THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Vol.86 No.120
Friday, April 9, 1976
Four Jayhawks, 21 Big 8 players drafted by NFL
See page 6
Staff photo by DON PIERCE
Legal streaking
David Milbradt, Hays senior, carts his nearly lifesized mute painting to the Oread. Show west of the stadium yesterday. Milbradt's painting is unittiled.
Subsidy proposal to KUAC
Staff Writer
By HARRIS RAYL
Legislature acts to finish murals
They also took exception to Curry's interpretation of Kansas history. The legislators especially objected to the blood on John Brown's hands, the terrorsides and skulls of Confederate soldiers, and other examples of what they called "those atrocities on that wall of horror."
By KAREN LEONARD
But if contemporary art critics are impressed, the legislators back in 1937 weren't. For one thing, they questioned Curry's adherence to facts. His critics contended that pigs don't curl their tails when they eat, that skunks curl their tails when they eat, and that humans walk and that the coat of Curry's Herford sheep is too red and not "natural-like."
ANGRY CURRY left without signing the murals he had completed. One of them, "The Tragic Prelude," is considered one of Carry's greatest works. It depicts a towering figure of John Brown, arms outstretched, holding the Bible in one hand and a rifle in the other.
CURRY DEFENDED his work, saying that he was trying "to get into his pictures the iron that is the Kansas people, not a soft, snowy presentation."
The legislators weren't dissuaded and only the preliminary sketches for the eight panels in the central rotunda were completed. In 1946, Curry died.
The sketches were hung on the walls of the Governor's office and for years nothing was known about them.
The Kansas Senate gave final approval yesterday to a bill allocating $40,000 for the new murals, sending the bill to Gov. Robert F. Bennett.
Hayes said artists had objected to the idea of trying to interpret another artist's work, but he intended to "stick to his guns" and use the original idea.
About $707,000 in funds will be generated annually from students—either through combined ticket sales and Senate funding or through ticket sales alone.
Thirty years after John Stuart Curry's death, the Kansas Legislature is considering hiring another artist to finish the work it wouldn't let Curry complete.
When the Senate voted to cut the KUAC subsidy last fall, Clyde Walker, athletic director, said the price of football tickets would be raised next year to $21 and the price of basketball tickets would be raised to $16. Currently, they are both $10.
At a subsidy level of $1.20, football tickets would cost about $19.40
Messie said Walker had revised his decision and that ticket prices should instead be subsidized. If the Serena decides not to subsidize KUAC next week, these would be the approximate ticket prices next fall. These prices would generate about $80,000.
Curry, a famous American social-real artist, was commissioned in 1937 to paint murals on the walls of the state Capital building.
Several artists have volunteered to paint the murals from Curry's sketches. Charles Rivers, who grew up in Chicago, did the work.
A proposed schedule of student ticket subsidies will be presented today to the University of Kansas Athletic Corporation's Todd Tassle, student body president, at Teddie Tassle, student body president.
FOR EXAMPLE, if the Senate decides on a subsidy level of about $4.20 out of every student activity fee, next fall's football tickets would cost about $9.70.
The proposed schedule lists possible athletic ticket prizes at different subsidy levels. It was authorized last night by the Senate's Sports Committee of the Senate's Sports Committee.
Under the proposed schedule, the higher
the Senate's ticket subsidy, the lower the
Senate's vote share.
But after the schedule is worked out with KUAC, Tashseff said, John Broadle, Sports committee chairman, will submit a bill to the U.S. Senate and ask the partial Senate funding to KUAC.
BROADCAST SAI'd his bill would reinstate a block allocation of about $50,000 to KUAC. To supply those funds, he said, the present $7.5 student activity fee would be increased from $1.80 to $2.40. This would increase the semester activity fee to about $12.00, the same as before the Senate cut KUAC's funding last year.
Political controversy arose over the murals because the legislators didn't like the work Curry already had completed and refused to remove expensive Italian marble slabs from the walls of the central rotunda to make way for the final paintings.
Dong Messer, KUAC business manager, attended the subcommittee meeting and recommended that he be emphasized that he was not to express the optimism of the KUAC board or to try to influence his views.
The two increase next year would have generated about $252,000. Brodie said.
those who are interested in painting the murals, he said.
HAYES SAID that he wasn't an artist and didn't know what would become of the marble slabs that had originally created the sculpture. He then spent paintings would be hung over the marble.
