Thursday, August 28, 1980
Vol. 91, No. 5
The University Daily
KANSAN
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
SCOTT HOOKER/Kansan stal
SCOTT HOOKERKIRAN staff George "Jed" Smock, hippie-turned-evangelist, warned KU students of a fiery eternity if they do not change their lifestyles. Smock spoke for several hours on the lawn in front of Flint Hall yesterday, preaching and condemning students for their clothes, music and religious morals.
Fiery sermon rips students, damns lifestyle
By BILL VOGRIN Staff Reporter
"Hold the pickles, hold the lettuce, Holy Jesus don't forget us . . ."
It it could be the theme song for George "Jed" Smock, the self-proclaimed evangelist who preached on the lawn in front of Flint Hall and sang the anthem to the King of kings while inside a Burger King.
Since his conversion to Christianity in that revelation in August 1972, Smock, 37, a former history professor, has traveled the country. He has visited countries where he and mend their ways, or they will all burn in hell.
The episode yesterday was a classic example of what Smock called 'confrontoon evangelism.' He stood on the grass with his Bibles and leaflets, igniting or challenging the religious beliefs of everyone who walked by and was willing to listen.
HIS RHETORIC WAS well rehearsed, and though his discussions with passing students often spread to distant tangents, the point was always the same—students are consumed with the devil and must stop their sinning and find Jesus.
"I know what it's like. I've been there, 'Smock proclaimed to the crowd. 'Mommy was, 'If it feels good, then do it.' I was doing my own thing
Unch it, turn oil and drop out.
Unch it, turn oil and drop out.
I used the dress and lived in a computer.
I was a hipster.
It was on the beaches of Morocco on Christmas Day, 1971, that Smock said he first "saw the light," literally. The leaflet he distributes documents his life from his teaching career and first encounter with marjana through his days as a hippie and later a convert to Christianity.
THE TERRE HAUTE, IND., native displayed showmanships techniques that would have made P.T. Barnum proud. Smock used his flair for the dram. Barnum and his strong, distinct voice to tell his
See EVANGELIST page 5
U.S. ambassador escapes ambush
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP)—Gunmen fired machine guns and a rocket-propelled grenade at a three-car convoy carrying U.S. Ambassador John Gunther Dearney yesterday. However, Lebanon's state radio said Dean escaped unharmed.
Reliable sources said unidentified ambushers, driving a Mercedes, attacked the ambassador's convoy as it was leaving his summer residence near the presidential palace.
Dean ducked down on the back seat of his bullet-proof limousine when the shooting started and the limousine sped off. The sources said the ambassador's French-born wife, Martine, his daughter, Catherine, and bodyguards also escaped injury.
A total of 20 bullets hit Dean's limousine and other cars in the convoy but failed to pierce the vehicle's door.
The lead car in the American convoy returned the fire and three people were arrested, the sources said. The other two cars in the convoy entered an area, which is controlled by the Lebanese army.
A Lebanese army spokesman had no comment on the incident.
Two hours after the shooting, which occurred about 8 p.m., 1 p.m. CDT, Dean appeared outside the American Embassy and said, "I have nothing to say."
Prime Minister Salim el Hoss said Lebanon "strongly deplores this attempt. Needless to say, it serves only those who are out to sabotage Lebanon's existence."
It was the first attempt on a U.S. ambassador's life in Lebanon since 1976 when Ambassador Francis E. Melay, economic counselor Robert O. Waring and their chauffeur were kidnapped and killed on the way from West Beirut to East Beirut during the civil war.
Yesterday's attack came hours after Dean said the United States was working with Israel and the United Nations to end the violence in Gaza. He said Palestinians and Palestinian guerrillas in southern Lebanon.
U. S. State Department officials said at the time that Dean had erred in making the condemnation statement without prior consultation with Washington.
It was his first public statement since he sparked an uprora Aug. 21 by condemning an Israeli attack on Palestinian guerrillas' strongholds in the area.
Wichita State awaits Title IX investigation
Dean's statement yesterday was designed to avert condemnation of any side involved in the southern Lebanon violence by hese. He said it would be difficult with Lahezian Foreign Minister Fadwil Butros.
The generalized opposition to cross-border violence is expected to be welcomed by the Lebanese government of President Elias Sarkis, which has been long campaigning for recognition of its 1948 frontier with Israel as the permanent border between the two countries.
Lebanon was dismayed when the State Department failed to endorse Dean's decision.
By KATHY BRUSSELL
Staff Reporter
As the University of Kansas awaits a federal investigation into charges of sex discrimination in its athletic department, Wichita State University is preparing to face similar charges.
Natasha Fife, athletic director at Wichita State, filed an in-house grievance Monday with James R. Rhipitan, dean of students, accusing the university of not complying with all aspects of Title IX in regard to its women's and men's sports programs.
TITLE IX is the federal law prohibiting sex discrimination at federally funded institutions.
Fife SAID WICHTA State has neglected to provide adequate funding for the development of programs.
"I really feel there is discrimination," Fife said earlier this week. "I don't think the university was planning to do anything until somebody complained."
In particular, she cited the need for women's teams to receive more money for travel expenses.
Last year, Wichita State allotted women's teams $31,000 in travel funds. Men's teams received $140,000 for travel, nearly five times the amount of the women's allocation.
Life's complaint covers other areas such as athletic scholarships, recruitment funds, coach
Next month, the U.S. Department of Education will begin investigating KU's athletic program for alleged discrimination in identical areas. Eight such investigations will start in September as part of the department's extensive study into Title IX violations in intercollegiate sports.
Attorney general to study Endowment bylaws
The Kansas attorney general's office will review the bylaws of the Kansas University Endowment Association to help them determine whether the organization is public or private.
