THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
Vol. 85-No. 58 Friday, November 15, 1974
KANSAN
The University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
By Kansan Photographer JAN SEYMOUR
Shankel confers
Executive Vice Chancellor Del Shankel goes over the Student Recruitment Team Student Behavior Journal Job Belden before her departure. Mrs. Dykes, R Dykes
Felony charges set for murder suspect
Senate. The questions concerned pre-enrollment and increased hours for Watson Library.
Douglas County Attorney David Berkowitz announced late yesterday afternoon that his office would file 12 felony charges today against a Topkea man in connection with a murder-cobbery at a Lawrence private club early Wednesday morning.
Donald Long, the 28-year-old Topeca man, will be charged with one count of first degree murder, five counts of aggravated robbery, four counts of kidnapping, one count of aggravated sodomy and one count of attempted rape, Berkowitz said yesterday.
The filing of the 12 charges came as a result of intensive fieldwork by the Lawrence police, the Douglas county sheriff's department and the county attorney's office. Berkowitz said. The KBI, the Topeka police and the Shawnee District Attorney's Office gave considerable help in the investigation, he said.
Law enforcement officials are searching for Long in connection with the fatal shooting of Todd Storbek, Winfield junior, and a robbery at the Sanctuary, 1401 W. 7th. St
Senate extends control of funds
By DAVID OLSON
Senate Reporter
Two bills of a four-part package designed to strengthen the Student Senate's administration of the funds it allocates were approved at last night's Senate meeting.
The Senate passed one bill stipulating that groups that are funded by Student Senate must comply with the Senate Code and the Code of Rights, Responsibilities and Con
the second bill approved will give the
Senate the power to withhold or cancel
enrollment; the power not to
compromise with rules of the Senate.
"The bills passed will put greater emphasis on investigating groups funded by student activity fees in terms of the Code and the Rules and Regulations," Lewis Gregory, finance and audit committee chairman, said.
The bills will provide greater control for the Senate, he said. Only blunt violations by groups would cause the Senate to use the bills to withhold funds.
An amendment proposing that the Finance and Audit Committee could recommend "appropriate action" against violating groups, instead of specific actions, in cases where As the act now stands, any report of violations made by the Finance and Audit Committee will have to include recommendations regarding the withholding funds.
Gregory said the defeat of the amendment created a handicap, because groups
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Pre-enrollment possible in 1976
Senate Reporter
Del Shakel, executive vice chancellor,
told the Student Senate last night that before a pre-enrollment system could be established, the legislature would have to determine which computer system and class schedules would have to be determined much earlier.
"We are aiming to adopt a pre-enrollment system for the spring of 1976. If all of these things were aiming for all of them, we would be a pre-enrollment system." Shunkel said.
By JOHN JOHNSTON
Shankel attended the Senate meeting with Chancellor Archie R. Dykes in recognition of his work being observed throughout the state. The two UA administrators answered questions about the state's history.
Shankel said Gil Dyck, dean of admissions and records, had visited several other universities that had pre-enrollment systems. The administration hopes to improve the quality of their systems with the good features of the KU system, Shankel said.
Dykes said that if the funding wasn't secured for the new computer, many other non-scholastic areas of University service that rely on computer assistance would suffer. too. Dykes urged students to inform themselves of the University's need for the computer.
Berkowitz, Doug Walker, assistant county attorney, and R. Richard Stanwix, Lawrence police chief, all expressed concern about divulging details that could possibly jeopardize prosecution of the case when it came to trial.
Before Dykes and Shankel arrived at last night's meeting, the Senate passed a request for the appointment of the KU library. The petition asks Dykes to re-evaluate the priority placed on the library and to insure sufficient funding for staffing that the hours of operation could be increased.
Shankel said, "I wrote a letter to the director of libraries asking him to let us visit them when there are library hours to midnight during the week and from 10 a.m. to midnight on Sundays for the two weeks prior to finals and during the week before." He told both this semester and next semester."
He said that if the budget requests were passed by the legislature in the spring, that policy could possibly be continued or expanded next year.
Dykes and Shankel were also questioned about the list of priorities released recently that defined what the University should consider in the next few years. Many members of the Senate were concerned that the University's policy was a secondary consideration for the future.
