THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
Vol. 85-No.118 Thursday, April 3, 1975
KANSAN
The University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
By Staff Photographer ROD MIKINSKI
Lovelace lines
Despite the bad weather, students stood in line last night in front of a local theater for a chance to see themselves in the movie "Linda Lovelace for President," several scenes of which were filmed on campus.
By STEVE BOYCE
Kansan Staff Reporter
KUAC okays 1976 budget
A men's intercollegiate sports budget of $21,950 for fiscal 1976 was unanimously approved Wednesday by the University of Kansas Athletic Corporation (KUAC)
A Kansas reporter was allowed in the meeting during general discussion of the budget, but wasn't allowed to remain during discussion of salaries and line item allocations. The meetings of the KUAC are addressed to the public by a vote of the board.
The budget consists of all expenditures for men's intercollegiate sports planned for the fiscal year, including coaches' salaries, facilities, staffing and faculty maintenance and debt retirement.
According to the approved budget, KUAC expects an income for fiscal 1976 of $24 billion. The proposed appropriations
According to the KUAC budget summary for fiscal 1976, the athletic corporation has an operating fund deficit, which has risen through several years to a total of $215,763.
"We can't look at next year's anticipated profit of $80,000 as extra, but as an essential
amount of money needed to whittle off a little of the debt and help our cash flow," one member of the board said.
The board commended Clyde Walker, athletic director, for his success in balancing the budget over the past two fiscal years. In fiscal 1974 KUAC overspent by almost $6 million, Walker said in an interview almost inconsequential in a budget of almost $2 million.
KUAC board ground rules request that statements by him not be attributed.
A KUAC member said the budget would be nearly balanced in fiscal 1975, but added,
Vets call 'Nam quagmire
Nevertheless, board members said they were optimistic that the $30,000 net profit for fiscal 1978 could be realized, mainly because of large private contributions to the KUAC scholarship fund. The new budget would be matched to KUAC for scholarships next year.
TOM BOLITHO
Kansan Staff Reporter
"Even in this fiscal year, things aren't
won't see much growth over figure 6."
Renewed American intervention in South Vietnam would be a mistake, many of the refugees, who came to America
are following comments are from four of these veterans.
According to a number of veterans attending the University of Kansas, the United States military wasn't prepared to deal with the kind of conflict that occurred in Vietnam. Most of the veterans interviewed agree that the war was an insult against the Vietnamese which the United States should never have become involved.
Kieran Ryan, Lawrence freshman and Vietnam veteran, said Tuesday that United States involvement in Vietnam had been unwise.
"I could see the American position at the time, but I've changed my mind," he said. "It would be futile to fight there today and I think it would simply wait until we left again."
Ryan said that formerly the war had been fought by Americans who hadn't been sure when it would end. He said the war was a long battle, prepared for an indefinite end to the war.
"We wasted a lot of time, money, and lives over there and we didn't accomplish a thing," he said. "It will take 20 years for the Vietnamese to restore their country to the way it was before the Americans intervened."
Bob Hodges, Topeka graduate student,
spent eight months on patrol near Hue in
Film gives glimpse of KU
"You might wonder whether $500,000 is a reasonable goal," a member said, "but last year, we projected a contribution income of $400,000. Although we don't have the final figures, we expect to get over $400,000, and maybe $425,000, by June 1."
In the movie, Loveclave, presidential candidate of the Upright Party, junkets across America in a bus to try to reach the people. The Xatring allows her to reach for
Mark Hamilton, Salina freshman, agreed.
Mertel said he wasn't in the f'll,
however, and he was disappointed.
"I've seen R-rated movies better than
their predecessors, Kansas City, Kan.
freshman, said
students hoping to catch glimpses of themselves jammed a local theater Wednesday night when "Linda Lovelace for President" came to Lawrence.
By ROBERT A. GAVIN Kansan Staff Renorter
"I wanted to see whether I recognized anybody," Richard Coulson, Shawnee Mission junior, said. "I saw 'Deep Throat' so I saw this because it was filmed at KU."
Lovelace's X-rated presidential campaign spoof was met with whistling, cheering, clapping and catcalls as a predominantly male audience looked for themselves and their friends in sequences from the University of Kansas in September.
The sex scenes, however, are aame compared to Deep Throat! That movie is about a woman who has been raped.
"I thought I might have been in it," Wayne Mertel, Kansas City, KA, freshman.
"It was entertaining," the student said. "I was interesting to see the guys you knew."
"We can't predict what the economy will do to our contributors, but we have no evidence of people stopping their contributions. This money is the only thing to keep our program from falling deeply in debt."
