THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
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KANSAN
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No.153
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Monday. June 30. 1975
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Staff photo by DON PIERCE
Helmet protest
the Topeka post office after their rally yesterday. About 75 per cent of the cyclists rode away from the post office without their helmets, leaving themselves open to arrest.
Members of a group of motorcyclists protesting a federal helmet law prepare to leave
Motorcyclists protest helmet law
By JACK FISCHER Kansan Staff Reporter
Topeka--About 70 motorcyclists from Johnson, Shawnee and Wyandotte counties came to Topeka yesterday to protest the state's helmet law.
With permission from police, the group rode without helmets from the capitol building to the U.S. Post Office building four blocks away.
Earlier in the day, Ted Oakes, organizer of the protest and state head of A Brotherhood Against Totalitarian Enactments (ABATE), was arrested and jailed for riding a motorcycle in Kansas City, Kan., without a helmet, police said.
After Oukes' arrest, his wife Donna was the protester of the group for the Topka protest.
"It's unconstitutional and it's killing us," she said of the helmet law.
According to Mrs. Oakes, the bikers' protest is based on their opinion that the government's purpose isn't to protect a person against himself.
Before his arrest, Oakes said Illinois and New York had the helmet laws on constitutional ground.
"We want special testing and licensing for beginners drivers, because statistics show they are the most dangerous."
Oakes said the main reason the law was passed was that the federal department of Transportation threatened to withhold 10 investment state highway funds if it wasn't enacted.
have been driving a year or less," Oaks said. "But generally, we want fewer driver
"We are now working to remove the federal government's power to withhold taxes."
Oakes, who ran on the American party ticket against Rep. Larry Winn, R-Kan., in the most recent race for Congressional election, will be tried next month in Topela on charges resulting from a protest of the helm law Mav 4.
According to Dale Clinton, a physician at the Douglas County Health Department, the motorcycle accident rate is up 30 per cent, and the death rate since the law was passed.
*Because it restricts your movement and your vision, it makes one less alert and less secure.*
Clinton said the research for the law had been based on track racing rather than horse racing.
"The proper thing to do is to leave it up to the individual driver," he said.
James Stevens, director of the State Safety Coordination office, disagrees.
In other action, StudEx approved a petition asking the administration to review the actions of the University of Kansas Athletic Corporation.
Hawklet closing protested
Adrienne Hyle, StudEx member, said there were two basic points in the Hawklet issue: students should be involved in the decision and the time period between the date of the closing of the Hawklet and the date needed for the arrival of new computers.
StudEx is sponsoring a petition and two letters that protest the closing of the Hawklet, Ed Rolfs, student body president, said at a StudEx meeting last night.
The petition and letters, which are directed to Chancellor Archie R. Dykes and Executive Vice Chancellor Del Shankel, will be available at tables manned by business school senators in the Hawklet in Summerfield Hall, Rolfs said.
Shankel said, "If they lay out specification fairly and get a significant number of students to sign, we'll be glad to listen to them."
ministration to reconsider its decision to close the Hawklet.
The petition said the athletic corporation "gurped in primary responsibility of service to its members."
Bill Remmers, Lawrence graduate student, showed StuDB members a petition calling for greater transparency.
Remmers and he had posted the petition on bulletin boards around Summerfield from 2014 to 2015, calling for
StudEx also decided to try to negotiate reductions in costs of Blue Cross-Blue Shield insurance policy in an effort to ensure that would cover all prescription costs.
"It would certainly seem to be a very shaky area." Buzi said.
SenEx assigns duties
The determination of duties for University Senate committees for the 1975-76 academic year was discussed by SenEx Thursday.
In the past, the University Committee on Promotions and Tenure has handled all promotions, tenure and subbatalite leaves, Adrienne Hyle, student member of SenEx.
of establishing an ad hoc committee to creat e evaluation standards for faculty support
"It was too much work for one committee to handle, plus too much power for such a task."
"It would be a great step backwards to repeal the law," Stevens said. "There is no one that can deny that helmets save lives."
According to Bugzi, repeal of the bill has been considered before, but hasn't been pursued because of a lack of support from the threat to state highway funds.
Stevens said although the law was passed largely as a federal mandate, there were numerous national statistics and medical data that showed helmets to be a boon to safety.
State Rep. Lloyd Buzzi, R-Lawrence, said discussion about摔探 the law had been “nothing to worry about.”
Each member of SenEx will work on specific charges for the committees after reviewing the reports that all committees submitted in April.
Committee because of the question about its constitutionality.
The possibility of evaluation procedures independent of governance, in which each department would design its own job descriptions, was also discussed.
Garbage report causes dispute
"Until we first states form a compact, it will be very hard for one state to buck it." Buzzz set his sights on
SenEx approved duties for the Parking and Traffic Board and Organization and Administration and Calendar committees. University Council to be approved in the fall.
"While its author is to be commended for his effort and concern," the letter said, "there is much in the data and the observation that is highly questionable. Certainly the picture that emerges of an overpad, goofing-off work force that gets a full day's pay for half a day's work and does not get paid. It is clear that minded and unbelievably ine city administration has little in common with the situation as I have experienced it."
BySTANSTENERSEN Kansan Staff Reporter
Norman Forer, associate professor of social welfare and adviser to the sanitation department, taught at Mayor Barley Clark. The letter said extra time was needed to compile and submit preliminary data from a comprehensive study of the disease prepared by 10 KU professors and students.
The Lawrence City Commission has been asked to delay a decision on changes in the city's garbage disposal system for at least a month. The workers may reply to a consultant's report.
