THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
Vol. 88 No.115
KANSAN
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Friday, April 2.1976
Dog's best friend seems to be KU student
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Council loses its quorum; can't act on parking fees
By JERRY SEIB
Staff Writer
A proposed parking fee increase is still undecided at the University Council meeting today to拍
After more than two hours of discussion at its meeting, the council couldn't act on the hikes because only 23 members remained, three less than the required number.
Council chairman Frances Ingemann, professor of linguistics, said after the meeting that the fee issue would probably not apply up again at the council's meeting April 15.
The council was considering a parking and traffic board proposal to raise parking fees.
Under the proposed scheme, universal permits would cost $50 per year; blue and red; $38; brown and yellow; $32; green; $28; purple; and white. Other equipment; $17; and medical handicapped $6.
Presently, yearly universal, blue, red,
brown and yellow permit are $32; green,
$25; residence hall and Sprague Apart-
ments; $18; and medical and handicapped.
$30.
The council did vote, however, to amend
the proposed fee schedule to separate medical from handicapped permits.
Tedde Tasheff, student body president, urged council members to vote against the proposed fees because of a parking services fund balance of $469,837.
The price of handicapped permits for the physically disabled was set at $10 and medical permits for people with other medical problems at $36.
The Kansan incorrectly reported
yesterday that the parking service
fund as $400.
But that amendment won't take effect until the council approves the entire fee until
"I think it aiburd to approve a budget in a board that would not find out its own balance."
Tasheff said parking and traffic board members were not aware of the fixed existence of parking facilities.
However, Martin Jones, associate vice chancellor for academic affairs, told council members the fund wasn't a surplus but was the only parking services fund.
He said there would be a balance in that land of $302,000 at the end of the fiscal year. He told me that there would be no
Jones said the fund was also used to provide parking services with a source of revenue during summer months, when there is little revenue from parking fees.
Hugh Cotton, chairman of the parking and traffic board, said he hadn't been aware that the fund existed when the board revised the fee schedule.
Cotton said that he had checked with other board members yesterday and that they had agreed they didn't wish to change their fee recommendations.
necessary to provide a source of revenue for major parking lot improvements.
Cotton said the parking and traffic board didn't know about the large balance in the fund because it wasn't a body that made administrative decisions.
One project the board hoped to see finished within the next few years was the paving of O-zone parking lot, south of Allen Park. An estimate that project would cost $250,000.
Before finding out about the large fund, he said, board members were uncertain where funds for major lot improvements would be raised.
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Before considering the fee schedule, the board approved revisions in traffic rules on May 18, 2013.
Parking increase called essential to improvement
Staff Photo by JAY KOELZER
A large parking service fund is necessary to pay for major parking lot improvements, Martin Jones, associate vice chancellor for business affairs, said yesterday.
Jones said the fund, which now has about $470,000 in it, is definitely needed when major repair jobs were awarded.
Crowded out
The council voted to specify that; parking meter requirements not be enforced between midnight and 7 a.m., weekdays, and from noon to 5 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays; parking be restricted in residence hall lots to permit-holders during athletic and major meritus; parking permits be issued at no charge; faculty and retiree faculty and staff; and parking lot restrictions be enforced during intercollegiate athletic events.
Cotton told the council that, in spite of the final amendment, the chancellor could lift parking restrictions during major athletic events through a clause in the rules and regulations giving him the power to modify any regulations for special occasions.
With more than 2,500 albums and 5,000 singles in one's home things may tend to give a little crowded. It's a way life though for
This year's budget included a $90,000 allotment for maintenance. Jones said that $10,000 of that amount had been spent, and the remaining $800 would be spent by the end of the fiscal year.
"We must have cash on the barrel before we can sign any contracts," he said.
the maintenance allocation from $90,000 to
$100,000.
rock historian Bill Lee, of 258 Redbud Lane, who teaches a Free University course on rock music.
Next year's maintenance allocation will be $100,000. To exceed that level by dipping into the balance of the fund, Jones said, would require approval of the legislature.
