BIRD
CHILLY
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
Vol.87,No.89
The University of Kansas—Lawrence. Kansas
K-State beats KU Saturday
Monday, February 14. 1977
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Staff photo by GEORGE MILLENER
Budding explorers
Novice explorers and map readers like Steve Pierce, Ft. Rucker, Ala., junior, and Jayne Kelson, Leanworth wonorth, got a
chance to practice their skills during an orientering exercise yesterday on west campus. The orienters were divided into two groups, each following a specified route.
Members must foot bill for faculty club's return
By JOHN MUELLER
Staff Reporter
If the University of Kansas resurrects its faculty club, members will have to pay for itself, Chancellor Archie Dykes said yesterday.
Dykes said he definitely supported the club, which he said would be a great asset to him.
However, Dykes said, "The state can't pay for such a club. There are problems with operating it, mainly the increasing food and labor costs."
Faculty members have recently talked about ways to revive a club at KU. For 26 years, a club was situated across from the Kansas Union on Jayhawk Blvd., but it closed in the fall of 1987 because of a large debt.
ELDON FIELDS, professor of political science and SenEx chairman, said last week that a possible site for a new club was in the area of the proposed Continuing Education Center north of the Union. Dykes agreed with that possibility.
but the, the $2.2 million center won't be built until an appropriations bill for the U. Department of Health, Education and Welfare will finance the center, is passed by Congress.
Dykes said a club legally could be built at the center, contrary to a report published last week in the Lawrence Journal-World, which said it would be illegal to have a club at the center because of liquor sale restrictions on state property.
DYKES SAID the construction was possible because the state wouldn't own all the property for the center. He said the KU Entuphony Association was going to buy
Orienteering match attracts diverse runners
Staff Reporter
By JOE RADCLIEEE
Russ Jedlicka stood on the University of Kansas West Campus yesterday afternoon wearing a $12 pair of sweat pants and a moldy, red sweat shirt—worth about 15—counts which had "Greenwich Cross Country" printed across the front.
He was part of a crowd of 30 persons, who ranged from five-year-old boys wearing jeans and sneakers to gray-haired couples as if they were out for a Sunday stroll.
They were all there to participate in the sport of orienteering, a combination of cross country running and hiking, using a map and a compass for navigation.
"THE COURSE is only about two miles."
ORIENTEERING originated with the military, which used it as a training exercise, and it is now spreading through Europe and the United States. The sport is played over a course of checkpoints where the oponent's main opponent is the stopwatch.
The meet yesterday was sponsored by SUA, the University of Kansas department of geography, KU Recreational Services and the Possum Trot Orientering Club of Mission, Kan. Most people who showed up had never participated in the sport before.
Jedicka, Lawrence graduate student said,
"I thought it would be about eight or 10."
Jedlicka, who once was on the KU cross country team, he entered the meet for the NCAA.
Each contestant received a map and a compass. Jeidika said he didn't take a compass because he'd run around West Campus before and knew the area well.
Another contestant, Katherine Keene, who works for the Kansas Geological Survey, took the compass but kept it in her purse once she started.
Keene, 54, was dressed as if she had just come from church, wearing a knap cap pulled down over her ears, her good winter coat and a pair of green double knit rots.
EACH STARTER was sent to the course at one-minute intervals, and Keene was one of the first to go. She checked her map and headed to the first checkpoint.
"I really wasn't expecting this," she said, stepping over a barbed wire fence. "I just wanted to take a nice walk through the woods."
SHE MARCHED across a field to the next
The first checkpoint was down a muddy bank into a heavily wooded valley. Keene soon spotted the red-striped marker and fought her way through some brambles to punch her card. She turned and started back up the hill.
checkpoint with the map in one hand and her purse over her shoulder, saying how people 'her age' should "get out and get their blood circulating."
She said she didn't mind orientering so far, except that her shoes were getting worn.
Keene said she figured people who liked orientering were probably "hikers and
"And those who like nature," she said, looking around at the brown grass and mud, then laughing. "Although we can't see much nature now."
THE FOURTH checkpoint marker was pinned to a fence post. Two 14-year-olds, Greg Marciniowski and Andy Turk, a friend of his and son of Peter Turk, acting assistant professor of journalism, and Ellie Turk, assistant to the dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, stepped up to punch their cards.
"I can't this the first checkpoint?" Andy asked. Greg simply shook his head and cried.
They said that although they enjoyed orientering, they'd have enjoyed it more if they hadn't seen them.
What did they think of the course?
Marcintowski answered with a cynical, "Yeah."
