FANTASTIC
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
Vol.86 No.107
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Tuesday, March 23, 1976
Baseball team takes on Baker after Texas trip
See page 6
Staff photo by DON PIERCE
Practice opens
Defensive line coach Vince Semery demonstrates a proper stance during the opening day of spring practice for the KU football team. Head coach Bud Moore put his team through its paces during training.
By JIM COBB
TOPEKA-The University of Kansas will benefit from five building decisions made by the Kansas Board of Regents Friday. The Regents:
approve building action
-Granted authority to begin archeological planning and design for a $2 million construction project.
—Agreed to fund a feasibility study of a trash-burning steam plant.
—Approved a work program for a
demonstration. Continuing
Demonstration. Contact Kenton
—Requested the state architect to appoint associate architects to plan the satellite network.
—Approved a low bid of $3.18 million for a cure package for a new clinical facility at the University Hospital in San Antonio.
Max Lucas, assistant to the chancellor's office and chairman of the KU Energy Study Task Force, said yesterday that completion of the satellite union's architectural program would precede the selection of an associate architect.
THE UNION project will be built with revenue bonds not to exceed $2 million and will be paid for by student fees not to exceed $7.50 a student each semester.
Authority to issue the bonds still must be granted to the Regents by the Kansas Legislature. Lucas said the bonds probably would be issued early next year.
The Regents originally authorized the satellite lunion plan in 1986, but KU students had not been permitted to fly.
Jess Stewart, Wamego Regent, voted against the construction; earlier, he voted against a proposed recreational building at Kansas State University. Stewart said he was opposed to using student fees for construction.
GLEE SMITH, Larned Regent, said a distinction could be made between using student fees for recreational buildings, such as classrooms, and using them to build classrooms.
The Regents awarded a contract for a feasibility study of the proposed $10 million for the construction plant to Henningson, Durham and Richardson, an Omaha, Born, firm. The study will be funded with $20,000 from a appropriation for four Regents schools.
KU will contribute $2,000 to the study,
Smith, a member of the Regents' Building
Committee, said $20,000 was an "extra-
ordinarily low fee," and credited Lucas
with successfully negotiating to keep the study's costs low.
THE PROPOSED plant would burn
the refuse provided by the city to make steam
to heat and cool ICU buildings. Lucas said he
was confident that Schneider to approve the study contract.
The $8.6 million Demonstration Continuing Education Center will be built with federal funds. KU's proposed center will be one of three in the nation and will continue Continuing Education units, Howard Walker, dean of continuing education, said.
The center will be federally funded, but Chancellor Archie R. Dykes told the Regents he didn't know when Congress appropriate funds for its construction.
The low bid for the Med Center clinical facility closure package was submitted by Carlo V. S. General Contractors, Inc., Carlo V. S. General Contractors, Inc., alternate proposals for energy conservation.
Because KU is authorized to accept and spend federal funds, no specific approval is needed for the center, but a construction budget may be issued with the state budget office. Lucas said.
BOTH DYKES and Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor, stressed that the center would be a model project that might require of similar facilities at other universities.
The closure package's completion will finish most of the facility's exterior construction. The interior is completed.
and windows. The alternate proposals include installation of double-paned windows with air space for insulation and extra heavy roof insulation.
Smith said the alternates were added to the package because they would save on commissions.
DYKES TOLD the Regents he was pleased with progress on the clinical facility. He said bids submitted for a Tele-Lift system to send messages or drugs were delivered before previous estimates. Bids for an interior will be received by April 21, Lucas said.
The Regents also acted on several minor issues affecting the University.
Building repairs were approved for four KU halls: $4,000 to repair windstorm damage to Snow Hall, $2,000 to repair a defectiveiller cathery in Wescoe Hall, $2,000 to repair damage in Flint Hall's basement caused by a ruptured hot water line and $9,000 for roof repairs to Hinch Hall at the Med Center.
Prudence Hutton, chairman of the Regents, said the amount of the debts was "terrible," but Dykes said it was the second time that he saw records of write-offs had been kept.
THE REGENTS granted authority to the University to write off $17,615 in uncollectible accounts at the Med Center, where they reasonable efforts to collect were made.
Dykes said that collection of the debts had been turned over to a collection agency and was returned to him.
collected. David W. Robinson, acting executive vice chancellor for the Med Center, some people didn't feel it was necessary to pay attention because it was a state supported institution.
Dykes said, however, that 85 per cent of the bills owed the Med Center were paid.
OTHER ACTIONS taken by the Regents include:
—Approval of increased housing fees at the Med Center. Costs for women living at the Student Center were raised from $60 to $75 and rented in rooms, and from $60 to $85 for double rooms.
-Elimination of private lesson and practice facility fees for music majors who are qualified for staff fee rates and who are enrolled for six hours of credit, when lessons or facilities are required by the students' departments.
-Granting authority to accept, at no charge, a tractor and semi-trailer unit to be used for firemasth training by the Division of Continuing Education. The unit will be used as a mobile classroom for training, laboratory work and research.
