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--weeks old, caught a ride home snuggled in Bauman's coat rather than catching a cold from the wet sidewalks.
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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
Moore closes football practice
KANSAN
Vol.87 No.41
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
See story page six
Tuesday, October 19, 1976
Wet freeloader
Even the first rain in recent memory didn't stop little Rooney from following Debbie Bauman, 1612 Tennessee St., to the KU campus early morning. Rooney, 8
Faculty to help pay wagons bill
By JIM COBB Staff Writer
Some faculty members have come to the aid of University of Kansas administrators and area Bicentennial groups who have been at a standoff for much of the past six months about a bill from KU.
The bill was for a one-day visit to KU from a Bicentennial wagon train trial 10.30 Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor, said yesterday that several faculty members, who asked to remain unidentified, had started a fund to help pay the bill.
KU had the original bill, for about $1,300, to the Douglas County Bicentennial Commission. The bill was for the costs of materials used during the wagon train's visit, and for wages paid to campus police and buildings and grounds employees.
SHANKEL AGREED last month to waive a $123.87 charge for materials, but said KU wasn't allowed by Kansas law to pay employees. He didn't directly related to University activities.
That left a charge of $1,250.65. The Douglas County Bicentennial Commission, the Lawrence Bicentennial Commission and the KU Bicentennial Committee met two weeks ago to discuss the possibility of pooling funds to pay the bill.
This cooperative effort won't be needed now. Shankel said the faculty members would pay $779.70 of the bill, the amount of money required for buildings and grounds employees.
Clencene Hills, chairman of the county Bientennial group, said she had polled nine
of the 10 members of the group's executive committee, and they had agreed to pay the remaining $470.95, for wages of police.
SHE SAID the county commissioners would be asked to approve the expenditure before checks were sent to KU. The commissioners didn't discuss the bill at yesterday's meeting, but probably will consider it at a Wednesday meeting, a secretary to the commissioners said.
Shankel said some faculty members "who have deep roots in the community and are concerned about the University's relationship with people in the community" had put funds into a Kansas University Association account to help pay the bill.
Shankel said the KU administration supported the faculty members' efforts.
THE BILL was sent by KU last spring and became a subject of controversy this fall when Bicentennial commission members said that they shouldn't be responsible for the bill, that the charges for one day's stay seemed excessive, and that KU hadn't warned the county group about costs until it was too late to cancel the wagon train visit.
Hills said she was happy a compromise had been reached.
Shankel said KU funds, including endowment funds, probably wouldn't be used to pay the bill. It had been reported earlier that the endowment Association funds would be used.
Women's athletics disputes gyms' use
"It was a very generous and typical gesture of KU faculty members to do something like this," she said. "They're very much a part of the community."
She said she thought it unusual that a scheduling committee would rather give up the entire field house for a room in Robinson to reserve one gymnasium in Robinson.
BECAUSE WEDNESDAY nights were the only time allotted to women at athletics for volleyball in Robinson, California, schools became a problem, she said.
It was impossible for many teams to
BY COURTNEY THOMPSON
The temporary cancellation of today's women's volleyball game by the men's athletic department has raised the issue of how Allen Field House and Robinson Gymnasium should be used.
The men's department notified the women's department Friday that there was "no way" the volleyball match scheduled for today could be played in the field house. Marian Washington, an athletic collegiate athlete, said yesterday the spoken Friday to Doug Messer, assistant athletic director.
Flarup said the women's department didn't ask to play the volleyball in the house in the first place, in the gymnasium. Robinson was submitted last spring, she said, but the facilities committee in charge said some matches had to be played there.
"I told him that Jerry Waugh (assistant athletic director) had conceived the game of volleying the use of the field house for volleyball matches. I haven't heard from Messer yet, so I'm planning to have the match on the field court house."
MESSER SAID yesterday afternoon that the women's athletics department would be allowed to use the field house on a trial basis. But he expressed concern about continued multipurpose use of the basketball court.
Tamara Flarpup, women's sports information director, said the reason given for the original refusal to allow the volleyball game had been that the court would have to have been taped for volleyball, the baskets would have to be wrapped and the house would have to have been closed to student recreation during the evening.
FLARUP SAID the incident emphasized the question of the women's athletic department's ability to use gymnasium and the field house
Washington said she could appreciate Messer's concern about the additional traffic on the court and the problems involved in the retaping of court markings. But she said such concessions were not uncommon at most universities.
See ROBINSON, page two
The use of the field house as an additional place for open recreation has taken some of the pressure off Robinson as the sole evening refuge of average student athletic enthusiasts, Wilkerson said.
miss the two days of classes needed to travel to KU for a Wednesday match, she said. Because of conflicts with recreation, she said, Saturday games were discouraged because people in the physical education and recreation (HPER).
"THE STUDENTS pay to utilize Robinson, Ossess said. "The average guy with a basketball under his arm should be able to count on this building being available when it's scheduled to be so he can do his thing."
Wayne Osness, director of HPER,
said the facilities committee, of which
Washington is a member, met
regularly to determine how space could
best be provided for each group that
wants to use the gymnasium.
Flarup said a statement of priorities for use of Robinson had been set up by HPER
"That list states that women's athletics is third, followed by open recreation. Instruction and intramurals come first, but they're one-upping recreation over us, and it's a lower priority on their list."
BECAUSE MANY women's sports are based in Robinson, she said, they shouldn't be "bumped" for free play or unscheduled recreation.
Wilkerson said that although the women's athletics program had grown in the last two years, so had the recreational services department. Intramurals and open recreation are now top priorities at Robinson because they are programs funded by and designed to serve the student, he said.
Oness and Tom Wilkerson, director of intramurals and recreation services, agreed that women's athletics no longer rekindled recreation for use of Robinson.