Dykes assured the Senate that he thought teaching quality was a primary concern and should be encouraged by a workable reward system. Dykes said creases are important rewards, Dykes said.
Ed Rolfs, student senator, told Dykes that several unintended teachers he had talked to recently they taught classes that caused "no waves" and then published papers and worked on research. That is how they attempt to secure tenure, Rolfs said.
Dykes said a mixture of teaching experience and research was necessary for an effective curriculum.
Dykes said that if that was true, he had to work harder to emphasize teaching as his priority.
Hoch called a fire trap
Topeka police said 11 felony charges were being prepared to be filed by the Shawnee District Attorney's office. The 11 charges included murder, libery, rape, battery, sodassy and assault.
If the suspect is arrested in Shawnee County, Douglas County will have a good chance to try him because of the murder charge filed in this county, he said.
Administration Renorter
The county that first arrests the suspect
whose the jurisdiction to try him first,
Berkeley.
who violated relatively minor rules would still be subject to a cancellation of their license.
Berkowitz said Lawrence and Topena police and KBI officials were still gathering evidence.
The University of Kansas is faced with potential tragedy in Hoch Auditorium if present smoking and fire prevention regulations aren't more rigid enforced, Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor, said in University Council yesterday.
By BETTY HAEGELIN
"Four thousand four hundred people in a 3,700 person capacity auditorium is untenable." Buchholz said. "You get extra heat and extra smoke, not all of which is cigarette. In the third balcony, you could get high very quickly."
Although present regulations ban smoking in all University classrooms and state law prohibits smoking in any place of public assembly, Skalenkel said these laws seemed to have no perceptible effect. He said the laws irritating but also extremely dangerous.
Buchholz said that because Sly was 45 minutes late in arriving and came close to canceling the performance, the crowd was overcrowded. Buchholz said that for some reason, contrary to state law, 400 to 500 standing room only tickets were sold, intensifying the close quarters and
The curtains are eight to 10 years old, Buchholz said, and therefore have lost their fire protection. To be cleaned and have this fire guard applied would mean they must be taken apart and sent to Philadelphia. Buchholz said they were in such poor condition they would fall apart in the process.
He said the extra standing room only capacity tended to block the aisles and exits, making evacuation in case of fire even more difficult.
"The ceiling is highly flammable and the curtains are flammable," Shankel said. "A fire could go through that whole roof in a hurry if one ever got started."
The acoustic ceiling is a cane board suspended structure, leaving an air pocket between it and the true ceiling. Use of cane board as ceiling material in new structures or remodeling was banned four years ago, he said.
"The smoke was extremely noxious, and eight people were carried out." Buchholz said. "There was vomit on the floors from people getting sick, and no jonitors could be found to clean up. The smoke was so thick it was like looking through a screen."
Complaints of misuse of funds by groups will be investigated by the Finance and Audit Committee. The committee must submit a written report to the Senate with its recommendations concerning the results of its investigation. Groups charged with misuse of funds will have the opportunity to appear before the Senate, according to the act.
Shankel said anxiety over the concentration of smoke was primarily due to the warmth.
Harry M. Buchholz, director of the physical plant, said the most recent example of the dangerous condition of Hoch and the irritation caused by smoking was last Saturday's concert by Sly and the Family Stone.
Buchholz said that because he was charged with the responsibility of life, limb and property at the University, he wanted the University governance to back him up. If they won't, he said, they are responsible as well.
"I hesitate to go into this further because the problem arises mainly because of the structure of the building." Buchholz said. "It's very old and would take considerable
"I don't know why we schedule anything in Hoch, especially if it'll go to a have a house," Robert D. Adams, professor of history,科萨, said. "The place is a underbox."
Ernest Thomas, sponsor of the legislation, told the Senate he met with Michael Davis, general counsel at KU, yesterday to ask him about the legality of the bills. According to Thomas, the bills were leal in Davis' opinion.
Even though the ticket price at Hoch includes the cost of six University buildings, it is not true that still no way of effectively halting smokers, as there are no provisions for punishment in present laws. Buchholz said. He asked the court to opt some resolution to deal with the matter.
