SUNSHINE
CLOUDY
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
Vol.86 No.122
Tuesday, April 13, 1976
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Inadequate funds might force cut of field hockey
See page 8
Staff photo by DAVE CREENSHAW
Disco disc iockeu
Spinning discs at recently revived discotheques can bring the
jockey as much as $175 for a four-hour night. Mark Booth, a D.J. at Bugsy's, says the money is only part of it--he enjoys his work.
Disco popularity growing
By CHERYL HAWLEY
Lights flash in patterns throughout the room while couples, elbow to elbow, perform various presentations and latex dances. The music is "the bass of 'New York.'" Setting the tempo and mood for the evening's entertainment is the man playing a guitar or the record turntable—the disco disc looKEY.
Although the discotheques in Lawrence started just this year, five disc jockeys from Bugs' and the Eldridge Disco agree that they are rapidly gaining popularity.
Discs are popular here because they are new to Lawrence, even though they've been around for four or five years along the way. KJHK station manager, said yesterday.
"It always takes awake for things to get to the Midwest," he said.
"IT'S A CHEAP way for people to go out and have a good time."
"People are tired of rock and roll. They want a change." he said.
Steve Doocy, KJHK disc jockey, said Lawrence hadn't had a place to dance for some time. Pogo's in Kansas City, he said, has the closest disco to Lawrence.
The change to disco music and dancing isn't just a fad, Spike Santee and Ted Oshirak, disc jockeys for the Eldridge Disco, said, because record companies have started producing and musical groups have begun recording disco records.
Economics also plays a part in the upspurs of discs throughout the country. Mark Booto, a Bugsy's disc jockey, the disc jockey's pay of $115 to $175 for a four-night was more appealing to a bar owner than the $40 average cost of a live band.
MONEY, HOWEVER, isn't always the reason for being a disco jockey. All the disc jockeys said they liked their work and they thought it was fun.
Krobot, Doocy, Charles Hoarde and Gary
Shorman, who work for KJHK, work under different circumstances.
Krobot said the KJHK disc jockies work in pairs and are not since the 1950s. The disk is a single disc.
"We're in the business as a service for KJHK," he said.
Because the station is student-funded, it
has a responsibility to offer a good time to students, he said. When KJHK disc jockeys are hired, a fee is paid. However, the money should be paid to station for the use of equipment.
The KJK disk jockeys have worked at the Hawk's Nest and at private parties for
See DISC JOCKEYS page 5
Study indicates KU defies grade inflation problems
By JERRY SEIB
Staff Writer
Grade inflation, a national trend of steadily climbing grades, isn't a serious problem at the University of Kansas, and students have actually declined in the past two years.
Those are the conclusions of a study of grades at KU during the past five years. The study, compiled by the Office of Academic Affairs, was released yesterday.
Grades at KU inched steadily upward from 1791 to 1873, but in the two years since that time they had grown by almost a third.
Senate to determine budget, ticket subsidy
A Student Senate budget for next year will be discussed and approved at the Senate meetings tonight and tomorrow night at the Jayhawk Room of the Kansas Union.
A bill that would give $80,000 to the university and raise the property activity fee by $2.40 will be presented. The Senate last fall cut the KUAC allocation of $75,000.
Next year's student activity fee would then be $12, the same as this year.
Jr Grabumb and John Broadbeer, sports
men in the uniforms, are split in their
views of the tickets.
The Senate also will allocate $33,325 to
student organizations, which requested
BROADIE IS sponsoring the bill
Grbaugh said yesterday she was against the bill because it gave student dollars to a corporation that never had to show the Senate where its money was being.
She said that as a non-senior, she hoped to be given time at the Senate meeting to discuss her concerns.
She said the Senate should wait a year to
Ticket funding bill expected to fail
Staff Writer
A bill to reinstate partial Student Senate funding of the University of Kansas Athletic Corporation (KUAC) seems headed for defeat.
Only 14 of the committee 42 members attended the meeting last night, so the committee couldn't officially vote to take action under consideration at the Senate's meeting tonight.
At least that the consensus of members of the Senate Sports Committee who met last night to discuss the bill. Even the bill's sponsor, John Broadble, sports committee co-chairman, said he thought it would probably be defeated.
A quorum, which is 22 members for the committee, is required for any official vote.
By HARRIS RAYL
committee, is required for any official vote. A bill, however, doesn't require a committee recommendation to be submitted to the Senate.
