THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
Basketball Star Signed
The University of Kansas—Lawrence. Kansas
Thursday, June 26, 1975
See page 4
No.152
Staff photo by DON PIERCE
Bicycle grief
concert King struggles to climb on his sister's bicycle yesterday, but finds that he still has a few years and a few inches to go before success.
Rolfs challenges concession pact
By TONI DIXON Kansas Staff Reporter
If Clyde Walker, University of Kansas athletic director, refuses to sign a five-year concessions contract with the Kansas Union, it could result in higher concessions prices all over campus, according to Ed Rolfs. student body president.
In a letter yesterday to Chancellor Dykes, Roffs said he had learned in an Union Board of Directors executive meeting that Walker had refused to sign a five-year agreement "unless the Union agreed to pay him 55 per cent of the net profits."
Rolf's letter said, "Over 20 per cent of the concessions revenue the Union receives comes from athletic concessions. The loss of this business would probably cause increased prices in other vending areas around campus."
Doug Messer, assistant director of athletics and business manager of the Athletic corporation, said a contract which Walker signed in May for the 1975-76 fiscal year would extend his contract to Frank Burge, director of the Union, said that under this contract the Athletic Corporation would receive 70 per cent of the net profits for one year from concessions sold at
Messer declined to comment on whether a five-year contract with Jon Josserand, a member of the Memorial Corporation Board of Directors and of the Executive Committee of the board, said. "I'm sure we would have five-year contract at our percentages."
Messer declined to comment on whether a five year contract was being discussed.
Walker could go outside the Union to contract another concessions company for athletic events if the Union don't comply with the increase in percentages, he said.
Jossner said the Union's loss of all athletic concessions could result in higher concessions prices at the games as well as on campus.
The Union handles all concessions on campus, such as those in Murphy and Chapman.
Josserand said that without the athletic
concessions, the Union's purchasing volume would be reduced and, therefore, its bargaining power. This could force on suppliers to raise their prices in order to cover costs.
If another company were brought in for athletic events, they could charge higher prices in order to meet their demands and those of the Athletic Corporation. he said.
Burge said he wasn't sure that another company handling athletic concessions could offer the high quality now provided by the Union.
Josserand said, "The Union is the most efficient vendor."
Rolfs said the one year contract also limited the Union as far as buying new equipment. The Union wouldn't spend a dollar on equipment if the contracts might not continue.
Burge said, "Mr. Walker and I do plan to carefully review specific needs and prices of new equipment, the life of which will extend before the current contract."
Under the present one year contract, which begins July 1, the Athletic Corporation would receive $145,000 of the money from the concessions division of the Union.
Burge said the 30 per cent net profit kept by the Union would go to a central Union account, to be used for maintenance, accounting and labor.
Messer said the concessions funds that the corporation received from each sporting activity would be allotted to that activity. The percentage of concessions funds coming from the football season would be set aside for (football, for example).
"We try to allocate it to the activity from
which the funds are generated," Messer said.
Rolfs, in his letter, asked Chancellor Dykes to make "some important decisions for the University as a whole" and to find out whether they would acceptable to all parties concerned.
Joosrand said former athletic director Wade Stinson had made five-year contracts with the Union until his last year as director. A five-year contract had just been signed, and he sign a one-year contract so that the new院长 could negotiate his own contracts.
All contracts made between the Athletic Corporation and the Union since Clyde Walker became athletic director have been one-year contracts.
Hawklet's closing gets criticism
Walker was out of town and unavailable for comment.
By ALISON GWINN
Reconsideration of the closing of the Hawkett concessions area in Summerfield Hall has been requested, Ed Rolfs, student body president, said yesterday.
In a letter Monday to Del Shlank, executive vice chancellor, Rofs said that student opinion wasn't carefully considered in the decision to renovate the area.
No student was present at the meeting to complete Hawklet plans, he said.
The Hawklet will continue to operate until about two days before the end of the summer. The computer will begin to start at the beginning of August to divide the area into halves, one to accommodate the new computers that will arrive in the spring of 1976 and the other to be used as a reading machine.
"Our hope is that the study area will be ready for fall and then we'll work in the fall for the arrival of the computers," Shankel said.
The study area will hold library tables, books on reserve and study carrels for graduate students, Joseph Pichler, dean of the business school, said.
Pichler said that he had met with the graduate and undergraduate business councils several times, and that the majority of students were in favor of the reading room, given that the Hawklet would be removed.
Ruffs said the administration was falsely concluding that student requests for more study space meant that students wanted the book soon more than they wanted the Hawklet.
"They may be streaming into his office saying they want more library space, but they're not streaming into his office saying they want the Hawklet closed," he said.
The Senate suggested last spring that some offices be moved from the temporary annex used by the computer center to the military science building. Rolfs said.
Summerfield could then be moved to the annex, making space for the new computers in Summerfield, and the Hawklet could be left as it presently exists, he said.
