THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Vol. 86 No.33
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The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
October 9.1975
Trouble in O-zone
Karrie Mccollain, Topeka freshman, fills her car radiator with water in the middle of O-zone late yesterday afternoon.
radiator has a slow leak and she must fill it every time she starts the car.
Two of six amendments passed in Senate session
By JIM BATES
Newly elected Student Senators were initiated into student government last night during a long and sometimes heated Senate meeting.
The Senate also passed a resolution questioning the channels the athletic department was using to monitor students.
Most of the meeting was spent debating the Finance and Auditing Committee's budget recommendations. Two of six proposed amendments to the committee's allocation bills were passed, one of those being a bill for all Anderson, the committee's chairman.
The Senate voted to add $1,000 allocation to the KU Marching Band and to delete a $000 allocation to the KU Ice Hockey Club. Attempts to give money to the University of Iowa have been made and the Liberal Arts and Sciences School Council were defeated. Attempts to cut allocations to the Anthropology Undergraduate Association, the Undergraduate Philosophy Club and the Instruction in Psychology also were defeated.
zone parking lot north of Potter Lake. The Senate also elected new members to the University Council and the University Judiciary Board.
An amendment付给 $8,000 to the Kansan was debated for more than an hour before being defeated on a 54 to 18 roll call vote. The vote was not approved since last March, several officials said.
The Finance and Auditing Committee recommended last week that the Kansas, which requested $15,600, be given nothing. The Communications Committee, however, voted Tuesday to try to amend the funding recommendations to give the Kansas $5,000.
Kevin Flynn, Communications chairman, told the Senate it was important that the Kansas have enough money in its operating fund for a year's expenses in case the Senate should decide not to fund it some year.
"WE NEED A PAPER that is independent of the Stuent Senate," he said.
Shockley debate cancellation firm
Without any supplemental funds, he said, the Kansan would have about $47,000 left in its reserve operating fund at the end of this year. He added that about $85,000 a year to produce. Flynn said.
After one week of criticism, Greg Bentson, SUA president, said yesterday that he still thought that the SUA Board acted properly when it voted 7-5 to cancel a debate of William Shockley's controversial theories on the genetic inferiority of blacks.
By DIERCK CASSELMAN
In fact, Bengtson said, "There are some things I have found since our meeting that solidify my feelings even more that what we did was right."
Pete Kanatzer, graduate senator, said it was important for the Senate to remain flexible.
"I hate to say it," she said, "and the Kansan is the only paper I get. I depend on it for world news and I like it, but I just can't see it any money at this time."
In a board meeting one week ago, we adopted temporary policies the president to enforce the
"I'd sure hate to give the Kansan $5,000 to pay a year's bill in advance and then have to tell a group with a real crisis 'sorry'," he said.
ADRIENNE HYLE, GRADUATE senior
society manager wait until
the activity fee could be changed.
Five finalists for the 1975 HOPE Award were selected yesterday by the senior class, Tom DeCoursey, HOPE committee chairman, said yesterday.
Five chosen in HOPE vote
"I don't expect that Shockley would want to present his ideas in an arena where they were," he said.
One hundred eighty-two seniors participated in the balloting. The five were chosen from a field of 11 semi-finalists, he said.
The finalists are: Allan Cigler, assistant professor of political science, J. Hammond McNish, adjunct professor of business, Calder Pickett, professor of economics, John Quinn, professor of English and Lee Young, professor of journalism.
The Senate voted by voice to give $1,000 to the KU Marching Band for a trip to the Iowa State football game. According to Anderson, the band's funding request was lost on the mail on its way to the Senate and the group was not included in the budget hearings.
"We think it would be a bad precedent for the company to pay off an organization's debts."
debate between Shockey and Richard Goldsby, a black professor of chemistry and microbiology at the University of Oklahoma which was scheduled for Nov. 13 at Hoch Auditorium.
Final voting for the HOPE Award will be from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Nov. 12, at the Information Booth on Jayhawk Blvd. . DeCourse said.
The award will be presented Nov. 15 during halftime of the University of Colorado football game, he said.
The motion was discussed behind closed doors, but Bengtson said after the meeting that he had made the motion after opposition to the debate had exposed factors not taken into account when the debate was scheduled.
The members of the Finance and Auditing Committee defended their decision not to fund the Kansan, complaining about paying off an organization's deficits. They said they could see giving the Kansan money in a crisis but said it was nowhere near a crisis.
The debate was an SUA Forum. When SUA scheduled the debate it thought the students were not aware of Bengston said. Protections from several students made him aware that Shockley's theories on the intelligence of blacks raised moral, as well as scientific, questions, he
At the crux of the problem, Bengtson said, was the notion that racism, the label attached to Shockley's theories by the students protesting his appearance, was simply not a debatable subject. Science, he would take second place to the feelings of others.
Bengtson said at least a dozen people had tried to contact him about the debate, and most of the students he talked with opposed the cancellation.
