THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
A frog in the clouds
KANSAN
The University of Kansas—Lawrence. Kansas
Friday, March 4.1977
Vol. 87, No.103
K-State ends 'Hawks' season See story more right
See story page eight
Staff photo by GEORGE MILLENER
"I didn't expect a break"
Kansas basketball coach Ted Owens stared at the officials for just night's KU-STATE basketball game after angry knocking the ball off the court.
11 city candidates discuss ideas
dicator off to protest officiating in last night's game, KU lost the match on a "No-Son season tournament 98-71." See stories pages eight and nine.
By JOHN MCANULTY
Staff Renorter
The direction that Lawrence should take in commercial and neighborhood development was the overriding issue last night when 11 city commission candidates met to state their platforms and discuss current city issues.
The meeting, at the Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vermont St., sponsored by the Pinkney and Old West Lawrence neighborhoods, spawned debate between the candidates on what the city priorities should be. It also gave about 50 people there a chance to present their own views on the primary election Tuesday, which will eliminate six of the 12 candidates.
Most of the candidates took a stand on development in Lawrence.
MURIEL PAUL, 438 Elm St., said many Lawrence neighborhoods were being victimized by creeping commercialism, which was turning them into "neun leagues."
Paul called for the formation of a neighborhood development planning department to "reach out" to individual neighborhoods, which would be headed by a professional with established credentials in urban planning.
Paul said she would give zero priority to industrial development in residential areas.
CARL MIBECK, 1208 Delaware, said he wasn't sympathetic to "no growth" but thought growth in Lawrence should be limited, wouldn't work against Lawrence citizens.
Ed Carter, 111W. 57th St. Terr., said that the city couldn't stand still in development and that growth was healthy. He said an attractive industrial park should be developed for which the city should attract only "first-class industries."
Jack Rose, 3430 Camelback Drive, a commissioner from 1971 to 1975, said he thought the commission had taken a new direction in the last three years in imme- japment, citing the beautification project on Massachusetts Street as an example.
ROSE SAID THE commission had tended to fill in pockets of unused land within the city limits instead of expanding, a trend he called healthy because it would create a compact city "more in keeping with times to come."
David Hann. 1058 E. 13th St., said that the current commission had created a pattern "emphasizing growth to the detriment of the existing neighborhoods," and that the city was slowly being surrounded by "strip zoning," or small-service businesses.
Barkley Clark, 1511 Crescent Road, was thought the commission had taken the direction in development and had always developed for the good of neighborhoods.
He cited the opening up of a 18-mile-long riverfront park for which land is now being acquired along the Kansas River, which he said would help to enhance neighborhoods and improve beauty.
HE SAID THAT because of recent availability community development funds, the
commission had set neighborhood development as a high priority.
Another issue many of the candidates discussed wa, the city hall's responsiveness
Jerry Albertson, 2010 Clifton Court, said the commission had disregarded the voters' wishes by deciding to expand the Lawrence airport. He said the commission "went right ahead with plans for the airport, after the voters had turned it down."
Clark, now a commissioner, disputed Albertson's charge, saying voters hadn't turned down the airport but had rejected using tax money to pay for it. He said the commission had "simply found another way to finance it."
MARGARET BRUN, 202 N. Fifth St., said there had been a breakdown in communication between the commission and citizens.
Brun said people resented that they
Carter said that many groups came before the commission throughout the year with recommendations and proposals and then later with their use the groups' opinions to make policy.
weren't asked whether they wanted the Clinton water treatment plant to purify water from Clinton Reservoir for use by the city.
Phillip Perry, Rhode Island, said that communication between the city manager and the commission had been shallow and that "the commission serves as a rubber
The Citizens Advisory Council, which recently criticized the commission for its unresponsiveness, was a perfect vehicle for communication between the commission and the people because the group knew that there was a wide variety of citizens, Carter said.
See CANDIDATES page seven
Iranian allegedly beaten; student group to protest
BY JOHN MUELLER Staff Reporter
An Iranian student allegedly was an attacker near Porter Lake Feb. 25, according to the news agency.
