THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
COMFORTABLE
KANSAN
Vol.86 No.93
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Tuesday, February 24, 1976
Western Kansans view wheat straw as energy source
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Decision on faculty rights near for nonfaculty staff
BvLYNDASMITH
Staff Writer
The issue of faculty rights for research at universities is far more lucrative at the University of Kansas than at a committee to committee for six years. But a University policy has never been enforced.
One may be soon forthcoming,however.
One day of such foreboding: 'nowhere! The Council of Directors of University Daughters (CDUD), under chairman Rena Capone, director of the Bureau of Child Research, wrote a policy six years ago that would institute certain rights for those personnel, such as notification of nonreappointment, sabbaticals and titles denoting rank.
The proposal has been before almost every faculty committee. Copeland and his faculty.
"Everyone put the issue," he said,
"The object to bring to the ball high."
DEL SHANKEL, executive vice chancellor, said yesterday he first met with members of CDUd last year about their proposal and made a few changes in its content. He then referred it to SenEx for consideration in the fall. SenEx referred the proposal to its committee on Faculty Rights, Privileges and Responsibilities.
Copeland and met with SenEx two weeks ago to answer questions concerning the proposal, and SenEx is expected to give its recommendation to Shankel next Wednesday.
Joel Gold, SenEx member, said, "We
looked it over again this week, and we don't see anything wrong with it."
Neither Gold nor Shankel knew why it hadn't been approved or rejected in six ways.
PHILIP HUMPHEY director of the Museum of Natural History, said the policy probably hadn't been adopted because of a natural resistance to change and a desire to either the Kansas Board of Regents or the National Board of Regents had authority in the matter.
Shankel said the administration would first have to approve the proposal, and then it would be sent to the Board of Regents for final approval.
THE POSITIONS involved are curator,
librarian, continuing education professor,
and academic advisor.
University divisions that employ those personnel are the Geological Survey, Museum of Natural History, Sponer Art Museum, Burse of Child Research, Computation Center, Institute for Social and Environmental Studies, Training Education and University libraries.
Copeland said the proposal was needed because research associates, curators and professors of continuing education all mission to the University's teaching mission.
"Many research associates, librarians and curators are on graduate students' advisory committees," Gold said, "and the Geological Survey and the Bureau of Child
Research provide research facilities for many students and faculty members.
"People who make such contributions to the University should have many of the same benefits as those in CDU's aim, Copeland said, is to institute policies that would give these positions job
CDUD SUGGESTS that personnel be notified of nonemployment in the same time periods as assistant professors, associate professors and professors. Suggested time periods are three months for new personnel, six to eight years for employees, five years and one year for personnel employed longer than five years.
"The way it is now," Copeland said, "a research associate could be notified at eight in the morning that his appointment will be terminated at five that afternoon."
Copeland said many people had interpreted CDUD's proposal as a request for tenure for the faculty-equivalent staff members.
"It's conical because notification of nonrepresentation is just the opposite of teletubbies."
CDUO also is seeking a system of titles for research associates to denote rank. A senior research scientist would get early research tenure, Copeland said, rather than tenure.
"Under current procedures, if a research associat is distinguished after five years
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Russian studies American psyche
Staff Writer
By KAREN LEONARD
Vadimir Yorgievitch is trying to find out what Americans think about blacks.
He wants to know how bad crime really is in the United States. And he wants to know what an American journalist would do if he was forced to write a story praising homosexuality.
Vygoricke, one of 30 Soviet tourists in Lawrence over the weekend, is using his two-week U.S. tour as a primary source to learn about what he and other questions about what life is like here.
"The best way to come to understand
Requests on agenda
The commission is expected to consider the request as a resolution that may become city law.
Having discussed two reports filed by members of a committee that investigated charges of city mismanagement, the commission acted on the committee requests at 7 noon.
The commission will also discuss changes police administration, including the crime statistics.
In other business, the commission will review bids for construction of a city maintenance garage, to be built at 10th and 12th floors. The bids were taken Friday afternoon.
different people is to get down to meet the average person." Yergoviek said. "I have seen the externals of America in pictures and books, but what I'm really interested in is the psychology of Americans. That's something you can't read about."
Ygorierich is one of 150 Soviets who tour the United States each year.
HE SAID that there were many more Sovietists that would like to come to the United States, but that because of economic difficulties only a few made the trip.
