THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
Vol.85—No.106 Friday, March 7, 1975
KANSAN
The University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
7 students arraigned
By BILL GRAY Kansan Staff Reporter
Seven persons were arraigned Thursday and five others were to be subpoenaed in connection with the alleged battery of two of the residents of Lewis Hall at the hall Feb. 24.
Chancellor Archie R. Dykes and Kala Mays Strug, dean of women, were among those to be subpoenaed by the Douglas County attorney. The seven arraigned in Douglas County Court on misdemeasure battery charges were Lewall Hill residents
County judge Mike Elwell scheduled a joint hearing for the seven at 10 a.m. March
Douglas county attorney David Berkowitz said Thursday that he had filed an inquishment in Douglas County District Court in an effort to obtain facts about the inaction against the women, but that she couldn't reveal what action would be taken.
The Buckley amendment was passed last year by Congress. It is designed to protect student records from unauthorized scrutiny.
Berkowitz said the subpoenaed Dykes; Stroup; Caryl Smith, associate dean of women and the head of an investigation into the incident by the dean of women's office; Anna Marie Graham, head of the Lewis University assistant resident director at Lewis.
SMITH SAID WEDNESDAY that details of the dean of women's investigation into the incident couldn't be revealed because of the Buckley amendment and because a release of the information would be in violation of the civil code of rights and responsibilities.
Smith said that the dean's office planned
Richard Jones, Topeka, attorney for three of the residents, entered a plea of not guilty to charges.
Jones made the plea for the other four residents because their attorney, Hertzel Whyte, Kansas City, Kan., was late to the hearing.
TWO WHITE women, Debra Wastell and her sister, Denise, Topeka freshmen, signed complaints against the seven women, all of whom are black.
The women charged are: Helen Pilot,
Kansas City, freshman, charged with
helping a boy in a jail.
Wichita freshman, charged with battery of Debra Wastell; Mary Stuart, Greenboro, N.C., freshman, charged with battery of Debra Wastell; D'Anne Tombs, Kansas City, Mo., freshman, charged with battery of Debra Wastell; Jacquelyn Leedbetter, Kansas City, Kan., sophomore, charged with battery of Denise Wastell; Denise Brown, Lawrence junior, charged with battery of Denise Brown, Karen Raynes, Hopkins, Minn., sophomore, charged with battery of Debra and Denise Wastell.
THE INCIDENT WAS TESTED by the KU Security and network department as a response to the I-FWN issue.
See LEWIS page 5
Fasters save $35^{c}$ a meal to aid Emergency Service
Students "fasted" Thursday night at University of Kansas residence halls to help the Lawrence Emergency Service Council prepare for Hurricane Katrina. The last, 34 candles was contributed to ESC.
Harry Wigner, president of the Association of University Residence Halls, said 830 residents had signed up for a meal of soup, toast and frozen dessert.
Wigner said the 35 cents represented the difference between the cost of preparing the dinner and the cost of University housing office would keep track of how many students participated in the fast at each residence hall and then would distribute the food budget for each of those students.
The Rey, Don Conrad, publicity chairman
Med professor says food fads are foolish
By Staff Photographer DON PIERCE
Feast or fast?
As part of the Association of University Residence Hall's offer to rates money for the Lawrence Emergency Service Council, we will accept any rate from our office.
As the United States nears its 20th birthday, it is also engaged in its third era of magic cure-all food faddism, according to a report by the University of California at Los Angeles.
By KEN FULTON
Kansas Staff Reporter
BUT PLANTS DON'T differ because of the fertilizer used, he said. A carrot is a carrot no matter what type of nutrient is fed to it. according to Liatwak.
Supporters of organic foods have said that a food has been polluted by fertilizers and use of pesticides, which are organically. Lutwak said. Organic farming consists primarily of using manure to control pests.
ESC provides emergency financial assistance to residents in the Lawrence-Douglas County area. Conrad said 12 requests for aid had been received and those requested totaled $1,000. ESC funds have been reduced in recent weeks to $486, he said.
for ESC₂, said Wednesday that ESC
needed the funds the fast would
provide.
The two categories proliferated by bacteria are organic foods and megamitten.
The cycle for public interest in magic cures for human disparagements in America crests about every century and began with the Revolutionary War, Lutkwat said Thursday night before a crowd of 100 people in Wooldorf Auditorium.
Man has a need for poetry, imagery and mystery, he said, and as the mysteries of life and death are being explored
The goal of the diet, he said, is to cut consumption to the original used in an attack on the heart.
be donated in her name by vegetable soup, toast and a
fruzze dessert for dinner. 200 Hosta, Shawnee Mason junior,
1996, made from the leaves of *Aster acutus*.
