THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
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The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Attaboy, Fury
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Tuesday, June 15, 1976
Vol.86 No.146
Law building half finished; open in mid '77
Construction of the new School of Law building reached the halfway mark yesterday morning when the roof was finished and the last bit of concrete poured.
The progress was celebrated in a "tipping-out" ceremony, attended by several members.
Chancellor Archie R. Dykes; Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor; Martin C. Mendelssohn; Robert Howard Immel, KU Law society president; Anne Lolley, student bar association president; and Keith Lawton, facilities planner, will review construction progress.
The next step in the building's construction will be the placing of windows and prestressed concrete walls in the building's framework. Did the said building was exactly on schedule?
The $5-million building will be completed by early next summer, he said, when the school will transfer from its present classrooms to classes in the building will be in fall 1977.
Early predictions said the building would be left unfinished because inflation had cut into available funds, but Dickinson said he would be available to complete the facility.
The new building will allow the School of Law to increase enrollment by 129 students, from the current 440 students enrolled. Dickinson said more faculty members would be added, but didn't disclose how many.
The new building will include a courtroom which doubles as a classroom, student desk and other facilities. The wcrooms holding four to eight students and space for the Legal Aid Clinic.
Fulbright-Hays orientation lost
Students arriving in the United States to study on Fulbright-Hays scholarship grants will no longer come to the University of California for their courses. Instruction during the summer session.
"There are not any Fulbright scholars enrolled in any English courses here this summer," Charles Sauer, assistant director of Applied English Center, said yesterday.
Staff photo by JAY KOELZER
J. A. Burze, director of the KU Orientation Center since 1951, had turned the program's English instruction courses over to the Applied English Center. But because students would arrive too late for those classes, the program will be cancelled too, he said.
For the past 25 years Fulbright students have come to KU for cultural orientation and English instruction. This year, however, a $50,000 cutback by Congress eliminated the funds for the orientation phase of the program.
"Our English courses are over in the beginning of August, and Fulbright students don't arrive here in time to go through the course." A director of the Annied English Center, said.
In past summers there have been 50 to 60 Fulbright scholars at KU, the oldest of four Fulbright orientation centers in the United States. The other centers, Indiana University of Texas, have also canceled their programs.
kabcock resident
Surrounded by memes her son brought her from Japan, Ella Valentine tells about her life in Babcock Place, a HUD-funded retirement community in Lawrence.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Government officials are for the first time admitting that a campaign to give 215 million Americans a shot this fall may not get off the ground.
The mass immunization, on a scale never before attempted, has run into possibly the worst of its kind.
Flu shot plan faltering
if it does fail to fly, I think the scientific basis is sound." Dr. Delano Meriwer, director of the National Influenza Immunization Program, said.
One of the nation's four influenza vaccine manufacturers is holding out for a new federal law protecting it from liability for human injuries beyond its control. Organizations representing health workers, volunteers and local governments are also worrying about their liability. Newspapers are questioning the wisdom of giving flu shots to people who haven't been since a brief appearance confined to Ft. Dix, N.J., early this year.
The government is going ahead with plans in the hope that problems will be ironed out.
All the factors have led to pessimism in parts of the U.S. Public Health Service.
Results of experimental vaccine tests on about 5,000 men, women and children will be presented at an open meeting of government scientists June 21. The information will be presented the next day to the Committee on Immunization Practices.
Out of that session will likely come a recommendation for a proper dosage of vaccine against swine flu, more properly called A-NEW Jersey-78, for most adults, and A-Victoria flu strains of Jersey and A-Victoria flu strains for elderly persons and those suffering from serious
Bids have been advertised to the four drug companies—Merrell-National Laboratories, Parke, Davis & Co. Wyeh Laboratory and Merck Sharp & Dohme—to initiate price negotiations for the swine flu vaccine.
Elderly find a home at Babcock
"The tenant association suggests improvements to me and it's up to me to take it on."
Babcock Place, 1700 Mass., a residential center for elderly presidents with low incomes, has become a home and social center for many of its residents.
