THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
Law project helps inmates
Tuesday, June 24. 1975
The University of Kansas—Lawrence. Kansas
No.150
See page 4
City plans Kaw park
Construction on a $384,000 river-river park in Lawrence is expected to begin in fiscal 1977, Freed DeVictor, director of parks and recreation, said viederay.
He said most of the 10-mile-long, 1,000-acre park would be located south of the park.
The park will have a variety of recreational features including shelters, overnight camping areas, bicycle paths, nature trails, a children's playground and boat ramps, he said. Swimming and skiing won't be allowed.
"The main thing we're trying to do is bring the river back to the people," DeVictor said. "We also want to preserve the river and its natural ecology."
The main entrance to the park will be southwest of the junction of U.S. highways 244 and 396.
The land has an appraised value of $384,000, the exact amount the government is giving the city for the project. DeVictor engineers will construct most of the park.
"The city will be responsible for developing the nature trails," he said. "We already have a committee of interested people working on the scenic paths."
Apartment fire inspectors' visit are unrelated
The presence at the University of Kansas of seven inspectors from the Kansas State Fire Marshal's office is unrelated to a fire which occurred last week in an apartment in Stouffer Place, J. J. Wilson director of housing, said yesterday.
The inspectors from the Fire Marshal's office come each June and spend about a week inspecting the campus, Wilson said. The university has already announced a University housing beginning Wednesday.
The fire last week was caused by grease that splattered on an open flame when residents were cooking french fries, a recipe for Security and Parking report the incident.
Because of the restrictions of the Buckley amendment, the apartment number and address of each tenant must be
According to the report, the residents went to get one of the two fire extinguishers in the building and found that one was missing and the other wasn't working.
Wilson said yesterday that the fire was an unfortunate occurrence and that such things are inevitable in University operated housing.
He said the extinguisher that didn't work was only three months old but had lost its power.
Phil Stuart, an assistant director of housing management, said there was a plan under way to install extinguishers inside each apartment at Stouffer Place. He said that this plan was formed before the fire which resulted in 80 extinguishers had been installed.
Gary Zink, Turon junior and resident of Stouffer Place, said he had heard about the fire from the worker who installed an extinguisher in his apartment.
"We came in and there was this ex-
tasy," she said, "of the man tha-
sus, and the guy told us about the fire."
Wilson said many of the extinguishers had been vandalized in the past and the decision was made this winter to put an extinguisher inside each apartment.
"We started the bidding process at the end of last week and took from about 60 to 120 days to get them."
Staff photo by DON PIERCE
Pitching precision
Building and ground employee Ronald Sellers lines up his next pitch during a lunch-time meetup, where he works with a group or a growing group of enthusiasts in which he held almost daily in the pits near Flint Hall.
KU buvs Linwood school
BYSTANSTENERSEN Kansan Staff Reporter
SHAWNEE MISSION-Resisting possible offers of more money from other prospective buyers, the Shawne Mission School Board last night approved the University of Kansas' purchase of Linwood school in Shawnee Mission.
The school will become the Kansas City center of the KU Division of Continuing Education. Classes will be taught in the school's 18 classrooms starting this fall.
The price of the school, which was purchased for $249,000 at Kassar $274,760.
Endowment. $274,760.
During discussion of the motion to approve the sale, a representative of a local realty firm said Lodge No. 184 of Bain Brith was prepared to offer more money for the school than the University had of offering it. The school as an educational institution, he said.
The representative asked that the board open the property to public sale and call for
A board member replied that the district had received inquiries about buying the property.
Housing hearing to be delayed
A procedural oversight will delay the Lawrence City Commission hearing ordering the repair or demolition of two properties owned by Daniel S. Ling, associate professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Kansas.
The building official who examined the properties at 1301 Ohio St., and 1321 Tennessee St., found them to be substandard and ordered that they be repaired. The case then went before the city commission for approval. It was determined that have the repairs made at Ling's expense.
In a memo sent last week to Buford Watson, city manager, Lee Soller, assistant city attorney, said other cases that involve him upon another which finds the properties to be unsafe and dangerous and refers the matter to the city commission, through the Minimum Housing Council.
Such an order must be received to comply with state ordinances.
If the order is signed in time, the commission will set a hearing date on the two properties at its regularly scheduled meeting July 8.
