Friday, March 26, 1976
University Daily Kansan
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Phone keeps ringing for counseling advice
A new toll-free telephone education and career counseling service of the University of Kansas has received a large response since it began operating February 1.
By calling the toll-free number, 1-800-533-6772, anyone in Kansas can receive information about post-high school study opportunities and career choices.
The service is called "FIRST" (For Information and Referral Services Toll-free). It is funded by the University of Mid-America, a joint enterprise of the universities of Kansas, Iowa, Missouri and Nebraska and Kansas State and Iowa State by the Student services section of the KU division of Continuing Education.
Student services director Vivian McCoy said Tuesday that response to the service had been excellent although publicity about the service had started only last week.
McCoy first FIRST was organized to give people in Kansas "immediate access to reliable information about post-high school study opportunities in Kansas and information vital to considered career decisions."
FIRST is part of a Continuing Education effort to serve Kansans out of the mainstreams of traditional education, McCoy said. Some of these groups are adults, the home-bound, school dropouts and persons who live too far from an institution of higher learning to take advantage of regular on-campus programs.
2nd bridge of 4 open to traffic
The second in a package of four bridges in Douglas County's 50-bridge, $11.75 million replacement program has been completed and is open to traffic.
The completed bridge is over Walden Creek in Martin Park. It was opened Feb. 27, Dean Sanderson, county engineer, said Monday.
The first bridge of the four, all of which were built by two companies, was completed and opened in late January. It spans Spring Creek one mile north of Big Springs.
Sanderson said the remaining two bridges in the package were under construction by the two companies, Frisbie Bridge Co. and Canyon Creek Bridge Co. Perry. Those bridges should be completed within two months, depending on weather conditions, Sanderson said.
One is the Harrison Well Bridge, located over a branch of Baldwin Creek one mile west of the Martin Park Bridge. The other is at the southeast of Lecompton over Oakley Creek.
Cost to the county for the four bridges was $280,903.50. Of that, $69,958 was for grading and $710,945.50 for construction. Funds for project came from a county band election.
Nuclear plant to be discussed
Rep. Michael Glover, D-Lawrence, will sponsor a meeting at 2:30 p.m. Sunday in the Lawrence Public library auditorium and give a nuclear generating station near Burlington.
Glover said yesterday he would present for discussion a resolution by Rep. Fred L. Weaver, D-Baxter Springs, that would nullify a water contract associated with the Wolf Creek project. The contract exists Karson, Kansas; Gas Electric Co., Wichita, Texas; and John Redmond Board for water from the John Redmond Reservoir that will be used in the project.
Bob Rives, Kansas Gas and Electric Co.; Bill Ward, Great Plains Windstries, Inc.; and Paul Johnson, People's Energy Project, will participate in the meeting.
Glover said he hoped a member of the Water Resources Board would be at the meeting.
Babcock said that the number of callers increased daily and that responses had come from all over the state. Some of the calls he answered were to Babcock and they had no options left, Babcock said.
The service operates between no 8 and 5 p.m. on weekdays, on Wednesday until 9 p.m. on Saturdays.
Even though it is based at the University,
it is limited to KU course and career
course.
ninety per cent of the FIRST callers are referred to vocational-technical schools and community schools, apprenticeships, on-the-job training, private trade schools and industry schools.
FIRST counselors have access to the student services' career and education library, and FIRST maintains a file of student advisers and advisers living in communities in Kansas.
Volkswagen dealers across the United States will invite all owners of 1975 Rabbits, Dashers and Scirocco to bring their cars in for free service and modifications soon.
The major modifications will replace carburator parts to cure engine stalling and difficult starting. Other changes are designed to bring the cars up to 1976 standards, Larry Zirke, service manager of Javhawk Volkassen, said Monday.
Zirkle said that the changes would depend on the particular car and that he didn't know how much work would be done on each car until the plan was under way.
The improvement plan was initiated soon. The Volkswagen and isn't being required by the government.
Zirke said the date to begin the improvement plan, involving about 55,000 cars across the country, had been changed about 10 years ago, and company was having difficulty obtaining parts.
"It's a major repair. Everything that's been complained about is going to be fixed."
VW offers free repairs
Zirkle said he had already made repairs
Free-U curriculum unique
Unstructured classes with a tradition of no grades and no fees opened again this semester when the Free University begins of an out-of-the-ordinary curriculum.
Jeff Schul, Free University director, said Tuesday that about 500 people were enrolled in the 34 classes offered. New courses this month include a dance class, a刀 makeking, dress and rock 'n' roll.
