THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
PLEASANT
KANSAN
Vol.87 No.14
KU serenaders bound by rules
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Friday, September 10, 1976
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Chinese seeking Mao's successor
TOKYO (AP)—Chairman Mao Tse-tung died yesterday, plunging China into an uncertain political future and leaving a most populous nation.
As if anticipating a power struggle for Mao's mantle, the Central Committee of the Communist party issued an appeal for unity.
The No. 3 man in the party has been Hua Ku-feng, 57. He is regarded as a compromise candidate between the quarrelling radicals led by Mao w'sidw, Chiang Ching, and Tsinghua University. He is the late Premier Chou En-lai and his proteroide Vice Premier Tsen Hsiang-oing.
BUT SUCCESSION to the chairmanship is uncertain, and severe jockeying for power has already been going on for some time. The official Peking People's Daily between the two factions of armed struggle" between no reports of bloodshed have surfaced.
In a statement, the committee pledged to "carry on the cause left behind by Chairman Mau," founder of the People's Republic of China in 1949 and its leader since.
The 82-year-old Mao had been ill for some time and had acted more as a mediator in China's affairs than a day-by-day boss of the country.
The Hsinhua news agency said no foreign governments or groups would be invited to send representatives to a memorial rally set for Sept. 18 in Peking.
The news agency didn't give the cause of death or say where Mao died. American and other recent visitors to China reported he was frail and had trouble speaking. Medical experts who studied films of his recent images also showed symptoms of Parkinson's disease.
PRESIDENT FORD, who conferred with
Mao for almost two hours last December,
on the occasion.
said in Washington that his death was "tragic," and called him a "remarkable
The Soviet Union sent brief condolences, but had no praise for the man who regarded him as an anti-Muslim.
The Central Committee ordered a mourning period to last until the memorial rally. The rally is to begin with all Chinese, and in addition, with attention in silent tribute for three minutes.
Mao was the last of the great Communist revolutionaries of his age. He outlasted Lenin and Stalin, as well as nearly all of him, and followed him in the Communist revolution.
THE RALLY WILL be broadcast live on radio and television, Hishnua said, and all factories and communities were told to arrange for the masses to listen or watch.
Hainuha said all recreational activities would be halted until after the rally, and Mao's body would lie in state in Peking. My people from tomorrow through next Friday.
THERE WAS NO explanation of the reason for the warnings, which also included an admonition that railway communications must not be impeded. These portions were excluded when Hishina broadcast the editors in English.
There have already been hints of recent disorder in China. Besides the People's Liberation Army, they used old scores" and "armed struggle", other recent editors have cautioned against sabotage by "class enemies". However, there has been no specific report on this.
Mao's death also comes amid a call in the Chinese press to step up the campaign to criticize Teng Hsiao-ping, who was ousted earlier this year.
Some factional squabbles have been
See MAO's page two
Computer center bids called very favorable
Construction bids for a new computer service center at the University of Kansas were described yesterday as "very important" to Lucas, director of facilities and planning.
LUCAS SAID administrators now would determine what bid to accept by comparing costs of base bids with 14 of alternate proposals for which bids also were received.
"All the bids were very close," Lucas
told. "That number, difficult to see who
were willing."
Lucas said, however, that the low bidder for the estimated $4 million project wouldn't be named until next week. Thirteen bids and a total of offices of the state purchasing division.
The center, which will have 47,900 square feet of space and will house two computer systems purchased last summer, will be located at Illinois Street and Siprody Ave.
Those alternates were bidded on separately and included such proposed features as additional sound insulation inside the building, construction of parking spaces, steps, weatherproofed setts, a loading dock, benches and bicycle racks near the center.
Base bids included estimated costs of general construction, mechanical systems (heating and air conditioning) and electrical systems.
AFTER A BID is accepted, KU will ask the state purchasing division to award a contract.
The two-story computer center will include several energy-saving features, such as the use of heat from computers to heat the building.
An 80-seat auditorium, drive-up window for delivery of computer work and study areas for students and faculty members working with the computers are planned. One of the new computers will be used for instruction and research and the other for administration. Both are now in the temporary computation center in Summerfield Hall.
