THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
The University of Kansas
Thursday March 9,1978
Vol. 88, No. 109
Board sets new policy for mopeds
By ALLEN HOLDER
Staff Writer
Guidelines for the use of mopeds on the University of Kansas campus have been established this fall, Andrew Taries, chairwoman of Parking and Traffic Board, said last night.
Under the new policy, mopeds, which are motorized bicycles, can use any motorcycle or bicycle parking on campus, but it is not the case for entrances or entranceways to buildings. Torres said.
Mopeds will not be required to have campus passes, he said. However, he said mopeds could not be driven on sidewalks or on the street to the same traffic laws as other vehicles.
Although parking permits must be purchased for mopors, Torres said the cost of the permits would be half the cost of motorcycle permits.
Moped permits will cost $10 for a year, $6 each for fall and spring semester and $5 for a summer semester.
According to Kansas Legislature guidelines established last year, motorized bicycles—to be qualified as mopeds—must not have an engine capacity of more than one and one-half horsepower. They also must not be able to travel more than 25 miles an hour and must have an engine size smaller than 50 cubic centimeters.
Mopeds also must not have the capacity to be propelled by humans and must not have a helper motor.
Torres said the Parking and Traffic Board had set no official policy for mopeds until this spring. The Board's report was subservient to Senate Executive Committee Tuesday.
Torres said some students who owned mopeds had bought motorcycle permits last fall.
Teresa said that because no one had been sure of the Parking and Traffic Board's moped policies, the parking office had not been able to get students asking about the policies.
He said that board members had noticed an abundance of mopeds on campus last fall and decided to establish a policy covering them.
Last August, the Kansas Legislature and KU ruled that mopeds could not be classified as bicycles. The ruling meant that mopeds from Jayhawk Boulevard during the day.
Torres said the Board wanted to encourage the use of mopeds because they helped conserve fuel.
Budget cut
Drastic action pertaining to the Kansas Board of Regents schools was taken by the state Department of Education and Means Commission, when the committee voted to decrease women's funding by 39 per cent of what was requested. Committee chairman Wint Winter, R-Ottawa presided over the two and a half hour meeting.
Senate committee reduces women's athletics funding
By DIRCK STEIMEL Staff Writer
Women's athletics at the University of Kansas lost its first bout in the Kansas Senate yesterday when a Senate committee cut its required fiscal budget by 30 percent.
The Senate Ways and Means committee passed a recommendation that would reduce women's athletic funding increases for all six Kansas Board of Regents schools from 57 percent recommended by Gov. Robert F. Bennett to only 7 percent.
KU had requested an additional $85,115 from the Legislature to fund five new coaching positions and pay each student an extra fee. The funds are funded by the Student Senate. Student
senates at all other Regent schools also reduced funding of women's athletics.
However, the Ways and Means committee action would cut the KU women's athletic funding increase to $11,168 for the next fiscal year. That means that the KU women's athletics program must now receive $244,661 requested to only $170,714 if the committee's recommendation is adopted.
Gov. Bennett endorsed the KU women's athletics team in his January budget request to the Legislature.
The motion to increase women's athletic funding by only 7 percent was made by State Sen. Jack Steinger, D-Kansas City. The motion passed the committee by a 54 vote.
oate sen: Paul Hess, R-Wichita, said he thought the majority of the Senators thought
women's athletics had not justified sizeable increases in their budgets.
"I was surprised at the vote and the drastic cut in women's athletic increases." Hess said yesterday. "I voted against the amendment, an opportunity to be amended on the floor."
Hess said there was a long discussion in the committee about the idea that Kansas student senates had put a 'monkey on the roof' of the school, continuing their funding of women's athletics.
The committee's action on women's athletic increase is part of the overall Regents budget, which is being considered this week. After the budget is approved, the Senate will be considered on the Senate floor before moving to the House of Representatives.
Associate dean killed in wreck
Robert D. Elermeier, associate dean of the graduate school and associate professor of electrical engineering, was killed in a three-car accident near Peabody yesterday.
Ellermeier, 54, was traveling to Bethel College to represent the University of Kansas at the United States Congress.
the Ellermier car, traveling west on U.S. Highway 50, struck a tractor-trailer rig traveling east and then spun into the path of another eastbound truck.
