University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
KANSAN
Wednesday, November 17, 1982 Vol. 93, No.63 USPS 650-640
Lavoffs certain if budget adopted, official says
By STEVE CUSICI Staff Reporter
The University of Kansas would be forced to lay off 82 employees if the state adopts a fiscal year 1984 budget recommendation by the Kansas Division of Budget, a KU official said yesterday.
The official, Ward Zimmerman, KU director of the budget, said that 54 classified employees and 28 unclassified employees would have to be off under the budget division recommendation.
The budget division is requesting $98 million in general use funds for the Lawrence campus. That falls short of the Board of Regents recommendation of $104 million.
For all seven of the Regents institutions, the budget office is requesting $424.7 million, 8.6 percent more than the current budgets at those institutions, for $431.8 million, about a 16 percent increase.
STANLY KOPLIK, executive officer for the Regents, said the state budget division recommendations would mean the seven Regents institutions would have to lay off more than 250 employees.
Koplik and James Pickert, chairman of the Regents, testified Monday at the governor's budget hearings in Topeka.
Pickert said, "We are more than willing to do our fair share to ensure that our state emerges from this period of fiscal uncertainty in an even stronger condition than before."
But, he said. "To force our institutions to reduce the quality of the services they provide to Kansans because of a temporary financial crisis," he said. "I will adversely affect Kansas for years to come."
Koplik said, "The question is how much are we going to be expected to do for the people of Kansas, and how can we be expected to do it with 280 fewer people?
"I like to believe we can come up with some suggestions that are better for higher education."
GAIL, HAMILTON, president of the KU Classified Senate, said the state budget division recommendation was just that — a recommendation — and that it should not trigger alarm.
The state budget demand request must KU be denied other recommendations contained in the Regents budget request. Koplik said they included an additional $100,000 for library acquisition, $175,000 for instructional equipment and $175,000 for academic computing.
But, she said, "If indeed that becomes a
reality . . . there are alternatives to layoffs to handle that."
Hamilton is a member of a committee of state employees studying alternatives to layoffs. The
Jerome Niebaum, director of the Academic Computing Center, said his office needed that computer be able to
"FOR US, it means the difference between whether we can operate our Honeywell gift card or not."
The University received the computer this fall and is covering the learning for me, so I can install.
Niebaum said his department already was working on a tight budget.
"We are underfunded in academic computing by at least half a million dollars a year," he said.
Under the recommendation, the University also would have to return $577,000 in enrollment adjustment funds to the state because of an enrollment drop last fall.
Zimmerman said that under the Regents proposed 1984 budget, the University would not accept grants from the university.
The Regents request calls for a 9 percent increase in unclassified salaries along with a 1 percent increase in the state's contribution to the faculty retirement plan.
Nine-year-old Aric Branham attempted to herd his turkeys to their feed yesterday. Aric helps take care of the birds, which are raised by his pareats, Ruth and Richard Branham, both faculty members in the department of design.
Thanksgiving Day turkeys cast off passive stereotypes
Staff Reporter
By MATTHEW SCHOFIELD Staff Reporter
Call them stupid, fat or slow. But say it in a whisper and don't get too close, because they might attack.
whether alone or in herds, the beasts of the holiday season, these waddling gobblers, are vicious.
Unlike the passive stereotype turkse have lugged around with them ever since becoming a domesticated animal, they have at least the potential to be violent, said Ruth Branham, a KU lecturer in design who has raised turkse for the last five or six years.
Branham said she had witnessed many turkey attacks, and they were not pretty
"They come kind of slow, and they have to throw their legs out to the side to run," she said. "When they do this at any speed it’s so much heavier. It’s more of a waggle than anything else."
THE BRANHAM'S neighbors have met with several different experiences, she said. One elderly neighbor, carrying a patent leather bag, was the object of a turkey charge. Another neighbor was stalked by one of the ungainly creatures and eventually hurt.
"They love shiny things," she said.
From the Indians' first offering of turkeys to the Pilgrims, through the weeks of leftover turkey sandwiches, turkeys are, and have been, an integral part of American life.
"Children are pretty low to the ground and have nice shiny eyes. If a turkey nails you in the eve, it's a serious injury."
Turkeys are not noted for their warfare but rather for their appearance at Thanksgiving Day dinner in the midst of seemingly endless plates of food.
ON THANKSGIVING Day, most people feel a turkey should always be big and full of stuffing. Yet, if a turkey gets too big, problems can arise.
Branham said one of her sons raised turkeys for a 4-H project. They have raised as many as 25 turkeys at once, but this year they are only raising nine, she said.
Benjamin Franklin even suggested that the turkey be the official bird of the United States.
Branham said she grew a turkey that was large so she could not hold it, and she said it was delicious.
