THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
Vol.86 No.63
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
November 21. 1975
Walker says Senate cut will raise ticket prices
Staff Writer
By CHUCK ALEXANDER
University of Kansas students will be paying higher prices for tickets to athletic contests next fall, but just how much won't be known until the Athletic Board meets in the spring, Clyde Walker, athletic director, said last night.
Walker said he didn't know how much ticket prices would rise but he predicted that action taken by the Student Senate Wednesday night to cut off the annual sports season at the University of Kansas Athletic Corporation (KUCA) "will affect ticket prices greatly."
Edd Rolfs, student body president, issued a statement yesterday stating he immediately was resigning his position on the KUAC executive board and was appointing Dave Shapiro, sports committee chairman, as his replacement.
IN HIS STATEMENT, Rolfs said he felt the need for more points in light of the KITAC fund cut. Cat
"This move should not be viewed as an attack on the Athletic Corporation," Rolfs said. "The corporation provides many tangible and intangible benefits to every student at the University... However, this is not the issue at hand."
Rolfs emphasized the lack of control the Senate had over the way KUAC used the Senate subsidy, and he stated that the money would not be a breakout of where the money went.
Rolfs also said he was resigning because he didn't have the time to do an effective job on the board. Rolfs was in Wichita last night and couldn't be reached for comment.
THE SENATE, BY a 37 to 30 vote, decided to stop funding KUAC because the Senate had no control over how KUAC spent money allocated to it.
The Senate also decided to stop paying KUAC $50,000 a year to retire a debt on an addition to the east side of Memorial Stadium.
According to Rolfs, when the Senate agreed to give KUAC the money in 1966, it was with the understanding that student season ticket prices wouldn't rise above $6.50. Student season ticket prices now cost $10.
Walker said he was surprised by the Senate's move Wednesday because he'd talked to many students about the ticket subsidy and was under the impression no
cut would be made. Walker said that since the fund cut was made he'd not received any official word from the Senate office about the matter.
Walker said he thought members of the Senate were misinformed about the agreement between the KUAC and the FCC, which paid $50,000 payment on the stadium addition.
"They're completely misinformed about
this (the agreement) was developed,
he as such."
Walker said that he didn't know of any written agreement between the Senate and KUAC on the stadium but that in a written document he had, there was no guarantee made by KUAC to hold the price of student tickets at prices or below a fixed level.
"The document I have says you (the
senate) must maintain a certain level to pay off the debt," he said.
The Senate pays the money to the KUAC, which in turn pays it to the Endowment Association, Todd Seymour, endowment association president, said.
Seymour said the Endowment Association, which loaned some of the money for the stadium addition, had no decision with the Senate for the payments.
"It's a contractural obligation of the Athletic Association to us," he said.
Seymour said he didn't know how much money KUAC still owned the association but added that KUAC is current with its payments on the stadium.
Some student senators had discussed making the KUAC ticket subsidy a fact of life and asked whether he did not know what the outcome would be if it did become a referendum issue.
State board allows faculty bargaining unit
By RON HARTUNG
Staff Writer
The faculty members of the University of Kansas now can form a bargaining unit for negotiating wages and working conditions with the administration.
The state Press Employee Relations Board (PERB) ruled yesterday afternoon in Topeka that such a unit was appropriate for a major university such as KU.
Also stipulated in PERB's 14-page decision was the makeup of the unit.
Landon reminisces Staff Photo by GEORGE MILLENEH
According to PERB, the unit would include, among others, those persons with appointments of half-time or greater with a professor. A student assistant professor, instructor or lecturer,
Also included were those with the titles of: librarian I, II or III; senior, associate, assistant or junior staff; scientist; curator; counselor; full-time instructor or teaching associate with regularly scheduled academic year; and faculty equivalent.
FACULTY EQUIVALENTS are persons
AfL Landon, former Kansas governor and 1938 Republican presidential candidate,
ponders a question during a recent interview.
such as research associates who hold
recruiting and equidistant equivalent to those of faculty members.
