THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Solar home looks to future living
Vol.87,No.76
Wednesday, January 26, 1977
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KC vetoed as fall site for KU-MU
By MARSHA WOOLERY
Staff Reporter
The 1977 KU-MU football game will be played in Lawrence Nov. 19 and not in Kansas City, Mo., Clyde Walker, director of athletics, said yesterday.
A Student Senate resolution opposing the move to arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City, Mo., was premature, Walker said, because at the time the resolution was made, the debate was discuss the feasibility of the location with the Missouri athletic department.
"I MOBLIGATED to look into things for the good of the athletic department," he said. "But this is no different from 50 other things I've been doing for its benefit."
The discussion with the Missouri athletic department showed that moving the game to Arrowhead would be unfeasible, Walker said, and no further discussions are planned.
"I in order to move a game off any campus
would I have to Eight conference games?
Walter said."
ALL KU games have been scheduled through 1990, he said.
The Senate passed the resolution Oct. 20 and later conducted a poll of 119 students, asking their opinions on the Senate action. Of those polled, 63 per cent said they agreed with the opposition to moving the game, 31 per cent disagreed and 8 per cent were undecided.
Grubaugh said she was afraid students would return to KU in the fall and learn that their parents were sick.
JILL GRUBAUGH, committee chairman and sponsor of the bill said, "I still believe we did the right thing. Knowing the athletic board the way I do, I just had a look at that the first time students would know about the proposal was when it was reality."
"Unfortunately, the board works that way," she said. "This would at least let the students know what was being considered." Grubaugh said board members disregarded an earlier suggestion by Dave Shapiro, chairman of the recreation advisory board, to survey students on the proposal.
She said Walker often neglected the best interest of students.
"It's not a dead issue," she said. "It's
died now but in a couple of years it will
be able."
Lake pattern
Paths in the ice on Potter Lake yesterday made skating possible for these students as moderate weather continued. Today's high temperature is expected to be near 40.
Bell is confirmed, 75-21 after 7-hour Senate fight
From Our News Services
WASHINGTON - The Senate confirmed Griffin Bell for attorney general yesterday, thwarting a Republican effort to stop the nomination.
Bell was approved, 75-21, after seven hours of sometimes spirited debate. Republican Sen. Bob Dole of Kansas attacked Bell's close ties with President Obama, and Brooke, R-Mass, and Birch Bayh, D-Ind, clashed on Bell's civil rights record.
Dole criticized Bell for saying he would ask for FBI Director Clarence Kelley's resignation, saying a forced resignation only allowed him to politicize the FBI direction."
"JUDGE BELL is by no means non-political," Dole emphasized. "He contributed money to the President's campaign, and he helped write a campaign speech and was involved in the vice-presidential selection process." Dole said the selection smacked of political cronyism, the very kind of apposition that Mr. Bush himself criticized during the camisaderie.
Finally Dole said the Democratic-controlled Senate was operating under a double standard in favoring a man with Bell's background.
"Would this Senate be as eager to confirm this nomination if last November's election had turned out differently, if President Ford had won and nominated a man with the same background as Judge Bell to be attorney general?" Dole asked.
"WOULD THE same senators who are prepared to vote for confirmation today have voted the same way for the nominee of the vice president of a restrictive country clubs? Would the Senate confirm a Republican president's appointment of a close political associate, a man who contributed a sizeable sum to the President's campaign?" The answer is objection.
Brooke, the only black senator, criticized Bell's record as a federal judge and as chief of staff to segregationist Gov. Ernest Vandiver of Georgia in 1859 and 1860.
Brooke moved to send the nomination back to the Senate Judiciary Committee for further hearings, but that motion was rejected. 70-25.
"I HAVE EXAMINED the record, and find it replete with omissions, cavalier answers, factual disputes and insensitive responses," Brooke said. "If allegations of
Lack of quorum halts drop policy
Staff Reporter
The proposal, which would have limited course withdrawal to the first seven weeks of a semester, was held for later discussion. It had been recommended by the Educational Policies and Procedures Committee and this was the third time it had come before the assembly in more than a year.
The College Assembly yesterday debated a proposal for a more restrictive class with withdrawal policy but could not act on it because the assembly lacked a quorum.
By JOHN MCANULTY
Before anyone raised the fact that a before woman wasn't present, the assembly voted to replace her. The vote was approved.
conflicts of interest, breaches of the Judicial Council of Ethics, and unethical campaign activities from the bench have been raised, can any of us feel reassured that these allegations have been successfully retreated?
Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., joined Bayh in supporting Bell: "I have concluded that Judge Bell is fully qualified to serve as attorney general. No one has questioned his position."
"We should be absolutely certain, absolutely convinced, absolutely and innately persuaded that Judge Bell is the best judge in the department in a new and more difficult era."
Another complaint was that students would be forced to prematurely withdraw from a class before they had a clear grasp of the material and a probable idea of their final grades.
make the two-thirds majority vote needed
at the district council until the lack of
votes was pelled.
In response to that claim, James Carothers, assistant professor of English, said that many students in classes with large enrollments drop these classes after the first test. He said the withdraw rate in smaller classes was fairly consistent.
"No one has raised any reasonable
THE MAJOR complaint against the policy change was that it was too vague and unhelpful.
OTHER ADVOCATES of the policy said that the present policy which allows students 12 weeks in which to withdraw from a course, was too costly to the University and required too much of the faculty's time.
Sen. Birch Bayh, D-Ind., led the pro-Bell forces with confidence. Some of Brooke's statements, however, caused Bayh to imply that he was not in favor and remark for which Bayh latter apologized.
"THE QUESTION IS, will the man be a good attorney general? I came away with the telling the man will be. 'Bayh said. "He told me that he was hated by run and away from his mistakes.
The faculty could save time under the new policy, according to John Davidson, professor of physics, because fewer students would withdraw from courses.
Davidson said that since the current withdrawal policy was instituted in 1973, 20 to 25 per cent of students withdraw from liberal arts and sciences courses each semester. The same policy would haphaedron enrollment and would result in improved classes.
Even Dole, however, conceded that Bell would be confirmed, and that he would be adequate. "I have no doubt Judge Bell is an officer," a man of character and high integrity."
IN OTHER business, the assembly voted unanimously to approve the addition of several new courses in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Several new faculty members in the college were also introduced to the members of the assembly.
The college also announced today that elections for the 1877-78 student membership to the College Assembly will be Feb. 16-17. The elections were originally to be sometime in March but will now be run in conjunction with the Student Senate elections, according to Eleanor Turk, assistant to the dean of the college.
Bell will take his oath of office at the Justice Department today, a White House spokesman.
But Sen. Lowell Welcker did question a man so close to the President. Pence
question regarding his integrity," he continued. "No one has challenged the policies he has stated he would pursue—including full enforcement of the civil rights policies many of us believe should be the highest priority to the new attorney general."
"IT IS VITAL that the country's chief law enforcement officer not be chosen from among the President's pals or politicians," Weicker said. "Although I am concerned about Mr. Bell's mediocre record on civil matters, the basis is based on the urgent necessity to correct it." He held the widely held belief that there are two standards of justice in the United States.
By JOHN MUELLER Staff Reporter
KU center to focus on old age problems
The problems of aging may seem remote to most University of Kansas students, but establishment of a KU gerontology center could help bring these problems into focus.
Charles Longino, associate professor of sociology and chairman of KU's committee on aging, yesterday called the center "an exciting development." It was established last week when the Kansas Board of Agriculture proposed a committee on aging proposal written by Longino.
Gerontology is the study of the diseases and other problems associated with growing old. KU's center will include programs at the Lawrence and KU Medical Center campuses and the Wichita branch of the Med Center.
WICHTA STATE and Kansas State universities have gerontology centers. K-State's was established more than a year ago, Longino said. Based upon the committee on aging proposal, the KU center will:
*Be a clearing house of information for departments and schools on both campuses.
*Be a laiison between the University and other Kansas institutions where research, teaching and service activities in gerontology are taking place.
$\star$ Foster research in gerontology by providing a formal program from which faculty members can seek help to obtain research grant sponsors.
*Help design workshops, institutes and short-term planning conferences for community and professional organizations that help the aged.
- Sponsor a KU Faculty Colloquium on Aging.
- Encourage the development of courses relating to aing.
- Concentrate efforts in the eastern part of
Kansas to work with agencies that help the elderly.
Chancellor *Archaic Dykes* called the center "coordinating mechanism."
THE CENTER will coordinate, he said, by assembling all faculty members interested in aging and giving them a common base of operations. The expanded activity may attract future research funds, be said.
KU has seven courses that focus on aging, and 87 others partly devoted to aging. Eighty-six faculty members in 36 academic or do research in aspects of gerontology.
