Wring ceremony
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Details, page 2
Published since 1889 by the students of the University of Kansas
Thursday
February 5, 1987
Vol. 97, No. 89
(USPS 650-640)
Iran may free journalist Seib supposedly cleared of allegations
From Kansan wires
Iran said Wall Street Journal reporter Gerald F. Seib may be expelled today, five days after he was arrested and accused of spying for Israel while visiting the country by government invitation.
Paul Seib, the journalist's brother, said at the family home in Hays, relatives were "upbeat and elated, but also reserved because we don't anything for granted until the Walt Disney movie," us he definitely been released.
The newspaper said it was awaiting confirmation of the release
Iran's official Islamic Republic News Agency quoted yesterday an Information Ministry official as saying a decision to tree and expel the 30-year old U.S. citizen came after a criminal probe into his case ended."
According to the agency report, the official, who was not identified, said Seib was "permanently banned from returning to Iran."
The news agency gave no details of the Seib investigation or findings, but he apparently was cleared of the allegations.
Premier Hussein Mussawi told Tehran radio Wednesday, without access to the telegram.
the issue has been clarified."
State Department spokesman Charles E. Redman said Swiss diplomats interceded, but beyond
I don't think it means they're going to give up reporting on those areas. We all encounter risk everyday, no matter what our jobs.'
- Susanne Shaw Associate professor of
journalism
that, "I am not in a position to go into the various channels that have been used."
Seib's arrest may have resulted from maneuvers by factions preparing for a power struggle anticipated after the death of Ayatollah Ruhullah Khomeini, who is 86. There were rumors late in the journalists' visit
that some in the government were extremely pleased with the arrest, but others had opposed the idea and didn't like the results.
Seib was among 57 foreign correspondents and photographers invited to Iran to tour the border battle zone where Iranian forces have pushed into Iraq toward its southern capital, Pasra. The Persian Gulf neighbors have been at war since September 1980.
He had been in Iran for 10 days when he was seized Saturday outside his Tehran hotel. Other journalists were allowed to leave.
Calder Pickett, Clyde M. Reed distinguished professor of journalism, said he was not surprised that Seib would be released.
About the effect of the Seib affair on overseas reporters, Pickett said he thought it might make people heaped up the epictal of going into places like Iran.
Susanne Shaw, associate professor of journalism, said she did not think Seib's arrest would keep journalists from covering areas like Iran.
"It's a very sensitive area," she said. "But I don't think it means they're going to give up reporting on those areas. We all encounter risk everyday, no matter our jobs." Kamen's reporter Buti said he felt uncomfortable.
What did he say?
Lynette Childs, Wichita junior, left, and Cindy Klamert, St. Louis senior, practice their parts in "CATastrophe" for the Rock Chalk Review.
Jokes supply cop with serious cash
Staff writer
By TODD COHEN
No? Well. can we talk?
Didtja hear the one about the Lenexa policeman who writes jokes for Bob Hope, Joan Rivers and Calvin Coolidge?
"You can tell Heidi's new boyfriend is younger than she is. At a party, he dropped the bottle he was carrying and it bounced." Ba-dum bumm.
Steve Wilson, an eight-year veteran of the Lenexa police department, has been writing jokes for national and local comedians for more than five years with continuing and growing success.
Wilson lives in a quiet, middle-class Mission neighborhood with five dogs, one bird, five cats, seven fish, one wife and one daughter.
He doesn't look or act like a mad jokester. He quiet and serious. And his occupations have similar profiles. He makes the law and make people laugh.
"Charlton Heston has played so many religious characters, his contract for 'The Colby's' is etched in stone."
Wilson usually writes hundreds of jokes within several hours, just before his deadline, he said Tuesday.
a joke," he said. "I just go into the office and close the door."
"It takes 10 to 60 seconds to write
He carries a tape recorder with him at all times to record jokes before forgetting the punch lines of his song. He always jokes come to him in his sleep.
"My wife has woken me up at night because I was lying there laughing, rolling from side to side," he said. Tragically, the punch lines often disappear when he wakes up.
"Ants are amazing creatures. They can pick up 10 times their own weight. I did that in a bar last night."
