The University Daily
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
KANSAN
Tuesday, October 26, 1982
Vol. 93, No. 47 USPS 650-640
Space heater use draws cool reply from officials
By STEVE CUSICK Staff Reporter
As the days get cooler, signaling that winter is on its way, some people at the University of Kansas have started using space heaters in campus offices to take the chill out of the air.
Officials want to wait until mid-November before turning on the University's heating system, William Hogan, associate executive vice president of campus operations, said the heat normally was turned on Oct. 15.
Hogan said his office had received several reports of people using space heaters to warm rooms in campus buildings. Administrators, staff members and staff members or staff members not to use the portable heaters.
THE USE of space heaters might eliminate some of the savings achieved by turning the heat on later than normal, he said. "They are very inefficient," Hogan said, adding that heating with electricity was much more expensive than using the University's regular heating system. "We hope to encourage people not to use space heaters whenever possible."
Hogan said that a number of steps could be taken before people had to resort to space training.
Officials have started shutting down the ventilation systems in most campus buildings in the city.
afternoon, he said. The systems were circulating cold air in the mornings.
HOGAN ESTIMATED that KU was saving $1000 to $5,000 a day, every day it held off thunderstorms.
Hogan said that for the University to keep saving, the weather must cooperate. If the weather snaps into a severe cold streak before Nov. 15, the heat will be turned on.
"We're very fortunate at this time," he said of the mild weather during the last few days.
But some workers at KU do not consider themselves so fortunate. Hogan said that some people have called his office with complaints of cold rooms.
In some campus buildings, KU workers are wearing extra clothing and taking other measures to take the chill out of the morning air in their offices.
Lisa Berry, office manager for the political science department in Blake Hall, said she had been using a space heater because of a circulatory problem in her hands.
HOGAN SAID University administrators would decide later this week whether some campus building would operate at reduced levels during the winter break.
A task force studying energy at KU will release long and short term recommendations next week for cutting utility costs, he said. The team has also announced that audit done on some campus buildings, he said.
A lone bicyclist enjoys an early morning ride through the intersection of Gread Avenue and 13th Street Dave Homack KRANSAN
Retirement plan's legality still undecided
Bv DIRK MILLER
Staff Reporter
The faculty retirement plan used by Kansas Board of Regents schools has been called both discriminatory and non-discriminatory toward women faculty by two U.S. appellate courts, the senior vice president of the association that runs the plan said yesterday.
University in New York. That university also participates in the plan.
"This is a classic case of opposite conclusions being reached by two appellate courts," said William Slater, senior vice president of the association and College Retirement Equities Fund.
TIAA-CREF, the Regents's plan, was charged with violating women's rights to fair treatment under Title VII. The case was filed by Diana Spir, a teacher employed by Long Island State
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BUT IN A decision handed down Oct. 14 by the U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals, in a suit filed by a female employee of Wayne State University in Michigan, the court sided with a lower court's ruling. The court held that TIAA-CREE for a sex-based mortality table did not violate Title 1864 Civil Rights Act and was discriminating against women faculty, Slater said.
benefits the female retirees received were reduced on the assumption that they would be able to afford them.
The cases were based on TIA-ACRE'F's use of a sex-based mortality table to determine the number of women who died in a table, women were assumed to have a longer lifespan than their male colleagues and any
THE 6TH CIRCUL COURT stated the tables were not discriminatory because, "The tables were sex segregated simply because women live lorger than men."
Under the plan, the University contributes 5 percent of a faculty member's salary to the retirement plan and the employee matches that with another 5 percent drawn from his salary.
But David Shulenburger, associate professor of business and former chairman of the KU chapter of the American Association of College Professors, said that about 80 percent of women have the same life expectancy as men. The tables are calculated unfairly because only 20 percent of women have longer lives than men, he said.
THE COURT'S ruling on the suit, which was filled by Mildred Peters, an employee of Wayne State University, was that the use of a sex-based mortality table was discriminatory when the woman retires. But that the policy was "non-discriminatory as applied to women as a group."
Slater said that he anticipated that both cases would be appealed by TIAA-CREF and by
Toni House, a Supreme Court employee, such similar case involving another retirement plan using sex-based mortality-tables would be supported by the Supreme Court sometime in the spring.
THE SUIT WAS brought by Nathalie Norris against the Arizona Governing Committee for Tax Deferred Annuity, to the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.
Kay circulates Regan letter supporting tax stand
Staff Reporter
By BRUCE SCHREINER
Republican Moris is Kay yesterday stepped up his campaign theme, which charges his opponent with favoring taxes, by circulating a letter from a top Keagan administration official who insisted that he should be.
Treasury Secretary Donald Regan that condemned any attempt to repeal next year's tax cut. Regan's letter was the highlight of press conferences in Lawrence and Kansas City, Kan
Kay and Slattery are competing for the 2nd Congressional District seat that is being vacated by a Democrat.
Kay, who has repeatedly charged Democrat Jim Slattery with favoring a 10 percent tax increase, was accused of insulting
SLATTERY HAS SAID next year's 10 percent tax cut, the third phase of President Reagan's three-year, 25 percent tax reduction measure, which includes a budget deficit are brought under control.
Kay has called Slattery's position an endorsement of a 10 percent tax increase, which would kick Tanasis' pocketbooks for an added one-half million. The government, in 1984 according to treasury department figures.