But Ossess said the statement of priorities Flarum referred to was no longer applicable because it was made during athletics it was still a division of HPER.
"Recently, the committee had to make a value judgment about the relative importance of various aspects of KU's athletic programs. The majority of the faculty to students at the University was decided to be most important."
"WE HAVE an active student group involved in intramurals and open recreation." Osmann said. "We also have a school library building is designed it's actually used,
Study favors KU's trash burner
By JIM COBB Staff Writer
A trash-burning steam plant at the University of Kansas could keep energy costs down and prevent fuel shortages, a draft report of a feasibility study says.
a private firm—Henningson, Durham and Richardson of Omaha—last week released the report to the University. It has been approved by the Kansas Board of Regents.
The final report won't be released until November, but Max Lucas, University director of facilities planning, said the report was "very favorable" to the proposal.
THE TRASH-BURNING plant would cost from $11 million to $14 million and would comprise three parts: a storage area for trash, a furnace where trash should be removed and another appliance that would remove odors and debris particles from plant emissions.
The feasibility study compared the cost and efficiency of using natural gas, fuel oil, coal and solid waste to create energy for KU. A main conclusion of the study was that the feasible alternative to traditional energy sources may be one of the most economical and
Lawrence and Douglas County officials gave tentative approval last year to a plan to provide trash to KU free of charge. In Kalinkin counties could provide more trash.
The plant probably would pay for itself in about 10 years, but certainly in no more than 20 years.
There are 90,000 residents in the three counties, which generate 200 tons of solid
"IN GENERAL," the report will show that a solid waste fuel plant at the University is a viable alternative, if a firm agreement with the manufacturer results in a solid waste can be reached." Lucas said.
waste a day. Shawnee County also has offered to provide trash for the plant.
The steam plant in use at KU uses natural gas, but has the capability to burn fuel oil. Lucas said supplies of natural gas were needed to be cut drastically in the next few years.
FUEL OIL, he said, is four or five times as expensive as natural gas and costs are twice as much.
William Smith, dean of the School of Engineering and the first person to suggest that KU build a trash plant, said a third option. coal, also would be expensive.
The initial construction cost of a coal-burning plant would be about the same as the trash plant, Smith said, but coal supply could cost from $1 million to $2 million a year.
Trash would cost KU nothing. The only problem would be to keep enough of it, if you need it.
Luca said, "Without an adequate supply of trash we don't want to construct it."
THE PROPOSED plant's storage area, probably a large pit, would keep trash ready to be burned and under negative air pressure. That pressure would force odors and gases into the furnace, where they would be burned. The furnace would burn wood and other waste products, so would be forced through a series of cleansing chambers before being released.
"There will be no odor, no debris, no visible emissions." Lucas said. "The actual emissions will be clean and will meet very strict environmental standards."
Once steam was produced, the current system of delivering the steam through pipes to campus buildings would be used. Lucas said several sites were under consideration for the plant, but none had been selected.
See TRASH, page seven
Garbage business is picking up
By RICK PADDEN
Last week has gone. Midterm exams have gone. The weekend parties have passed. The football game is over and the Sooners have said, "so long."
Staff Writer
What did last week leave behind? Garbage. Toms of it. Everything from beer cans
Someone had to collect that garbage and transport it to a place away from the eyes and noses of those who accumulated it, and moved them to Sanitation Department garbage men.
"It's about the nastiest, dirtiest, smellest job a man can have, but it's the thing I like to do." Revers Shears, a Lawrence garbageman, said yesterday. Shears has worked the University of Kansas route for seven years.
SHEARS IS A "trash-packer" on a three-man crew that starts work at 6 a.m., six days a week, and makes the rounds of academic buildings, residence halls, lunchrooms, apartment buildings and houses in the areas on and around the campus.
Harry Boyle, crew leader and driver of the truck that Shears packs trash into, said, "It's a steady job. I work every day, rain or shine, just like the mailman."
Trashy weekend Robert Lawrie, Sanitation sanitation employee, has a difficult first
Trashy weekend stop Monday mornings—the Kansas Union after a KU home football game. Robert Otis, Lawrence sanitation employee, has a difficult first
Boyle, 54, said that he'd been driving various types of trucks since he was 16 and that he'd been driving the "hill route" in a garbage truck for the last nine years.
The third member of the crew, Robert Oatis, said he'd been a Lawrence garbage man for 10 years and had been working the University route for eight months.
BOYLE SAID he knew his route so well that it had become routine, but that he would have to stay there.
Although Shears used to be a driver and had his own route, he said the routine bothered him, so he went back to loading the truck and operating the packers on the back of the truck.
Up until two years ago, the crew made pickups on the entire campus six days a week. Boyle said, but now the men stop only as the Union and the residence halls that often
He said that the rest of the campus was being reached only twice a week, and that covering that many collections in such a short time meant nonstop work for his men on those two days. He said the men seldom break coffee breaks during those shifts, he said.
up with the large amount of waste that accumulates on campus. Bovle said.
"We have to work as a team and we have to move fast, no matter what the weather is."
HE SAID the most difficult day of the week was Monday, because the crew didn't work Sundays, and the trash built up. The problem is at its worst, he said, when the Jayhawks have a home football game. He had accumulation doubled on those days.
Bovle said that working on a garbage
truck wasn't as *stinky* and messy as many people seemed to believe.
The department provides the men with clean uniforms every day, he said, and most of the items they pick up are in proper containers such as trash can, trash bags or the larger trash tanks that can be dumped hydraulically.
He said trees and shrubs must be cut to less than five feet and bundled before his planting.
THE ONLY TIME things get stinky,
> CARBAGE THINGS
See GARBAGE, page five