Also, he said, "you charge too much."
As a group leader Vialer Sidorov pointed out, Yegirchen isn't an average Soviet. He received an M.A. in philology from the University of Leningrad and now works as the Secretary, or leader, of the Komosomal group in a tractor factory in Leningrad.
According to Sidorov, secretary of Leningrad's 800,000 Komsomol members, the Komsomol is an organization of young Communists from 14 to 28.
Staff photo
Yegoricev said that the organization was the final step in the weeding-out process before becoming a member of the Communist Party.
Although it may seem strange for a philology major to be working in a tractor factory, Yogirichel explained that when you study philosophy, you study everything. This is particularly interested in the psychology of workers, the worker and how he viewed the world.
Yogievorich is a 27-year-old, married clean-cut and clean-shaven member of the Communist Party. He said the Party had directed him to work in the factory.
IN HIS JOB as a factory Komsomol
leader, he said, he works outside of the normal nine-to-five working day and must be on hand whenever he is needed. His duties include volunteer social work and organizing political activities, much the same as a U.S. labor union official, he said.
In his factory, Yegorichev said, there is now a challenge to encourage workers to take night courses. He said there were night courses offered in journalism, engineering, medicine or anything the workers expressed an interest in.
In a country with only one political party, political activity is defined as anything from organizing the political education of youth to starting physical education programs, international work, recreation, dancing, and presenting plays. he said.
He was quick to add that in the Soviet Union, unlike the United States, a factory worker didn't have to remain a factory worker and had to work nights night courses, so on to a different job.
VEGORICHEV said he was paid by the Kosomosl group at the factory, not the company.
The Komsomel makes a third of its money from dues and the rest from the proceeds of Komsomel magazines and newspaper Komsomel foundation raising projects, he said.
He said that the Komsomol was a very rich organization and it is the largest organization in the United States.
Sidovor said that the Komosomal was paying half the expenses for the tour group members in Lawrence. The Soviet government paid the other half of the $2,000-a-
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residents are assigned to each kitchen with responsibility for meal preparation shared among them.
Kitchen help
Rita Gattin, Colby senator, prepares dinner in one of seven small kitchens in the basement of Miller Hall. Seven hall
Noncoed living svmbiotic
(Editor's note): This is the second in a five-part series examining where students are most likely to be affected by learning problems.
By LIZ LEECH
Friendship and cooperation are the most common denominators of fraternities, sororites and scholarship halls at the University of Kansas.
These living groups all have selection processes that determine who their members are.
Unlike more than half of KU's residence halls, these living groups aren't coeducational. But they're significantly smaller, leading, some residents say, to closer friendships and a spirit of working together.
Sororites and fraternities are more expensive and larger than scholarship organizations.
Fraternities
The 21 fraternities at KU house a total of 408 men this year, representing 6.5 per cent of the student body.
BABE SAID be thought fraternities had to be selected in choosing their members
Charley Babb, Denver sophomore, lived in a KU residence hall last year but now lives in Kappa Sigma fraternity. He said he didn't dislike the residence hall, but thought a fraternity would be more beneficial to him.
"I like the stress that is placed on scholars, athletics and the social life in this city," she said.
He said that being a fraternity member, kept him busy, but not so involved that he didn't have time for friends who lived in his old residence hall.
The fraternity costs him about $120 a year more than the hall did, but he said he thought it was because there were more social activities in fraternities.
because they wanted people who would get along well.
"Sometimes rush is impersonal and you don't always get a chance to know a guy really well, but I don't know how else we could do it," he said.
There is a formal men's rush each fall and spring before classes begin during which rushes visit each fraternity house. Men usually visit at least once in invitation to pledge a fraternity any time.
Fraternities have three kinds of rush. After May 27, fraternity rush chairmen can visit high school graduates and persuade them to sign pledge cards.
Mark Hughes, Emporia sophomore, said he pledged Phi Delta Theta because he
already knew some of the members and thought a praterity would offer more than a
"I think that I'll have lifelong friends from living here because people are so close now," he said. "If you have school problems or you are going to help you, and with personal ones, too."
Bob Turvey, assistant dean of men and adviser to the Interfraternity Council (IFC), also said that men in fraternities developed lifetime friendships.
He said football game weekends were evidence of those friendships when alumni returned to the houses for buffets in large numbers.
