THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
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KANSAN
Vol.87 No.32
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
City approves airport request
Wednesdav. October 6. 1976
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Comp staff awaits start of vacations
Staff photo by DAVE REGLER
By JERRY SEIB Staff Writer
Conversion to a new computer system meant a summer without vacations for some computation center employees, but the company will be made up beginning this month.
Paul Wolf, coordinator of the computation center, said last night that eight or 10 employees who played key roles in switching to a new system had to delay their vacations. The employees had to be on the job until April 25. Honeywell 66- and 68-IBM 760-145 computers, which were installed early this summer.
UNTIL THIS WEEK, one of the two old computers was still in operation while its programs were being transferred to the new machines. The old machine is to be brought tomorrow, Wolfe said, and employees will then be free to make up vacation time.
Wolfe said that computation center officials knew in May that some employees would have to stay on their jobs throughout the summer. At that time, he said, three or four of the employees already had made vacation requests.
ONLY ONE OF the employees had received tentative approval of summer vacation dates, Wolfe said. That employee gave a few days of his scheduled vacation, he said, but had to return to work for an important phase of the conversion.
Wolfe said that no employees lost vacation time because of the computer change.
RON OLIVER, systems programer in the computation center, said he had made his request for a vacation in February, and had been given oral approval for a vacation in June. He said he was told in early May that he couldn't have a June vacation.
Oliver, who has submitted his resignation at the computation center, said he took his
"I just went," he said. "I didn't have permission."
planter in front of the photo-finishing outlet in the Malls Shopping Center, 23rd and Louisiana streets, after they picked the pictures up. Lutz and Morrison had jogged KU to the shopping center for the pictures.
Photo finish
As an unclassified employee, Oliver is entitled to 22 days of vacation each year. He must work at least 150 hours a week.
OLIVER SAID the delay in his vacation was "the last straw" in his decision to quit his job. He said other factors were involved in his decision.
three two women wasted no time in finding a place to examine their long-wasted snapshots. Margie Lutz,仑达a freshman at the University of Arizona, found the
"There have been times this summer when the operations staff was operating three machines, without enough staff for one," he said.
Campus police say guns needed
Staff Writer
By DARYL COOK
Officers of the University of Kansas police department have always worn sidearms and will continue to do so, in spite of the rate of violent crime on the KU campus.
"We have a responsibility to be an active police force for the campus," Major Bob Ellison of the KU police department said. "We need to have an obligation to protect property and life."
"We attempt to keep a low profile on our weaponry, but if the situation arises and if we are wrong, we can warn."
Ellison said he had met few students who had objections to police wearing sidearms, and he thought most students viewed the police as necessary equipment for police work.
THE 34 officers of the KU police force are armed with handguns that can use car-
trigids no larger than .38-caliber specials, Ellison said. The officers buy the guns themselves and the most common brands used are Smith and Wesson and Coll.
KU police also carry 12-gauche pump shotguns in the patrol cars. These are standard equipment for any law enforcement officer that helps with road blockades, he said.
However, the KU police keep the shotguns in cases away from public view, Ellison said, unlike the Lawrence police department, which keeps its shotguns in an upright position in the front seat of the patrol cars for immediate access.
ELLISON SAID that the only time KU police officers were officially allowed to use weapons was when there was a clear and present danger to the officer's or someone
In other situations, such as traffic stops, KU police aren't allowed to move toward
their guns or to use them in a threatening manner. he said.
Ellison said that the KU police were responsible for patrolling the main campus areas, which include classroom buildings and residence and scholarship halls.
KU police have had no cause recently to use their weapons, as there have been no violent crimes on the KU campus in the past two years. Ellison said.
However, there have been 174 cases of assault and six robberies reported to the KU police department during that period. Ellison said, most of which were dealt with by KU police who were patrolling the campus.
OTHER AREAS where students are housed, such as fraternities, sororities and apartment buildings, are patrolled by Lawrence police.
However, KU police actually have a larger patrol area than the KU campus,
because they help the Lawrence police and the County Sheriff's department answer questions.
Ellison said that helping the other Lawrence police agencies created an
contrary to popular beliefs enhanced by television that police casualties occur while investigating violent crimes, Ellison said, "we face a greater danger while patrols."
THE IRREGULAR patrol pattern and the increasing rate of crime in the Lawrence area combine to create a job that always requires potential for confronting violent situations.
"We don't know what the guy is like when we pull him over," he said. "Most officers are killed in routine operations, such as stopping someone to tell him his tail lights are out or pulling someone over for speeding."
State fire marshal finds more violations
By DARYL COOK
Staff Write
Eight fraternities and one scholarship hall were inspected recently by the Kansas State Fire Marshal's office and none are completely in compliance with the fire state code.
