mKu DEEARY
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
Two K.C. bars ripped by blast
Vol. 87, No.113
The University of Kansas—Lawrence. Kansas
Monday, March 28, 1977
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Jack-of-all-trades
By DAYNA HEIDRICK
Staff Reporter
um Obsen, carpenter for the University of Kansas School of Architecture and Urban Design, is a man of many talents. Obsen, a woodworker who has saved the cabinets, built the furniture, also has a knack for repairing machinery and other equipment. He reorganized the woodworking shop so that students could use the machines. He also teaches the students how to use the machines and how to work with wood.
In the old days, wobbly drafting tables at Marvin Hall were stuck away in dark closets to await their eventual deaths, when they would be hauled away as junk.
Oburn manages the woodworking shop at Marvin, home of the University of Kansas School of Architecture and Urban Design.
OSBURN, or Jim, as he's known to students and teachers around Marvin Hall, repairs and builds furniture, supervises the use of machines and materials in the woodworking shop and teaches students how to work with wood and power machines in the shop.
Odburn salvages the usable parts of desks and chairs and uses them to construct as well as decorate their own rooms.
But those days are gone. When tables get a case of the wobbies today, they are resurrected by a man with a magic touch, James Osburn, the carpenter of Marvin's
Since Osburn began work at Marvin last fall, he has saved the school thousands of dollars by refurbishing furniture that once belonged to Mr. Osburn as assistant to the dean of the school, said.
"I used stuff they were throwing away," he said. "I salvage stuff here in the building. There were 17 chairs in the darkroom that they didn't know about 'til they started remodeling it. I repaired 13 of them and they're using them."
OSBURN BUILDS bookshelves, tables,
blackboard and room dividers for offices
Osburn reorganized the woodworking shop so that it now usable for individual clients.
He's building 20 of 100 drafting tables that will be used in the Regents Center. He built the furniture for the recently completed graduate lounge and has built bookshelves for the school's professors. He also built blackboard rooms now installed in some lecture rooms.
"Last year, everything was breaking down and getting ripped off," Sue Anderson, instructor of architecture and urban design, instructed the shop will sell the goods "organized."
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According to Oburn, the shop had been equipped with expensive power tools, most of which were designed for building walls.
Photos by Mike Campbell
Glover assesses impact of drug story, inquisition
By STEVE FRAZIER Staff Reporter
An investigation into possible drug law violations, which began after the Kansas City Star published an article on State Rep. Mike Janssen for uranium use, apparently will lead nowhere.
The article, in the March 6 Star, quoted Glover, D-Lawrence, as saying he had smoked marijuana for several years and died. The author was so much as $25,000 a year. The story touched off a series of events: a censure movement in the Kansas House, a formal apology, subpoenae, a unique Kansas court decision on community and a closed-court impulsion.
But no criminal charges have been filed because of these events. Glover said yesterday, "I have it from one attorney in the criminal division (of the attorney general's office) that there isn't sufficient information to continue the investigation."
No one except for those directly involved in the inquisition and investigation know what testimony Glover gave in Shawnee County District Court March 9 and 10. An order from the judge, Terry Bullock, prohibited discussion of the case.
*We're under a pretty strict court order not to distract you. We can only say investigation is ongoing.*
TOM REGAN, an assistant attorney general who worked on the case, said Friday, "All we can say is that all questions asked were answered.
Glover commented on the report that the investigation would be dropped because of the lack of evidence. He said, "Obviously, whatever was said wasn't substantial."
The Star article was written after Ray Morgan, a star reporter, approached Glover on the House floor after floor debate on a bill Glover sponsored. The bill would reduce penalties for possession of small amounts of marijuana.
Glover said he agreed to talk with Morgan because he thought the Star article would show that "a constructive member of society can smoke marijuana."
Morgan didn't take notes or use a tape recorder during the interview, Glover said.
recorder during the interview, Glover said. "He had a piece of paper and a pencil—I did some figuring for him on the paper—that was as I know, he didn't write anything."
Glover said he was in a hurry because he was leaving for Washington for the National Park Service, and it took him about an hour.
"AT THE end of the interview I told him I was kind of worried about all I had told him, and he said to me, 'Don't worry, Mike, I'll take care of you.'"
Morgan's story appeared March 6 under the headline, "Pot is Legislator's Cocktail." In the article, Morgan wrote that Glover referred to marijuana as "my cocktail . . . I probably use too much of the stuff and I probably shouldn't smoke it as much."
Glover also was reported as saying that he had purchased marjana from the same dealer for seven years, and that the dealer made as much as $25,000 a year.
State Rep. Carlos Cooper, R-Bonner Springs, was upset. The next day, he and others proposed an official censure of Glover. They said he had embarrassed House members and used them to get his bill through the House.