Last year, a project to pave a parking lot near the new law school was paid for by the regular parking services budget, he said. A larger project, like the proposed paving of a driveway at Allen Field House, would have to be paid for by burglary money in the fund, he said.
Parking lot improvements are often contracted in the summer months, he said, and the projects can't be done with funds that would be received the following fall.
The fund isn't only for reserves, he said, because all parking services income is deposited in the fund.
The Board of Regents approves a parking services spending limit, and that is the amount budgeted for parking services each year. Jones said.
In increases in next year's parking services budget were required to cover a 5 per cent increase in the salaries of all classified personnel employed at the University; a 10 per cent increase in other operating expenditures; a new parking services position, assistant director of parking, at an annual salary of $12,000; and an increase in
if revenues don't match this budget, he said the deficit must be taken from the fund.
Students rock around the class
Jones said that the fund had been in existence for about 20 years, but that its current large balance was primarily a result of fiscal year 1974, when little was spent on parking lot maintenance and parking fees were raised.
By BECCI BREINING
A living room jammed with the sounds of such musicians as the Big Bopper, Ritchie Valens and Buddy Holly becomes a
Senate requests Title IX report
By HARRIS RAYL
Staff Writer
The Student Senate passed a resolution last night requesting the Title IX steering committee to release its report on possible violations of the state law in the city of Kansas when the report is completed.
Ed Rolfs, student senator, wrote the resolution and said he submitted it after the Kansas reported yesterday that DeLay responded and said he reported might not be made public.
The resolution also requests Chancellor Achele R. Dykes to order the release of the report.
The Senate also approved a petition by Rolfs urging Shankel to direct the University administration to "comply with the rules and regulations" information from members of the press."
The petition also directs the Senate Communications committee to "investigate and determine how, why and by whom, administrative documents or reports are classified secret." It set a May 5 deadline for the committee's report.
Rolfs said his petition was sparked by the dean of women's office's refusal to submit a copy of its budget to the Kansan Wednesday.
A copy of their budget was requested by
the Kansas because of alleged spurious differences between the office of the dean of law and that of the president.
The dispartisans were revealed recently by a University Title IX subcommittee. In response, the university
The Title IX report, which contains guidelines to end sex discrimination is now being studied by the committee whose report Rolf's resolution requests.
The members of the committee are Shankel, Mike Davis, university council, and David Robinson, former acting vice chancellor of the KU Medical Center.
John Olson, student senator and Russell sophomore, objected to the petition because the Dean of Women's office hadn't explained its reasons for the refusal.
"I think before going into this thing, we should go in deeper than just taking with a ruler."
"You haven't talked with the dean's office yet. I think we have to find out what has happened."
"I think information in the University is being tighter and tighter now and more diffuse."
Rolfs said his petition wasn't aimed only at the dean of women's office.
In other actions, the Senate approved a budget philosophy for its spring budget hearings. The statement, submitted by Randy McKernan, Salina sophomore, was written in an amended form by the Finance and Auditing committee Wednesday.
"My question is who is going to get hurt by this (the report's disclosure) and why," he said. "If someone is going to get hurt, I think the information needs to come out."
The Senate also decided to hear the late funding requests of two student groups.
The Undergraduate Anthropology Association is requesting $2,277.80 and the American Society of Civil Engineers is requesting $605.
Senate rules state that no student can serve on the council for more than two years.
The resignation of Adrienne Hyle, Manhattan graduate student, from the University Council was also announced. Hyle was elected to the seat March 24, but it was later discovered that she couldn't serve because she had already served for two years.
The seat now joins to Mark Anderson
a junior pilot, who was runner-up to Hylie
in the race.
Two Lawrence men were injured in a single-car accident last night when the car
suddenly collided about one mile out of traffic overpass on North Michigan. Rodney
Kimberly, 29, and his brother, David Kimberly, suffered injuries from the crash.
