Shapiro takes issues to students
David Shapiro, candidate for student body president
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David Shaniro is a communicator
In his race for the office of student body president, the Lawrence sophomore and his running mate, Mark Anderson, Fairway campaign to the students—room to room.
Shapiro, who said his Insight Coalition campaign was based on personal communication, says he has met 75 per cent of his staff and many by going home to house, room to room.
A campaign button prominently displayed on his shirt pocket, Shapiro said this week that he didn't have as much experience in the Student Senate as his op-era Tusheff, but cited other factors that made him a qualified candidate for the office.
"I feel my experience in both the University governance system and involvement in the residence hall system has given me more than adequate experience to run for president of the student body," he said.
SHAPINO IS completing his first year as a senator, Senate Sports Committee member.
Anderson is in his second term as a mem-
ber of the City Council. He is a
student in a school district.
University of Kansas Athletic Corporation
in the 2015 year. Shapiro was president of
Oliver Hall
Sahira said he hoped to get more of the central University administration involved in student affairs because "it's the only way we can manage it," she added, deciding process of the university."
Shapiro said he would do this by changing the senate committee structure, welcoming more administration input to the committees.
Shapiro said he planned to streamline student service organizations funded by the Senate by eliminating office expenses that could be provided by the main senate office.
REGARDING THE KUAC ticket ticket
subady. Shannon 21, said he supported it.
"I think we should fund them (KUAC) because they reach more students than anything else other than the University Daily Kansan," he said. "We should look at our programs in the Graduate Series or the University Theatre. The only difference is that the KUAC could get along
without us (Senate subsidy); the Concert Series or the University Drama would not
Shapiro said he wouldn't support the $147,000 subsidy, but would support a smaller amount.
Sapiro has also added the plank or faculty accountability to his platform, because he considers blantt disregard for existing policies in academy and policies by faculty members. Sapiro said it wasn't uncommon to discover faculty from the library on their personal shelves.
Stricter enforcement of faculty parking violations would generate more money for Kirking and Security, he said, and deter faculty drivers from disregarding parking tickets.
"It's (ticket enforcement) within the power of Parking and Security," he said. "It just has to be included into their rules and regulations."
Shapiro said he favored a student lobby in the Kansas Legislature, but not through the Associated Students of Kansas, a statewide student lobby.
WE HAVE the most powerful lobbying force right here at KU—21,000 students," he
Shiprao said he hoped to make the Senate offices, filled with desks and office equipment, more accessible to students. He said he would place boxes in the office for each senator in an effort to make the senators feel they had a reason for being there. He said the boxes would also reduce the amount of money needed from the bills and notices sent to each senator could be placed in the boxes instead of mailed.
Shapiro said he saw a need for more minority student involvement in the Senate and would encourage such involvement by emphasizing minority involvement on the committee level and work at the committee level was the beginning of involvement with the Senate.
BECAUSE HE WANTS more student input on Senate decisions, Shapiro said, he will create a five or seven-member polling group to study the student opinions on certain issues.
Saintpaio said he'd done research on the effectiveness of surveys, such as those conducted by the George Gallup, and was convinced such a measure is needed. Senate's need for greater student input.
Mark Anderson, candidate for vice president
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
Tuesday, February 17. 1976
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Edible shorts hit the market on both coasts
Vol.86 No.88
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Thermometer in mouth
Staff Photo by JAY KOELZER
William Bailum, vice chancellor for academic affairs, looks away during his check-up before giving blood at the Kamanas Union Hospital in Cologne.
terfurterrain Council and Panhellenic. Donors wishing to give blood may do so from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Tuesday and Wednesday.
KU can survive troubles ahead, Dykes tells forum
By LYNDA SMITH
Despite predictions of a nationwide drop in university enrollments within the next decade, the University of Kansas has a higher-than-average enrollment in the archi- Dykes said yesterday.
Dykes and Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor, fielded questions yesterday in an hour-long open forum. About 100 people including about 15 students, attended the forum in the Forum Room of the Kansas Union.
-KU lies between Topeka and Kansas City, where growth is expected in Kansas.
-KU's Outreach program is drawing more nontraditional students.
"1980 or '85, we meaning classified and unclassified employees and students, will make KU the kind of institution we want it to be." Dykes said, "we can invemn that if we continue to maintain superb teaching, we will continue to draw students because of our reputation."
--Many professional schools, such as architecture and pharmacy, are continually expanded.
SHANKEL, WHO responded to most questions asked at the forum, reiterated Dykes' optimism, citing four reasons the drastic drop in count to counter a drastic enrollment drop
—The expected demise of many smaller colleges and junior colleges will force students to look to other institutions such as KU for education.