Regan's letter said next year's tax cut was essential for low- and middle-income families, who were not the primary beneficiaries of the first two tax cuts.
"The third year of the tax cut is essential if we want to provide any real tax relief to the taxpayers."
third year would result in substantial tax increases for all taxpayers," Regan said in his
"WITHOUT THE PRESIDENT'S tax cut, a family of four in Kansas will pay $2,013 a year in federal income taxes. With the president's tax cut, the family will pay $1,642 in 1983 and $1,549 in 1994."
A family of four would pay $635 more in taxes during the next two years if the tax cut was implemented.
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Two draft horses paraded around the ring at an auction in Topeka Saturday as bidders and spectators looked on.
'Old gray mare' still serves as sentimental farm favorite
By MATT BARTEL
Staff Reporter
"Bid twenty-twenty-tweny. I have twenty, do I hear twenty and a quarter?" barked the auctioneer as a man in the third row raised his cane, signaling his bid of $2,000.
"Twenty and a quarter-quarter-quarter..."
Although history and the latest technology may have passed them by, draft* horses continue to be sentimental favorites in some circles. With the price of a good registered Belgian going as high as $20,000, they have become an expensive hobby as well.
The draft horse auction was part of the 14th annual Fall Sale held Saturday, one of two of its kind held each year in Topoka, where horses, tack (horse-drawn implements) and other livestock are sold, said Joy Sparrow, assistant manager of the sale.
THE EVENT, sponsored by Centennial Farm in Maple Hill, draws horse buyers and sellers from eight states in the Midwest who are hoping to improve their stable or their cash-flow, she said.
Otto Premaur, a retired farmer from Osakaoka, said he remembered cultivating fields with horses when he was growing up in Nebraska. "They can pull an awful load," he said. "We are as good-natured an animal as you'd ever work to with. They're really gentle giants."
Premium said a good Belgian draft horse could easily weigh a ton and stand 18 hands, or six feet.
JIM MCDERMOTT, who owns a farm north of Walnut, Iowa, said horses still were better than machinery in some ways.
"Ever see a tractor fertilize your field?" said McBernert. "Ever see a tractor that could have another tractor for you? It's just a different reality. So really, there are still people that farm this way."
McDernott said the cost of maintaining a horse was less than that of a tractor. "All you need is a tractor."
Virgil Pigli, Topeka farmer, said one reason horses had fallen out of use was the difference in the amount of area they could cover from what a tractor could cover in a day.
"You can't keep too big an operation going with them," said Pigg, who has been keeping
PREMAUR SAID he thought farmers were just as happy back when horses pulled the plows in the past.
"It was just as good time then as now," he said. "There's no way a farmer can pay for all this new machinery. It used to be that a good pair of mules would sell for $300 to $400."
Premaur said he also had used mules, which are the offspring of a jack (male donkey) and a cow.
"Mules are easier to break," Premaur said.
"Some people think they're stubborn, and the only way to persuade them is with a two-by-four foot strap. You must use it."
To treat a mule, the harder they'll work for var."
McDermott, though, was less sympathetic.
"WELL, A MULE won't hurt itself and it's less susceptible to disease," he said. "A mule's smarter, though — it will try to get away with it, but it won't want one. I guess I just need in care for mules."
His sentiments were echoed by others, making it apparent that the difference between a mule and a horse existed in the mind of the owner as well as in the animals themselves.
Defense chief failed to stop camp killings
By United Press International
JERUSALEM — Israel Defense Minister Ariel Sharon said yesterday that he allowed Christian militiamen to enter two Beirut refugee camps, and then failed to quickly stop the slaughter of hundreds of Palestinians during the September massacre.
"It was decided the (Christian) Phalange role in entering Beirut would be to go into terrorist neighborhoods — Chatil, Sabra and Fakhani," Sharon told the commission.
In yesterday's testimony before a three-member commission investigating the Sept. 16-18 massacre, Sharon said that he let the men enter the building as Prime Minister Menachem Begin's permission.
Pressed for specifics, Sharon said the decision was based on a June 15 government resolution to permit Christian militias to participate on Sunday in fighting, including the invasion of West Beirut.
"DID THE prime minister know at midnight Sept. 14, the Phalange would go in?" asked Justice Aharon Barak, a former attorney general.
"No," Sharon admitted, after initially side-stemming the question.
"Not one of us imagined, in our worst dreams, the horrors that emerged in Sabra and Chattai," Sharon said. "None of us foresaw, or could have foreseen, these atrocities that stand in stark contrast to the interests of the state of Israel were shocked and astounded by the massacre."
Wearing a gray suit and nervously twirling an eyeglass case, Sharon opened the commission's first public session by reading a 15-minute prepared statement that denied Israeli culpability in the slaughter of hundreds of Palestinian civilians.
AFTER HE finished reading the statement, Sharon asked the commission to go into closed session. But for more than two hours, Chief Justice Yizhak Kahan, Yonah Efrain, reserve army general, and Barak, peppered him with questions as they sat with their backs to the official seal of Israel in the Hebrew University lecture ball.
Sharon said he learned the mass killing was under way on Friday night Sept. 17, but did not order the Phalangists out until the following morning.
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Today will be partly cloudy with a high in the low- to mid-70s, according to the National Weather Service. Winds will be from the south at 10 to 20 mph
Tonight and tomorrow will be partly cloudy. The low tonight will be in the low-to-mid-40s. The high tomorrow will be in the mid-to upper-70s.