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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
Big senders get postal break
Wednesday, June 23, 1976
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Vol.86 No.151
See page 4
Staff photos by JAY KOELZER
Grazin'
While the temperature climbed to the upper 90s yesterday, this mare and her foal munched on grass throughout the early afternoon at a farm just south of Lawrence city limits. Rain forecast for today may drive these two under cover. Toppea weather of today is forecasted to be mild.
Dog control measure Ok'd
City Commissioners last night unanimously approved a new animal-control ordinance that would impose a mandatory fine on any convicted of an oral violation.
The ordinance, passed at last night's regular commission meeting, stated that animal control officers would be authorized to impound any dog found running at large within the corporate city limits and to issue a citation to the owner.
Within 72 hours from the time a dog is impounded, the owner may claim the dog as a pet.
If the dog were picked up again within one calendar year of its first impounding, the fee to obtain its release will be ten dollars more than the fee to obtain the dollars with each successive impounding.
The impounding fees will be paid to the city clerk, and no dog will be released until the owner has proved that the dog is immunized against hydrophobia.
Many applicants have responded to advertisements for the position of dean of the School of Social Welfare in the last two weeks, Arthur Katz, professor of social welfare and chairman of the University search committee, said recently.
"A significant number of highly qualified applicants have shown initial interest,"
Social Welfare sifts applicants
Katz said the search committee would make a recommendation to Ron Calgaard, vice-chancellor for academic affairs, as to whether the search would focus on candidates from KU's faculty by the end of the month.
Theodore Ernst, present dean of the School of Social Welfare will resign effective June 30 to resume full-time research and teaching.
A national search would necessitate the appointment of an acting dean as soon as possible.
Katz said the new dean's qualifications should include successful academic administrative experience or the potential for administrative leadership.
*The individual should have an interest in scholarship and the ability to encourage students.*
KU still awaits rating of bonds by NY agency
The University of Kansas is still awaiting the rating of bonds to be issued for the construction of a clinical facility at the University of Kansas Medical Center.
According to Keith Nitcher, vice chancellor for business affairs, the bonds, worth $22 million, were taken to New York last fall and are now available to Moody's, Inc., a bond rating agency. Moody's will rate the bonds in terms of interest, and then the bonds can be sold
Nitcher said that Moody's would probably set a rating for the bonds by the end of the week. The bonds are scheduled for sale June 29.
The proposed ordinance called for a $15 release fee for first offenders. The ordinance was amended when Commissioner Hunt said he thought the $15 fine was too high.
"We're not after the guy whose dog accidentally gets loose. We're after the habitual offender—the guy who indiscriminately lets his dog run loose."
The new ordinance also states that any dog not claimed within 72 hours of impounding became the property of the Lawrence Humane Society.
In other action, the commission approved Phase 1 of "Pedalaplan" and authorized city planners to apply for federal money to fund the project.
"Pedalplan," prepared by Myles Schachter, is a five-stage system of bicycle paths designed primarily to increase bicycle safety on Lawrence streets.
Included in Phase I, estimated to cost $106,000, is a bike path along the east side of Tennessee Street that will run from 14th街 to downtown Lawrence.
Also included in this phase are bike paths along the Kansas River levee and a path across the new Kansas River bridge that is now under construction.
The application must be approved by the U.S. Department of Transportation to obtain federal funding. Buford Watson, city manager, said he was fairly confident that the prepared plans demonstrated the necessity of the project.
"I'm confident that these proposed paths will be used extensively because they are as safe as possible."
community the proper use of the bicycle routes.
A portion of the estimated $10,060 has been allocated for advertising to teach the
The commission also approved a proposal to use the city parking lot at 8th and Vermont every Saturday morning for a farmers' market.
Watson said there had been a favorable response to the ideas of an open farmers' group.
However, Commissioner Marl Beke said he wanted to know what local grocers
Watson said, "There has been quite a bit of publicity about this, and there has been a lot of research."
The placement of a stop sign at 19th and Barker was reviewed by the commission, and the report by the city manager's office stated that the placement was beneficial in material.
Binns, however, urged the other commissioners to be a "little more apprehensive about placing stop signs and traffic signals near bus stops" in traffic too much during the rush hours.
In other action, the commission rejected a proposal to amend the city's sign ordinance, which prohibits churches and businesses on municipal signs on property other than their own.
"We need to make an effort to keep traffic moving as much as possible."
—the placement of underground utilities
—The rezoning of 9.8 acres near 27th Street and Lawrence Avenue from RS-1 to RM-1
Students at the University of Kansas will pay higher tuition beginning with the fall
Fall '77 fees up $50, $150
In other action, the commission passed ordinances regarding:
By TOM BOLITHO
—the construction of streets and sidewalks west of the country club.
