THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Vol. 86 No.64
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
November 24,1975
Staff Photo by DON PIERCE
Sun Bowl jubilation
Med Center rate hinges on limit
on two seconds ticked away during the Kansas-Missouri game Saturday, Mark Watson, on Sunday, played 45-24 victory. The wins gives KU a place in the Sun Bowl. He is played in FI Pasadena.
By SHERI BALDWIN
Staff Writer
A rate increase of about eight per cent will be requested for the University of Kansas Medical Center patient care services if the Kansas Legislature approves a $1.1 million increase in the Med Center's fiscal 1976 expenditure ceiling.
Chancellor Archie R. Dykes said yesterday that Blue Cross and Blue Shield and other patient care services, such as Medicare, Medicaid and insurance companies, would have to approve the rate for hospital rooms and patient expenses.
He said that if revenue couldn't be generated from hospital operations, about $200,000 could be taken from the Med Center's operating capital.
UK received authority Friday from the Board of Regents to ask the legislature to increase the Med Center's expenditure to $72,685,231 to $81,285,231 for fiscal year 1978.
DYKES SAID, "There really was no alternative to increasing it (expenditure ceiling). It was either increase it or cut back on hospital services."
The increase requested would provide $500,000 for operational expenses such as supplies, materials and services; $400,000 to furnish the office; and $30,000 in nursing; an $200,000 for equipment.
Dykes said the equipment would include life-support monitoring systems for the intensive care units and "code blue carts," which are beds with life-support and monitoring systems used to treat cardiac arrest patients.
He said the increase was essential because of inflationary increases in the pharmacy, diagnostic radiology and surgical services, the larger volume of patients handled by the hospital and an increase in wages and salaries.
The Med Center department of nursing is now at full employment, an authorized neurosurgical nurse. Dykes said that by the time she finished this wasn't an adequate number of nurses.
KU asked the 1975 legislature for a similar Med Center increase and received authority to spend $100,000 less than requested. A hire freezing nurse on nursing and support personnel was enacted from April 3 to June 30 by William Rieke, then executive director of the Midwest. She specified the legislature's failure to approve the entire expenditure request and said the Med Center couldn't afford to hire until fiscal 1975 ended.
THE REGENTS also approved a change in policy to allow release of the board's meeting agenda four days in advance of the monthly meetings.
Dykes said, "we guess we'll just have to see law the policy works before we decide how to run it."
The Regents' previous policy was that agendas were mailed seven days before meetings to each board member and to the state government. The agency-state institution governed by the Regents.
Under this policy, those who received the agenda couldn't reveal its contents until after the meeting. Agendas were, however, delivered in a public and press members in attendance.
Atty. Gen, Curt Sandrelt said in a letter to Bickford, dated Oct. 16, that the Regents may have been violating the purpose of the agreement by restricting the availability of its agenda.
According to Regent Gee S. Smith, Max Bickford, executive officer for the Regents, was requested by the board in July to draw up suggestions for modifications in the agenda policy. Smith made the motion for the change, saying the past policy caused understanding and was possibly in contradiction to the state open meetings law.
Although Bickford presented Schneider's letter to the Regents at the Oct. 17 meeting, he was not told that he believed that the attorney general's letter has anything to do with the consideration of the nomination.
THE REGENTS also gave KU permission to begin searching for a consultant to help
with plants for a trash-powered utility plant that would heat KU by steam.
Dykes said W. Max Lecus, assistant to the chancellor and chairman of KU's Energy Study Task Force, and Warren Corman, facilities planning director for the Regents, would be in charge of interviewing consultant firms.
The Regents will have to approve the final consultant contract. Dwks said.
KU requested permission to ask for authority to purchase liability insurance for law school students similar to that purchased for Med Center students. The faculty is required to instruct students participating in clinical programs that might incur liability, such as nursing
DVKES SAID liability insurance request would be presented to the Kansas commission on insurance for approval before being sent to the legislature.
students and students in the school of allied health, who are not now covered.
He said comprehensive liability incum-
bled in the case, and faculty members was still unavailable.
The Regents deferred approval of a work program for additions to Malott Hall until next month, because they hadn't sufficient time to study the proposals. A request to the director of state architectural services to appoint an associate architect to prepare preliminary plans for the addition was also deferred for a month.
Inquiry into disruption to be completed soon
The investigation into the disruption of William Shockley's Nov. 13 speech could be completed by the end of this week. Deli executive vice chancellor said yesterday.
He said the group investigating the disruption, which was organized by the February First Movement (FFM), met Friday to discuss the investigation's progress and unlikely the investigation will before the Thanksgiving vacation, Shankel said.
THE PURPOSE of the investigation is to determine who participated in the protest and whether charges against the protesters should be filed, Shankel said.