Those opposed to the debate's cancellation, Bengtson said, told him that Shockley should be allowed to present his theories so that they could be disroved.
chairman and one of the five that opposed
their views. Mr. Pacha said mad when he thought of the board's actions.
The argument that the debate should take place so Shockley's theories could be accepted, he argued, that his ideas would be discredited, Bingston said. At that point, he said, the event ceased to be a debate and was now left in an authoritative argument, devoid of scientific content.
The Finance and Auditing Committee, Anderson said, opposed funding the Kananian case.
encouraging them it should have been written down on paper somewhere.
"Why shouldn't the debate take place?" he said. "What's a University for? He's publishing ideas and you can't ignore them."
Bengtason said Shockley's appearance was cancelled but he has been accepted to the University of New York.
However, Tim Watson, travel committee
According to Mike Miller, SUA Activities advisor, when the debate took place at other universities, no problems were encountered.
Miller said the University of Virginia was the location of the first debate between Smith and Trump.
At Texas Tech in Lubbock, the debate was about a part of a block awareness week at Texas Tech.
There were some comments of opposition printed in the Texas Tech student newspaper and the incident was considered provisional, but it was still successful, he said.
Miller said he had mixed feelings about the cancellation of the debate.
"I haven't resolved an opinion as of yet," he said, "but as an SAU staff member, I respect the board for their consideration and awareness of outside opinion."
ANDERSON SAID SHE was in favor of granting the band's request and thought it was good public relations for the University.
Shockley's appearances at other universities have been punctuated by demonstrations that kept him from speaking.
Bengsaton he didn't think that KU students would react that way. But, he said, he thought Shockley was a highly provocative person who generated a response that might be detrimental to the University.
At Yale University, some members of the audience created a 90-minute disturbance that ended only when Shockley left the stage. He wasn't given a chance to speak.
"It would be somewhat analogous to a
Game machines amuse students
If the Kanas's $1.35 share of each activity fee is too small to allow the paper to break even it should be changed, they said. They said, however, that they thought it was a mistake to give the Kanas money every time it came running for funds.
Today, however, the number of variety of game machines have increased greatly. Air hockey, foosball and at least 15 varieties of TV game machines are now found next to more traditional games such as pool and paddleball. They also provide guards and bus stations, as well as bars.
Unlike most Lawrence bar owners, Johnson said he owned most of the game machines in his two establishments. He said the high profits made from the games, after the required amount for taxes was taken enabled him to keep buying more games.
"Not everyone can throw a football," said Emick, "but anyone can put in a quarter and compete in his choice of games. Game machines are now a must for bars because kids just won't come unless there are some games to play."
Five years ago the only forms of amusement that most local bars had to offer were reasonably cheap beer, a pin ball machine and perhaps a television set.
man standing on a stage in a theatre and velling fire." he said.
Game machines are becoming increasingly popular, Emick said, because they involve skill and provide a form of competition that anyone can participate in.
"I wouldn't be in business without those machines," said Ace Johnson, owner of the Stable and the Sanctuary, 1401 W. Seventh St. Johnson said that although cheap beer might bring a lot of people into a bar, beer alone couldn't make a profit.
Brad Bradley, forums chairman, said that even though he voted against the motion to cancel, he would support the board's action.
ED ROLFS, STUDENT body president,
said the paper needed money in reserve for
insurance against outside control and for
possible expansion. He said that the Senate
cut off the Kansan completely in 1970-71 and
that decision was partly political.
One regular pinball player who identified himself only as "The Pinball Wizard," said he enjoyed the sport because, "I can experience the joy of victory or the agony of defeat for only a quarter and minimal physical exertion."
Another avid player referred to himself as a "foosball addict" and said he and his partner would be the first to sign up if the team needed him. He would also make to football an international event.
Wallace, said he wasn't charged for the placement of the machines. He said he received half of all profits from the games and also paid half to look out the appropriate amount for taxes.
The Jayhawk Cafe, 1340 Ohio St., also has numerous games. Ken Waller, owner of the Hawk, said that a commercial amusement company was responsible for his four football tables, two video ping-pong tables, four pinball games and a bowling machine.
"We can go out and entertain ourselves all night for only a quarter," he said. "All we have to do is stop down a quarter, win the game, and bring up until we were tired of beating everybody."
Johnson said he paid between $1,500 and $2,500 for each video game and $2,000 for each air hockey table. Most of the games are made for one or two players, he said, but some of the machines allow up to four players at one time.
He said that he'd received little feedback from students.
During the summer, Wallace renovated a back room of the Hawk to accommodate more football tables. He said that the pinball machines and football tables were designed with the highest amount of profit, but the popularity of football appeared to be on the decline.
The Senate voted 35 to 20 to eliminate a $600 allocation to the KU Ice Hockey Club. Dear Sharpiro, sports committee chairman, moved the group be cut because it was partially funded from, and held all its activities in, Kansas City.