Jim Surber, Lawrence junior, said last night that he had witnessed the attack. The Iranian Students Association (ISA) said that it planned a noun demonstration today to protest the incident, and that the student, an ISA member, had been attacked by a member of the Iranian secret police (SAVAK).
The ISA, in a letter received yesterday by University of Karsas administrators, said a second American student had seen the attack but the ISA didn't identify the student.
Surber said he was walking from Spencer Research Library and saw two men fighting near Petron Lake, where "a larger man was being physically aggressive."
When Surber and the other American student walked toward the fight, he said, the lawyer ran.
Surber said that the two men "were obviously from the Middle East," and that "the larger man knocked and kicked the smaller man to the ground."
When the larger man left, Surber said, the smaller man talked with Surber and the other American student for five minutes. I believe the smaller man was from Iran." Surber said. "He was not the aggressor."
Surber was named by the ISA in the letter to administrators. The administrators were Chancellor Archie Dykes; Del Stankel, Frank Kahn and Clark Coan, dean of foreign students.
Shankle confirmed last night that he had received the letter, and said he planned to meet them.
He said Coan and Don Alderson, acting vice chancellor for student affairs, would investigate the attack and report their findings to him before the Monday meeting.
The letter named the Iranian student who was attacked, but said, "We ask you at this time to avoid giving public exposure to the name of the assaulted student, Mr. — We are for their reprisals to his family, a common practice when individual protests are made rublicable."
It named the man who allegedly made the attack as Kambiz Zibail, Tehran, Iran, accused of murdering a child.
The letter was signed by Bahram Gerami, ISA president.
A partial excerpt from the ISA letter follows:
"At 12:30 on Friday, Feb. 25, 1977, one of the members of the Iranian Students Association, Mr. — was followed to the hospital where he was physically assaulted. This unprovoked assault involved a serious physical beating on the head, causing Mr. — to fall. The assault was witnessed quite confidentially by his mother, who knew his name to us. He is Mr. Jim Burrow."
"The beating was administered by kambiz Zibail. This man is known to us as a professor of Iranian history. Kambiz Zibail has been a long-term apparently professional student in the United States, where he observes Iranian students' acumen and engages with thematerested and disrupted student meetings.
"We would like to call to your attention the fact that the Shah and other Iranian government officials have acknowledged the presence of SAVAK agents on American campuses. We believe the presence of SAVAK agents to be a violation of United States laws, and their activities to be both illegal and in violation of University Code.
"We respectfully request that Mr.
Kambiz Zibai be removed from our campus, not only because of his assault, but also because his presence here is illegal and destructive to the University community."
Gerami said last night that the planned demonstration was designed to focus attention on the need to keep Zibali away from the campus. He said the demonstration would begin in front of the Kansas Union and proceed to Strong Hall.
"We're trying to bring this matter to the attention of the vice chancellor (Shankel)," he said. "Our rally will have 100 to 150 concerned faculty, staff and students."
Neither the attacked student nor Zbilii were available for comment last night.
Representatives pass reduced dope penalties
TOPEKA-A a bill reducing the prerequisite for possession of an ounce or less of marjuana passed the Kansas House yesterday by a 65-60 vote.
The bill, by State Rep. Mike Glover, D-Dawrence, would make the first two convictions of possession of an ounce or less of marijuana unclassified misdemeanors punishable by a maximum $100 fine. The third conviction would be a class A misdemeanor, punishable by a $2,500 fine and a year in jail.
Simple possession under current law is a class A misdemeanor, and a second conviction becomes a class D felony, usable by a $5,000 fine and 10 years in jail.
Democrats gave somewhat stronger support to Glover's bill than did Republicans, but the vote wasn't split along party lines. Thirty-two Democrats and 28 Republicans voted for the bill; 26 Democrats and 34 Republicans opposed it.
All three Douglas County representatives- Glover and Republicans Lloyd Buzzell and Vojol-Swell the billed
The bill now goes to the Senate, where it was assigned to the Federal Senate and Federal House.