To keep pace with additional faculty and with next year's enrollment increases, the University has requested 74 new university positions and 24.7 classified positions in its budget
Shankel said the majority of those
"IF WE MANAGE our resources carefully, make ourselves attractive to prospective students and are continually supported by federal funds, research grants
A member of the audience said that Outreach might diminish the effects of a decreased enrollment, but added, "You're buying trouble, aren't you, if the 60 uninsured people have not seen the year and the 74 new ones requested for this year get tenure in six or seven years?"
OUTREACH'S IMPORTANCE is reflected in KU's budget for fiscal 1976. Shankel said, where the University has been teaching mathematics and program to bring older students who dropped out of school back to college, and a minority advancement program in college.
and alumni the enrollment drop won't hurt us as much as other schools." Shankel said.
Shankel said that according to the expected number of high school graduates in the next 10 years, KU's enrollment would be about 20,000. KU's present enrollment is about 22,000.
One reason for the development of the Outreach program is that the University should provide educational opportunities for people who can't come to Lawrence to study. Shankel told Outreach also provides educational opportunities for many doctors and lawyers, who are required to continue their education, he said.
"We optimists think it will only be down to i 10,000 or i 10,000." Shankel said. "and the rate of inflation is going up."
He said that because of the mobility of TAs and AIs in and out of the University, the chances of the University going into enrollment were diminished.
FEW TAs, Als and visiting professors become tenured, Shankel said, and most positions have been and will be filled by such instructors.
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positions to be filled would "be used in lines that will not叶落 to temoured positions."
Financial exigency is a situation in which the University is compelled to dismiss tenured faculty members because it can no longer afford to pay their salaries.
Librarians support plan
By KELLY SCOTT
There is some opposition to the proposed consolidation of the University's science libraries, but most branch librarians say they support the proposed science library if it gives them more space in close to their academic departments.
A recommendation from the library facilities advisory committee that would consolidate the science libraries in a new campus, would also the administration earlier this month.
The libraries involved are the Marin Library in Marvin Hall, the Science Library in Malott Hall, the Business and Economics Reading Room in Summerfield Hall, the Entomology Reading Room in Snow Hall and the Mathematics Library in Strong Hall.
Paul Mastert, professor of mathematics,
said he considered that consolidation a
favor.
"The mathematics library is much like an experimental scientist's laboratory," Moster said. "We may use it many times every day."
Mosert told the library contained mostly advanced texts and journals, that only graduate students and professors used. The text was printed in large black close to the collection an possible he said.
THE MATHEMATICS library is in 209 Strong. The department of mathematics office is in 217 Strong and most mathematics classes are conducted in that building.
Traffic control urged
The department of computer science is also in Strong and uses the library often, MSCS.
Charges that the mathematics library is inaccessible to handicapped people and students. Sir Clare closed led the facilities advisory committee and mend that the mathematics library be consolidated in the new library, T.R. Smith, professor of geography and member of the
Mostert said, "Well, that's funny, because we have a professor who is blind, and he uses the library a lot more where it is than he would if it were halfway across cam-
FACULTY MEMBERS and graduate students, who Mostert said were the main users of the library, have keys to the library so they can use it in the evening, he said.
Mostert said the decision about whether the mathematics library should consolidate with the other science libraries should be left to the department of mathematics.
Marina Young, science librarian coordi-
nator, said the consolidated library would
be able to keep up with all new book-
ings.
Lower speed limits and more stop signs may control University of Kansas traffic.
One advantage of a small branch library
"If an excellent combination of subject disciplines," she said, "Right now the job is to write."
The Lawrence City Commission will vote at its weekly meeting at 7 tonight on recommendations from the Traffic Safety Council to establish the traffic controls
The recommendations were originally made by J. M. Thomas, director of the KU police department. The Traffic Safety Commission, which studied the recommendations Feb. 2, voted unanimously to city commission to approve the controls.
The commission will meet on the fourth day of the First National Bank of Lawrence and
The recommendations call for 20-mile-an- hour speed limits on these streets; Baumgarther Drive from Jayhawk Blvd. to Mississippi; Jayhawk_dwr. from the Cil
Omega Fountain to 130; Lilac Lane from Jayhawk Blvd. to Memorial Drive from Mississippi to West Campus Road; North College Drive from 11th circling back to 11th, Poplar Lane from Jayhawk Blvd. to Place Area, including Bagley and Ellis Drives and north of 18th; and Sunflower Road from 16th to Memorial Drive.
The recommendations call for stop signs at these locations: Allen Field House service drive onto Naisimith Drive, Illinois at Sunnyside, Memorial Stadium exit at 11b, Parking Lot entrance at 11b, parking lot exiting at Naisimith Drive and north and south exits of X-Zone parking lot.
however, is that it gets greater use, young said.