Activities of the department have come under increased attention through publication of the consultant's report, which was a preliminary evaluation of trash collection and disposal. The report, released last week by the Senate, namely, the City清洁服务，criticized a number of practices within the Sanitation Department.
The letter referred to statements in McKinney's report that the average salary in the department was $11,847.25, that the amount of trash collected declined from 1973 to 1974 and that during January and February of 1975 the department completed 10,756 scheduled man-hours of work in 5,260 man-hours. The department allows its employees to take on duties assigned routes and pays them for a full day's work if they finish early.
The letter said that although the study wouldn't be completed until early fall, recent statements in the press made a response obligatory.
In his letter, Forer criticized parts of McKinney's report.
SenEx members discussed the possibility
"I would suggest that he had the McKinney) spoken to the other employees, the city
Funds for Clinton Parkway likely
"I didn't realize Prof. Forer was working on an in-depth study, " he said. "I think it great. The more people involved in this, the better the quality of the answers we get."
administration and concerned residents rather than rely primarily on a single, middle-management source, the report indicates, when considerably different." the letter said.
Clark couldn't be reached for comment, but Commissioner Marnie Argeringer, who had suggested earlier that the City Commission meet to discuss McKinney's report, said yesterday that the council would probably take no action on the issue. The committee also noted that no special study sessions had been scheduled to discuss it.
McKinney said he was pleased that another group was studying the problem.
McKinney said his report wasn't an attack on wages in the Sanitation Department.
Rather, he said, it is a response to predictions that trust collection rates would increase.
By THERESE MENDENHALL
Chances are better than 50-50 that the local project will receive the $4.1 million that was requested as the authorized 70 percent of the total $5.9 million cost of the construction, Mayor Barkley Clark said Friday.
A federal appropriation for Clinton Parkway is likely despite a dispute that arose last week about what branch of government it should approve to grant the local, official says.
The amount appropriated for Clinton Parkway may depend on the total agreed
Clark and five other local officials presented the request in Washington
"What I'm saying is that the system has some slack in it, and why don't we look at some ways we can tighten it up before we raise the rates?" he said.
A legislative assistant in the office of Rep. Larry Winn, R-Kan., said Friday that the bill indicated that the appropriations committee viewed the lake access highways program as a budget authority program, and that it was not relevant rather than a contract authority program, as the Department of Transportation maintained.
Action in the House of Representatives on Friday reversed the house's position in the dispute to agree with the Senate viewpoint that the authority belonged to Congress. The House Appropriations Committee approved a $10 million for the lake access highways, thus rejecting the opinion of the Department of Transportation, which it had formerly accepted.
He said factors in favor of the grant were strong support from Kansas Senators James Pearson and Bob Dole and from Sen. Birch Bayh, D-Ind., the chairman of the Senate appropriations subcommittee, which heard the request.
The authority dispute arose after the officials had presented their request in the Senate. Both Congress and the Department of Transportation claim authority to appropriate funds for lake access highways in the Federal Ad Highway Amendment of 1974.
The Winn aide said the administration, acting through the Department of Transportation, didn't favor continuing the war. The heads of Congress were in sympathy with it.
upon for all the lake access highway projects by the appropriations committees of the House and Senate. As much as $23 million was received, according to the authorizing legislation.
No one on the commission or in the city administration has so far asked to meet with him to discuss his report, McKinney said.
It is also possible that the Senate would request a ruling from the comproller general on the Department of Transportation's stand, but it wouldn't do this unless it were sure of a favorable ruling. Winn's said side.
Whitenight said that if the funds weren't approved this year the completion of the parkway would be several years behind the completion of Clinton Dam.
Winn's wime said that if the Senate and House agreed on $10 million, it was less likely that the Clinton Parkway project would receive all of the $4.1 million requested for it than if the full $25 million were appropriated.
The two branches of government differ
academically because of the lake access
highway in Reno.
He said passage of the House measure presently seemed to answer the question in favor of Congress' viewpoint. The Department of Transportation may request that Congress maintain its authority, but Congress almost certainly wouldn't agree to the rescission.
He said the Senate would report its version of the bill in mid-July.
"We've got our application in everywhere we can," he said. "However they resolve the controversy, I don't think there will be any net effect on our situation."
In his letter, Forer said the preliminary data would come from "a unique project (that) was conceived to make the Lawrence University a model of excellence for the rest of the State."
County Commission Pete Whittenn, one of the six local delegates who testified before the transportation subcommittee of the Senate Appropriations Committee on Wednesday, said he was optimistic that the future local project would be appropriated.
"We might actually have a recreation facility and no access to it," he said.
The study is being conducted by five KU faculty members and five students.
The five faculty members are Scott McGill, director of the University Community Service Center; Gary Wamysle, associate professor of political science; Steven Fawcett, assistant professor of social work; and assistant professor of social welfare; and Forer. The five students aren't named in the letter.
Pulliam award to be continued
The $1,000 Eugene Pulliam scholarship given each spring to the KU School of Journalism is expected to continue despite a decline in earnings. He is to Del Brinkman, dean of the school.
Brinkman the school had been receiving the scholarship since 1970. The money is awarded to one or more students from the school by the journalism faculty
At the time of his death, Mr. Pallium was publisher of the Arizona Republic and Phoenix Gazette. He also owned the Indianapolis Star and News, the Muncie Star and Munice Press and the Vincennes Sun-Commercial, all in Indiana.
He was a recipient of the William Allen
White Foundation Citation for Journalistic
Must.
Mr. Pullman died last Monday at 86 of a cerebral hemorrhage.
One too many
Fred McMillion manages a sick grin midway through his round of Saturday's banana split eating contest. McMillion was
Staff photo by DON PIERCE
disqualified shortly after his sixth banana split. He threw up the seventh.