Supporters of Glover's bill have said that the current laws are harsher than the crime of marijuana possession deserves. Opponents have argued that marijuana use is unlawful by passing Glover's bill the legislature would be condoning marijuana use.
Among those who supported the bill in committee hearings were William Albott, head of the KBI, and the Rev. Richard Taylor, director of the Kansas Unified Dry Forces, a liquor control lobbying organization.
Glover's bill, before it was amended in committee, originally would have reduced penalties for an unlimited number of convictions for possessing two ounces or less of marijuana. The original bill also would have legalized gifts of marijuana, which would be punishable as sales in the amended version.
Staff Renorter
Leaks in the Robinson Gymnasium roof disrupt classes and recreational activities and are a health hazard, one University of Kansas instructor said yesterday.
The extent of leakage varies through the gym, but the dance studio and the north gymnasium and basketball courts are most affected.
Leaks damage gym floor; disrupted activities result
By STEPHEN HESS
Twelve intramural basketball games were canceled Wednesday night because of the leakage, which is being curbed by tarps, plastic covers, towels and trash cans.
The leaks have caused some of the gym's floor to become warped, making it dangerous, according to Robert Lockwood, a gym instructor. Gymnasts who tried to exercise on wet mats
See LEAKS page seven
Divorce is easier,but coping is still hard
(Note: This is the second of two articles deals with the social implications of diversity.
By PAUL ADDISON
By PAUL ADDISON Contributing Writer
The social acceptability of divorce has, according to many psychologists and sociologists, increased in the 1970s with the introduction of new or revised divorce laws and the greater availability of free or inexpensive legal services.
"Divorce," he said, "very often outcome is a very healthy and productive outcome. The problem comes from seeing it as essentially an irrational decision that assumption that all marriages are good."
However, divorce has often been accompanied by negative social and psychological repercussions that have stymized it and not allowed for possible positive attainments, Dennis Dailey, associate professor of social welfare, said yesterday.
"Too many people marry right out of college and are then thrown into the real world where both of them change and mature," she said. "The result is sometimes incompatibility and personality conflicts."
For one University of Kansas graduate student, the adjustment to daily living away from the cloistered life of a university caused her first marriage to break up.
"For me, the need for companionship was very great and I had to seek counseling to cope with the change in my marital status," she said. "On certain occasions, liquor became a companion to block out the loneliness and frustration."
AFTER DIVORCE, she said, the main problem for her was loneliness.
Dalley said some typical reactions to divorce, such as excessive drinking, were only symptoms of a person's rediscovery of individual identity. Generally, he said, the main issues to be dealt with after divorce are grief and loss. To compensate for these,
many people seek assertiveness training programs and personal growth courses, he
"MANY DIVORCED people do tend to seek out informal activities with others in a similar situation." Dalley said. "There are also groups such as Parents Without Partners, the Equality Council and Such a program serves as a good bridge between marriage and the new situation."
The Lawrence chapter of Parents Without Partners was formed in the late 1960s as an educational and social organization for single parents. General meetings are held on the second Sunday of every month at the Lawrence Public Library, and other functions often are arranged.
"We're trying to educate everybody not to tear down the other parent," Marion Curtis, a former program director of the organization, said. "We cater to people who really need something after getting divorced."
ANOTHER LAWRENCE group containing many divorced members is the Singles Club, which meets every Monday at the Sirion Stockade, 1015 Iowa St.
In many divorce cases, the children suffer as much as the parents. In Kansas, custody of the children can be given to either parent, and in some cases an agreement for custody to be given to the mother.
Jane, the former wife of a KU professor and the mother of three college-age children, and the double life of her children Mrs. Wendy Kusumba with each parent at first caused her pain.
"I used to worry that they weren't spending enough time with me and I got jealous when they were with my husband," she said. "After the readjustment period, I realized in realize that it wasn't really fair on my children that I was behaving that way."
"Do I get a refund if this doesn't work out?"
Staff drawing by DAVID MILLER