Excluded from the unit was anyone with the title of chancellor, dean or director.
Also excluded were department chairmen, library department heads and student teachers.
The board didn't grant the law and engineering schools the separate units they required.
practically the unit approved by PERB was the same as the KU administration process.
"I'm pleased they recognize the validity of the position we (the administration) took," Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor, said yesterday.
He said he was satisfied with administration-faculty rapport he thought there was "not much momentum for the program among the faculty members at this time.
George Griffin, president of the local chapter of the American Association of University Professors (AUP), said he wasn't surprised by the board's vote.
THE KANASS PUBLIC Employer-
Employee Relations Act specifically
excludes anyone with supervisory capacities
from membership in a bargaining unit.
He said he was disappointed, however, that department chairmen had been excluded from the unit. The AAUP, in its proposal to the board, had stated that department chairmen should be included if they did not be classified as supervisory personnel.
Frances Ingemann, former president of the local AALP chapter, also said she was disappointed that department chairmen had been excluded. That decision, she said, potentially could cause the faculty to view her as adversaries rather than colleagues.
The act calls for a "meet and confer" process between employer and employee.
Ingermann said that she didn't think there
See BARGAINING page 10
Frozen filming
Cold winds and blowing snow made mice miserable yesterday for Nancy Ray, Wichita junior, while taking part in an icy version of
the "Freddie Fratelle Frolic" exercise north of Flint Hall. The students must learn to follow the flight of a Kigurumi—regardless of whether it is above or below the floor.
KU-MU battle pits talon to tooth
Bv JOHN FULLER
The Kansas Jayhawks meet the Missouri Tigers tomorrow for the 84th time in what promises to be another of the fiercely competitive teams we have come to characterize the rivalry.
The Old Jayhawk, better known to some as Bob Nelson, program coordinator for the Division of Continuing Education, offered his theory on why the rivalry has meant and means to players, coaches and fans from both schools.
"It's the last game of the season," he said yesterday, "and when we win, we don't forget for it a year and when they win, they don't let us forget it for a year."
BOTH SIDES HAVE had more than ample opportunity to haul the loser. The KU-MU rivaily is one of the five oldest in the rivalry, and it had a four game record in the rivalry, 39-39-9.
The first time the teams played, in 1891, touchdowns were worth only four points, and the crowd of 3,000 who watched the game was composed mostly of baseball fans unfamiliar with the rules of football. The Jawhawks won 22-8.
Except for a contest at St. Joseph, Mo, all the games were played in Kansas City until
1921 when Memorial Stadium was completed.
Only a few football rivalries are older than the KU-MU series. The Ivy League rivalries between Yale, Harvard and Princeton began in the years from 1875 to 1877, and the Army-Navy series began in 1890.
Except for the Wisconsin-Minnesota series that began in 1890, the KU-MU rivalry is the oldest one west of the Mississippi.
The high caliber of play and accompanying excitement of the earlier days of the rivalry was described in the heroic tone of this Kansas City Star description of the 1997 game: "Kansas City has seldom seen a rivalry like that, not more than the meeting of these sturdy young men from Kansas and Missouri in a competition taxing to the utmost limits their powers of muscle and strategy, combating with the intensity of warriors on the field of battle every inch of ground, and all without a word of wrangling or the slightest exhibition of humor."
THE STAR'S SPORTSWRIER may have gotten a bit carried away, but the rivalry has produced some of the most exciting and important games in KU
football history. Games that saw more than slight exhibitions of bad humor, to say the least, on the part of fans and teams from both sides.
Both teams have shown an uncanny knack for salvaging victories in the closing seconds or minutes of a game. In 1928 Nike was hit by a goalkeeper's knee and was in the air when the final gun sounded.
Don Fambrough, former head KU football coach and new assistant director of the Williams Educational Fund, said his two most memorable games as either player or coach were both last minute victories over the Titers.
THE FIRST CAME in 1947 when KU won
the trip to the Orange Bank by beating
MU 83-62.
