In a Democrat-controlled Congress, the biannual come out are naturally going to have more power."
GOP LEGISLATORS have proposed 121 amendments, and 88 of those have passed. Democrats have proposed 175, and 78 have passed. Winn had proposed no legislation in 1980, as of Aug. 21, according to the Congressional Quarterly, the source of Watkins' figures.
"It is a convenient excuse, to blame his own ineffectiveness on a Democratic Congress," Watkins said. "The pattern of absenteeism has taken its toll."
"The reason Winn hasn't passed any legislation is not because he doesn't introduce a law that has introduced a lot of bills. They don't pass these laws, they don't work at them or they are just bad ideas."
Congressional Quarterly statistics show that Winn had the fifth poorest attendance record on roll call votes among Republican representatives in 1979. Watkins said.
He said the minutes of the committee meetings showed Winn missed about 32 percent of his committee meetings in 1979-80, and about 36 percent of his sub-subcommittee meetings.
"This record of absenteeism these past two years is further proof that the congressman has given up his right to represent the people of the 20 district." Watkins said.
Polish strikes to spur change
Staff Reporter
By VANESSA HERRON
Staff Reporter
Concessions made by the Polish government to end an 18-day strike by its workers have thrust the country into a state of evolution, Marcin Sar, a visiting associate professor from Poland, said yesterday. However, it's anyone's guess where the evolution will lead, he said.
Sar, a 29-year old associate professor of political science at the University of Warsaw, said he spent much of last week on the Dgansk waterfront, interviewing striking workers and interpreting the Polish government's statements for ABC television.
"It was a very complex situation," he said. "There are no politicians who say exactly what they have in mind. You have to read between the lines that those politicians were the same in most countries."
ON FRIDAY, Sar left his informal job with
ABN, and took the last available flight to New York.
He arrived in Lawrence Tuesday night, and yesterday he taught the first class of his yearlong appointment at the University of Kansas. He has also taught a number of politics in Eastern and Central Europe.
On Monday, while Sar was still in New York, sightseeing and being briefed by Polish officials, he was asked to lend them to their loss. But not before their government accepted a long list of demands, including the
right to form free labor unions, to strike and to bargain for better wages and working con-
The dispute was settled yesterday when 100,000 Polish coal miners, the last workers still on strike, signed a new contract with the government.
Sar said the labor settlements could have far-reaching effects.
"If both sides stick to this settlement, it could considerably contribute to the evolution of the political system in Poland," he said. "But I wish I knew what kind of evolution."
HE SAID THAT ALTHOUGH Poland could never return to a free market economy, he expected the government to become less centralized and closer to the people.
Sar said the problem with the existing state labor unions was not that they were controlled by the party, but that they had lost touch with the workers they represented.
For example, he said that the unions have been known to spend more time organizing summer holidays for the workers than solving economic problems for them.
"Workers should now have more say in economic problems like wages, prices and inflation," he said. "And there will be less organization—less red tape in state organizations."
He predicted that the unions would try to represent the workers' needs and probably would have to quit.
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Keenan Gentry, Lenaza junior and a member of the KU Committee on South Africa, hands out information on the KU Endowment Association's investments in South Africa. The committee had set up an information booth across from Bailey Hall yesterday.
Dan Watkins, the Democratic candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives from the 3rd District, offers support for his allegations that his opponent has done nothing while in office to benefit Kansans.
CHRIS TODD/Kansas staf
First team files for student body posts
By DIANE SWANSON
Staff Reporter
Mark Bernstein, Lawrence graduate student,
and John Guillory, Springfield junior, this week
became the first team to file for student body
president and vice president.
Student Senate elections were moved from the week before spring break to the week before Thanksgiving by a unanimous Senate vote in the last meeting of the spring semester.
Bernstein said Guillory and he had tried entry to begin attracting support. He said he also hoped it would indicate to students that they were serious candidates.
He said they would begin forming a coalition in the few weeks and would run a low budget campaign.
Bernstein, a two-year senator, said they would be emphasizing student involvement and working to change attitudes toward the University.
"The University needs to become a pioneer of the future again instead of playing catchup to it in the past few years, the University has been more interested in profit than in progress."
HE SAID the University was living a self-fulfilling prophecy when it continually talked about enrollment decreases and inflation. Calling the University a special institution, he said it needed to get back to emphasizing technology, research and high-quality education.
Bernstein served as a graduate senator from 1978 to 1980. He said he thought "the University system really does work. You just have to give it a chance."
John Gullory, the team's vice presidential candidate, is a political science major. Because he has not been a student senator, he was required to submit 600 student signatures subject to review by the Student Senate elections committee.
