Concerts at field house blocked by athletic activities
Entertainment Editor
By BILL UYEKI
An abundance of activity at Allen Field House—including academic, recreational and athletic uses of the facility is the reason SUA requests for a concert performance have been denied, a KUAC official said recently.
The official,Doug Messer, assistant athletic director for business affairs, said the period from mid-October to spring break was the busiest time of year at the field house. Physical education classes, and varsity teams all use the field house, he said, and to schedule a concert would inconvenience him.
Messer said he expected an opening in the field house schedule this spring, because most athletic teams have a spring break.
BEFORE A concert is held in the field house, it must have the approval of the Allen Field House Utilization Committee and the University Events Committee.
Thornton Mason, SUA special events chairman,
had complained recently that the utilization committee wasn't following proper procedures. Only one of four student members attend KU, and one of the four instructors attend KU.
Mason alleged that Floyd Temple, KU baseball coach and the KUAC representative and chairman of the committee, had acted without consulting the club or having or had not answered requests for concert dates.
Temple said yesterday that there had been no debate attempt to block any committee action. The U.S. utilization committee chairman had ben passed by Jerry Waugh, Williams Athletic Fund director, to Messer, and then
THE 'RAPID personnel changes and resulting confusion and concert requests that would interrupt the field house schedule were the reasons the team didn't met this year, both Messer and Tempel said.
"When you have three people involved in changes in a short period of time, you have a breakdown in communication."
Messer, a former utilization committee chairman.
said that if requests conflicted with regular academic, recreational and athletic activity at the field house, there was no reason to take them before the committee.
"THEE HASN'T been a need for the committee to meet," Messer said. "If Mason called today and asked for the field house in a month, I would first look at the calendar. If there were no more classes and athletic events, I would say 'Yes, we can pursue this further,' and take it before the committee.
"Up until now, there hasn't been an opening in the schedule."
The utilization committee comprises four students chosen by the Student Senate, five faculty and staff members, and a KUAC representative who acts as chairman.
MESSER SAID the committee, which was formed about two years ago, was necessary because of the
variety of activities at the field house. Only after the facility has been established had the facility become multi-cursose, he said.
Messer admitted that the committee could cause bureaucratic hang-ups.
"You have to check with 15 people before you can do anything," he said. "But you've got to dove-tail everything in carefully, or you're going to step on a wall. You just can't make instantaneous decisions."
MESSER SAID "realize you (SUA) have to move fast, but they have to realize I can't move fast."
Mason said that because the use of the field house couldn't be approved in time, SUA failed to book a show from four offers by Jethro Tull. Other groups who have made offers include ZZ Top and Boston.
Mason said he realized the inconveniences that stage preparations could cause for gym classes the day of the concert. But, he said, if 6,000 to 7,000 students benefitted from a concert, that would outweigh the minor inconveniences imposed on the gym classes.
Messier said the utilization committee hadn't decided which events would require model testing.
"When we do we say, 'this is special to interfere with academic procedures of the University,'" he said. "We're looking into it (making exceptions for special events). We haven't forgotten it."
TOM WILKERSON, recreation services coordinator, said that nearly 300 students use the field house each night for recreation, and more than 200 use it each day for classes. Because concerts are a form of recreation, he encouraged the use of the field house for concerts. Wilkerson said.
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"Everybody's in favor of having concerts," Messer said. "If SUA and the students want to have a concert, I hope we have one. I went to the last one and I enjoyed it."
Many groups stop touring from mid-April through June, he said, because they start making plans for travel.
Although it appears likely that permission to use the field house will finally be granted, Mason said he is confident that the project will be completed.
KANSAN
A LITTLE WARMER
Tuesday, March 22. 1977
Prof analyzes Amin's regime
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Indian killing ruled 'not felonious'
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Three Lawrence police officers have returned to duty after a six-member coroner's jury decided Friday afternoon that the suspect, Larry Piccolo, 22, was "not capable of taking
The three, Detective Ted Crady and patrol officers Steve Reese and Steve Coon, were suspended from duty pending the outcome of the Douglas County attorney's investigation. After the jury's verdict, the officers were sent to the Police Department, announced that the officers would resume their duties the next day.
The jury returned its verdict about an hour after hearing testimony from 24 witnesses called by Mike Malone, county attorney. The panel of four women and two men convicted three officers were responsible for Pitch's death, but their action wasn't a crime.