According to Liatwak, fertilizer and insecticides were necessary to mass produce enough food to feed the nation because individuals can't grow all their own food. It would be short-sighted to expect everyone to eat exclusively organic food, he said.
"There is no proof, no argument can be shown, that manure is any better than compost."
organic and nonorganic food and vitamins,
he said. In fact, many organic vitamins are
encapsulated in gelatin capsules which
makes them more making them less
than completely organic.
LUTWAK SAID THE Zen macrobiotic diets were an example of the pseudo-religious approach. This diet consists essentially of nothing.
TODAY, PEOPLE feel controlled by distant forces, but there are things we can change in our personal environment to ease the feeling of control. Lutwak said.
SCIENTISTIFIC PEOPLE are generally responsible for promoting megavitamins, See FOOD page 6
People have literally reached a point of starvation on this diet, he said.
According to Liatwak, food fads can be divided into two categories: those promoted for religious reasons and those promoted by bucksters.
There is no way to distinguish between
IT IS THIS OVERSELLING of nutrition, he said, that has produced the opportunity for the huckster to flourish and make a mark on our lives. It is an opportunity for the proliferation of the fad, he said.
Lutkwat said that Americans have been equating nutrition with good health, but that nutrition didn't equal good health nor vice versa.
"Food is a simple way of controlling our environment," he said.
"They are selling magic that doesn't exist," he said.
If the fad were only a matter of self-indulgence, he said, then there wouldn't be anyone who had been so.
There is a basic distrust of science, the intellectual and medicine, he said, and special diets and foods are an easy way to deny the validity of science.
By BETTY HAEGELIN Kansan Staff Reporter
Exigency debate into final round
The year and a half battle over financial exigency is just one step from its con-
tribution.
Financial exigency has been defined as a financial crisis in which the University is forced to release tenured faculty members to maintain its position as an institution of
University Council approved Thursday the report from the ad hoc committee on financial exigency that outlines policies and requirements for the state. The report is to be considered at the April 10 meeting of the University Senate. If approved, the report would be part of the University Senate Code.
Other questions raised at the meeting were primarily editorial changes and amendments to clarify wording. The report passed with only two dissenting votes.
THE REPORT IS a compromise welding the work of two other groups, a previous construction team and a new one.
"Teture is a University affair, not a department affair." Daicoff said. "If a faculty member is released, he has a chance to move on." Whether he's 'the best qualification or not.'
In the compromise reached, a faculty member would retain his priority as an applicant in the department he was released from but would have to apply for other positions on equal footing with other applicants.
Committee of Concerned Faculty Members. The present ad hoc committee has worked with the faculty on several projects.
Perhaps the major compromise reached in the report out of committee was in implementing exigency on a unit basis rather than through across-the-board cuts. The across-the-board plan was recommended by theulty group in its report of August 1974.
DARWIN DAICOFF, PROFESSOR OF economics, said he remained convinced that the compromise was wrong and would vote against the plan because of that sec-
potentially lower the quality of not only classroom instruction, but also research
In other action, the Council defeated a proposal developed by the Academic Committee to change the procedure used in assigning an incomplete as a course grade.
However, a controversy continued concerning a section of the document that was changed recently to make the report available to the ad hoc Jool Gold, chairman of the ad hoc committee, and representatives of the Office of Affirmative Action developed the compromise, which deals with preferential treatment because of financial exigency.
Although some council members noted that many professors were qualified to teach in more than one department, some said that a person teaching in his second field might not be as competent in it as someone in that field from outside the University. Therefore, the quality of the University would decline, they said.
preferential treatment to applicants are in violation of affirmative action guidelines.
IN THE ORIGINAL DOCUMENT, a previously released faculty member would be entitled to first consideration for new positions opened in any department of the University he was qualified in. This preference would be given before the positions were advertised. However, filling a position without advertising it and giving
ED ROFLS, STUDENT body president,
said, "If this plan were adopted, it could
The proposed plan would have eliminated
See EXIGENCY page 6
Next Kansan out March 18
The next issue of the Kansan will be published March 18 following spring break. The newsroom will be open on Thursday for spring break. It will reopen March 17.