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Two performers scheduled for KU's Festival of the Arts in April have cancelled their appearances, reducing the Festival to a three-day program.
Two festival artists cancel appearances
Lionel Hampton and Herbie Hancock, who were scheduled to appear April 9 and 10 respectively, cancelled their contracts too late for SUA to find acceptable replacements, Carol Poulson, program director, said yesterday.
Foulson said that some other acts were tentatively scheduled after the two performers cancelled two weeks ago, but that replacement negotiations had fallen through.
"All that was available was too expensive or not good enough quality for the Fees."
SUA will refund all the money for the $8
coupon tickets, which would have been good for the five performances, Poulson said. Those who purchased coupon tickets can go to the SUA office for a complete refund.
Tickets for individual performances will be available March 8, she said. Tickets for the American Chambers Ballet and the American Dance Center will cost $10, those for George Plimpton will cost $1.50.
Poulson said that Lionel Hampton had decided to go to Europe during the time the Festival was scheduled and that Herbie Hancock had chanced his tour route.
There isn't much a college can do about a broken contract, she said, because it doesn't have the time or money to take contract cancellations to court.
Staff photo by DAVE CRENSHAW
The costs of cemetery plots and tombstones are increasing in Lawrence
Morticians defend business
By DAVE HAUBER
Staff Writer
They are usually quiet places. The furniture is neatly arranged and the rooms are impeccably clean. Off to the side of the room, the floor lends a solemn air to the surroundings.
A soft bell signals the arrival of a visitor and from the back comes a well dressed man with the polish of a lawyer or banker. The hand gesture denotes distance between his profession and others.
The funeral industry has been accused in the past of taking unfair advantage of people when they are most vulnerable, at a time of death.
His deals with death.
Complaints against funeral directors are centered on attempts to oversell services and items to families of dead relatives, who can't afford them. They buy anyway because it is the last thing that they can do for the deceased.
A LOCAL FUNERAL director, Larry Morton. He the Warren-Meilwain Mortuary.
"Most people want to do it themselves," he said.
McElwain said that he usually let people decide for themselves what kind of funeral they wanted. He said that it was good grief theraw.
"I don't think people are that vulnerable," he said. "People, as far as funeral services are concerned, usually ask for the reason to which they are accustomed to living."
OVERSELLING funeral services, Rumsey said, results in people not being able to pay later and causes more accounts receivable. He also said that most people spent at levels on which they were accustomed to living.
RUMSEY SAID that some of the alleged bad practices that the federal government should have taken were not.
McElwain agreed with Rumsey and said
"The guys that aren't art just don't last long," he said. "in bigger cities, it's run more as just a business but out here it's run more like a community project."
Oscar Rumsey of Rumsey Funeral Home, said, "Our problem is that we try to sell people down rather than up. You can ask them to come out. You don't do it you any good or them any good."
Complaints about funeral homes and a Federal Trade Commission (FTC) survey of mouricans in Washington, D.C., New York and elsewhere have prompted an investigation into the industry for the past few years. In May, the FTC will hold hearings in different regions of the United States to gather information about local restrictions on funerals and proposed restrictions on the industry.
there had never been a complaint or legal
flict against Kansas funeral directors
The Kansas Funeral Directors and Embalmer Association responded to possible federal restrictions in a statement this month in Wichita opposing federal regulations. The statement said that local self-regulation was sufficient for state ethical practice.
Local funeral directors defend their business, which in the past has had to contend with the kind of boo boo nature of its deceased. But for many funerals, a right to make a profit for what they do, but add that at the same time they are providing a necessary social service in a community.
There are three funeral homes in Lawrence; Bower-See Lestuary, Rumsy Funeral Home and Warren-Meelwain Funeral Home and used to discuss its business with the Kanas.
LAST YEAR in Lawrence, 375 deaths occurred. McElwain said that his business performed about 100 funerals in the area, and he said that about 300 funerals. McElwain said the death rate in Lawrence was lower than the national average because of the young people.
However, funeral directors say that costs of their services are rising with inflation. The cost of embalming fluids, operation of automobiles and equipment and the cost of wood and metal used in caskets have made funerals more expensive today. Local businesses have to contend with an approximate 5 per cent yearly increase in the cost of funerals.
The cost of an average funeral, not including grave markings or cementetry is $1,100.
BOTH RUMSEY and McElwain said
BOTH RUMSEY and McElwain said
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