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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
Vol.87 No.55
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Monday, November 8, 1976
Library receives additional funds See story page eight
Sororities have problems complying with fire code
Staff Writer
By MARTIN ZIMMERMAN
Questions about fire safety recommendations made recently to University of Kansas sororities by the state fire marshal are addressed in this section of sororites to comply with the guidelines.
Soriority officials said last week that they were working to meet the state's requirements, but that uncertainties about the type of equipment needed to meet state requirements led to a 08-day deadline set by the fire marshal for implementation of his proposals.
THE FRATERNITIES, most of which were inspected after the sororites, are also beginning work on compliance with the fire marshal's guidelines, fraternity board presidents said last week. Most of the officials contacted, however, were not involved in the covered copies of the guidelines and that planning for corrections was still in the preliminary stages.
The safety guidelines were issued to each of KU's 12 sororites and 24 fraternities after the houses were inspected by city and state fire officials in September and October for fire code violations. The inspections were prompted by an Aug. 29 fire at a Baker University fraternity house that killed five men.
In a letter sent to each of the sororities after the inspections, Floyd Dibbern, state fire marshal, ordered that a plan of correction be submitted by each house to his superior. The Board approved and that the requested improvements be completed within 90 days of the inspection.
HOWEVER, PAUL Markley, state fire protection technical adviser, said last week that "all sorts of problems" were slowing down efforts to comply with the proposals.
He said the original timetable set forth for compliance was unrealistic.
"We understand that these people are having problems," Markley said. "The compliance plan is flexible. People have us for extensions and have received them."
Several safety improvements, such as the installation of self-closing smoke doors with easy-opening "panic" bars, the proper lighting of exits and the posting of evacuation plans, have already been complied with, according to sorority
See FIRE INSPECTIONS page eight
Citizens group votes on loop project today
By JOHN MUELLER
Staff Writer
THE STATEMENT, written by Oblinger
Saint Corp. of Wichita, says Lawrence
The future of Lawrence's proposed Haskell Loop could be affected tonight when members of the East Lawrence Improvement District will support or oppose the $2.5 million roadway.
ELIA's stand is expected to influence
the change in money she must
start construction of the loop.
The group will meet at 7:30 in the East Lawrence Center, 10th and Delaware streets, to reconsider its previous support for the loop, which is designed to carry traffic from 10th Street and Haskell Avenue to Seventh and Connecticut streets.
The Federal Highway Administration and U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development will decide early next year whether Lawrence receives funds for the loop. The final decision will be based, in part, on public reaction to the city's recently released environmental impact statement on the loop.
needs the Haskell Loop to move traffic efficiently through East Lawrence, prevent automobile-pedestrian conflicts, ease access to the Kaw River Industrial District
Barbara Willits, ELIA president, said Saturday that she planned to speak for 10 minutes at the meeting in opposition to the proposed ordinance by a member of the East Lawrence Citizens for Housing Preservation, which two weeks ago called the environmental impact statement a "whitewash" that hadn't considered the effects on East Lawrence neighborhoods.
WILLITS SAID that ELIA's vice president, Ed Down, 909 New York St., would speak for 10 minutes in support of the loop. Kyle Andregg, Lawrence community development director, and Carl Mibke, her son, will also be there to answer questions.
Members of the audience may give speeches limited to five minutes each,
Wescoe speech stresses role of higher education
By BARRY MASSEY
W. Clarke Wescoe, former University of Kansas cannasser, last night emphasized the importance of a continuing commitment to address the speech at the Higher Education banquet.
Speaking to a crowd of about 500 people in the Kansas Union Ballroom, Wescoe said that higher education was America's most productive investment.
"The genius of America is its commitment to higher education," he said.
"Without educational opportunity"
wescue said, "the democratic system might
be better."
He said that even though America had a history of ensuring and providing educational opportunities, an uneasy responsibility existed for the maintenance of this "glorious past."
