THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
Vol. 87, No.108
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Friday, March 11, 1977
Minority Student Center opening postponed
By BETH GREENWALD
Staff Reporter
The opening of a Minority Student Center on the third floor of the Kansas Union has been postponed indefinitely, Steve Leben, student body president, said yesterday.
Leben met Monday night with Rodney Dennis, minority affairs subcommittee chairman, and Bill Lona, member of MECHA, campus Chicano organization, with the American Alliance position from the Native American Alliance, and MECHA, the center shouldn't open.
However, both Dennis and Lona said yesterday that Lesbians understand what daytrip is.
Lona said the meeting was informal and shouldn't have been discussed with the press. Demis said they went to Leben with a "what if" situation.
LONA SAID the center would open later, when the minority affairs subcommittee was sure of the center's purpose, but Dennis "the center as originally envisioned is off."
However, Leben said that from his un-
destanding of the Monday meeting, the ¢4,159 allocated for the center would revert to Senate funds and that other uses for the office space would be found. He said that there were no immediate plans for the union to plan and planned to ask the Union not to rent it out.
Leben said that Lona and Dennis didn't give him the impression that the Monday meeting was a "feeler," but that it was a "decision."
Leben, Dennis and Lona plan to meet
Guitar craftsman
“There are very few guitars out that can't be made to play better,” says Steve Mason, of McKinney-Mason Signed In
struments, Mason, who began as a repairman for Mossman Guitars in Winfield, creates guitars from scratch and repairs them.
Guitar making creative process
Staff Renorter
By RICK THAEMERT
"No great thing is created suddenly, a**n**
more than a bunch of grape or a fig. If you
tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you
that there must be time. Let it first blossom,
then bear fruit, then ripen." Epictetus,
Discourses, Chapter 15
Creating a beautifully resonant stringed instrument from wood and parts also takes time, says Steve Mason, of McKinney New Harmshire Instruments, 737 New Harmshire.
The minority affairs subcommittee was formed in 1975 with black and white student members. Lora said Indians and Chicanos were discharged on the subcommittee until last October.
The bearded 27-year-old Mason, his long hair pulled back into a pony tail, holds up a guitar he has made, which bears the gold letters "S. Mason."
after spring break to work out the mis-
understanding stemming from Monday's
The guitar is not far sale. But, if it were, it would cost about $1,000.
Mason says it takes between 80 and 100 hours for him to make the simplest guitar right and now he has seven custom orders. He works on them by himself and worked on about 1,000.
"One is for a guy in Kansas City who plauses uplift upside-down," Mason says.
"He plays a right-handed guitar left-handed."
Lona called the center "premature" and said that the subcommittee needed to establish a purpose before the center could open and that the subcommittee should address issues affecting all minority students.
Five more will go to a store in Minnesota which, like McKinney-Mason, lets carry a backpack.
"WE'RE ETHNOCENTRIC," Mason saves, laughing.
When Brian McMinkey, the businessman behind McKinsey-Mason, and Mason quit working for Mossman Guitars in Winfield, they moved here with only $300 between them. Mason says. They chose Lawrence for him because he might be full of guitar lovers and players.
But the going wasn't easy. Building a business like creating guitars takes time.
But, he says, making guitars is no laughing matter, especially for a small business like McKinney-Mason, because the money for supplies isn't always there. To compensate, a down payment is usually required from customers.
Mason takes a guitar that's in for repair and begins sanding a rough spot in its finish. Hairline cracks are visible in the finish, the result of the guitar sitting in changing temperatures or being banged against something. Mason says that although the cracks "look like hell," they actually improve the guitar's finish.
Mason says that he hopes McKinney-Mason will be financially stable by midsummer. If it is, he says, he can make all the guitars he wants.
"YOU HAVE TO do a lot of lying to build that much money into something as big as this," he says. "We're still behind on the bills."
IN THE MEANTIME, of three other young repairmen who works for the guitar-maker comes into the room and glances at Mason, saying "Howdy, Doctor." The comment is indicative of the craziness and that go on in the room. A poster offering a free tuition package as presidential candidate for the Surrealist party hangs above the door.
Mason explains how a guitar is made.
