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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
The University of Kansas—Lawrence. Kansas
Wednesday, June 25,1975
No.151
Saricks profiled See page 2
KU on Wheels charged with race discrimination
By TONI DIXON Kansan Staff Reporter
A charge of racial discrimination was filed with the Student Senate against the KU on Wheels bus system following a conspiracy to derail a driver and a black student. Friday,
Orville Brown, Great Bend student, filed a complaint Friday charging discriminatory practices by one of the drivers after an argument about 7.45 a.m. in front of Oliver Hall.
"There were about 20 people before me, but the driver didn't ask for anyone's I.D. until it got on," Brown said. "I told him I was going home unless he asked everyone else for theirs."
The driver then pointed to a sign in the bus, saying he had the right to ask anyone to show his I.D. Brown said. Brown again told him his I.D. and was allowed to board the bus.
He said he had talked to several black students in Oliver who had similar complex problems.
Engineers get multiplex unit
Electrical engineering students at the University of Kansas can now get a first hand look at the latest innovation in communications systems, Art Breipohl, professor of electrical engineering, said yesterday.
The University is the only one in the country that has a 128-channel multiplex voice communications system for research and study.
The equipment takes up most of a room in Learned Hall. It is one complete system composed of two transmitters and two receivers. All are connected to channels, or conversations, at one time.
Multiplex is an alternative to the present system of frequency division modulation used in radio and television. Instead of dividing frequencies into channels, as in radio or television, the multiplex also allows Papar research assistant and technician, said.
The advantages of the system are its
efficiency and its low operating cost,
Bentley shell.
A multiplex transmits more conversations, with better quality, at the same or less cost than an average telephone system. Breenohl said.
The system is on loan from Richards-Gebaur Air Force Base in Belfort, Mo. The Air Force was considering changing to a computer-based system, but decided on another type of system.
Before that, the system was used experimentally in a housing project in Japan, Pape said. The Japanese abandoned the system to the Air Force.
The multiplex is currently being used commercially to transmit data, but Breiphel said it could be used in radio and broadcasting within the next 10 to 18 years.
The electrical engineering department will feature the system in an introductory course. The course will be taught by
"It's an opportunity for students to see modern equipment," Breinbill said.
Brown had shown his LD. to other drivers who had checked, he said.
Steve McMurray, chairman of the Student Senate transportation committee, said the policy originally set up by the Senate said that all students would be charged 15 cents, and that nonstudents would be charged 25 cents. All riders paying 15 cents would be asked to show their proof.
"I don't know how much that policy was designed for. McMurray said, "I have just reaffirmed."
McMurtry said he had talked to the owner and the drivers of the buses yesterday about
He said that showing L.d.s shaped things cannot have not been checked. ldm (regular)
In order to avoid discriminatory practices, McMurry said, he told the drivers that the rules set up by the Senate are to be strictly enforced.
The Senate is under contract with the Co., McMurray said, and, because the Senate employs the bus company, it has to do what the Senate saves.
"We want everyone to show his I.D. if they want to ride for 15 cents," McMurray said.
Ed Rolfs, student body president, said "The University is prohibited from transacting business with any corporation that has discriminatory practices."
He said that corrective action would be taken.
Duane Ogle, president and general manager of the Lawrence Bus Co., said he thought the incident was "a very minor thing."
"I didn't see any problem myself," Ogle said.
All students on the Lawrence campus pay an automatic transportation fee at enrolment. This fee allows students to pay a lower fare than other riders.
Rifs said, "The policy is designed to protect the students. It's our firm conviction that people who have paid this tax to ride buses are charged as much as those who have not."
McMurry said there had been some trouble last fall with riders who had boarded the bus and handed bus passes out the windows to students who hadn't yet boarded, but that problem had been taken care of.
The Senate office has also received some feedback from their staff that their I.D.s weren't available.
"We will just have to hope I.D.a are ready soon. McMurray have "Until then, they'll burn"
He said there had been no other complaints concerning discrimination on the
The name of the driver against whom
the charge discrimination was not
released.
Gary Mason, assistant professor of Journalism (right), describes the damage done to the Flint Hint photojournalism unit.
Flood aftermath
assistant professor of journalism and the designer of the photo
assistant attempts to repair flood-
damaged darktime rooms.
