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Monday, May 7, 1979
University Daily Kansan
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Capsules From the Kansas's Wire Services
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Israel bombs Palestinian camp
BEIIRUT, Lebanon - Israel planes bombed and rocketed a Palestinian camp 100 miles north of the Israeli Lebanon border yesterday, and guerrilla forces stormed the city.
spokesmen said so, and four of them had struck a refugee camp, but an Israeli military spokesman in Tel Aviv said the targets were bases used for training.
The refugee camp is considered a stronghold of George Hahab's Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, which leads the hardline "Rejection Front" within Yasser Arafat's Palestine Liberation Organization. The Front is threatened by violence with Israel.
opposed to a negotiated peace with Israel. The Israel attack was the first reported in Lebanon in more than a week
Israel refuses to give up city
TEL. AVIL, Israel-The Israeli Cabinet declared yesterday that Israel would never give up control of East Jerusalem.
The Israeli declaration came in response to a statement by the Egyptian Foreign Ministry that said an Islamic conference opening in Morocco this week should focus on returning the Israeli-occupied, Arab-populated sector of Jerusalem to Arab control.
Israel occupied the Arab sector of Jerusalem, along with the West Bank of the Jordan River, the Gaza Strip and the Sinai Desert, in the 1967 Midestar War. East Jerusalem, the site of several of Islam's holiest shrines, had been under Jordanian control.
Western observers saw the Egyptian initiative on Jerusalem, as well as recent African-Arian tours of Moslem nations by two close aides to President Anwar Sadat, as attempts to head off condemnation of Egypt by non-Arab Islamic nations.
Anti-nukes protest at picnic
TOPEKA-K Two Kansas ant-nuclear groups held a peaceful picnic in a Topka park yesterday to show their support for the tens of thousands who were killed by Iranian nuclear weapons.
About 30 persons from Topeaks for Sensible Energy and the Lawrence chapter of Radiative-Free Kansas met in Gage Park for the picnic.
In Washington, a crowd estimated at 55,000 chanted, "No more Harrisburg," and carried signs, one of which said, "Hell, no we won't glow." The crowd assembled at the Capitol steps after marching from behind the White House and up Pennsylvania Avenue.
California Gov. Edmund G. Brown Jr. flew to Washington with actress Jane Fonda and her husband, Tom Hageman, to address the rally. It was the first national protest since the March 28 accident at the nuclear reactor at Three Mile Island dramatized the potential risks of nuclear energy.
Austrians re-elect chancellor
VIENNA, Austria-Austrian voters gave Chancellor Bruno Kreisig's
scientific government a mandate for four more years in national elections.
the socialists increased their majority in the 183-seat parliament by three seats, to 96, officials said. The opposition Austrian People's Party lost four seats for a new total of 76, and the right-of-center Freedom Party gained one seat from 62, which was the last one, which has not held a parliamentary seat in 20 years, again did not win a seat.
Kreisley, 68, whose alagan was "Kreisley-Austria needs Him", campaigned on his record. The national unemployment rate is low, inflation is only 3.8 percent and the economy is growing.
But Austria, with a population of 7.5 million people, has had its average annual economic growth of 4 percent offset by increasing budget deficits and a rise in the unemployment rate.
Atchison park shooting kills 1
ATCHISON—POLICE tried yesterday to determine what had led to a weekend incident in which患儿 fire on a group of about 25 people gathered in the school and party area.
One man was killed and six others were injured in the shooting. Police said they thought that three gunmen must all one of them armed with a shotgun, had been on patrol when the attack took place.
At least 100 persons had been at the party earlier Friday evening, authorities said. But by the time of the shootings, most of them had left. The shooting occurred at 3:30 a.m. on Saturday, after the group had forced several uninvolved persons to leave, police said. Witnesses told the police threatened to
No charges have been filed.
Prison's closing re-evaluated
WASHINGTON—The U.S. Bureau of Prisons, which said recently that it planned to send a federal penitentiary at Leavenworth within a decade, is in second thoughts.
