THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
Vol.86 No.82
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Monday, February 9. 1976
Rolfs is among candidates filing for senate seats
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New plans bring acceptable bids for arts building
The new visual arts building came closer to reality last week when The Law Co., a Wichita based firm, submitted the apparent low bid on the $7.5 million project.
The Law Co. submitted a bid of $4,696,622.
The remainder of the $5.7 million appropriation will be used for architectural and engineering fees and a contingency fund that will ensure completion of the two-year building project. Lucas said.
Max Lucas, assistant to the chancellor,
and Friday that 12 bidders submitted very
challenging bids.
"This indicated that not only were the beers favorable, he said, "but that they were flavorful."
Staff Photo by JAY KOELZER
The building is more than a year behind schedule because original bids exceeded available funds. All plans had to be redrawn and updated, including the new building, which will incorporate the remodeled Fowler Shops. The building will have a total of 145,560 square feet of floor space and will house all art and design creations in its former location throughout several campus buildings.
Lucas said that if bids had been too high again, the plans would have been altered so that they would not have been painted. Or, he said, extensive remodeling of the third floor of Fowler Hall wouldn't have been done or done because it had been omitted from the administrative offices.
The University has already evaluated the bids and made its recommendations to the state architects, Lucas said. The state should award contracts in one to three weeks, he said, after it makes its own evaluations.
A change of pace
Joan Reiber, director of the Hilltop Child Care Center experiences one of the lighter numbers of host children after demands from the February 2013 group at KU. See story, two pages.
Health insurance charge to increase for next fall
By FRED JOHNSON
Staff Writer
The cost of student health insurance at the University of Kansas may increase as much as 30 per cent beginning with the 1976 fall season. The former chairman of the student health advisory board.
The plan is offered by Blue Cross and Blue Shield this semester.
Student health insurance, which has 3.500 policyholders at KU, increased in cost by about 23 per cent between the 1974 and 1975 fall semesters. he says
SEGERRECHT SAID Friday he thought
SIGGERERCHT was semester “will be
necessary less than 10 per month”
Student health insurance now costs $125.20 a year for a single student from the beginning of one fall semester to the beginning of the next fall semester, and $251.88 a year for a student and one dependent.
Martin Wollmann, director of Watkins Hospital, said the higher cost of student health insurance was due to the rising costs of hospital and medical care throughout the
country and not to increased rates at Watkins hospital.
Wollmann said that Watkins Hospital wasn't equipped to handle everything covered by the student health insurance plan. The high cost of medical care at other hospitals the student may visit for treatment cost of student health insurance, he said.
Discounts for faculty to end at bookstore
By ANNE SIGMAN
Staff Writer
The University of Kansas Memorial Corporation Board voted Saturday to end the university's student union in the Kansas Union bookstore by faculty members, staff members and departments.
William M. Balfour, vice chancellor for student affairs, said faculty would still be able to receive the patronage refund for cash purchases. The Union is supported by students' fees, he said, and the action will keen expenses down.
J. D. Chrestman, manager of the
A ROOM AT WATKINS costs $23 a day, he
room at other hospitals
costs about $48 a day.
City to change grievance system
bookstore, said charges were expensive to process. He said the convenience of charging was more important than the five per cent discount.
Staff Writer
A plan to use part of the profits from the Kansas University Bookstore to furnish a bookstore in the proposed satellite student union also was approved.
By MARY ANN DAUGHERTY
In response to recent complaints by city sanitation employees, the Lawrence City Commission agreed in a special meeting to unwearning to change its grievance procedure.
Meanwhile, leaders of the Lawrence Sanitation Employees Association said they would take their complaints directly to federal court.
"in such crucial issues as dog licenses," Forer said, "the (city) leaders are an effervescent wellspring of integrity, competence and civility, which promotes similar bubbling civil efficacy."
Norman Forer, adviser to the sanitation association, said yesterday that association leaders had met with attorneys and were raising money to pay legal fees.
"However, when it comes to those minor issues like freedom of speech and assembly and protection against assault, somehow I kind of prefer the federal courts."
charge that city leaders had violated Section 19-43 of the Civil Rights Act of 1871 by harassing sanitation employees and infringing on their right to form an employee association.
FORER SAID the court case would
The commission agreed Saturday to review all processed grievances, which will be filed with the department of Brent McFall, city attorney, instead of with department supervisors.
STUDENTS WILL vote whether to approve the satellite union, which would be in the Daisy Hill-Allen Field House area, in the Student Senate elections Feb. 18 and 19.
The employee, Tom Dougan, is being held in lieu of $2,500 bond after he allegedly attempted to run down a sanitation employee with a bulldozer on Jan. 28.
The commission will vote tomorrow night at its weekly meeting on a proposal to change a city policy that calls for immigrants any city employee charged with a felony.
THE COMMISSION is expected to alter the policy so a charged employee wouldn't necessarily be dismissed. That change might affect the job status of one sanitation employee charged last week with agravated assault.
"Wattkins will stay at the same rates as long as possible," he said. "I see no interest."
Forer said the grievance charges were improvements, but they were "too little and too late." He called the proposal to change the dismissal policy "selective usage of procedures" and an "appalling inconsistency" on the part of the commission.
SATURDAY'S SPECIAL meeting was to review evidence of charges made by Forer at last Tuesday's commission meeting of the deliberated harassment of sanitation employees.
