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DREARY
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
Vol.86 No.111
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Monday, March 29, 1976
Bell Telephone requests charge for dialing 411
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Staff photo by JAY KOELZER
Unearthing the past
was on a men trip sponsored by the Museum of Natural
Landmark Poracaby and her 8-year-old daughter Kratine
scrutinized the museum.
fossils. The field trips, begun in 1971, are usually attended by a wide range of students, faculty members and other interested
Children dig fossil hunting
Staff Writer
Bv PEGGI BASS
A field trip Saturday, coordinated by the University of Kansas Museum of Natural History, left 15 children wide-eyed and amazed. They saw some live animals and a few fossils.
The field trip was part of a project undertaken by Dyche Museum five years ago and is now under the direction of the Museum of Invertebrate Paleontology. Al Kamb, curator for the various programs offered by the museum's public education office, said the response from the public made his job more enjoyable.
"It's a tremendously enjoyable thing." he said, "The kids are so enthusiastic it makes me more enthusiastic. And it sure beats being stuck in a lab all day."
The programs are geared for children, but are open to people of all ages.
CHUCK LONGINO, associate professor of sociology and the father of two children on the field trip, said that he supported the program. He also form a form of education and entertainment.
"They don't get to do stuff like this in school and that's why they're so excited about a fossil hunt," he said, referring to Laura. 8, and Chin. 8.
The field trip was entitled "Do You Know What You Just Stepped On?"
The first stop was the Kaw River Valley, north of Lawrence. According to Kamb, Lakeview Lake in the valley is the largest oxbow lake in the Lawrence area. An oxbow lake is formed when a winding river cuts as it is eventually closed by deposited sediments.
THE CHILDREN and seven adults didn't start digging for fossils until the second stop, which was in the Lecompton area west of Lawrence.
Comments such as “Hey, here’s a good one,” “I think I'm getting something,” and “I might be teaching a bone” were heard as much as the fossils of sea life about 300 million years old.
One child, Mary Ann Elder, 8, was sure that she had found a dinosaur bone.
Several children took time out to play
with a stray black and white collie that was "looking for fossils, too."
And Rome Porasky, 5, swayed his attention from fossils to a "whole family of little back bugs." He didn't find the snake he had hoped for.
LAURA LONGINO devised her- own method to blow out the dust. "You must real hard," she said, "to real hard."
The children weren't the only diggers.
Parents who came used goggles, hammers.
Two adults aren't parents of children on the field trip, but cannot because of personal interest.
spades and cloth sacks provided by the museum.
Mary Patt Barr, secretary in the Human Development department, and her husband Kevin, graduate student in physics, said that fossil hunting was their hobby.
"We've been out to various areas looking for fossils and we thought we'd find a new pit."
Fee changes considered
By JERRY SEIB
A University Fee Structures Committee may recommend minor changes in studies.
Changes recommended by the group will center on the structure of incident fees and fees charged to students taking 12 credit hours or less, Jerry Hutchison, vice chairwoman for academic affairs and committee chairman, said Friday.
"We are attempting to make adjustments within total revenues now received," he said. "We do not wish to increase any fee charged to students."
Committee member Mike Pendersgat, Overland park sophomore, said the group was considering changing the fee schedule for students for the first four hours, reorganizing the incidental destructure for students taking fewer than seven hours and eliminating the difference between fees charged to graduate and students in off-campus extension courses.
ANY CHANGES recommended by the committee will go to the chancellor's office, he said, and probably would have to be approved by the Board of Regents.
Fees paid at enrollment include a tuition fee and eight incidental fees: activity, transportation, health, health facility, community union addition and humanities building.
Pendergast said one of the main reasons the committee was formed was to investigate changing the fees charged to students taking from seven to 12 hours, who must pay full fees although they are not considered full-time students.
Students take fewer than seven credit hours now pay a fee for each credit hour. Those taking seven hours or more pay full regardless of the number of hours taken
"THE THEORY is that anyone who takes more than two classes will probably use all the services the fees pay for," Pendergast said.