"I think the officers have been exonerated through an investigation conducted in an office."
MALONE SAID yesterday the jury decision ended his investigation.
In separate testimonies, the three officers told the jury that they shot Picotte because they were afraid he would shoot them when they went to Long Branch bar, 1000 Massachusetts. St.
At the time of the shooting, the officers were looking for Picotee to question him about his possible involvement in a recent incident. He joined the Site service station, 946 E. 23rd Street.
Crady, who has been on the force eight years, said he saw a man matching Picotter's description in the Long Branch. "He's been in the back and Reese stood behind him to his side."
CRADY SAID he showed his badge and asked Picotte for some identification. Crady said Picotte had said, "This is the only one I've found." Picotte pulled a revolver from his back pocket.
The detective said he tried to knock the gun away from Picotte but missed and moved backward into the crowd as Picotte aimed the weapon at Coon's head.
Crady said he heard a shot and saw Cowan crouch as if he had been hit. Craody said he was trying to stop him.
"Pocitie turned toward me with a gun in his hand," Grady said. "I thought he had already shot officer Coon and I thought he was going to shoot me. I was in for fear of life the whole time. The only thing I had to protect myself with was my gun."
The gun Picotte was carrying wasn't loaded.
Coon said he fireed on Picotte because he thought Picotte was about to shoot him. Although he said he remembered firing only once, statistics tests showed he had fired three bullets.
REESE SAID he be heard the first shot, saw Coon appear to fall backward and thought Coon had been struck. Reese said he then jumped up and ran, the actuality had come from Coon's revolver.
Laurance Price, Country Coroner,
reported that Picotte was struck six times.
Four shots struck his chest and caused him to suffocate. Price's report said.
A ballistics report from the Kansas Bureau of Investigation showed that nine bullet holes in a car were embedded in areas of the bar that were hard to reach and weren't
Earlier testimony by Kenneth Blackbird.
a security guard at Haskell Indian Junior College, indicated that the officers had reason to believe that Picotee was armed. BLACKBIRD TESTIFIED that he had
stopped Picotte on the Haskell campus the afternoon he was shot to question him about his status as a student at the school. Picotte
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Salary, expense increases approved by state Senate
Staff Reporter
TOPEKA- The Kansas Senate last week approved a 7 per cent faculty salary increase and an 8 per cent other operating expenses increase in fiscal year 1978 for Board of Regents institutions. But Regents institutions, including additions to Robinson Grammar and Malot Hall, await voting by the Senate Ways and Means Committee.
State Sen. Wint Winter, R-Ottawa, chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, said yesterday that the committee wouldn't vote on the capital improvements until it was told the conclusions reached in a leaked post audit study completed last week.
Winter said part of the study, which dealt with space needs at all Regents institutions, campus and community colleges, College and Fort Hays Kansas State College built request projects that they would have
Winter said the post audit study wouldn't hurt the chances of approval by his com-
The Senate passed the 1978 appropriations bill, which includes the salary and other
Bookworms bite into literature
Staff photo by MIKE CAMPBELL
Literary food
William Mitchell, associate librarian of Special Collections at Spencer Research Library, displays a few examples of the damage bookwormm can inflict on books.
"There is a double meaning of the word—the lover of books and the destructive enemy," William Mitchell, associate librarian of Special Collections at Spencer Research Library, said yesterday. "Both devour books."
A bookworm, which Mitchell described as "a sneaky kind of beetle," isn't a worm in the scientific sense of the word. It's the larva of several kinds of beetles.
Bookworms not only love books, they eat them.
"THE DAMAGE these beasts do can't be undone," Mitchell said. "Sometimes there's not enough of a book left to consider it a book."
The insects sometimes eat a book from cover to cover, boring little round holes through it. Often they吃earligur furrows across the width or length of pages, permanently damaging a book, to satisfy their appetite.
Bookworms, about one-tenth of an inch long, eat the paper, paste, glue, leather and wood.
Mitchell said Spencer maintained a spraying program, good sanitation and didn't allow food or drink in the building because "we're really hyper about bugs."
Mitchell said Spencer Library didn't have a problem with bookworms.
Bookworms aren't selective in their eating habits, Mitchell said; they move from one to another.
HE SAID that if Spencer librarians suspected that a new book had insects they put it on the shelf.
