THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
West Campus has experienced rapid growth
No. 171
Thursday, July 31, 1975
The University of Kansas—Lawrence. Kansas
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The trouble with gum
An old piece of stick gum found in his father's glue compartment presented problems for Jacob Hogan, son of Mike
Hogan, assistant instruct in English. Jack was trying to keep himself occupied during his father's intruder football game
Report denies radiation dangers
By JACK McNEELY
Kansas Staff Reporter
BURLINGTON-A massive document is on display in the Coffey County Courthouse here. It is currently an object of intensive scrutiny, and is likely to become an object of fierce debate before the end of August.
The document is an environmental report from the staff of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC). It assesses the expected environmental effects of a request by two utilities for a license to build a nuclear power plant along Wolf Creek, about three miles from the John Redmond Dam near Burlington.
The NRC staff report concludes that radioactive material released from the plant during normal operating conditions will have a significant effect on surrounding land and wildlife.
Several groups in Kansas who oppose the proposal to build the nuclear plant are studying the NRC staff report. They have received August of file objections to the report.
The report is the position of the NRC staff and will be used as the staff's testimony at hearings before the NRC's licensing board, or prior to the NRC granting on granting a license to build on
"No significant environmental impacts are anticipated within 50 miles from normal operations releases of radioactive materials," the report says.
A spokesman for Kansas Gas and Electric Co. of Wichita said the amount of continuous, low-level radiation leaked from the plant during a year would be about the same that would be emitted from the bodies of two persons who laid on the bodies for a year.
Two of the Kansas groups who oppose the power plant have received permission from the NRC to intervene in the licensing process. They did so in October or November in Burlington.
The two groups are the Mid-America Coalition for Energy Alternatives (MACRE) of San Juan, Man, and the Wolf C nuclear Opposition, Inc. Diane Testin,试耐ier,skookman, for
MACEA, echoed the words of other groups throughout the country who have opposed nuclear plants when she said the NRC licensing hearings were a farce.
MACEA will try to stop construction of the plant by appearing at the hearings, but expect it loses, because the NRC won't issue cases for issues or issues against the hearings. Testmeter says.
The NRC won't allow discussion of the safety of nuclear power and the possibility of a disastrous accident resulting from human error or sabotage, nor will it allow discussion of the social implications of nuclear power plants, she said.
Included in a discussion of the social implications would be a discussion of the effects of creating a massive security force to handle transportation and storage of nuclear fuel and nuclear waste, according to Tegmeirt. It would also include a
discussion of the effects of concentrating capital by opting for nuclear power, which centralizes power production, instead of decentralizing power production, she said.
The NRC will permit discussion only on such issues as whether the utilities can pay for the nuclear plant, have filled out all the requirements and have chosen a suitable site, she said.
John Goffman, a scientist formerly with the Atomic Energy Commission and now a critic of nuclear power, said, "The only thing a citizen can do is to make sure the nuclear weapons which it drew up in the first place. It's judge, fox and chicken coop rolled into one."
A spokesman for Kansas Gas and Electric Co. said the licensing hearings gave citizens an adequate opportunity to present their opposition to nuclear plants.
Walker calm on Title IX
By KEN STONE
Although many university athletic directors are worried about TITLE IX, Clyde Walker, University of Kansas athletic director, is taking a calm view of its provisions for bidding sex discrimination in athletics.
"There was nothing new and different at the University of Kansas on July 21 because Congress passed 'Title IX guidelines'," she said. "I don't see any reasons for nantic."
However, Marian Washington, assistant athletic director for women's intercollegiate athletics, is concerned that Title IX opened the possibility that male athletes may be playing on the KU women's volleyball team this fall.
WASHINGTON SAID, "If they are not given a team, they have right to try on."
TITLE IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, which became law on July 21, contains a provision that would require schools to offer equal opportunities in athletics.
Therefore, if a man decides he wants to compete on an intercollege or club level, and doesn't have the opportunity to play on a team, he has the right to try out for the women's team.
One factor that the Department of Health, Education and Welfare will consider in planning their activities is that are provided is, in the words of HEW, "whether the selection of sports and levels of competition effectively accommodate the needs and abilities of members of both sexes."
JACK ISGUR, women's volleyball coach,
for the team last year, but all were cured.
"Most of them didn't have the skill." lagar said. "But I had one that almost made the job."
Washington said she was concerned that other Kansas women's volleyball teams might refuse to play KU if it had any male players.
national tournament five of the past six years, Washington said, and the team has a good chance of qualifying for championship play this year.
If men were playing on KU's team, the team's chances for competing in state and regional competition might be jeopardized, she said.
WASHINGTON ALSO said she would talk to a legal adviser of the Association for Knoxville Athletics for Women about KU's response to an opposing team that had a male player.
More important than the question of men playing on the women's volleyball team, however, is the issue of athletic scholarships.
