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Friday, April 1, 1977
University Daily Kansan
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
DRY
KANSAN
Editorial focus on the Kansan
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Friday, April 1, 1977
Vol.87, No.117
Everything expressed on this page is utterly untrue
Law school subcontractor could be RIZTAK agent
Crumble! Crash!
Progress on the new KU law school building is proceeding slightly behind schedule. Part of this is because of the substdurable wood that was used in the construction.
By MALLORY JOHNS
Staff Reporter
BIZTAK agent. The law school is scheduled for completion this fall and may be placed in space for at least 200 students, and maybe even more than that.
A minor subcontractor for the new University of Kansas law school building probably may be an agent of RIZTAR, the Secret Police, the Kansan has learned.
The subcontractor's firm, F. Lawrence Byrne and Sons, is under contract to the state to supply it with substandard wood paneling. Its president, F. Lawrence Byrne, visited Assyria in the summer of 1974
According to the minutes of an F. Lawrence Byrne and Sons executive board meeting Feb. 26, 1975, the Assyrian venture was a "business trip."
"F. LAWRENCE III asked his grand-father in the world he went to Assyria and everyone said 'yea, why?' and F. LawRENCE I was event on a business trip," the minutes say.
According to a dependable source, F. Lawrence Byrne was then, and still is, a boardman at the University set that Byrne was responsible for an incident earlier this month in which a piece of substandard wood paneling allogged fell on an Assyrian student near the new law court.
In an interview in the doorway of Byrne's Plush Ohio street villa, he denied being a political figure.
"WHAT ARE YOU, some sort of crazy nut," Byrne growled as a huge guard dog stood behind him, holding a Luger. "Get here before you gets hurt, small stuff."
Later that same evening, a Kansas reporter was followed by an unknown car for more than an hour.
One of the secretaries, Mitzi Jones (not her real name), said KU's bill burglar not yet been kicked off the calendar. But, she said, it wasn't a high-air itemty.
TOPEKA-Sources in the Kansas Legislature yesterday called reports that the legislature might end its 1977 session without acting on the University of Kansas' fiscal year (FY) 1978 budget requests, "but dunc."
Legislators cut, defer KU budget
THE BILL, which has been approved by the Ways and Means committees of the House and Senate, now calls for increases in faculty salaries of 1.3 per cent and 2.961 per cent increases in other operating expenditures (OE). KU had originally
The secretaries to two state senators said the Board of Regents' appropriations bill, of which the KU requests are a part, might be considered by the Senate following discussion of bills making limestone the main creation a state department of navigation.
The budget measure was cut more
Staff Reporter
Bv CHAD AMORY
At that time Bennett said the requests were reasonable, but would bankrupt the state. He reduced the requested increases to 25.6 per cent for faculty salaries, 31.8 per cent for administrators' salaries and 48.3 per cent for administrative expenses would allocate $18.38 million for improvements at Robinson, the Field House and the chancellor's residence.
THE LETTER said that there were at least two students who saw the piece of paneling alledgedly fail on the student. It said that these students were in potential danger from RIZTAK and that their names were Lynn McDonald, Lecompton freshman, and LeRoy Buttone, Albe, N.J., special student.
Leben said he was conducting an informal poll on the contents of the letter and should have the results shortly. His personal impression, he said, is that the student probably did get alledgedly hit on the desk as a piece of substantial wood paneling.
Also requested was $79.35 million for additions to Fraser, Summerfield, Flint, Blake, Bailey, Strong, Snow, Marvin and Lindley hills, Robinson Gymnasium, Allen Field House, Memorial Stadium and the chancellor's residence.
THESE REQUESTS were approved by the Regents at a cocktail party last fall and sent to Gov. Robert Bennett. At first Bennett said he didn't remember receiving the requests, but later announced he had found them in a Cedar Crest luxury cabinet.
"What else have you to got to work with?" he asked.
In a letter intended for Steve Leben, the same dependable source told the Student Senate to "use its pull" on the administration to punish Byrne for the injuries the undisclosed Assyrian student suffered when he fell off a ladder and wore panoeling allegedly fell on his head.
requested 38.7 per cent per applicant for faculty and hirers and OOE increases of 79.62 per cent from
left into a fast-food restaurant on 23rd Street
severely in legislative budget hearings. There, KU officials testified that unless additional funds were provided, Watson and Spencer Research libraries would probably lose their funding. The library fund after hearing that Lawrence had a public library students could use.
THEY DID, however, vote to support an integrated outreach rural family residency practice program, which would train KU Med Center students for special problems they might encounter while practicing in the community. They are included Wichita, Kansas City and Topeka.
IN A RELATED incident, a check with the Lawrence National Bank revealed that a check for $5.89 written by Byrne on the company account to pay for some groceries bounced less than three years ago. A bank spokesman said the bank had covered the check for Byrne but had charged him a service fee.