"Lists of regulars come in here because they hooked on a particular machine."
"I'm sad that KU is not the type of University where that type of thing can be taught."
The rise in game popularity has resulted in demand for tavern owners in the Lawrence area.
Because of the rising popularity of games, Johnson said he was planning to have a video game tournament on six different machines sometime during the semester.
Johnson said there were the 18 game machines at the Stable and the Santuary. Video games are the most popular, he said. Patrons can play ping-pong, shoot tanks,
John Emick, owner of John's Novelty Company, 1014% Massachusetts St., which supplies 90 per cent of the game machines in Lawrence, said there had been a rising demand for his machines in recent months, and pinball machines and shuffle board tables.
"It could happen again," he said.
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Staff Writer
said Wallace, "I guess it's just the old contest of man against machine."
drive cars and play a baseball game on the video machines.
Bengsion said that the argument to cancel the debate was also based on an assumption.
He said that in his defense of the can-
It was important to remember, Rufa said, that the Kansas had started running track and field when the Indians arrived.
Shairop said few people from Lawrence
wanted to Kenesha City to give the rights.
"I really don't think it serves all that many people," he said.
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An amendment to give Douglas County Legal Aid $700 was defeated to 30. To the group request $1,906 this fall but received $3,356 last spring, however, received $3,356 last spring.
Anderson said that if the Senate was
FINANCE AND AUDIUTING members said they didn't think the society offered
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Bar owners want zoning change
The owners of the Wagon Wheel Cafe and the Jawhawk Cafe will soon ask the Lawrence-Douglas County Planning Commission for a change in zoning.
At Tuesday's City Commission meeting, Mayor Barkley Clark suggested that the owners ask for aoning change for the bans to help solve the congestion problem at 14th and Ohio streets that was caused by students drinking beer.
Cark said that if the zoning was changed, the owners of the bars could expand the building's space.
According to the present zoning ordinance, the area around 14th and Ohio is residential-dormitory. Since the bars are in effect, residents expand unless the city alters the ordinance.
Mike Wildgen, assistant city manager, said yesterday that the bars were in a residential area as a result of Lawrence being rezoned in 1965-1968. Before 1968, the area was "a commercial," a classification which allows small commercial establishments only.
SINCE 1986, WILDGEN said, the bars have been under the "grandfather clause."
Accident
Tom Musellman, Passadea, Calif., junior, is comforted by passers-by after he was hit by a Kansas Union van, at about 11 a.m. yesterday. The van was driven by Steve Sack, far left, Garnett junior. Musselman was riding a bicycle west on Jayhawk Boulevard when the eastbound van tried to turn onto Poplar Lane, between强壮 and Snow halls in front of Hoch Auditorium, and struck Musselman. Sack was issued a citation for failure to yield right of way. Musselman was treated and released from Watkins Memorial Hospital for a possible concussion, cuts and bruises. Witnesses said the victim, when hit by the van, flew 10 feet in the air before landing on the pavement.
However, he said, if either of the bars is destroyed, it can't be rebuilt.
This means that because they were in the area before the zoning was changed, they can't be shut down unless they are declared a public nuisance.
Ken Wallace, owner of the Jayhawk, said he was going to request a zoning change for insurance as well as to expand his business as soon as possible. If the Jayhawk was burned down and couldn't be rebuilt, he said, he would lose a fortune.
Wallace said that if the planning commission allowed his property to be rezoned, he would be able to use the space that connects to the street. He said the daywalk to seat 50 customers more.
"NEXT, WE MIGHT FIX up the basement," he said.
Wallace said that according to a city ordinance, the basement couldn't be used for commercial purposes because the ceiling was too low.
If the resizing change is allowed, he said, the building could be jacked up a couple of stories.
Wallace said expanding the Jayhawk would allow bartenders to patrol the bar more carefully to make sure people weren't taking beer into the street.
John Wooden, owner of the Wheel, said he also would appeal for a zoning change as soon as possible in order to build an east addition to the Wheel.
"My main problem now is building that fence," he said.
The city commission decided last night that Wooden must build a fence around the yard.
According to city law, customers can't go past the public right-of-way, which is around the property, with open beer containers. The Wheel's public right-of-way begins at the inside of the sidewalk and continues into the middle of the street.
In addition to building a fence, Wooden must also get two outdoor restrooms and have people stationed outside the Wheel to ensure no one carries beer off his property.
The commission decided upon the action after it reviewed complaints of residents who live around 14th and Ohio that Wooden had been negligent in allowing students to leave the Wheel while they were carrying open beer containers.
The commission also decided to block 14th from Tennessee Street to the campus and to station extra police at 14th and Ohio during the remaining home football games.
Richard Stanwix, Lawrence police chief, said he hadn't decided how many extra men to station in the area. He said the police were there men during the home football games.
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