Columbia Missourian Newspaper 1984-03-04

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76th Year No. 147 Good Morning! it's Sunday, March 4, 1984 5 Sections 44 Pages 50 Cents
Brian Slallcop Fast break
J. J. Sheley, center, passes to a teammate
while Stanley Larson, left, plays defense dur--
ing a recess basketball game at Benton E-lementary
School, 1410 Hinkson Ave.
Laws about
conflicting
interests
seem weak
By Erik Godchaux
Missourian staff writer
Fourth Ward Councilman
Pat Barnes is the landlord of
more than 600 apartments in
Columbia. Mayor John West- lun- d
owns scores of apart-ments.
Don Mosby is a home-owner.
I None favors the ordinance,
j scheduled for introduction at
I Monday night's City Council
j meeting, that would require
I tough new energy efficiency
standards for all housing, in
the city. Estimates of the av-erage
cost to a property owner
run from $ S90 to $ 1,500 per
unit Barnes says the cost to
his firm would be at least $ 60,- 0- 90
for installing storm win-dows
alone.
But do the council members'
private interests conflict with
their public ones?
Hie answer isn't clear.
Conflict of interest laws in
the city and state are weak
and largely unenforced. Bom
coy and state law does prohib-it
using public office for per-- i
sonal financial gam, but nei-ther
says anything about the
avoidance Of fipannal loss.
A Columbia law says that a
council member " shall not
Sm DISCLOSING, Page 8A
J
as fights rage in Beirut
BEIRUT, Lebanon ( UPI) Leb-anon's
army traded mortar fire with
Syrian- backe- d Moslem militiamen
in and around Beirut Saturday in the
fiercest battles in weeks as Presi-dent
Amin Gemayel held talks with
two opposition leaders
At least two people in Christian
east Beirut were killed and 25 were
injured around the capital in the
fighting, which intensified despite a
reported cease- fir- e pledged by Syri-an
President Hafez Assad.
Lebanese army troops and rebel
militiamen, using flares to light up
the night sky, exchanged heavy mor-tar
and rocket- propelle- d grenade
fire along the " green line" that sepa-rates
Beirut into its Moslem and
Christian halves.
About a dozen mortar shells
crashed late Saturday into Am
Mreise, a seaside neighborhood in
Moslem west Beirut close to the U. S.
Embassy, which was guarded by
Marines, police sources said.
The sources said the mortars
" might have strayed" from the
fighbng along the green line No
American injuries were reported
North of Beirut, Gemayel met with
former President Suleiman Fran-jeih,
a Christian, and former Pre-mier
Rashid Karami, a Sunni Mos-lem,
both of the Synan- backe- d
National Salvation Front, as other
rebel leaders gathered in Damascus
to discuss the newly proposed cease-fire
Beirut Radio said Gemajel met
with Franjeih and Karami in the
context of efforts to translate the
agreements in Damascus to practi-cal
developments on the ground "
" The way is now open to saha- tion,- "
Beirut Radio quoted Karami
as saying after the meeting"
Franjeih and Karami later were
expected to fly to Damascus for
talks with Syrian officials, Druze
leader Walid Jumblatt and Shiite
Moslem leader Nabih Bern
The leftist newspaper As Safir said
opposition leaders were expected to
discuss plans for a lasting cease- fir- e
and their conditions for resuming
national reconciliation talks in Swit-zerland
The Lebanese ambassador to Swit-zerland
has already asked the Swiss
government if it was prepared for a
second round of talks
Gemayel returned to Beirut Fri-day
from a two- da- y summit in Syria,
where Assad reportedly guaranteed
that Synan- backe- d rebels would ob-serve
a cease- fir- e beginning Friday
night
Residents said, however, some of
the fiercest fighting in weeks raged
in the Lebanese capital Beirut radio
described the overnight explosions
as a " mad shelling of east and west
Beirut" that kept up unbl a lull at
daybreak Saturday.
Phalange Radio said rebel shells
and rockets from Syrian- controlle- d
mountain positions crashed near the
presidential palace m Baabda
Druze Radio said the army was shel-ling
three Druze mountain villages
Earlier, rebel militiamen fired
rounds of mortar fire into east Bei-rut,
Wobdhaven talks at a standstill
By Tracey Allendorf
M- ssoun- an staff writer
Contract negotiations between
Woodhaven Learning Center and
Woodhaven School which rents
space at the center are at a stand-still
after five hours of deliberation
between the two administrative
boards Friday night Conflict arose
when the center introduced certain
demands to be added to the present
rental contract
If an agreement isn't reached by
April 13, administrators said, the
center will open its own school for
mentally handicapped children.
" We were hopeful of ironing out
our problems, but it didn't work out
Learning Center may open
new school for handicapped
that way," said Joe Machens,
spokesman for the center
The Learning Center's demands
include rearrangement of the two
staffs and the right for members of
both boards to be allowed to vote at
meetings of the other organization's
board of directors.