Elleremtaught taught a class in second power systems. William Smith, dean of the School of Engineering, said he would teach the class during the remainder of the year.
Swanton, Neb., recieved his bachelor of science in engineering from KU in 1954. He earned his master's in electrical engineering at KU in 1959 and his doctorate
He became an instructor at KU in 1963 and an associate professor in 1964. He was appointed full-time associate dean of the graduate school in 1970.
Ellermeier was a member of numerous professional and honorary engineering organizations. He had researched the characteristics and distribution of power electrical for homes.
Ellermeier, whose home town was
He is survived by his wife, Marguerite
S. Arkansas St. Funeral
arrangement held at St. Francis'
Robert Ellermeier
Committee okays KU budget hike
Rv DIRCK STEIMEL
Staff Writer
Increases in the University of Kansas salaries and general operating expenses were recommended by a Kansas Senate committee yesterday. The full Senate also gave final approval to the renovation of Watson Library.
The salaries increase, which provides
Both faculty and nonfaculty salaries received a seven percent boost under the Senate Ways and Means Committee recommendation. General operating expenses also were increased by seven percent for fiscal 1979.
$2.92 million, would be given to KU in a lump.
KU administrators then would allocate
the funds to other students.
The seven percent increase had been endorsed by Gov. Robert F. Bennett.
The Regents had requested a 10 percent increase in general operating expenses, instead of the seven percent recommended by the governor and passed by the com-
been made from the Regents' recommendations to the governor's recommendation." Berman said, "I can't believe the Regents were so wild-eyed in their recommendations. There is need for more than a 'percent increase.'
STATE SEN. Arnold Berman, D- Lawrence, proposed an eight percent compromise on the increase but the motion was defeated in favor of the 7 percent in
Please.
"I don't recall when so severe a cut has"
Also approved by the committee was funding to place all six Regents institutions on a computer system of library cataloging. KU already is on the computer system and is paying for it out of general operating expenses.
Recommendation for a one-time special appropriation for state universities to buy new equipment also was approved by the committee.
Team accused of campaign rule violation
Staff Writer
By PAULA SOUTHERLAND
A complaint charging violation of election guidelines has been filed against a team running for president and vice president of the Association of University Residence
Dave Taylor, Templin Hall president,
filed the complaint last night against the
team of Phil Kaufman and Donna Carliele
for distributing unaddressed letters in
Templin residents' mailboxes. Letters must
be addressed to meet election guidelines.
Taylor said he filed the complaint because the letters violated University and election laws.
rights of those Templin residents who received the letters.
Kauffman said that he and Carilile have been addressing similar letters to other authors.
They asked a friend at Templin to help them by addressing 40 or 50 letters to Templin residents and giving them the letters personally, Kaufman said.
BUT BECAUSE of lack of time, he said, the friend gave the letters to a desk assistant, unaddressed, and asked him to place them in residents' mailboxes.
Placing unaddressed mail, other than that from University departments and AURH is a violation of University policy.
Kim Wetzel, elections committee chairman, said the elections committee met with Kauffman, Carlisle and Taylor to act on the complaint.
However, the committee decided that Kaufman and Carlisle were responsible for the actions of their go-between and were in charge of the elections committee guidelines.
Wetzel said the committee decided to have Kaufman, Carlisle, Taylor, Sam Zweifel, assistant resident director at Templin and Mike Lancaster, resident director at Templin, meet tomorrow before 3 p.m. to work out a means of reconciling the
KAUFMAN SAID he agreed with the committee's decision that he and Carlisle were ultimately responsible.
The committee decided that would be the best action to take because the violation had been in only one hall, she said.
Wetzel said she wanted to resolve the complaint before ballots were counted tomorrow out of fairness for Kudman and others, the benefit of the residents of Tormell Hall.
Precautions may prevent thefts during spring break, police say
By LUCY SMITH Staff Writer
A few simple precautions can prevent KU students from having their valuables stolen during spring break, police say.
Jeanne Longaker, KU police detective,
said there had not been a problem with
thefts during vacations in the past.
Precautionary measures would prevent a
problem from developing this semester, she said.
