BEAUTIFUL!
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
Vol.86 No.135
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Monday, May 3, 1976
KU professors say CIA contract brief, voluntary
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Staff Photo by JAY KOELZER
Rings and things
Looking for rings at yesterday's Art in the Park, Susan Magruder, right, and Kris Williams, left, picks up a red button to display. The two are symphonies at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Kansas City, Nov. 24.
1977 KU budget to go to Regents
By JIM COBB
Staff Writer
The University of Kansas failed to meet a May 1 deadline for submitting its proposed fiscal 1977 budget to the Kansas Board of Trustees, and it would be received by the Revents tomorrow.
Martin Jones, associate vice chancellor for business affairs, said Friday that the University's budget was usually submitted by the deadline, but was delayed this year because of confusion in the legislature about how higher education would be funded.
™ WOULD SURE he helped if they settled it this January instead of in Ararat.
The proposed $82.8 million budget for the Lawrence campus won't reflect funding changes made in ornithmic bills passed by the governor, days before its adjournment. Jones said.
KU's 640-page proposal, containing a comprehensive bill for fiscal 1976 and 1977 allocations, will waive the Regens for their approval or revision. They are expected to act on the proposal at their own discretion.
Keith Nitcher, vice chancellor for business affairs, said yesterday that the KU Medical Center's budget would probably also be submitted tomorrow. Nitcher worked at the Med Center yesterday with its accounting staff to try to complete the
He said he didn't know yet what the total budget proposal for the Med Center was.
Jones said the actual budget preparation hadn't begun until after Gov. Robert F. Bennett's proposed increases for faculty salaries and other operating expenditures were reduced by the House Ways and Means Committee in March.
IF THESE HAD been changed again
Jones said, "we'd still be changing
the bride."
Jones said his office had finished its work on the Lawrence campus budget. The 55 copies of the budget were still being printed during the weekend, however.
The budget proposal includes summaries of income sources, and listings of the objectives of expenditures and activities. If the Regents approve the budget, the business affairs office will prepare a working budget, which will be effective July
Jones said the budget would reflect all appropriations in KU's main fiscal 1977 appropriations bill, which has been signed by Bennett.
Initial minority recruiting process is successful for three schools
Items changed in the omnibus bills include new classified salary increases, a possible addition of six classified employee positions and additional funding for several programs, including a family practice program in Wichita and Kansas City, Kan.
(Editor's note): This is the second of two articles examining recruiting of minority students.
Jones said that his office nor the Regents' Topek office had seen the final copies of the omnibus bills, which apparently haven't been printed.
By JULIE WILLIAMS
Minority student recruitment at the University of Kansas can be seen as strong in some areas and weak in others, but in the University of Arizona liberalism schools, the key word is success.
ONE INDUCEMENT for Missouri students interested in architecture is a reciprocal agreement set up with the state of Kansas for Missouri graduates to be allowed in-state tuition if enrolled in the School of Architecture and Urban Design.
Hobart Jackson, assistant professor of architecture and urban design, said yesterday he thought more minority students at KU were needed. But, he said, a current major faculty concern is retention of the minority students.
The main focus of the information sessions is the professional and monetary importance of architecture as a future career, Jackson explained.
Our experience shows a problem of retention after the initial recruitment effort.
There has been a heavy influx of students in the first- and second-year levels of architecture, he said, but there is also a high attrition rate in the upper level courses.
This program also allows interested Kansas high school graduates to attend the University of Missouri's dentistry program at in-state tution rates.
infix of minority students from the Kansas City and St. Louis areas." Jackson said
Past recruitment efforts, he said, have centered on visits to high schools in the Kansas City area. St. Louis and Topeka in the future, he said, the school hopes to place a greater emphasis on recruiting students from the Wichita area.
BECAUSE OF THIS, he said, the school has been rather passive this year in its recruitment program, paying more attention to the retention of students already enrolled.
On the other hand, he said, the tendency for students to attempt an architectural program because of the reciprocal agreement and other financial breaks backfires when the upper level coursework plays out. "You can decide they can't or don't want to handle it."
"With this program, there is a noticeable
See 1977 budget page 3
he said the $82.8 million budget ap
HE SAID THIS year he had become a little more aware of the numbers who were there.
"We meet whenever possible with interested students and try to schedule discussion times in science, drafting and even social science courses," he said.
He said he worked closely with the Office of Admissions and Records for followup on interested high school students who expressed interest in architecture.
Jackson said in a normal year the school tried to recruit from 8 to 10 high schools, presenting a descriptive brochure and financial aid and admissions requirements.
However, he said, recruitment efforts have been hampered by slight financial problems in the Black 'ects' organization, and he wants to help black students in architecture.
Jackson said, however, he didn't believe the budget cut was valid and other organizations, in conjunction with Black 'tects, had requested increased allocations.
This year 'beets' hects funding was from $700 to $100 for next year, he said.
"Through SCoMREBE's success in securing corporate contributions, they have been able to successfully aid us in scholarship and tutorial services," he said. With the implicit goal of retaining a 10 per cent minority enrollment, he said, the education department is working on it.
The money from the Student Senate goes, in part, to minority recruiting efforts and to organizational activities that contribute to the retention of the minority students.
JACKSON INDICATED there had been problems in the amount of money allocated to the project.
numbers admitted but have fallen somewhat above that of goal in terms of percentages.
ANSWERING TO STUDENT complaints, Jackson admitted a problem in the amount of background students had before they entered the school and said that because of poor preparation they often had extended programs past the four-year curriculum.
THE RECRUTTING efforts in the School of Architecture and Urban Design have been launched by SCoMMEE program in the School of Engineering, because of a linkage of the two schools.
"We've met that goal in terms of the
"We don't always land the academically well-prepared," he said. "Students of our school have a lot to learn."