Norman carlson, prison director, said the prison system now is considering closing down the cell blocks but keeping a reduced number of prisoners at the penitentiary. Leavenworth, one of the nation's oldest prisons, had been designated to be closed in the late 1980s.
Recent studies by the House Judiciary Committee have resulted in a budget authorization bill that calls for changing Leavenworth to a modern prison capable of housing not more than 500 prisoners by September 1983, compared to a present total of 1,381.
Carter's rating equals lowest
NEW YORK--Americans gave President Carter's work in the White House a rating as low as the lowest previous rating of his administration, according to a study released Tuesday.
In the AP-NBC News poll taken April 30 and May 1, 28 percent of the public gave Carter a work overall "good" or "excellent" rating. That was down three points.
Fifty-two percent rated Carter's work "only fair". Twenty percent gave his work a "poor" rating. Two percent of the 1,000 adults interviewed nationwide were satisfied with the work.
Those figures equal the lowest found in the AP-NBC News polls since Carter took office. The public's judgment was nearly identical to the August 1978 polls.
LA drivers scramble for gas
President Carter, who visited the Los Angeles area Saturday, said he had ordered Secretary Energy James Schlesinger to find out about the California's severe gasoline shortage and report on what steps might be taken to alleviate the problem.
LOS ANGELES - The gasoline supply situation worsened yesterday with reports of violence flaring at gasoline pumps and some drivers waiting hours
Only an estimated 15 percent of Los Angeles area gasoline stations opened yesterday, and lines of cars formed before dawn. At some closed stations, where entrances were not blocked by ropes or oil drums, cars were parked and locked, the owners trying to be in good position when the stations opened early
In Hollywood on Saturday, a man cut in front of about 50 motorists at a gas station. When an angry group moved toward him, he pulled a derringer and shoved him to the ground.
Wayne joins cancer research
LOS ANGELES-Fans and friends are offering John Wayne their cancer remedies along with prayers and wishes as Wayne battles the disease for his 90th birthday.
The 71-year-old Wayne is scheduled to undergo an experimental medical program in an effort to combat the cancer discovered in his intestines last week. The latest attack of cancer was discovered after doctors operated to remove an intestinal blockage.
Confronted with the new cancer, Wayne volunteered for an experimental research project to help determine the cause of the disease.
Weather...
Skies will be partly cloudy today, and there is a 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, according to weather officials. Temperatures are expected to range from 10°F to 50°F, but will dip with the 40s tonight.
Residents lose funds to vandalism
Students living in KU residence halls may be missing out on special services because money used to provide those services is being spent instead to repair vandalism.
Staff Reporter
By LAURA STEVENS
Vandalism, the willful destruction of property, cost residents more than $33,000 last year and may exceed that amount this year. All volumes complied by the KU Housing Office.
"I don't want to create the impression that vandalism is condoned." J.J. Wilson, housing director, said recently. "We're going to work hard to try to prevent the
Vandalism in KU residence halls varies from messiness to extensive damage, such as broken furniture and windows, discharged fire extinguishers and crushed
RESIDENTS PAY for damage caused by vandalism through an $18 fee taken from each residence hall contract. The money is used to repair special improvements. If vandalism occurs that cannot be charged to an individual, the fund covers the cost of repair. The more money is used to repair vandalism, the less money is available for special inspections.
The vandaliaism-special improvements tradeoff is the program used by the housing agency.
However, individual halls have other ways to control vandalism. Hall presidents have different views on how much vandalism should be tolerated, just as a different housing managers charge different items to vandalism, funds.
For example, Bill Thompson, Burlington sophomore and president of Joseph R. Pearson hall, said he did not think vandalism in the hall was serious.
"It's carelessness more than vandalism," he said.
But George Bures, Melville, N.Y., junior and president of Templin Hall, said vandalism was a "big problem" at Templin, although it has had less vandalism. Pum, BR.M.
