THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
Vol.85-No.101 Friday, February 28, 1975
KANSAN
The University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
Hall incident misreported, 2 women say
By BILL GRAY Kansan Staff Reporter
A Security and Parking Department report about an incident Monday night at Lewis Hall was mistaken in some of the statements it made about the incident, according to two black women who said Thursday they were involved.
The women asked that they not be identified.
The incident was an alleged assault of three white female Lewis residents by about 20 black female Lewis residents, according to the department report. The incident was the result of long standing feelings between the women, the report said.
The women said that only 10 persons were actually involved in the incident, including the three white women. They were other women who were involved. Incident but didn't participate, they said.
Only two of the white women were actually involved in the entire incident, the woman said. They said one woman threw a bottle at me and I was struck, but wasn't struck by any of the blacks.
The two black women said one of the other two white women provoked the incident. They said words were exchanged just before the alleged assault took place. One of the white women called a black woman a "bitch" and fighting began immediately after that comment, they said.
They said they weren't sure who threw the first punch.
They said they would file assault charges against the two white women. Mike Malone, a county attorney, said no charges had been filed in the office's byday afternoon's office by late Thursday afternoon.
The two white women refused to comment on the incident.
The black women said they thought Security and Parking had made two reports of the incident, one with the white women's and one with the black woman's stories.
Mike Thomas, director of Security and Parking, said that there was only one report of the incident made by the reporting officers. He said a detective was still investigating the incident, and he might file an additional report.
Malone said that one report of the incident had been filed with the attorney's office, but that there were several separate interviews that were part of the report.
The interviews weren't made available to the public by Security and Parking.
The women said they hadn't met the two white women before the incident occurred.
white women before the incident occurred. Thomas said he was unaware of any complaints being filed in relation to the incident.
"In a case like this, we probably can't proscribe anyone unless we have a signature."
The women said the incident hadn't started as a racial incident, but was being treated with care.
Molly Lafflin, resident director of Lewis, and Jo Ann Gulifoyle, Lewis Hall housing manager, said Tuesday that they wouldn't comment on the incident.
By Staff Photographer DON PIERCE
Raised eyebrows
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Robert D. Adams, professor of mathematics, reacted to a question about the financial exigency report at a meeting of the University Council Thursday. Adams is a member of the ad hoc committee that drew up the report, which wasn't acted upon at Thursday's session.
By BETTY HAEGELIN Kansan Staff Reporter
No decision on the financial exigency report came from the University Council as debate and clarifications made it impossible to finish reading the entire document at the council's meeting Thursday.
Council delays ruling
Joel Gold, chairman of the ad hoc committee that drafted the report, said he felt it was calling a bingo game as he went through the report with the council. This was the second council meeting at which the report was sent and the meeting is scheduled for next Thursday for final review.
Financial exigency is described as the financial crisis that would force the University to release tenured faculty financial position as an extension of high quality.
The long, involved report contained many points that needed to be clarified for council members. Gold, along with other members of the group, asked questions and answer objections raised by the group. Several "friendly amendments" were given; others were more substantive measures.
"I think the document is important, and we'll have to get through it," Gold said. "It is important to consider it carefully, but remember, it is not forever. As the situation changes over the next three or four or five years, so will the document."
One type of phrasing was questioned by Charles Kieser, professor of psychology, who said phrases such as that the University would take "all possible alter- ment" of his psychology might be too hard to defend if a suit was brought by a released faculty member.
Gold said, as he had in earlier proceedings, that the report was written as sparsely as possible to avoid unnecessary specific words or phrases. Although in some cases made at making the wording of the report more specific, committee members made no strong objections to wording changes and thought the changes altered the meaning.
But Gold said this wording was precisely what the committee thought was necessary to insure that all alternatives had been evaluated during the drastic step of declaring exigency.
"The University must take all possible steps to avoid exigency," Gold said. "A
greater danger for us would lie in an opposite wording."
Gold said it wasn't the responsibility of the document's authors to see into the future and guard against possible legal actions. Instead, he said, the document must be clarified and formalized in the University's current procedure.