Kissinger reaffirms committment; U.S. interest in Mid-East remains
ATLANTA (A)-Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger said last night that fundamental issues in the Arab-Iraqi war required another oil crisis or a U.S.-Soviet clash.
Demanding concessions from both sides, Kissinger said the Ford administration wouldn't allow temporary disappointments if it reflected a defect in trying to break the stalemate.
"We are now at a point where there must be turn either toward peace or toward new challenges. We need to ensure that we support the Southern Council on International and Public Affairs and the Atlanta Chamber."
He said the United States had a historical and moral commitment to the survival and
Kissinger added: "We can never lose sight of the fact that U.S. foreign policy must do its utmost to protect all its interests in the Middle East."
well-being of Israel, but also important interests in the Arab world of more than 150 million people "sitting astride the world's largest oil reserves."
"We must not be hulled into inaction by the relative quiet of recent weeks," Kissinger said. "The fundamental issues remain unresolved."
The stern references to the Middle East took on special importance because they came at the end of a round of talks between the leaders of Jordan, Egypt, Israel and Syria.
Kissinger urged all the parties in the Middle East to take seriously Ford's repeated admonition that the United States wouldn't accept stalemate or stagnation.
On another subject, Kissinger said the administration would seek "prudent measures" of arms control but is convinced that airism is the bedrock of our security."
He said that the trend of the military programs of potential adversaries—apparently a reference to the Soviet Union—is in the direction of expansion.
"Therefore," he said, "there is an irreducible minimum below which we cannot go without allowing important information United States and its allies to be endangered."
informed that if the property were put up for public sale, sealed bids would be called.
The University had negotiated a contract for private purchase of the property.
John Vrattil, school district attorney,
advised the board that it was within its legal rights to sell the school to the University in a private sale. The only restriction, he said, was that the purchase price be no less than 75 per cent of the appraised value.
School board member Gene Winton said that opening the sale to the public might create problems because the high bidder was able to set the property unacceptable to local residents.
"A giant Seven Eleven store," murmured someone from the audience.
Several residents spoke in favor of KU's proposal. All said they favored using the system to record calls.
The board then voted 4-1, with one abstention, to approve the sale.
The school, which is at 99th and Mission Road, became available when school district officials decided to close it this fall because of enrollment shifts. The Kansas Board of Regents approved the purchase on Wednesday, a week drew up final terms of the contract.
Del Shukun, executive vice chancellor, who represented the University at the meeting, said afterwards that the offer was in line with his own experience. Administrators had known of the
interest of other groups in buying the building, he said.
Shankel said an early projection, that 80 per cent of the 155 courses to be offered in the Kansas City area would be taught at the school, was correct.
Other courses will be offered in various locations in Wyandotte County for the convenience of Kansas City residents, Shankel said.
Administrative offices will also be moved to the school from their present location in three temporary buildings adjacent to the Medical Center, he said.
KU administrators have said that purchase of the school will help the University establish programs in the Kansas City area that require facilities other than classroom space. Computer facilities for an MBA program and a preschool for child care programs have been offered untainted as items the University hopes to put there.
After the vote KU administrators who were present walked outside the room to shake hands with local supporters of the project.
"Let's go notarize and sign these papers," said Todd Seymour, executive secretary of the Kansas University Endowment Association.
"beautiful," said Martin Henry, association property manager, as they worked on the project.
Court delays verdict on death penalty case
In related action, Gov. Christopher S. Bond of Missouri yesterday signed into law a bill reinstating the death penalty in Missouri. It will become effective Sept. 28.
WASHINGTON (AP)—The Supreme Court yesterday put off-b-precipately until next year—a decision in a case in which the validity of the death penalty is challenged.
The justices restored to their calendar for re-argument the case of Jesse T. Fowler, a 27-year-old North Carolina black man whose appeal it heard in April.
The re-argument will take place during the court's next term, beginning Oct. 6. A decision would be unlikely until sometime in 1976.
The court, as usual, gave no explanation to the decision call for further arguments [10]
There are 287 men and women on death row in 25 states. A lawyer with the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, which is seeking an end to capital punishment, predicted that none of them would be executed before the court reaches its decision.