Staff Writei
The Kansas Board of Regents yesterday approved the Council of Presidents' recommended increase of $6.9 million in incidental fees (tuition) for the regent colleges and universities. The Council is all the regent colleges and universities.
Kansas residents will pay $50 more a semester at colleges and universities; out-of-state students will pay a $150 increase at universities and $102.50 more at colleges. Resident students have been paying $255 a semester and an activity fee of about $80, but many students are paying $900 a semester and the activity fee KU's activity fee will be $83.90 this fall.
Glee Smith, chairman of the Kansas Board of Regents, said yesterday that the increase was largely due to rising salary costs and Other Operating Expenses (OEO). Smith said that an average 19 per cent of the total instructional budget and that the instructional budget contains all of the educational and physical plant operations at the colleges and universities.
"The regents and the legislature agreed 12 years ago that fee revenues should account for about 25 per cent of the total instructional budget. This increase is right in line with the percentage we desire," he said.
The $6.9 million increase is based on projected enrollment figures for the fall 1977 semester. Poe revenues would jump to $30 million of the instructional budget with the increase.
"Fees haven't been increased at the universities for four years, and the colleges haven't increased fees for eight years. This is a problem," said Brandon Rees, revenues at a better level. "South said,
Smith said that The Legislative Education Planning Committee of the Kansas Legislature didn't submit incidental fee recommendations to the regents.
The legislative committee had reportedly formed recommendations calling for a b.1.1 amendment to Bickford, executive officer of the Kansas Board of Regents, met with the legislative committee last week and discussed what amount of increase the regents were likely to request.
Smith said that the legislative committee could advise the legislature, but the setting of the committee would be difficult.
Keith Nitcher, vice chancellor for business affairs, said that the increase in incidental fees was inevitable and that there had been many controversies over what percentage of the instructional budget student fees should cover.
"We at the University feel that fees should be as low as possible for the student, but the 25 per cent figure is historically higher. Government considers about right," he said.
Both Smith and Nicher said that OOE costs continued to climb and that much of
the increase would be used to pay those costs. OOE cost includes the operation of libraries, museums and galleries and instructional costs. Some of the increase will be used to fund a seven per cent faculty pay approved by the regents Friday, they said.
The regents also met with the Student Advisory Committee yesterday. Tedde the regent, who is a member of the regents with recommendations for studies concerning the fee increase. The Student Advisory Committee is made up of all the regent colleges and universities.
Tasheff said that the committee's main concern was the possible counterproductive effects of an overemphasis on regents to study the effect of the increase on low-income students and university students.
Tashef proposed that the regents study the financial and resources offered by KU in their studies.
J-W's management changes work rules
Wage and hour practices for newroom employees of the World Company, publishers of the Lawrence Dully World-World have established a number of boa's employs can work each week.
The Journal-World had been the subject of an inquiry into the number of hours employees work and the amount of compensation they receive for overtime work.
Vernon Crites, wage and hour compliance officer for the labor department, wouldn't say whether his investigation of the Journal-World had been completed.
New wage and hour procedures were outlined last Wednesday by Ralph Gage, managing editor, in a meeting of newsroom employees.
Hours worked by newroom employees will be recorded and a maximum 44-hour shift is required.
newroom employees work overtime, they
work within the same two-week pay
period because he is paid
The Fair Labor Standards Act requires that all employees covered under the law,
Before last week's policy change, newsroom employees openly worked more than 44 hours each week and weren't paid for any time they worked over 44 hours.
No record of hours worked was kept at the Journal-World, and reporters were paid a straight salary. One employee said he had been fired for making a 55 hour week was uncommon.
If an employee's work is not finished by 5 p.m., he must obtain permission to remain in the newsroom. Employees must sign in if they go to the newsroom at night.
Gage said at the meeting that time cards were kept until three years ago.
Bell junkets under fire
The Observer story said investigators had uncovered several specific instances of questionable entertainment expenses related to the resort, including a side trip to Las Vegas for Kansas utility commission members to visit a Bell cable factory in
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP)—Bell System executives spend millions of dollars annually trying to influence lawmakers and rateregulators, and then hide the expenditures in vouchers labeled "conference observer" or "tableau observer reported in today's editions.
The Observer, in the final installment of a copyrighted, four-part investigative series, said much of the expense was charged indirectly to Bell customers. The Observer reported customers also faced higher rates and were more successful in efforts to win rate hikes.