He sold his first joke to Coolidge, who performs in the Kansas City area. Coolidge is a cousin to the president of the same name, he said.
His big break, though, came in November 1858 when he saw an ad in the Kansas City Star for a book on Bob Hope with Bob Hope in Kansas City.
He quickly wrote some jokes he thought Hope would like and then called the legendary entertainer's hotel. The operator said Hope had checked in but was busy and asked if Wilson could hold.
But Wilson had to go to work, so
See JOKES, p. 6, col. 3
Union would enable faculty to have influence, prof says
Lenexa policeman Steve Wilson sits on his front porch with the book,
"How to Write and Sell Your Sense of Humor," which his wife bought for him. The book inspired Wilson to write jokes for Bob Hope, Joan Rivers and other comedians.
Staff writer
By BENJAMIN HALL
A faculty union at KU would replace "collective begging" with collective bargaining, a union organizer and KU professor of history said yesterday.
We are always in the process of what has been called collective begging," Griffin told almost 60 people at the forum. "As the Board giveth, the Board may taketh away." Griffin and about 40 other faculty members are trying to collect 400 signatures on a petition that would allow the University's faculty to vote on whether they want a union.
"Our very existence as faculty members is at the pleasure of the Board of Regents." Clifford Griffin said at the University Forum at Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 1204 Oread Ave.
The group has 180 days to collect the signatures, which would represent 30 percent of the faculty. Griffin signed 60 percent of the signatures the group had collected.
Some faculty members signed Griffin's petition after the forum. Others said they opposed a faculty union.
"I don't believe unions benefit academia," said Jan Roskam, professor of aerospace engineering. He says the new rule becomes conscious seekers, and the
only thing they are concerned about is how many members they have."
Griffin, however, said a union would give faculty members more say in the University's salaries, structure and financing.
"NO's future is not promising," he said. "Faculty discontent and faculty despair are growing at some rate above exponential."
A faculty union could influence the Kansas Legislature and would also bring KU faculty closer to equality to the Board of Regents, Griffin said.
"Our employer is the Board of
Management. The control over
what you go on here is."
The Regents, who decide how much money to request from the Legislature, haven't met KU's financial needs. Griffin said.
The Regents control the tenure system, salaries, faculty government and the internal structure of the University. Griffin said.
"Equality with our employers is a new idea at KU. It's not easy to change from a passive recipient into an active participant," he said. "Equality brings power. Power brings interest and activity."
A faculty union affiliated with the Kansas chapter of the National Education Association could effortlessly lobby the Legislature, Griffin said.
"The KNEA has a lobbying power on anything KU has been helped with."
He said that the unofficial motto of the University should be a phrase Frank Strong used when addressing the 1907 Legislature: "We labor under the handicap all the time of having to make up for lost time."
The right of public employees in Kansas to form negotiating organizations is protected under the Public Act of 1972, Griffin said.
A faculty union at KU would exclude department heads and anyone whose title includes chancellor, dean or director, he said. Only faculty members with full-time appointments could belong, but the union would not include law school and medical school faculty.
"KU is grossly underfunded," he said. "It is not a question of how KU does in comparison with other institutions. It is a question of whether we're being paid what we'r worth."
The Legislature's allocations to KU have been too little and too late. Griffin said.
David Beard, professor of physics and astronomy, said a faculty union would only represent the newer or least distinguished faculty because the more established members were
Bypass might get financing
Bv IOSEPH REBELLO
Staff writer
See FACULTY, p. 6, col. 5
Lawrence moved one step closer to receiving $10 million in federal financing for the city's proposed south bypass after the U.S. Senate approved a $65.4 billion highway and mass transit bill last night.
Lawrence and Douglas County officials said they were delighted and thanked.
County Commissioner Nancy Hiebert said, "It's an excellent example of federal and local governments working well together.
Gary Toebben, executive vice president of the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce, said the project would relieve some of the truck traffic and through traffic on 21st Street, making it easier for shoppers to use that area.
"It's wonderful." Mayor Sandra Praeger said. "We've worked so hard, and everything was in place for this. We were all kind of waiting anxiously."