Fountain bound
Laurie James, Overland Park similar, was guided down Jayhawk Boulevard last night by fellow Delta Delta Delta's for a quick dunking in the Chi Omega fountain.
Committee expansion requested
Bv JERRY SEIB
Staff Writer
SenEx acted yesterday to increase faculty representation on two committees
In separate resolutions, the group asked that two faculty members be added to both the long range planning committee and the search committee for a University Director of Institutional Research and Information Systems.
The long range planning committee is being formed by Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor. Shankel told SenEx yesterday that the committee would coordinate academic and facilities planning on the Lawrence campus.
wouldn't object to adding two faculty members to that group.
ACCORDING TO Shankel's original proposal, the committee would have consisted of the vice chancellors for academic and student affairs; the Associate Chancellor, the Faculty Affairs; an assistant to the chancellor; two representatives of the Council of Dean's; one representative from the Council of Directors and Divisions; the SenEx chairman; the chairman of the University Council and Resources; three students; and Shankel.
Shankel said after the meeting that he
THE SEARCH COMMITTEE for the new Director of Institutional Research and Information Systems was formed this week to review and search committee apparently had completed its work last week when Dykes reopened his search for the director at the University.
The search committee had recommended to Dykes four finalists for the post, but SenEx members said last week that the post hadn't been advertised enough locally.
Originally the committee consisted of shankel Max Lacas, assistant to the chancellor for the Medical Center and chancellor for the KU Medical Center; Robert Kugel, executive vice chancellor for the Med Center; and William Hogan, administrative intern in the chancellor's office.
SENEX ASKED that it be allowed to
name two faculty members to the com-
munity.
Chancellor Dykes was out of town yesterday and couldn't be reached for
The SenEx actions followed a discussion between Shankel and SenEx members that
Early-morning fire rouses KU students
said, although an enrollment projection for the entire university projected a slight decrease in enrollments.
centered on the long range planning committee.
Shankel said the need for a single planning committee became apparent recently. The organization has accreditation committees of the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools. The schools and departments are expected to enroll increase during the 1980s, be
THE NEW GROUP will coordinate ... planning of all schools and departments and the planning for construction and campus classroom buildings, Shankel said.
SenEx members expressed fears that the
Randolph Cox, owner of the two-story house, said he didn't know how the fire had started and would assess damages in the morning.
See EXPANSION page three
By DARYL COOK
By GREG BASHAW
A Lawrence policeman assisted the firefighters by manning a hose and spraying down flames shooting from the attic. Spence said that the policeman had criticized for cooperation" and that the fire department wasn't short of manpower at the fire.
Proposed ordinance to curb false alarms
"I woke up and the radiator in my room was on fire and fire was going up the wall," I said. "Can you help?"
Lawrence firemen battled a fire for an early this morning at 1041 Tennessee Ave.
The two KU students stood on the curb in pajamas and watched smoke blow out the window.
Residents, including two KU students who rent rooms in the house, escaped injury.
Staff Writer
"It's gonna be a pretty big loss, though," he said. "The untested wife is hard to beat."
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Nancy Englehart, woke up and Burkard woke other tenants and called the fire department as the fire spread to the attic.
Leroy Spence, assistant fire chief, said the fire began in the top floor of the house at about 1:30. The cause of the fire and the hazards haven't been determined, Spence said.
A more efficient means of answering burglar and fire alarms would be implemented in the Lawrence Police Department if a proposed city ordinance is passed Tuesday, some police officials said yesterday.
In a public meeting, police officials said
the second would cut down the number of
false alarms.
False alarms cost about $7,725 annually,
needlessly using policing and equipment
The ordinance would require that alarm systems monitored by the police department be inspected regularly for damage, broken glass or other objects and be banned from the police dispatch office.
The Lawrence City Commission is scheduled to vote on the ordinance Tuesday, according to City Commissioner Carl Mibeck.
THE REQUIREMENTS would keep police dispatchers from being tied up while trying to trace an alarm and would cut down the number of officers. Stephens, assistant chief of police, said.
and slowing police response to real calls, Stephens said.
In a one-month study of the causes of false alarms in Kansas City, Kan., police officials there found that caused by systems being accidentally set off or by faulty equipment.
