THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
Vol.86 No.133
The University of Kansas—Lawrence. Kansas
Thursday, April 29, 1976
Santee to seek 46th dist. seat in state House
See page 9
Staff photo by DON PIERCE
Brisk review
Caught without coat at the Naval ROT review yesterday, Tom Pflhl, Overland Park freshman, shivers in the cold, breezy
weather. The ROTC unit has been practicing for its Spring Review on Friday.
Bv JERRY SEIR
Staff Writer
Parking fee freeze advised
Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor,
recommended that this year's parking fees remain in effect next year, but Chancellor Ruth Reilly hasn't accepted that recommendation.
Hankel said last night that Dykes hadn't made a final decision. Dykes was out of work and the staff
The board proposed higher parking fees for all campus parking lots for next school year. But the University Council voted against the higher fees after several council members objected to a parking services fund balance of $469,000.
In a letter to Dykes yesterday, Shankel suggested that Dykes follow a University Council recommendation to reject higher housing imposed by the parking and traffic board.
PARKING SERVICES is the division of police and parking responsible for maintaining and patrolling campus parking areas.
Shankel's letter said he reviewed the parking services fund and budget, and then wrote to him.
Teddie Tassoff, student body president, flew with Dykes to a high school honors banquet in Concordia night. Before Dykes arrived, she and the Dykes to keep this year's parking fees.
"I would just hope he would take vice chancellor Shankel's and the University Council's recommendations that the fees should be paid." Those should carry the most weight.
Although he advised against raising the prices of parking permits, Shankel
suggested that a $5 price tag be put on campus passes, which are currently issued free. He said the physically handcapped pass is to receive the passes without charge.
CAMPUS PASSES give vehicles access to inner campus streets at 7 a.m. and 4:45 p.m. on school days, when the streets are closed to vehicles without the passes.
the proposed higher fees, it had been silent about campus passes.
In its proposed fee schedule, the parking and traffic board had requested that
Shankel said in his letter that, although the University Council had soundly defeated
But Frances Ingemann, University Council presiding officer, said at yesterday's SenEx meeting that she thought the council had rejected the fee for campus passes along with the remainder of the proposed fees.
She said that the price for the campus passes was part of the proposed fee schedule, and that the council had voted down the entire schedule.
HANKEL SAID last night he would
PARKING FEES page 19
Orderly bar crowds expected after games
Staff Writer
By MIKE THIESEN
See PARKING FEES page 12
City officials and bar owners don't expect any major problems when crowds return to the bars near the University of Kansas campus after home football games this fall.
Last fall the city threatened to close three bars near campus on days of home schooling, but Ohio complained the bars were allowing customers to take beer outside. There were also complaints of beer cans being dumped in trash bins, and reports of cars being vandalized.
Report on withheld records OK'd
REZONING OF the area around the bars and the development of a small business district near the campus were discussed as action was taken on either project.
THE LAWRENCE CITY Commission closed 14th, from Tennessee to the campus, and put extra police in the area of 14th and Ohio, on the days of home football games.
By HARRIS RAYL
that the bars could be forced to close on game daws if problems continued.
Maryor Fred Pence said Tuesday that he didn't think everything went well in the area around the bars last year but that he didn't expect any problems this fall.
If the petition is approved by the Senate, it will be sent to Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor. It would urge the administration to adopt the following policy:
The Senate will review the report and vote on the petition at its meeting Wednesday.
A report and a petition dealing with administrative documents withdrawn from the public was approved last night by the Student Senate Communications' Com-
The petition, which the report recommends for approval by the Senate, urges the University administration to adopt a definite policy for determining which documents should be made public and which shouldn't.
"Anytime you get 4,000 people together there will be two or three who want to cause trouble. But it is such a small percentage," he said.
The report, which was the result of a Communications subcommittee investigation into the issuance of secret University documents, states that the University currently has no policy dealing with the release of documents.