The Title IX regulation on this topic is precise, since Patton Patton, director of the Title IX program.
KU's volleyball team has competed in the
In discussing the topic, Patton referred to the official wording of the regulation:
"To the extent that a recipient (scholar, awards athletic scholarships or grants-in-aid, it must provide reasonable opportunities for such awards for members of the student body, for the number of students participating in intercollegiate or intercollegiate athletics."
Washington said scholarships would have to be given on a percentage basis.
FOR EXAMPLE, SHE said, if 50 per cent of a group of 300 male athletes received scholarships and there were 200 women and 200 men women would have to receive financial aid.
"I don't have the resources that the men have, but I have people on our staff that are willing to pitch in," she said. "We are trying to generate our money ourselves."
To satisfy this requirement, Washington said she was initiating a fund-raising campaign.
Walker, who said he hadn't given much attention to TITLE IX because of what he called higher priorities, said, "I don't think my problem in this thing except finances.
"If it was ever interpreted that TITLE IX required equal scholarships and equal financial aid, then it would be true."
the future. When you talk about equal facilities we already have inadequate facilities for men. Where does the money come from?"
HEW has denied that Title IX requires equal expenditures for women's athletic opportunities would be determined by examining factors as comparable facilities, schedules, supplies and whether the sports selected meet the interests and abilities of both sexes.
WALKER SAID, "We can certainly live with the statement of equal opportunity. I think we have to do what we can within our resources."
If a school hasn't discriminated against members of one sex in the past, the school may not have to operate separate athletic teams, she said.
"The amount of change required is proportional to the amount of discrimination that has existed in the past," she said. "The school may preclude teams for both sexes if the school has always provided opportunities for both sexes."
Patton said that the worries about KU's compliance with some TIX provisions must be addressed.
Consequently, Title IX regulations require an institutional self-study to determine whether schools comply with the regulations.
PATTON SAID he had been given the responsibility of overseeing KU's self-evaluation, but that Del Shankel, executive director, would have the ultimate authority on how the organization should be run.
Since the self-evaluation will range through every sector of the University, Patton urged that KU faculty and staff closely study Title IX.
*It's important that every member of the University community take the two or three bells at the start.*
The self-evaluation must be completed by July 21, 1978.
By STAN STENERSEN
Second sanitation report criticized
"Basically, we're talking about the same thing—management-level problems in the
Although two recent reports on the Lawrence Sanitation Department are sometimes at odds with each other, city officials should be able to use them to make decisions. They are in the department, Ross McKinney, the author of one of the reports, said yesterday.
Study could reduce clinic's cost
By STAN STENERSEN
University officials decided yesterday to proceed with a study to change part of the fireproofing for the new clinical facility at the KU Medical Center.
Max Lucas, assistant to the chancellor, said the decision was reached after it was determined that hospitals with construction similar to the clinical facility had installed safe but less expensive fire protection systems. A five-man delegation traveled to Washington, D.C., and Dayton, Ohio, earlier this week to study the hospitals.
Questions about the fireproofing have centered on protection for the spaces between the ceiling of one level and the floor of the next. These spaces contain wiring, lighting and other mechanical equipment. In the clinical facility, these spaces are seven feet high.
systems were installed inside the spaces to cool them in the event of a fire, but additional fireproofing inside the spaces wasn't necessary.
Plans for the clinical facility call for fireproofing of the steel framework inside each of the spaces. if a new system of fire protection can be developed, the University won't have to fireproof the framework, Lucas said.
Lucas said the two hospitals that were studied used enough fireproofing material in the floors and ceilings to form a barrier between the floors and ceilings. Sprinkler
"It's not simply a question of taking the fireproofing off and putting in sprinklers," he said. "I need it."
Today's paper is the last issue of the Kanasan for the summer session. The special back-to-school issue will be available during fall enrollment, Aug. 20. Regular publication will resume Tuesday, Aug. 26.
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department," McKinney said. "I hope the City Commission will read both reports and not get entangled in minor details. What is needed is some kind of common program of improvement."
package to make sure all the materials and systems meet effective standards."
If a new system can be developed, Lucas said, it could save $2 million to $3 million in sales.
McKinney, professor of civil engineering,
sent his report to city officials in June.
A second report, written by Norman Forer,
associate professor of social welfare, was
given to the City Commission Monday night.
Administrators are considering the change as part of an effort to cut the building's costs. Construction bids on the project exceed the architect's estimate by $4.5 million and the available funds by $9 million.
Lucas said a decision to change the fire protection system depended in part on whether the savings would offset increased costs from delays caused by replanning the system. An initial evaluation by state archetypes is expected by the end of August, he said.
Architects are also reviewing plans for the building to determine whether other changes can be made, Lucas said. However, so far no changes have been found that will save as much money as the fireproofing changes would save, he said.
"The facility is so big, though, that if something repeats itself enough and you save a few dollars each time, it adds up," Lucas said.
