THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
RAIN
KANSAN
Vol.86 No.124
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Thursday, April 15. 1976
Tax Returns due tonight
Remember: Federal and State tax returns must be postmarked by midnight.
Photos by DAVE REGIER
Violinist Fodor
room, speaking to a group of 20 music students and faculty members before his concert last night, showed him the lyrics for the song "Burning Love."
informally in the faculty room of Murphy Hall and asked Fodor questions on topics ranging from his father's ranch in Colorado, where Fodor rides horses to relax, to the violin competition in Russia where he recently placed second.
Senate approves salary request for a full-time director of CAA
By BARBARA ROSEWICZ
The Consumer Affairs Association (CAA)
was allocated the salary for a full-time
director at last night's Student Senate
meeting.
The Student Services Committee had recommended that the Senate fund only a certain amount of money.
In other action, the Sports Committee's recommendations for women's intercollegiate athletics and recreation services were passed with little discussion.
However, John Broadbeer, cochairman of the Sports committee, said a bill would
probably be presented at the May Senate meeting to withhold funds from women's intercollegiate athletics until a women's athletic board was established. He said the establishment of that board had already been delayed for two years.
Broadie said the board would oversee women's athletics and assist Marian Washington, assistant athletic director of women's athletics.
A BILL TO ESTABLISH a paid auditor's position was taken off the agenda and referred to the Finance and Auditing Committee. The bill will be discussed at the May 5 meeting.
Ticket subsidy to be aired
There will be a special Student Senate meeting at 6:30 tonight in the cafeteria of the Kansas Union to discuss the proposed KUAC ticket subsidy.
It wasn't on the agenda of last night's regular Senate meeting, Teddy Tasheff, senator from Illinois.
The ticket subsidy bill will raise the student activity fee by $2.40.
A resolution for Senate approval of the Satellite Union Task Force report also will be discussed, along with a petition to the House and Senate to hold such Directors for a possible "users' fees" of
Union facilities for nonstudents and for more student input of ideas and plans.
Tasheef had the restatement of partial funding of the University of Kansas Athletic Corporation (KUAC) couldn't be brought up because it was too large. "I had enough time to consider the bill."
She said the task force's report would be considered tonight so that it might reach the president.
Discussion of the change in the CAA budget recommendation was spread over
The Student Services Committee had decided in its budget recommendation to the Senate to recommend only a half-time allowance for the manage CAA to rely on more volunteer work.
The Student Services Committee will still hold its scheduled meeting on the Satellite Union Task Force report at 6:30 tonight in the Walnut Room of the Hotel.
CAA representatives stated at Tuesday's meeting that they would have to close if the Senate didn't fund the full-time salary they had requested.
The amendment to the student services' budget for CAA will take money from a student services contingency fund and more funding from the future use by Douglas County Legal Aid.
Juli Anderson, StudEx chairman, who introduced the amendment, said that Douglas County Legal Aid had other outlets for funding, but that CAA, funded almost entirely, Senate, had to know now whether it had the money to continue its operations.
THE FIGURE APPROVED last night was for $8,145 for an existing full-time position, with $280 from a committee and $190 from a Douglas County Local Aid rider.
She said that the Senate should give money to groups that needed it now, instead of waiting for a vote.
See CAA DIRECTOR page 3
Process for revoking aid to athletes faulted, studied
By JIM COBB and JERRY SEIB Staff Writers
Two members of the University Senate Committee on Financial Aid to Students (FASC) said yesterday that their group had been wrongly saddled with the job of voting
Controversy has arisen over how and why student athletes can be stripped of their scholarships.
whether to take scholarships away from athletes who quit their teams.
Committee members Anne Harlenke, Wichita senior, and Tom Donaldson, Wichita graduate student, maintained that a new graduate be made by a special grievance committee.
City's 20-year plan undergoes criticism
They said that kind of committee would "command more respect" from the University of Kansas Athletic Corporation (KUAC).
By JANET SCHMIDT
The Lawrence Chamber of Commerce and other community groups appeared before the City Planning Commission last night to present their criticism of Plan 95. Plan 95 is a comprehensive plan for community development during the next 20 years.
