THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
Vol. 86 No.32
The University of Kansas—Lawrence. Kansas
October 8.1975
Staff Photo by DAVID CRENSHAW
Concerned
drinking establishment as mayor Barkey Clark, left, looks over complaints filed by residents in the area of 14th and Ohio.
John Wooden, owner of the Wheel, considers the future of his
Commission takes action on tavern crowd problem
By IAN KENNETH LOUDEN
Staff Writer
The problem of beer-drinking students around 14th and Ohio streets has been恳请
In September the Lawrence City Commission decided to send a petition to the Kansas Board of Regents that requested it allow beer to be sold in the Kansas Union Market. The committee agreed to the Wagon Wheel Cafe and the Jayhawk Cafe which are at 14th and Ohio.
LAST WEEK the commissioners decided that more immediate action must be taken because the Regents hadn't reached a settlement on the sale of beer in the Union.
Loren Impson, 1023 Ohio and the owner of apartment houses behind the Wheel, last night presented pictures to the commission of students drinking beer outside the Wheel.
He said the owner of the Wheel, John Wooden, had sold her at the exit of the building.
Mayor Barkley Clark said he thought that penalty was too severe. He suggested 14th, from Tennessee Street to the University campus, be closed during home games.
Impson said that Clark's idea sidestepped the real problem.
"DON'T ALLOW him to open the Wheel after dark and on weekends." he said
Senate funding showdown possible
By JIM BATES Staff Writer
LAST YEAR, Impson said, Wooden signed an agreement with local residents that said he wouldn't allow students to take beer outside the Wheel.
Two Student Senate committees could
have been formed to meet at 3:30 tonight in the last drawhawk.
"I's the management," he said. "The John doesn't cause the trouble that the Whale does."
A possible confrontation between the Senate Rights and Responsibilities Committee and the Senate Communications Committee was set up when the Communications Committee passed by voice during the 800 in supplemental funds to the Kansen.
Impson said Wooden had violated that written agreement. He offered a solution.
THE KANSAN, which requested $15,008,
was allocated nothing by the Finance and
Auditing Committee in its fall funding bill,
which the Senate will consider tonight. The
Communications Committee will attempt to
fund the funding bill from the Senate floor.
game. Wooden then allowed the students to take the beer outside, he said.
That way, he said, the Kansan could continue to operate independently of the
Julli Anderson, Finance and Auditing chairman, told her committee after it finished budget deliberations last Wednesday that it would have to be prepared to defend its findings before the board allocated only $14.105 of a possible £27.000.
KJHK-FM received a $5,000 block allocation.
Flynn told his committee he thought it was important that the Kansan received some money to maintain its operating fund near its present level. The Kansan should have at least enough money in reserve for one year's operating expenses, he said.
Kevin Flynn, Communications chairman, called last night's special committee meeting after an unsuccessful attempt to get the Finance and Auditing Committee to reconsider the Kansas request. The Kansas two funding priorities are are his committee's two funding priorities.
The Kansan was cut off completely by the Senate in 1970-71. According to Del Brinkman, dean of the law school at Amherst, the impetus for the attack on him was thought the Kansan's $170,000 reserve fund
Berman said he wondered whether the salaried staff members couldn't receive
ROLFS SAID KANSAN salaries were comparable to those given Senate officials and that he had always considered them necessary because of the long hours people put in and the extra sense of responsibility the salaries effected.
Dennis Elsworth, Kansan editor, said he and the Kansan business manager each got $600 a semester but that salaries dropped to $450 per semester. He worked for the nager anew not salaried, he said.
Al Berman, Communications Committee member, said he had talked to some people who were concerned about the salaries received by some Kansan staffers.
"TTS MY FEELING the (Finance and Auditing) Committee didn't quite have the knowledge or expertise to understand just what the deficit is all about." Rolfs said.
The Kansan's share of each student's activity fee was reduced from $1.45 to $1.35 in 1970. Holts and Flynn have both said that the new fee would reduce Kansan's activity fee allotment is needed.
was too large. By January, the fund will be $47,000. he said.
"The Kansan need to stay a real newspaper and not an arm of the Student Union."
ED ROLFS, student body president, said in Kansas needed a reserve fund of $45,000. The university has a reserve fund.
The Finance and Auditing Committee voted unanimously against funding the Kansan on the grounds that it was wrong for the Senate to pay off any of the Kansan's bills. The Senate punished other groups which did affect, committee members complained.
Rofa said, however, that the deficit wasn't the Kansan's fault. The paper used up its reserve budget by going to a larger size and less advertising in 1971 despite a decline in sales and an excessive fee, ordering to Rofa. The Senate had supported this move, he said.
