BEAUTIFUL!
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
Vol. 86 No.116
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Monday, April 5, 1976
Jayhawks win two out of three over Nebraska
See page 6
Staff photo by DAVE CRENSHAW
Postmarathon soak
Hours upon hours of dancing is hard on one's feet. Michelle Messer, Leawood freshman, and Steve Lefort, a University of Missouri at Kansas City student, found that out after 12 hours of dancing, the students were more relaxed than those sponsored by Chi Omega, Alpha Tau Omega and KKEQ radio.
The marathon was in the Hawk's Nest from 7 p.m. Friday to 7 p.m. Saturday. Ten of the original field of 12 dancers finished the marathon, raising about $3,200. Of that, about $3,000 will go to the publicity chairman, Alpha Tau Omega publicity chairman, said yesterday.
Short summer classes scheduled
Summer school, normally an eight-week venture, will be offered at University students this year.
KU will be offering intensive courses that will meet for about half of the regular session, according to Jerry Hutchison, vice chancellor for academic affairs.
The full summer session will be from June 7 to July 31.
The intensive courses will meet for half of the eight-week period, Hutchison
Most of the short courses will meet during the first half of the summer session and will be designated Session A courses. The Session B courses, a smaller group, will meet during the second half of the regular session.
Students may enroll for both short- and full-term courses June 4.
IF A STUDENT wants to take a Session B short course, he may also enroll on a Master's degree.
Hutchison said that the standards for short courses hadn't been lowered, and they were still intensive because they would meet for longer periods each day. Actual class "contact time" will be updated as needed.
In past summers, isolated courses have been offered for short periods, Hutchison said, and this year, the Office of Academic Services will offer more departments to offer some short courses.
The number of short courses was increased because some courses, particularly
Both Session A and Session B short courses will be offered by the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, the School of Education and the School of Engineering.
intensive rather than long-term study. Hutchison said, and because the short courses allow students to more easily take a summer school with travel or work.
Most Session A courses will begin June 7,
the first day of summer school, and most
Session B courses will start July 5. Some
courses in each session, however, will start
later.
As in the past, the Law School will operate on its own schedule, offering classes in two five-week terms. Hutchison said. The first week was June 29, June 28, and the second, June 30, July 31.
Fees for summer school are charged according to number of credit hours, he said, so enrollment fees will be based on the number of hours taken, not the length of the courses.
Hutchison said a pamphlet outlining summer school course offerings was available in the Office of Admissions and Timetables will be available in early May.
University adjusts itself to new KANS-A-N dialing
By MIKE THIESEN
Staff Writer
A state wide telephone system should make placing a long-distance call through an operator a thing of the past for most state offices.
The Kansas Agency Network (KANS-A-
N consolides all intercity telephone
networks in a larger format for private agency
use into a wide-width, more effe-
cient, lower cost-per-call service
than was previously available, according to
Kunkel, state director of telecommunica-
tion.
Kunkel was Friday that KANS-A-N was connected to all state offices in Kansas and some governmental offices in the Kansas City, Mo., metropolitan area.
He said the Thursday activation of KANS-A-N had resulted in only minor problems, mostly from people who didn't know how to use the system.
Susan Sutton, University of Kansas labor relations coordinator and orientation trainer for KANS-A-N, said the biggest problems with KANS-A-N in its first two years were the lack of directories for every user on campus and numerous mistakes in the directories.
Sutton said more directories, which list the KANS-A-N number for each agency or office on the network, should arrive later to avoid mistakes in their would soon be corrected.
THE TELEPHONE BILL KU pays under the KANS-A system may be higher than it was with the WATS (Wide Area Telephone Service) system that the University was using, Sutton said, because of the low rate KU received on the WATS line.
However, Sutoon said, the state's total telephone bill, including all state office fees, was less than $100 a month because of the many smaller agencies that didn't have WATS lines and could now use them.
Planning begins for new buildings
ACCORDING TO SUTTON, WATS users didn't have to worry about paying the bill from department funds because the University paid for the entire system.
