THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
PLEASANT
KANSAN
Vol.86 No.117
Tuesday, April 6, 1976
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Title IX report still sought by Senate, Tasheff
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Staff Photo by JAY VOELZED
Sunpowered
Facing rising fuel costs and trying to best possible unavailability of fuels, some people have done as Tom Dean, professor of architecture, has done and switched to powering their houses by the sun. The 10 per cent increase in building costs can be made up in about seven years, Dean said.
Sun power down-to-earth
By GREG BASHAW
Tom Dean could be called a prophet of the sun or an advocate of solar energy.
Dean, professor of architecture, has brought his energy ideas down to earth by erecting the area's first solar energy house near Grove, about six miles south of Lawrence.
Denn said Saturday that he hoped his two-story solar house, one month away from completion, would be testimony to the application of solar and wind energy use.
"My intent is to build a comfortable and workable solar house," said Dean, a stocky, mustached man new to the University this year. "I think we can make any grand architectural statement."
THIS ENERGY flows into an insulated storage tank in the basement of the house. Dean said the solution, often heated to 200 degrees Fahrenheit, then provides heat, which can be transported throughout the house by a conventional ventilation system
The base of the home's solar energy system is the solar collectors, black metal sheets built into the south slope of the roof. The sheets collect the sun's rays to heat at a rate that can be controlled that flows through coils of copper tubing attached behind the plates. Dean said
Supplementing the solar collectors is a large windmill that will provide energy to heat the system when needed. A Norwegian wood-burning stove that will be placed in the living room is capable of heating the 1,850 square-foot house itself. Dan said.
The home will be hooked up to a utility system with a conventional heating unit to provide warmth during stretches of cloudy, windless days, he said.
"Many solar households have just rubbed it when it got cold because of little sun," Dean said. "But I won't feel bad about it." "When we get cold, when we need it during the winter months."
DEAN ENVISIONS his house as the hybrid of two opposite approaches to solar energy: the purely practical and the scientifically proven.
"Two main groups worked a lot with solar energy in the '60s," he said. "You had the counter-culture hippies trying out the new tech, and the cool kids trying out the 'high technology boys' who did incredible amounts of research but never got out of the lab."
"I'm trying to develop a system for Mr. Middle America," he said. "I've tried to make a practical system for people with an average income."
Economics are the strongest motivation in the push towards alternative energy sources.
Dean said he was working on the energy problems of the average homeowner.
He said solar energy hadn't been more fully developed in the past because continuous use of photovoltaic cells.
**"COMMERCIAL USE of solar energy"
*not a new idea* he said. "In fact, it been
*a long time*."
"It was pretty unusual to rely on other than ordinary energy sources years ago," Dean said, "so much so that in Florida in the 30% over 15,000 successful solar units in hotels and condominiums were disguised as chimneys to make them look normal."
Now, use of alternate energy sources is anything but unacceptable. Dean said he was haoped his solar and wind energy unit to the company for $40,000 cent. Figuring by current interest and utility rates, Dean said, such savings on utilities would pay for his $6,000 system in seven years. Installation of a solar system at the location most costant of the total cost of the building, he said.
THE INTRODUCTION of solar units into new houses makes economic sense because a number of states have passed legislation allowing these types of homes to use solar energy equipment. Dean said.
Following the lead of states in sunnier climates, the Kansas Legislature recently passed such a bill. It is now awaiting Gov. Bennett's approval.
Dean views such legislation as an equalizing of laws that favored conventional construction.
Grade inflation report distributed to deans
Included in the study are comments from the Office of Academic Affairs on grading trends and recommendations on grading, he said.
The report analyses graduate and intermediate grades from the spring of 1970 to the present.
"In the U.S. we've always penalized energy-conscious builders," he said. Before, if a builder put an extra $1,000 on his equipment, he taxed more because of a greater capital investment. So you'd have entire shopping centers without much insulation. They'd waste great amounts of energy and write off the costs on their taxes as operating expenses.
DEAN SAID virtually every part of the
A report on grade inflation at KU is complete and will be made public after it is completed.
Christofersen said he wasn't sure when the dews would be finished with the deserts.
The report was distributed to the deans yesterday, and they will check it for accuracy. Ralph Christofferen, assistant vice president for academic affairs, said yesterday.