AN UNOFFICIAL hand count was taken on the bill at the end of the meeting, when 12 members were still present. The vote was 8-4 against the bill.
Broadie's bill would give KUAC about $90,000 generated from a $2.40 increase in the student activity fee. If the Senate votes to pay it, Broadie may pay a $9.60 semester activity fee next year.
But, Broadle emphasized, because only a small fraction of the committee was given directive reflections of the general feeling of the committee. He said that he had talked with several of the members of the committee and one who told him they would support his bill.
**BROADIE'S BILL** is aimed at lowering student ticket prices. Under the bill, next year's ticket prices would be $15.50 for football and $10.00 for basketball. If the bill is defended, KUAC has said that ticket prices will decrease to $20 for football and $15 for basketball.
TEDDE TASHEFF, student body president, said she favored the bill but didn't know whether it would pass. She said there were people who supported the ticket and also supported the ticket prices, but also people who didn't want to raise the student activity fee.
find out what would happen to ticket sales without the allocation.
She said she didn't expect the bill to pass because a two-thirds majority vote of the House would not approve it.
This year, football and basketball tickets both cost $10 each.
The Senate voted last fall to cut KUAC funding from the budget. Before that cut, the KUAC was to have received $4.15 of every student activity fee paid during the next school year, which would have generated about $140,000.
Ed Rolfs, Liberal Arts and Sciences senator, also has stated that he expected the two parties to reach an agreement.
Broadie's bill faces a possible complication when it is introduced on the Senate floor. It won't be on the normal agenda other other bills to be considered because it will be presented to Student Senate Record—the official newsletter sent to senators before each meeting.
SENATE RULES state that any bill that would alter the Senate's Revenue Code, as Broadie's would, must appear in the Record so that senators will know when an important piece of legislation is going to be considered.
For Browder's bill to be heard, he must get a two-thirds majority vote to suspend the new immigration law.
Tasheff pledged during her election campaign to keep the student activity fee low.
If the Senate decides to suspend the rule, another two-thirds majority vote would be required to pass the bill, also because of concerning bills that alter the revenue code.
Dave Shapiro, who opposes the bill, said he thought the issue came down to whether the Senate should fund those groups that benefit the largest number of student groups that couldn't survive without Senate funding, the policy he supports.
SHAPIRO HAS SAIED he wanted to cut KUAC's funding for a year so that the Senate could determine the impact of its funds on KUAC. He said that if KUAC ticket sales didn't go down as a result of the higher prices, he thought the Senate could justifiably cut KUAC. But, he said, if fewer tickets were sold than the higher prices, then KUAC should be funded. The only way to determine this would be to cut the subsidy for a year, Shapiro said.
Broadie argued against Shapiro and said that the Senate should not hurt students with a higher ticket price to study the impact of a fund cut.
"I think it's (a KUAC cut) a definite
'I think it's' he said, 'I think we have a re-
straint on you.'
"We can't sacrifice next year's students for the sake of an experiment," he said.
Deans ambivalent to 1977 budget
Staff Writer
Several deans and department chairmen said yesterday that the fiscal 1977 University budget could be better, but it could have been worse.
Bv JIM COBB
Although none of the seven deans and department chairmen interviewed said they were thrilled with the budget, few ex-educators agreed. They hoped for more funds in fiscal 2018.
"I's pretty much a hold-the-line budget," we
have "We have a lot of very expensal
proof."
It’s pretty well-distributed misery “it’s pretty well-distributed misery,” Dean of the School of Fine Arts, said.
He said his school would just try to maintain its present level of instruction.
THE SCHOOL of Fine Arts, he said, wasn't getting as much salary money had been hoped and would be using most of the increases approved by the Kansas Legislature to correct "serious internal inequities" in salaries.
It's hard for any amount of resources to suit that kind of explosive growth rate," he said.
Fichler said the number of students in the School of Business had grown 43 per cent in 2015.
Salary increases for fiscal 1977, as approved by the legislature, will be 8 per cent and increases in operating expenditures will be 10 per cent.
GORDON WISEMAN, associate chairman of the department of physics and astronomy, said the 10 per cent increase in oxygen levels taken up by inflation in his department.
Inflation in the costs of supplies and equipment was a problem often mentioned by the deans. Pichler said that the costs of supplies used by the University, such as paper, books and research equipment, were the most cost items in the Consumer Price Index.
Mooser said the school would emphasize additional dollars gained in merit salary and a student's ability to learn.