Lawrence artists questioned were unenthusiastic about the project.
Raymond Eastwood, retired chairman of KU's department of painting and sculpture, said, "I don't think anybody else could paint this." He said he didn't think many people would want to try.
The only difference the amount of money will make, he said, will be in the amount the legislators have "to bribe an artist" to do the murals.
Mike Ott, current chairman of the department of painting and sculpture, agreed that almost any artist had a conception of the finished painting that wasn't expressed in the preliminary sketches. But it was, he said, Curry's death with only preliminary sketches, wouldn't be able to interpret what Curry really had in mind, he said.
OTT SAID THAT he would like to see an artist do an original work, which would cost $10 million.
"This seems to me pretty seedy," he said. "The whole situation has been rushed into and we should consider alternatives. It smells of strong-arming."
Robert Sudlow, professor of painting and sculpture, said he intended to write a book on his experiences.
GREG MYBERB, Lincoln, Neb., junior,
asked MESH why some other universities
charge lower subsidies and lower ticket
prices for athletic funding than KU.
"Each one (school) floats out its own balance and sees what figures and what doobles it sees."
Messer replied that every school operated under different circumstances.
Messer said that he thought Walker opposed higher ticket prices but KUAC would be forced to raise them because of business needs if the Senate didn't provide subsidies.
He also said that although KUAC based its ticket prices on the need for generating about $300.00 from students this year, he added that "it is a more conservative figure of about $290.00."
THIS IS done, Messer said, because it is very hard to predict the KUCA's yearly growth.
"Financially speaking, it's a very high risk business," he said.
Tasheff, who supports Broadie's subsidy bill, said Wednesday she thought the Senate should be concerned with the prices students pay for athletic tickets.
"I think it's our first responsibility to provide this year's students with the best experience possible."
"I think we have the commitment to bring it up before the new Senate," she said.
DAVE SHAPIRO, a member of the Sports Committee, said he opposed Breadbill's bill. He said that he wanted the Senate to withhold KUAC funding this year so the subcommittee could determine the effect a cut would have on the athletic program.
Shapiro sponsored a bill, which was passed by the Sports Committee Wednesday, that created the subcommittee. He said he wanted to establish the subcommittee so the Senate could study how funding the funds and the impact of a funding cut.
He said this cut would determine whether KU students would receive the same athletic services without the subsidy as they do with it. He said he thought that if ticket
sales didn't decrease as a result of a cut, then the Senate could stop funding of KUAC without hurting either the program or the benefits to students.
HUT. SHAPIRO said, if the higher ticket prices caused a decrease in the number of students buying tickets, then he thought the Senate should fund KIAC.
He said the only way to find this cut out was to cut KUAC one year to see what happen.
Broadie, in reference to Shapiro's argument, said, "I see some reason in postponing the decision (to reintroduce KUAC funding), but I feel we should remember the students that we benefit (with lower ticket prices)," he said.
"With the possible exception of the UDK, the Student Senate benefits more students by funding KUAC than by funding any other student organization," he said.
Title IX disclosures promised to Tasheff
By BARB ROSEWICZ
Staff Writer
Tedde Tasheff, student body president, said last night that a confidential copy of the IX steering committee report had been released by Del Shanek, executive vice chancellor.
Tasheff said he didn't specify when that might be.
The Title IX report, a study of possible sex discrimination at KU, is made by being made aware of the report.
The committee has stated that it might not publish release the report, but might release a report.
The steering committee is composed of Shankel, Mike Davis, University general counsel and David W. Robinson, former acting executive vice chancellor for the Kansas City campus and now vice chancellor for clinical affairs.
THE STUDENT Senate passed a resolution at last week's meeting requesting the public release of the steering committee's report when it is completed. The Steering Committee released the report to the Archie R. Dykes release the report if the steering committee refuses to release it.
The resolution was submitted to the
Student Senate by Ed Rolfs, student senator.
Rolfs said last night that the document was going to have a serious and long-range impact on students at KU and should be released.
He said that he wouldn't be satisfied with a summary of the report because it might include recommendations for ending discrimination at KU, but might not include the information on which the committee's interpretations were based.
*More important than the recommendation,* they get to the endpoint, *he said*.
All of the secrecy surrounding the Title IX report increased desires to have the report
ROLFS SAID if the administration did not release the report, he planned to join in a request for it with Randy Czar琳灵k. He also said the Freedom of Information Act.