Longaker said KU police would be able to provide better security during spring break because the majority of students and staff are students, which will reduce the officers' work load.
Residence halls and classroom buildings will be checked, possibly several times daily, for secure doors and for anything suspicious, such as lights left on, Longaster
Students living in residence halls or Stouffer Palace who plan to leave vehicles during spring break should notify the KU police dispatcher or Longaker.
Longaker said CB radios and tape decks should be removed and put in the trunk of the car or in another safe place.
break, police will check remaining cars frequently for vandalism or theft, she said
Because few cars are left on campus over
Stouffier Place residents should contact the KU police if they plan to leave during spring break, Longaker said, so that a police bulletin or vandalism daily for burglaries or vandalisms.
Cars can be parked legally for longer than 48 hours only in residence hall and Stouffer Place parking lots.
She said that valuables left in residence hall rooms should be locked in a safe place or taken with the student. Students also use all credit cards and checkbooks with them.
Residents of Stouffer Palace also should have daily deliveries stopped, close window shades and curtains and leave a light on, she said.
If valuables are stolen despite precautions, the KU or Lawrence police should be notified, depending where the burglary took place.
Longaker said the work of the police would be simplified if items were not touched or moved at the scene of a burglary.
Ron Olin, crime analyst at the Lawrence Police Department, said students living off campus should notify the Lawrence police if they would be gone during spring break.
After contacting police, the student should notify his insurance company, she said, and the company would contact the police about the burglary.
Olin said Lawrence police officers would check the residences of students who have not notified them. Police officers will check a residence for any evidence that an officer patrolling the area has time.
Some large apartment complexes have private security officers, who sometimes are members of the Lawrence police department during their off-duty hours. Olm said.
Among the apartments that provide private security are Village Square, Trailride, Jayhawer Towers, Frontier Ridge, Alvaram and Meadowbrook.
Residents of those complexes should contact their apartment manager and security officer, if possible.
Olin said easily removed valuables should be stored in a sale place or taken with the student, and a list of serial numbers should be kept separately.
Locks on doors and windows should be checked and a friend or neighbor asked to watch the residence.
The student will receive a registration sticker and a sticker that says the bike is engraved.
Student bringing bicycles to school after goring break are encouraged to register in Hoek Auditorium, Longaker said. The registration fee is 25 cents and student identification can be engraved on bicycles at no charge.
Longaker said she thought registration and engraving would discourage a thief from taking and reselling a bike.
She said students should remember to bring a chain and a lock for each bike.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Capsules From the Associated Press, United Press International
Administration to request back-to-work court order
Miller
WASHINGTON—The Carter administration will go to court today to seek an immediate back-to-work order against coal miners, an administration official said yesterday. However, United Mine Workers president Arnold Miller said that miners would likely disobey such an order by the thousands. See story page two.
Federal Reserve chief sworn in
FEDERAL Aeronautics N.A. - F. corporate executive G. William Miller was sworn in as the president of the Federal Reserve Board yesterday, becoming the fifth chairman of the nation's central bank since Congress made it a presidential appointee post in 1935. He replaced Arthur Carter, then chairman, by President Jimmy Carter to continue in the job. Burns attended the ceremony at the White House and drew warm praise for his eight years of service.
U.S. urges guerrilla role in Rhodesian settlement
WASHINGTON—The Carter administration yesterday raised out lifting economic sanctions against Rhodesia and insisted that guerrilla leaders be given a role in a final settlement granting control of the African nation to its black majority. The statement came from Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, who is to meet today with two nationalists leaders, Joshua Nkomo and Robert Mugabe. See story page two.
Vance
Weather . . .
Skies will be sunny today, and temperatures should reach the mid-to-upper 40s. Lows tonight will be in the 30s, with partly cloudy skies. Temperatures tomorrow will reach the 50s, but skies will be cloudy.
Locally . . .
One of the sports of the socially elite has made its way to the less aristocratic world of University of Tennessee students. Backgammon, a board game, is played by students in various sports such as relieving pressures. The game can be relaxing, easy in tournaments such as highly competitive. The game commonly is played in clubs. And for those with tastes for different atmospheres, SUA sponsors a club that meets weekly in the Kansas University. See story page three.