University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
The University Daily
KANSAN
Monday, November 29, 1982
Vol.93,No.68 USPS 650-640
New athletic director sets goal of consistency
By DARRELL PRESTON
Staff Reporter
The University of Kansas's new athletic director said yesterday that he was eager to start his new job and that he wanted to "establish consistency" in KU athletics.
Monte Johnson, who will take over the duties of athletic director Dec. 15, deferred additional comment on issues he would face until a press conference scheduled for Dec. 2 in pearltown in Parrott
Johnson was named to the post Saturday by Chancellor Gene A. Buidg.
"Monte Johnson is uniquely qualified to serve as athletic director at the University of Kansas." Budig said. "His association with, and commitment to, the University of Kansas is a long-standing one."
JOHNSON, A LAWRENCE businessman with a 27-year tie to KU as student, employee and alumnae, replaces Jim Lessig, who quit after six months to become commissioner of Mid-
American Conference: Del Shankel has been acting athletic director since Lessig resigned.
Student leaders contacted yesterday would not comment on the choice of Johnson, but KU would.
Bud Gallier, a KU alumnus who wrote a letter calling for the abolishment of the University of Kansas Athletic Corporation board, said yesterday that although he still wanted the board abolished, he was pleased that Johnson was hired.
"I'm interested in uncircling the wagons and getting the athletic department straightened out," said Gollier, with wrighted a planned contribution to the Williams Fund because Lessig resigned. "I think under Monte Johnson we can have a successful program."
"I think he's going to lend some continuity to the program because he is dedicated to it."
JOHNSON WAS one of four candidates nominated by an eight-member selection committee composed of students, faculty, staff and alumni.
On Wednesday, Budig and the committee met to interview the four finalists, and Budig made
the final decision after that. The job drew 86 applicants.
Del Brinkman, chairman of the committee and dean of the William Allen White School of Journalism, said Johnson's management and marketing skills, in addition to his background in athletics, made him an attractive choice for the committee.
"There were other candidates who would have been good athletic directors, but the feeling was that someone close to the KU situation and who had worked there could be able to take over quickly," Brinkman said.
"I don't think he has any interest in in going anyplace else or doing anything else," Brinkman said. "I think he is a long-term athletic director."
MEMBERS OF the committee, which Budg appointed in October, said Johnson's involvement with KU was one reason he was recommended for the position.
Johnson's KU ties go back to 1955 when he came to the University as a student and played on the basketball team. In 1961 he became public relations director for the athletic department,
and from 1964 to 1971 he was assistant athletic director and business manager.
Shankel, a member of the search committee, said Johnson's loyalty as well as his ability as a fundraiser were primary considerations in the decision to recommend him.
"I believe he is going to stay around for a while and do a good job for us," said Shankel, who also served as interim athletic director after Bob Marcum resigned in January. "I've known him since he was here in the '60s, and one of his strongest features was his demonstrated ability to raise funds. He has been active in fund raising in Wichita and elsewhere."
FROM 1972 to 1981 Johnson worked at Fourth National Bank of Wichita. While in Wichita he was a member of the KU Alumni Association and the University of Kansas Athletic Corporation board of directors, and also helped raise funds for the University of Kansas Athletics and the Fellowship of Christian Athletes.
Since 1981, Johnson has been president of R.G. Billings Enterprises, Inc., an investment and land development company that owns the Alvamar Hills Golf Course in Lawrence.
Monte Johnson
Wilderness program offers equipment for 'discovery'
By DIRK MILLER Staff Reporter
The sun dipped below the treepops and the forest grew dark. I passed the 2 1/2 milepost, racing to beat the night back to my truck before the forest became an impossible
Wilderness Discovery, located in the Satellite Union, is a Student Union Activities' program that offers the "thrill and excitement of outdoor camping and backpacking" to KU students and faculty, according to an SUA brochure.
SUA, through the discovery program, rents hiking, camping, picnicking and canoeing
"We provide equipment to use to discover the wilderness," said Gene Wee, SUA
1 LEFT to discover the wilderness the day before Thanksgiving, and headed for a 24-mile hiking trail near Berryman, Mo., for my own wilderness adventure. I snapped photos of the stumping horse, a sleeping pad and a cook kit from SUA. The rest of the equipment — sleeping bag, tent,
and rain poncho — was borrowed from friends.