"He's not particular if he's eating on an 18th century botany book or a 19th century arithmetic book." Mitchell said. "His taste is not a literary taste."
He said that bookworms were ultimately attracted to a warm, wet and dark environment, but that initially they looked for a supply of food—books.
"THEERE ARE within books, especially books, sewn at the time they're made."
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operating expenses increases, without-changing recommendations of the Ways and Means Committee. The bill is now in the House and will be considered by the House, Ways and Means committee.
The 7 per cent faculty salary increase and 8 per cent other operating expenses increase were recommended by Gov. Robert Bennett. The Regents had requested a 7 per cent faculty salary increase and a 10 per cent increase in operating expenses.
The appropriations bill, as passed by the Senate, includes cuts in the central Regents budget for repair and energy conservation efforts. The Senate approved the KU Medical Center family practice programs. The Senate Ways and Means Committee supported the cuts, saying there were no specific guidelines for either the state or federal government-approved integrated family practice clinic.
Regents ponder requested rise in parking fees
TOPEKA-A- The University of Kansas requested authorization to increase yearly parking fees at KU by as much as $15 at the Kansas Board of Resents meeting Friday.
Final action on the request is expected at the Huron's April meeting. The fees would be $16,000.
Included in the request is a proposal to decrease parking fees paid within 48 hours.
Fees would be increased bv:
$15, from $60 to $75 annually, at the KU
Medical Center;
*$10, from $30 to $40, for Lawrence campus universal permits;
- $8, from $25 to $33, for green zone;
green zone;
•$7, from $30 to $37 for yellow, red,
brown and blue zones;
*$3*, from $15 to $18, for residence hall permits.
Also, the green zone single-day parking fee would be increased from 25 cents to 30 cents, and parking at athletic events would be increased from $1 to $2 for regular vehicles and from $1 to $3 for oversized vehicles.
The Regents also approved KU's request to write off $212,698 in uncollectible debts. The Regents will now ask the state division to write off the debts for authority to write off the debts.
Most of the KU's uncollected accounts receivable is from $782,681,948 worth of accounts that have been reported to the University reported that the Med Center writeoff, most of which is from hospital accounts, represented only 2.5 per cent of gross healthcare revenue in 1976, the percentage loss since 1969.
The Lawrence campus had $89,014.58 in uncollected accounts receivable from students who haven't been enrolled at KU for at least three years. Most of the debts are unaptidu, residence hall fees, library fines and parking and traffic fine-
The Regents approved another KU request to require foreign students to subscribe to the University's health insurance program unless they already have similar coverage. KU requested the Regents to ensure who aren't aware of U.S. medical costs.
The Regents allowed KU to ask the Kansas Legislature for a $30,029 supplemental fiscal 1977 appropriation to repair damages caused by a Feb. 18 electrical fire at a Building on the Med Center campus.
Fatal fall
The blanket-shrouded body of Thomas Hoelting, Lawrence. Neb., graduate student, less on the McColm Hall lobby wrof while police investigate. Hoelting reportedly fell from a building.
Graduate student dies in fall from McCollum
Staff Reporter
By CHUCK WILSON
Thomas Hoeeling, 23, fell to his death from McColunn Hall early yesterday morning.
University of Kansas police have ruled out homicide in his death. They said that Hooding, a Lawrence, Neb., graduate student at the University, has gone to his death from an eighth floor window.
Hoelling, who was doing graduate study in sociology, was last seen alive by several residents about 7:30 a.m., while he was studying in the McCollum Hall eight floor lobby. He had lived in McCollum for almost a year.
at 7:45, two women in Ellsworth Hall called the KU police to report that there was something on the roof of the McCollum Hall lobby.
KU POLICE arrived about 8 a.m. and were assisted in their investigation by the Lawrence Police Department. The KHI also trained officers to investigate to trace Hoeeling's background.
Hoelting was described by residents of McColm Hall as quiet and well-adjusted. Eighth floor residents said, though, that on the Thursday before spring break he was sitting something but that by the time he returned, Sunday he didn't seem upset any more.
Alan Goldwasser, Trotwod, Ohio, junior,
said after talking things over with friends
Thursday night, Hoelting seemed to be all right.
ON SUNDAY night, he said, Holding still seemed fine. "It doesn't make sense," he held.
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