To ensure subcommittee participation by all minority groups, Lebanese said, the subcommittee proposed that it be composed of three blacks and four large members.
MECHA and the Native American Alliance also feared that the center would duplicate their functions because both groups already have office space, Leben said.
See GUITAR page two
LONA SAIH THAT this distribution was being considered but that the subcommittee
There is no one organization for blacks at KU, Dennis said, and there was a feeling by some members that until such an organization existed, it would be hard to
But the entire subcommittee—not just the Chicago and Indian members—decided not to support the project.
Council approves parking fee hikes
The University Council yesterday approved parking permit fee increases that
Chancellor Archie Dykes will consider the council's action when he makes his final recommendations for parking permit fees to the Kansas Board of Regents in about a week. The Regents will act on the final recommendations at their April meeting.
Staff Reporter
By JOHN MUELLER
The fee increases approved by the council were originally proposed by the University Parking and Traffic Board. After lengthy debate, with frequent motions to amend the board's proposals, most of the increases passed without change.
But several of the board's proposals drew fire from council members. One proposal, to charge the handicapped for permits, was unanimously defeated.
M. Erik Wright, professor of psychology, criticized the proposal to charge the handicapped for permits. The permits would allow him to attend the semester and $5 for a summer session.
Wright told Dick Tracy, board chairman and associate professor of educational psychology and research. "The hand-dicapped are a group that already bears heavier expenses than we do—what's the rationale?"
Tracy responded, "Our present philosophy of parking is not in which a place is occupied."
Hugh Cotton, associate dean of the School of Pharmacy, said, "Parking for the lamb is mandatory."
After voting to keep handicapped permits free, the council modified the board's recommendation to raise green zone fees for parking by Memorial Stadium. The board had asked that the fees be raised to $35 a year, from the present $25; to $22 a semester, from $14; and to $16 for summer, from $8.
The council decided to raise the year, semester and summer fees by $5 each. Steve ben, student body president, and the boys closely about the green zone increase.
Leben criticized the board for justifying the original green zone increases as necessary for financing capital improvements on parking lots.
"Several items in the parking budget haven't been explained to us," he said. "We still don't have the list of capital improvements."
Leben said the parking park would lose $7,500, "not a very great amount," by modifying the board's green zone proposal. He asked Tracy to list specific dollar amounts for the various parking lot improvements.
Tracy said that according to the Office of Facilities Planning, the improvements in the building had been successful.
Tracy捡 several of the improvements, which include the LU lot across from the Kansas Union and the O zone behind Robinson Gymnasium. The O zone improvement, he said, would cost from $36,000 to $121,000.
Asked by Leben how much the improvements would cost, Tracy said, "Very honestly, the board doesn't have control over that."
"I don't know what there's such a wide gap in the estimates," he said. "I honestly don't blow it."
Council members unsuccessfully proposed other amendments to the board's recommendations and amendments to the amendments. Most of the council's debate was focused on Leben's motion to reduce the board's increases for residence hall parking fees.
The board recommended that residence will be raised from $15 to $30 a year, $8 to $12 a year, and $6 to $9 a year.
Glover answers questions on dope
See PARKING FEES page three
From Our News Services
At the direction of Shawnee County District Judge Terry Bullock, participants in the questioning agreed not to discuss what occurred in Bullock's chambers.
Authories who yesterday completed a closed-door inquisition of Rep. Mike Glover, D-Lawrence, about his marjuana supplier said the 28-year-old legislator answered all
Tension prompts Haskell assembly
proceedings are confidential," Bullock said. Glover had been granted immunity Wednesday by Attorney General Curt Schneider in return for his testimony about the allegations.
THAT INVESTIGATION was begun by Schneider and Douglas County Attorney Mike Malone in response to a Kansas City Star story quoting Glover as saying he used marijuana regularly and purchased the item from a dealer who makes $25,000 a year.
"All of the questions which were asked were answered and the inquisition of the attorney general is finished," Bullock said. The Glover was allowed to return to the House.
Schneider said the investigation had not ended, but would not comment further. Assistant Att. Gen. Philip Harley said no criminal charges had been filed.
In a related development, William Albott, head of the Kansas Bureau of Investigation, said he didn't think a Wichita Eagle reporter would be forced to disclose the names of legislators who have said they smoked marijuana.
