Staff Reporter
Protester found guilty
By CAROL BEIER
Steven Schwartz, Barrington, R.I., freshman, was convicted yesterday in Douglas County District Court of one count of disorderly conduct and one count of resisting arrest. He was arrested Malcolm Hood for contempt of court against the signing of the peaceful peace treaty.
the gigapixel is an excellent tool for demonstrators to demonstrate who was arrested and charged for harassing Palestinian students and kicking an unarmed student.
During testimony in his own defense, Schwartz denied that he had blinded demonstrators' paths but admitted that he had audited the evidence.
RECREATION
The kick was a reaction to the arrest of another student, Boran B. Mendirin, Lawrence special student, who later pleaded guilty.
"If there had been a tree there," Schwartz said, "I would have kicked it."
kickback.
Schwartz then testified that he "moved briskly" away from someone he saw out of the corner of his eye toward him. He said he did not know at the time that it was a police officer who ran after him and tackled him.
"AS SOON AS I knew it was a police officer, I went along," Schwartz said.
However, he was not specific as to how long it took him to realize that the two men struggling with it were about to be killed. Defense witnesses stated
that Schwartz struggled with the officers between one and three minutes.
Schwartz estimated he resisted for less than a minute. He denounced testimony by state witnesses that he had shouted about the
"I said, 'This is the way KU police treat students,' as I was getting up.' he said.
Schwartz also testified he was approached by police at two other points during the demonstration about 25 minutes before his arrest.
Schwartz said one police officer had told him to "cool it" and another officer had asked for his name.
"ALTHOUGH ONE defense witness testified that Schwartz was not doing anything that was "different from what any of a number of other people were doing," another said he was struggling to avoid being handcuffed.
District Attorney Mike Malone repeatedly asked Schwartz who he thought was tackling him, if not the police. He also asked Schwartz why he did not summon police if he thought he was being attacked by persons he did not know. Schwartz and he did
The maximum penalty for resisting arrest is one year in jail and a $2500 fine. The maximum penalty for disorderly conduct is three years in jail.
District Court Judge John Elwilh asked for a pre-sentence report and said sentencing would be at 11 a.m. May 17. Schwartz
KANSAS CITY, Mo.-Sen. Thomas Eagleton, D-Mo., yesterday criticized Milb Oil Corp. (for charging an average of $8.33 a barrel for domestically produced oil that costs the company from $1.52 to about $3 a barrel to produce.
By DAVID EDDS Staff Reporter
Eagleton joins oil protest
Eagleton based his charge on information from Mobil's most recent financial statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Eagleton spoke to a group of about 100 people across the street from the Alameda Plaza Hotel, who were protecting high energy protection in the stockholder's offices at the Alameda Plaza.
Eagleton told the group he would introduce a bill to form a non-profit government corporation to assume control over the purchase and importation of oil.
OPEC, THE ORGANIZATION of oil production Exporting countries, is an oil can
"The government must do the negotiating with "OPEC. Negotiating must be taken out of the hands of the other party."
Mobil officials proposed a plan Wednesday to continue price controls on oil now in production in exchange for freeing future oil from special taxation or price controls.
Mobil's director and chairman of the board, Rawleigh Warner Jr., said, "All we are asking for is that our new oil is given to producers as price that to foreign producers.
- Ensuring an increased supply of petroleum products.
- Warner said his company's proposal would benefit consumers by:
- Decreasing American dependence on oil, weakening the power of the OFRFC care
- Resulting in the U.S. government collecting more taxes from oil companies.
James Flug, director of the Washington-based Energy Action Education Foundation, accused Mobil of not explaining the effects of its price control proposal.
"THEY WANT TO TIE the future price of
THEY oil to the price of carrot oil," he said.
Eagleton said, "Decontol would be one of the biggest consumer ripples of the past decade."
William P. Tavoulares, president and a member of the Mobil board of directors, said, "If the only objective is to hold prices in the right place, that means you may not have enough fuel in the future."
Warner said, "The oil companies have been pillored all over this country. No one gives us credit for the fact they can buy gas at a service station."