An amendment proposed by Frances Ingemann, professor of linguistics, to make the definition of exigency more stringent passed a second portion of the prophecy declared when exigency declared only when the University's financial situation "constituted a
grave danger to its survival. '' was defeated.
Gold and other members of the committee said this wording would constitute a drastic change from their original intentions because there was a definite difference between survival and continuing as an institution of high quality.
Another amendment was presented to the council by Arthur Breipohl, professor of electrical engineering, on behalf of Hilel Unz, professor of electrical engineering, who was defeated. It would have changed a section dealing with fractional ap-
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Students file petition against dorm food
The University Housing Office will attempt to alleviate dissatisfaction that some GSP-Corbin Hall residents have expressed concerning the food served in the hall's cafeteria, according to J. J. Wilson, director of housing.
Hall representatives issued a formal complaint to Wilson Wednesday afternoon. A majority of the residents from each floor signed the complaint posted this week by floor presidents, Ellen Grass, GSP president, said.
Wilson said Thursday that he didn't think the problem was a major one, even though a petition had been served on him. He said his office would try to make the necessary corrections to respond to the wishes of the hall residents.
Bugs in the soup, leathery jello and many cassaroles were among complaints
Residents also complained about the way the food was handled before it was served.
Mpam Morna, Topeka freshman, said there also were times when the women weren't allowed to have seconds on salads, which had always been permitted before.
Bonnie Bowell, Baltimore, Md., freshman, said, "We need good food to keep us going. There are several dishes like casseroles, patties and hamburgers too often. These things can't be called real food. They give no real nourishment."
Grain reserve program called for
By MARK EKLUND Kansan Staff Reporter
'75 blood drive is short of goal
Grass said more complaints about food had been made to the hall council this year that it was 'not worth the cost'.
The United States must establish a grain reserve program to benefit from its agricultural production and marketing system, according to Morton Sosland, chairman of the Midwest Research Institute.
Sosland, who spoke last night to about 600 people in the Union Ballroom, said that for the past five years world grain consumption was falling. He said about one billion bushels. That trend will
A total of 728 pints of blood were donated during this semester's three-day drive, Kelly Vogt, blood drive coordinator, said Wednesday.
continue and perhaps even accelerate, he said.
The University of Kansas Red Cross Blood Drive this week fell short of its goal but still collected more blood than last fall's drive.
"There is no question in one's mind but that we should try to build up our wheat carryover," Soaland said. "The stock of 250 cents in prospect for July 1, 1975, is too low."
Vogt said that although the full tell fall is the University goal of 800 bills, it exceeds that goal.
Sosland is publisher and editor of "Milling and Baking News," a weekly journal for grain, milling and baking industries. His paper was the first to uncover the Russian and Chinese wheat deals with the United State in 1972.
Merle Capps, bloodmobile driver who inventories the blood, said this was one of the most successful drivers in recent years. Of the 833 persons had donated blood Wednesday.
The Russian wheat deal was one of the greatest miscalculations of the century,
Primary date nears
A total of 36,024 Douglas County residents are eligible to vote in the primary elections for city commissioners and school board members next Tuesday.
Vogt said he was pleased with the results of the drive even though the goal hadn't been reached.
Of 20 candidates for the city commission, six will go to the general election April
1 when three will be elected.
Eight of the nine candidates for the school board also will go to the general election, where four will be elected
"It was not a price determined in the marketplace," Soiland said. "It was a price that august economist-politicians in our own government and in other developed countries around the world had decided was the true equilibrium price for wheat."
The Soviet Union's purchase of more than 400 million bushels of American wheat at $1.60 a bushel was actually a kind of sacred cow, he said.
That price was solely designed to place a lid on production, he said. Sosland said that the price hardly recognized the possibility of an exversion in the demand for wheat.
Absentee ballots for the primary election must be returned by 7 p.m. Tuesday to the Douglas County clerk's office, which will be open from 10 a.m. to noon Saturday.
Students had to wait for more than two hours at one point Wednesday, Vogt said, because of the large turnout. He attributed the turnout to donors' willingness and cooperation.
The Soviet Union's decision to buy unprecedented quantities of America grain sent a shock wave throughout the world, be
As a result, other nations began to
people at a result of the Russian aggression
of the Russian government.