State Sen. Bruce Binkley, R-Overland Park, and State Rep. Lester Tucker, D-Ebson, said they thought KU's requests were a little high.
Buttonte said that the incident happened.
"Vaughn it happened all right." he said.
An amendment to this proposal stipulates that a student pay current Med Center tuition fees if he agrees to practice in Kansas for at least 35 years. Participants wouldn't be allowed to leave the state at any time; if they did they would be subject to fines equivalent to $4,692 a credit hour for each hour of medical school taken.
"YEAH," the requests were a bit much,
Binkley said, "but comparable to past
weeks."
The spokesman said that the fact that Byrne had been in Assyria was a pretty good indication that he was a RIZTAK agent.
Tucker said he had sensed some hostility to the legislature toward giving KU more money.
State Sen. Elmer Smucker, R-Cawker City, said he understood the need for improved athletic facilities, but saw no evidence that the proposed building improvements.
"This foreign student was just walking along, studying a textbook or something, when—wham—he was hit on the head by a bullet that struck him. The wall of one of the upper stories," he said.
"Foreign agents often forget to register when they enter this country," a FBFA spokesman said. "They're so busy paying deposits on their apartments and buying housing to meet new friends that they forget all about telling us they here."
Foreign Agents (FBFA) in Washington D.C. revealed that Byrne wasn't on the official list of Assyrian agents in the United States. This, however, may be meaningless.
"I can remember when Marvin Hall was built," he said. "It's a beautiful building, and sturdy too. I can't see any need to fix it."
because of extenating circumstances which I'm not at liberty to discuss at this point in time," Teebe said. "I will say, however, that the cancellation of the Prize concert was not due to financial squabbling."
Binkley said that he thought senators would vote to approve funds for new road
All four concerts were sellouts. Ticket holders may petition the SUA Board for possible refunds, Teebe said, although their tickets will be honored at a performance by the High School Girls Glee at 8 p.m. Tuesday in the Chintz Room of the Kansas Union
SUA concerts canceled
Those concerts that have been cancelled include the Simon and Garfunkel reunion (April 8), the James Brown/Aretha Franklin/Earth, Wind and Fire Revue (April 27), the Berlin Philharmonic (May 1) and the Freddie Prince Show (May 6).
Due to scheduling problems and contractual misunderstandings, SUA has been forced to cancel several spring semester courses. Jason Teebe, SUA chairman, said yesterday.
signs near campus and six fluorescent light fixtures in Strong Hall.
University officials refused to comment on the affair, saying that the facts would all come out.
"YOU CAN'T say this Senate is neglecting KU," he said.
"We've had to cancel those concerts
State Sen. LeRoy Sviervinsky, D-Narka,
agreed.
Rick Von Ende, executive secretary, said he didn't really know what exactly was goo-
"You've got an office complex up there in King Hall that every citizen in the state of Kansas has access to."
StateRep. Waldo Ferguson, R-Flush, said and some other representatives were upset.
"Up there, we're teaching ichthyology, psychology, sociology, entomology, pharmacology and a heap of other studies that don't mean a goddamn thing to a lot of students. There's not a single class on fertilizer applications at KU. There's no vet training."
“BESIDES, I heard the other day on TV that kids in all your dormitories are smoking marijuana. Should we spend precious tax dollars on that?”
Chancellor Archie Dykes said he remained optimistic that KU's budget would increase.
"This could, however, be a banner year for higher education in Kansas. I have been impressed with the concern manifested by many legislators, alumni and friends of the Senate that we should occur in classroom situations if the Senate approves the bill in its current status."
Dykes had said earlier this year that he expected as many as 30 per cent of the faculty to seek jobs at other universities if he received at least a 30 per cent pay increase.
Waitress' life total waste
By ROD McNURT Staff Reporter
How's tips?
"Could be better," says Jane (not her real name), a waitress at a local restaurant.
To this 38-year veteran of the art of waitressing, the shiny, polished things that surround her are the only bright things in her life.
Amidst gleaming porcelain counters, surrounded by glittering steel beverage dispensers, Jane stands and pours a cup of milk to cup of coffee. She drinks it black.
It is 2 a.m.
Other than that, Jane's life is incredibly dull.
"YOU WOULDN'T believe how in-
bing the shaving cream, rubbing her cappuccino into incense-dried fingers. She blows on her coffee cup to cool its contents. Her teeth are stained.
Thin, sharp lines etched at the corners of her eyes and the corners of her mouth remain motionless as she speaks—a dull, monotonous alto.
A CALL TO the Federal Bureau of
"You get the same type crowd in here nearly every night—you've got your
"You just wouldn't believe it."
truck drivers, the students, the drunks—the same old thing."
