BEAUTIFUL!
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
The University of Kansas
Vol.89, No.125
Council allocation to remain same See story page six
Thursday, April 5, 1979
Staff photo by CHRIS TODD
Damp dancers
Dancers in the second floor studio in Robinson Gymnastics concentrate on routines despite numerous buckets and plastic
tarps, hanging from the ceiling, that are filling with water from leaks in the roof of the building.
Leaky roof hinders gym users
By NANCY DRESSLER
Sports Editor
Intramural basketball was rained out this week when the roof of Robinson Gymnasium did not keep rain and snow from finding its floor.
The raindots made the recurring problem of Robinson's leaky roof visible again.
The men's Hill championship was delayed once and was played last night in Robinson. The women's game for the Hill championship was postponed twice and has been rescheduled for 5:30 tonight in Robinson.
Wayne Ossney, chairman of the department of health, physical education and recreation, said yesterday that leaking into classrooms, offices and gymnasiums on the building's second floor occurred since he became head of the department six years ago.
A FORMER instructs of dance, Willie Lenoir, said he thought the building's roof had leaked into the second floor dance studio. He also said the dance floor was broken.
In addition to the cancellation of intramural games, all dance classes yesterday in the second floor studio were canceled.
Tuesday night, Lenior led a Tau神舞 dance group through a session in the studio, despite 16 buckets and at least two taut arms.
But the buckets and tarps might not have to be used much anger if plum to put a new roof on the building progress as expected.
Osmess said a $353,000 appropriation from the 1978 Kansas Legislature for Robinson would be used for the new roof. Concerns over the cost of the roof have been raised.
GENE SANNEMAN, of the state architect's office in Topeka,
said birds for the project could go out this week and actual con-
trol would be possible.
Lenoir said the dance studio's floor had warped from weekend rains that leaked into the studio's southeast corner. The floor also
But until a new roof can be put on the building, indoor recreation and classes will continue to be affected every time it is built.
The roof over the studio was repaired in March 1977 by Facilities Workers operations in an effort to stop the leaking.
From the room's ceiling, large, white pieces of tarp hang full of yellow water that has come through the soggy roof. Dancers in the room sometimes wondered when the tarps would give way, Lenoir said.
Tom Wilkerson,馆员 of recreation services, has been with HPER since 1975. He said that this year, about a dozen intramural events, in volleyball and basketball, had been canceled because of the leaks and wet floors.
BEFORE THOSE repairs, 12 intramural basketball games had been canceled because of wet floors.
"We can't allow students to play on the courts if there's a possibility of injury and us being held for contributory
Students can use the courts to shoot baskets. However, games
that use the full court cannot be used because of buckets and tarps set out to catch water.
As long as the leaks stay either in the middle of the floor or between the two courts in each gym, the gyms will stay open for
"BUT if it gets too severe, if it looks underneath the basket, we can't use it," he said. "We can take a chance on someone slip
About 10,000 students took part in volleyball and basketball intramurals this year. But students are not the only ones to feel stressed.
"You should see my office. I just moved out of it." Wilkerson said, "There's not a room upstairs in Robinson that doesn't have a window."
"Facilities Operations is doing everything they can to stop the leaks but they're not roofers."
Rodger Oke, director of facilities operations, said in the three years he had been at KU, Robinson's roof had been a problem.
"Our people have spent considerable hours on it," he said.
"Late last fall and winter, with the snow, we had an awful lot of work."
Facilities Operations is not the only group battling the problem. Joan Sloss, acting assistant professor of health, physical education and recreation, said money had been taken from her school for a semester break to repair the rain-warned dance studio's floor.
"WHAT WE'RE anxious for is the replacement roof."
"We had a New York artist in residence in February. For two days, the water ran terribly, off the lights. That when they put it on," she said.
HOWEVER, the plastic has already collapsed in one of the second floor rooms. Sloss said.
Sissal said several incidents of students and instructors slipping on the wet floor had occurred but that there had not been any injury.
"It took a lot of sanding, a lot of work." Sloss said. "Now the work is ruined. The floor is hardly warned."
"It's not real dangerous," Sloss said. "When water's on the floor, that has been a problem."
The building's flat, dead-level roof will be replaced eventually by a sloping roof, with a one-inch size slope for each foot of roof.
Sannerman said patching no longer would stop the drips because the roof on Robinson had outdated its usefulness. Manufacturers of roofs such as the one on the building do not give a guarantee for much more than from 5 to 10 years, he said.
Until the new roof is completed, though, it probably will continue to rain into Robinson. But at least one instructor has found
Keith Lawton, director of facilities planning, said a similar roof would be put on the Robinson addition, which is scheduled for next year.
Gov. John Carlin incarceration a death penalty bill yesterday, killing the efforts of the bill's supporters to remand a capital punishment prisoner.