As it stands now, the master con-tract
deals only with Woodhaven
School's rental agreement of the
center's faculties
" It's mainly difference in philoso-phy,"
said Machens in regards to the
dispute He had no further comment
on the differences, but he said he
feels negotiations will begin again
soon.
" I'm convinced that both boards
have the welfare of the Woodhaven
children at heart," Machens said,
" but they differ in their philosophy
on how the education is to be admin-istered."
Rick Lance, spokesman for the
Woodhaven School, would not
See CENTER, Page 8A
University administrators learn to live with criticism
Each deals with job pressures differently
By Troy Comfort
Missounan staff writer
In Shakespeare's " Antony and Cle-opatra,"
a messenger is beaten after
delivering bad news Top University
administrators must feel themselves
in a similar position.
Saddled by budget reductions they
do not want, they nevertheless must
translate state government funding
decisions into program and person-nel
cuts at the University. And like
Shakespeare's messenger, they en-dure
criticisms for a situation that is
beyond their control
Pour administrators m particular
have wielded the financial ax in re-sponse
to a 25 percent reduction in
the University's buying power in the
last three years. About ISO full- tim- e
University employees have lost then- job- s,
most because of cuts in state
funding, others because of cuts in
grants.
University Chancellor Barbara
Uehling and Provost Ronald Bonn
sit atop the University's administra-tive
structure and findthemselves
criticized for any program changes.
Norman Moore, vice chancellor of
Student Personnel and Auxiliary
Services, and Duane Stucky, vice
chancellor of Administrative Serv-ices,
have been on the front lines
wnen reductions are implemented.
They also have taken personal
blame for orders theybad to issue.
. Each of them deals with the pres-sure
in different ways, and each
agrees mat family tea are impor-tant
during times of stress. Uehling
has met tie situation bead- o- n and
largely set her personal life aade for
the duration. Bonn escapes the prea- sur- es
by working with bis wife and
daughters in the breeding and train-ing
of Arabian horses. Moore muDs
each day's events with his wife.
Stucky puts his troubles on hold and
goes fishing.
Though the context differs from
that of professors with frozen sala-ries,
each of these administrators
has been forced to deal with similar
pressures.
UEHLING." Being chancellor of
this campus is my life," Uehling
says. " It'sa24- hour- a- dayj- ob "
The first female to bead a campus
in the University of Missouri system,
Uehling became chancellor in 1978
after holding the University of Okla-homa's
provostjob for two years.
She says she deals with the pres-sure
by reconciling herself to it. The
chancellor's job, she knew from the
onset, would be a pressure cooker.
" The pressure is something you
know is going to be there when you
take a job as an administrator. You
cant afford to think a lot about the
negabves of the job."
Uehling, a mother of two who is
married to economics professor
Stanley Johnson, says her private
life barely exists.
" Instead of having a public life
and a private life, I have nothing but
a public Me," Uehhng says. " Every-thing
you do, your associates and the
choices you are making in social
gatherings are dictated far more by
my Job at this University than they
are a private choice." Still, she man-ages
to find a httle tune to relax with
music or by walking.
No matter how great the pressure,
she observes, the ability to handle it
has to come from within, although,
she says, " My friendship with my
husband is an important support"
" It takes strongly independent
people, I think, to guide an institu-tion
at times like these," she says.
" In the final analysis, you have to be
comfortable with yourself and your
decision- making.- "
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BUNN. Bunn has his horses to
take his mind off his job
" It is distracting, which is good for
me, to realize there is more to life
than simply being provost," Bunn
says. " Sharing my family's interests
in the horses, understanding their
problems and frustrations in the
Arabian horse business, is probably
good forme."
Bunn became provost, the princi-pal
academic officer at the Universi-ty,
in 1930 after serving as vice presi-dent
for academic affairs at the
State University of New York at Buf-falo
for four years.
The soft- spoke- n Bunn hints that
administrators sometimes place un-necessary
pressure on themselves.
" We all should have a sense of
modesty of our importance at this
University," Bunn says. " The most
important idea for administrators to
remember is that this institution has
a basic toughness and a remarkable
capacity to survive and adjust"
For Bunn, that means making do
with fewer dollars.
" The most frustrating thing, I sus-pect,
in academic administration is
not being able to purchase a solution
to the problem," he says. " The pur-chasing
of solutions days are over."
The days of criticism and second
guessing ere not
" The thing that hurts the most is
to be criticized by those whom you
have profound respect for. Criticism
from the faculty for decisions which
were made with a commitment to
the values we uphold at Missouri can
be extremely hurtful," Bunn says.
" The problems and concerns that
occupy my time as the provost dont
go away when I leave the office. Se- parat- ag
your personal feelings from
your professional feelings is very
See FAMILIES, Pge8A
Barbara Uehling Norman Moore
Duane Stucky Ronald Bunn
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