Berkowitz said all law enforcement agencies in Kansas were involved in the search for Long. Topeka police today found the white 1983 Plymouth Belvedere used by the murder suspect to drive from Lawrence to Topea after the robbery, he said. Topea law officials are now examining the car for evidence.
Another bill that would cut funding of groups that don't comply with the Kansas Open Meetings Law wasn't acted upon last night.
"Maybe we should turn the lights on and the stage power off and say the show won't work. Maybe we don't know whether anything short of that will help, until we start to haul people out."
The council referred the matter to SenEx so it could be placed in the proper committee to study and make further recommendations for enforcement of smoking rules both at special events and in daily classroom situations.
John Beissner, student body president,
said this action might really cause a riot.
In other business, the Senate passed a petition to the chancellor asking for a continued commitment by the administration to increase funding of student workers in the KU library system. A report requested that $43,200 in additional funds to extend library hours to a total of 98 hours a week.
Local law officials are still looking for a white male drive a late model yellow or orange pickup truck. He was seen talking to a black male in a white car on U.S. 40 in West Douglas or southeast Shauwensee counties between 7:30 and 9:30 a.m. Wednesday.
He said seven persons were in the club when the robber entered. Those present were Storbeck, two of his fraternity brothers and four club employees.
The robbery occurred at about 3:30 a.m. when a black man entered the Sanctuary, robbed customers and employees and took money from the cash box. Although he didn't know exactly how much was taken, he said the amount was less than $1,000
it was thought before that only six persons were in the club when it was robbed, and it is easy to see the details of the robbery and shooting "basisically" the Berkowitz said.
Those reports said that the robber told the persons in the club to lie down on the floor. Storkeck apparently thought the robber was standing on a table, but when he was shot outside the club on a porch area.
Storbiek died of a gunshot wound to the head, Laurance W. Price JR., county coroner, said Wednesday. Price said it was the day Storbiek had been shot at close range.
The robber then took two female employees hostage and ordered the four remaining persons in the club to disobey and run into the woods next to the Sanctuary.
Lawrence police impounded a red 1963 Chevrolet found in a ravine in the 2800 block of University Drive in the Downebrook neighborhood, and whether the Chevrolet belonged to Lons.
The robber and two hostages then drove
the Meadowbrook area and abandoned
that car.
However, the Chevrolet was definitely evidence in the case, he said. Berkowitz said the license tags on the car were stolen. It was also important intentionally driven into the ravine, he said.
The robber then commanded the 1963 Plymouth, containing two men, from the Mendowbrook area and took them hostage. The men, identified as Spencer Russell and Terry Barnes, were on their way to work at the time.
Berkowitz said he didn't know why the Chevrolet was left in the ravine and the car was stolen.
Berkowitz said Russell and Paula were construction workers and had been working on the Clinton Reservoir project. He was also involved in how the robber commanded the car.
The robber and four hostages remained in Lawrence until about 9:30 a.m., Berkowitz said. He said he couldn't disclose what the activities of the five were during that time because it might jeopardize the defendant's right to a fair trial.
After 9:30, the robber and the four hostages drove to Topeka, where they stopped at an old house in the southeast area of the city. The hostages were tied up, and the robber left the house in the white Plymouth.
One of the female hostages freed herself and called the Topeka police from a nearby freight dock. The police picked up the hostage and they were taken to Stormont-Vail Hospital in Topeka and were released yesterday afternoon. The two men were
The hostages were questioned by law enforcement officials from the KBI and Shawnee and Douglas counties and from the Lawrence and Topeka police departments.
Berkowitz said yesterday that he doubted that he would press charges against the club owner or club employees in connection with a claim against the 3 a.m. class A closing law.
"It seems to me that to bring charges against the people running the club really wouldn't serve a useful purpose considering it is not tough enough and what has happened," he said.
Clowning around
Gene Randow has been clowning for 55 of his 58 years, either in the circus or in burlesque. He was in the armored forces the three years he helped trump clown Ive ever worked with, and that includes Emmet Kelly," said blinko the Clown, who works with Randow.
"Emmet may get all of the publicity, but Gene gets the real laugh." "The trump clowns," in appearing in Kansas City with the Shrine Circum through Nov. 17.
By Kansan Photographer DAVE PETERSON