THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
DREARY
KANSAN
Machines copy students' faces
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Vol. 87, No. 97
Thursday, February 24,1977
See page three
Staff photo by GEORGE MILLENER
Makeshift windbreaker
Chris Marcotte. Tomeka sonahomore. used her jacket as a windbreaker to protect a wind-irritated earache.
President's private life revealed
Staff Reporter
By MARSHA WOOLERY
People who meet Steve Leben, student
people, think of him as a pleasant,
unassuming friend.
Going through the Kansas Union Dell line yesterday, he was asked by a checkout girl about a picture in his hand. He prepares a photo of her, and she born last week on election day as he had predicted. The checkout girl was a new aunt herself, so they chatted briefly about their plans.
"Once you get to know him and it gets late and he starts to go slap-happy, he lets loose."
But to those who know him well, such as Ken Jones, Overland Park junior and Leben's roommate the last two and a half years, there is another side to Leben.
TO THOSE who know him as leader of the Reflection coalition, Leben seems intelligent, concerned and sincere, a fluent speaker and a whiz at organizing.
To those who know him through his work with the KU-Y, a service organization that assists students diligent and responsible—someone unafraid to untangle the organization's finances as
Jones recalled one night during a election campaign when the two
had stayed late up painting banners. When they were finished, he said, they decided to use the lefter paint for a message to an Oliver Hall maid in the hall bathroom.
"TO THIS DAY, I don't think anyone knows who put "H-Buth" on the armeni, "haha."
Leben sat in the Union cafeteria and ate
he lunch neatly, even folding a barbecue potato chip bag and sliding it under his plate. He mopped up spilled ice on the table and autumn leaves on the bench. A cowboy bear beet Nestness seems as much a haiti with him as organization.
But Jones said, "No, he's really a sloppy person—sloppy with a capital S. You should be careful."
Ginny Erdwin, El Dorado junior, grew up with Leben. Erdwin, who was cavaliered with him, said that "he's very picky about his appearance but as far as throwing things around, he doesn't care."
ERDWEN SAID Leben was quiet and reserved in high school.
"He's a lot more confident now, and I 1
shows up in his relationship with peo-
nels."
Leben's interest in student government began in junior high and high school, but he almost always lost the elections he ran in, he said.
Jill Grubaugh, Sports Committee chairman, said that on the long night of counting balls, he kept telling supporters, he could only know how many times I've lost.
elections, he said, because "i was always upset about things in high school because of the assumption that in the problems between students and faculty, the faculty was always right."
But Leben kept running in high school
See STEVE LEBEN page three
Tasheff, Owens part with emotion
By SANDY DECHAN
Staff Reporter
Sensititiality apparent in their stifled sobs and low, raspy voices, Tedde Tasheff, former student body president, and Steve Owens, former vice president, addressed the Senate leadership before officially handing the Senate leadership over to the newly elected officers.
"I was a rookie when I took this job and I guess, "I still a rookie at heart," he said, his voice becoming lower. "The only thing the Senate rules say I have to do is preside over Senate meetings, but the job goes far past that."
Tasheb is succeeded by Steve Leben, Dadojor junior, and Owens is succeeded by Ralph Munyan, Kansas City, Mo., sophomore.
"People think she gets enough pats on the back, but she did so much. She's proven that the president of the student body is no job for a junior politico."
“At meetings, I walked this fine line. It’s hard to know when to be blunt and tell someone to sit down, and at the same time to walk away.”
“I knew I tipped off that fine line at times.”
In the joint meeting of 106 old senators—21 of whom will serve on the new Senate and 85 new senators, Owens reminded the senators that they have responsibility and you better not screw up."
Summarizing his functions as vice president, Owens said, "It goes past keeping the coffee in the coffee pot fresh by supplying overstuffed paper recycling boxes.
Later Tasheff returned the praise, saying,
"Any of the good times, accomplishments
and general good spirit of the Senate have
been due to Steve's willingness to stand by
Looking at Owens, she said, "Just had to
FacEx agrees to new procedures
Staff Reporter
By JOHN MUELLER
FaEx yesterday approved proposed changes to streamline promotion and tenure procedures and forwarded the tenure committee on tenures on Promotions and Tenure (UCP).
The changes were proposed in a report from the Faculty Senate Committee on university affairs, and she subliities (FRPR). FRPR urged the consolidation of spring and fall tenure reviews by eliminating the present March review and promoting an tenure review in November.
UCPT, which originally asked FRPR to consider recommending the consolidation, will review the FRPR report, and return its findings to FaceEx for further action.
T. P. SRINIVASAN, professor of
mathematics and FRPR chairman, said last night that the FacEx action “tends to leave everything up in the air -FacEx wanted to let the balloon float with UCPT.”
Srinivasan said he hoped UCPT, an administration committee, would work closely with faculty members to analyze the FRKPR results, final approval from faculty government.
"What is going to be gained from the changes is clearly a matter of administrative convenience," Srivasantsa said. "Unless there are compelling reasons, UCPT should not have a 'take it or leave it' attitude toward the faculty."
THE CONSOLIDATION would start in fall 1978. FRIP said that "to implement the proposed change next fall could cause undue hardship to a few departments."
faculty members is mandatory at the end of their sixth year. For faculty hired on three years' probation, the review comes at the end of the second year.
A tenure review for University of Kansas
FRPR had recommended that "if a candidate does not come out successfully for tenure in this initial fall (review, the University Committee on Promotions and Tenure (UCPT) will leave her-case case open until late spring."
FACEX SAID the late spring action, which FFRP intended as a 'last chance' check-back with UCPT, shouldn't be necessary. In forwarding the FBRP report to UCPT, FacExx added a statement that any春报 review 'should not be necessitated for verification' and formation relevant to tenure cases can be FACEX GIVES APPROVAL page nine
say that so you'd know that I think you're topotch."