The KU Committee on South Africa requested the attorney general's opinion on the Endowment Association's status in July. The committee has said it hopes the Endowment Association be a public corporation, will open its records of gifts and investments for public inspection.
Todd Seymour, president of the KU Endowment Association, has said in the past that the Association would not open its records to the public unless it was ordered to do so.
Smoot said it was essential to determine how the endowment associations were incorporated, funded and operated, and who were on their boards. He said his office was not necessarily required to do that, but he noticed the situation only, but that "we have to look at this from the perspective of all the institutions."
Brad Smoot, deputy attorney general, said the bylaws were expected to arrive in the next few days. The incorporation papers of the schools already have been reviewed. Smoot said.
"We're trying to find out what kind of a creature they are under the law," he said.
Smoot said the attorney general's office was using the same process to determine the Endowment Association's status as they used to determine the status of the University of Kansas
Athletic Corporation this spring. In that case, the attorney general determined that KUAC records should be open to the public.
Smoot said, however, that in the KUAC case, the office cited a different statute than the public records act that was cited in the Endowment Association case.
The attorney general's office expects to have a decision of the Endowment Association's status by March 31.
Advertisement for chancellor gets responses
The chancellor search committee has received most of its nominations and applications in a nationwide search through an advertisement in a magazine. The chancellor, Kleinberg, committee chairman, said yesterday.
By CINDICURRIE
Staff Reporter
The committee ran the advertisement in the Chronicle of Higher Education. Kleinberg said that nominations also were made by faculty, alumni and other schools.
THE ADVERTISEMENT gives a description of the University of Kansas, has a picture of the University seal and the word "chancellor" in block print.
The committee originally had thought of advertising in major national newspapers but did not.
The committee wrote the advertisement.
Kleinberg said. He said it did not think qualifications for applicants had to be specified.
The KU ad reads: "The state Board of Regents, the governing Board for public universities in Kansas, seeks nominations and applications for the position of Chancellor of the University of Kansas. The Chancellor is the chief executive officer of the University.
The majority of ads in the 35-page advertisement section of the newspaper give a detailed description of a position, qualifications and expectations for the applicants.
"The University of Kansas, a charter member of the Association of American Universities, is a multi-campus university. The main campus is located in Lawrence; the University of Kansas Medical Center is in Kansas City; a branch of the School of Medicine is in Wichita; and various programs are established in Topeka (the state capital). Overland Park, Chanute, Salina,
Hutchinson, Hays, Garden City and other locations. Enrollment in the University of Kansas exceeded 26,000 students in the 1979-80 academic year and the combined budget for the University totals more than $260,000? in fiscal year 1981."
THE FINAL PARAGRAPH of the ad-
vocational that KU is an equal opportu-
nity employer.
Kleinberg said the ad gave the necessary information to applicants and anyone interested in it.
"There was no need for a list of qualifications," Kleinberg said. "They would know (the qualifications) we're looking for in an administrator of a major university."
He said although the committee had not
participated, they did have particular
characteristics in mind.
The committee will choose five candidates
from the nominations and applications received before the Oct. 31 deadline to present to the Board of Regents. The Regents will make the final decision.
The committee comprises faculty, students and alumni chosen earlier this year by the Board of Regents after former Chancellor Archie R. Dykes announced his resignation.
THE MAJORITY of the candidates have administration backgrounds, he said, but the committee would not reveal the names of the candidates.
"It was primarily a progress report," he said.
"We're not going to be looking at resumes yet. We'll go out and see what they are."
The committee met for the second time Monday night to see how many applications had been received.
The entire process is expected to be finished by the end of the 1980-81 school year.
HRATIGAN SAID the grievance filed by Fife is very general, claiming violations of all said provisions.
"I asked her (Fife) to identify the specific that he had been called upon again said. "Then you work something."
Fife agreed to make her grievances more specific, and Rhatiigan said he expected to receive a new copy of the complaints today or tomorrow.
Fei's complaints will be investigated by a standing Wichita Stat. Title IX committee, Rathburn District.
The guidelines become especially hard to follow because it is part of a university's athletic budget, be he.
The nine committee members, including two women, were all chosen for their knowledge of authority.
"We saw room for improvement in the athletic department at that time, and we have made improvements ever since," he said. "I assume this was not satisfied with the rate of progres."
However, Fife expressed concern that some of the members were too closely associated with the men's athletic department and might have a conflict of interest, Rhitan said.
BECAUSE RHATIGAN did not want Fite to think that she was "going in against a stacked deck," he said he offered to expand the committee by adding two more women.
Rhitagian said he couldn't be sure if the complaint would end with the in-house investigation. He said he was confident the university would work on the problem. If Fife was involved in the investigation, he said, she retained the right to file grievances at the state or national level.
Wichita State was reviewed four years ago to determine its compliance with Title IX in all cases.
At many large schools, football is the top money-making sport, he said. Problems arise when the athletic department must decide whether to allow university revenues among the university's other sports.
TITLE IX regulations have been interpreted several different ways in the past, and much confusion still exists as to how they should be applied to athletics. Hathian said.
Rhatiagan said that a lack of clear guidelines has made the university's compliance with Title II.
"There is no case law to support any view of what we're supposed to do," he said.
Weather
It will be partly cloudy tonight with lows in the 70s, according to the National Weather Service in Tampa.
Tomorrow will be fair and warmer with highs in the mid to upper 90s. Winds will from the east at 10 mph
The weekend will be dry and hot with no precipitation expected.
Highs for the weekend will be in the upper 80s and low 90s, and lows will be in the mid 60s.