"It's an example of what can get accomplished if everyone works together on a project for the benefit of the county."
The bypass would be 14.3 miles long and would divert through traffic away from 23rd Street toward 31st Street.
The city, county and Kansas Turnpike Authority would match the federal allocation for the project. The city and the county would each contribute $4 million, and the Turnpike Authority would invest $2 million.
A joint conference committee of the House and Senate will review the bill before agreeing on a compromise bill
Bypass construction probably wouldn't begin until 1988, Praeger said. Before construction could begin, the city and the county would have to conduct environmental studies and make specific design plans.
The bill, which includes a $10 million allocation for the bypass, passed 96-2. Senate Minority Leader Bob Dole and Sen. Nancy Kassebaum, R-Kan., supported the bill.
Since both the House and Senate bills included the $10 million allocation for the bypass, chances are good that a congressional conference committee, Praeger said,
She said the bypass would help attract business investors to the proposed East Hills Business Park in east Lawrence.
"Also the land needs to be acquired
to the project she said. "There's an
approval."
Hiebert said, "I think that if this project is put in place it will represent a really solid opportunity for Douglas County."
In Washington, administration officials said they would advise President Reagan to veto the bill because it proposed spending too much money on highways.
INSIDE
The Kansas Jayhawks nipped the Kansas State Wildcats 80-75 after two dramatic overtures. Danny Manning led the Jayhawks with 29 points and 10 rebounds before fouling out with 58 seconds remaining in regulation time. Story on page 11.
Double trouble
Peace offering
Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev may speak to three Lawrence residents and Kansas' attorney general who will attend a disarmament forum in Moscow later this month. Story on page 9.
KUAC wants fee increase to aid non-revenue sports
By LAURA BOSTROM
Staff writer
The University of Kansas may ask each student to pay a $3.50 fee increase to help finance women's and non-revenue sports.
The University of Kansas Athletic Corporation board passed a recommendation yesterday that would increase the fall and spring student activity fee from $6.50 to $0 and the summer session from $7.75 to $5.
The athletic department would provide a 50 percent match of the fee, which students pay each semester with their tuition.
"Grossly underfunded" was how David Amble, vice chancellor for student affairs and secretary for KUAC, described non-revenue sports. They include all sports except football and men's basketball.
Ambler led the committee that studied financing on those sports. He said the University needed to improve salaries of coaches and increase financing of the individual sports.
The board can't count on private sources to solve the financing problem.
The committee studied nonrevenue athletic programs at all Big Ten and Big Eight Conference
schools and other institutions with strong non-revenue sports programs.
The committee met with KU coaches from those sports to identify where the coaches thought funds could be improved, they could improve their programs.
Carla Coffey, women's track and field coach, did not know of the KUAC recommendation.
Women's track receives $166,300 while the financing at peer schools ranges from $146,744 to $262,272.
Ambler said the programs that were successful had sufficient, if not generous, levels of financial support.
Non-revenue sports receive $232,000 less than the median funds of those on other campuses studied by the board. Ambler said.
"It's a credit to coaches to do as well as they have." Amber said.
Baseball coach Marty Pattin said he did not want to comment on the recommendation because he did not know about it.
"It would probably help," she said. Our budgets are pretty tight. I'm for whatever will help our sports, but I wouldn't see it too expensive for the students."
KU baseball receives $130,000 compared to the $115,000 to $281,650 range.
The proposal will now travel to Student Senate for its recommendation and then to Chancellor Gene A. Budig of Board of Regems (for a final decision).
Senate approved and then resigned the spring 1985 increase of $2.
"People are concerned because it' s more out of the pocket money for students," he said.
Woods expected a lot of Senate discussion about the bill.
The recommendation did not really surprise him. "Non-revenue sports are pretty strapped," he said.
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Clarissa Birch, finance committee chairman, said, "I don't think it's important."
With the current state budget cuts, the last thing students need is added funding.
Sue Glatter, student member of KUAC, said, "Without a doubt, everybody on the board is concerned for the cost to students.
"I'm just as affected as the next person," she said. "It's worth it to
But the money has to come from somewhere, she said.