Not all of the demonstrators were protesting just high energy prices. Several members of the KU Committee on South Africa were attacked against Mohd's use with South Africa.
Laird Oike, Lawrence graduate student and a spokesman for the KU Committee on South Africa, said, "Mobil is one of the biggest oil companies in South Africa. Mobil sells oil to the South African military and police."
He said his group also was concerned with high energy prices, and protested because it wanted to show support for consumers and labor.
KANSAN
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
The University of Kansas
Vol. 89, No.145
Friday, May 4, 1979
Lawrence. Kansas
Atchison center aids alcoholics
Dykes reviews year; funding future priority
See story page 10
By TONI WOOD Staff Reporter
By TONIWOOD
Growth in the numbers of students and dollars helped contribute to a "cap year," Chancellor Archie R. Dykes said yesterday. University address to the University Senate.
Dykes cited figures showing an increased enrollment of 25,480 at KU, which he said was a slight increase over the fall of 1977 but an increase of 21 percent over fall 1972.
And, he said, the operating budget, approved by the Kansas Board of Regents and the Kansas Legislature, had increased 125 percent since fiscal year 1973. In 1973, the budget was $4 million and the fiscal year 1980 budget will be about $212 million.
"We can inevitably look forward to a leveling off of our enrollment," he said. "However, for the fall of 1979 we expect no change in the enrollment but we do not expect a decline."
Despite the increases, Dykes said, the upcoming decline in enrollment and decrease in future enrollments should be concerned about. Other issues that concern KU are the financing of research, unethical conduct by students, limited opportunity and freedom of speech, he said.
Formula funding should be given top priority, according to Dykes.
FORMULA FUNDING is a process by which the University's budget request is compared with the operating budgets of similar institutions across the country.
“Unfortunately, although the governor and the Legislature found good features in formula funding, we were unable to secure their support for a change to this method of financing for fiscal year ‘00,” he said. “Notetheless, we will continue our efforts.”
Dykes said financial support from the public sector had never been higher.
"Of the 100,000 living alumni of the University of Kansas, more than 30,000, approximately one-third of the total, are alumni of the Alumni Association," he said.
Financial support comes chiefly from the KU Endowment Association, he said, which had contributed buildings, scholarships and research funds totalling $9.5 million in the
Faculty salaries have had a "healthy increase," Dykes said. "Unfortunately, despite our best efforts, faculty salary increases have not kept pace with inflation."
Faculty and staff employment has increased to 8,500.
See SENATE page 12
Springtime serenity
With finals and graduation rapidly approaching, many KU students seek quiet places to
Staff Photo by BILL ERAKES
study or just think. This student paused between classes yesterday to relax on a bench between Green Hall and the Natural History Museum.
Responsibility for lives drives air traffic controllers
By LESLIE GUILD
Staff Reporters
KANSAS CITY, Mo.—Wilh approaching Kansas City International, the pilot of Continental Airline 414 radios to the ground in a field, said he will remain in a holding pattern. In a split second, a man sitting in front of a small screen in the radar room at KCI must make
To an observer, the small screen
surrounded by flashing lights and computer buttons looks like a TV video game. But to more than 50 air traffic controllers at KCI, it's no game. It's its job.
Airports officials said the job of an air
airport controller was "to separate aircraft from
their runways."
"THEY HAVE TO take into consideration the weather, the runway and the speed of the aircraft while controlling," Charles said. "We have to make sure of the air traffic control tower at KC14, said.
The Federal Aviation Administration has been advertising for new controllers. But qualifications for the job are rigid and the hiring process often includes months of
A spokesperson for the FAA said a candidate must have completed either three years of general experience or four years of college.
Applicants must have a high score on a civil service test to be considered.
Light air
International Airport, Stephen Polityka (left) and Ronald Rippe (right) relax in the control tower by sharing a joke.
Staff photo by CHRIS TODD
During a lull in their work as air traffic controllers at Kansas City
Applicants also are subjected to strenuous physical and psychological testing.