See RECRUITING...page
Union, citizens to defend Smith at city meeting
By JANET SCHMIDT
The Kansan learned that representatives from the Teamsters Union would present a statement supporting Smith to the commission.
Members of the Teamsters Union Local in Topeka and Citizens for Fair and Efficient City Management will appear before the Lawrence City Commission tomorrow night to discuss the dismissal of sanitation worker Dennis Smith.
Norman Forer, a member of the citizens group and associate professor of social welfare, said the group would present a new law that would criminalise was a violation of his civil rights.
Bill Moore, Teamsters representative for Lawrence employees, said yesterday he was aware some members of the union would be summoned to commission, but wouldn't comment further.
SMITH, PRESIDENT of the Lawrence Sanitation Workers Association, was dismissed April 23 for what city officials said the inability to do his job. Smith, then a truck driver for the sanitation department, had been off work since Jan. 22.
Four employ associations in Lawrence are affiliated with the Teamsters Union Local in Topeka: parks and recreation, sanitation, street and water. Smith, who led the team to win the teamsters was dismissed shortly after the all-female affiliation was announced in April.
Association members refused to comment yesterday on whether they would
Foreser said he was mainly concerned that the firing was an infringement on Smith's right to free speech. According to Foreser, Smith had been severely mistreated by management and treatment of workers.
MURIEL PAUL, a member of the committee that investigated charges last fall of city mismanagement, said he had seen the rubble as to the full aspects of the case.
"There are many, many aspects to this firing—many ramifications and implications," Paul said. "The meeting is intended as a healthy exchange between the commission and the citizens about the issues."
Paul wouldn't elaborate on what the issues surrounding the firing were, but she would say that it was a bad decision.
Neither, the city commissioners nor the city manager could be reached for comment.
Feminist raps
Staff photo by GAIL SMITH
Flo Kennedy, political activist, feminist, author and a founder of NOW (National Organization for Women), delivered a highly emotional and colorful speech to a crowd of 250 day
Zealous feminist talk sparks spirited rally
By MARILYN HAYES Contribution Writer
Intense energy flowed through the Kansas Union Ballroom Friday night as Flo Kennedy, political activist, feminist and author, delivered a speech filled with boisterous feminists songs, profane language and bickering with the audience of about 350.
Kennedy led the crowd in the songs, singing, "Mine eyes have seen the glory of the flame of women's rage, kept smoldering for centuries now burning in this age . . . Move on over or we'll move on over you, for women's time has come."
Kennedy, author of "Abortion Rap" and one of the founders of NOW (National Organization for Women), began her speech on September 23 in Kansas police and parking department.
The 60-year-old black activist not only stepped on toes, but broke a few as she complained of being harassed by "a Nazi type with a clipboard," in a parking zone.
"I SUGGEST YOU GET on the ministration's case about the parking situation here . . . and require them to give these storm troopers a lesson in courtesy," she said. "If they don't have any politics, the least they can have is manners."
Kennedy went on to complain about the defense budget, racism, the presidential candidates and the "eeny-meen-yinmeye" system of justice.
sut less than halfway into her speech,
unexpected things started happening.
Several women in the back of the room began beckoning in retaliation when Kennedy stated "the feminists of this country, to be best of my knowledge, have spilled only menstrual blood for their politics. Blacks abetted theatteneded society that they have been killed."
OBSCENTITIES WERE buried back and forth in a demonstration that Kennedy later remarked was "a terrible memory."
Kennedy told the audience to stop "sitting on their apathy" and do something about this "racist, sexist, genocidal, materialistic and whorehouse society."
"I don't have to say what you want to hear. I'm saying what I'm saying," she replied when one woman asked her to "tell us what we want to hear."
Kennedy said, "I could walk off this stage right now and that check had better be in the
Kennedy didn't leave the stage but focused on what she could consider appropriate performance styles.
"It is so much simpler to get angry at someone who doesn't make any dif-
Energy, she said, should be put into retaliation against the American Medical Association, NBC and Procter and Gamble. She said that in every year to insult people in the media.
Kennedy's speech was sponsored by the SUA, Women's Coalition and Gay Liberation Force as part of the weekend's women's May Festival.
Kennedy went on to speak of society's 'macrocosmic problem - People's Planet'
"We ought to give the Pentagon budget to the department of Health, Education and Welfare, and the HEW budget to the Pentagon. Then we'd have enough money to pay for our military training in muscular dystrophy, and we'd only have telephones for Pentagonorrhea," she said.
"Becoming more political will wiggle you, but the more alliances you make, the more people you will have to back you up," she said. "Up to you now you haven't seen fit to join other causes in a way that will bring support to feminists."
KENNEDY URGED all feminists to kite-to stop being elitists and incorporate other voices.
Greener grass entices horses away from Hill
William Bradley, Route 2, said yesterday that the train members decided to move to his farm south of Lawrence because they were building a campground on horse or build a carriage on the KU jet.
Bradley said problem arose because the
sink in the KU lot, couldn't be leftrighted
The bicentennial wagon train scheduled to be in KU's O-zone parking lot the entire weekend ended up camping on a private car on Saturday afternoon until this morning.
"They can stand on asphalt or concrete, but you hurt them when they sleep on it and it breaks."
Bradley said the train went directly to his home in the Lawrence Berkeley National Park.
"They didn't stop after finishing the parade," he said. "They didn't go back to the parking lot. It was a choice of either leaving town or coming out here."
The train members weren't angry at KU personnel, Bradley said, but the campaile
KU police refused to allow wagon train members to put their horses on grass football field practices near the parking lot, or to light a fire on the parking lot surface.
Marvin Fundenberger of Orland, Colo., prepares his ox for the parade.