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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
Vol. 85-No.7 Wednesday, September 4,1974 The University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
Bar noise, crowding cause problems for some residents
By KENN LOUDEN
BY KENN AND
MARK MITCHELL
Reporters
Several residents and apartment owners in the area of the Wagon Wheel Cafe and the Jayhawk Cafe have attributed incidents of vandalism, excessive noise, attempted rabbery to the huge number of students frequenting these bars. However, city officials say that the situation is well under control and that these allegations are overreacted if not inconvenient.
For the past several years, complaints about the huge crowds that gather in the vicinity of 14th and Ohio streets—the location of the 'Hawk and the Wheel—have been submitted to various city, law enforcement and University of Kansas officials.
Dou Easer, manager of apartment complexes at 1419 Ohio St. and 1423 Ohio St., said that he was losing tenants because of the noise from the bars but that he was even more up with the vandalism of property damaged by fire, in which "dots were completely out of hand."
Executive Vice Chancellor Delbert Shankel met yesterday with student leaders and other University officials to discuss the problems involving these bars.
Complaints allege violations including vandalism of houses and signs, disturbing the peace, illegal parking and urinating on lawns and more serious crimes such as robbery, breaking and entering, assaults and attempted raps.
These residents have been sufficiently irked to ask the City Commission last summer to close the Wheel, and the residents are now circulating a petition among area residents and property owners to revoke the license of the Wheel.
PART OF THE PROBLEM, Easer said, is the lack of law enforcement in the area by the city, the police or the University. He said many break-ins had occurred in the apartments near the bar, but the police had said they were helpless to do anything.
Easer said it had become dangerous to enforce the law in the area.
He cited an incident in which a tow truck tried to tow away an illegally parked car.
"The owner and his friends crowded around the truck driver," he said. "The driver was forced to pull out a pistol to protect himself. If he hadn't had that gun he might have been killed. There could have been a shootout."
However, spokesmen for Robinson Wrecking Service and Kaw Motor & Salvage Co., which tow vehicles for the city, are among the residents of harassment against their drivers.
They said there was sometimes some unhappiness, but usually the students accepted the fact that their cars were being towed. The wrecking companies said a signed release must be obtained before they could return the vehicles to their owners.
Richardson, Rehnquist slated to speak at KU
Elliot L. Richardson, former Cabinet member, will speak at the University of Kansas on Oct. 16 on behalf of Bob Dole, R-Kan, who is seeking re-election.
Details of the visit haven't been worked out, Cindy Harris, scheduling secretary for Dole's re-election campaign, said yesterday.
Dole announced Aug. 27 that Richardson would speak for him in Kansas. At that time, Harris said, Dole expected Richardson to break in Allen Field House the night of Oct. 16.
However, that plan had to be changed because the house was reserved for the pack horse Gladiator.
MARIE LYNCH, FORMER OWNER of a farm in Illinois that she once reported a break-in to the house.
"I called his office in Washington at noon today and found that we could have him for the whole day," Harris said. "We will have two or three appearances, and one of them will definitely be a morning or afternoon speech at KU."
Richardson was secretary of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare and secretary of defense under former President Richard M. Nixon. He resigned from his post as attorney general in 1973 to work for Archbishop Cox, special prosecutor.
Dole is still working to schedule a Kansas
Dole appearance. Henry Kissinger,
Kansas' governor, said
Since then, Richardson's "Mr. Clean" image has made him the cult hero of Watergate and he has expressed his interest in running for the Republican presidential nomination.
"The problem is that his schedule is just unbelievable," she said. "I contacted the State Department today, and we will work to set up a definite date."
She said that the location of the speech hadn't been determined but that the
University was "under definite consideration."
She said the location would depend upon whether Allen Field House was available
Richardson
John Conard, assistant to the chancellor,
said Monday that if Kissinger spoke here,
he would have said University officials wouldn't know whether he was coming until a few days before the election.
the day of the speech and whether the occasion would be totally nonpartisan.