Instead of being noble symbols or terrorizing brutes, turkeys spend most of their time foraging in a grassy field.
"One turkey we had stood in the middle of some hot coals for quite some time," she said. "I was thinking, 'What's that guy doing?'
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Registration resister to lecture
By BONAR MENNINGER
Staff Reporter
One of two Bethel College students indicted for failing to register for the draft will speak at the University of Kansas today, two days after a federal judge in California ruled that the draft registration law was unconstitutional.
However, Jim Marquez, the U.S. Attorney for Kansas, said yesterday that the ruling in California was not binding and would have no effect on execution of those who failed to register in Kansas.
Epp, a 20-year-old philosophy student, will speak at noon at the Ecumenical Christian Ministries as part of the University Forum. The meeting that brings portable individuals to the campus.
Bettel College student Charles Epp and fellow student Kendell Warkentine were indicted in September for not registering for the draft in Newton.
ON MONDAY, U.S. District Court Judge Terry Hatter Jr. diminished charges against a young draft registration resister in California, saying that former President Carter did not allow a 30-day period for public comment on the registration law, which is required by the constitution.
In dismissing the charges, Hatter also said that the resister, David Wayte, 21, of Pasadena had been singled out for prosecution by the government because of his vocal dissent. He cited the Reagan administration's refusal to let defense lawyers see White House and Pentagon documents and to question presidential counselor Edwin Meese.
"The decision of the federal district judge in California is not binding on the district in Kansas." Marquez said.
"The effect of the ruling is none whatsoever. We will continue to prosecute. I have no doubts that the same defense that was raised in California will be raised here; however, my office is willing to litigate that issue in this district."
EPP WILL go to trial in January. He said yesterday that although the California ruling was not binding, he thought it would affect the outcome of the trial and encourage on what the outcome of the trial might be.
Daniel Wildcat, vice president of the Lawrence chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, said the issue of selective prosecution raised by California judge 'hit the mail precisely on the head.'
"It is an important decision," Wildcat said.
Epp, in defining his personal reasons for not registering for the draft, said, "Considering the tensions between the Soviets and the Americans, we have to begin searching out other than military alternatives in dealing with them. My decision not to register is a statement against using military means to solve foreign policy problems."
Epp said his lecture today would provide an overview of the anti-draft movement and outline reasons for the high non-compliance rate.
SINCE THE program was enacted in the summer of 1980, 8.7 million young men have registered for the draft, according to a recorded service. System officers in Washington D.C.
The statement said an additional 75,000 earning letters would be mailed in the near future.
Official says proposed merger may be stalled
On Aug. 16, the government mail out warning letters to more than 33,000 men who had not registered, advising them to comply with the law or face public prosecution.
The statement said the national compliance rate is slightly over 94 percent and is expected to rise as a result of a recently initiated audit, which will include an address and address those who have failed to register.
Staff Reporter
By MATTHEW SCHOFIELD
The competition situation existed between Lawrence's Dillons and Kroger stores could stall the proposed merger between the two food chain giants, a merger that Commission officials said yesterday.
"If Krogers owns a store that competes with a Dillons, it could be forced to shut it down before the merger takes place," said the official, who asked not to be named until the FTC action was over.
The law that calls for such action is the Clayton Act, which says that if a merger would create a substantial lessening of competition in a market area the merger is not legal, he said.
The merger between Kroger Co. the nation's second largest supermarket chain, and Dillon Companies Inc. based in Hutchinson, was amounted to a mere $17 million two-thirds of Dillon's stock holders.
Jack Caton, Dillon Stores director of public relations, said that Lawrence was the only city where competition between a Kroger and a Dillon store existed.
At most BILLION, senior vice president of Dillon, said he was not sure how the problem would be resolved.
"I can only speculate," he said. "But I would say that one side or the other would have to go. Maybe that's wrong."
Because Lawrence has four Dillon stores and only one Kroger store, Dillon said he thought the Kroger store would be closed if any store had to be.
Dillon said there were still a number of other types of supermarkets in Lawrence, and the competitive situation would not be hurt by the new legislation. But the government might think differently.
"We wouldn't do anything unless we are forced to by the government," he said.
DALE SEROVICH, FTC consumer protection specialist in Los Angeles, said nothing prohibited companies from merging, but there are certain market-share criteria that must be met.
"If the acquisition puts the market into a non-competitive situation, one company would be forced to close," he said.
Caton said the merger gave both chains a wide area to expand into and would firmly establish Kroger as the No. 2 supermarket chain in the United States.
Individual stores will continue to operate under the same names, and the merger should eventually create jobs, he said. The conflict in Lawrence is the only sing he knew of at the time.
"There will probably be some adjustment made," he said.