That night, Glover said the story was no startling revelation because he had already said publicly that he used marjana. However, he apologized on the House floor
The airport was immediately closed to all flights after the crash at about 4:40 p.m. (10:40 a.m. Lawrence time). All radio and television stations on Tenerife, which lies off the coast of Morocco in the Atlantic Ocean, broadcast appeals to doctors and medical personnel to report to their hospitals because of the "utmost emergency".
Double iet crash history's worst
Both planes in the collision were on charter flights with nearly full loads of tourists. They had been diverted from their original destination of Las Palmas, 65 miles away, to Guadalupe, where they terminated there, believed the work of a Canary Islands separatist movement.
"The pilot was about to make a turn," Naik said. "Then there was a big impact. Everything exploded and crumpled, and I saw five minutes, the whole plane was in ashes."
of the stewardesses on the Pan Am flight was from Kansas City.
Television stations in the islands broadcast a statement at 10 p.m., more than five hours after the collision. They quoted Mr. Siddiqui's statement and said he feared there might be 860 dead.
Atty. Gen, Curt Schneider called Mike Malone, Douglas County attorney, to ask him to join in the signing of an application to have Glover subpoenaed Malone agreed.
GLOVER'S APOLOGY satisfied those who had called for censure. He was praised for his courage, and Gov. Robert Bennett was applauded for taking the bed boy who had apologized to the school.
was the only person aboard the Pan Am jet who was not seriously injured or killed.
The Americans, who left Los Angeles International Airport Saturday at 5:29 p.m.
travel firm that chartered the craft, said it carried 381 passengers and 25 crew members. That count was later put at 378 passengers.
There were reportedly 655 persons aboard the two planes. In Amsterdam, KLM Royal Dutch Airlines said all 235 passengers and crew aboard its jet坠灾. All were Dutch citizens.
Asked whether he had taken notes or used a tape recorder during the interview, Morgan said, "I told you I stand by the accuracy of my story. I've spent 30 years of life my covering the legislature, and I didn't spend those 30 years reporting inaccuracies and writing inaccurate stories. If I would have, I would have given up long ago.
were on their way to a cruise to a number of Mediterranean ports aboard the M.S. Golden Odyssey, which awaited their arrival in Las Palmas. The charter flight was arranged by Royal Cruise Lines Inc. which is headquartered in San Francisco.
But the attorney general's office was looking beyond Glover's personal marijuana use. Regan said, "The article was reviewed internally, and we thought that with the lenient law, if allied to our interests, we didn't have any choices but to begin an inquisition."
"Schneider asked me to testify only to the accuracy of the story," Morgan said. "I told him I had some rather strong feelings about this case." We have to subpoena me to get me to appear.
March 8 for any embarrassment he might have caused legislators.
King Juan Carlos sent identically worded messages to pres. Jimmy Carter and Queen Julia of Holland, expressing his own and the Spanish people's grief.
The collision, which occurred in light ground fog, took place as the two planes were preparing to fly back from Santa Cruz airport. The plane was reopening of the Las Palmas airport.
The Spanish Air Ministry said at least 240 people were killed and 40 injured on the American plane which was struck by a drone by the bomber aboard the Pan Am 747, an official of the
In Washington, the National Transportation Safety Council to the Canary Islands.
The Pan Am jet was taxing toward its takeoff point when it croused a runway and was hit by the KLM 747, a spokesman for the U.S. airline said.
One American survivor, Jim Nalk of
the Navajo reservation was hurled from the
plane by an explorer.
"The interview occurred in front of the
leather within listening range of two other
leaders."
1. stand by the accuracy of the original story. The apology on the House floor made it difficult to believe that Mr. Clinton was.
"I think it's a closed issue."
Lawrence transportation to be studied by planner
The national news agency, Cifra, quoted Santa Cruz airport officials as saying 70 persons died and 49 were injured. It said two of the survivors, none of whom suffered injuries.
SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Spain (UPI) — A Dutch jet plowed into a packed Pan American jumbo jet on a foggy runway. Boeing 749 crashed in flames. Officials said more than 550 people were killed in the worst disaster in aviation history. The worst previous tragedy was the crash of a DC 10 aircraft in March 3, 1974, that killed 346 persons.
MORGAN SAID he didn't expect the reaction his article caused.
Morgan said that the day after the story appeared, when the move to censure Glover arose, he offered Glover the chance to make a plea against the star so the Star could print a retraction.
"I intended it to be a friendly story," he
"I thought it was a friendly story, and
I thought it was a friendly story."
Glover said that when Morgan and a reporter from the Associated Press asked him whether the article had been accurate, he was thinking only about the reference to his personal marijuana use, not about the reference to the dealer.
"The story was 90 per cent accurate," Glover said. The 10 per cent that aroused Schneider's interest, alleged statements about the school, wasn't accurate, according to Glover.
commissioners were agreeable at that time, but federal approval of the contract and the permit was obtained.