In January, after two year's work, the Planning Commission published its 272-page tentative draft on community law. The book, *Guide for the Lawrence Area*, 1975-1985.
That tentative draft was made available to community groups for comment so changes could be incorporated in a final draft to be released in about six months.
CHARMAN MIKE DAVIS said last night that, so far, most of the comments had been somewhat negative and had called for changes in the guide.
Last night was the fourth public hearing on the plan, but it was the first time the commission received a written report from the entity group that criticized the entire guide.
That report was presented to the commission by Dick Zinn, cochairman of the Plan '95 Task Force of the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce.
"Our statement (50 pages) reflects the Chamber's vision of the plan as totally unacceptable," Zinn said. "It is fundamentally in error."
HE SAID THAT one of the major problems with the plan was its length. It was far too detailed and contained too many specific facts and data, he said.
*Because it is so specific, there is no way for these projections to ever be completely accurate.*
However, another problem with the plan is its ambiguity and incomprehension, he said.
"The plan says as a basic premise that he be accepted, it must be understood," Zinn said. "I defy anyone to find an average presence citizen who truly can understand it."
He said it was filled with "planner's jargon" and contained too many broad terms that were open to many different interpretations.
THEE ARE ALSO SEVERAL
INCONSTANTITY such as,
such as, such as in population.
For example, he said, figures in the plan show that the nomination of Doulasau Countr
Allocation disappoints library staff
The announcement of library budget allocations has caused bitter disappointment among the library staff, according to Gene Carvalho, librarian for the East Asian collection.
Bv.JANE MACAULAY
Staff Writer
Carvahelo, who is also chairman of the Library Facilities Assembly Budget Committee, said yesterday that the libraries had been promised top priority by the Kansas Legislature to make up for neglect during the past five years. He said the library staff was faced with many issues that they had hoped next year's budget would help salve.
IN THE BUDGET allocations for fiscal year 1977, approved by the legislature last Friday and sent to Gov. Robert F. Bennett for signing, the library system received less than James Ranz, dean of libraries, had requested.
"After the various public pronouncements that the library was a top priority, we were led to believe better," he said. "This is a terrible disappointment to suffer as we have."
"We continually stressed new and improved programs," he said. "We didn't get anywhere near what we hoped for the library, but we may yet be able to give some additional funds."
Carvalho explained that Ranz, who became library dean in July 1975, had made a big effort to solve some of the library system's problems. The Library Faculty Assembly was formed so problems could be discussed among a representative group of staff. The Budget Committee had met with such all departments submit individual requests for funds.
SHE DESCRIBED a three-year program that Ranz had outlined. Technical services were to have been dealt with this year and reader services next year. The third year was to be devoted to a reassessment of the library system.
"I realize the general practice is when you need 15 to ask for 20," he said. "But the budget committee was so
"Rana captured the support of all the staff," Carvano said. "He formed us into a working band, then, because the library promised something, we thought we'd made our first step toward improvement."
CARVALHO STRESSED he thought the library budget demands hadn't been unreasonable.
conscientious about making the minimum conceivable requests."
Shankel said that out of the $115,000 made available by additional student enrollment, $80,000 went to the
Martha Kehde, art librarian and chairman of the Library Faculty Assembly, said that she thought problems had been building up for more than 10 years, and that the staff wasn't trying to do away with them all in
Thomas R. Smith, chairman of the Senate Libraries Committee, said he thought the libraries could have done better.
When the library budget has been announced last Friday, Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor, said, "The Chancellor and I recognize the library has been underfunded in the past, but we can't undertake a backlog of problems that has accumulated in 10 years in one year."
Shankel said yesterday that the library was given priority on the kinds of allocations that allowed for in-
"I THINK THEY were given first treatment," he said,
"I just don't think it was first enough."
Smith said his involvement with the library went back to the 1950s. He said the libraries had been discriminated
will increase by 8,300 in 1995, for a total population of 72,300. For Lawrence show an increase of 6,555 by 1995, for a total population of 57,813.