Airplane crashes in New York; more than 100 passengers killed
NEW YORK (AP)—An Eastern Airlines 727 crashed and burned near Kennedy International Airport yesterday, killing more than 100 persons aboard.
There were 115 passengers and eight crew members aboard.
The plane, coming in for a landing during thunderstorms was on a nonstop flight from San Francisco.
At least two eyewitnesses reported seeing lightning strike the aircraft just before it tore through three landing approach light rails and destroyed an area of park land north of the airport.
As it skipped along the ground, the plane spun across heavily travelled Rockaway Boulevard, but didn't strike any vehicles. Then it filtrobed inside down.
"It was full of smoke, people were
re-raining and yelling, and the first
demonstration package."
The death toll approached in magnitude the 111 persons killed when an Alaska Airlines 727 struck a mountain near Juneau and caused the nation's worst single-plane disasters.
In the wake of the Kennedy crash, luggage, bodies and debris from the shattered airliner were scattered over a five-acre patch of undeveloped land.
George Van Epps, eastern area supervisor of the National Transportation Safety Board, said there was no indication of any danger. The pilot also arrived on the aircraft and the tower prior to the crash.
be recovered and were being sent to the board's headquarters in Washington, D.C.
Asked about eyewitness reports that the plane was struck by lightning, he replied, "It's certainly something that will be considered in the investigation."
Epps said at least two previous crashes in the 1960s were attributed to lightning, one of them a Pan American plane at Elkton, Md., and the other a TWA airliner in Rome.
He said the flight and voice recorders had
"Lightning hit the plane." said eyewitness Paul Moran, a Nassau County police officer. "It tilted to the right and went about 20 more vards, then hit the ground."
"I am almost positive the plane was hit by lightning," another eyewitness, Neal Raideren said, "we were pumping gas at a station filling the plane with positive the plane was hit by lightning."
The plane, Flight 663, was banking on
on approach to Kennedy at about 3:48 p.m.
and was flying at Mach 1.5.
One of the surviving passengers, Egon Liaftaas of Norway, who was badly burned in the crash, said at the Jamaica Hospital emergency room, "Going in for a landing, the pilot went too much to the left. You know, with one wing down, not two. Then you could surround around him flinging around. After that I only remember the fire."
within minutes there were long traffic
ties in the vicinity of Kennedy airport.
From above the scene, a police aviation
reported that debris and bodies were seated
At first, police emergency equipment tried an end run, using secondary roads to the airport. But these, too, became clogged and slowed the cars had to be airlifted in by helicopter.
Mayor Abraham Beame telephoned New Orleans Mayor Moon Landreau to assure him that all possible assistance would be made available. Mr. Mayoral paw flew to the scene in a helicopter.
The metropolitan area's frantic evening rush hour is just getting under way and
It was the first major aircraft crash in the United States since Dec. 1, when a Trans World Airlinesjetner, also a 727, went missing in Valley, Va., killing all 92 persons aboard.
Eastern's last crash was Sept. 17, killing 60 of 82 persons about
The Jamaica Bay area at Kennedy was the scene of another crash 13 years ago. An American Airlines Boeing 707 plunged into the bay on March 1, 1962. Killing 95 persons.
A number of other major air crashes have occurred near New York. Sixty-five persons were killed when an American Airlines Electra crashed on Feb. 3, 1959.
The worst air disaster in the United States, and one of the most dramatic air crashes in history, occurred over Staten Island, one of the city's five boroughs. A plane collided with an Airbus World Airlines super-callation and collapsed collider. Dc 16, 1980. Killing 134.
Photo darkroom flooded
Gary Mason, assistant professor of journalism, got a rude surprise when he opened the photojournalism darkroom in Flint Hall at 7:55 yesterday morning.
As he approached the darkroom, he saw steam pouring through the keyhole.
During the night, a rubber hose carrying water from a hot water line to a washing machine in the finishing area burst, causing a continuous stream of water over the entire darkroom floor.
The steam formed by the 140-degree water seemed to do the most damage.
by midmorning a papercutter had rusted, saturated ceiling tiles were down and runed film containers littered the office. The team poured water on the floor, drying the last puddles of water.
"Everything on the floor was destroyed or is in bad need of renail." Mason said.