One KU fraternity has no fire alarm
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They are the fire code instructions reported by the state fire marshal at its inspection from *sight KU*
DELTA TAU DELTA, 111. W. 118. Sf. An approved fire alarm system connected with an access control panel should be installed. Halls and exit signs should be property identified and listed. Alarm systems should be sealed with a fire resistant material. Electrical
sealed with fire resistant material. electrical wiring should be improved to meet the fire code standards. LAMBDA CHI ARIAA 250mm with regard to safety and regularly and evacuation plans posted. Halls and stairways should be sufficiently
DELTA TRETA, 1821 Edigedi. Salaries are based on the system should be installed. Fire drills should be regular and provided fire alarm system should be installed with a smoke detector that is regularly checked and evaluation plans should be posted. The system should be regular and evacuation plans should be posted.
PH KAPPA FHP, 1602 W. 153rd Street. A smoke detector on the second floor of the building. App approved emergency exit lighting in stairways and hallways.
GRAFM ALIA EPIONH, 180 W. Campus Head, Ansonville, FL 32679. GRAFM ALIA EPIONH, 180 W. Campus Head, Ansonville, FL 32679. Single sensor system and an autonomous lower watercraft. The GRAFM ALIA EPIONH is designed for underwater navigation.
The fire escape on the side west must all the way to the ground. Fire prifs should be regular and evacuation plans used.
An exit light should be installed on the southwest fire door and the exit sign should be removed from the northwest fire door.
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To be installed with a smoke detector system and an auxiliary power source, Halls and exit signs should be properly identified. The sensor panels of the Vending machines should be removed from the butter
Evaluation procedures should be posted and fire drills should be held regularly. Fire extinguishers should be mounted on the building.
TOWN VISION HALL, 1921 Sewickley Avenue. EATEN YARD, 1921-23 Ninth Street. (The horizontal bar is pushed against) should be attached to the wall of the building. The windows are located there.
Candidates set strategy for debate
SAN FRANCISCO (AP)—Like gamblers studying their cards, President Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter spent last night weighing how blunt they can be in their foreign affairs face-off tonight without inviting international misunderstanding of U.S. policy.
The two contenders for the presidency meet in the second of their three debates, at 8:30 CDT in this city's Palace of Fine Arts. The networks will broadcast the confrontation.
Foreign diplomats by the score will cable home their interpretations of Ford and Carter positions on international affairs and national defense. As important to the candidates are the American voters who carry their own impressions to the polls.
Carter, who boned up in seclusion at the Sheraton Palace Hotel, said he'll be more direct in his attack on Ford than he was during their first debate on Sept. 23. He has indicated that he expects the President to be more forthright, too.
Debate Project Director Jim Karayan of the League of Women Voters, which is sponsoring the debates, announced that the third and last presidential debate of 1978 was the CTX Oct. 22 in the Phi Kappa Beta bupahip and Mary College in Williamsburg, Va.
The third debate will cover general topics. The first, at the Walnut Street Theater in Philadelphia, focused on domestic affairs.
A site for the Oct. 15 debate between the vice presidential candidates, senators Bob Dole and Walker Mondale, hasn't been called. But it could be a per cent chance" it will be in Houston, Tex.
system and three others have systems that don't meet standards of the state fire code, according to reports released yesterday by the state fire marshal's office in Toekena.
Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity, 1301 W Campus Road, doesn't have a fire alarm system, although Kurt Kippes, president and Shawnee Mission junior, said yesterday that a smoke detector system had been ordered.
"THEE NEVER HAS been one in the four years I've lived here and if there was one before that, I didn't know about it," Kienes said.
Phi Gamma Delta, Signa Phi Epion and Delta Tau Delta fraternities don't have fire alarm systems that meet state fire code standards.
Paul Markley, state fire protection technical adviser, said the alarms used by the three fraternities were outdated and not in use. They barely warm those in all parts of the buildings.
Earlier inspection reports stated that none of KU's 12 sororities were in complete compliance with the fire code, but that all 12 had fire alarm systems. The fire code infractions in the sorority buildings are being monitored by the sororites, which control their finances.
UNDER STATE LAW, the fraternities and sororites have 30 days to give a written response to the fire marshal's office about their plans for a planned arrest and 90 days to make the corrections.
However, Markley said that the fire marshal's office would consider each of the fraternity's financial obligations in meeting deadlines before bringing legal action against them.
"Our main concern is making the homes safe for people." Marklev said.
But, Markley added, corrections of the traiteness prevention infractions were overruled.
"NOBODY FEELS as if they could have a fire in their home," Markley said. "Sometimes it takes a tragedy like the one at Baldwin to get some people motivated.
"It's very easy to be apathetic about fires."
Markley referred to the fire in Baldwin in August that gutted the Kappa Sigma fraternity house there and killed five of the fraternity members.
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Polls open today for student races
Voting begins today to elect six student Senators from Nunenaker College, freshman class officers and members of the College Assembly.
Polls will be open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. today and tomorrow on the floor of Wescoe Hall, the 2nd floor of Harperfield Hall and in the Kansas Union.