"ALL FINAL documents or reports that deal with issues having direct impact on
the student body, except those dealing with personnel and disciplinary matters, shall be made available to the student body and to the news media."
The communications subcommittee investigation and subsequent petition was prompted by one recent refusal and another by a complaint against officials to release documents to the public.
Currently a preliminary version of the report is being circulated to various schools and departments, but hasn't been made available with possible sex discrimination at KU.
In March, the dean of women's office refused to release a copy of the office's brief.
Also in March, Shankel told the Title IX subcommittee report might not be released.
ALTHOUGH THE petition urges the administration to adopt a fairly open policy on the release of documents, it allows an exception for preliminary or "working"
The budget was requested because of alleged spending disparities between that one and the other.
documents. the petition urges their release only if "their availability will not seriously jeopardize the final report of an administration or administrative committee."
But, the report adds, if a preliminary report is withheld, a summary of its content may be obtained.
In reference to the petition, Shankel said yesterday, "I wouldn't want to say if we'll adopt it until we see it and have a chance to study it. But from what I've seen of it, I don't think it's something we couldn't accept."
Shankel said he didn't think adoption of the proposed policy would change the status of either the Title IX report or the release of the dean of women's office's budget.
The bars involved last year were the Bierstube, 1344 Tennessee; the Wagon Wheel Cafe, 507 W. 14th; and the Jayhawk Cafe, 1340 Ohio.
After several meetings with the bar owners, the city allowed the bars to stay open. However, the bars were required to be closed on game days to keep beer drinkers inside.
The bars were also required to put an advertisement in the Karsan requesting students to obey laws concerning the taking of alcoholic beverages outside and to respect the property rights of people living in the area.
STEVE LEBEN, communications chairman, explained that the exception for preliminary reports resulted from certain subcommittee members and subcommittee by several administrators.
For example, Leben said, "If the preliminary report said the University should do something, and the University should do something else, come along later and quote the report and
Pence said the KU football games brought a lot of money into the city and were temporary.
The bar owners informed their customers
can tolerate some difficulties," he said. Last fall, John Wooden, owner of the Wolverine Cafe, told me that the Jayhawk Cafe, said they were interested in having their land rezoned to allow them to expand. But Pence said no needs for rezoning in the area had been made.
say the University didn't do what the report said it should do."
The subcommittee's report was compiled during the past three weeks from information found through interviews with the Lawrence campus vice chancellors, the acting dean of women, the dean of men and local news agencies.
Barkley Clark, Lawrence city commissioner, said there were a number of objections to rezoning by people in that area. He was currently a solution to the problem.
See RECORDS page 3
ITS INDINGS WERE:
—Although the University has no written
The area in which the two caffes are located is currently zoned "residential-dormitory." The businesses were already in operation before the area was reenforced in
See POSTGAME CROWDS page 2
ITS FINDINGS WERE:
Minority recruiters meet varying levels of success
Efforts to increase minority student enrollment at the University of Kansas appear to have with varying degrees of success. Students enrolled on one hand to be added on the other.
The Office of Admissions and Records has designed programs geared toward recruiting minority students, but these programs are limited to 20 percent of significant increase in minority enrollment.
(Editor's note: This is the first of two articles examining recruitment of minority teachers.
By JULIE WILLIAMS
Marshall Jackson, assistant director of admissions and records, said yesterday that
"There have been slight increases of incoming minority freshmen, but in terms of the outflow (dropouts plus graduates) of minority students, there has been no increase in the overall number," Jackson said.
minority student enrollment had stayed constant in the past several years.
Through the admissions office, basic information about application procedures, financial aid and academic catalogs is given to minority students in high schools and community groups throughout Kansas, he said.
"I don't think there are enough different kinds of financial aid. There's federal money available."
JACKSON SAID he encouraged minority students to apply to the University and often
send reminder letters to the interested students following a recruitment visit.