Robert Cobb, dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, said that he was pleased the college would receive new staff and assistant instructor positions and that KU, in comparison with universities in the state, had received some increases in funding.
"The inflationary rates for scientific equipment are much greater than for or-
He said prices for undergraduate instructional equipment and for graduate students' research equipment were increasing dramatically.
"WE HAVE people here who are performing at the top of their fields. They're very hard to get into, faculty members," he said. "Inevitably the market works—other things being equal, faculty members will certainly take salary and account when making job decisions."
"IT'S NOT just this year," he said. "Chronic underfunding is a recurring problem. The acquisition of new resources may help the organization catch up with increases in enrollment."
Increased size in some schools, such as the school of Business has caused serious problems.
"But the 10 per cent increase will be a great help," Wiseman said.
Pichier said he was pleased with a three-year legislative program to increase KU's salaries. This was the last year of that program, and he wants to level the level of many other universities.
Moeser said the School of Fine Arts was "just being eaten up with printing costs."
Joseph Pichler, dean of the School of Business, said a free-market analogy could be used to demonstrate the needs in his school for higher salaries.
With a $2.40 increase in the proposed activity fee with the ticket subsidy allocation and a 15-cent reduction in the Senate's funding of the forensics program, she said, the student activity fee would be $12.00 if the fall, the same as this year.
would have to be discontinued and cheaper
printing methods would have to be found
the school, Moeser said, was spending as much as $6,000 a year printing programs for events. He said nicely printed programs
"I THINK it's developed on its own," he said. "There has been no university policy for it."
sign for the University, according to Ralph Christeness, assistant vice chancellor for Education.
Even during the period from 1971 to 1973, when the GPA here was on the rise, it wasn't increasing as fast as nationally, according to the study.
The study sites a survey, conducted by the University of Michigan, that showed the GPAS at 197 schools had increased over a period, compared to the 0.102 rise at KU.
SOME DEPARTMENTS of the University will receive little of the requested funds.
Christoffersen said one problem in comparing GPAs from the KU and Michigan studies was that the Michigan students had grade listings, only the changes in grades.
The Bureau of Child Research, according to its director, Richard L. Schleifbusch, had hoped to receive about $122,000 to extend the bureau's services across Kansas. That request was cut in the legislature to fund two additional half-time positions.
Christofensen had no explanation for the downward trend of the past two years.
Grades took a smaller hike to a peak of 1904 in 1973, then declined to 2194 in 1976 and finally fell to 1845.
"We'll just try to find another way to do the same thing," Schielebusch said. "It will make it more difficult to extend programs out into the state for children."
THIS MEANS it is impossible to tell whether the actual grades at KU are higher or lower, only that they rose less, Christdfersen said.
Schielebusch said the additional funding might be used to match federal grants or to receive funds from the Social Rehabilitative Services office in Topeka.
"IT'S HARD to get funds through the legislature for our programs," Schiebelsehau said, "because there's always so many things a university needs. In the end, an off-campus program like ours isn't as high in urgency as others."
"I was surprised and pleased at the results," Christoffersen said. "I think this indicates that grade inflation is not the problem here that it is nationwide."
The largest part of that increase occurred in the first year of the study, when the GPA increased.
Over the five-year period the study covers, the University-wide grade point average (GPA) increased slightly more than one-tenth of a grade point, from 2.008 in 1963 to 2.075 in 1972 and are based on a four-point scale, on which an A is 4 points, an F is zero points.
But, Christoffersen said, he hopes the grade inflation statistics make KU grades more meaningful in the eyes of prospective employers.
OTHER BLLS to be presented concern a student health insurance contract, the student health insurance application to KU FORESENS, a line of clarification added to Senate fund publications, the establishment of a paid auditor's position and recommendations of six standing committees.
See SCHOOL BUDGETS page 5
He said the bureau's work was divide, into a research program and a clinical training and service program. The research program has been made possible because of available grants and federal aid.
Business not completed tonight will be continued at the Senate meeting tomorrow
Charlifesson said he was surprised that grades had declined since the adoption of a new standard of testing.
The policy allows students to withdraw from a class without receiving a grade.
See GRADE INFLATION page 2
Playing to the crowd
Staff photo by DON PIERCE
Behind 10 runs after only two innings of pitching, Sue Van Ness, Leeward sophomore, reacts to the razzing of her teammates and opponents yesterday. Van Ness was playing third base against Brooklyn in the second game of the series.