Fambrough was an all-conference guard for KU that year and he said he would never forget the KU drove down the field on a 96-yard touchdown drive in the final minutes on the strength of three- and four-air carries by backfull Forrest Griffith.
Fambridge said he was similarly thrilled in 1973 as head coach, when the Jayhawks' Emmet Edward shipped his team to the first game at touchdown pass from quarterback David Jaynes to
See FOOTBALL page nine
Landon still a top political analyst
Rv GREG HACK
StaH Writer
Lines of age have crept into his face. His hearing is a bit weak, and his speech isn't the rapid-fire cacade it once was. Ah, but his mind! Ald Landon's mind is as sharp as ever, and he remains a top commentator on the American scene.
"President Ford will for the Republican nomination on the first ballot," the 88-year-old Landon predated during an interview last week. "I don't think the changes in his cabinet are as important as the press has said." The Landon booteller wasn't he too much of a factor."
The former Kansas governor and 1938 Republican presidential nominee likes to talk about the present, and politics is naturally his favorite subject.
Landon, the Republican's senior statesman, wouldn't make predictions about the opposition. However, the field of challengers didn't particularly impress him.
"THERE ARE A FEE Democrats I like. I haven't seen any of them I agree with."
"When you have so many candidates, none too well known nationally except Wallace," she added. "I nominated. I don't think Wallace can win the nomination. Hubert Humphrey says he
isn't running, but he is commencing to surface a bit more.
"It's just too early for me, or for anyone else, to say how the general election will turn out. If you could tell me, I would be against them, then I could give you a more accurate prediction."
Although he likes to discuss the present,
andon also remembers the events and
launches.
"The Republicans have to nominate Ford if they want to win," he said. "You can't win by repudiating yourself. I learned that when I was a Bull Moor supporter *Teddy Roosevelt* in 1912. He and Taft split the Republican vote and Woodrow Wilson won."
Landon sees no great problems for Ford in his party, but President's beetle must be better nurtured.
"IT'S A CAMP'AIGN MANAGER'S job to bring people in and not to force them out," he said. "I think Mr. Calloway has to learn that."
Landon said he didn't like the labels liberal and conservative because 'the political center shifts" too often. Instead, he calls himself a progressive.
"I have been a progressive for more than 60 years, and I still like the term," he said. "Progressive really attempts to describe policies that change to keep in tune with the times."
He said the four main issues facing the nation today were the same ones he emphasized in 1936 when he ran against Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
"The need for a balanced budget, the failure of the planned economy, the growing centralization of government power and the need for long-range land use planning are still the key issues," he said. "A man who very often live to see how right he was!"
"It's like trying to cure a drunk by giving him more alcohol."
Landon has believed in economy ever since he graduated from the University of Kansas and went into the oil business. He sees deficit spending as a great mistake.
"We're definitely not moving in the right direction." The policy of Congress and previous Democratic administrations to have worked on the issue has never worked and it won't now.
New York City and Great Britain haven't solved their problems by deficit spending, he said, but they have learned that they can't borrow money forever.
"Economic recovery and the quality of American life can't be based on inflation," he said. "A sound economy is basic to all of the great human issues. Our hopes for prosperity should be based on economic responsibility and not on deficits.
"You don't have to go back to history to see that inflation isn't the answer," he said. "Just look across the waters. England has constantly tried to boost its declining economy with round after round of in-kind wages and prices, but it hasn't worked."
"PRIME MINISTER HAROLD Wilson is now calling for a complete reversal of these policies," he's more concerned with building up business again. I think the United States has to stop the infiation merry-go-round, too, if we're to escape what has happened to our country.
"Congress passes legislation and then the bureaucracy interprets it to its own intent, rather than the intent of Congress," be said. "The inevitable result is more bureaucracy."
"The whole mess in Washington is hard to believe. I remember an economics professor who had a 28-page manual on fruitcakes that the government had printed and distributed. Why should they have done that?
"The President wants to control and reduce this bureaucracy, but he doesn't seem to have much help from the Congress."
Landon always balanced the Kansas budget while he was governor from 1853 to 1876. He would have been president.
See LANDON page three