One of the changes the committee is considering, Pendergast said, would have students pay fees on a per-credit hour basis up to 12 credit hours.
He said the committee might suggest that the system be left unchanged, however, because surveys conducted by committee members indicated students wanted to continue paying full fees for seven or more hours.
Some students surveyed indicated they preferred the flexibility the present system offers, Pendergast said. Students told the committee they would rather be able to add more students into the making fee adjustments than have to pay on a per-credit basis up to 12 hours.
Library problems studied
THE COMMITTEE also is attempting to reorganize the incident fee schedule to eliminate duplication and inconsistencies in the percentage of incident fees charged to students taking less than seven hours, he said.
For six of the eight incidental fees, Pendergast said, students begin paying the full amount of the fee with seven credit hours of enrollment. But for the two fees assessed by the Student Senate, the student activity fee and the student transportation fee, the full amount is charged beginning with the sixth credit hour.
The committee is considering combining some of the eight incidental fees.
Those paying the full enrollment fees pay the full amount of the incidental fees, he said, but those paying fees per credit hour pay only a portion of the incidental fees.
Pendergast said one area of possible duplication was in Kansas Union fees. He said the three Union-related fees might be combined.
HE SAID the heating system in the stacks had been faulty since the building was remodeled in 1964, even though a new duct was installed to solve the problem. The duct, which was found to be faulty, should be repaired soon, Ranz said, and would stabilize the constantly changing temperatures in the stacks.
PENDERGAST SAID the committee
hoped to make the rates of collection
Graduate students now pay more for off-campus courses, he said.
The committee is considering restructuring the fee schedule for extension courses to make the rates charged to undergraduates equal, Pendergast said.
uniform to simplify the fee payment and collection process.
"The rationale was that to provide those courses for graduate students cost the undergraduate undergreat said. "Graduate courses require other teachers, smaller classes and so forth."
John Glinka, associate director of the library and committee member, said many of the library books were more than 100 years old. The books are from a constant temperature of 78 to 80 degrees.
HE SAID most people who needed to use the University's extension services were graduate students, however, so the committee might recommend a reduction in the fees charged for graduate extension courses.
Task force discusses satellite union funds
By RANDY CZARLINSKY
Committee members will meet with representatives from other state schools taking extension courses to discuss externships and offer other institutions, Pendergast said.
See LIBRARY page 10
In a preliminary report last night, the Satellite Union Task Force discussed five proposals for financing the satellite union but took no action.
mazes - all sorts rooms you can only get to by walking through other rooms.
Before the tour, Jim Ranz, dean of libraries and chairman of the committee, explained some of the library's greatest faults.
The task force said student fees, which were considered as a source of funding for the union, were already paying for a Kansas Union addition and annex.
The addition was a $1.1 million project funded in 1968 by revenue bonds. A $3 student fee is collected each semester to off the debt, which should be retired by 1973.
The task force made six assumptions in the proposals for financing the satellite antenna.
The annex was built in 1958 for $1.1 million and was funded by revenue bonds. A $2.50 student fee is collected each semester to off the debt, which should be retired by 1968.
There are many small rooms now unused because access to them is difficult.
The purpose of Friday's tour was to show committee members the layout of the building so they could determine how space could be more efficiently used.
Ranz said he thought a lot of interior walls could be knocked down to form open areas.
A large part of the subbasement is taken up by the University Photo Services. Ranz said he hoped the services would be relocated. He said he also hoped for the relocation of the University Press, which occupies 2,000 square feet of the third floor.
The east sub-basement is connected to the rest of the library only by one low doorway through the east stacks. Only an elevator could provide extra access to this area, because it's separated from the rest of the floor by a large unexcavated area.
- The surplus account is available for any student union use.
The committee was formed in February after a decision to remodel Watson and to build a new library for the science and technology collections.