AS OF APRIL 13, JRP had spent $256 to repair damage caused by vandalism and火灾。
This year, the Ellsworth Hall government considered vandalism to be such a serious problem that it created a vandalism committee.
Bob Jones, Overland Park sophomore and chairman of the Ellsworth committee, said the last year's vandalism funds went in the red year. About $300 was taken from this year's fund to pay for last year's vandalism. The county has already paid Ellsworth this year to ensure that there would be enough money to cover damages caused by vandalism.
Although the amount of vandalism seems to be decreasing this year, Jones said, minor vandalism added up to a lot of vandalism for the hall.
"They're mostly little, spur of the moment things," Jones said. "Like in restrooms; tiles, screens, shower curtains, wastebaskets—I bet we go through 100 wastebaskets a year. And fire extinguishers, those are a problem."
JONES SAID wastebaskets in restrooms often were thrown from windows. Wastebaskets in lobbies were sometimes used to hold an elevator door open. When the doors close, the basket is crushed. Fire extinguisher is placed in a powdery substance on floors and furniture. The substance is difficult to clean because it is noxious.
Jones said he thought drinking had a direct effect on vandalism in the hall. He said most vandalism was done Friday or Saturday night after floor parties. Some vandalism, Jones thought, is done by visitors.
He said security monitors had seen non-residents who they suspected of causing harm to the system.
Sometimes repair or cleanup of damage that is not strictly vandalism is charged to a penalty.
For example, Jones said vandalism funds had been used to repair elevators at his company. He ordered the order. He said it cost at least $25 each time an elevator repairman was called. Sometimes the elevator malfunctions are caused by trash becoming lodged in the elevator.
ANOTHER INSTANCE of vandalism
was a device not caused by
vandalism occurring at leisure.
Janet Dyer, Overland Park junior and
COSTS CHARGED TO VANDALISM FUNDS IN DOLLARS
Hall 1977-86
1977-86
1975-86
Hires
GSP-Corbin **** GSP 276.25 1,370.42 660
Corbin 458.44
Ellsworth 10,143.45 6,423.29 584
Hashinger 898.60 27.86 350
JRP 2,433.32 3,256.64 365
Lewis 810.84 688.86 380
McCollum 2,870.17 5,442.37 390
Oliver 10,100.00 7,542.50 875
Tetolium 4,359.90 2,890.63 375
Upton 33,249.98 2,674.16 305
*figures as of April 13, 1979 as compiled by
Office of Housing.
**approximate numbers provided by Office of Residential Programs**
+++ last year the halls were compiled
++++ last year they have been
built together.
Lewis Hall president, said a table had been stolen from the hall's fireplace room earlier in the year. Money for a replacement was taken from the vandalsim special purpose bank.
Ellsworth and McColum halls both instituted reward policies this year for information leading to the identification of a vandal. Jones and Pierce, Overland Park junior and McColum president, said that no payments had been made. Ellsworth was also tasked to make a confidential report to help identify vandals and McColum offered $100.
The housing office uses another method to try to control vandalism. Besides a charge for materials, a labor charge of $8.50 is collected for cleaning up or repairing damage caused by vandalism or the vandalism itself. The additional charge is taken from the ball fund.
IN ADDITION, Ellsworth Hall takes a charge from the vandalism special impatiens.
jantar must carry a tray of cafeteria dishes from a trash room to the cafeteria.
Wilson said the labor charges did not go into any particular fund of the housing office. Staff members are paid extra for the work only if they work overtime. Much of the messiness or damage can be cleaned during routine housekeeping.
Even if a vandal is caught, Jones said, repair costs often come from the vandalism funds because of the difficulty in making individuals pay. Jones proposed earlier this year that names of vandals be placed on the University's database and by the University to collect outstanding debts such as library fines and parking violations. But the proposal was rejected.
"The vandalism committee has suggested ways of cutting down vandalism and has been told, 'No, this isn't feasible,' or, 'No, you can't do that,' by Fred McElhenie (director of the office of residential programs)," he said.
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