—Approval of unspecified Ph.D. degrees in engineering at KU, KState and Wichita State University Also approved were masters' degrees in special studies and human development and bachelors' degrees in economics.
—Approved concentration in dance in the physical education program. The Regents' Academic and Extension Committee UW's request to offer a B.S. degree in dance.
House debates ERA rescission
By JULIE WILLIAMS
Efforts to rescind the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) in Kansas have reappeared in the legislature with House Concurrent Resolution 5045, a bill advocating rescission of the ERA in Kansas.
A hearing before the House Federal and State Affairs Committee last week in Topeka presented supporting and opposing measures of the measure. Kansas ratified it in 1972.
the ERA from several groups and individuals.
After no action was taken, the bill was tabled to committee.
Pam Hornie, assistant to the dean of women, said yesterday that the bill had been introduced by State Rep. Lee Hamm, D-Pratt, because of letters and calls against
SHE SAID she thought the measure for rescission was particularly fortunate because Kansas had been a leader in equal rights and because the state had "a pretty good track record concerning women's rights."
Ann Graham, Topeka graduate student
annah.gramm@topeka.edu for ERA, also
attends the Kansas for ERA.
Graham said the committee heard one speaker for and one against the amendment, who were allowed 25 minutes to present their opinions.
Humav advocated rescission and State Ruth Wilhk D, T-Topeka, support the EKA
ERA supporters stress that the amend- ratediff in Kansas in 1972, Graham said.
Advocates of recession content that the ERA would take power, from the states.
"The ERA would invalidate some of our Kansas laws and Kansas state legislators would be losing some of the power they now have." Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, of Lawrence Cities Against ERA, said.
Hanna said opponents of the amendment were also concerned with mandatory combat duty and with homosexuals being able to marry and adopt children.
She said the rescission measure was important because so many people were interested in it. The hearing room was crowded and a majority of onlookers remained outside in adjacent hallways, she said.
Eileen Hammar, Prairie Village junior and political action chairman for the Commission on the Status of Women, said she was surprised because Kansas had ratified it so quickly.
"Kansas has ratified ERA and women have gone on from there and established careers assuming that Kansas has taken this stance," Graham said.
Fast-food chains in union denied
By RANDY CZARLINSKY
The Satellite Union Task Force defeated a proposal Sunday night to allow privately owned food franchises to operate in the new building.
The task force said there could be a problem if a student organization wanted to use the space for a meeting or a party and the tenant refused. The task force said there were already fast food services close to campus.
She said she hoped the ERA wouldn't be rescinded because Kansas was one of the states she had been in.
JON JOSSEERAND, Johnson senior and member of task force, said two of the three students who had been established of banking facilities on campus. The other bank was generally negative. Josseerand said, because it benefited the benefits to the bank would be few.
The task force also discussed problems of banking facilities, aesthetics and service provision.
The task force discussed the possibility of replacing the current system employed by the utility company with a new system.
The Union now cashs checks up to $25 for a 10 cent fee. The Union service also has money orders and travelers checks available. Josserd said the Union service cashed approximately 100,000 checks a year.
NO BANK will cash checks for the same fee the Union charges, Josserand said.
Ed Rolfs, force chairman, discussed
departures and withdrawals a facility to make
deposits, and withdraws
The task force attempted to determine what groups would be given space in the satellite union. The three main groups were academics, athletics and food service.
Sherri Gerrig, Manhattan junior, said that students needed banking facilities, but that was not the case.
which included providing music practice rooms, wouldn't be given space in the new room.
Jossner said he had talked with Jerry Waugh, assistant athletic director, about the possible needs of the University of Kansas Athletic Corporation. They discussed the possibility of having an athletic hall of fame in the new union.
THE TASK force discussed three possible locations for a hall of fame in the satellite union. They are a restaurant, a public hallway or a private meeting room.
Josserand said that because of security complications in Allen Field House, a hall of 800 people at the building.
The task force also established a rough priority list for services in the satellite
Items on the list included food services,
lounge-study areas, office areas and
bathrooms.
Of the 31,000 square feet, 8,000 square feet will be used for office area. This includes administrative offices, maintenance areas and stairways.
ROLFS SAID that there would be 31,000 usable square feet in the new building, in addition to 8,000-9,000 square feet that would be left unfinished.
The task force discussed the possibility of having 25 to 30 per cent of the usable area for dining. Grey gave a report from Walter Smith, student union director at Kansas State University, about lounge and study areas there.
THERE is no food served in the Cat-seller, Grey said, but students either bring their lunches or buy them in the cafeteria. "This is needed desperately," Grey said.
The task force also discussed new ideas that would be included in the satellite union. Suggestions included the surfacing of the walls with bulletin boards, building an audio room and a Woodruff Auditorium, a branch library for reserved readings and a laundromat.
Grey and the Catsteller, a lounge-study
room with its own quiet study, an
metaphorically pleasing place to study."