But with KANS-A-N, long distance calls will be billed to the department and the extension they are made on. Sutton said. The departments will have to keep a record
Bids will then be taken, and construction
Two major building projects for the University of Kansas and the KU Medical Center are in the planning stages after their completion. The project was last week by Gov. Robert F. Bennett.
That bill included appropriations for a new $4-million computer center to be near Newton Gymnasium and for a $15.5-million computer center to be built on the Med Center campus.
Max Lucas, assistant to the chancellor, said Friday that the computation center's architects were completing drawings and specifications for the center and should be finished by July 1, the day state funding will be released to KU.
should begin on the computation center late next summer, he said.
Del Shanker, executive vice chancellor,
said he was "tremendously pleased" that
the funding was approved and that plans
could be completed for the two projects.
Construction on the radiation center also is expected to begin this summer.
"We needed a building in an accessible location that could provide computer services needed for a major university," he said.
Lucas called the computation center "a major addition to the Lawrence campus and a significant benefit."
The center will house two recently approved computer systems and will be built
On Sundays Ave. near Sunflower Road Funds of $3.6 million for the center were included in the bill, in addition to planning funds previously appropriated.
The radiation center will have a total cost of $5.1 million, of which $2 million has been appropriated by the state. The remaining amount for purchasing will be funded by private gifts.
The center will house radiation sources for cancer treatment.
of all long-distance calls to check them with each month's long-distance billing.
I lasc said many such centers were built underground, but the Med Center's building would be above ground. He said he didn't know yet what the advantages or disadvantages of that method of construction would be.
*Departments will have to watch who uses the phone system because they will be locked in.
Sutton said she wasn't sure how each department would pay for its calls. Some departments might not have money set aside to pay the bills and the money would probably have to come out of their operating funds, she said.
Kunkel said that using the KANS-A-N system should be easy if every user familiarizes himself with the procedures specified in the "General Information" section of the KANS-A-N directory before they try to make a call.
THERE ARE THREE types of calls that can be made on KANS-A-N: a call from one telephone having a KANS-A-N number to another; a call from a telephone number; a call from a telephone with a KANS-A-N number to a telephone that doesn't have a KANS-A-N number; and a call made from a telephone without a KANS-A-N number to one that is on the network.
To make a call between two phones on KANS-A-N, the user would first find the seven-digit KANS-A-N number, which differs from the regular phone number.
then dial "8", the KANS-A N- access number, and then the KANS-A N-number.
For instance, a call from the Chancellor's office to KU Medical Center information, both of which have KANS-A-N numbers, would be made by dialing 8-506-5410.
If the originator is calling from a KANS-A-N number to a party not on the network he must dial "8." then the area code and then the seven-digit number.
Calls from a KANS-A-N phone to one not in the system can only be made within Kansas or Kansas City, Mo. Calls to other states would be made through the KANS-A-N State Operator, 561-7898, utilizing a WATS line that is connected to KANS-A-N.
State employee can also make calls from phones off KANSAS-N to a phone on the phone at KANSAS-C.
Sutton said only phones connected to the system that were listed in the state directory could be used to gain access to KANS-A-N
The state doesn't own any of the network, according to Kunkel. It is leased from the Bell Telephone System and private telephone branches.
Kunkel said Texas, Washington and Georgia had networks similar to KANS-A-N and the federal government and the state had more complex, nationwide systems.
Federal investigation of 2 complaints ends
The committee from the U.S. Office of Civil rights (OCR), in Kansas City, Mo., investigating discrimination complaints against the University of Kansas, ended its investigation Friday and met with KU administrators to discuss its findings.
The investigators met with Chancellor Archie R. Dykes; Mike Davis, University general counsel; William Bafour, vice chancellor for student affairs; and Del Lewis, executive vice chancellor, to review the committee's activities for the week
Shankar told the committee "met with lots of people and looked at lots of documents." Most of the documents studied were written about admissions and financial aid, he said.
Shankel said the committee pointed out "some of the good things" in the University, such as SCORMBE, a School of Engineering program that recruits black women to work at the partnerships for women and minorities; and the work of the Office of Affirmative Action.
Put the committee also pointed things out to the Office of Affirmative Action needed to address it.
Shankel said collection of data and revision of affirmative action programs were cited as two of the general problems the committee found.
