Staff photo by STEPHAN SPECTOR
Rat rally
susan Urich, lawrentry freshman, dressed as a rat in a parade down Massachusetts Street to show her support for the rock group, The Boomtown Rats. The group, which is from Ireland, will perform here tonight. The parade was sponsored by Neospace Productions and the Opera House.
Relays start tomorrow
The Kansas Relays return to Lawrence for the 54th year beginning at 8 a.m. tomorrow with the first portion of the memorial in Memorial Stadium.
For a schedule of events tomorrow and Thursday and ticket information, see page 7.
The Relays run through Saturday with
AAUP plans ethics inquiry
By BILL RIGGINS Staff Reporter
The KU chapter of the American Association of University Professors asked its committee on academic freedom and tenure to establish a new anthropology professor engaged in unethical conduct while conducting human research in 1978. The charges were made by two colleagues.
Ambrose Saricks, AALP president, said yesterday that the AALP had agreed to investigate the matter to determine whether any alleged activities by Michael Crawford, professor of anthropology, had violated laws on professional ethics and student rights.
The students who brought the charges, Elizabeth Murray and Nancy Sempolski, contend that Crawford misinformed research subjects and misused funds while conducting research on stoke cell anemia in a patient of Alzheimers Disease of Belize, which is east of Guatemala.
Murray, who was助企 to Belzel with Cowford a research assistant, said subjec- tives for the course were:
SHE SAID the sickle cell trait was a barren state with virtually no symptoms. In the research subjects, who were volunteers, we understand the purpose of the research.
trait were told they had "a mild illness, a mild form of anemia."
"No attempt was made to sit down and explain things to each individual," she said. "The people there didn't know quite what we were doing."
Most of the subjects were literate and spoke English. Murray said.
Murray also said subjects did not fill out consent forms and that a large number of children participated in the project without parental consent.
In addition to the alleged research violations, Murray said there was a possibility that funds that were supposed to be used for project were not used for research purposes.
But Murray said the bribe system was not used in Belize and that she was not aware of any expenses for which receipts were not obtained.
SHE SAID a "slush fund" was to be used for expenses for which receipts would not be obtained and to "bribe" subjects to take the money. The project participants were common practice
in some Central and South American countries.
However, Crawford said the allegations were "groundless" and were an attempt at discrediting him.
It's strictly a matter of students with a windex against me trying to fin a way of the game.
Crawford said that vendetta resulted because one member of the research team had engaged in "metrical conduct" in Belize and had to be disciplined.
"ONE OF them got in a lot of trouble in the field and they got together and figured out how to ax Crawford—and I can document this." Crawford said.
Crawford said the two students had made allegations to the U.S. State Department, the American Anthropological Association and a University ethics committee.
"They want you to publish this and tarman my name any way possible," he said.
The complaints gone through, University channels, he said, and had been found to be false.
Crawford said the students had brought up the charges before.
MURRAY SAID the reason the charges had been dismissed when they were first raised was that all the evidence had not been brought out at the hearings.
She said she had asked that the testimony of three witnesses and also several documents be introduced as evidence but that her request had been refused.
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"It was just a case of my word against Dr. Crawford's," Murray said. "But it wasn't fair because they didn't have all the evidence."
"We didn't get due process," she said. But Crawford disregarded.
"The committees evaluated honestly and judged what happened," he said.
Murray denied there was any personal vendetta involved in the matter but said she and Semopolus had been subjected to abuse that they first filed the charges two years ago.
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The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Vol.89, No.132
Tuesday, April 17, 1979
Bill's constitutionality questioned
Local Democrats filed a brief yesterday urging the Kansas Supreme Court to declare the Kansas House reapportionment law, which says that it gerrymandering the KU student vote.
"The reappointment of districts 44 and 46 is a classic case of political gerrymandering designed to discriminate against a politically cohesive, identifiable voting group," the brief stated, referring to KU students as a voting group.
section Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, the brief said.
The House bill would move the 44th District from East to West Lawrence and would create a new East Lawrence district, the 46th. The new district would extend the boundaries of the city to include the UCU campus and Oral Heights Beach, areas that had been in the 44th District.
The bill reduces the value of the votes of KU students in violation of the Equal Pro-
THIS MOVE WAS designed by the House Republican majority to endanger the reelection chances of 44th District State Rep. Paul Ryan, a former gilting the KU student vote, the brief says.
Attorney General Robert T. Stephen sent the bill house to the Court two weeks ago with the comment that the 44th and 46th states were under a ransomder because of their strange shapes.
Douglas County Democratic Central Committee Chairman David Berkowitz said yesterday that there was case law that could lead the Court to strike down the bill if the Court determined that districts had been gerrymandered.
Berkowitz said he would present an oral argument before the Court tomorrow morning.
THE COURT IS ruling on the constitutionality of house reapportionment in accordance with the 1974 constitutional law, and the reapportionment of the Legislature.
The Court will rule on the case by May 5. Berkowitz said if the Court did not declare the charges against him, he would face the case to the Federal District Court. He said the chances of getting the litigation struck out were small.
"The Supreme Court of Kansas could be more reluctant to overturn what traditionally has been a legislative prerogative," he said.
Med Center contractor submits repair plan
The state might revert its decision to terminate the contract of a construction company that failed to make adequate repairs on the new Bell Memorial Hospital at the University of Kansas Medical Center, an assistant attorney general said yesterday.
The construction company's president submitted a plan for repairing the cement panels that make up the outer walls of the hospital after the contract was terminated
Friday, Jerry Dickson, the assistant attorney general, said.