Wilderness discovery also rents ice chests, water jugs and life jackets. Canoes and kayaks are available. Call (605) 212-7980.
My friend and I loaded our gear in my truck and headed for Berryman, located deep in southcentral Missouri in the Mark Twain National Forest. After a 300-mile drive, we arrived at the trail just as the sun was beginning to set. The trail wound from the parking lot into a gloomy, misty grove of oaks and blue sorues.
Hurriedly, I hoisted my pack and started along the trail, which almost disappeared under a carpet of dead leaves. After hiking for about a quarter-mile I found a flat section of ground on which to pitch the Eureka two-man tent, the same kind rented by SUA.
The cold winter air chilled my fingers as I attempted to set up the tent. In the dark, I misplaced three tent stakes, allowing the tent to flan in the wind.
AN OW l screeched somewhere in the dark, semiprongly learing at me.
Dinner that might was cold bagels, peanut butter and gorp. I crawled into my sleeping bed.
Builtv Mannina/KANSAN
Student Union Activities Wilderness Discovery offers the rental equipment needed to experience the adventure of outdoor camping and backpacking. The essentials for an overnight hike, including a sleeping bag, mattress and cooking utensils, fit neatly into a handy 4-pound backpack.
Wet, icv roads take toll over holiday
By Staff and Wire Reports
A wet and icy Thanksgiving weekend claimed at least 11 lives on Kansas roads and left up to six inches of snow across parts of the western half of the state.
Freezing rain covered highways with glare ice from Nebraska to the Appalachians yesterday as thousands of people headed home after the holiday.
Treacherous highway conditions along Interstate 70 Saturday night forced the opening of the National Guard Armory in Russell when a two-story road closed to allow road only to find area motels filled to capacity.
"The roads are getting better now," Sgt. French, of the Russell Police Department, said yesterday. "It's slushy in the passing lines, but it is a lot better than it was. The sun's starting to
In Douglas County, a Topeka man died Thanksgiving evening four miles east of Badwin after his car went off a county road and rolled over, according to a spokesman for the Kansas Highway Patrol. Coffman said the vehicle was in serio condition at St. Francis Hospital in Topeka.
the patrol said. Three people died in an accident north of Hartford Saturday.
By yesterday evening, 344 people had died in traffic accidents, according to United Press International.
As of last night, California had reported 45 deaths, Florida 25 and New York 22. Michigan had 19 traffic deaths, Tennessee 15, Ohio and Alabama 13 apiece, and Illinois, Georgia, and Oklahoma.
The National Safety Council estimated in traffic accidents during the four-day weekend. It estimates and predicts that to 23,000 people, it must disable injuries.
Cold winds turned wet bridges in Waterloo, Iowa, into ice death traps, triggering multiple vehicle pileups. In one hour, Waterloo police and fire responded to the pileups and injuring 22 people, according to UPI.
Icy roads were blamed for deaths in Iowa, Illinois, Minnesota, South Dakota and Ohio. Interstate highways had to be closed in Minnesota and Ohio. In the Cleveland area, dozens of accidents were attributed to slippery roads.
SOUTH OF the ice belt, rain fell from the Mississippi Valley to the Appalachians, turning to snow on the western fringe of the storm system.
Meteorologists said the brutal weekend storm was the result of a "very confusing weather pattern," in which a moisture laden low pressure system moved northeast from Texas late Friday through South Carolina, causing the system over the Dakotas, causing freezing rain and snow across western and central Kansas.
"The storm was no organized weather system by itself. The low provided the precipitation. It had a lot of moisture coming up from the Gulf of Mexico, and it brought the rain with the National Weather Service in Topeka.
Liesel said part of the colder high extended southwest across Kansas, chilling the surface temperature and leaving four to six inches of snow in the valley. The state is central to the southwest portions of the state.
"The HEAVY snow generally went from Elkartin in southwest Kansas near the Oklahoma border to Dodge City up to Ness City and Long Island near the Nebraska border." Alessi said.
Alessi said temperatures should rise quickly today, with highs in the 40s and 50s and a partly sunny day. Tongtai's low should be around 25 to 30 degrees Celsius, but he would be on Wednesday with a chance for more rain.