"I thought it was a farce," he said. "But I haven't seen 'Deen. Threat.'"
KU students are shown in a parade on Jayhawk Boulevard, in a question and answer session at the Campanile and Potter Lake, and at a campaign rally in Allen Field
Basketball players Danny Knight and
Steve Spargo lie on the parade, complete with a
pumpkin.
Heavies, comedians and fall guys from Stanley Myron Handlerman to Mickey Dolenz dot the script. Their lines are loaded with sexual immuences and Keystone Kop
Filming of the Lawrence sequences met opposition in September when Buford Watson, city manager, said the movie production company had misrepresented its
One Lawrence scene details swimmer Huck Flessh, winner of 21 Olympic gold medals, and Lovelace making love under a ladder. The scene was filmed behind Allen Field House.
Students seem to think the movie was a sad parody, the sex wasn't explicit, the situation comedy wasn't new and the story dragged.
House tentatively passes regents' operating budget
The board said it expected to receive $200,000 from the Big Eight Conference next year, an increase of $60,000 over last year. Money from the conference is derived from such contracts and is distributed evenly among the eight schools.
"I thought it was terrible," one student said. "There was nothing to it."
Another student disagreed.
Although a screening was offered to University officials to illustrate the movie company's fulfillment of its agreement notwithstanding the court's advance showing was given. Shankel said.
TOPEKA (AP)—A $294.85 million bill for the Kansas Board of Regents and the institutions and agencies under its control was terminated approved Wednesday by the House.
"I had no idea they were filming an R- or X-rated movie." Watson said then.
"From the information they gave us, we understood it wouldn't be X-rated." Shankel
The board said it would fund all men's minor sports next year at or above their
Marsail said the money for renovation of
unused two residences could fund a "home
fitness" program.
The movie makes no mention of the
MU insignia, nor does the KU insignia
are the only identifiable insignia.
motives in trying to film a parade scene downtown.
heating and air conditioning in the KU
room. The K-State president's hugely
the K-State president's hugely
Rep. William K. Marshall, D-Topka, was critical of appropriations for renovation work at the houses of the University of Iowa and the Kansas State University, president.
northern South Vietnam. He said apfully among the peasants was widespread and they no longer cared who won the conflict. "They just want to see the shooting stop."
The bill, including operating expenditures and capital improvements, is $806.55 above the recommendations of Gov. Lobert F. Bennett.
See KUAC, page 6
All the veterans should that the United States shouldn't have become militarily involved in Vietnam, but some thought that they shouldn't should have fought with greater intensity.
The reents bill is ill for a final vote Thursday and passage would send the minutes to the governor.
The bill includes $69,000 to replace
"This is a prime example of benign neglect," Marshall said. "This is one of the most anti-consumer legislative sessions this state has ever seen."
It includes $138.63 million in general fund
money for operating expenditures and $4.22
money for interest expenses.
The portion to be filmed on Massachusetts was then switched to Jayhawk Boulevard.
Del Shakel, executive vice chancellor,
said last week that the film company
misrepresented the type of movie it was
released in, and is associated with University
officials in September.
Marsalh's bill would direct the Secretary of Social and Rehabilitation Services to establish a home repair and home maintenance business, bandaged or need in certain counties.
three main groups in South Vietnam—the Vietnamese, the Montagards, and the Nung—were so different in their views that they could not be established.
Gary Shikkes, Lawrence senior and Vietnam veteran, said he thought American policy in Vietnam was inconsistent and had confused many veterans.
Hodges said the Viet Cong would rather die than lose a battle.
"In order to destroy the Communists," he said, "you'd have to kill all of them or you would be defeated."
Wilson Tyson, Topeka senior and Vietnam veteran, said the South Vietnamese were incapable of establishing an armed force to combat the people's diverse backgrounds. He said the
See VIETNAM, page 6
Bingo flourishes under new law
Rv.JAIN PENNER
Kansan Staff Reporter
The air at the Eagles Lodge was filled with cheers, moans and smoke as about 150 persons, ranging in age from eight to 80, played a game in Lawrence Wednesday night.
A new Kansas law permitting nonprofit organizations to operate bingo games went into effect.
The players sat quietly at long tables, cut tables into small briar boards and waited for the game to begin.
Some players decided to boost their chances of winning by buying more than one bingo board. A few were using as many as 10 or 12.
For some, playing bingo was a family affair. Ann Schmidt, Lawrence, said she and her children were playing on eight bingo boards. She said they had played bingo before but weren't having much luck despite their experience.
When a cry of "Bingo!" finally broke the silence, it was accompanied by groans and several voices lamenting, "Darn it, I needed only one more."