Many of KU's professional schools are affected by the new center. The College of Health Sciences and the schools of nursing, education, law all teach some aspects of gerontology.
Robert Kugel, executive vice chancellor for the College of Health Sciences, said last month that he would provide a needed focus for attracting outside funds not only for the ongoing, but for the developing interests of our faculty in biomedical research and health care delivery.
The type of administration for the center, which won't be a University department, is under consideration. Under the proposal it will require two codirectors—one for each campus.
THE CENTER will also have an executive council. The directors and researchers in the control of KU's graduate study and research programs, but according to the proposal, the director initially will work in the institute for Social and Environmental Studies.
The center's offices could later be moved to KU research facilities. The move depends on whether the center attracts a budget that exceeds its budget until it receives outsite* funding.
Pinball habits hard to kick
By JOE RADCLIFFE
Staff Reporter
The pinball room at the Wagon Wheel Cafe, 507 W. 14th St., is in a somewhat corridor, as if the owners wanted to keep the silver ball fanatics away from the regular customers.
The room is small—just big enough to hold four machines. The walls, painted blood-red, are cracked where players have whirled and sent their frustrated fists crashing through the plaster.
It still is early in the evening, and the bar is almost empty. Mark Buhler, a manager at the Wheel, seats himself on some crates, puts his foot up and expounds on the state of pinnail in
The machines stand on the wooden floor, their
sound sparks part of their lights blinking
through the one-set-door mechanism.
"Pinball machines are more popular here than the TV games," he says pointing to the only electronic game in the Wheel. "People like noise. We have a bar, but the TV games don't make much noise."
According to the owners of several Lawrence bars, an average machine earns about $200 a month for the establishment that rents it and supplies space for it. Many machines in Lawrence have been built by the Massachusetts St. which maintains the machines and collects 50 per cent of the cash receipts.
Buhler says the machines are worth the space they occupy and help pay the bills, but don't pay for them.
Buhler gets a draw for a customer and sits down again. The Wheel doesn't have much of a problem with the wheel.
"We have some trouble with people breaking into them. But not too many people break the glass, which surprises me, 'cause I always do when I play," he says.
"Weird," he snaps throwing up his hands. "You gonna be weird to play two hours a day."
It is now later in the evening, and people start to filter in through the front door. The four-legged bandits in the Red Room are no longer alone. Several students are there with them-yelling, swearing, kicking the wall and feeding quarters to the machines.
"Some guys come in here four nights a week and play for two hours," he says.
Buhier says the Wheel's regular clientele includes several pinball addicts.
What type of people are they?
The best player in the room is also the only self-proclaimed addict.
As the ball drains out the side, the player stares down at the glass in disbelief, slams his fist and clenches his jaw.
"It's like alcoholism," he says, slapping the man across. "You know a real adlict when you start plotting."
Several minutes later, he and his friends walk out of the Red Room, leaving one free game behind. The room is empty, the machines are being again. But they don't stand unused for long.
In walks a tall, skinny student, with long blond
bair parted on the side and a wool sweater over a button-down collar shirt.
He steps up to the second machine. It's called "Wizard," and the back glass sports likenesses of stars from "Tommy," a movie about a blind, deaf and dumb pinball wizard.
Rick Shanks isn't blind, deaf or dumb, but he is a wizard. He pushes the reset button, sending the machine into several seconds of spasms until the silver ball pops out onto the plunger.
The Wizard loses the first game. He calmly inserts his own quarter into the machine. He plays the machine for the rest of the night, but never needs to put in another quarter.
The Wizard lives near the Wheel and comes to play his machine nearly every night.
"I'm not addicted," he says, laughing to himself. "Pinball is just a form of competition that I
A few minutes and several thousand pointes later, he has boasted the machine to the tune of "Smoothie".
He presses the reset button to start another game, slowly pulls the plunger back and releases it. The ball shoots up and onto the playing field. It bounces and falls into a bonus hole at the top of the table.
"I really learned how to play by watching some guys play in the Union," he says. "They were really killing the machine. They wouldn't just play for points; they'd play to see who'd win the most
See WIZARDS page 5
Wizards all
Every chance they get, they try to beat the plbhail machines. Scott Stewart, Prairie Village freshman
Staff photo by MARIANNE MAURIN
Dave Kohlenberg, evergreen Park freshman; and Mike Kohlens, freshman, take a study break to challenge or ask for help.