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Attitudes separate N. Lawrence from city
Bv BERNEIL JUHNKE
Staff Writer
Some residents think more than a river separates North Lawrence from the rest of the city.
City aid for improvements such as street repair, sidewalks, traffic lights and recreational facilities hasn't met the needs of North Lawrence, some residents said last week.
Muriel Paul, North Lawrence Planning Council (NLPC) organizer, said the city's 'at large' election system made it difficult for a North Lawrence representative to be elected to the city commission because a large body of votes was necessary.
IT HAS BEEN more than 25 years since North Lawrence had a representative on the city commission. Last year John Taylor, 328 Locust, was defeated as a candidate for the commission.
Heather Reis, another NLPc organizer, said,
"North Lawrence people aren't represented, but
they are."
Louise Gulley, a member of the North Lawrence Improvement Association (NLA), said there was a lack of interest and communication within the lack of concerning the problems of North Lawrences.
Betty Mallonee, secretary of the NLAJ, said she thought that North Lawrence had a better rapport with the city commission in the last two years, but that it deserately needed a representative.
"WE'RE GOING to fight very strongly in the next election," she said.
The NLAI was formed in 1968 and chartered in 1983. It allocates the Community Development Fund to local schools.
The NLPC was formed less than two years ago as a study group to make long-term plans for North Carolina. The NLPC members were opened to the public about nine months ago. The NLPC was formed as a planning organization, with the support of the NC state legislature.
SHE SAID the University of Kansas real estate and business interests rule the city.
"It is in their interest to see this area changed from residential to industrial." she said.
She said it was difficult to get loans by buy private, property in North Lawrence and that young people who rent in North Lawrence often go to South Lawrence when they want to buy homes.
Reis said that banks charge higher interest rates for housing development loans in North Lawrence.
PAUL SAID that North Lawrence needed an
organization that wasn't just concerned with pot holes in streets and wouldn't accept a "bended" floor.
"There is contempt by the city commission toward North Lawrence," she said. "I watching a girl walk on the street."
Mallonee said that residential areas in North Lawrence have recently been rezoned for commercial and industrial use. Her house at 404 Locus industrial has been rezoned for intensive industrialization.
She said many residents weren't aware that their property was to be rezoned until it had happened. Residents didn't receive letters informing them of meetings where the action was to take place, she said.
IF A resident didn't see the newspaper announcement, she said, he was voiceless when the police raided his home.
"The city has an obligation to property owners to let them know." said Mallonee.
She said the city wasn't considering North Lawrence's problems in its plans for the future.
"Industrial and residential areas can't live together," she said.
"The city has written off North Lawrence as an industrial park," she said.
REIS SAID the city apparently didn't care about North Lawrence.
North Lawrence needs the city's help in cleaning up Second Street. Reis said.
"We can't clean up our own image, she said," the rest of Lawrence sees us as that one little piece.
SHE SAID the city should buy some of the businesses along second when they change hands and move to another city.
Paul said NIPAK, a fertilizer wholesaler, should be relocated and the area made into a park area.
Storm sewers, new sidewalks, more street lights, trees to replace those the city has cut down, resurfaced streets, a community center, and recreational facilities including a swimming pool and tennis courts, are some of the requests that have been made by North Lawrence.
Mallonee said the city bus service to North Lawrence was duration less than years ago and did not like it, says it requires
MALLONEEN SAID that the NLA requested $400,000 for specific community improvement projects.
"What can you do with that kind of money?" Reis asked.
Development Funds, which she said were shared with Far East Lawrence.
NORTH LAWRENCE received $3,344 for the 1975-
fiscal year and will receive approximately the
same amount in subsequent years.
Malloween said that the NLAI spent the money on playground equipment for Wooddawn Elementary School, alley lights, trees and office supplies for the NLAI.
Tom Cooley, city rehabilitation specialist, said that the 1975-76 fiscal year was the first Community Development Fund program year. The city is granted $292,000 per year. he said.
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
In 1974 the NLAI received $10,000 in revenue sharing funds. Mallaine said $1,000 of it was given to the city to buy property owned by Lawrence Alison at 632 N. 79th, so the Lyons Park in North Dakota was purchased and equipment and books for Woodlawn were also purchased. Mallaine said there was about $200 left.