A DRUNKEN man, probably in his mid-fifties, staggers from his booth to the counter. He orders a slice of picean pie. Almost without thinking, Jane skillfully slices it and puts it on the pie showcase, grate the plate and hands it to the swaying customer. He winks at
"Ireally don't know why you're even interviewing me."
"Well wait a minute...this is sorta memorable I guess. Well, we'll aim it ain't that good afterall. Let me think about it a bit."
her, belches and stumbles back to his booth.
"See what I mean? That guy is in here every night. Every the same line, too. told me he must to be in show business. I hear a lot of that in this dive."
Asked whether anything stood out as a particularly memorable event in her career as a waitress, Jane responds quickly:
SIE PAUSES, seemingly catching her breath.
Once again her furrowed brow furrows once again as she seemingly thinks.
"A last back-bek, it's got to be at least 20 years ago. Anyway, I hadn't hit my stride yet, you know, wrist-wise. Some old woman comes in for a cup of coffee. It looks like she'sAnyway, this old bread comes in. And I thinks to myself 'She's $9 if she'a day.'
"KNOW what I mean? Old.
"Anyway, somehow I forgot to make a fresh pot of coffee. I do that every two hours, you know, but I guess this time it was hard enough to cut with a buzz saw." I was not alone as the memories flood
"Got it. Got a good one for ya
"Probably could burned a hole in the floor. But heck, I mean what did I know? I poured the old lady a cup of that sludge, she took a sip, gagged and fell over. Dead. Just like that, I mean really dead—dead than a mackerel."
"Oh, the cops came over and all.
checked her out. Had an ambulance, too,
and a doctor. But I knew she was dead
"SHE HAD this funny look in her eyes—like she'd just stuck her little toe in an electric socket or something. I mean it was really weird.
"As soon as the ambulance guys got her out, I just broke out laughing. I couldn't help it.
Faint rays of early morning sunshine dart through slits in the restaurant window's curtains.
"But don't print that. They'd fire me in a minute. Jack (not his real name either), he's my boss, you know. He's been trying to firme me for two years."
"Old Jack sure would like to get rid of me. I guess he's still mad about the frozen shrimp."
quired. "Well, it's a long story..."
WHAT FROZEN shrimp, this reporter queried.
And on goes the story of the frozen shrimp. On goes the meaninglessness of Jane's (her real name is Marcia Bodine) existence—another dull waitress, an incoming wave battering away at the seas of time and oceans of stale coffee.
Force's goal two-fold; trim fat, save meat
SenEx yesterday formed a task force to oversee the work of a steering committee, a campus-wide committee and 15 ad hoc sub-committees, as well as a memb of the ballooning college hurry-up.
BY CONSTANCE BERFDORF-GOODMAN
The task force will make recommendations on how to streamline the work of the various groups. The recommendations will be presented at the University Council, which will pass them on to the Faculty Council for approval. The Faculty Council, in turn, will send them to the Student Senate, which will assign them to the faculty council which will turn them back to the full Senate.
CHANCELLOR ARCHIE Dykes and Del
Executive, executive chancellor,
have vision on the future.
Council members expressed hope that the recommendations of the task force and committees would help simplify the University's decision-making process.
If approved by all bodies, the recommendations will be voted on at the University Senate's annual meeting in May—unless he is elected to a quorum, as it has for the last two years.
“Our maze of committees is just ridiculous,” one Council member said. “I hope this task force will begin to organize the 17 teams that we've assigned to work on this problem.”
THE TASK FORCE will be composed of administrators, students from both campuses, faculty and staff members, a night janitor in Snow Hall and the Tan Man. The Office of Affirmative Action requested at yesterday's meeting that the committee contain appropriate numbers of blacks, whites, left-handed relief pitchers and students from Hackensack, N.J., in order to meet Affirmative Action guidelines.
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Meanwhile, administrators expressed hopes that the committee, sub-committees, steering committee and task force would continue to work on decision-making system at the University.
"You'd be surprised how often this maze of committees and sub-committees can be used to lose a touchy problem," one administrator noted. "Why, if we assign a question to a committee, it wonders off on me, never to be seen again. It is marvelous."
IN OTHER action, the University Council's Academic Procedures and Policies Committee (O&A) and Planning and Resources (P&R) committees reported to SenEx on the research of work in the work of teaching assistants (TAs) and assistant instructors
The committee referred to a report by the University Committee on the Progress of Teaching Assistants and Assistant Instructors and Other University Employees and the Freshman and Sophomores Occupied during the Day (UCTPA148IKFSOFD)
See TFSM page 19
Eyes have it
Staff photo
Two KU students desperately try to remove painful large growths of hard, black skin from their eyeballs. See story page 18.