L.A. signs Special K
The Los Angeles Lakers said yesterday that former Kansas basketball star Ron Kellogg and five other draft choices had signed with the club, but Kellogg will still have to make the team.
Growing up Catholic
Story, page 11
The authors of two best-selling books about the humorous side of Catholicism shared highlights from their works with about 250 people last night.
Story, page 7
Open wide, say blah
Once again, it should be hot, humid and windy today with partly cloudy skies and a 30 percent chance for thunderstorms.
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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday
Published since 1889 by the students of the University of Kansas
Vol. 97, No. 23 (USPS 650-640)
September 24,1986
Cheryl Youngblood/KANSAN
Making a splash
Michael Borberly, an employee at Connex International, Inc., 947 Massachusetts St., removes water from an awning outside the business. He made his big splash Monday.
Third guilty plea entered in drug conspiracv cases
By RIC ANDERSON
Staff writer
A Lawrence resident,indicted July 22 with Richard von Ende, former University executive secretary, dedicated guilty yesterday in Federal District Court in Kansas City, Kan., to a charge of conspiring to distribute cocaine.
Michael Kiefer, 24, pleaded guilty to the charge, which stemmed from an incident on Feb. 6 when he and von Ende met at 809 Crestlin Drive and discussed distributing cocaine.
Both Kiefer and von Ende originally were charged with one count of distribution of cocaine and one count of conspiring to distribute cocaine.
However, U.S. Attorney Ben Burgess said von Ende's distribution charge was dropped in a plea bargain. Because both men were charged for the same incidents, Kiefer's distribution charge also was dropped.
Kiefer is to be sentenced on Nov. 10 in federal court in Kansas City, Kan. The maximum penalty for conspiracy to
distribute cocaine is 15 years in prison and $125,000 in fines.
Von Ende also pleaded guilty Monday to distribution of cocaine. According to von Ende's plea to federal officials, he distributed about one gram of cocaine on Jan. 16 to Bradley Smoot, a prominent Lawrence lawyer and former state deputy attorney general.
Robert Parker, 31, who pleaded guilty Monday to one count of distribution of cocaine, will also be sentenced Nov. 10 in Kansas City, Kan.
Of those charged in state court, eight await public hearings and nine are scheduled for jury trial.
The eight scheduled for public hearings and those hearing dates are: Howard Edmiston, 44, and Carl K. Stilley, 24; today, Rusty L. Howard, 24; tomorrow, Dennis D. Barritt, 40, Oct. 8; Samuel F. Fugles, 28, Oct. 9; William P. Wiedeman, 23, Oct. 10; Tory E. Graham, 23, and Jonathan S. Flicker, 23, Nov. 12.
The nine scheduled for trial dates and those trial dates are: Christopher Clark, 24. Oct, 15. Brian F. Cross, 20. Robert F. Bell, 35. and Kevin Sommer, 21. Pamela
Shields, 26, Jackie L. Strong, 28, and Donald P. Bay, 27, Nov 5; Barbara Bay, 24, and Jack G. Houk, 34, Nov 19.
Douglas County District Attorney Jim Flory said Clark was being charged in both federal and state courts.
Flory said the investigation consisted of three groups. One group, consisting of von Ende, Parker, Kierfer and Clark, were arrested after a federal investigation. Anyone associated with that group would be charged in federal court. Flory said.
He said the second group consisted of people who were arrested by both state and federal officials and would be charged in state court. Clark also fell into this category.
Flory said charges against Greg, D. Trimarche, 22, were dropped "without prejudice" in order to further investigate the case. Charges dropped in this manner can be revived again. Flory said.
The third group, he said, were the people who were investigated by local law enforcement officials.
Von Ende's post to stay empty until Legislature's next session
By a Kansan reporter
Richard von Ende's vacated position at the University of Kansas will not be filled before the next session of the Kansas Legislature, Chancellor Gene A. Budig said yesterday.
Board of Regents.
As University executive secretary, von Ende's main duties had been to represent KU to the Kansas Legislature and the
Von Ende resigned as University Executive Secretary Monday, the same day he pleaded guilty to two federal cocaine-related charges
James Bibb, associate director of business affairs, and Marlin Rein, associate director of administration at the College of Health Sciences, have been handling von Ende's legislative duties since von Ende went on sick leave from the University in June.
Von Ende had been assigned to special projects for the chancellor shortly before he went on sick leave.
Budig said Bibb and Rein would continue the legislative duties during the 1987 session.
According to Budig, KU's interests in the Legislature are in proven and able hands.
"We will be turning to the executive vice chancellor and other staff for additional assistance," he said.
The position of University executive secretary will be filled, he said, but a deadline to complete this has not been set. Budig said he did not know who would be named to the position.
Von Ende had served as University executive secretary since 1972.
Campus parking is a space war
Staff writer
By PAM MILLER
Cars line up one after the other in the parking lot, their motors idling, while the drivers wait and wait and wait.
Finally someone walks to a parked car and backs out of a space. Faster than an impatient driver could say, 'shift it into drive,' one of the waiting cars zips into the parking space.
the beginning of the fall semester.
KU faculty members and students say that finding a parking space is a continuing problem and has become even more difficult this year.
But Don Kearns, director of parking services, said the parking problems were just a normal process of adjusting to the parking situation at
Although a comprehensive study is being conducted to examine all aspects of the parking situation, Kearns said, the study is not in response to the current situation.
Barton-Aschman Associates, Inc., Evanston, Ill., is conducting the study. The results will be given to Cancellor Gene A. Budig in late November or early December, with recommendations for needed changes. Kearns said.