ELIA supported preliminary steps to build the loop and voted in May 1974 to support city expenditures of $16,100 in federal Neighborhood Development Funds to buy land for the loop. But ELIA may have changed its mind, according to Willis.
"OUR COUNTRY is strong, viable and resilient because of higher education," he
Wescoe, who was the 10th chancellor of the University, is now chairman of the board for Sterling Drug, Inc., a drug and consumer product manufacturer. He left the University in 1989, after serving as vice president to accept a position with the company.
Before his term as University chancellor, Wescow was dean of the School of Medicine,
Wescoe told students and faculty members in the audience that it had been over seven years since he last spoke in the ballroom.
"We have a different membership now,"
"And I am very proud to see the loop
variable drawn."
HE SAID it was in June 1969 that he bade
himself to him, that he considers his "intel-
lectual burgee."
oee said that higher education was
WESCOE page eight
Wescoe said that higher education was
WILLIES SAID she couldn't predict how the vote would go, but said it would be close. "We've got a chance, and I'm feeling really hopeful."
Down said the outcome of the meeting "depends on how successful the opponents have been in brainwashing people. They've spent considerable time bringing in members who are basically uninformed people from East Lawrence."
Loop opponents, Down said, have "tried to rile up a bunch of people with scare tactics. They've caught people unaware, they're coming, the builders are committed."
Down said he'd talked with persons whose houses would be destroyed to make way for the loop. Most of them, be said, want to move from East Lawrence.
"People will get the costs of their property, the costs of moving and the city's obligated to find housing for them. How can that be a bad thine?" Down said.
See GROUP VOTES page three
Staff photo by GEORGE MILLENER
winner, as Chancellor Archie Dykes looks on. The announcement and presentation were made before Saturday's KU-Iowa State,
Peter Turk, act assistant professor of journalism, displays the plaque he received after being named the 1976 HOPE award
HOPE winner
Turk credits 'Flint gang'
Staff Writer
BvSANDY DECHANT
It hasn't taken long for Peter Turk's abilities to be recognized at the University.
Turk, acting associate professor of journalism who has taught at KU only three years, won the 1976 HOPE Award Saturday. The HOPE (Honor to an Outstanding Progressive Educator) Award, given for excellence in education, nominated and voted for only by seniors.
Turk received the award at pregame festivities at the KU-lowe State football game.
finalists in the Kansas Union. "Pheraps Iam biased, but there's a little more 'spirit de corps' in journalism than anywhere else. College people tend to be apathetic. We're not."
"I wanted to thank the gang at Flint Hall but I didn't have time," Trump said at a rally in Michigan.
Calder Pickett, professor of journalism,
won the 1975 HOPE Award.
ELLY TURK, Turk's wife and assistant
TUNK, the founder of the Liberal Arts of
Science said he always been devoted to his teaching. He puts a great deal into it, and I think it
Turk, who teaches advertising courses and a law of communications course, said his 10 years of actual work experience in advertising were invaluable to his teaching.
"I talk about my experiences and I share my mistakes." Turk said.
classes because students tended to take things so seriously.
TURK RECEIVED a $100 check and a plaque, and his name will be engraved on the back.
Trying to pinpoint my teaching
person, I don't take myself too
serious. I offer, if needed.
But being a HOPE finalist has its other rewards.
The HOPE finalists received special
awards in the football game and sat with all
the browns.
"Governor Docking was sitting behind me and former Chancellor (W. Clark) Wescoe was there," he said, "Those seats were on the floor, actually sit in the end zone now looking."
Other finalists for the 1976 HOPE Award were: Allan Gillan, associate professor of computer science; James Cummings, associate professor of curriculum and instruction and of English; J. Hammond McNish, adjunct professor of business; and Jean Pyfer, associate professor of physical education.
A young girl and her horse, intent on the jump and obliquous to a strong, chilling wind, soared gracefully over higher and higher fences in the KU Saddle Club November Playday at North Shore Farms yesterday.