The Freedom of Information Act states an access to federal executive bodies by adding the following terms:
If an agency withholds records, it must prove that the information falls under its jurisdiction.
Bv.JIM COBB
Staff Writers
KU funding vote expected
TOPEKA—The University's fiscal 1977 appropriations are expected to be considered today, after the Kansas House of Representatives voted to approve the bill and failed to adduce for first access.
Speculation at the Capitol was that a House-Smate conference committee report, which hadn't been released as of last night, was considering funding in funding for the University of Kansas.
The House did give final approval to a supplemental funding bill for KU for fiscal year 2016, which included additional operating funds for the Lawrence campus this year and about $7.5 million for future plans.
said. "I've been told there were no major changes."
The large 1977 appropriations bill, which includes $43.1 million for KU, will be considered sometime today before the legislature adjourns until mid-April. House Speaker Duane S. "Pete" McGill, R-Winfield, said last night.
STATE REP. JOHN Vogel, R-Lawrence,
said he expected that the funding bill would
be considered before noon today, and he
was optimistic about its approval.
Vogel and other legislators said that they thought the conference committee had recommended that about $30,000 of a request for the Bureau of Child Research be
That would leave $17,477, which would be used to fund additional half-time funds for the bucks.
"I have a feeling it will go through," he
Vogel said the funding bill wasn't considered today because copies of the conference committee's report, including a statement, were not needed for distribution on the House floor.
ANOTHER delay came after the Senate and House disagreed about a public school funding bill. The Senate refused to send the bill to a new conference committee as the House had requested Wednesday. But yesterday afternoon, the House approved a measure to authorize the bill as recommended by the first conference committee.
That version calls for a seven per cent spending limit on local schools.
A bill that would raise the state cigarette tax by one cent a package with revenue proceeds from the cigarette tax.
Med Center, wasn't considered yesterday even after it was placed on the House calendar.
"I think it would be a tremendous asset for KU," Buzzi said. "We have a chance to become a national cancer-treatment center."
Kansan jobs open
Applications for editor and business manager of the Kansan for the summer and fall semesters will be held on Friday, April 16, in 106 Flint Hall.
Applications are available in 105 Flint, the dean of women's office and the Student Senate office.
The Kansan board will interview candidates and select the editors and business managers April 20.
Late night discussion
after speaking to a Union Ballroom audience for more than two hours, John Marks, executive director of the Center for National
Staff Photo by JAY KOELZER
Security Studies in Washington, D.C., answered students' quest in question 28 of the book "CAG and the Cult of Intelligence."
CIA political influence topic of SUA forum
StaffWriter
By JANET SCHMIDT
Professors and students on college campuses all over the country are among the charms the Central Intelligence Agency carries in its bag of dirty tricks.
Known as clandestine services, the CIA has infiltrated campuses for more than 10 years to recruit students and faculty as undercover agents, John Marks, executive director of the CIA's Studies (CNSS), Washington, D.C., said last night in the Karasan Union Ballroom.
The presentation opened with a half-hour segment from "The Rise and Fall of the CIA," a documentary on CIA intervention in Iraq, produced by the British Broadcasting Corporation.
Marks spoke for more than two hours to about 130 people on CIA influence in domestic and international politics during a program sponsored by SUA Forums.
The notion that other countries are too irresponsible to choose their own form of
"I don't see why we need to stand by idy and watch a country go Communist just because of the irresponsibility of the people."
MARKS INTRODUCED the film with a statement made in June 1970 by Secretary of State Henry Kissinger on the CIA's secret war in Laos;
government is the justification used by the CIA for its covert operations. Marks said.
"The notion that we know best is the tragic flaw in our national policy toward other countries," he said. "And the CIA is important because it can be used secretly."
RECRITING college students and professors as secret agents is one of the ways the CIA influenced foreign governments. Marks said.
He said that professors were used to recruit foreign students to work in undercover operations in their native countries, and that he was used with American students, he said.
Marks said the CNSS was working with the National Student Association to organize a nationwide campaign to get the CIA off college campuses.
Marks presented a list of CIA operations, including CIA involvement in the Bay of Pigs invasion against Fidel Castro in the '60s; Vietnam; Watergate; Angola and illegal drug trade.
"THE CIA IS in effect the political police of the United States around the world," he said.
Marks said that the methods used by the CIA are only symptoms of more serious crimes.
Imperialism and corruption in See CIA page 5