Brinkman said that the school could probably provide the credit but that he thought it important to keep the Kan斯 students in a paper for journalism students only.
"I think we have the best of both worlds right now," he said. "We have school advisers to help out and non-majors on the paper to keep it independent."
However, the glut of traffic caused by the two businesses is too large, he said.
THE SENATE will vote on three Finance and Auditing-sponsored bills tonight. one of them will be the most important.
previously funded and one setting an $18,000 ceiling on fall allocations.
If the $18,000 ceiling, which is first on the agenda, passes, the Communications amendment would have to be ruled out of order. Rolfs tried unsuccessfully at StudEx's Sunday meeting to keep the ceiling bill off the agenda.
The Senate will also vote on a resolution that questions the athletic department's authority to pave the parking lot north of Potter Lake.
Commission examines legal stop to program
By BRENT ANDERSON
The Lawrence City Commission voted unanimously last night to determine whether the city can take any legal action to stop the Dial DRUG program.
BINNS, MAYOR BARKLEY CLARK and commissioners Carl Milek and Fred Pence all voiced their opposition to the Dial DRUG line. Marnie Argeringer, the other commissioner, rested of the commission to determine possible legal action against Dial DRUG.
Donald Bins, city commissioner, made the motion to determine possible legal action after the commission. Dial DRUalgathered citizens discussed the Dial DRU program.
"It not opposed to informing youth about drugs," Rims, an administrator at Lawerner's Drug Center in Lawrence, said. DRUG line is promoting drugs and giving out heresy about drugs to the com-
BINNS PLAYED a recording of a recent DINNS message at the meeting that referred to the potential use of the network.
Bing Hart, pharmacology consultant and chief consultant to Dial DLR, told the commission that he was in a difficult position. He said he would continue drug users and law enforcement officials.
High and said some marijuana in the Lawrence area had been reported to be
HART ASKED BINNS if he was aware
that heroin being used at
Lawrence High.
Binares responded by asking Hart if he had proof that there indeed was heroin in the
Trash bids draw debate
After a heated debate between city officials and representatives of the Lawrence Sanitation Employees Association last night, the Lawrence City Commission decided to review bids from private sanitation contractors.
"If you know there is heroin in the high school, you have an obligation to inform the proper authorities about it," Binns told Hart.
HE SAID he hoped that the city would recognize the United Public Employly Associations of Lawrence, a coalition of which the sanitation association is a member, and let the city solve its own problems.
Phil Bohlander, secretary of the association, presented the opening argument against the city's bringing in a private contractor.
"If the sanitation department goes private, he said, "I'm afraid employers may be compelled to go to a large outside office." He added that Bohlander said he didn't want that.
Max Rife, assistant principal at
the University of Illinois, commanded that he was exposed to the Dartmouth.
Bohander said he didn't want that to happen.
"We don't want to request outside help,"
"We want to keep the people of Lawsuit."
ACCORDING TO BIDS the city received last week, he said, all the private contractors would be more expensive than the present city sanitation system. The present price for pick-up is $2.50 a month. The lowest bid received by private contractors is $2.71. This doesn't include use of the city landfill and other minor costs, he said.
Bohlander accused the city of ignoring the employees' willingness to help improve the sanitation department. He said that Norm Forer, associate professor of social welfare and adviser to the association, had been appointed to a committee studying sanitation but that the committee had been holding meetings without Forer.
"THANKS," SAID BOHLANDER. "I'm the foreman in charge of the crew that做了 him."
"I would hope the city would work with employees to make the sanitation department work," he said. "I'm convinced we can do it."
HE SAID THAT SINCE the employees had been allowed to help improve the department, complaints had gone down considerably. Because of a city trash packaging study, he said, violations in packaging by homeowners had decreased from 146 a day to 36 a day. The study was begun in September
The public sanitation rates haven't gone
down. He said, so the city must be
doing a good job.
Mayor Barkley Clark said he was pleased to admit the sanitation employees had been doing a better job. He said he had spot-tailed the employees. The emblems hadn't done one wrong.
TAI KS STARTED LAST MAY, he said, and only recently has the city been making concessions concerning the high accident rate in the department. The accident rate is 100 per cent. Every employee has at least one injury a year.
Dennis Smith, president of the sanitation association, said he was disappointed that
Smith said that the employees had offered solutions to problems such as poor packaging to Lawrence residents and route equalization to customers who had started to work on them. The problem with routes is that some employees have to make pick-ups at 400 houses while others have 900
the city had acted so slowly in improving problems in the sanitation department.