By JANE MACAULEY
Problems involving faulty heating, wasted space and a lack of elevators and rest rooms in Watson Library were pointed out to members of the Library Facilities Planning Committee, who toured the library Friday.
Another major problem, Ranz said, was the lack of elevators. There is no elevator in the large east addition, which means that to some parts of the building is very limited.
The area, consisting of 8,000 square feet, is closed to the public as a fire precaution. It's being used to house old library furniture that haven't been processed and shelved.
THERE WERE various theories why the area hadn't been excavated but, Glinka said, it seemed most likely that the builders moved to the area with a large mass of rock that could not be blasted.
- During the next 25 years, the average number of full-fee paying students each semester will be 15,000 on a realistic basis and 13,000 on a pessimistic basis.
"IN SEVERAL places there are real
—The yearly interest rate on revenue bonds issued March 1977 will be 7.5 per cent.
- Construction bids will be decided by March 1977.
The revenue bonds will receive a good Moody rating. A Moody rating indicates the creditworthiness of the bonds.
Audio-Reader funds reconsidered
—Apply $650,000 of the surplus to the construction expense of the building, and retire the remaining $1.85 million during the next 20 years through student fees. On the presumistic enrollment base, the fee would be 40 a semester and $6.30 on the realistic base.
With these assumptions in mind, the task force considered the following five proposals:
- In 1983, the balance is projected to be $1.65 million in the surplus and in the Sinking Fund, an account to protect bond holders from poor income from low enrolment years. This assumes there will be a 4 per cent earning rate on the balance and more income because of high enrolment.
Obtain funds from student fees collected specifically for the satellite union. The fee would be collected for 25 years, and no money would be drawn from the surplus account. The fee would be $9 a semester on a student. If you pay $8 a semester if current projections occur.
chairman, said that, in the past, the Union's bonds had received the best rating. AAA.
Some of the assumptions carry with them specific problems.
With this balance, the bonds could be retired on the agreed schedule while making no additional student fee increases for the debt retirement. A #7 a semester fee
Also, the task force forces on a **$2.6 million** body of Regiments of Burgess apperches a **$2 million** body.
Rolfs said there was a question on whether the surplus funds could be legally used. But Mr. Rolfs said the
See TASK page 10
State Sen. Wint Winter, R-Ottawa and chairman of the Senate Wayne and Means Committee, said last night that the Senate would not take over the committee committee cut from KU's budget requests.
Funds for the KU Audio-Reader program that were cut last week by a state legislative committee may be restored to KU's fiscal 1977 amortizations.
"I'm quite sure we'll take another hard look at it," he said. "We have more information now and more understanding of the program."
Winter had told the committee Thursday that the $20,000 could be cut because it would be used to pay volunteers, and that
However, Rosie Hurwitz, director of Audio-Reader, said the funds wouldn't be used to pay wages, but were to match a federal grant to purchase new equipment and allow expansion of Audio-Reader's facilities in Sudler House.
the cut wouldn't affect the program's operations.
Audio-Reader broadcasts readings of books, newspapers and other information by radio for blind persons within an 85-mile radius of Lawrence.
"On the basis of additional information provided to us, that there will be one person added to the staff and some new equipment, and that the money will go with a sophisticated federal grant, there may be a change," he said.
Hurwitz had called Winter's statements about the program's operation ridiculous. The $2,000 was added to KU's budget and the company updated cramped and inadequate facilities.
Hurwitz couldn't be reached for further comment yesterday.
Winter said that he didn't know what action would be taken by his committee or the full Senate, but that he thought the committee's decision might be reversed.
The funds were part of H.B. 928, which includes most of KU's fiscal 1977 funding. The bill should be considered by the full Senate today or tomorrow. Winter said.
Cellist warmup
Mistaly Rostropovich, world famous cellist, uses a back room in Hoch Auditorium to practice before his performance Saturday
Photo by RANDY OLSON
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