Forer's report found fault with some of McKinney's data and conclusions. McKinney said he was disappointed in his findings, but he expected it to be more comprehensive.
"When I talked with Prof. Forer earlier this summer, he told me his report would be a comprehensive study. "McKenny said." I was surprised that he gave me a really great rebuttal of my report."
McKinsey said his own data for such things as employees' earnings were taken from the city's annual report. If he made any errors in reporting this information, he may have they probably stemmed from a misunderstanding of the figures in the report.
McKinsey found fault with some conclusions of the Forer report. He said sufficient data were not offered to justify the increase in garbage collection rates.
McKinney said the two reports viewed the Sanitation Department from different perspectives. He called the major problems in the department "people problems." But, he said his perspective made it difficult to identify and overcome the eyes of the sanitation workers.
Forer, who has been advising the sanitation workers since mid-May, wrote
McKinney said he hoped publication of the two reports would call the public's attention to problems in the department and increase the chances for effective solutions.
McKinney said he was willing to work with Forer and anyone else who wanted to improve the service of the sanitation department, and the employees' working conditions.
his report as part of a project to involve the KU Community Services Center and the sanitation workers in talks with city officials. McKinney, who has advised the sanitation department in the past on waste management, wrote his report as an "interested citizen."
In his report, Forer announced an unexpected change of plans. He said that he had hoped to write a second longer, more comprehensive report but that the second report wouldn't be issued because of his teaching commitments in the fall.
"Scheduling and staffing for a project of this size aren't adequate to keep it up at press time." "However, the dean told us he supported the project as a legitimate function of the school."
Ernst was unavailable for comment.
Forer said the sanitation workers would continue to receive help from the University Community Services Center. In addition, studies already begun on the department's incentive system and on a more efficient packaging system will continue, he said.
Bathers in the buff grin and bare it at local lake
By JAIN PENNER Kansan Staff Reporter
After a hard day at class, it's nice to go home, take off your shoes and relax. At home, you can also however, you can take off your shoes, shirt, pants and the rest of your clothes as well.
A skinny-dipper's paradise, Lake Henry lies at the bottom of a steep hill, completely surrounded by trees. To reach the water, the prospective skinny-diper must work down slowly down the narrow, rocky trails that wind through the trees to the water's edge.
Because of its proximity to Lawrence and because it affords a unique opportunity to enjoy nature on our campus, the lake has great water clarity. Kansas students. On a hot day, there often
The lake is west of Lawrence on Highway 24-40, at the end of the gravel road six-tenths of a mile beyond the Clinton Reservoir turnoff.
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are cars lined up for a quarter of a mile along the roadside.
taking advantage of the opportunity to get an all-over tan. Nude sunbathers are sprawled out along the shoreline and in the clearings among the trees.
Should an unsuspecting person stop at the lake for a swim, he might think he had intruded on the private grounds of a mutist swimmer, most of them floating on rafts, swimmers, most of them floating on rafts,
"I'd always wanted to get up enough
skipping, a skim-dipping, and I finally
did," she said.
Although the bathers at Leke Henry are all sizes and shapes, they all have something in common—they have nothing on.
One woman, who asked not to be identified, said she had gone to Lake Henry out of town.
She said she was embarrassed slightly and self-conscious the first time, but enlightened when she had taught her
"Now I'm not embarrassed at all," she said.
Since her first visit, she said, she has been to the lake seven or eight times.
Another skimmy-dipper he enjoyed the lake because no one was bothered by what she did.
The thought of grimming and baring it in front of a bunch of strangers may seem embarrassing to some people. However, when everyone else around you, male and female, skinny and fat, is naked, mutidity ceases to be shocking.
"Everyone's out here to have a good time, but not to get an眼 and act like an ass."
A naked woman walking down Iowa street would get lots of stares, quite a few others.
In reality, however, the water is filled with men and women, playing with a Frisbee, dunking one another and having a good time. The shoreline spectators include not only girl watchers, but several women surveying the male physiques.
It might seem like the women swimming at Lake Henry would be victims of men who came to the lake for one reason: to sit on the women's binoculars and get a free peep show.
But at Lake Henry, nudity seems to blend naturally with the wilderness.
Skimny-dipping is popular with college students all over the country, although not everyone likes it.
One of California's most popular nude
beaches, Black Beach in San Diego, had a
numerous number of visitors.
Memorial Day this year, despite temperatures in the low 60s.
Texas had a lot of problems this spring controlling nudity on its public beaches, especially on holidays, when crowds of college students flocked there.
Skimny-dipping is an age-old activity. Pioneers crossing the plains in the 1800s could shed their clothes and seek relief from the heat. Skimny-dippers often take relief from the crowded, chlorinated, volcanic waters, where all they can get is a two-tone tunic.
As the word is passed around, more and more people are beginning to drive a few extra miles down the dusty gravel road to where they work. And their inhibitions along with their clothes