"The only thing we know is that he has given Sen. Dole his assurance that he will come to Kansas if at all possible," Conard said.
Conard said the University had been trying for several years to get Kissinger as a speaker for the J. A. Vickers Sr. Memorial Chapel. The university also pressed his desire to visit the University.
Conard said the University was first notified about the possibility of a Kissinger agreement.
By Kansan Photographer IAN NEMINOHU
William Rehquist, associate justice of the Supreme Court, will speak here Sept. 26 and 27, giving the law school's Judge Nelson Timothy. Stephens lectures.
Rehquint will discuss the conflict between the right to privacy and effective law enforcement.
Student body officials are trying to get Nelson A. Rockefeller, vice president-designee, to speak at the Higher Education Banquet on Nov. 17.
Todd Hunter, student body vice president,
said yesterday that he had sent Rockefeller
a special delivery letter last Thursday
asking him to attend the banquet.
Rehquist, who was an assistant attorney general from 1953 to 1989, was appointed to the United States Supreme Court.
During her 40 years of teaching at the University, retired assistant professor Maudie Elliott waited for a lot of buses. And six years after she quit, not much has happened.
"I've had great encouragement from administrators and students about getting Rockefeller." Hunter said. "He's a really great friend, but he has no office yet, he can call us on his priority list."
He will speak at 4 p.m. Sept. 26 and at 8 p.m. Sept. 27 in the Kansas Union.
Sitting it out
Hunter said he had asked President Gerald R. Ford and Sen. Howard Baker, R-Tenn., to speak at the banquet but both had declined.
police and, after an investigation, the police didn't write up a report.
"The only time the city has acted to prevent trouble," she said, "was when they closed the streets so that people could move back." KU State basketball game last spring.
Richard Stanwick, Lawrence chief of police, said yesterday that there had been several reported break-ins in this area but that many of the alleged break-ins were actually harassment from bar patrons who, under tortured, went around pounding on doors.
There was some discrepancy between the reports of crime by residents and what legally constitutes such serious crimes as robbery and breaking and entering.
"PEOPLE MISINTERPRET the difference between robbery and theft and breaking and entering and harassment," Stanwix said.
Aln Abbrel, who lives behind the Wheel, said police had paid little if any attention to illegally parked cars and to people drinking beer in the street.
He said robbery constituted the taking of money from a person and breaking and entering constituted the actual breaking of law. Robbers couldn't recall any robberies in the area.
"Once I asked a policeman why he didn't ticket an illegally parked car," Albrecht said, "and he said he could not because it was half-parked on private property and
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Sharing the work
A combined effort by the Student Senate and the University of Kansas administration may save part of the Wesley Building for University use.
"We don't really have any method," he said. "We just try to do our share of the job." They are together to avoid trouble—the dishes, laundry and shopping. We do all those together to make them go faster." They share responsibilities, he said, because they
David and Patty Smith, McPherson seniors, not only share their meals but they also work afterwards.
Bielefeld said he rejected the notion that housework, with the man serving as a
Couples share housework
By Kansan Photographer DAVE PETERSON
A spirit of cooperation also exists in the Bielefeld household, Roger Bielefeld, a philanthropist.
week the foundation offered to rent the building to the University for $12,000 a year. Beisner said the amount proposed by the University would be less than that.
Renorter
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Beisser said he didn't know where the administration funds would come from to pay the balance of the rent. He said they might be from either student or endowment
Beiser said the Student Senate rented the building last year for $15,000 but decided that amount was too much to pay from its funds this year. The Senate's share of the
The Senate is consulting with the Union Building Use Committee to possibly relocate in the Kansas Union some of the offices once housed in the Wesley Building.
"She's old enough and mature enough to realize that studying comes first before anything," he said. "We've kind of got a mutual agreement that she does the cleaning if I really have to do a lot of work at school." He studies and get some good out of school."