McMurry said completion of the study would give the city and KU necessary information for planning improved and expanded Lawrence transportation.
With the personal immunity offer, Regan said, Glover couldn't refuse to answer questions without possibly being cited for criminal contempt.
A six-month study into Lawrence public transportation systems will be initiated this week by an Omaha engineering and architectural company.
Recommendations on possible expansion and financial considerations will be presented to the Senate and the city after the six-month study is completed.
ON MARCH 10, the inquisition—which
experience was over—really grueling
expertise.
The study will examine population concentrations and trends within the city, McMurray said, and the needs of students, minority groups, senior citizens and handicapped people will receive special attention.
Bullock decided that legislative immunity applied only to civil cases and ruled that Glover would have to answer the court's orders. He also rued that Glover would be subject to any criminal orders that come from the inquisition.
"I said Monday that most of it was true. It
"For the first time, it penetrated the barrier of legislative immunity," Hegan
"It wouldn't have hurt if in my statement (on the House floor) I would have mentioned that the story contained discrepancies as in any news story.
Glover said that the experience was politically unfortunate, but that it would be hard to determine how it might affect his stature as a legislator. He pointed to the fact that he is a member of the Ways and Means Committee, was highly regarded as a fair and liberal legislator.
As the inquisition began, Schneider concentrated on aiming toward the dealer Glover allegedly had mentioned. Schneider granted him immunity from prosecution under any state or federal laws in exchange for his testimony.
"He just mispit a few things together." Subpenas were served on Glover and Morgan in the afternoon of March 8, but Bullock delayed the start of the inquition 24 hours to give Glover's attorney more time to prepare for it.
A pamferer from the Henningson, Durham and Richardson consulting company will collect data on campus busing, taxis and the Council on Agiminibus in the $20,000 study, partly financed by the KU Student Senate. The city also will be involved in determining the cost is covered by federal funds from the Urban Mass Transit Administration.
Regan said Bullock ruled on two questions about Glover's immunity as a legislator provided by the Kansas Constitution, questions that had never arisen before.
Besides inaccurately reporting Glover's references to dealers in general as references to a particular dealer, Glover said, Morgan reported that Glover graduated from the University of Kansas with a degree in business administration.
"I was so concerned about the apology, that was the thing pressing on my mind. I was scared," she said.
was just a case of not taking time to read it carefully.
"THE STATEMENT, 'it is my cocktail,' He wrote that it and put it in quotes. He wrote that it and put it in quotes."
Steve McMurray, Senate Transportation Committee chairman, suggested in October, 1975 that KU and the city share the expense of a transportation study. City
"He said he got it from the legislative guideline. Glover said he showed him right through the process."
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Revlewer
By CHUCK SACK
Filmmaker questions formula entertainment
"Why do we continue to pay homage to film? It's an extremely debasing medium. It has taken real human experience experiences of life, love, pain, death, hate... and them, catterized them, catterized them, and wrapped them in endless artifice."
with these words film director Peter Watkins began to focus on what he termed
Peter Watkins
watkins is an intense, serious man and gives careful consideration to each question he's asked. He has spent most of the three months visiting colleges and universities and has public debate and analysis of the ways in which media and education affect people.
the "crisis in modern media and education." In a series of classes and informal public discussions last week, we heard many questions about his own profession.
IN MANY OF the classes he visited
Watkins made it clear that he believed that the sad state of the mass media was intricately involved with the social structure. Answering a question about the limited to formula entertainment, he replied that both mediums are protected by "guardians" in the form of critics, teachers and writers who maintain traditional stereotypes of film and television.
Of these persons, Watkins said, "They ruthlessly jump up and down on any form of experimental film, personal film or comedy, but there's a very beyond certain definable thresholds."
WATKINS IS very concerned about the misuse of television. He feels that the purpose of television is to sleep, and that most television executives assume that the majority of the people are passive, "Actually," he said, "the prime purpose of television should be to watch TV."
In explaining this statement Wattins expressed the opinion that television should be making people more aware of each other and their needs. Instead, Wattins said, the media discourage social change "Consequently, watchword repeated by the media," he said.
In one session he pointed out examples supporting his claim that television undercuts public involvement. And he has argued many subjects电视 refused to handle.
ONE OF HIS films, "The War Game," was produced by the British Broadcasting Corp. (BBC) in 1965. Yet despite winning an Academy Award the following year, "The War Game" has never been broadcast in England or anywhere else. Waltkins and a team of co-producers have filmed in the media about the nuclear arms race. He also emphasized his belief that was only one area where information is being actively withheld from the public.
Many of Watkins' other films, notably "The Gladiators," "Punishment Park" and "Privilege" are impassioned pleas for sanity and dignity that contain stinging indictments of the media. Using allegorical formats, be has been able to delineate the central political questions of the time, yet bis work has been largely ignored.
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