Christofersen declined to summarize the report until it was examined by the Council
Work on the grade inflation study was begun last late fall. The Office of Institutional Research and Planning compiled grade data used in the study. Christofferson
The report will be distributed to the chancellor's office, schools and departments for observation after the Council of Deans explains it, he said.
"We would also be pleased to give it to students to examine and see what conclusions they can draw." Christoffersen said.
of Deans, which is composed of dears of all KU schools.
United States could use solar energy and pointed to successful units in public buildings in Washington, D.C., and Portland, Ore. as proof.
The report was to have been completed in December, he said, but the first data compiled in Office of Institutional Research and Planning were incomplete, causing the delay.
Still, the United States lags behind other countries in development of solar energy units, he said. Thousands of solar installations are already in use in Israel and Janan.
Dean entered into an academic career and solar research after what he calls "a killer job."
"After Sputnik went up, I, like everyone else, was convinced I had to do to
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KU funding to committee
By JIM COBB
Staff Writer
The status of the University's fiscal 1977 budget appropriation is still uncertain because of funding bills by a Senate-House of Representatives conference committee this
That committee will make any major changes in the funding bill before it is sent to Congress.
ADMINISTRATIVE aides for two representatives said yesterday that the bills would be considered before the legislature's ruling. The vote probably will begin tomorrow or Thursday.
This would be contrary to the usual legislative method of returning after the first recess to give final consideration to major appropriation bills.
LADY'S COMMITTEE first cut the salary increases in March from the 10 per cent level, recommended by the governor, to 8 per cent. The committee also cut OEE from the 12 per cent recommended to 10 per cent.
THE NEW METHOD, according to an aide to House Speaker Duane S. (Pete) McGill, R.Winfield, will allow the committee to look at total appropriations and needs to decide what, if any, funding must be cut if expenditures are considered too high.
Speculation has developed that some representatives might attempt further cuts in higher education funding, after the governor last week vetoed a public school finance bill because it was $21 million higher than his recommendations.
State Rep. Michael Glover, D-Lawrence, said last week that attempts were under way to cut proposed salary increases and for other operating expenditures (OEF).
After the veto, the legislature drafted a new public school bill that restricted local school boards' spending limit increases to 6 per cent.
Lady, who also is a member of the conference committee, has said he would oppose attempts to cut faculty salary increases below 8 per cent, the present level.
But an aide to State Rep. Wendell Lady, R-Overland Park, and House Ways and Means Committee chairman, said the attempts were "just talk."
Although the limitation later was raised to 7 per cent in the public school bill, some observers said they thought attempts would improve their funding and fund the education funding and tie the two bills together.
IEC changes usage of proficiency exam
The Intensive English Center (IEC), a program serving foreign students at the University of Kansas, will undergo a change in its admission policy this fall.
Michael Henderson, IEC director, said yesterday that the uniform admission standards of the Office of Admissions and of foreign students at the university soon apply to foreign students as a result.
To be admitted to KU and considered degree candidates, students must now receive a score of C minus the English Language Proficiency Test battery, a standardized test used by many universities, Henderson said.
In the fall, he said, the test will still be given to foreign students but will be used only to guide the student to tell him how many academic and remedial English courses he should take at KU. He said this was the test's intended purpose.
Those students who don't receive a C-remain in the IBC program until they graduate.
Henderson said the current IEC program was "intently accepted except for this one [performance] issue."
"MANY FOREIGN students thought this was not fair," he said.
But beginning next fall semester, those students who qualify for admission academically will enroll in the school that accepts them. Instead of being counseled by IEC, they will be counseled by advisers in those schools.
"We feel this is a better situation than the students being solely our responsibility"! "If you don't want to be here, you're out."
The change of admission policy affects only the IBC students in the KU program, which serves 25 per cent of the foreign students here.
Henderson said the students would be notified of the change by their instructors.
THE ENGLISH Language Proficiency Test battery is a standardized test made by the University of Michigan. It is now used at universities and departments in different levels of IEC courses.
ANOTHER INDICATION that cuts mats be made was an announcement by McGill, who has opposed increased funding for state colleges and universities, that he would take the place of State Rep. William Bunten, Ropeka, on the conference committee
MGill has said be and other House leaders had promised the House that there would be equality in faculty salary in the school and the district budget limit increases.
Being admitted to KU on academic qualifications and being counselled by advisers in the schools will help balance foreign students' workloads between academic courses and English language courses. Henderson said.