Fall intramurals go coed new director is appointed
Two important changes will highlight this fall's intramural program at the University of Kansas: the merger of the men's and women's basketball teams, and hiring of a new director for intramurals.
Richard Marks, head soccer coach and assistant director of intramurals at the University of Wisconsin, will become director of the new program August 18.
The purpose of the merger is to eliminate duplication of the separate intramural programs and to make it a more efficient organization. Nike hired recreation coordinator, said yesterday. The revamping of the intramural program was made possible by a budget of $23,024 allocated by the Student Senate. This year's numbers are times larger than any previous year.
Marks, who won't officially begin his job
today. He'll go to Lawrence
 yesterday for a week's visit.
He said he would study possible sources of additional revenue and hoped to be able to buy more equipment to make it easier for students and faculty to participate.
Marks said he first became interested in
are new intramural program because of the
way it would be organized, combining
"The program is to be operated for the students at KU, not just the men or just the women," Marks said. "I will study what has been done in comparison with that with my own philosophies."
Marks said he would work to simplify the intramural program but didn't mention any specific changes he might make. He will urge himself with the program first, he said.
Robert Lockwood, men's intramural director for the past 11 years, said the new program would give students an excellent athletic activity they were interested in.
Student studies roaches
Wilkerson said the Division of Recreation Services would be responsible for both intramural activities and other recreational The Acts will require recreational programs, to be ready in August, will consider the expansion of the recreational services over the next five years.
By MARCI CAMPBELL Kansas Staff Reporter
He said he hoped intramural water sports and individual sports would be expanded.
Why would a student with a masters degree in biology and a good job leave her husband and four children to study cockroaches in America?
"I wanted to further my knowledge."
Sudarsanam Bharathi, a graduate student in physiology and cell biology who is working for her Ph.D., said Sunday.
"I got tired of sitting at home," she said.
"I wanted to get a good job and work."
Bharathi is the head of the department of zoology at the Government College for Women in India. She leaves to study in the United States The women's college is affiliated with Andha Pradesh University, where Bharathi did her work in zoology and masters work in biology.
Bharatha said a fellowship was offered to her in India, but her advisers told her the United States was the state to get her Ph.D. because of the scientific sophistication here.
Bharath applied for a scholarship in 1973 that was sponsored by the Lutheran University and president of her church. The Lutheran World Federation, in Geneva, granted the
scholarship to her. The USA National Committee of the federation in New York "takes care" of her while she is in the United States.
She chose KU because of William J. Bell, associate professor of physiology, cell biology and entomology, she said. She said that Bell expressed a sincere desire to have her work at KU as part of his roach research.
This summer Biarath is experimenting with the reproductive cycle of the female American cockroach, specifically with the male. This includes hormones on the reproductive cycle.
Bharathi collects pregnant cockroaches and separates them into groups of 10 or 12. She injects them with 2.5 microliters of ecydysone hormone. Ecydysone is necessary for molting and the development of adult structures during paucity, she said.
"The faculty is really concerned about me and help me a lot," Bharati said.
Bharathi also spreads one microliter of juvenile hormone on the top third of the abdomen below the wings. Juvenile hormone is necessary for the maintenance of nymphal or larval characteristics during pre-adult life, she said.
Bharati looks for females carrying otheches, or brown egg cocks, which extend from the genital opening. These otheches contain as many as 16 eggs. They are formed to the eggs until they are layed in a dark place for hatching, she said.
These females are dissected and any changes in their reproductive organs are noted. Although her experiment is only three weeks old, Bharath said, she has noted that the yolks of some of the eggs were either altered or nonexistent.
She said, however, that she could not say the change was because of the injections. Many more cockroaches would have to be supported by any hypothesis she would make.
Some of the cockroaches have died in the past two weeks, Bharatha said. Control animals are injected with saline solution. Results determine whether the others died from the hormone injections or from the infection itself.
Bharathi's experiment, which was started May 22, may take five years to complete, she said. Many thousands of cockroaches must be injected, and the results must be compiled to provide evidence to support her hypotheses.
Roach researcher
Staff photo by DON PIERCE
Suderanam Bharathi, Lawrence graduate student, explains hypodermic needle. Bharathi is experimenting with the how she is able to infect cockroaches with drugs using a reproductive cycle of the female American cockroach.