"You'll run up two flights of stairs to
walk across the door. You will walk
across the door to do it."
THE CRAMPED facilities at Mauro hamper effective service Young said. Service consolidated in one building could accommodate that now are in storage could be put in use.
Young said faculty, members she had spoken to understood the reasons for the proposed move, but bated to see the library respond. "There was no active resistance to the idea," she said.
Young said she hoped that the new building could be open the same hours as Watson Library. Watson stays open over holidays and most of the weekends, but but because Malott is always locked for vacation periods, the science Library is closed.
The sciences are becoming more interdisciplinary, she said. The way the University's science collections are now organized is changing. Two or three libraries to get information
GARY GRUNEWALD, associate professor of pharmacy and a book chairman for the Maukotl library, said a balance had to be achieved in library and its location had to be achieved.
"The new library will ease some of the inadequacies of Mallett, but it must be acclimated."
One site that has been suggested for the $12 to 15 million science-technology library
building is the area behind Hoch
Auditorium near the Military Science
The proximity of the new library could affect pharmacy faculty members' feelings about access to information.
Grunewald said he thought the distance of the proposed library site was the reason the mathematics department didn't want to move the math library out of Strong.
"If the new central facility is nearby, I say yes, that would be satisfactory," Grunewalk said. But if they decide to put it in their basement, the abandoned Green Hall wed, scrap paper.
Leonard said the reading room's shelf and seating space brank when the collection moved last year from room 101A Summa Hall. He said he joined the Hawklet, a student lounge area.
Faculty members in the School of Business haven't had a negative reaction to combining the business and economics disciplines with other science collections, Leonard said.
"It isn't that unusual," she said. "In the Kansas City, Mo., public library, the business and science collections are shelved together."
CHRISTINE LEONARD, business and economics reading room librarian, said she favored consolidating the business and economics collection in the new building.
William Deacon, librarian for the Marvin library, said the consolidated library would offer more books and resources to patrons.
Staff Writer
By ANNE SIGMAN
Peace Corps worker flees Tonga Island
A University of Kansas Peace Corps volunteer says terrible living conditions on the island of Tonga in the South Pacific, including rat-infested, substandard housing, forced him to quit his assignment there after only two months of training.
The volunteer, David Scharnhorst,
Wichita graduate student, said last week he
trained the most miserable part of his life
he training on one of the outer islands.
"The electricity was off after 10 p.m.",
"She said. "There was nothing to do but go to bed"
"and get ready."
So much of the food there was inedible, he said, that trainees skipped language classes in the afternoon and went into the jungle to forage for green coconuts.
SCHARNORST SAID SIX or seven of the 33 trainees on Tonga had become so upset that they had planned to go to Washington, D.C. to be resigned and to complain about conditions on Tonga. Three of the trainees had been in the Peace Corps all three were dislublished by the situation and were thinking about nutting.
Michael Dix, the area manager for Peace Corps recruitment, said it was impossible for him to speculate on Schwarborh's difficulties dealing with foreign cultures.
It may not have been an ideal situation, he said, but there is no way to explain it very well.
DIX SAID THAT any volunteer had the right to complain and to come home.
"We are in 65 countries and we have 7,000 volunteers in difficult conditions and on the move," said Diana.
If may not have been an ideal situation, he said, but there is no way to explain it away. The Tonga government has approved the Tonga to be a science teacher in the country's best high school. He left, he said, because the Tongan government was unwilling to provide him with a house meeting space set by the Peace Corps and approved by the Tongan government ten years ago.
He said the Tongan government had then received money to build houses but still needed more.
THE STANDARDS include 200 square feet of floor space, a roof without "gross leakage" and a sanitary water supply, he said. Scharnhorst said the house offered to customers with a running across the concrete floor but had no rain supply and measure about 150 square feet.
He said he refused to take the house and returned to the family he had lived with during his training. Other volunteers didn't get along with their Tongan families, he said, and accepted the substandard housing.
A training director, who Scharnhorst said was incompetent, was in control because the country director was being reassigned. The district head attempted to get better housing, he said.
Scharhorst said the Tongan government wanted Peace Corps volunteers to work as teachers because it wouldn't have to pay the Peace Corps teachers the $1,000 a month if they taught teachers from New Zealand. Tongans are well paid if they make $48 a month, he said.
THE GOVERNMENT is bankrupt and can't afford any better houses, he said, and it has been providing volunteers substandard homes for several years.
Scharnhorst said he quit when he did to avoid a "predjudic'd" record. A volunteer who quits during his assignment has a hard time getting reassigned later, he said.
Scharnhorst said he liked some things about his experience
"My family practically adopted me," he said.
He liked the other people who trained there, said, and he wants to go back into the school.
"I don't regret going to the Peace Corp," he said. "I don't regret coming back again."