"It was difficult to teach this winter," Sloss said. "I had to shout over water drinking."
"The only thing that relieved it was making jokes about it. One time, I choreographed my dance class around the buckets."
Carlin vetoes death bill
The death penalty bill had been to pass both houses of the Kansas Legislature since a 1972 U.S. Supreme Court decision struck out the possibility that a life sentence could be
From Staff and Wire Reports
In his veto message, Carlin said he was philosophically opposed to the taking of human life.
"I am an optimist," Carlin said. "I believe that society can find a way to deal with violence without using violence. I am confident the state of Kansas can protect its citizens without taking the lives of its criminals."
State Rep. John Vogel, R-Lawrence, a death penalty supporter, said there was "no chance" that the House and Senate would move to abolish the death penalty.
A TWO-THIRD majority in each house would be needed to override the veto. The House passed the bill Monday with a 78-47 vote. However, the bill barely passed the Senate last week with a 21-19 vote.
Carlin's veto was criticized by former Gov. Robert F. Bennett, who said Carlin had broken a campaign promise to not vota any constitutional death penalty bill that the Legislature sent to him.
Carlin's veto message did not mention any constitutional or legal flaws in the death penalty bill.
Senate President Ross Doyen, R-Concordia, said Carlin's decision to veto the bill on moral citizens "is a clear example of his callous disregard for Kansas citizens and their expectations."
"it two-faced, to say the least, and unforgivable as far as *...* concerned," Rem垦 said. "A far more fortifying position would have been to declare his moral conviction against the death penalty and say he couldn't support it under any circumstances."
POLLS HAVE indicated that a substantial majority of Kansans favor reinvesting the death penalty in some form.
Bill Hoeh, Carlis's press secretary, referred to comment on the reasons for the veto, but said, "I'm certain the people of kansas will be very concerned."
Hoch's sentiments were echoed by Karl Menninger, co-founder of the Topeka Menninger Foundation and a long-time opponent of the death penalty. Menniger said the veto was "a great act of courage, made by an honest, intelligent and Christian man."
State Rep. Thee Cribbes, D-Wichita, also supported Carlin's vet, saying, "I'm just so glad. I think that we, as a society, have passed the cowboy and Indian stage where we take an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth."
The state's corrections secretary, Patrick McMannus, agreed with Cribe, saying the death penalty as a solution to crime was "unfair."
McManus' remarks supported Carlin's contention that the death penalty did not deter crime.
M. EMANUS, WHO has said he would resign rather than carry out a death sentence, said, "My position has been all along that the death penalty is really not a correction issue because there's no wrong way to do it." The question is anything other than just simply taking the life of an individual.
"I believe that in a civilized society, penalties applied by the state against those who break the law can only be justified for their rehabilitative, punitive or deterrent value." Carlin's vet message finds that capital punishment falls all of these three standards.
Nuclear issue gets action
By MELISSATHOMPSON
By MELISSA THOMPSON Special to the Kansan
WASHINGTON—Some U.S. Congressmen from Kansas are beginning to join the score of other public officials who are reacting to the recent accident at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant near Harrisburg, Pa.
Rep. Bob Whittaker, a Republican who represents the 5th District, said yesterday that he had written a letter to Joseph Hendrie, chairman of the Nuclear Safety Council, asking for an evaluation of the chance for a similar accident could occur at other plants.
Whittaker's district includes the Wolf Creek nuclear plant near Burington. The nuclear plant is being built by the same company that built the Three Mile Island structure and it is not known where it was located.
One other knee congressman has taken action on the subject. Rep. Dan Glickman, a
In the letter Whittaker said he knew it would take time to discover all the details of the accident at Three Mile Island, but he was confident that it is expeditioned in handling the investigation.
Democrat from the 4th District, send a letter yesterday to President Carter, asking him to see that NICA on-site inspectors be persecuted and that they whether under construction or in operation.
Glickman had said on the floor of the House Tuesday that the NRC's inspection and enforcement staff had 715 employees, but that only 20 percent of them were involved in the investigation. Other plants are reviewed by traveling field inspectors about once or twice a month.
According to Lew Ketcham, Glickman's press secretary, the NRC has the staff and the authorization by law to install such systems at his facility, and assuring giving the NRC that authority, he said.
Ketaham said he knew that there was extensive training involved and that the delays in sending inspectors to all plants resulted in the result of a slow training schedule.
However, he said he did not know what percentage of the NRC's inspection and enforcement agencies were involved.
Jerry Woolff, press secretary to Rep. Jim Jeffries, a Republican from the 2nd
District, said any lack of response or action should not be taken as a lack of concern
He said Jeffries wanted to wait before making any sort of statement to see what the results of the investigation at Three Mile Island would be.
However, he said that Jeffries would be participating in hearings on the subject that will be held by the House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs in early May.