Residents must make less than $2,500 per year and be over 62 years old to be eligible to live in Babcock Place, Doris Kaiser, executive director, said yesterday. Residents must also be able to care for themselves and their apartments.
Lavetta Washburn, resident, said the residents' suggestions were listed to.
The residents have a tenant association that serves as a communication link between the residents and the landlord.
Babcock Place comprises 120 apartments. There are studio apartments for singles, one-bedroom apartments for couples and two-bedroom suites available when medical reasons require separate sleeping spaces, Kaiser said.
Rent is 25 per cent of the resident's gross income, she said. Babcock's first residents moved in October, 1973, five years after the Lawrence Housing Association received aid to begin construction on the building from Housing and Urban Development Office.
"The few problems that have come up are fixed, by the week's end." Washburn said.
Golden Johnston, resident and floor director, said each floor elected a director to decide social activities or to handle comings and might come up at monthly meetings.
"This allows us to decide what we want done." Johnston said.
There is a monthly birthday potluck dinner that each of the six floors takes turns sponsoring. The community oftenVolunteer attainment for these dinners, Kaiser said.
Bridge is scheduled twice a week and
customs played every night. John D.
Brown plays at the bridge.
Washburn had a television set, pool table, ping pong table and record player had been installed.
The tenant association has combined its funds with donations to buy a piano.
Ella Valentine, resident, said that each of the six floors of living space had two windows.
Earl Jernings Edmonds, resident, said,
"The only time I'm bored is when I'm sick."
Lessons in textile painting and sewing are offered at cost of materials by persons in the community, Violet Flemming, project manager for Babcock Place, said.
Kaiser said the Council on Aging sponsored low-cost noon meals five days a week.
"Babcock Place offers everything but groceries," she said.
The meals are prepared in the Kansas
and then taken to Babcock Place,
Kaiser.
Babcock Place has provided space for a screening room. Douglas County persons with cancer need a place at the county hospital.
Rose West, Health Department nurse,
said that once a week three Health
department nurses gave blood pressure and
bearing tests. If a health problem shows up,
the individual is referred to a doctor, West said.
She said a professional dietician was also available at the clinic for nutritional guidance.
Washburn said she "very definitely" felt Babcock Place was her home.
"The thing that like best about Babcock is like an Ilae Bryant's song," she said. "I love it."
Robbins added that everyone was "as free as they want to be."
Robbins and Washburn said they would rather live at Babcock Place than in their apartment.
heart, lung and kidney diseases and diabetes.
Meanwhile, the Advertising Council Inc. on June 10 unanimously approved the government's $150,000 public service advertising campaign informing Americans about the importance of swine flu shots and how to get them.
A draft bill dennifining vaccine manufacturers against injury lawsuits has been written and is being considered. The law does not yet supported its introduction.
Some officials in the Department of Health, Education (HEW) and Welfare are
doubtful the bill could pass, mindful of the Senate Appropriate Committees report last April directing that various government agencies, including the vaccine and that drug producers remain responsible for the vaccine, its quality and any adverse reactions directly involved.
Contract language offered by HEW to the manufacturers holds the government responsible for informing patients about the benefits and risks of getting a flu shot. Three companies seem to believe that they are not responsible for liability suits, although they know they would remain responsible for their own negligence.
Computation center begins testing of new computers
By DAVE STEFFEN
Vendor field engineers will complete installation of the University of Kansas' multi-million dollar computer systems today and turn them over to computation center, said Paul Wolfe, director of operations at the computation center, said yesterday.
KU's $2.7 million instructional and research computer system now begins a research experiment in which it is called 'a carefully monitored 30-day period' and a looser 90-day period." The system must satisfy certain standards during these periods, he said, and payment can be withheld.
Waife said the computation center staff would test the computer system to see whether it would perform as well as it did in performance tests before the bidding.
Chief field engineer Don Whiteley said the team would keep it steady, least once a week for three to six months.
In addition, the Honeywell Evaluation Analysa System (HEALS), an automatic monitoring unit, will make daily records of the computer's performance and try to detect problems before they become serious. Whiteley said.