Students also may vote from 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. tonight at Kappa Sigma and Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternities, Kappa Alpha Theta sorority and Ellsworth, Lewis, Oliver and Gerritude Pearson-Corbin residence balls
Students must have their KU-ID's to vote.
"we expect a good turnout with all of the candidates running," Benita Bock, chairman of the Senate Elections Committee, said yesterday.
She said that 1,500 students voted last fall, and that she expected more to vote this fall.
As soon as the committee has counted the votes Thursday night, she said, the results will be given to the senate. "We'll just go to the Senate office door in the Union."
Bicentennial groups seek $1,126 for wagon train bill
By JIM COBB
Staff Writer
The bill is for a 25-hour stay of the Bicentennial Wagon Train Pilgrimage in KU-A O-Zone parking lot at the Lawrence Bicentennial Commission. County Bicentennial Commission, which originally received the bill, voted last Thursday to invite the Lawrence Bicentennial Commission and the KU Bicentennial Committee to meet to discuss
Representatives of three local Bicentennial groups will meet tomorrow afternoon to try to find runs to pay a $1,128.78 bill from the University of Kansas.
The county group's executive committee, after hearing explanations of the bill from Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor, and Max Lucas, chairman of the faculties planning, agreed to try to make payment.
THE COUNTY group has about $5,000 in its account, of which about $5,000 is owed for publications expenses, Julie Hack, the secretary, said yesterday. Cleenice Hill, county Bicentennial commission chairman, said some small expenses also would be to have paid from the $1,000 that remained.
hoped to spend its remaining funds for special Bicentennial projects, including locating a Bicentennial bell near the county's new law enforcement building at 11th and New Hampshire
THE KU BICENTENNIAL Committee can lend even less support to payment. This group doesn't have any budget and served only to coordinate bicentennial events. Mary Lou Reece, Scandia senior and member of the Bicentennial executive committee, said.
Joan Moffet, cochairman of the Lawrence Bicentennial Commission, said that almost all that group's $2,000 account had been committed to special projects for several months.
In addition, Hack and Hills said the commission
The original bill sent to the county group was $1,250.65. At Thursday's meeting, Shankel agreed that KU would waive $123.83, which was charged for the conference, during a wagon train show in Hoe auditorium.
The remaining amount is to pay overtime wages of Buildings and Grounds employees and KU Police employees.
SEVERAL MEMBERS of the county Bicentennial commission objected to payment of KU's bill, which is $175,000.
Shankel and Lucas told the commission that KU would forget the bill if it were able to do so. They said state law prohibited the University from having students overtime during events not affiliated with KU.
wagon train to Lawrence and that they hadn't been told far in advance what KU would charge for let-away baggage.
Members of the county group finally voted to pay the bill, which they had received in May, after Shankar said that University employees who had worked during the wagon train visit had not been seen.
HILLS RE-EMPHASIZED yesterday that the county bicentennial commission hadn't known how much KU's charges would be until a few days before the planned visit.
"We had to continue with the plans because there was no feasible alternative," she said.
The county group's funding is based on county tax revenue. More funds might become available, Hills said, when deliquent taxes are paid. However, she said, the commission couldn't count on getting more
Moffet said that after tomorrow's meeting the city Bientenian group probably would convene a
special meeting to decide whether to try to find funds to help pay the bill. The 25-member committee must deal on all expenditures, which will be decided by a vote of the bill at Thursday's meeting of the three groups.
THE WAGON TRAIN visit was actually a county project, Mefet said. She said she didn't know what the county group wanted to ask the city's commission to do about the bill.
The Lawrence Bicentennial group might have been asked to participate because the wagon train stopped here, she said. But, she said, it also stopped in Baldwin City.
Some local people think KU is a large institution
REPRESENTATIVES OF some of these groups objected to payment of the bill at last Thursday's meeting. Halls said the groups probably would be reluctant to help pay it, even if they had available
Hills said she didn't know why the Lawrence Bicentennial Commission had been asked to contribute to paying the bill, if other community Bicentennial commissions hadn't been asked to help. There are local Bicentennial groups in Baldwin City, Eudora, Clinton and Clinton.
with many resources, yet it can't come forward to help. Hills said. She has mixed feelings about the
"There's a sense of responsibility to pay the bill and get it over with. But yet these institutions have become so inflexible and unable to respond to the public that supports them," she said.
SIE ADDED, however that Shankel and Lacuna had effectively presented the University's case to
"I hope we can avoid this kind of problem in the future," Hills said. "Our commission's responsibilities are nearly over. But the University is in a position to many opportunities to deal with the community."
She said she hoped the University could deal with the community without billing it.
"and we known flatty that it was going to cost $1,250, we probably would have withdrawn our offer of sponsorship," she said. "We were in over our heads as far as our arms, but there was absolutely no money."
Representative of the three Bicentennial groups will meet at 3 p.m. tomorrow in room 202 of Central Campus.