The FTC official said the merger, or acquisition, did not appear to place the two companies into direct competition any place else.
Pro football to resume; 57-day NFL strike ends
By United Press International
NEW YORK - The 57-day NFL strike ended last night with the 28 player representatives voting to accept a five-year contract totaling nearly $1.6 billion.
Gene Upshaw, president of the NFL Players Association, made the announcement at 10:30 p.m. CST at the Summit Hotel in New York, where we have been taking place on and off since Oct. 30.
"We have a tentative agreement that must be ratified by the players," said Usphah. "We'll return to work. If we can get everything done, we'll have football on Sunday. We had a will to win and I hope this will start a new relationship with the NFL."
The approval of the 1,500 players is considered a formality.
The NPL season is expected to resume Sunday. The 28 teams were to return to their home stadium.
See STRIKE page 5
Weather
Today will be partly cloudy with a high in the low 50s, according to the National Weather Service. Winds will be from the southeast at 5 to 15 mph.
Tonight will be cloudy with a 20 percent chance of rain. The low will be in the low
Tomorrow will be partly cloudy with a high about 55.
Rodeo clown must play daring game of inches
By DAVID SWAFFORD
Staff Reporter
Leon Coffee wiped on the white base make-up from his face in his dressing room after last Sunday's American Royal Rodeo show and talked about "a game of inches."
Coffee, 30, — "hot and black just like the drink" has been a professional rodeo clown for seven years. He rode bulls for more than 15 years before becoming a clown.
"One blow from a bull's horn can kill you, if it hits you right. You can compare the danger of a bull to standing next to Reggie Jackson swinging his bat at your head," he said.
"When a ball is charging at you straight on, your feet are saying 'let's leave', but your mind and pride are saying 'stay'.' Coffee said of close encounters in the arena.
and genuine leather cowboy boots take precedence over chewing gum and Nikes and the straw dust and the stench of animal manure permeate throughout the buildings — will be running through Saturday at Kemper Arena, the city's only rodeo. The Governor's Expansion Building in Kauai City.
Coffee said he was proud of his accomplishments because he was the only black clown in professional rodeo. He also added that as a showman, he was the first rookie to make it on the pro circuit.
COFFEE'S ACT and the entire American Royal Rodeo and Livestock Show — where Skowal
Kansas City has been host of the show for past 83 years.
"Fighting bulls (the term that clowns use to describe their job) is fun, challenging and exciting."
"The only thing you take home with you is the bumps, bruises and broken bones."
COFFEE SUFFERED a tern ligament in his right hand about a month ago during a rodeo in Texas.
But, he said, "I've got nothing to complain about. I'm doing the thing I want and I love it. Any accident is a mistake on my part. Mistakes cause accidents. I was over-exerting myself and that's why I got this torn ligament. I tend to over-exert myself at times."
but the bull was able to turn around and injure his hand with its horn, he said.
This year's opening show of the American Royal Rodeo was sold out. Kemper Arena is one of the largest rodeo arenas in the nation, so consequently it has some of the largest rodeo crowds, according to Don Endsley, master of ceremonies.
HE SAID professional rodeors earned a total of $14 million on the circuit last year. Rodeors earned a total of $80,000 at this rodeo alone. The company also paid $269,000 to 640 professional rodeors on the circuit, he said.
In fact, Endesley said, ticket demands were so high for this season's rodeo that officials had to cancel some rides.
"The professional rodeo business is more a way of life than just a job," said Endsley, who was wearing a cream-colored suit with a matching cowboy hat.
"There really isn't an off-season.
"There are less rodeos in November and December, but the season goes all year round. You're on the road about 40 to 45 weeks out of the year. If a man wants to be a champion rodeo, he should expect to go to at least 170 rodeos during the year."
Endsley said the lifestyle of a professional rodeo could be compared with that of a
Endsley thinks the reason that the American
ON THE OTHER hand, Endsley said, he remembered a man who had earned $410,000 at a real estate auction.
"Each man picks the robeon he wants to go and then pays for his own expenses. It's a risky business because sometimes he could end up not erring a thing," he said.
Royal Rodeo and Livestock Show is so popular with local people is that it only occurs once a year, contrary to rodeos in Texas, which might occur every week.
This year is Endley's fourth as announcer at the Royal. However, he has been a professional master of ceremonies for the past eight years. He will be the next announcer, Endley rode bulls for 10 years.
"I'm a cowboy turned announcer," he said. Endley became interested in the rodeo when his parents took him to the American Royal Rodeo when he was a youngager living in Kansas City.
Coffee said that he, too, had been introduced to the rodeo when he was a boy and had known at once that it was what he wanted to do.
"You just got to love it. If you don't, then you shouldn't be in the business," he said.
HE FINISHED removing his clown make-up and outfit.