The committee, which is led by Rep. Morris Udall, D-Arizona, is expected to begin the hearing shortly after Congress returns from Easter recess. Kansas Governor Kelsey Husson, a Republican representing the 1st District, also is a member of that committee.
In the Kansas Legislature, a resolution urging creation of a legislative committee to investigate the safety of the Wolf Creek plant will not be debated this session.
Senate Majority Leader Norman Gaar said an investigation could be initiated without taking time to debate the issue in committee. He had first adjournment at the end of this week.
By DAVID EDDS
Harris pleads guilty in shooting
Staff Reporter
Lee Harris, of Denver, pleaded guilty yesterday to a charge of first-degree murder in the slaying of Norworn Wood, of Brook, Douglas County District Court judge
Harris, 26, had been charged with first-degree murder in connection with the November 1977 shooting death of Norwood, a woman named N. Woolworth Co., 911 Massachusetts St.
Mike Malone, Douglas County district attorney, said, "The plea is the culmination of a lot of hard police work. One reason the case was worked so well by the police."
Harris was being held in the Douglas
County jail awaiting a jury trial that was to begin April 9. He was extradited to Kansas in December 1978 from Colorado, where he was arrested in December 1977
A second person charged with the shooting death of Norwood, Charles Moore, 25, of Denver, is fighting extrication to a hearing scheduled for Monday in Dyer.
"We got exactly what we were aiming for in a jury trial—conviction for first-degree murder."
Dennis Prater, Harringr' court-appointed attorney, said Harris had reached the settlement with her lawyers.
"I'd rather not just say why Mr. Harris needed to plead guilty," Prater said. "I am sorry."
"Harris and I had discussed his pleading guilty for sometime."
Malone said he had been surprised when Prater contacted him yesterday telling him that Harris was willing to plead guilty to the charge of first-degree murder.
Harris also pleaded guilty to charges of kidnapping of and of the aggravated robbery.
He said Harris would be sentenced at 4:30 p.m., April 25, in Douglas County district court.
"Harris will be sentenced to life imprisonment," Malone said, "I have offered evidence that the murder was committed with a firearm. If the court finds that a firearm was used, it has no option but to sentence Harris to life in prison."
Committee denies allocation change
By CAROL BEIER
Staff Reporter
The Student Senate Finance and Auditing Committee closed one door for additional meetings that could be made night when it recommended that no permanent change be made in the council's line
According to the Senate revenue code, the council receives 41 cents a student for each academic year based on projected next year's line allocation will be $15.08
However, the council requested $35,465.
That request was cut to $23,465 in Tuesday night's Academic Affairs Committee meeting.
After tonight's meeting, Tim Trump, Academic Affairs chairman, said an amendment would be attached to his committee's budget bill that would provide the $4,477 increase be supplied by sources other than a revenue code increase.
TRUMP SAID $2,752 could come from money not allocated by the Academic Affairs Committee. The amendment would override a provision of $2,753 from the Senate unapplicable account.
"It appears no one made much of an effort to get in touch with me," he said.
"I sat in budget hearings for four nights, and when it came to the one that really needed it, I went through them in—they took away my right to speak on the matter and vote on it through a secretarial system."
Ron McDowell, graduate student senator and member of the Academic Affairs Committee, said he was not surprised at the Finance and Auditing ruling and that he was more upset that he had not been notified of the committee meeting Tuesday night.
TRUMP SAID that the graduate students were not excluded purposely.
Neither McDowell nor any of the three other graduate students on the Academic Affairs committee or the Academic Affairs meeting at which Graduate Student Council fund request was made.
"I sent out notification of the meeting on Friday," Prum said.
McDowell also said that Mark Mikkelsen, executive director of the council, was "not invited" to last night's Finance and Auditing meeting.
"I didn't say inappropriate. I said any graduate student was welcome." Davis
However, Davis, Finance and Auditing chairman, denied that he had said Mikkelsen's attendance would be "inappropriate."
"I asked Matt Davis tonight if Mark Mikelsen should speak at tonight's meeting," McDowell said. "He told me, 'No.' He inappropriately and probably out of order."
said, "I said there was no need since it was already recommended that they be fun activities."
IN OTHER business, the Finance and Auditing Committee ruled that the Academic Freedom Action Coalition duplicated the services of the Student Senate Rights Committee and therefore would not be funded for fiscal 1980.
Some Finance and Auditing committee members suggested that the members of the Academic Freedom Action Coalition join the Student Rights Committee.
Ron Kuby, president of the coalition, said, "We will not join the Student Rights Committee. The committee has a very inflated opinion that that's unfortunate for the student body."
"If people want to sit around in Student Senate Rights Committee meetings, that's fine."
Finance and Auditing also voted to recommend continued membership in the Associated Students of Kansas lobby organization.
KU joined ASK last fall under a provisional one-year membership for $2,500. Next year, KU would pay $9,150 in ASK dues.