Jackson noted two main reasons for the small percentage of minority students at KU. (Out of about 21,000 students, around 3 per cent, are minority students.)
"I don't think there are enough different kinds of financial aid," he said. "There's federal money available but not enough scholarships. In terms of the pool of minority students we should try to reach more students."
He said that all the possibilities of attending the University were explained and that he tried to give students all the information they needed.
He said one problem was financial aid, which he said played a great role in getting the budget right.
In addition to administrative efforts to increase minority student enrollment, student organizations have designed individual recruiting programs.
JACKSON ALSO attributed the lack of minority students to the University's image, and said an impersonal overlying competitive image often inhibited students
Deborah Pitts, treasurer of the Black Business Student Council (BBSC), said one of the organization's major goals was recruitment.
Pitts said the organization tried to make information about the school available to children.
"One of our major objectives is to recruit minority students because we have less than 10 in the School of Business right now," she said.
SHE SAID ALL the BSCS display and information tried to enrol in
organization's goals and show what the school offered.
The BBRC recruitment methods include writing letters to high school seniors on campus, and sending resumes.
She said she hoped more minority students could be recruited to deal with the problems students currently face in the school.
"the problems we're facing include alteration of each other, misinformation about job opportunities and a lack of interaction between minorities within the school."
Pitts said the group also planned tours of the business school in conjunction with the university.
"Black students are often misled about curriculum requirements and the length of the program."
Pitts said that because the school claimed to have been unaware of the minority students in business, many career opportunities had been eliminated.
"IN THE PAST, employers have come to the school in search of minorities and they have been turned away because there were none available." she said.
She said that with the re-establishment of the BBC, the school could be aware of the problems and concerns of the black port of the faculty the future looked bright.
"I think it's going to be very beneficial to the students in the future," Pits said.
n competent tutoring and counseling See MINORITY page 12
Motorcycle mishap Staff photo by
Staff photo by DAVE CRENSHAW
Bruce Cohen, Prairie Village freshman, was injured yesterday when he lost control of his motorcycle while driving up Irving Hill Drive below Lewis Hall. The motorcycle left the road and struck several trees along the sidewalk. Cohen suffered a fractured leg and a broken arm. He is in satisfactory condition at Watkins Hospital.
SenEx pair to prepare report reply
SenEx$ will officially comment on the Student Senate Report on the Quality of Classroom Instruction after two SenEx$ writes a statement for the entire group.
At its regular meeting yesterday, SenEx gave his chairman and vice chairman the duties of combining reports of three committees and composing the final statement.
Chairman Gerhard Zuther, professor of English, and vice chairman Adrienne Hyle, Manhattan graduate student, will prepare a research paper on the effects of Student Senate after SenEx approves them.
Zuther said he and Hyle planned to present the statement at next Wednesday's SenEx meeting, where it might be approved or drafted once again by Hyle and Zuther.
The Report on the Quality of Classroom Instruction, compiled earlier this year by a special Student Senate commission, conducted on how to improve classroom teaching.
THE STUDENT Senate submitted the report to SenEx for comments, and SenEx in turn submitted it to three University standing committees for consideration.
Zuther and Hyle will combine the recommendations of the three committees, which are titled Academic Procedures and Management, Administration, and Planning and Resources.
In part, the committee reports say that: "The Senate report assumes there can be valid statistical evaluation on the quality of materials to give an effective means of doing so.
—the methods used in compiling the report weren't "empirically sound."
'A proposed University ambassador, who would be hired to communicate faculty and student grievances to administrators, and student grievance counsel for student grievances about teaching.
-Graduate instructors are best trained and evaluated at the departmental level.
- Students should be allowed to take more than one credit course each year.
and evaluated at the departmental level.
There is a shortage of classrooms
where it is necessary.
In other action, Arno Knapper, associate professor of business, reported that the chairman of the Committee on Financial Aid to Students (FASC) said the committee could file a single report on its year's activities.