A STORY by Jeffrey Stinson, reporter, which appeared in the Eagle Thursday, said at least seven legislators besides Glover had admitted to smoking marijuana. Two said they still used the weed occasionally. Another story said. The legislators weren't pawned.
Another said he generally used marijuana when he was at parties. Both lawmakers, who support a bill by Glover that would
Albott said that the constitutional protection afforded reporters who refused to reveal their sources was generally acclaimed because of this, Stinson wouldn't be questioned.
In the Eagle story, one legislator said, "If do it maybe a couple of times a year. I'm not a habitual user. And it doesn't turn my mind to mush."
By DAVE JOHNSON and CHUCK WILSON
Staff Reporters
The FBI yesterday joined local police and Haskell authorities in the vandalism investigation. A spokesman for the FBI office in Kansas City, Mo., said last night that the agency investigated all crimes on U.S. government-owned property, such as Haskell
After several incidents of vandalism Wednesday night at Haskell Indian Junior College, Wallace Galluzi, Haskell president, yesterday told an assembly of students, teachers and staff members that violence to act to keep order if violence began.
"OUR PURPOSE here and our involvement is to see that the truth is brought out about this case and to see that the legal obligation of a proper legal manner," the statement said.
CATHY COON, School Student Senate member, said that decision was made to require students to wear masks.
The assembly was convened in the Haskell Auditorium after the Haskell Student Senate voted unanimously not to allow any demonstrations on campus.
Gallucci said he had no idea who the vandala were.
"But to this effect and I (the four members) make to this make the clear that the AIM
Picotte, a former Haskell student, allegedly drew a pistol on the officers while they were questioning him about a local service station robbery.
station to protest the shooting death
Saturday night Larry Rizzo by three
men and three women in a downtown
In a statement signed by four members of the American Indian Movement—Michael Kitchkammie, Richard Steele, E. Dale Crawford and Dorothy Chefsleff-AIM spoke out against the vandalism and an insult to the involvement of the planned demonstration.
Between five and nine shots reportedly were fired at Picotte, striking him in the upper part of the body and in the leg. He was taken to Hospital shortly after the shooting.
is not and will not be responsible for the act of vandalism here at Haskell."
Guluzzi told students at the assembly that three buildings—a new coeducational residence hall, the Indian Studies Building and the admissions and records office—had been broken into. Windows also were broken in Pontac Hall.
After the speech, Michael Kitchomikle, AIM member, said the group planned to bring in spiritual leaders next week. Kitchomikle said AIM had been in contact with Russell Means, who he said probably would come to Lawrence next week.
In developments related to the investigation of Picotte's shooting death,
"He's very limited to what he can do or say," Kitchommi mied said. "Anything he could do or say would be a violation of his parole."
GALUZIZ WAS applauded by about 500
GALUZIZ WAS staff members after
20-minute address
Malone said he would look into reports that police detective Ted Crayd said he would shoot Picotee first if Picotee started shooting. He said he also planned to examine the coroner's report when he received it next week.
Maj. Darrel Stephens of the Lawrence Police Department, said yesterday that the department couldn't comment on the investigation into Picotte's death until after the county attorney had finished his investigation.
Some police officers have said, however, that they didn't understand the Indian reaction to the shooting of an alleged criminal.
Mike Malone, county attorney, said last night that he had subpoenaed 30 people who infrared a bill in response to an interest request probably wouldn't be completed until the middle of next week.
AN INQUISITION differs from a grand jury proceeding in that only the judge and the county prosecutor hear testimony. The inquisition is closed to the public.
lessen the penalties for possession of marijuana, asked not to be identified, as did
ONE HOUSE member said he probably wouldn't have been using identified and named equipment, for the imaging being for the patient.
Two of the legislators interviewed in the story who said they had smoked pot pots they didn't any longer because it was illegal. A man who said he used it used it only socially and found no value in it.
Another legislator said he had tried it a few times three or four years ago as an experiment so he could coax his children into discussions or disadvantages of marijuana use.
"I won't trying to say, 'See, marjuliana is all right because Mike Glover used it,'" he said.
Glover said the purpose of saying in newspaper articles that he used pot was to show that responsible people could use the substance in moderate quantities.