See NORTH LAWRENCE page 3
Mike Wilden, assistant city manager, said there were seven entitlement periods under the revenue code.
KANSAN
Vol.86 No.149
Mondav. June 21. 1976
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Staff photo by JAY KOELZER
Summer's right for softball
Lawrence sophomore, occurred late yesterday afternoon and involved five people. No one was injured. Investigating the accident were James Burridge, David Watters and Todd Kelley.
The Brown's Grove bridge, on the way to Lone Star Lake saw quite a lot of action Sunday with two accidents occurring on the bridge. The cause is unclear.
Dangerous Bridge
By TOM BOLITHO
See page 4
Regents review'78 budget
Staff Writer
The Kansas Board of Regents will make final budget recommendations for fiscal year 1978 to University officials today or next week, and will nominise theencouncil for business affairs, said yesterday.
University officials met with the Regents Friday in Topeka to outline proposed budget increases for fiscal 1978. Chancellor Archie Clarke, chairman of the university committee, proposed for new and improved programs.
Dykes and Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor, told the Regents that the library support request of $300,000 was uppermost on the new and improved programs priority list. He said that approval of the increase was crucial to the efficient upkeep of the library.
"We're determined not to let our library建成 after building it up for over a bridge."
DYKES SAID that the University wanted to keep the library open longer and that more money would be needed for the increasing cost of books and journals.
Shankel said that funding for the maintenance and replacement of scientific teaching equipment ($259,000) was second in importance. Shankel said the request was important if KU laboratories were to keep pace with comparable universities.
Dykes and Shankel also requested $156,241 to be used to waive the fees of graduate teaching assistants. Dykes said that graduate students were leaving Kansas because the University couldn't offer appealing benefits.
Committee recommends simpler fee structure
By TIM PURCELL.
Staff Writer
A complicated and sometimes unfair fee structure for on-campus courses at the University of Karsas would be eliminated if a recommendation for change were implemented, according to a report released last week.
The recommendation, approved by Chancellor Archie Dykes, was prepared by an ad hoc fee structure committee appalled with the decision. Del Stackel, executive vice chancellor.
If approved by the Board of Regents, it would replace the present fee structure in
The report said the present fee structure was "inordinately complicated, having grown unchecked over the years as fee after fee was added."
At present, students taking seven to 12 credit hours must pay full fees. Residents pay $205 and non-residents pay $600 in incidental fees for these hours.
Incidental fees pay teaching and ad-
An informed legislature is more generous,profs hope
If University of Kansas professors hope to win salary increases from the Kansas Legislature, they must educate the legislators on the expenses a professor incurs in his work, according to a KU professors' group.
"The way inflation is rising, the eight per cent we received last year from the legislature isn't to keep pace," Schutz said. "We were supposed to get 10 per cent for three years and we got it for the first two, but last year they uset us down."
"Legislators need to talk more with teachers to find out what is needed for quality education," Margaret Schutz, associate professor of social welfare, and member of the KU chapter of the American Association for University Professors (AAUP) said recently.
A recent report released by the AAPU indicated that for the third consecutive year, salaries for University professors are on average $127,000 and average worker's salary is in keeping pace.
Schutz suggested that KU update its retirement plan to a sliding scale rather than a flat five per cent each year. Other employers have also planned a plan to cope with inflation, she said.
George Griffin, former president of KU's AAPU and director of the Spencer Library
if enrollment continues to rise KU will need to attract more qualified professors,
Ellen Johnson, treasurer of KU's AUP and cataloging librarian, said professors had outside operating expenses such as attending local conferences of professional associations, keeping abreast of new trends in library fields and maintaining an office at home.
Kansas Collection, said projections for KU's enrollment predicted an increase for at least
Business and industry will always keep pace with the economy, but teachers will always lag behind it is hard to get there. The boss in the state legislature, Johnson said.
"The argument that it is less expensive to live in Lawrence does not hold," he said. "We're right on the fringe of Kansas City and the cost of living is about the same."
