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New Mexico Daily Lobo, Volume 085, No 2, 8/25/1980. University of New Mexico UNM Digital Repository 1980 The aiD ly Lobo 1971 - 1980 8-25-1980 New Mexico Daily Lobo, Volume 085, No 2, 8/ 25/1980 University of New Mexico Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/daily_lobo_1980 Recommended Citation University of New Mexico. "New Mexico Daily Lobo, Volume 085, No 2, 8/25/1980." 85, 2 (1980). https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/daily_lobo_1980/85 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the The aiD ly Lobo 1971 - 1980 at UNM Digital Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in 1980 by an authorized administrator of UNM Digital Repository. For more information, please contact [email protected]. ·). -,r.:: ,,~~ L'·-~,J.,.<1·,. ·'"-• ) 1 "... ' ~ "j\1\?.() ' •t L p..uu?.- ..(q ___________D. __ Cl ____ l_._~---.-() __. ___ () __· __ ~_ .... ~-~-~-~--;~t._,\_ VOL. 85 NO.2 Monday, August 25, 1980 UNM Radio Board Will Review Firing Lee Beck cooperative. Because of non­ cooperation from Dr. Johnson, The KUNM Radio Board voted Daley asked the board to in­ at their regular meeting on Aug. 8 vestigate. to review the dismissal of KUNM Daley also asked Mansfield to disc jockey, Pat Kiska, known to reinstate Kiska until after the closed his listeners as Malachi Mudgong, session meeting in which the board in a closed session. The date and could review the circumstances time of the meeting will be an­ surrounding the case. nounced later. Kiska was not available for Kiska was dismissed by KUNM comment staton Manager Paul Mansfield. Volunteers and staff members Mansfield said the vice president of were present at Tuesday's meeting Student Affairs, Marvin "Swede" and voiced complaints and Johnson, directed him to fire Kiska suggestions. after Kiska played the controversial One staff member said the song song, "I'm Proud to be an Asshole had been played at least once a from El Paso" on his Friday night week for three years and no radio show, The Asylum. disciplinary action had been taken. The board will send a memo to KUNM volunteers complained Dr. Johnson, asking him to bring a because the station has no policy copy of the song and all pertinent pertaining to volunteers and asked information pertaining to Kiska's that a policy be developed. The dismissal to the closed meeting. radio staff and volunteers also The autumn season approaches with one of its most familiar spectacles-touch football. The board also asked Dr. asked that personnel of the station Already, these legions of village green heroes can be seen everywhere living out their Johnson to bring to the board be represented on the board. dreams of making the big plays or exchanging tall tales of when they did. (Photo by Dick communications sent and received John Boyd, spokesman for the by his office, including Community Advisory Board, said Kettlewell) documentation from New Mexico the CAB members in a unanimous State Patrol Chief, Martin Vigil. vote based upon information The song was reportedly available to them, "deplored the recorded during broadcasts on June manner in which Kiska was dismissed and in which the ad­ New Tenants Union Formed 20 and 25 by a Santa Fe listener and sent to Chief Vigil. The board has ministration by-passed the station requested the name of the listener management and board which has from Dr. Johnson. jurisdiction in this tYPe of questioning," To Fight 'Unfair' Treatment Board member Mike Daley asked the radio board to take the Kiska Mansfield repeatedly stated the controversy under advisement in dismissal was not his decision. J. Chavez The new owners have threatened The apartments are not worth the closed session and determine the Daley asked Mansfield, "Would to give three-day eviction notices to $240, said tenant Jill Adams. administration's involvement in the you have fired Kiska if Swede Tenants of apartments at 1400, every tenant if the union takes any ''With the other landlords, we used dismis~al. Johnson had not directed you to?u 1404, 1408, 1412 and 1416 Vassar action. to overlook all the apartments' Daley charges that the vice Mansfield answered, "Johnson N.E., formed the Shumac Tenants The rent ranges from $150 to deficiencies because the rent was president circumvented KUNM demanded that he be fired." Union to combat what they termed, $200 a month. Rogers will allegedly cheap.'' policy procedures by intervening in In other action, the board voted "callous, unfair;; treatment. raise the rent to $240. The union The union attorneys say all personnel problems. Daley said the to review KUNM's charter during a Shumac spokesman, Jack was formed to stop the increase and Rogers' actions were legal. board has the mechanisms and the special meeting to be held Aug. 26. Mitchell, said the apartments