Dary David, Kansan publisher, said the Office of Academic Affairs requested to see all photographs, the protest taken by them and the press photos. Ellsworth, Kansan editor; David Crechawh, Kansan paper editor; and Susan Shaw, Kansan news editor, met Friday to discuss the issue.
"The meeting was very simple and didn't last very long," Dary said. "The answer was."
Files decision thrust on teachers
Staff Writer
already printed photographs, however, just as all readers do.
By BILL SNIFFEN
William Balfour, vice chancellor for student affairs, said the investigators all have full-time jobs outside the investigation. They have had to "drop everything." Balfour said, to work on the investigation.
Shankel said that, to his knowledge, no administrator has had any contact with members of the team. He was present at the Nov. 14 demonstration against Shockley's appearance here.
The Buckley Amendment, although designed to protect students by giving them control over access to the student records, and that it requires students to student teachers in the School of Education.
Ronald Calgaard, vice chancellor for academic affairs, said he didn't know whether the Office of Academic Affairs had been able to obtain photographs from other institutions. A government comment on how protesters would be identified if photographs couldn't be obtained.
RALPH GAGE, managing editor of the Lawrence Daily Journal-World, said he had received a request from the administration for Journal-World photographs of the protest. He said that, in keeping with a longstanding policy, he refused to release unpublished negatives and photographs. He said the administration did have a right to
That decision thrusts them between two forces: their legal right to know what is contained in their files and traditional knowledge that teachers teach. Teachers evaluate and recommendations.
A spokesman for the FFM said at the Nov. 14 demonstration that the group was going to prepare a list of complaints to be submitted to the administration concerning Shockley's presence on campus, minority status and housing. The minister's responsiveness to minorities
SenEx voted Friday to request details and progress reports of the investigation.
Since the Buckley Amendment became law Jan. 1, University of Kansas education students have been required to sign, on each recommendation and evaluation sheet, either a waiver or a retention of their rights as members of that recommendation or evaluation.
"WE DON'T tell them what to do." Loda Newcomb, assistant director of the Educational Placement Bureau (EPB), last week.
"The choice is theirs. But they do know
the administrators, for the most part,
need it."
EPB has heard that school admin-
mongers who responds to applicants who
seek help, file, bill, or
Newcomb cited a survey done at the University of Indiana that indicated about 90 per cent of school administrators preferred confidential files.
Herold Regier, director of EPB, said EPB told student teachers to make their own decisions about waiving or retaining their rights to accredit them. The department weight the writer and reader of the recommendation or evaluation—school administrators and personnel officers.
The administrators said that if a professor knew a student would see his recommendation, the professor would write that in that was vague and general, she said.
The letter stressed SeenEk's and AP and P's concern about freedom of speech at KU.
SENEX APPROVED a motion to send a letter to Shankel, on behalf of SenEx and the Academic Procedures and Policies Committee (AP and P$_1$) urging that action in accordance with the Student Code of Rights, Privileges and Responsibilities be taken.
“It’s not that they question the student’s ability or work. It’s that they feel they can’t be free to say what they want to say to other administrators.” Newcomb said.
administrators he had talked to had said
they were the files were open or, close didn't matter.
And, she said, there are professors at KU who won't write recommendations if they aren't there.
ABOUT 50 KU student teachers, out of several hundred, have chosen to keep their files open, Regier said. Exact figures aren't available, he said.
Some of the student teachers advised by EPB said they were pressured to waive their right to vote.
But, he added. "We strongly urge them to reach their own decision."
"They're making a real big point of it."
Jack Scrivener, topeka senior and student teacher at Topka High School, said. The EPB was "throwing doubts" in the paths of student teachers confronted by the decision to waive or retain access, he said.
SenEx rejected a request by a faculty member that it conduct its own investigation in the disruption. Such an invention, SenEx said, would be "coanterproductive."
Frank Ybarra, director of secondary personnel for Tropea Unified School District No. 501, said that open files were given as much consideration as closed files.
"It really doesn't matter," Ybarra said. The Topeka school board considers many things and not just the student teacher's file, he said.
SCRIVENER SAID that some of the
Besides, he added, student teachers usually don't ask for recommendations from professors who would give them bad recommendations.
Shockley, physicist and nobel-laureate, cites a genetic rationale for lower scores among blacks on intelligent quotient tests. He spoke here Nov. 13 to a group of about 20 faculty members and graduate students as a guest of the history of science program.
Yharras predicted that the attitudes of administrators would change in favor of
work, she waived her right. At that point, it didn't matter, Leeds said.
Robert Taylor, assistant superintendent for personnel and instruction for Lawrence Unified School District No. 497, said that he had opened and closed files and had no preference.