The Kansan will run Monday a list of candidates and a list of polling places and times they will be open. The Kansan also will provide election results at 848-4814.
Those countries reasoned that if the Soviet Union thought it necessary to meet the food wants of its people, then countries in other parts of the world instruments should do likewise, Scotland said.
President Gerald R. Ford's cancellation of wheat deals with the Russians and Chinese last October was a serious mistake, according to Sosland.
"We need Russia and China as our customers," he said, "especially if we're going to continue importing so much of our oil."
Sosland said that the government should seek further grain deals with the Soviet Union and China. But before negotiating any agreement, he said, the United States had agreed that it had a limited supply of grain for sale and a domestic market to protect.
According to Soiland, an American grain reserve program had a geopolitical urgency since the Russians and Chinese were to extensive grain reserve programs.
New car rebate program ends
By KEN KREHBIEL
Kenyan Staff Bureau
Rebates on new cars offered by major automobile manufacturers end today. General Motors and the American Motors Corp, have announced they would lower three former models, and the other two major manufacturers are expected to follow suit.
Al Kells, sales manager for John Maurice Ford, said Thursday. "We just read what did. We just presume Ford will do something but we have nothing official yet."
GM announced Tuesday it would lower prices on nine small models by as much as $313 by removing some standard equipment.
Kansan Staff Reporter
If the pattern set by the rebates continues, soon all three other major companies will be cutting prices to keep up with GM. When they do, GM will sell cars, the other three companies said they
AMC will begin cutting prices Monday by making changes in equipment.
However, both Chrysler and American Motors reported sharp declines below the same period a year ago. Chrysler's sales dropped to 15.3 percent. 45.3 percent are down 25 per cent.
General Motors reported that Tuesday its mid-February sales were 15 per cent above the same period in 1974, which was the lowest since levels since before the Midast eol embargo.
The industry's total sales were down 11 per cent from a year ago, when sales were extremely low because of the Mideast oil embargo which had just been imposed.
wouldn't follow suit. But within two weeks, all four had rebad bat plans, and Chrysler's motor was back on track.
Local dealers of the major corporations unanimously expressed optimism that the end of the rebate programs wouldn't depress new car sales.
"I really don't even predict it," Kells said. "Our sales are going good now."
He said the dealership actually had been selling more cars at the beginning of the
year than it had in the same period last year.
"I don't think there will be a ledown in sales," he said. "Spring's coming, and people can still make a good deal on a new car."
L. Brubeck Jr., sales manager for Jim Clayton Chrysler, said he thought spring would be the best.
He said he hadn't heard anything from Chrysler yet about lowering prices to compete with the two companies that had announced price cuts.
He said an organized grain reserve program would function as a brake on price
"I wouldn't try to outgrace the corre-
lation," Brubaker said. "I'm sure they'll
do it, but I don't know."
Herton, finance and insurance manager for Jack Ellenna Buck, Oldsmobile and GMC, said, "We're kind of optimistic that sales will increase. Our sales haven't really been down too much. It has been a lot better. And this time of year, buoy interest has increased."
The Elena dealership isn't completely abandoning the rebates. Horton said.
"We're probably the only agency in town that has rebated on a used car program," he said.
He said he didn't know how much longer he used car rebate program would last, but he wanted it. "I just made sure I got it."
Bruceuck said, "I think the rebates were a very good idea. I'd have to say it had to be one of the great things the corporations have done. It got some money in the economy and did what it was supposed to do."
All the dealers interviewed said they thought that the rebates were a good idea and that they had helped sales as well as the economy.
Kells said he didn't know how to judge the effect of the rebates on their sales because sales had been pretty good anyway, but he thought the rebates were a good idea.
"I think it was a good idea," Horton said. "I think it's stimulated sales to a certain degree and I think the over-all effect has been a positive one."
Friendly Chat ... By staff Photographer BARBARA O'BRIEN
Jeanne Ryan, Shawnee Mission sophomore, talked with Morton Soiland before his lecture on food problems. Ryan at one time worked for Soiland at his publishing