were protest the treatment received by Tenant John Frazier said, u1 authority to deal with problems of By reviewing the charter, the bought by Mike Rogers, who the tenants. believe this union is the only such this type and the administration question of whom the staion is masqueraded as a spokesman for a "Mr. Rogers told us the rent was one in the Albuquerque area. does not have the authority to trying to serve and the various types California based company. Rogers going up, and if we didn't like it, we Renters need to realize that they become involved. of formats will be explored. then claimed to be the owner, could leave. There are some people have rights, and they need fight for Daley said he asked for In the manager's yearly report raising the rent between 20 and 60 in this complex that have been here thcm.u documentation pertaining to the given by Mansfield, Mansfield percent. He served an eviction since 1968. We think Rogers "We are calling attention to this dismissal from Dr. Johnson's office said, "You can't serve every unmet notice to Mitchell, saying he needed overdid it. Nobody would have because we want people to realize and the vice president was not continued on page 8 Mitchell's apartment for an office. been upset over a reasonable in­ this could happen to them," said crease," said Mitchell. tenant Larry Caldwell, a UNM Some of the tenants who are on student. "Now that most young fixed incomes say they will be people cannot afford a house, they unable to stay with the increase. are renting. Tenants are not serfs of Credit Union Libel Suit Dan Hardy, a UNM student, said the landlord. We have rights. We he moved 'to the apartments just don't think it is fair, and we are because the rent was cheap. "I going to say something about it. wasn't here a month and the rent That is the only way it will change, Seeking $2 Million Damages went up.'' if we stand up for ourrights.'' James C. Johnson Coronado Credit Union was having credit union was insolvent and Staff Writer financial difficulties. The board of would be placed in the hands of its directors had suspended dividend bonding com patty. King Wins Nomination Bid The Coronado Credit Union has payments in May and obtained a The television station either knew filed a $2 million libel suit in $100,000 loan guarantee from their that the news report was not true, For 2nd District House Seat District Court against KOAT-TV, insurance agency, the New Mexico the suit claims, or acted with an Albuquerque television station. Credit Union Share Insurance reckless disregard as to whether or The civil suit, which was filed Corporation. not the report was true. David W. King, secretary of the the meeting she had told reporters A tun on the credit union by state Department of Finance and that King "doesn't represent the Aug. 8, seeks compensatory and Byron Treaster, the attorney punitive damages from KOA T members seeking to close their Administration and nephew of New people of the 2nd District. He's accounts occured on July 18 and representing the credit union, could Mexico Governor Bruce King won much too liberal." (Channel 7) for a news broadcast not be reached for comment. 21. About $500,000 was with• the Democratic nomination for the Mrs. Runnels is now considering the station aired about July 17. lit an interview several weeks The suit claims the broadcast was drawn, and the credit union was 2nd Congressional District running as an independent can- forced to obtain a second loan ago, state banking official Snider Saturday in Grants. didatc and said that she will make "a patent libel or patent slanderu Campbell attributed increased which defamed the Coronado guarantee. By a margin of 55-27, members her decision on Monday, member withdrawals to "mqfia of the Democratic state central Before the committee vote, Credit Union, an association of Financial institutions generally publicity.'' past and present· employees of committee from the 2nd District former state Senator Aubrey Dunn invest most of their funds, retaining Campbell singled out KOAT-TV chose King over Dorothy Runnels, of Alamogordo withdrew from the ONM. only enough cash to meet expected As a result of KOAT's broadcast, reporter Janet Blair for special widow of the late Rep. Harold race because of Jack of support, withdrawals. When withdrawals are criticism. "The problem wasn't Runnels. The only other candidate saying he would support whomever "members withdrew large sums of greater than expected, additional money, 11 the suit alleges, forcing what she said, but the way she said nominated was Sierra County was selected by the committee. cash is obtained by selling securities it,,. he explained. Manager Gil Olguin, who received King said he will leave his current the credit union to borrow cash to or borrowing money.
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