Forer said the sanitation employees had decided to take their grievances to federal court after Forer informed them he had been barred at last Tuesday's commission meeting from the special meeting by Mayor Barkley Clark.
Forer said he then had received a telephone call from City Manager Buford Watson at 6 p.m. Friday inviting him and association leaders to attend Saturday's meeting. At that late time, Forer said, it "was humanly impossible" to assemble witnesses and present his case before the city commission.
"The city commission is trying to act as if the invitation (to appear) was open all the time," she said. "AT THE SPECIAL MEETING, Commissioner Donald Bins said Forer''s failure to appear was evidence that Forer couldn't produce evidence to substantiate his claims."
Despite turmoil in the sanitation department, Clark said, the commission has received compliments from Lawrence residents on recent sanitation service.
Watson said the city commission and city management had been subjected to 'reverse harassment' during the 10 months since the sanitation issue was first debated.
CLARK PROPOSED that the memorandum inform city employees that the commission wouldn't tolerate barassment of an employee for participation or failure to participate in a union or any other organization.
Clark agreed but said the commission wanted to be certain employees weren't being underpaid.
The board's proposal would allow $62,470 of bookstore profits from last semester to be used for a six per cent rebate and $22,270 to go in the Reserve for Expansion fund, which could be used in part for improvements in the bookstore and for the satellite library bookstore.
The satellite union would also be funded by $7.50 from each student's fall and spring semester fees and $2.50 from each student's summer session fees.
Warner L. Ferguson, associate director for financial affairs of the Union, said that expenses for the Union were higher than last year but that net income was also un.
'The balance sheet continues to reflect a healthy situation.' he said.
A plan for renovation and remodeling of the Union was presented by Dwight Brown, of Dwight Brown & Assoc., Architects, a Topeka firm. The plan includes a new canopy and an entryway and temporary terminating enlarging of the lobby and changes in the east entrance.
BALFOUR SAID the Student Union Activities (SUA) sales were particularly gradifying. SUA has been very careful, he said, in making $3,000,000 compared to a $3,400,000 loss last year.
Siegelbrecht said no definite changes in the student health insurance plan were planned for next year, although the Student Health Advisory Board had been reviewing parts of the plan to determine whether the coverage offered should be continued or increased in some areas.
A RESOLUTION was passed thanking the Board of Regents for amending its policies to allow the sale of cereal malt beverages in student unions. The resolution said the sale of cereal malt beverages hadn't presented any control problems in the Union.
ine prescription drug rider, he said, is one part of the plan that the advisory board recommends.
Segebrecht said the prescription drug rider covered the full cost of prescription drugs. The drug rider accounts for $27.68 of policy's total cost for a single student, he said.
QUESTIONNAIRES were mailed in late January to about 650 policymakers to determine whether students wanted the drug rider and whether the rider influenced their decision to buy health insurance, Secrebré said.
Sagebeck said that the majority of the questionnaires that had been returned were not received.
An open hearing is scheduled for 7 p.m.
Feb. 26 in the Council Room of the Kansas
Union to give students an opportunity to ask
about their health insurance plan, he said.
"I don't think there will be mop opposition to the druner rider." Seebbrecht said.
THE ADVISOR BOARD is considering extending hospitalization benefits for those suffering from nervous disorders or mental illnesses, he said.
Segebrecht said the advisory board was trying to determine what it would cost to extend the benefits from 30 to 60 days. The advisory board also will visit the mental health clinic in order to determine whether 30 days is sufficient time to treat most of the clinic's patients, he said.
SEGERECHT SAID the purpose of the meeting was "to see how much the insurance company is making and to see if they are getting a good deal for their money."
The advisory board will then decide what health insurance plan it wants to present to the Student Senate and then mail bid to the major insurance companies March 8.
The student health insurance plan and the lowest bid will be presented to the Senate in August.
Local boy makes good, thinks cartoonist's life easy
Staff photo by GEORGE MILLENER
Cartoonist Paul Coker and his dog, Pup, study some of Coker's work.
By KAREN LEONARD
Staff Writer
Nationally known cartoonist Paul Coker, who is in Lawrence to visit his parents, said recently that his style is so popular that job contracts were sent to him. He no longer has to pound the pavement with a portfolio under his arms he said. But he isn't too big. Big Sur region of California and works on his cartooning a few hours a day.
A distinctive cartooning style that can be recognized in magazines, greeting cards and television specials has given a Lawrence native an ideal job.
Coker said he was currently drawing for Rankin/Bass Television Production Corporation. Rankin/Bass produces seasonal specials, Coker explained, and he has drawn the characters, the costumes and the backgrounds for such animated Christmas specials as "Prost the Snowman," "Santa Claus" and "The Town." "The Night Before Christmas."
Along with his work as an illustrator for magazines and advertisements, Coker said, he has been a cartoonist for Mad magazine for several years and has worked "more or less steadily" for Hallmark cards during the past 20 years.
"Once you've established contacts and a style that's saleable, then it's much easier," he said. "If people want something done by you, they either write or contact you."
COKER, 46, looks every inch an artist with his silver-gray hair, neatly trimmed gray beard, blue jeans and holey sweat-shirt.
He said he had 'taught him had it so "easy" through which he now got work during the through which he now got work during the
See COKER page 6
A typical group of Coker characters