He said that most of the files he had received were confidential files but that, "it certainly makes no difference in our hiring practices."
Don Bogard, director of personnel services for Shawnee Mission Unified School District No 512, he placed "quite a bit more into those files that are confidential."
Scrivener said that other administrators in Topeka had told him letters of reference for the teacher, but he didn't. The teacher's cooperating teacher evaluation, which the student teacher sees anyway. A cooperating teacher supervises and evaluates the student teacher's teaching at
THERE'S MORE questioning of recommendations involved with an open file, he said, and they require more personal attention and supporters who have made the recommendations.
Then, EPB had told her that her evaluations would be worth more to simulate.
If the Shawnee Mission school district was hiring strictly on the basis of files, then those applicants with confidential files would be the first hired, he said.
Although he was told the general preferences of school administrators by EPB, Scriven retained his right to an open file.
Marcie Leeds, who graduated from KU last spring and is currently a special education teacher for the Shawnee Mission, Kan., Public School District, said she had been married.
"It's the people who by the old rules who will have to come ground." he said.
"They made a strong case for waiving my right to access to my files," she said.
don't feel one should waive a legal right. It might be a reverse invasion of privacy only if they have been coerced to do so.
"It seemed very strange to me," she said. Catie Yey, Lawrence senior and student teacher at Shawnee Mission West High School, said she wasn't pressured by EPB. She said she had already decided to retain her right to an open file.
Jeane Fink, Fredonia senior and student teacher at Highland Park High School in Topeka, said EBP "had presented both sides of the issue."
BUT, SHE SAID, she thinks her chances of getting a job in some school districts are lessened because she retained her right to open files.
But since her professors had already given her copies of their evaluations of her
"It's a prejudice you're combating. J
She said she'd already decided to waive the phone number file on the advice of her high school truition.
He had told her that many administrators would "throw away" files that weren't encrypted.
Finicky fans change their boos to cheers
By YAEL ABOUHALKAH
Sports Editio
When you win, you hear the cheers; when
you lose, you hear the roar. That's the
unfavorable outcome.
Things aren't much different at the University of Kansas, as players for KU's football team will attend. They've heard their share of boas and grumbling from the home crowd on more than one occasion this year.
But those boots turned to cheers Saturday, when the Jaahyws manhandled Missouri, 42-24, to win a spot in the Sun Bow against Pittsburgh. Dec. 26 in Paso.
AS RECENTLY AS LAST week, some payers had admitted that they were underage.
Ticket sales
Sun Ball tickets for KU's football game against Pittsburgh Dec. 26 will cost $5 and go on sale early in December, Don Baker, sports information director, said yesterday. He said that KU would be allotted 5,000 tickets for the game.
Colorado, thousands of empty seats greeted
when they stepped onto the
Memorial Field.
The players complained that full houses showed up to see them play in road games, so why couldn't their own fans attend a game? And the head coaches in an important Bairt game?
"We deserved more support," center John Morgan had said about that game. "They (the fans) have got more to do than they did with their beer. We need them at the game."
A LOT OF KANASS FANS obviously felt the same way, although it'd doubtly they the game interfere with their drinking habits. A crowd of $2,450, more than
capacity, showed up Saturday. Even though a vocal group of diehard Missouri fans swelled the total, the Jahayk fans earned the most hearts of at least some of the jahaykers.
"The crowd was great," said defensive end Steve Jones. "This was the first time this year, except for the Kansas State game, that we could really hear the cheering. It made a lot of difference down on the sidelines."
Safety John O'Rear agreed with Jones
"TODAY THEY WERE tremendous," he said. "I know Kansas fans haven't seen too many winning teams. Maybe that's why they don't care sometimes if we win or we lose. But now we've started to win. Maybe we'll have big crowds next year."
To be sure, the state of Kansas hasn't been known for producing an overabundant amount of football talent or interest. That helps to explain the apathy. But a winning team, the Jayhawks agreed, helps to overcome that lack of interest.
"It really made me feel good to walk out there and see the stadium filled," nosegazer James Emerson said. "It made me want to go back, I know for sure that it helps the team."
The players' bench is directly in front of the student section of the stadiums. So the mood of the fans isn't lost on the players. Because they vocalize their feelings, the dogs don't let play that they think is sloppy escape their attention.
IN THE MISSOURI game, though, the fans waited patiently for the Jayhawk to score to score, while applauding the stingy defensive effort by KU players.
"We had the stadium filled, and they were rooting for us," said defensive tackle Mike Butter. "Every time we got to the field, we just a matter of time until the offense got rolling, too."
Staff Photo by GEORGE MILLENER
Harry Murphy jubilantly holds intercepted pass