"He talked me into this," he said, pointing an accusing finger at Turk.
MEANWHILE, BACK at the finish line, Jedlicka lounged on the grass. He'd already run the course in the winning time of 28:04. He didn't enter the more experienced division, which was run over the same field. Or order, because he said he was new to the order. He won, Berkeley, Calif., graduate student, won the experienced division in 33:54.
Jedlicka admitted that he had an advantage in the meet because he knew the
"When I lived in Templin," he said,
"I used to do my morning running over here every day.
"JUST looked at the checkpoint on the map, and most of the things were familiar to me."
part of the land, so it would be partly privately owned.
But he still had some trouble.
"On the first checkpoint, I went into the valley too soon, and I had to run through the stream to the marker," he said. "It wasn't too deep."
The purpose of a faculty club would be to provide social services, including the sale of equipment by faculty members. It would be funded through donations from Friends Fields said they are a stumbling block
On the second checkpoint, delia said, he was in the area but couldn't pimp the map.
"I was having a lot of trouble finding that thing," he said with a laugh. "Then I finally decided to look at the map."
"There is a real interest in a faculty clu,
provided it can be worked out in a way that
it can be used easily and the cost wouldn't
be so expensive. We'll work with a large number of the faculty." Fields said
AN EARLIER idea to locate the club in Jayhawker Towers, he said, would have cost from $150,000 to $185,000 just to remodel part of the complex.
Faculty members have said that money from the administration should supplement money from daes, which could be so high that only full professors could afford them.
SenEx members said last week that costs of the Towers proposal would have excluded faculty members who made less money in their job. The club's leadershipiness would hurt the club's social interactions.
Dykes said he didn't know how much a faculty club at the center would cost.
HENRY SNYDER, dean of research
administration, has said he thought KU was the only state university that didn't have a club.
Snyder was a member of the faculty club board of directors when the original club, housed in the current University Relations Center, was closed. The building was then into headquarters for the Endowment Association, which owned the club property.
The club had a dining room, lounges, two libraries and a meeting room and served as a social center for the faculty.
A group of faculty members, including Snyder, has worked since 1968 to form a new club. In 1972, Raymond Nichols, then chancellor, told the group that KU would support a club if the faculty could raise enough money to start the project.
The group raised $70,000 in funds and began a membership drive, only to discover that administrators no longer favored the project. The administration refused to give University funds for the project because KU was committed to building a new art museum, so the money was returned to the donors.
Second debate tonight; balloon will still fly
The Student Senate elections campaign moves into its last two days of campaigning with a presidential debate tonight and the inflation of a hot air balloon tomorrow.
The second debate between the three candidates for student body president won't include the vice presidential candidates as last week's did. Members of the Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity are sponsoring it at 7 a.m., at the fraternity house, 1918 Stewart St.
If the weather is fair, the balloon will be inflated tomorrow morning in front of Strong Hall by Avanti sophomore class
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candidates. The candidates will inflate it despite a ruling by the Senate Elections Committee last month in the balloon shouldn't be part of the campaign because it would contribute a carnival atmosphere not allowed by Senate rules.
GREG SCHNACKE, sophomore class presidential candidate, said last night that Avanti had decided to go ahead with her campaign. When they felt it would increase voter turnout.
"We think it's a good idea and the Election Committee's wrong," he said.
The class candidates won't use a banner bearing the coalition name as they had intended, but will still campaign personally handing out literature at the balloon site, Bill Hamilton, vice president candidate, said last night.
Kevin Flynn, Senate Elections Committee chairman, warned candidates last week that if they disregarded the committee's rules, he said, he could be removed from their seats if elected.
Each candidate also will answer questions from two panelists, Karlin Campbell, professor of speech and drama, and an assistant professor of speech and drama.
Controversies about the Election Committee's decision and the campaign tactics of candidates may enter into tonight's debate. The committee will spend 10 minutes to question the other candidates.
Lake developers in legal fight
Campbell said yesterday that she might question candidates about the Senate's continuing commitment to minority affairs and to women's athletics.
She said candidates might also be questioned about financial plans the Senate should make in anticipation of a drop in student costs as the rising costs of student services.
Stan Smith, Lambda Chi Alpha member and moderator, will give each candidate five minutes for opening and five minutes for marking the hours and-a-balf debate.
By LIZ LEECH
Contributing Writer
MCMURY SAID his decision also was based on time and academic considerations. He regretted committee work in these areas, but he would still work on them without being charged.