By Staff Photographer BARBARA O'BRIEN
Perhaps hoping that somebody she will be playing is cheering at women's basketball games, Jennifer Johnson yells encouragement to the K-State Wildkittens with her mother, Polly Johnson. K-State played South Dakota State in the first round of the Region A 6.1A. women's basketball championships being played at Robinson Gymnastium and Allen Field House Thursday, Friday and Saturday. The KU women's team lost to William Penn Thursday night 77-41.
Wildkitten rooters
Postal plan is challenged
By RICK GRABILL AND
By RICK GRABILL
SHANNON GREENE
Kansan Staff Reporters
The United States Postal System, beleaguered in recent years by a myriad of problems, has added another item to its long list of internal troubles.
The latest complication has risen from a plan to standardize mail routes and other issues associated with the new system.
But the new plan, officially known as the Letter Carriers Route Evaluation System (LCRES), is causing much discontent and anger among the ranks of the nation's mail system. The LCRES will send thousands of carriers out of work while making robots of the rest of them.
BECAUSE THE NEW SYSTEM is still being tested, little information on LCRES has been distributed by the United States Postal Service. Postal officials here in Lawrence have developed a wait-and-see attitude toward the program.
this, however, hasn't been the case on the local union level. According to local union officials, the proposed system has been the topic of much discussion among the letter carriers. Because of乳汁 of a national letter carrier strikes if LCHS is implemented, local carriers have been keeping abreast of local newsletters and local union meetings.
POSTAL MANAGEMENT has argued that such a program of standardization is necessary if the postal service is to begin coping with its enormous financial problems, which include an annual operating deficit of more than $300 million.
LCIES, which has undergone testing in Kokomo, Ind., and Portland, Ore., was in development for the standard operating procedures. Postal officials hope to reduce the number of mail routes and increase productivity by using computerized factoring systems in the delivery system.
SOME OF THE FACTORS that will be considered are: location, type, size and number of mail boxes on a route; the volume of mail; walking distances; street lengths and widths; and the number of step steps, doors and gates on each route. If the
system is adopted, this data will be collected into computers for each of the 1330 mail desk
Labor antagonism over LCRES is so intense that the nation's 200,000 letter carriers have threatened an unintended attack. The situation is adopted. Though a strike isn't wanted by either side and will probably be averted, the LCRES issue could nonetheless cause serious complication when employees in the 200,000 postal empire expire and come up for negotiation.
THE REASON FOR THE CARRIERS' opposition to the plan is the potential elimination of 12 per cent of the nation's mail routes. The implementation of the plan, the carriers' union says, could mean a loss of 15,000 to 20,000 jobs.
Even though the carriers have a no-layoff clause in their contracts, they fear a loss of jobs through attrition, which means that雇员 must die or dies, no one will be hired in his place.
AS A RESULT, JAMES Rademacher,
president of the National Carrierers
Dykes' assistant to be announced
Cancellor Archie R. Dykes said Thursday that he would name a new assistant to the team.
The vacancy was created *When John Coard resigned to become an Aide to Gov.
He said he had interviewed three candidates and would try to make a decision
Dykes said that although Conard's duties as assistant to the chancellor were closely tied to his previous legislative experience, the job description had been changed drastically and legislative experience wouldn't be a factor in the decision.
The deadline for applications was Feb. 18.
Approximately 40 names have been under
construction.
Association, was given a mandate at the national convention in Seattle last August to work with labor unions. Both labor and management, however, think that a work stoppage would have a devastating effect on the nation's economy, and both hope that a compromise can be made.
That may be easier said than done, however, as the newly appointed postmaster general, Benjamin F. Bailer, has said that he thought implementation of LCRES on a national basis would be desirable.
Opinion among officials in the local carriers' union hasn't so much centered on the potential loss of jobs as it is on what happens when the computerization of human beings.
"IF IT WOULD RESULT in the elimination of a number of jobs but maintain good postal service for the American public, we have an obligation to implement it," he said.
Charles Henderson, of Local 104; and Byron Jones, a local union shop steward, have said that LCRES takes in all the factors of a carrier's route except the human one. Both men are letter carriers in Lawrence.
HENDERSON AND JONES have agreed that the proposed system tended to group all letter carriers as one type. LCRS robes a carrier of his individuality, they say, because he must strict standardization the would be forced to follow in delivering the mail.
"I think the impression is that the letter carriers are against any kind of change, and that isn't true," Jones said. "I don't think you'll find any letter carrier in the country who is against mechanization or a new way of carrying the mail."
"BUT THE CARRIERS are against change that will make robots of them," he
Jones said he thought the system was too computerized and inflexible. There are no allowances, he said, for things such as the use of a computer to access the 65-year-old car. Nor does the
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