Prof savs radio counseling helpful, popular
Eastern Kansas and the northwest corner of the state escape most of the snowfall, although Topeka awoke yesterday to roughly a half inch on the ground as the fow moved into Missouri.
"Hello. I've got a problem."
By MATTHEW SCHOFIELD
For centuries, that was a common utterance between friends or lovers, and since the mid-1970s it has been a common phrase on the radio.
Radio psychology is a phenomenon in which a
professional psychologist takes calls from troubled people, and then gives answers over the air. It has brought the personal problems of many individuals into the living rooms of thousands.
Although looked upon as suspect in traditional psychological circles, C.R. Snyder, professor of psychology, said the radio, or "pop psycholo-therapy," served a useful role in contemporary society.
Snyder said that listeners ranged from the voyeuristic to people who merely wished to know that others shared their misery, but callers were usually very serious.
"PEOPLE CALL because they have a problem," he said. "Maybe they call in to a radio program because they know about it, whereas they don't know about other places to go."
Nuisance, or prank callers, exist, but usually
SE PVSCHOLOGY nage 5
By KIESA ASCUE
Staff Reporter
Although the federal government pays for her tuition and books, Marilyn Jesup works 20 hours a week at a two jobs to afford to attend classes at Haskell Indian Junior College.
She struggled to get money from federal sources, but she said she wanted to give up trying to get federal aid because even when the money was in her hands, it was not enough.
Jessup, a Horton sophomore who lives off-campus, said she received $250 a month from the school.
"I figure they owe that money to us," Jessup said. "They stole our land."
GERALD GIPP, Haskell president, said that although a record number of students applied for admittance this year, actual enrollment figures at Haskell plummeted because of federal budget
Gipps said that 1,250 of the 1,750 American Indians who applied for admission last fall were accepted. But because budget reductions left them with less money, living expenses, only 87 students enrolled this fall.
Louis Taylor, counselor for Haskell's off-
campus students, said that enrolment at Haskell had climbed to more than 1,200 since it was accredited in 1971, and that about 25 percent of Haskell students usually lived off campus.
Last year, 925 students attended Haskell, and 20 percent of them lived off campus.
This year, only 125 students, 14 percent of the total enrollment, off-campus, said Limda Khatri. In fact, about half of the students
"ITS DIFFICULT for them to get funded to stay off-campus. And our on-campus numbers were cut, too, when we put two students to a room instead of four students to a room."
William Brown, acting superintendent of the Kansas agency of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, said that any student who was one-quarter American Indian could attend classes at Haskell without paying for tuition or books. Students who live on campus also get free housing and $50 a month to pay for laundry and other personal expenses.
Benny Smith, assistant dean of students, said Haskell had to reject many late applicants because the school could not provide housing for them.
"We have had to ask several agencies not to send students," Smith said. "We could probably
fill another good-sized dorm. We can't even accommodate the interest that out there."
RuthSilversmith, resident director of Winona Hall, said that Haskell residence hall staffs do nightly bedchecks to make sure that people in the halls use their beds, because if they do not sleep in the hall often, the space can be used for others.
IN 1976, a new residence hall, Bailock Hall, was built for $2.3 million. The money was supposed to build two residence halls, but inflation and construction of the building Smith said.
Gipp said he still hoped to be able to see another residence hall on campus, but it could be several years before anything was done about it.
seven years before and after, we made the Kansas agency the BIA gives the most applicants for aid, Brown said. The agency's budget was cut by about 15 percent last year, so fewer students from the state can attend Haskell or other colleges.
Taylor said that every tribal agency handled its funds differently. Each agency has at least one person in its education department to decide how many people a tribal community can afford
Kansan applications due today in Flint Hall
See HASKELL page 5
Applications for Kansan news and business staff positions are due at 5 p.m. today in 200 Fint
Applications are available in the Kansan business office, 118 Fint Hall; the office of the School of Journalism, 200 Fint Hall; the Student Affairs Office, 214 Fint Hall; and the office of student affairs, 214 Strong Hall.
Those applying for the news staff should arrange for an interview. Interview times will be provided.
Staff selections will be posted after Dec. 2.
Weather
Today will be partly cloudy and warmer, according to the National Weather Service. There will be a high at 50, and winds will be west to southwest at 5 to 15 mph.
Tonight will be partly cloudy with a low in the low to mid-30s.
Tomorrow will be partly cloudy with a high in the 50s.