"I want to be on this conference committee so I can have some input and see that"
Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor,
said that KU could get by with appropriations in the bill's present form, but that "we would hate to see further cuts.
"WE HOPE our budget will emerge unscathed from the committee," he said. We hope the conference committee, in addition, will try to treat us fairly and induln."
Sharkel said he thought McGill would consider all the facts while serving on the board.
But Carin said he didn't like "being fenced in, because there are so many factors involved," such as other appropriation bills that also would be considered.
Another member of that committee, State Rep John Carlin, D-Smolan, and House Minority Leader, said that he wouldn't comment about what the committee might discuss this week, but that he personally knew the higher education funding bill as it stands.
By KELLY SCOTT
Staff Writer
Step right up!
Plimpton describes amazing antics
See the imposter who once entered the famed brown Marathon two miles from the race's end, frightening the leading runner into a sprint for the finish.
Laugh at his tales of once hitting the ground during a scrimmage with the Detroit Lions without one opposing player's hands being laid on him.
Gasp at the gall of a man who once upriddled Boston Celtic Coach Bill Russell for palling him out of a regular season pro game to substitute John Havlicek.
GROAN AT THE audacity of a musician who told Leonard Bernstein his credentials for playing with the New York Philharmonic "of tea for Two" or "of Deep Purple."
you can stop and relish your good fortune
You've got the ball.
"And I did; for 3 or 4 minutes," he said. Then Frank Robinson blasted a double. Plimpton's major league pitching career ended as he watched Frank Thomas belt one of the longest home runs ever hit out of Yankee Stadium in New York.
"I looked at it (the home run) as an engineering feat." "Look what we had done together"-which is not the right point of view," he said with a smile.
Thrill at the elan of a trapezite artist known as "The Flying Telephone Pole."
Aside from his several attempts at bigtime playminton, Plumpton has played percussion for the New York Philharmonic, worked as an aerialist for the Clyde Beatty Brothers Circus, and been a photographer for Playboy's monthly centerfold.
OFFERS TO COMPETE in a roler derby, wrestle with a professional wrestler named "Haystack something," and perform on stage with the Alice Cooper rock group were made but rejected, Plimpton told the audience.
George Plimpton-writer, editor and participatory expert per experience-told about doing all those things last night to a crowd of more than 100 in Hoch Audiogurd.
Piltonm, loosely commenting on "The Animate v. the Pro." related a series of self-effacing anecdotes about his rigorous career as a participatory journalist.
Plipman said he was first attracted to his work by Paul Gallica, a former sports director for the Washington Nationals.
Plimpton accompanied his lecture with slides of his adventures as an "imposter" to the rulers.
Piltonton he enjoyed baseball more than football, the game he wrote about in his book *The Book of Baseball*.
Plimpton served up his special Carl Hubbell imitation screwball to Richie Ashburn and Willie Mays and got them out on pop flies.
"He thought that by stepping down from the press box, one could hone his perceptions about people with extraordinary skills and abilities," the competition is like at its highest level."
Plimpton's first assignment as a contributor to Sports Illustrated magazine was to retire a side in the post-season, 1959 major league baseball all-star game.
I ALWAYS WANTED TO be a pitcher. Plimpton said. "It's the only place where
THEY SHOWED A tall, lanky Pilming sweep earnestly at a golf ball lodged in the branches of an olive tree the wrote about during his time playing in sweatling Pilming running down the sidelines of a basketball court in a Boston Celtics uniform and Pilming heading back to his corner with a bloody nose inflicted by former light heavyweight champion Archie
His delivery was full of such pokes at his own physical- and cultural-limitations.
"That's not unusual." Pillipman said. "I once went to salute an officer of mine in the
Navy, grazed my nose and bled right in front of him."
not to turn the pages of Tchaikovsky's Fourth Symphony during a performance because Plimpton - who can't read music - was turning them at the wrong times.
Plimpton is a proper-sounding, witty, low-key speaker who slowly and carefully established a warm rapport with his audience.
THE CROWD GRAONED sym
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Preparing for the show show before his lecture on "The Amateur v. the Pro" last night by George Pilment, author of "Paper Lion," prepares his slide Hock Audiolurium: The lecture was attended by about 100 people.
state photo by DAVE CRENSHAW