Guillory said his lack of previous experience in Senate would be an asset to the campaign.
"I've studied the political process and I can go in with a clear mind," he said.
GUILLORY SAID he had been active in soca-causes. He said he was involved in the Wolf Creek Nuclear Site sit-in and had worked with Norman Forer, associate professor of social welfare, and Clarence Dillingham, former instructor in social welfare.
Both Forer and Dillingham have become controversial figures because of their trips to Iran in an attempt to win release of the American hostages.
John Knightly, elections committee cochairman, said he was expecting many students as candidates this year because of the change in election time and the political atmosphere.
"People feel more collegiate in the fall. It's an election year and people have that political awareness," she said.
With each candidacy declaration, Students filling for the November elections receive a $2 filing fee and a signature.
By KATHY BRUSSELL
Staff Reporter
Summerfield bathroom battle rages
Women staff members have lifted the lid of controversy on the third floor of Summerfield Hall with their demands for equal rights to bathrooms.
The "bathroom controversy", which has been occupying the free moments of some employees in the School of Business, was triggered by a failure to the lack of a women's restroom on the third floor.
The controversy has a long history that actually dates back to the time Summerfield was built, according to John Tolefson, associate dean of business.
WHEN THE BUILDING was built in 1959, the first and second floors were equipped with two bathrooms each, he said. The third floor, the fourth, the fifth, and the last, and it was designated for use by men, he said.
"It was an interesting commentary on the
times," Tolleson said. "The staff was made up almost solely of men, and one ever gave a ride to anyone."
As the years passed and the number of women staff members increased, however, some people began to question the fairness of limiting the third floor bathroom to men only.
In time, the situation grew into "implicit competition over a scarce resource," Tolefson
Last February, Jean Baderschneider,
assistant professor of business, circulated a
handwritten petition protesting the lack of
a women's bathroom on the third floor.
"It started out as kind of joke." Bader-schneider said yesterday. "I'm known as being an advocate for lots of things in the department, of which this is obviously the least important. This was really a question of equity—we need a classroom on the floor for each sex."
THE PETITION WAS submitted to Toilette
with the request that Baderchick deal with
the problem, Baderchick said.
Among the alternatives was an offer to share the existing bathroom (which violated too many people's sensibilities, Baderschneider said), or to hang a board on the door of the bathroom that could be flipped to indicate which sex was occupying the bathroom.
The petitioners also suggested dividing the bathroom by building a wall down the middle and putting in another door, but that plan was not made. It would it cost too much, Baderschneider said.
In March, Tollefson sent a memo to the faculty and staff members on the third floor telling them about the petition and requesting their comments, advice or alternative suggestions.
According to a later memo from Toullefson, proposals that were considered and subsequently rejected included "a unisex (or nonsex) third floor restroom, a user's choice (men), the installation of portable toilets in the hallway of the third floor and immediate construction."
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Weather
RAIN
Today's high will be near 88, with thundershowers ending this afternoon according to the KU Weather Board.
KU to make picture ID cards
according to the KU Weather Service. Tonight will be fair and cooler with a low of 82.
Tomorrow will be fair and warmer. Highs will reach the upper 88s.
In the extended forecast, it should be dry and hot through the weekend. Highs should be mild.
By CINDI CURRIE
By CINDICURRIE Staff Reporter
New picture IDs for KU students will be available within the new month, Gil Dyck, dean of the school.
Dyck said the cards will cost students $15.00.
Students are not required to buy new D&L old_id
cards.
The credit card type ID now used does not provide enough identification for students out
"There was more cheating going on than in previous years," Dyck said.
HE SAID the need for the new picture IDa had been revealed by the Student Senate and Frank Lester, director of the
He said the science department among others had complained because it was difficult to positively identify students taking exams in large classes.
"We want a card that is valuable to students at the University as well as in the Lawrence community."
The card's design will be similar to the one
used now and will have the magnetic tape strip on the back used by the library for checking out
Drick said that he did not know how much the entire process would cook and that tids for the oven had to be preheated.
The equipment for producing the IDs will be sae tad. he said, but a location had not yet been chosen.
Last year's car production was directed by the department's relations and was transferred to the office of adminstr
Robin Eversole, director of University Relations, said that the equipment used two years ago could not be modified to produce the new cards.
The decision to produce the IDs at KU was made because of problems with Malco Plastics, Inc., a Maryland company that made the IDs last year.
Delivery of the cards was delayed last fall because of a change in the card's graphics and last spring because of problems with the billing arrangements.
Dyck said there were still 7,000 or 8,000 of last year's IDs in his office.