"It doesn't feel any different to play it legally than it did to play it illegally," she said.
Several persons were seasoned bingo players.
Janice Criss, 1605 Cadet, said she had played jambore before.
Criss, who was playing on seven boards, said she had said in the past that but she didn't.
Twenty regular games, with prizes ranging from $15 to $100, and five special games, with prizes worth from $100 to $500, were played. A limit of $1,750 was set on the total amount of prize money that could be awarded in one night.
Jean Hess, 758 Maple, she had played before and didn't think it felt any different to be playing legally. She said she hadn't won any games that night.
she was surprised when she won a game.
"I've never played before," she said.
Pam Mallor, Lawrence freshman, said she was surprised when she won a game.
To an experienced bingo player who sits down and expects the traditional games of straight line and blackout bingo, some of the games played are bewildering.
Many people expressed dissatisfaction with the numbers called. One man, tired of waiting for his winning number to be drawn, dropped a couple of new hands and leisurely called out, "O 68."
One game dragged on with no winner when suddenly, three people stood up and began to laugh.
Miller, who was playing on two boards, said she had planned to buy only one, but had bought another to make the game more exciting.
In November 1970, Miller sent a letter to all county and district attorneyts to inform them that bingo violated Kansas statutes. The letter ordered an end to all games.
Variations such as little diamond, in which a player has to black out a diamond in the center of his board, and four corners, in which a player must black out the numbers around the edge of his board, are played in addition to conventional bingo games.
In 1971, the state legislature passed a bill legalizing bingo for nonprofit organizations. From 1971 to 1972, several organizations were involved in debates on the assumption that they were legal.
Late in 1972, the Kansas Supreme Court declared the law to be an illegal civil circumvention of the state's constitutional ban on lotteries, and games once ceased.
Several organizations had bingo games to raise money before Vern Miller was elected governor.
A- a result, a proposed constitutional amendment, which allowed the legislature to pass a law permitting nonprofit organizations to operate bingo games, was overwhelmingly passed by Kansas voters in 1974.
B-10? L-1!
While Arthur Schmidt, Lawrence, checks the winning card,
bingo winner Pam Millar, Lawrence freshman, exchanges
Bv Staff Photographer GEORGE MILLENER III
glances with Eddie Ekstein, Lawrence. Millar, who had never played Bingo before, won $20.
A on regularizing bingo for nonprofit or organizations was passed in the 1975 session of the state legislature and signed into law by Gov. Robert Bennett.
The new law requires that anyone applying for a bingo license represent a nonprofit organization that has been in operation for at least five years, complete an application form, present an affidavit showing a notary public and pay a **$25 filing fee**.
Situationals set by the law are that no one can be paid for operating a bingo game, that anyone operating a game without a license is subject to arrest and that gross receipts from games are subject to a two per cent tax which will be collected by the state and returned to the cities and counties in which the games were operated.
so far, about 300 nonprofit clubs and
organizations have taken out tung霉素 licenses under the
Five Lawrence organizations have licenses: the Eagles Lodge, which will have games on Wednesday and Fridays; the Elks BOE Lodge, which will have games on Monday nights; The Knights of Columbus; the Young Men's Club and Tuesday nights; the American Legion Post No. 14, and the Veterans of Forgeen War.
Bingo is considered a kind of lottery, because it contains both a prize and an element of chance. Although the new Kansas law allows nonprofit organizations to operate bingo games, a federal law prohibits advertising any type of lottery.
Newspapers that carry advertisements for bingo games run the risk of losing their revenue.
Snow spits cause fits; sun to hit
Two weeks ago, students were packing away their sweaters and overcoats in anticipation of a warm spring, as temperatures ranged as high as 70.
But Wednesday, 12 days after spring officially began, half an inch of snow and selt飞 in Lawrence, and the temperature was in the low 20s, making jacket-clad students long for a return of the warm days at the end of winter.
The low Wednesday night was in the low teens, and there was occasional snow. The forecast high for today is about 40 with clear skies. The low tonight is expected to be about 30. Northerly winds will continue.
While today's weather was expected to be better for traveling, Wednesday more than $8,000 in estimated damages in 12 months would have been attached to the Lawrence Police Department.
Only one of those involved in Wednesday's reported accidents required hospital treatment, Paul Crane, 38, 3323 Iowa, was treated at Lawrence Memorial Hospital for lacerations and a bump on his forehead. He was released after treatment.
Crane was involved in a two-car accident at 31st and Iowa. His car was struck by a jeep driven by Terry Loftin, 26, Eudora, according to the police report.
Loffin told police he had been attempting to stop at the intersection when his jeep had broken down.
Both the car and the jeep were reported demolished.