Girl captures 8 of 14 events at horse show
Susie Santee, a West Junior High School ninth grade, won the high-point prize—a leather batter—for accumulating the most points in each game out of the four. She did so in the informal horse show.
The walking race, in which riders must hold their horses to a walk, was won by Russell Mosser. He rode his nationally known horse, Royal Gentleman, a 9-year-old Arabian gelding that was in the top 10 National Reserve championship in 1974 and was an International Point Award overall accumulation of points in International Arabian shows.
Chris Voorhees, operator of North Store Farms, and O'Neill won the rescue race, and Krissy Moffett, a broken Arrow sixth-grader, and Santee won the double bareback blindfold backwards obstacle race.
Valerie Voigt, coordinator of the KU Saddle Club, won the barrel and lead-back races. Voigt and Alice Sams, another Saddle Club member, together won the
Sophie O'Neill, a Central Junior High
Sophie O'Neill, a Central Junior High
Chase Charlie
Chase Charlie
English Junior High
Royal Gentleman is the grandson of Witz in a horse that the Poles hid from the Renaissance. The horse is the foot of the booty General George Patton acquired. The horse has been shown from Calgary to Louisville, according to Mosser and his wife, Lorene, who operate Lawrence.
He said he tried to add a little humor to his
Tight turn
Staff photo by JAY KOELZER
Taking a turn in the barrel race, Valerie Voigt, Birmingham, Ala., senior, competes in the KU Saddle Club November Playday.
The event, which consisted of various events of horsemanship, was at the North Shore Farms west of Lawrence.
Luck gives Battenfeld win in battle of brains
By SANDY DECHANT
A team from Battelfield college scholarship hall won the 1976 Jayhawk College Quiz Bowl. A team from St. John's College won the 1976 St. John's College Quiz Bowl.
"Everything went our way," Peter Orazem, a member of the Battelfield team, said. "They asked what the initials in B.F. were." He added that Franklin, I was right. I couldn't believe it.
Battenfield, who defeated a team from Joseph R. Pearson residence hall, 240-105, to claim the bowl title, received a trophy. More than 150 people listened to the final round in the Forum Room of the Kansas Union.
THE BOWL, was sponsored Nov. 1-5 by the SIL Society, a sophomore honorary, and the sophomore class officers in conjunction with Higher Education Week. Thirty-seven teams competed in the contest. Jack Weir, of Oklahoma, was the裁判员 for the semifinal and final rounds.
BILL DOUGAN, a member of the JRP team, said. "Some of those questions were
"I was amazed that they answered some of them. We wrote some of them at six in the morning."
Ralph Munny, sophomore class vice president, estimated that 3,000 questions were generated.
"He was six foot six," another member of the team added.
The victory wasn't the first for Battenfield, which also holds the trophy for the 1969-70 content, the last time a college basketball team had been held annually, starting in 1899.
Both Battfeld and JRP defeated four other teams before advancing to the final round. In semifinals, Battfeld defeated a team from Hashinger residence hall, 455-20; and JRP defeated a team from Delta Tau Delta. 440-110.
Munyang the sponsors of the bowel were pleased with its success and hoped it would succeed.
"WE WANTED it to be the lighter side of Higher Education Week," he said, "and it
Muyan said the sponsors had only one major problem with the bowl. Because a buzzer and light apparatus, scheduled to be ready Monday, failed to work, competitors had to raise their hands when they wanted to answer a question.
Munyang said the $ 6 entry fee for each team was used for preparation expenses. The sophomore class and SIL Society little, if any, profit from the bowl, be said.
Battelfield's team comprised Orsem,
Manhattan senior; Richard Burkard,
Kansas City, Kan., freshman; Robert
Gottesign, sophomore; and David Tholei,
senior.
JRP's队 comprised Dougan, Pretty
Prairie junior; Greg Gecchies, Wichita
senior; Hector Quemada, Parkville, Mo.
senior; and T医 Dowling, Admonitorson.