SEVERAL OTHER legislators who admitted using marijuana said they were not condoning its use or saying to Kansas that it was permissible to use it because they did.
"It's just one of those things I did in college," one House member said. "I didn't understand how that happened."
"That's one of the reasons I think the penalty should be lowered on it," the member added. "A kid can be smoking it and not thinking about the legal consequences and get a $2,500 fine or a year in jail."
Authorities involved in Glover's inquisition said yesterday that it set a precedent in Kansas when Bullock ruled that the Kansas constitution didn't grant a溶剂 immunity from criminal prosecution or service of a criminal subpoena.
Glover was granted immunity in return for his试imonny, not as a legislator.
Harley said the decision would end the contention that a legislator could be immune from misdemand charges, such as an antitaxicated, during the legislative session.
Authorities said it was the first Kansas case in which a judge had clearly stated that the state constitution didn't protect a legislator from service of criminal process, such as subpoenaes and search or arrest warranta.
KU lobby proposed by Student Senate
The University of Kansas Student Senate hopes to form a student lobbying group by next fall, rather than join the Associated Students of Kansas (ASK), a Topka-based lobbying group that represents all other faculties and agents colleges and universities in Kansas.
"We don't feel ASK is appropriate for our needs," Steve Leben, student body president, said Wednesday. "We need a group that will look specifically at KU's
problems. There is no need to take our kind of lobbying through ASK."
Ralph Munyan, student body vice president and coordinator of the KU lobbying group, said that about 125 student volunteers would work in cooperation with the Student Senate's legislative liaison subcommittee.
MUNYAN SAID THAT, according to preliminary plans, the subcommittee would
See LOBBY GROUP page three
Vacation hours
The University of Kansas will have the following courses over spring break:
LBARIRES—March 12, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
LBARIRES—March 13, 8 a.m.-5 p.m.
p.m.; March 18-20, closed
EXCEPTIONS: Business and Economics Reading Room—March 12-13, closed; March 14-17, 8 a.m.-4 p.m.; March 18-20, closed.
Law Library—regular hours.
ALLEN FIELD HOUSE (for jogging and basketball), March 12-19, closed; Open March 20 on, from 3 p.m. to 10 p.m. DISP. OPEN, open normal bars.
MUSEUM OF ART, regular hours.
MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY,
regular hours.
UNIVERSITY PARKING AND TRAFFIC on campus—March 12-20, the campus is open and parking is permitted in all zones except lots B1-B, G, H, L, V and the lots behind Flint Hall, around Watkins Hospital and Sprague lot. No parking is permitted in loading zones, yellow curbed zones, handicapped zones, etc.
ROBISON GYMNASIUM—March 12 and 13, closed; March 48, open 8 a.m.–4 p.m.
ROBINSON SWIMMING POOL—closed March 11-20 for student swims; faculty staff swims open 12:30-1:30 weekdays.
RESIDENCE HALLS—Templin
Hashinger and McCollum will be open.
Only residents of the hall system can stay in the halls.
UNION—March 13, closed; March 14
18. 7 a.m.-7 p.m. 19. March 19. closed
BOOKSTORES—both Oread and Textbook bookstores open March 14,18,9 a.m.-4 p.m.; both closed March 12, 19 and 20.
FOOD SERVICE—DELL—March 12,
8 o'm a4 p.m.; March 13, closed;
March 14,18; open 7:30 a.m. 9 a.m.
for breakfast, 9 a.m. for coffee and 11 a.m.5 a.m.
for lunch. SAVE THE CHEEFS!
SOUP AND SALAD BAR—open 10:30
a.m.1:30 p.m.: Everything else closed.
WATKINS HOSPITAL—open regular hours.
No BUSES will run during break.
WESCOE CAFETERIA—March 14, 15
closed; March 17, 18, 18 a.m.-5 p.m.
open.
SUA OFFICE- open 8:30 a.m.-noon. on
weekends starting March 6.
The power in many KU buildings will be shut down eight hours this Sunday.
be shut down eight hours this Sunday.
Call individual offices for other hours
School vacations are high-risk times for burglaries. It's a good idea to stop delivery of your newspapers and ask someone to pick up your mail.