Computation staff members Jerry Crow,managing operations systems on
testing operations systems on
Honeywell system today. An operating system is the software that communicates that system with other computer systems.
Three (IBM field engineers finished installing KU's new $2.2 million administrative computer system yesterday morning. IBM's chief engineer Jim Friberg said that each component of the system had been tested as it was installed, and that the entire system had been tested after installation.
installation testing is followed by maintenance testing. Friberg said IBM engineers had selected tests that would be tested on the system. But also he run if the system's performance fell.
Computation center staff members Bob Rudine and Allen Blum will finish the course on Monday, March 25, week Wole, said Rudine said he and Blum spent 80 hours at the Kansas Employment Security computer in Topeka compiling the operating system off master selection files.
Should serious problems arise on either system, on-site maintenance engineers are on hand during the day and on call at night to investigate service interruptions, Wolfe said.
Wafu said the Honeywell system would be available to users as soon as possible. Some testing by users could begin as early as next week, he said.
Staff Writer
Teachers fail to ratify
By DAVE WARD
As a result of a light turnout, School District 497 teachers failed to accumulate a majority of votes necessary to ratify the 1976-77 contract agreement last night.
According to Lawrence Education Association (LEW) president Darrell Ward, the teachers needed 230 affirmative votes for ratification. However, only 205 teachers voted last night. The result was 199 votes for LEW, while 84 votes opposing the tentative agreement.
LEA representatives will contact teachers who didn't vote last night by telephone to reach a final verdict, said Ward. He also said he thought there was any difficulty securing the number of votes needed to ratify the agreement.
The agreement calling for an average salary increase of 7.3 percent was made last week after nearly six months of negotiations.
LEA representatives are urging the acceptance of the agreement by the teacher to think the package is safe in light of the need and imposes limits by legislation.
Although fewer than half of the district's 460 teachers voted last night, Ward said that it was not unusual since many teachers are in workshops or out of town on vacation. Those out of town will be contacted through the mail, he said.
The LEA hopes to get a majority of votes sometime today.
The Board of Education will then meet Wednesday morning to ratify the contract.
Have it your way at Lawrence's hamburger joints
By MARTI JOHNSON Contribution Writer
Face it. You deserve a break today. You've sunburned your toa cip, haven't done dishes for three days and the refrigerator is cold. You've two wrapped slices of American Cheese. Or maybe you just cruised into the cafeteria at the dorm and found a green screen soup recipe, sandwiches with yellow soup for lunch.
Time to buzz out for a burger, right? But where should you go Sandy? Texas Tom? Peter Fan? Gerrit? Steve? Griff? Henry? A&W? Burger! McDonald? Those are your choices, but where you go
The Lawrence fast-fodder burger vendors have a burger for every appetite and every pocketbook. Two of the standard items on all the menus are a quarter-pound hamburger with cheese (or a third-pound in some cases) and the plain, basic hamburger, in all its simplicity.
And the prices look like this;
% lb with cheese basic harmless
McDonald's 84
Sandy's 84
Burger King 70
Texas Tom's 79
Burger King 39
Dairy Queen 69
Vina 69
Moore Burger 90
AW W 80
Burger Chef 40
1 (1.5 oz) frozen meal
A quarter-pound designation refers to a precooked weight. Before a meat pattie is cooked, it weighs four ounces. But when it's off the grill and in the bun, it weighs less.
The prepacked weight of the meat patty for a classic hamburgers in Lawrence varies from an ounce of beef to about 2.5 pounds.
At McDonald's, as every six-year-old knows, when you order a Big Mac you can "twoleaf-bettie specialissaleletucettepickspiesonionna - sesamezebund." A Big Mac costs 75 cents and takes up to two ounces of cheese. Once ounce. McDonald's also has Quarterpounders and regular hamburgers and cheeseburgers.
Tierney Lindsay, McDonald's manager, said big Macs and Quarterpounders are the best sellers, with the top spot fluctuating with the national advertising.