Presentation of a specific plan means that the state could reconsider its position.
"He's come up with an itemized list," Dickson said. "It is a detailed list."
Dickson saw the Clinical Facilities Executive Committee, which oversees Med Center buildings, would discuss the plan this week. He said he and the committee
would make the final decision on the contract.
The committee consists of Allen Wiechert, University director of facilities planning; Warren Corman, director of facilities planning for the Kansas Board of Regents; and Vincent Cool, state architect, Vincent Cool, state architect.
The construction company, V.D. Sifarlo-
General Contractors, Kansas City, Mo.
or Springfield, Illinois.
replaced by April 25. The state, however,
said the repair plan was too vague and ter-
rible.
Vincent DiCarlo, president of V.S.
DiCarlo, said yesterday that he still planning to run.
Last May, 140 panels on the hospital were found to be cracked and chipped. D'Arco was hospitalized.
Powwow unites Indians in dance
Wiechert last week that 94 of the panels had not yet been repaired.
By ELLEN IWAMOTO Staff Reporter
The floor vibrated with drumbeats and the pounding of mochaed feet as Indian fancy dancers dipped and twirled, their bodies bobbing wildly in time to the music.
Bells attached to the dancers' calves rang out with every step they took, and the weaving, hopping steps seemed almost to hypnotize the more than 200 people at the third annual KU Powwow Friday and Saturday night.
The fancy dancers stood outside the ring of other dancers performing the slower-
Straight dancing is the more traditional way of dancing, according to Dee Gupti-reez, head female dancer at the powwow, said.
The women take short, lifting steps that make the long fringe on their sailsway to the music. Their feet are encased in beaded, soft suede moccasins or boots with fur trimming and their dresses are all colors of the rainbow, made of velvet, cloth or satin material.
Another dancer, from South Dakota, said he picked the colors of his outfit because it was more appropriate.
"The blue is for the sky and the white for the clouds" he said.
outfitted to his love for stars, he said. The children got in on the fun, too. Dressed they tried in similar to those of the adults, they tried a few dance steps on their own. But some children were content to be caricatured, and some on their father's laps in the drum group.
GUPTIERREZ, FROM Horton, said she spent three years making her dance outfit, a black velvet dress, half of which is covered with intricate beadwork.
Guptierrez said most Idiates learned to dance about the same time they learned to walk. Children pick up dancing by watching others dance or their mothers teach them,
"That's our future," Guijterzien said,
"teaching the little children how to dance.
seeing my daughter and grandchildren out there dancing."
After the Flag Song, which is the Indian National Anthem, was played, the head male and female dancers led off a dance. The group then moved as many as the others took their cues from them.
“It’s an honor to be asked to be the head dancer,” Guptierez said.
Dancing and singing at the powwow gave most of the Indians a good feeling of being with their own people and renewing friendships.
TOMMY CHAIN, male dancer
from Owasso, Ohio, said he had to know all
the music.
The chanting and the drumbeats from the singing group guided the dancers' feet over the floor. The drum beats intensified and faded away as the six or more men around the drum worked together to produce the throbbing music.
The master of ceremonies, Chewers Coe-
lawrence, said there was a natural high
GOURD DANCING is a new concept from the old Peyote religion, Guijerrez said. Some Indians had gotten away from the traditions and formed gourd dancing about 15 years ago.
A special feature at the porkwow was gourd dancing, a slower-paced dance. The men were the main dancers, wearing long sleeves and dresses. Benders and shaking gourds to the drumbeat.
"It doesn't matter what tribe," he said,
if someone calls and asks for help I try to
Gutjezerne said that she always would be a cowboy if a friend or related asked her.
Steve Knife Chief, head singer, said that most of the singers were dancers before they started to sing. They picked up the microphone and sang. Although Knife Chief was not the scheduling was one of the events featured at an Indian powwow held Friday and Saturday at the Lawrence Community Building, 115 W.
Although Knife Chief was not the scheduled head singer at the powwow, he said he
Indian ceremonu
Steve Knife Chief, 219 Talio St., chants during a round dance while 6-year-old Shawn Talio watches the dances. Dance
Staff photo by CHRIS TODC
Banks files ad complaint
A complaint was filed yesterday with the office of affirmative action requesting that a search for an assistant men's athletic coach be conducted, that a hold be placed on the hiring process.
Elizabeth Banks, a member of the women's athletic advisory board, filed the
"My informal complaint failed, so I filed a formal complaint," she said yesterday.
Members of the board said that the job description did not mention that the assistant director would be working with women's athletics after a merger of the men and women's athletic departments or gently discouraged women from applying.
The women's advisory board had requested at its April 5 meeting that the search to replace Jerry Waugh, who resigns as director, March 15, be advertised again.
Under the merger, which Chancellor Archie R. Dykes approved Friday, Bob Marcum, men's athletic director, will be director of men's and women's athletics. Marian Washington, women's athletic director, will be the associate director.
But Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor, said last week that the job was being cut.
"Marian Washington wasn't even involved in the job search," Banks said, "yet the assistant director will probably report to her after the merger."
After the merger, Washington will be in charge of a sports medicine program and develop its sports teams.
Personnel with the athletic business office, the sports information office, and the Williams Educational Fund, special pro-credit basketball and球球 will report to Marcum.
Banks said the job description required that applicants be familiar with the guidelines of the National College Athletic Association, but did not mention the need for familiarity with the Association of Intercollegiate Athletics for Women. The theory, mediation facilitator for the offering, said it would take place within 25 days to determine whether there was probable cause for the complaint.