On the floor were Mason's personal camera, a loss of the hundreds of dollars if the camera had been taken.
Everything metal and electric will have to be taken apart, cleaned and oiled, Mason said. That includes enlargers, timers, kitchen knives, half of the cabinet tiles must be replaced.
The University isn't insured for such damage. Mason said.
Film that was destroyed included a box of cartridges to be used for a summer journalism camp now in progress. Mason said, "I will have all the pictures, but the camt will continue."
"We're going to go on just like nothing
Mason said as he mopped a small water
bowl."
Indecent exposure cases reported to campus police
Two cases of indecent exposure on the campus have been reported to Security and Parking officials in the last four days.
The first was reported Friday by a woman who said a man had approached her about 10 o'clock Thursday evening. She said she had been struck by lightning and like to kiss him and go streaking.
The other incident occurred at Stouffer Place Monday afternoon. The
constraint may use the report said a man in front of her picture window and exposed
In the second case the woman was unable to provide any description of the suspect. However, in the Friday incident the woman was able to give a general description.
Captain B. L. Ellison of Security and Parking said "there appeared to be some similarity between the first case and some other cases under investigation.
Staff photo by DON PIERCE
Help for refugees
Mrs. Ngheim Van Do and several members of her family sort through clothes donated to Topea residents. The Doe are
planning to move from their cramped quarters in their spacious house to a nine-room house, which has been donated rent-free.
Viet refugees in Topeka get a home of their own
By RICHARD PAXSON Kansas Staff Reporter
TOPEKA-Nghiem Van Do, his wife and their 10 children are taking a big step this week toward making Kareas a permanent American house of their own.
The Do family, the first Vietnamese refugees to settle in the state, are moving from the home of their sponsor, the Rev. Evangeline McFarland, since they came to Topeka a week ago.
The family will live in a two-story limestone house at 225 Clay ST., about two blocks from the Manning home. The house was built by the architect of the Kansas Capitol in the 1870s from surplus materials from the statehouse construction.
The house and a year's free rent were offered by a Topeka resident to Manning for the refugee family. The offer came none too soon, for the Mannings and their teenage son and daughter already were sleeping in the basement of their three-bedroom house. The families the Mannings are bringing from the Ft. Chaffee, Ark, refugee center are expected to arrive this week. The four Vietnamese families comprise 38 persons.
Manning, pastor of Evangel Temple Ful-
Gospel Church, said Saturday that his
Manning travelled to Ft. Chaffee about two weeks ago because he hoped that he could get quicker offer than through a written offer of sponsorship.
family decided to sponsor refugees after they saw a televised appeal for sponsors by President Ford. They wanted to help large numbers of refugees, the most difficult to find sponsors for.
In 1967. Do went to work for the U.S.
The Do family's evacuation from Saigon in late April was the second time they had fled from the North Vietnamese Communists. Do and his wife escaped from their home in Haiiphong in 1954 when the French were defeated.
Do worked in private business in Saigon until 1962, when he volunteered to enter the South Vietnamese army. Because he spoke English, he was assigned to the U.S. Army's command company of some of the first American combat units on lance operations.
"Some sponsors had written in and didn't received an answer after three weeks," he said. "But the fact is that what it takes some people to do. The Dos were the first family we met. When we got down there and saw the situation those people were watching indefinitely, we just had to help."
Agency for International Development. It was his close associations with the United States that made him fear the Communists and harm his family when they captured Saipan.
"We had to hurry to prepare to leave," he said, "We left our TV set, radio, sewing machine, everything. I'm afraid we might have been killed."
Do said most of the Vietnamese employees of the American government applied to the U.S. Embassy for evacuation. Two days after the Do family applied, they flew aboard a C-130 cargo plane to Clark Air Force Base in the Philippines.
Do will interview this week for a job as a clerk at a Topeka insurance firm. Several part-time jobs have been offered to Do's six sons.
Free courses in English and typing have been offered by a Topeka business school to foreign students.
"It's pretty early to think about whether we would ever go back to Vietnam," Do said. "I was sorry to abandon my country, but Communist policies made it
Lan probably expressed his family's
in the manning room out a bedroom window
in the Manning room.
"Vietnam lost," he said. "Vietnam lost."
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