University funding bill in Senate committee
The Kansas Senate Pay and Means Committee plans to discuss a $12.5 million appropriations bill for state college and universities at a meeting this morning.
The House of Representatives gave the bill preliminary approval Friday. The measure includes appropriations for the University of Kansas.
State Sen. Arden Booth, R-Lawrence, said yesterday that the bill would probably be a success in Senate had been "very generous." In amendments to a public school finance bill considered yesterday, indicating that the institution considerably consider higher education funding.
Booth said he expected a move in the
Senate to raise faculty salary increases higher than the eight per cent that passed the House. Gov. Robert F. Bennett had recommended a 10 per cent increase.
"But we really just hope to keep what we've got now," Booth said.
After leaving the Ways and Means Committee, the finance bill will go to the Senate floor, then to a conference committee to approve it to Senate and House and finally to the governor.
The House, voted 105-16 to approve the bill.
Max Bickford, executive officer for the Board of Regents, said Friday that the number of bites against the measure was big. The bill favored recommendation for passage.
Commission to investigate Mibeck's ticket complaint
The Lawrence City Commission will discuss a complaint concerning procedures for dealing with minor traffic violations at 7 tonight.
Last year's commission granted Sally Jenkins, Ornaa, Ebn, nub, permission to visit the Eighth and Massachusetts. Since then, the mission has heard protests concerning the words to be inscribed on the plaque, which emphasizes the negative stereotype of the handicapped.
Carl Mibuek, city commissioner, complained at last week's meeting about the way the police department handled a ticket he received.
The commission also will decide whether to accept the plaque honor the late Lee M. Beaupré, a blind paraplegic who sold trinkets on a Lawrence street corner.
THE TRAFFIC dispute concerns a ticket Mibkeek received last week for not having a license tag on his truck. He said he was the ticket holder within 10 days, the ticket would be dropped.
but when he went to the courthouse to have it verified by George Catt, municipal court district attorney,
Mibeck said he got the tag the next day.
Mibeeck said he couldn't understand how the verification could be made over the telephone if it was supposed to be handled in court. He said he also wondered why a police officer couldn't verify the tag and pop the ticket if the matter didn't have to so to court.
He was told that no one at the police department could verify the tag, but that Catt would verify it over the telephone and the ticket would be dropped.
CATT SAID he wouldn't have dismissed the ticket over the telephone and he didn't know why Mibec was told that he would. According to Police Chief Richard Schwartz, he was not the complaining officer, to avoid possible deception or confusion. Officers are allowed to use their own discretion in voiding tickets, and some never void them.
In other business, the commission is expected to demand a request to purchase land.
Social security deposits change
By JERRY SEIB
Staff Writer
Electronic deposit of social security benefits is scheduled to begin in the Lawrence area in July, making the social security deposit for the past of participating recipients.
Funds will be deposited in recipients' savings or checking accounts by a magnetic tape prepared by the Treasury Department, Ron Radford, branch manager of the Lawrence Social Security Office, said recently.
The Federal Reserve Board will credit each financial institution's assets by the amount of the social security payments, he said, and the institution—a bank, not a company or an individual bureau—will use the information on the tape to credit individual accounts.
THE NEW system will eliminate participants' paper checks entirely, Radford said, saving the Treasury
Department and financial institutions time and money.
Radford said social security recipients now participating in the direct deposit program, in which their checks are mailed to a designated financial institution, automatically be included in the electronic funds transfer program.
When social security checks are mailed for those months, he said, the institutions will receive a magnetic tape as well as direct deposit checks.
The checks will be deposited as usual.
Other recipients will be free to continue receiving their checks at home, he said, but they will be encouraged to participate at no extra cost.
LOCAL FINANCIAL institutions and the Lawrence Social Security Office, which serves Douglas and Jefferson Counties, complete a program in Anil and J.R. Radford said.
All Lawrence financial institutions will be participating in the electronic funds transfer system, Radford said.
but the institutions will run the tape and check its data against the paper checks to verify the system's accuracy.
BY 1979 the Department will be issuing 43 million monthly checks. The majority of those checks will be social security payments. Rafford said it was estimated that 80 million would eliminate 18 million checks, save the Department $2.7 million monthly.
The new system will eliminate the tasks of posting accounts and handling checks, he said, thus saving money for bankers. The Treasury Department has estimated it will save 15 cents for every check the program eliminates.
Radford said slightly more than 20 per cent of Kansas social security beneficiaries were participating in the
direct deposit program and would be transferred to the electronic funds system.
For the individual recipient, Radford said, the system will be initiated virtually unnoticed.
THE MAJOR BENEFIT for the individual is the elimination of the possibilities of stolen, lost or forged checks.
Social security offices throughout the country will be participating in electronic funds transfer by the end of the year, Radford said, and other federal payments will soon be made by electronic funds transfer as well.
Radford said civil service retirement benefits would be made by electronic funds transfer beginning this fall. Eventually, veterans' benefits, federal payrolls and railroad retirement benefits will be process electronically, he said.