"PROVIDED THEY make it through the testing done there and the schooling itself, they are sent to airport locations to begin work." he said.
If they are hired, they are then sent to air traffic controllers school for 16 weeks in the air.
He said the controllers trained by working in a simulated air tower.
Richardson said that to add the controller, the FAA had begun a program, "Project Professional," that was designed to help controllers stay on top of their jobs.
"The controller is well prepared before he ever reaches his job." Richardson said.
On the job, a controller is evaluated continually and encouraged to improve his skills.
"It's to help him improve his techniques," they said. "They meet with the supervisors."
At least four times a year, air traffic controllers also must participate in emergency operations.
"WE ARE REQUIRED to run them through the assimilation room. This creates a locally developed simulation of a real emergence with a hitack." Richardson said.
"And unfortunately, last year we had two, both while I was on duty," Richardson said. "It just gets like a beebove in here when a hacking is in progress."
Richardson said the airport had had at least one hijacking a year since the airport was operational.
Richardson said that last year's blackjackes were handled smoothly, but that "during blacks, we are often following non-compliance and the margin of error is greater."
The airport at Kansas City handles private, business and commercial airplanes. Richardson said he thought that KCI was safer than most airports and that collisions between large and small planes had not been a problem.
"IF A PILOT FOLLOWS the rules and phones in to us when he is in our air space, we won't have any problem with air traffic control." They can really be endangering a lot of people.
See related story page 12
“A type of thing like what happened at San Diego last year is always possible. But it won't happen if everyone plays by the rules.”
In September 1978, 147 people were killed when a Boeing 727 from Pacific Southwest Airlines collided with a Cessna plane over San Diego.
Because of the demanding duties of the position, one official at the Olahe Control Center said stress caused a number of job-related problems.
"Controllers handle 20 to 25 jets, moving at 500 to 600 miles an hour. There is the continual pressure that with a mistake, you could kill 400 people," the official said.
RICHARDSON SAID, "I can't say statistically that the problems with their health are stress-related, but I think that's got something to do with it.
"It's a high pressure job. It's a job that requires a healthy person."
The FAA requires a yearly physical of each controller.
"The most usual reasons for not being able to pass the tests are either high blood pressure or sight loss," he said. "Sometimes hearing problems also occur."
"It's a strict regulation and once you don't pass, that's it. You don't get a second try."
Richardson said controllers had to pass a Class Two physical, which was comprehensive, but did not include all the testings of a Class One physical that plots
Richardson said the rates of divorce and alcoholism among controllers were high.
bonny Paul Johnston, tower chief at Fairfax
Richardson said the people who could work as traffic controllers were special.
"These guys are very sensitive," he said.
"They take everything they do very per-
Airport in Kansas City, Kan., said, "It's hard to pick people who will make it. My experience has been that those who do have lots of self-confidence and a big ego."
Richardson said, "They are a very proud and special group. They have to be, in order
RICHARDSON SAID the average age of a person starting in a controller's job was 22. Although the mandatory retirement age is about 38 years old, the average retirement age is about 35 years old.
Currently, there are more than 50 air traffic controllers working at KCI, including
Johnston said that "not many make it to the required retirement age."
Richardson said he had not seen a control wait until the mandatory retirement
"They usually peak at between 30 to 35 years old," he said.
But several of the controllers at KCI said they were not worried about the possibility of an attack.
Gloria Kirby, a 28-year-old KCI controller, said she was not worried about her
"I just don't think about it yet," she said.
"I will be willing to move to another job."
After 14 years as a controller, Gene Smith,
14, said he had no retirement plans.
"I don't worry about it now. But I can't think of what I'd like to do after this," he said.
Applications due for Kansan today
Applications for news and business staff positions for the summer and fall University Daily Kansan are due today. The forms can be picked up in the School of Journalism office, 158 Flint Hall; the Student Senate Office, Suite 1610 Kansas City and the office of the school organizations and activities, 220 Strong Hall.
Completed applications must be returned by 5 p.m. today to 105 Flint Hall.