The keypunch machines presently in
The administration never responded to the suggestion, Rofs said.
"If there are any problems with this, we don't know about them," he said.
If the Hawklet is renovated, the food service in Summerfield will be four vending machines offering canned soft drinks, coffee, nastries and ice cream.
The machines will be in a ball running along the south windows. The hall will be separated from the reading room and the classroom. The classrooms will be constructed after the Hawklet closes.
The administration has approved the purchase of permanent tapered chairs and pedestals for the stairs.
The extra tables should ease the congestion of Wescoe caferia that might result from the Hawklet's closing, Shankel said.
Gandhi orders rivals arrested
NEW DELHI (AP)—Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's government declared a national state of emergency today and the arrests of leading political opponents.
Authoritative sources reported that more than 100 persons were roused from their homes in New Delhi before dawn and carted away to safety. There were in the 28 years of Indian independence.
President Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed, constitutional head of state, signed the resolution on Wednesday.
government about five hours after the greets bad begin.
Gandhi's severe crackdown stemmed from growing demands that she resign because of her conviction of using corrupt election practices.
Federal dispute holds up Clinton Parkway project
A lower court found her guilty June 12 of illegally using government officials in her campaign for parliament four years ago. She was also arrested her from holding office for six years.
The local delegation is the funds under the Federal-Aid Highway Act, which provides the power to appropriate funds for lake access highways. Opposing views about the legal nature of these programs are held by the Department of Transportation, and the local delegation will be
A dispute about legislative and executive authority in appropriating federal funds is holding up Congressional approval of funding for the construction of Clinton Parkway, a spokesman from Rep. Larry Winn's Washington office said last night.
The problem came to a head last night after the Senate Appropriations subcommittee, which was unaware of the dispute, heard the six Lawrence and Douglas County officials request funds for the building of the four-and-one-half-mile road linking Clinton Dam to the intersection of 23rd and Iowa streets.
By THERESE MENDENHALL
Kannan SMAI, Resorts
THE MEMBERS OF THE LAWRENCE DELEGATION were: Mayor Barkley Clark, City Manager Buford Watson, City Commissioner Donald Binns, Douglas County Commission Chairman Arthur Heck, County Commissioner Pete Garnett, chairman of the Highways Committee of the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce.
The Public Works Committee says that the lake access highways are regular
The White House and the Department of Transportation aren't in favor of continuing the lake access highways program, and the Department of Transportation is preparing a message asking Congress to rescind its agreements on appropriate funds for the projects, he said.
The question being debated by officials of Congress and the Department of Transportation affects whether the formal request for funding made by a Lawrence delegation before the transportation subcommittee of the Senate Appropriations Committee yesterday was necessary, the spokesman said.
projects. Federal appropriations for these projects must be approved each year by the Appropriations Committee in each house of Congress.
If authorities decide in favor of the House Public Works Committee, the Clinton Parkway funding request will be processed in Congress according to the procedure given by the testimony of the Lawrence group before the Senate subcommittee yesterday.
In addition to the funding authority dispute, the financing of the project will be affected by "another fly in the ointment," the spokesman said.
IF CONGRESS DOESN'T AGREE,
processing of the Douglas County request
IF THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORT turns out to be right, the appearance of the Lawrence group before the Senate subcommittee might have been unnecessary because funds might already be guaranteed for the Clinton Parkway project.
United News also reported that the crackdown extended to opposition newspapers and said K. R. Malkan, editor of the right-wing Motherland newspaper, had been jailed.
will continue based on the outcome of the funding authority dispute.
The Supreme Court later ruled she could remain as head of the government while appealing the verdict but declared she could not vote in parliament.
He said Winn and his associates thought the chances that the project would receive the funding were good, no matter how the dispute was resolved, because Congress had been in the process of laying way project as one with priority over other similar projects around the country.
He said the appropriation request for the lake access road could be more easily veted as a bill on its own than as part of the Transportation appropriations bill.
While Bosu's party opposes Gandhi, the main Communist party has been one of her strongest supporters, appealing to her not to resign.
The agency said others arrested included Moraji Darl, a former deputy prime minister who formed his own party in 1989; Yojitmoyrom Bsu, leader of the Marxist Communist party; and Chandra Sekhar, a dissident in Gandhi's own Congress party.
The spokesman said he didn't consider the testimony of the Lawrence delegation before the Senate subcommittee yesterday a mistake, since it may yet prove necessary. If it does, scheduling of the committee or the group included in the Department of Transportation appropriations bill will improve the county's chances of receiving the funds.
power supplies were cut or their copies were confiscated.
In a related matter, Rep. Larry Winn said yesterday the House had appropriated $10 million for the construction of Clinton Lake for fiscal 1976. Provision for this funding part of the Appropriations Bill For Works passed by the House this week.