Both Owens and Tasheff receive plaques for their Senate work.
But Owens' last stint as presiding officer didn't go smooth, when a decision he made against Mr. Blanchard
The controversy causing the snag concerned whether senators on SenEx or the senator responsible for this matter and whose other term end in May, should retain their positions as senators until May.
Newly elected senators officially replaced old senators last night.
While Owens said that the senators couldn't retain their Senate seats, he was not wrong. He had made sure
Some senators said that although those senators had been replaced on the Senate, they were responsible to the Senate until Mav when their other terms ran out.
Dul Shankel, executive vice chancellor,
made a five-minute statement landing
Tashseef and Owens for their work, saying
they "are proud to be an elite star team, and those two have made it."
"We didn't always see eye to eye, but inevitably we accomplish more by working together than when working at cross purposes."
In a closing statement, Tashsef repeated accomplishments made during her term, warned the new senators about the Karsan insurgents to queue to the distinguished senator of 1976-77.
Her voice quivering, Tasheff presented the plaque for the "most distinguished senator of 1976-77" to Kevin Flynn, senate candidate and Elections Committee chairwoman.
"He's a leader in the best sense of the word," she said. "His dedication this year is the same as it has been the past two years. He was an example to us, given invaluable advice to Steve and me."
The inscription on the plaque Flynn received said, "In recognition of outstanding service, leadership and 'minutes'-Student Senate 1978-77."
Flynn has been a senator for two years. He also served on the University Council and the Senate Higher Education Week Steering Committee.
Tasheff told the new senators, "It is your responsibility to talk to the students, not to the press because the press often gets things half-assed backwards."
Any "big" action the Senate attempts is left unreported by the Kansei, she said, and on the occasions Senate actions are covered, they are badly reported.
"Don't take the rap for the UDK's ignorance," she said.
Tasheff and Owens' meeting with the old Senate was prolonged by a close race for three holdover Senate seats that can be filled only by senators in the 1978-77 Senate. Holdover senators are automatically on the University Council.
Although two of the three holder positions were easily filled by Owens and
See TASHEFF page 3
Junk man salvages living
By RICK THAEMERT
Staff Reporter
Joe Lown is a junk metal junkie.
For 28 years, Lown has spent each day at Auto Wrecking and Cojun, Ki-72. E Nith St., surrounded by junk—bedsprings, wrecked cars, toilets, washing machines, skillets and any other type of junk imaginable.
He sorts it, loads it and delivers it—the house ruler over his seven-acre domain.
But, Lown said, people don't take advantage of all the usable parts in junkyards
"You could just about find any part you wanted out there." Lown said, pointing to the staircase.
"Those art students from up there on the hill used to come in here about every day and buy iron, but now they only come every once in a while," the 49-year-old junk man said, walking through pathways connecting mounds of pipes and plumbing fixtures. His hands were short, a circular name patch above the shirt, a decorative belt, and he sported a green, winter Cossack hat despite the 70-degree temperature.
ARTISTS WANTING scrap metal for sculptures, scouring antique collectors, and Mr. Fixits all have given up these parts of the modern convenience of baving things.
"AN OLD GUY used to come in looking for antique brass fittings, but he don't come in no more, either." Lown said, in a slightly different tone. "You have to find out it's antique, so they have on it."
But not everyone is careful. Consequently, many people come to the junkyard and usurp other's throw-aways—as such as lamps, auto parts and tires.
People now are more careful about what they throw away than they once were because of the risk.
MOST OF THE junk business is buying and selling auto scrap.
Lown pointed to an old Chevy, painted with wild designs, and said, "They took and had that thing out at the demolition bump; then they came in here and jumbled it."
"1 like having the chance to foul around with old cars," he said, but "it don't hardly affect you."
Except for an occasional Model T, he material in his junk yard have been matched with some antique car parts.
The junkyard gets about a truckload of junk a day. Some of the junk has been in the same spot more than 10 years, Lown said as he lists the most hundreds of black industrial paint cans.
Several bright yellow display cases from a warehouse simply contrast with the more muted gray of a gallery.
In fact, cars are one reason Lown likes the business.
Lown likes his job because the junk he gets is interesting and often has a colorful
"I guess I just been here so long I got used to it," he said. "There's not much else I can do. I heard the older you get, the less work you can find."
LOWN SAID HE got into the junk
room. He was careful, he said, it
was because it was a good, steady job.
Lawn spends most of his time sorting metal to coat. Much of the metal goes to steel manufacturers.
Occasionally, people sneak in at night and steal junk, Lown said, because there are no junky dogs to guard the seven acres.
The metal is bought by Auto Wrecking and Junk Co., for $13 a ton.
IT'S LONELY at the junkyard, Lown said.
He said he didn't know exactly what junk comprises the vast wasteland, or where it came from.
Lawn said it was difficult to keep track of new junk.
"Every time you get a space cleared out, somebody bring a new load in and just keep going."
A TIN PLATE that had been used in offset
mounting on a Low, clattering in a strong Kansas gun.
"It gets kind of noisy out here sometimes." Lown said, referring to the slapping of tin and the creaking of unhinged car doors in the wind.
The job also is dangerous.
"Pretty nearly everybody who's worked here got hurt," he said. "I liked to lost an eye one day. I was cutting a pipe and it flew back in my face."
Despite the disadvantages of the job, Lown said he liked it. In 28 years he has seen much more change.
After all, one man's junk may be another's treasure.
Just junk?
If one had the time and desire to look through the mounds of rubbish they might find something unavailable elsewhere.
Staff photo by MARIANNE MAURIN
According to Joe Lown, the man-of-the-yard for 28 years there are a lot of usable parts scattered about.