In addition, he said, the city has done little about equipment maintenance. It has put some lights on the trucks but most of them don't work. he said.
NOW THAT THE CITY is considering hanging in a private contractor, he said, it is “not a problem.”
"What took so long?" he asked. "Give us time and we can do it. The city can't afford to bring in an outside contractor to do something, I can't do itself. Don't sell us down the line."
Smith said that until recently, all the problems of the sanitation had been blamed
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Clark conceded that since he had taken his trip with sanitation employees he realized
"WOULD YOU DRIVE through there?" he asked.
"I HAVE MORE concern for the youngsters who haven't used drugs." Rife said. "There are many things wrong at Lawrence High, but to say we have a drug problem there because of an anonymous caller isn't right."
Rife also he thought the Dial DRUGromoted drug use.
Beverly Couch, a volunteer Dial DRUg worker, told the commission that the information that goes out over the Dial DRUg line is considered by several people before a final decision about the content of the drug message is determined.
"No one person who considers information puts it on the line," she said. Pence said he thought the Dial DRUG program might actually be effective in selling drugs by emphasizing "good drugs" in Lawrence.
BUFORD WATSON, city manager, told the commission he had talked to the Kansas Bureau of Investigation (KBI) about Dial DRug. Watson said the KBI informed him that the program wasn't necessarily illegal and that he would have to find out whether the city had any power to do something about Dial DRug.
Cark said he didn't think the commission had a jurisdiction to deal with the Dial DRIFA.
Dial DRUG was started in April by the Douglas County Drug Abuse Council, who contracted with Hart for three months to run the program. The council disbanded in July, shortly after its sponsorship of Dial DRUG bud ended.
Commissioner Marme Argeringer said she had tried once and wouldn't do it again. She also suggested that the street be closed during games.
Commissioner Donald Binns said he didn't think closing off 14th for the remaining home games would solve the problem.
"Whether it happens once a year or eight times a year, this sort of shirt shouldn't be worn."
Hart continued the Dial DRUG line, which is a taped message that tells about the quality, the price and availability of drugs in the Lawrence area, on a voluntary basis.
Impson said there were other problems. The top of an automobile has been torn off, a woman has been raped in the area and once when a tow truck operator tried to tow an illegally parked car, he was threatened with a knife. Impson said.
"THESE ARE THE regular clientele who cause these problems," he said.
Wooden admitted that he had sold beer that was taken outside during the last home game, but that he didn't have room inside the Wheel for all his customers.
"I have too much business on days of football games." he said.
He asked whether the problem might be solved if he put up a 10, 12 or 15 foot fence around the Wheel to keep customers off other people's property.
mpson said a 'fence didn't solve the problem of inadequate restroom facilities.
Wooden said he could put portable restrooms outside.
Clark said he liked the idea.
"When you think about the problem, that might be a good way to go," he said.
Commissioner Fred Pence said extra policemen should be stationed in the area before the crowds arrived for the next home game.
WOODEN SAID he also would station men outside the House to make sure they were there.
Impson said the commission was allowing Wooden to expand his business in a nonconforming area. The Wheel is commercial equipment. This makes the Wheel non-conforming.
"it seems as if you are spending a lot of the money to accommodate one in-depth study."
Marie Lynch, who owns several apartments in the city, also complained that the building was "overly squalid."
Ken Wallace, owner of the Jayhawk,
defended the Wheel.
"Why should we give all these special privileges to one individual?" she asked. "It's not an area problem. It's the permissive atmosphere of that one bar."
"THE WHOLE CITY IS BENEFITING because of the crowd, not one individual," he said. "Alumn spend hundreds of dollars when they return for the games. Very few people wouldn't want these people to come back."
Clark said every college he had seen in the city would be asked to drink beer. He suggested the zoning be changed to allow the two businesses to expand so they could keep all the customers within the district.
Wallace said that if the zoning were changed and if he were allowed to add the space between the two buildings that make Hawk, Hawk could house another 50 people.
"We can't stop the crowds," he said. "They're going to come. People want to relive their college life and meet old friends."
Arginger said the bars were important because they served the students.
"Students are an integral part of the community and a strong part of the community."
Birns said he thought granting all the information to the Wheel because of student problems.
"The law is the law," he said. "If this was a bunch of grouses instead of students, it would be much worse."
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Warm wait
Steff Photo by GEORGE MILLENER
Relaxing beneath the hatchback of her car, Andrea Gonzales, Fort Leuworth freshman, waits for a carpel member Tuesday afternoon in X-zone. Temperatures are extremely high.