THE ORDINANCE would require businessmen to obtain a license to be monitored by police, Stephens said. The license would stipulate that alarm systems be inspected regularly and that alarm systems must be restricted to one-way signals, he said.
"Dialers," alarm systems that automatically call in a recorded message—a two, three or four digit number—to the police station, are often faulty. Stephens said, and were responsible for 30 per cent of last year's false alarms.
Because dispatchers have many different types of monitors to watch, the dispatch office practically can't function, he said. Lights often come on and go off before trouble locations are pinpointed because an alarm was accidentally set off or a system
See ORDINANCE page 12
Janey Campbell, executive secretary for Left-handed International, displays a deck of cards designed especially for left-banded people. Campbell's father founded the organization in 1982.
Staff photo
Lefty
Lefties take their rightful place
Bv STEVE CLARK
Staff Writer
It was bound to happen. Throughout man's recent history, a major means of securing one's rights has been by organizing. Now the self-proclaimed "world's largest unorganized minority" -lefters - is getting into the act.
Left-handers: the people who always bump your elbow at the dinner table. Left-handers: the people who hold pens and pencils in such an awkward manner. Left-handers: the people who always mess up in their kitchen because they can't use scissors correctly.
"WE REALLY have no intention at all of going about it as a militant group," Jancy Campbell, executive secretary of Leffhenders International (LHI), Topeka, said yesterday. "Wefet that if we hit the lighter side the positive side—we can accomplish more."
But the right-handed majority needn't tear a worldwide revolution; this group is "permanent."
LHI was organized in Topeka about a year-and-d-a-half ago by Campbell's parents. They are both letties, and their aim is to promote le-fhanders and left-handness.
So it's rather ironic that Campbell flunked LHI's only prerequisite for membership—she isn't a practicing lefty, defined as a person who writes with his left hand.
"I try," she lamented. "I try to eat left-handed, I try left-handed. I can't do anything left-handed."
SHE MAKES UP for her shortening by working full time for left-handers.
Her father kicked around the idea of organizing a left-handed's group for about 10 years, and they are still working on it.
"He just kept putting it in the back of mind," Campbell said, "and then all of a sudden he thought, 'Well, shoot it not getting any earlier,吗 well as it do
One of her father's reasons for founding the organization was to erase the stigma associated with homosexuality and it does exist—so deeply rooted that it's almost subliminal. For example, the French word for left, gauche, refers to being male, tacit, and lacking in social grace.
AND FROM LATIN, the word for left is
minister, meaning evil, unlucky or
unpleasant.
But the dictionary isn't the first book in
which leftes got no respect. That honor might belong to the Bible.
"Would you believe that there are 80 positive references to right-handedness in the Bible, "Campbell said, "and 20 negative mentions of left-handedness?"
It seems as if the culprit responsible for lefties was Satan, who, until he was banished from Heaven, sat upon the left side of God.
"EVEN SO, IT'S hard to believe so many cultures are that way," she said. "In Japan women are afraid to show their left-hardenedness for fear that they would be
"Also, if they caught you stealing in that they could cut off your left hand."
BUT FOREIGN countries haven't corner-
ted the market on superstition
and religion.
And in Saudia Arabia, where LHI has a chapter, there are also negative attitudes toward lefties, she said, but at least they have a reasonable basis.
"They can't eat with their left hands," she said. "It comes from the days of a community stew pot where they used their right hand and their left hand for sanitary purposes."
States, the trait has been looked upon unfavorably.
As a child, I vice President Nelson Barkley became his father's ignorance on the subject.
It seems that John D. Rockefeller thought that lefties were less than proper, and to be more professional, he would be a string around the boy's wrist at the dinner table. Whenever young Rocky would make a move with his left, his father would give him a not so subtle reminder by saying, "Don't do this."
Another important reason LHI was founded was a legitimate need for left- hand surgery.
"DAD WENT AFTER the manufacturers and encouraged them, really showed them that there was a left-handed market," she said.
government statistics would seem to agree. Government reports show that of the U.S. adult population, between five and six per cent are lefties.
The figure undoubtedly would be higher had not parents, teachers and writing instructors been so concerned with concluding the study with additional figures, that indicate an increase in
See LEFTIES page 12