A Big. Mac costs 75 cents and misses being a quarter-pound by about half an ounce. McDonald's also has Quarterpounders and regular hamburgers and cheese burgers.
Peter Pan Stores are primarily retail outlets for the Stefano's Dairy Co., but they also sell hamburgers and Flo Christopher. Peter Pan area is about 8 percent of the total sales in the Lawrence area.
McDonald's currently has 80 employees and on McDonald's flat surface grill, it takes them three minutes to cook a Big Mac and five minutes to cook a Quarterpounder.
A meat packing company in Missouri that supplies all the area McDonald's delivers the ham-purgies weekly and the buns are fresh daily from the Krust Bruk bakery in Topola.
&AW have a "burger family" and all the burgers are有garnished to order, Mervil Ellott, &AW's manager, said. Papa Burghers weigh in pre-cooked at a third of a pound followed by mama Burghers.
Teen Burgers and a small ounce and a half Baby Burger.
A&W's meat comes from a locker plant in De Soto and the buns from Butter Krust. The A&W corporation sets a 20 per cent fat content standard for its menu, which is periodically comes by and checks his hamburgers.
But Hamburgers only make up 35 to 40 per cent of his total sales, he said. AAW currently has 78%.
For quality of meat, Dairy Queen has the market cornered. Kenneth Murphy, Dairy Queen's chef, is known for his expertise in use for Brazier Burgers is strictly controlled by the International Dairy Queen Corporation. Brazier Burgers are extra leak, with less than a 10 per cent difference, and are mixed in the meat when it is delivered, he said.
Murphy said the Dairy Queen hamburger is processed in Oklahoma and distributed through Kansas City. He also gets his buns from Butter Krust.
Brazier Burgers also are cooked a special way. They're cooked on an open fire grill, but a protective shield keeps the fire from actually hitting the meat as it cooks and helps drain the fat away. Murphy said, and Brazier Burgers are less apt to induce indigestion because of the special cooking process.
Dairy Queen sells a half-pound Super Brazier, a quarter-pound Big Brazier and an ounce, a half
And then there's Moore Burger. It's a small, circu-
1960's burger joint with a devoted following that
maintains, "If you ever eat one Moore Burger, you'll never buy another Big Mac."
Manager David Cowden laughingly acknowledges that he turns out the "gourmet hamburger" in Lawrence and says he's able to compete with McDonald's and Burger King by putting out better quality food. He added that 75 per cent of his business is from regular customers.
The Moore Burger menu is simple: a half-pound Double Moore Burger, a quarter-pound Moore Burger and a two ounce Less Burger. They're made with all the trimmings: mustard, catup, pickles, onions, lettuce and tomatoes and Moore Burger does it with six employees.
When the Hardee's Corporation bought out the Sandy's franchise several years ago, Duane Buck, manager of the Lawrence Sandy's, decided it was time for $400,000 investment to "hurry on down to Hardes."
Buck said the independent franchise operators were given the opportunity to change over to a charnel broiled treat. But the Lawrence Sandy's was doing a good business that wouldn't have been helped by national advertising, he said, and so it didn't make the switch.
Sandy's has a Deluxe Dandelion (quarter pound with cheese), a Sandee JR, (a double cheese burger) plus the regular hamburger and cheese burger. Sandy's has 40 employees, gets its buns from Butter Krust and buys meat from Harwood's with an 18 per cent fat content.
If you're extra hungry, or you're going out for a burger with a friend, Griff's Burger Bar has got the price that's right. On Mondays through Fridays, $1.10 will buy two quarter-pound Giant Hamburgers
(compatible to a Delux Sandee) at a savings of 50
cents. Giant Hamburgers are regularly 80 cents.
Gary Benson, manager at Griff's, said the Lawrence Griff's will be remodeled this summer, adding a dining area which will help it to cater to the noon-time construction workers trade.
A meat company in Manhattan supplies all the
Griffis' in Kansas and Missouri with hamburger with it, fat content, Benson said. Griffi's 22 employees
On April 12, Burger King gained the distinction of being the 32nd fast food operation on 32nd Street.
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