ACCORDING TO A SPOKESMAN for Sen. Bob Dole, if the access highway program is determined to be a program whose funding must be approved each year by Congress, the decision to appropriate or deny the funds will be made by mid-July.
Government sources said Gandhi met with her cabinet for about 45 minutes before the emergency decree was ordered. The proclamation gives the government virtually unlimited powers to arrest persons and detain them indefinitely without trial.
The requested federal funds are 70 per cent of the total amount needed for the preliminary work, acquisition of right-of-way and construction of the road. Assistant Director, Civil Engineering, will remain 30 per cent will be appropriated by Lawrence and Douglas County.
Persons who watched some of the arrests being made said police used private taxis to carry them.
Authentitative sources said that one of the first persons seized was 72-year-old Jayaprakash Narayan, who had made an effort to travel in New Delhi to a crown of 10,000.
In a 4-minute broadcast to the country, Gandhi announced imposition of the state of emergency, saying "forces of disintegration" have erased democracy in the name of saving democracy."
Government spokesmen confirmed that arrests of opposition politicians were being carried out but they didn't release any names.
Indian news reports said arrests also were being made in other parts of the country and that some newspapers weren't being distributed, either because their
After demanding that Gandhi resign, Naranay said the police, armed forces and government employees shouldn't obey any illegal and immoral orders. Naranay, who has his native Bihar State, then challenged the government to try him for treason.
The United News of India agency reported that Socialist leader Raj Narian was among those detained. He had filed the corrupt practices case against the prime minister after she defeated him in the 1971 parliamentary elections.
Police sources said the arrests began at about 2.30 a.m. and were continuing three
Most of those persons detained were associated with opposition parties that planned to start a nation-wide struggle against the government and demonstration throughout the country.
Justice Minister H. R. Gokhale said yesterday that Gandhi would remain as head of the government while appealing her request to the Senate to step down, the loss of her parliamentary voting rights.
Zaire gunboat prevents rescue
DAR ES SALAM, Tanzania (AP) — U.S. diplomats crossed Lake Tanganyika in a boat in an attempt to rescue three kidnapped American and Dutch students, but a Zaire gumboot shelled the shore and prevented the land landing, witnesses reported yesterday.
One of the captives signaled with flaship inland to U.S. boat neared shore; witnesses said.
The attempt was abandoned Tuesday,
witnesses said, and the resuce boat
returned 30 miles across the lake from Zaire to Kigoma, Tanzania, without the hostages, who were abducted five weeks ago by Marxist guerrillas.
It was unclear whether the shelling by the government boat was deliberately intended to prevent the rescue or whether the gunners believed the boat was one of many guerrilla craft which operate on the lake. U.S. officials confirm that details of the rescue attempt or to say whether it meant ransom demands of the kidnappers had been met.
Dean search faces delay
The naming of a new dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences may not come as soon as the previously announced date of his retirement, an executive vice clan- clerer, said yesterday.
Shankel said the date of the announcement would depend on the time needed to interview the four candidates recommended by the search committee. He will depend on how many of the four are from outside the University, he said.
Witnesses said Norman Hunter, father of Carrie Jane Hunt, 21, Atherton, Calif., watched the rescue mission through a window. Hunter was upset and outraged when it failed.
"We hope to conduct the interviews on Tuesday or as quickly thereafter as possible."
the four candidates will be interviewed by Chancellor Archie Dykes; Rion Calgaard,
Miss Hunter and Kerneth Stephen Smith, 22, of Garden Grove, Calf, both Stanford University, taught at the University, 25 of the Netherlands were kidnapped from a baboon study camp near Kigoma. The Marxist guerrillas who kidnapped them from Zaire, the former Belgian Congo.
Worth declined to comment on how many of the four candidates were from outside the country.
Shankel said the uncertain period for interviews must that no definite date for the investigation.
newly appointed vice censorchl for academic affairs; and Shankel.
George Worth, chairman of the search committee, said the names of the four candidates would be given to Shankel tomorrow. A letter indicating each candidate's strengths and weaknesses would also be sent to Shankel, he said.
"I'd be very disappointed if we can't work within a week after July 1, however." he said.
Expectations that the captives might be freed mounted after U.S. and Dutch diplomats in Dar Es Salam received letters Friday from the guerrillas.
The guerrillas originally took a fourth hostage, Barbara Smites, 24, Ann Arbor, Mich, but released her to deliver ransom demands. They said they would kill the hostages unless the Tanzanian government freed guerrilla leaders from detention by mid-July. The guerrillas also asked $500,000 for the quantities of arms and ammunition.
Tanzania relected the demands.
Relations between the United States and Zaire have grown hilly since the government in Kinshahe, the capital, charged that the Central Intelligence Agency was involved in a plot to kill President Mubenye Sese Seko. U.S. Ambassador Deane R. Hinton was accused of being connected with the plot and expelled from Zaire last week.
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