The newspaper quoted Bill executives as denying that confidential expense vouchers
existed. But the paper reported that investigators in nine states, including Kansas, found last year that Bell executives had access to a confidential escape catego
Other states named by the article were Missouri, Texas, Arkansas, Oklahoma, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Florida.
“There is no confidential category of vouchers,” insisted a spokesman for the Bell parent firm, American Telephone and Radio, who said a written reply to Observer questions.
The Bell spokesman said, however, that "in some companies some vouchers have been labeled confidential to preclude these data from being read by the many employees who process and view such vouchers for company purposes."
Other questionable Bell entertainment expenses the Observer reported included:
Hosting key North Carolina legislators, including current House Speaker Jimmy Green and former Lt. Gov. Pat Tayler, on Monday night, will engage in other entertainment between 1969 and 1973, and charging the city to customers in the state. Green will appear on the Observer report.
—Paying the way for the five South Carolina Public Service Commission members and their wives to attend long courses at the several seminars at Hilton Head Island, S.C.
- Paying former South Dakota Lt. Gov. Bill Dohover $55,000 in what were called public relations consulting fees while he was in office. Dohover admitted during a hearing in May on a rate hike request by the telephone co. that he had taken the fees.
Metric measurement conversion no problem for KU professors
According to the South Dakota attorney general's office, Duoherty won't be prosecuted for any offense because South Dakota has no conflict-of-interest law.
By DAVESTEFFEN
Conversion to the metric system may intimidate most people, but to some University of Kansas professors it's a bit of almost complete and not at all painful.
In 1895, the Voluntary Metric System Bill, which outlines a 10-year plan for voluntary transition to the metric system, will be in its last year of operation. The Bill projects that Americans will have weathered the problems of transition by then.
"Transition to the metric system will be a hardware problem rather than an intellectual one," Gordon Wiseman, associate professor of astronomy department, said yesterday.
"The concepts of the system are easily mastered," he said, "Kids take to them like a duck to water. The intellectual problem will be zero."
Paul McCarthy, professor of mathematics, said his department is relatively unaffected by the conversion process. The mathematics department has texts using the metric system and texts using the current (English) system, he said.
The Observer said the spokesman was asked for the names or types of people entertained through confidential vouchers, and replied: "AT&T does not maintain copies of operating subsidiary telephone companies' expense vouchers."
Wiseman said the major problem would be adapting machines, tools and machine parts. About two-thirds of his department's equipment was used in the new system's specifications, he said.
They will continue using whatever is in a particular book, McCarthy said.
KU's chemistry department has always used metric measurements, but must purchase most chemicals in English units, Alfred Lata, chemistry lecturer, said. His department plans no special conversion activities.
—Taking Missouri Secretary of State K. Ciprattk and Missouri Public Service Commissioner William R. Clark on separate deer and antler hunting trips in February 1975 after the hunting trips were disclosed by former Southern Western Bell executive James H. Ashley, who said Clark took more than six trips as a Bell guest, the newspaper said.
version. Markings were reset to fit metric standards for the Kansas Relays this
Doug Messler, assistant athletic director, and track and field is the only KU sport director in Missouri.
"We don't anticipate any action in the near future. The national rules committee determines our changes and there haven't been rumblings of any," Messer said.
Max Lucas, assistant to the chancellor,
said most metric changes will be dealt with
through departments rather than at the
University administration level.
Flu shots for adults only
WASHINGTON (AP)—Federal advisory committees yesterday recommended that the nation go ahead with a federal plan to vaccinate children against the coronavirus by off a decision on vaccinating children.
Researchers said a study on vaccinating children and young adults should be completed by late August and a decision made then on how to proceed with children.
Committees advising the U.S. Public Health Service said that after considering vaccine options, the flu vaccine see no reason to change plans to immunize the entire adult population.
Dr. David J, Sencer, director of the Center for Disease Control in Atlanta, said there is little data on the effectiveness of vaccines.
adult immunization shortly after Labor Dav.
Sencer said the committees will decide within two weeks on the composition and selection of the board.
One of the problems is that Congress is still considering a Ford administration bill that would require the government to invest in new military technologies for human injuries beyond their control.
He conceded there have been problems with the $13-million flu program recommending an exemption.
The proposal was sent to Congress last week as the administration sought to overcome legal complications facing the insurance companies, and we inadequate liability insurance coverage.
Runner-up
Staff photo
Jeff Hodges, Lawrence resident, lost to Tom Kurata, also a Lawrence resident, in a men's intramural singles tournament for 4-8. Dedicated for applications for the tournament, he is a member of the USA Tennis Association.