He said that the affirmative action revision was being worked on and that a special committee from the Lawrence and Kansas City campuses was being formed to finish the revision and consider suggestions for improvement given by the OCR.
OCR was investigating three discrimination complaints against KU. One was filed by two black former KU students about the hiring of replacements for James Rosser, a black, for the position of associate vice chancellor for academic affairs.
The two other complaints, one was about an alleged violation of Title IV of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which bars bars from the cause of nationality or race, and the other denied a charge of sex discrimination by a court denied admission to the KU Law School.
The committee went back to Kansas City to compile its information, Shankel said. Neahsau weren't given Friday, but the ad commissioner had been informed the committee's report is finished, he said.
Committees hear requests
The Student Senate's spring budget hearings got off the ground yesterday when three of the Senate's committees heard statements from 36 student organizations.
The three committees—Academic Affairs, Cultural Affairs and Student Services—have a total of $128,902 to allocate to the department. Students will bear watch tomorrow, tomorrow and Wednesday.
The 43 groups are requesting a total of about $160,000.
The committees didn't discuss yesterday how these funds would be allocated.
Some of the larger requests heard by Academic Affairs were: The Engineering School Council, $4,200; SCoIMREME, $5,130; the Black Business School Council, $3,668;
See BUDGET page 2
Alum recollects first film
By JIM COBB and CHUCK SACK Staff Written
The star was Charles (Buddy) Rogers, a KU alumnus, and the film was "Wings," the winner of the first Academy Award for Best Picture. It is also the first of the great air spectacles.
In an interview Saturday, he discussed the making of the 1926 silent film, which will be shown at 7:30 tonight in Woodruff Auditorium.
"They called him "America's Boy Friend" in the '20s, a dark-haired, boy-fished movie star from Kansas who found success after his very first film role.
Rogers returned here over the weekend to participate in centennial activities of Phi Beta Kappa.
In "Wings," Rogers portrays Jack Powell, a boy-next-door character who becomes an ace pilot in World War I. In the film, he pleasured with the revival of the film.
ROGERS CAME CLOSE to not being in any films at all. After being chosen as one of 20 students in a national search for new Film Academy, the Parmount School of Acting in New York.
to have both of those promised roles given to someone else.
After studying there, he was cast in "Beau Geste" and in "Old Ironsides" only
THE STORY CENTERS on two boys, Jack Powell and David Armstrong (Richard Arlen), who are rivals for a girl's love back home, but conrades in the same flying squad. The love triangle is further the neighbor's neighbor, Mary (Clara Bow), who is in infatuated with Jack that she joins the Red Cross to follow him to Europe.
"I met Dick Arlen that day at lunch with Wellman, and Gary Cooper, who also was playing his first part. The three of us went off and made "Wings."
Lasky told Rogers to talk to a new doctor. William Wellman who then was a nurse.
Because both Arlen and Rogers were newcomers, Clara Bow, Paramount's famous "It girl," was the only established star in the film.
"I was pretty much in awe of her," Renner recalled. "She had a strong, strong smile."
to work with. She'd sit in and hold your hand when you had a close-up - just to give her some space.
IN THEIR ADVENTURES, Jack and David have doftigges with the German Flying Circus, shoot down dirigibles, strafe enemy cars and car or chase a giant bomber.
Although Bow has several good moments, notably a scene at the Follies Bergere in Paris, the film is best known for its thrilling air sequences.
Director Wellman insisted on realism, so there is no rear-screen processing in "Wings." All battle scenes were actually filmed in the air.
Because of this, Rogers had to learn to pilot a plane.
"Richard Arlen had been a pilot in the Royal Canadian Air Force, but they had to teach me how to fly," he said. "My second lieutenant, who taught me how to fly and landed in and out of my plane, turned out to be a five-star general. Hoyt S. Vandenburg."
Neither Arlen nor Rogers, though, was capable of acting the many dangerous actions he was obliged to perform, generally regarded as the greatest stunt man in cinema history, flew the major
See ROGERS page 5
KU alum Charles "Buddy" Rogers (left) greeted at Phi Kappa Psi banquet