Smith said the main problem was the lack of funds for books.
"We were promised priority because of this program," she said.
However, data from the Kansas Department of Ecological Development show a 25 per cent population increase by 1995 for Douglas County, for a total population of 80,028. And data from the Kansas State University Population Laboratory show that the Douglas County population will increase to 103,020 by 1995.
"That's what the library's all about, after all," he said. The total allocation for books, serials and binding is now $1,065,000 instead of a requested $1,581,000. This is an increase of 8.5 per cent over last year's increase of $990,500. But there will be a decrease in buying power because of inflation.
The price of books has risen an average of 15-20 per cent and the price of serials has gone up 30 per cent, according to estimates.
ROGER ANDERSON, book order librarian, said lower than expected funding would mean a decrease instead of an increase in the number of books ordered. He said a library should order more books each year to keep up with the increase in the number of books published and the lack of books would affect all programs at the University.
"The book budget undergirds the whole thing," he said.
"If that falls down, it affects everyone."
Kent Miller, serials librarian, said he had hoped to be able to replace some of the 1,000 serials cut in the 1974 budget. Even if they were reordered, he said, there would be large gaps in the collection.
"The strength of any research library is in having long runs of medicals." he said.
"I NIGHT OF THESE other studies, this plan becomes very questionable," Zinn said. "And particularly when the proposals are too complicated in an population projections that are wrong."
he said he hoped this wasn't a final allocation
"IF IT IS, WE'LL have to cut," he said. "That's just an economic fact."
—If aid for athletes is terminated upon an athlete's voluntary withdrawal from a program, a clause of explanation of that possibility should be part of the letters-of-entirement (a letter signed by prospective athletes, saying they will attend a particular school).
Such letters-of-intent signed by athletes shouldn't be considered binding, such as
Glinka said funds for equipment and supplies this year had been helped by an extra grant of $7,500 above last year's budget allocations. He said this money had been Glinka said funds for equipment and supplies this year had been helped by an extra grant of $7,500 above last year's budget allocations. He said this money had been used for steel shelving to extend storage space. He said he
The result of the Planning Commission's projections will be under planning and urban sprawl, he said, both of which the guide intends to avoid.
"The one of the main thrusts of the plan is to correct urban sprawl but not expanding beyond the existing corporate limits and to focus inward to undeveloped lands," Zinn figures. Our density by 1985—which figure doubled in the years it seems we will have overcrowding."
Harlenskie, vice chairman of FASC, and Donaldson objected to the present system, under which the FASC decides whether student athletes should have their scholarships revoked after quitting athletic programs.
HARLENSEK SAID that abh thought KUAC wrongly expected always corresponded to reconstitution.
See LIBRARY nage 10
HE SAID THAT ALTHOUGH he agreed with developing land inside city limits, the City did not want him to do so.
The two committee members said FASC had too many other duties, such as advising on financial aid policies, to devote time to the study of athletic scholarship grievances. They also lost the committee lacked the proper guidelines and expertise to make such judgments.
Harlenek said she planned to voice her injections in a report to Senx E next week.
—A definition of what constitutes
volume without from an athletic
volume.
-FASC hasn't been able to get copies of the NCAA manual that gives guidelines about when athletes' scholarships can be terminated.
Her report will be in response to a committee end-of-year summary filed yesterday by Louis Burmeister, professor of mechanical engineering and committee director at ACS. There were four pages of tentative guidelines for terminating student athletes' financial aid.
—a definition of what constitutes fraud,
as a basis for revoking financial aid, needs to
be defined.
However, Donaldson said the summary and the guidelines didn't reflect the feelings of all the committee members. Harlenske told me that the committee report on behalf of herself and Donaldson.
Harlenske and Donaldson also charge that:
See 20-YEAR page 10
See SCHOLARSHIPS page 6
Planting season
Staff photo by GEORGE MILLENER
Mary Charles, Lawrence junior, took advantage of a comfortable Wednesday evening to water the vegetables in her garden. Her effort may have been unnecessary—the garden was not well maintained.