Staff photo by DON HIRBE
juries and possible internal injuries and was in good condition this morning at Lawrence Memorial Hospital, Ricky Howard, 20, 101 N. Michigan, was treated for minor injury.
classroom every Monday night for a group of Free University students who think rock
"Rock 'n' roll is here to Stay" is a tree course being offered for the first time since 1984. University, whose curriculum is a diverse array of non-credit and unstructured classes.
About eight rock 'n' roll fans gather each week at 263 redbud Lamp, Apt. 1, the home of Bill "Mister" Lee, instructor of the course. Lee taught the course six years ago when he was enrolled at the University of Houston to broadcast journalism student. He decided to teach it again when he returned to KU last fall to get a degree in theatre.
Lee, whose friends dubbed him 'Mister Lee' after the Bobettes' 1958 game of the same name, was a disc jockey in Kansas and Iowa for the past eight years.
Rock 'n' roll has been his work and his hobby. Because it remains the focus of all his attention, Lee hopes to teach rock 'n' roll in music history at a university music history department.
"Rock music is a cultural phenomenon that deserves serious study," he said. "It's the single most popular form of music in the world today."
Each week Lee draws from his collection about 2,500 album, 5,000 single and 100 booklets.
discussing what rock 'n' roll is, where it came from and where 'n' it is going
"But most of the time we spend just listening to rock 'n' roll records," he said. "Partly because it's more fun. Partly because rock 'n' roll speaks for itself."
An ability for remembering rock 'n' roll is the tischknife and he uses rook often when playing with his knives.
Learning such little-known facts is what attracted one student to the course.
"What do the Big Bopper, Ritchel Valine and Bucky Holly, three early rock 'n' roll guys form in 1959? They died together in a plane crash over Iowa in the spring of 1959. The day they died is the day that Don McCrean refers as 'the day the Beatles' died in his song "American Pie."
Peters sees the rock 'n' roll course from another aspect.
"I can listen to a song many times, but it takes Lee telling me some obscure information about the song to make it new again," said Maury Peters, 110 Connecticut.
"I've got a business degree, so I look at it from that point of view, too," he said.
Another rock 'n' roll enthusiast, Roger Johnson, 103 Wellington, said he thought that the study of rock 'n' roll is valid from a sociological point of view.
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AURH votes down officers' pay hike
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A motion was defeated last night that would have reorganized financial compensation for residence hall presidents and vice-presidents and Association of University Residence Hall (AURH) executive board members.
The motion was defeated at an AURH Assembly meeting at Elsworth Hall.
David Barclay, president of McCollum,
made the motion. He asked the office of
business department to allow women's offices to allow a free double-room
contract for all hall meetings or have that cost subtracted from a single room. He also
requested that a single room contract at a double-room
The total cost of the proposal would have been £21,765. Barclay said.
Dan Barnett, Bethesda, Md., senior,
made an amendment to the motion to
include AURH executive board members in
compensation with the hall presidents.
Hall presidents and AURH executive board members now receive a single-room contract for a double-room price. Vice presidents receive no compensation.
The difference between a single-room contract and a double-room contract is
Barclay said he was supporting the motion because it would ultimately benefit hall residents. Demands on time and energy of officers serving the residents, he said, many aren't able to carry a full academic work load and do a good job as an officer.
With more financial compensation, he said, the officers would be able to finance a hard record to carry fewer hours that might require them to attend an extra semester to graduate.
"There is a certain point to where a person must draw a line and set priorities," she said.
He then pointed out the near total lack of volunteers last night for AURB projects because of low funding.
"We must compensate these officers so they can have the time to give to their hall."
Jim Kren, Columbia, Mo. Junior objected, saying an officer was a victim of the attack.
"Each student should consider the time commitment when running for an office,"
Mike Taraboulos, AURH president and Prairie Village junior, said, "It is my belief that the students are elected to help the administration work out problems with and for you. It's not a staffing system. You have the choice of elected officers to be students or staff."
Taraboules also said he didn't know where the money for the proposal would come.
The motion was easily defended, with Bishay and Pendergast the lone supporters.