Women's liberation has found a niche at KU, it seems, at Stouffer Place, where many KU married couples live. Most husbands and wives contacted there on the job and were divided and cooking in their households were divided, sometimes equally, between them.
Married males at the University of Kansas are discovering that dustmops and dishwash hands often accompany wedding rings.
The Wesley Building is located behind Smith Hall.
The Wesley Foundation, an affiliate of
the Methodist Church, owns the building. Last
John Beisser, student body president,
said the University must rent the building
because of the day care center located in it.
A University affirmative action clause says
that students with children must have a
place to send those children during classes.
Consensus among the married students, all of whom are either full-time students or have spouses who work full time, was that a spirit of cooperation was the best way to handle the daily, household chores which must be done in addition to studying.
Schuller said his wife, who worked full time, was head cook, because he studied at university.
"Wetry to help each other out as much as we can," Steve Schuller, South Bound Brook, N.J., junior, said. "We just believe it should be fair."
Beisner said that a proposal by the Senate and University officials would be offered tomorrow to the Wesley Foundation for its funding, which includes a center of the building for the day care center.
househusband, was demeaning to a male's ego.
John Brewer, Lawrence sophomore, said his male ego hadn't suffered from sharing household chores. He and his wife share them as equally as possible, he said.
“As far as I’m concerned, sharing makes the burden a lot easier,” he said. “I don’t see how women can take it—doing that, life, life, I wouldn’t be at all happy doing that.”
"It took a little getting used to on my part," he said. "I don't think it's demeaning at all, though. It has helped our relationship. I couldn't sit around, do nothing and let her do the housework. It wouldn't be right—it wouldn't be fair."
Am Schmidt, Lawrence junior, does most the housework in her apartment but for a 40-hour shift.
"He's the bread-brain," she said of her husband. "He works on Saturdays and that's usually the day I clean house. I do all the cooking and the dishes most days." She does most of the cooking because, she says, she's hot of lot of doggie if he cooks all the time.
Debbie Anderson, Atchison junior, and her husband share the duties of keeping their house clean and themselves fed, she said, because both are full-time students.
"We just figured when we got married a month ago that we'd both help out, she said. "He'll help us on one thing and I'll do the other. That's what kind of dictates who does what."
"I'm more of the type who knows what needs to be clear, then I do things more efficiently."
Male chauvinism is still alive, although in limited form, among the married couples.
In a response that differed from most, Lewis Valentine, Lawrence graduate student, said his wife did all of the housework.
"I'm not a very good cook, anyway," he
said. "And it's such a small apartment it
doesn't have much storage."
Lewis said most of the house cleaning usually was done on the weekends, when his kitchen is minimized cooking chores by eating only one meal a day, mostly of fresh fruit, and a
Dave McCaskill, Lawrence senior, said his wife did most of the housework .
"I'd say it (the workload) is more 75 per cent to 25 per cent—and it's my 25 per cent," he said. He said that because he was a full-time student, his wife, who is a student
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Inside the KANSAN
Seeking out
After a summer of study, John Beinser, student body president, came up with four plans for early enrollment. Last night he submitted them to the academic affairs committee of Student Senate for more study. One proposal uses student requests to construct a timetable. Beinser said the expense of changing to a new method of enrollment would be small and the change could go into effect next fall. See Page 3.
Reaching out
Students who take classes from the University of Kansas in Topeka, Kansas or Leavenworth are "more interested and frequently more interesting" than students in Lawrence, said Ronald K. Calgaard, associate vice chancellor for Outreach. If KU ignores opportunities to teach classes outside Lawrence, "we can also wish ourselves a very unhappy future," he said. See Page 5.
Warm
Temperatures should continue to warm today, following the trend started yesterday. Maybe the grass will even dry out, so you won't get a wet seat when you sit on it. You should be clear to partly cloudy