Two new courses in massage have been added to accommodate the growing number of people interested in that art, he said. There are three new one massage course offered last semester.
Schul said there was an increasing interest in classes that taught skills like肌腱拉筋.
"Silversmithing is among the two or three most popular classes," he said. "Skills are created by a lack of teachers; fill the void created by a lack of classes that teach people to work with their hands.
"PEOPLE DON'T want to be limited to only academic training anymore."
Despite a renewed interest in skills classes, there has been a decline in Free
300 more tickets available for Rostropovich
All the original nonstudent tickets were sold two to three weeks ago, Joyce Fackler, chairman of the KU Concert Series, said yesterday.
Nostudent tickets once again are available for the Mistislav Rustovopulov with a new link: https://www.nostudent.ru/
She said about 300 tickets originally designated for students were now available to nonstudents for $6. Series sponsors waited until yesterday to make more tickets available to students left off for students, she said, but so far few student tickets have been sold. They are $1
Tickets are on sale at the fine arts box office in Murphy Hall.
all concert profits will go into next year's KU Concert Series fund.
University enrollment in recent years. Schul said he thought the decline had resulted because students were more interested in coursework and did not have time for noncredit courses.
"The Free University has come a long way since the late '80s when there was a huge amount of interest in all the classes," Schul said. "I don't think the Free University will ever return to the point where it will offer a Sunset Course like it did back then."
The future of Free University, which is funded by SUA, is hard to predict, Schul said, because the program is so unstructured.
Schul was referred to a Free University course in which students gathered solely to learn French.
Recruitment of teachers is mostly by word of mouth and through a small amount of mail.
"MANY TIMES THE teachers take the initiative and call up to say they want to teach," he said. "And people really come together in woodwork, especially at the last minute."
There are no requirements to be a teacher in the Free University other than the desire to
Schul said course offerings were selected according to the number of teachers available and the number of requests for a particular course.
"My job, then, is getting the right people together in the right place at the right time."
Last semester Schul tried to elicit response from students and teachers by using a portion of his $1,000 budget to mail them a list. He said most of the people failed to respond.
Schul said one of the problems of the Free University was personnel turnover—the director and staff work with the Free University for only one year.
"The director is usually a senior who well-accustomed with the position," he said.
on some cars in Lawrence. Although the improvements usually take about 12 hours, Zirkel said, the repairs could take more or less time and the number of cars that are brought in.
Kansas State University has one of the best free universities in the nation, according to Schul. K-State's free university, which is called the University for Man, has had more students than it had in job several years. Schul said, and has a budget of about $16,000 a year.
he said Volkswagen wanted to please the customers it had lost recently in sales and would make it easier for them.
"People got upset. The car is not cheap and we want to make sure they're happy now."
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Using Redkin Colors
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Redkin Natural Perm.
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haircut not included
Debbie Nitsch, salesman at Jayhawk Volkswagen, said they had sold about 100 Rabbits, 35 Dashers and 20 Scircocos in 1975.
Specials Good Entire Month of March
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REUBEN SANDWICH
Hot Cornbeef, Swiss Cheese and Bavarian Kraut served on cottage rye.
One Rabbit owner, Edgar Wolfe, told me that he was in Kansas, said he hadn't heard about the recall. But if he receives a letter, he said, will take his car in for the repairs because it was stolen.
Reg. Price $1.95
The Bull & Bear
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Open Faced HOT BEEF SANDWICH
Served with thin sliced roast beef, home-made mashed potatoes—smothered in dark brown gravy. Relishes included.
Expires Mar. 31, 1976
Zirkle said car owners would be told of a specific deadline for the repairs.
Reg. Price $1.90
Zirkle that any work done would have a six-month. 6,000-mile warrant.
"The cars that I have done show it does work. It isn't just to pacify the people," he said.
He said he had attended a two-day seminar to learn how the company wanted repairs to be made, one day being spent in the factory and the other actually working on a car.
BATIK WORKSHOP!!!
6 Wks. Mar. 31-May 5/25
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George Plimpton Monday, April 5 8:00
Hock Auditorium
Tickets $1.50 at SUA Offices
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Custom Vans
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chassis by FORD
Management Opportunities
Starting salary up to '10,500, increasing to '17,200 after four years experience
You spent four years studying Marketing, Business Administration,
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Contact the K.U. Business Placement Office to arrange a March 30 or 11 interview or call Dave Pierman at 816-374-2376 collect.
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