But many students and faculty already are disgusted and want changes now.
Michael Kember, professor of music, said he had had so many problems trying to find a parking space that he wanted to cancel his Wednesday 8.30 a.m. class because of dif ficulties in finding a space in time
Kember said that for two consecutive Wednesdays he was forced to park in a loading zone to get to his class on time. After that he posted a notice announcing that his Wednesday 8:30 a.m. classes were canceled.
The day after he posted the notice, he received a message from the University administration saying that the decision was unacceptable and that he would either have to rescind the notice or accept a reduced teaching position.
Kember said he chose to rescind the notice.
"I can't guarantee that I'll be there for my classes, but my students will be," he said. "Administration should
be aware that as long as the present parking crisis — and I call it a crisis — continues, that on any given day faculty will find it extremely difficult to meet their classes on time, if at all."
Les Lauber, Student Senate representative of scholarship halls, said he was the chairman of a seven-strong investigation into the parking situation
Lauber, Osage City junior, said the committee was not "witch hunting." but was talking to students and to parking services to find out what kind of compromise could be reached with the parking problem.
Kember said he and other faculty
See PARKING, p. 5, col. 1
Scholarship hall students still await extra parking
By PAM MILLER
Staff writer
Last spring, scholarship hall students thought their parking problems would be over when University officials told them a new parking lot would be built during the summer.
Unfortunately, when they returned to school this fall, they found the same old parking problems instead of a new parking lot.
The problem was a case of too many things to do and not enough time to do them all, said administration and staff members.
ing lot just took longer than anticipated, said Kenneth Stoner, director of student housing. Because facilities planning had too many other projects to handle, the University hired an outside engineering firm, Landplan Engineering, 2500 W. Sixth St., to draw the design for the parking lot.
Greg Wade, landscape architect for facilities planning, said his ofice had more projects than it could handle this summer and the process of hiring a private
Formulating plans for the park-
See LOT, p. 5, col. 5
No new fire exit planned for Jolliffe
Bv KIRK KAHLER
Staff writer
Jolliffe Hall does not have a second exit on the second floor, which the state fire marshal's office recommends, and the University director of facilities planning said he does not intend to provide one.
However, a new door was installed last week on the second floor of Jolifte, said Francis Ellis, Jolifte Hall lab supervisor. The door opens onto a slanted roof that is eight to 10 feet from the ground.
He said facilities planning avoided the code recommendations by restricting the occupancy on the floor instead of making the needed repairs, which were recommended in July 1985 by the fire marshal.
Allen Wiechert, the director, said the second exit was required by fire codes, unless fewer than 10 people were on the floor at one time.
Ray Bailey, a representative of the state fire marshal's office, said that although the new door wouldn't qualify as a second exit from the floor, it would provide extra safety if people could get to the roof and wait for assistance from firefighters.
This was done, Wiechert said, because the University of Kansas plans to destroy the building and doesn't want to waste money on repairs.
Radio-television students who attend class in the building have complained about the conditions.
According to the state fire marshal's report from the last inspection in 1985, the building needed a second exit and handrails on stairways to satisfy the code.
Students have been concerned that the recommendations have not been met and that the occupancy restrictions have been frequently violated.
The building has been used by more people this semester because TV-30, 3211 Clinton Parkway Court, a local television station that was staffed partly by radio/television students, closed in May. The students now have to use the equipment in Jolliffe to work on projects.
Wiechert said the main concern should be in limiting the number of students on the second floor. He said the restriction should be strictly enforced and students should be aware of the responsibility of abiding by the limitations.
Both Wiechert and Bailey said the problems at Jolliffe were not serious ones.
However, Ellis said the restriction was often violated because it was hard to enforce.
Ellis said it was difficult to constantly be aware of the number of people on the floor. Also, because Jolliffe is the only building these students can use, he said, he doesn't run them off if more than 10 are on the floor.
Wiechert said he wasn't aware that the limitations were being violated, but he said students should alternate their schedules so they were not all in the building at one time. If a student got hurt during a fire in the building
If a student got hurt during a fire in the bus Wiechert said, the University would be liable.
"If the building is occupied as it is supposed to be, then there are no problems," he said.
If a student got hurt during a fire in the building Wiechert said, the University would be liable.
Although the problems are not serious, Wiechert said, he doesn't want to disregard them.
Wiechert said the problem went much deeper than the
possible hazards at Jolliffe
Facilities operations normally classifies needed repairs into three categories, he said.
The first category he called temporary repairs. These violations, such as boxes stored in a stairway, can be corrected easily, he said.
The second category, minor violations, the category which Jolliffe falls under, are cases such as the absence of handrails on stairways. These are fairly easy to repair, inexpensive and can be performed by facilities operations.
The third category, major repairs, include repairs that a department has needed for a long time, sometimes years, Wiechert said.
These repairs require more money and normally can't be done by facilities operations.
This creates a competition between repairs, and Wiechert said he had to decide which were more important.
Bob Porter, also a representative of the state fire marshal's office, said that if the recommendations had not been fulfilled and the occupancy restriction was being violated, the building would still be in violation of state fire codes.
"But if not too many people were using the building, we wouldn't push too hard for the repairs," he said.
Until then, Wiechert said, he wants to put as little money as possible into repairs on the hall.
The radio/television department is scheduled to receive a part of the proposed Human Resource Development Center, which is to be completed by April 1989, Wiechert said.
Tom Thornton/KANSAN
Before a new door was installed on the second floor of Jolliffe Hall, this ladder served as the alternative exit from the floor.