Robert Frauf, professor of physics and astrology and current president of KU's AAUP, said the association was not entirely dissatisfied with the state legislature.
ministrative salaries and general University upkeen.
"We feel fortunate here at KU when other universities around the country received only a three to five per cent increase, or none at all."
Students now pay an hourly fee up to seven hours. The committee proposed an hourly fee up to 12 hours. The charges would remain the same: $14 and $40 per credit hour for residents and non-residents respectively.
Although a privilege fee—health, activity and Kansas Union fees—would increase by $4.24 under the proposal, the recommendation said new privilege fees would be designed to generate approximately the same total dollars as the present system.
That means a resident student taking 10 hours would pay only $140 in incident fees.
The present system is unfair to partime students, according to the report. They don't have the same opportunities to enjoy campus privileges as do full-time students.
The report said that at universities
similar in size to KU, hourly charges are made in up to 10 or 12 hours.
If the proposed on-campus fee structure is to do any good, a new drop policy would be required. When classes were dropped, students had to register in a class below a nine-hour class load.
At the University of Minnesota, for example, at $17.50 per credit hour is charged up to 12 hours, and students pay $210 for 12 hours or more.
"A nine-hour refund cutoff would be a compromise between the need to treat parttime students flexibly and the need to support full-time teachers in implementing commitments," the report said.
The committee also recommended that a $5 fee be charged during the first four weeks after enrollment for changes in enrollment that reduced credit hours. If a course were canceled, however, there would be no charge under the proposal.
Grant aids KU Press
Bv PAUL JEFFERSON
The University Press of Kauai has received a $7,500 grant from the American Council of Learned Societies to subsidize research and development of books in the humanities field.
John Longley, Director of the University Press of Kansas, said the money would be used to help new authors get research findings published, and to absorb the cost of publishing some specialized manuscripts of limited appeal.
Staff Writer
"Most scholarly works have a limited market and it's hard for new authors to get started in any area." Langley said yesterday. "They bring their books to us, and if we think the book has merit, we'll bear the cost of publishing it."
He said the University Press receives about 20 manuscripts a year, 12 of which they are able to publish. Publication will be handled by the University Press with the additional money, said Langley.
He said there were no restrictions or preferences on accepting manuscripts. Whether an author had published previously or was a newcomer to the field of literary publishing makes no difference, Landley said.
"Our only yardstick as to whether to publish or not is the quality of the manuscript," he said.
Funds for the grant were given by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to the American Council of Learned Societies, which administers the awards
Langley said most of the books published were the results of research by University professors and others with advanced degrees. Not all those published are associated with Kansas colleges, he said.
The Mellon Foundation provides funds to more than 70 publishing houses across the country to improve the publication opportunities for books in the humanities field.
"We lose good minds who want to attend the University of Kansas because we can't be at home."
IN ADDITION to hearing the budget requests, the Regents established increased salaries for the heads of the five state colleges and universities. Chancellor Dykes received a $5,000 raise, from $60,000 to $55,000.
The Regents approved the issuance of $23 million in revenue bonds for completion of the Clinical Care Facility addition to the Kansas University Medical Center; $9,500 for air conditioning repairs to Haworth Hall; and $431,136 for installation of a
sprinkler system at the clinical facility of the Medical Center.
The Regents also elected a new chairman of the Kansas Board of Regents. Glee Smith, Larned, will replace Prudence Hutton, Newton, as chairman on July 1. Smith is a former president of the Kansas Senate.
Dykes and Shankel are optimistic that approval will be given to the programs.
AFTER THE Regents give their recommendations next week, the University will revise the budget requests to be delivered to the Kansas Legislature in October.
Background
Early each year, the University of Kansas prepares a budget of its spending needs for the next fiscal year. This is the first step in a long process which involves the Board of Regents, the Kansas Legislature and the governor. It is anticipated that changes will be made at each step before the budget is approved and money is disbursement to the project. The budget not being proposed must be approved by the Board of Regents before it begins its journey through the legislature and the governor's office.
Basking on the Lake
Staff photo by JAY KOELZER
With Sunday's temperature reaching in the lower 80's, many students took advantage of mild weather to involve themselves in leisure activities, such as sailing at Lone Star