Gary and Linda Pence consider themselves lucky. The Pences, who live in Silver Lake, bought a small plot of land several years ago at Lake Ridge Estates, a recreational land development at Perry Reservoir in Jefferson County, which was owned by Del Coronado, Inc. (DCI).
They consulted their lawyer in 1974 and filed a petition in the Jefferson County District Court against DCI and Edward Silverman, vice president of DCI. The case was negotiated outside of court, and the Pence had been sentenced to prison for punitive damages and lawyer fees. The Pence had made $1,600 in payments for one and a half years.
But the Pences said they were promised things by a salesman that never materialized, so they decided to cancel their contract and get back the payments they had made on their lot.
LAKE RIDGE Estates and another Perry Reservoir development, Lake Shore Estates, now are owned by Development Marketing, Inc. (DMI). Records in the Kansas Secretary of State's office show that Silverman and the contractors of Development Marketing, Inc. the ownership of the two developments has changed four times.
Mrs. Pence described how she and her husband became involved with DCI.
SNACHKE SAID he thought the Elections Committee didn't have that power.
She said she and her husband received advertising in the mail encouraging them to visit Lake Ridge Estates during its promotional campaign. A free breakfast at the site was offered.
"We were driven around the development in a heep, with a two-way radio," she said. "The salesman kept checking with the headquarters to see that the lot we were going to hadn't already been sold."
The Pences went to the development, had their free breakfast and were assigned a salesman
"Because I felt that the Elections Committee was going beyond its jurisdiction, the person who looks into this should be commissioned," he said. "We are all engrassled in," he said.
"HE SAID they were really going fast."
The couple signed a short contract at the development, which Pence said she thought obligated them to.
'But they didn't carry out the promises made by their salesman. They said that we would have water in a year and there wasn't, and there was no guard at the gate.
She said the salesman described the fishing pool, clubhouse with an open bar, guarded entrance to the development, swimming pool and tennis courts that soon would be available at Lake Ridge Estates.
"There is quite a controversy over the recent actions of the Elections Committee, which is a subcommittee of the rights committee," McMurry said.
she and her husband were given another contract to take home to study.
"I remember reading it myself. It really didn't tell you much about dates when things were going to happen," she said.
The PENCES hire a reactor to all their lot, and the PENCER puts a reactor with the reality company’s partner on the PENGEN.
"Now I don't know why we bought it. I guess it's just because it sounded so good."
"Every time we went out there, about tour times I think, to check our sign we found it face down. We started guessing suspicious and asked Ed Silverman at Lake Ridge Estates about it." Pence said.
His opinion was eched by Steve McMurry, who resigned Friday as chairman of the rights, Privileges and Responsibilities Committee.
Silverman, Pence said, told them that it must have a phantom and not one of his employees that knew him.
Finally, Pence, who is a photographer, set his camera with a 400 millimeter lens on a hill near his lot.
Her husband took a picture of the man's actions
"He hardy had his camera set up and a black car came along and a man look down the sign and put it in
MRS. PENCE said she didn't think she and her
She said her husband followed the man to the lake's edge, where he was about to throw away the sign. Mrs. Pence said she suspected the man was a DCI salesman.
The Pences aren't the only ones dissatisfied with DCI.
husband would ever have gotten their money back had her husband not photographed the act. The act, and his, would never happen.
John and Hannelore Cole, Leavenworth, bought a lot at Lake Shore Estates in 1975, became disatisfied because their salesman's promises weren't fulfilled and sold against DCI in 1976 to cancel their contract.
"They didn't fix what the salesman promised," Mrs. Cole said. "You see all the plans and hear all the salesman's promises and you think, 'Oh boy, that's something nice,' and then you are disappointed because they didn't keep their promises. They're a crooked outfit."
The Coles didn't get back the payments they had paid for their lot but were released from the contract
Since Lake Shore Estates and Lake Lake Ridge Estates were begin about eight years ago, 27 law suits have been filed against them.
The most recent case was filed Jan. 4 by the State or Kansas through Atty. Gen. Curt Schneider and the Board of Jefferson County Commissioners by County Attorney Gary Nafziger against DCI, DMI and two other organizations, Del Coronado Properties and Boyer Crown Homes.
LANCE POOL, assistant attorney general, said that the brief alleges that Lake Shore Estates and Lake Ridge Estates weren't operating their water and sewer properly and that they didn't meet state standards.
It also alleges that the defendants have collected money for the water and sewer districts from the development's patrons but failed and refused to accuse them of wrongdoing. There is a temporary injunction to stop them from selling lots.
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'Well, then, could I interest you in lake-front real estate?'