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KANSAN
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
The University of Kansas
Wednesday March 1, 1978
Lawrence, Kansas
V::RR No.103
Staff Photo by RANDY OLSON
Track cleaner
union Pacific Railroad employee, Fidel Jimenez, 82 Garfield,
occupied himself in yesterday's cold weather by cleaning the ice
away from the tracks. "The trains would get through all right," he said, "but I'm just doing what I'm told."
Watson renovation gains support
By BRIAN SETTLE and DIRCK STEIMEL
Staff Writers
A multi-million-dollar renovation of Watson Library received strong support yesterday from the chairman of the Kansas Senate Nate and Means Subcommittee.
"Watson Library renovation has got to be done." State Sen. Paul Henshall, R-Witchita, said the building is "ready."
Hess said he probably would carry the Watson renovation proposal to the Senate floor. He and the other member of the subcommittee, State Sen. Joe Warren, D-Maple City, met for eight hours with KU administrators in what Hess called the Senate's most through look at the KU fiscal 1979 budget.
KU has pushed for the allocation of renovation money since last fall. Chancellor Archie R. Dykes has said several times that the state budget increase were priorities for the University.
"But now with the new library technology, I think that Watson will serve more as a liberal arts library after its renovation, and it will be built to accommodate the natural sciences."
HESS SAID, 'I was initially quite concerned with spending $6.2 million to renovate Watson, when it’s almost certain a new library will be built in the future.
The day of the large monolithic library is Oss. Hess said, and more specialized libraries exist.
hess and Warren will work on a report for the full committee this week. The budget will probably go to the committee next week, Hess said.
Richard Von Ende, executive secretary for the University, said yesterday that he, Dykes, Del Shankel, executive secretary of the University, facilitated planning, and Keith Nitcher, director of
business affairs, met with the legislators Sunday.
VON ENDE SAID the Senate subcommittee questioned administrators on details of the budget proposals and visited buildings on campus, including Marvin Hall, Lindley Hall and Spooner Hall.
"It's been an extremely busy月季,
especially the last week or two," Von Ende said.
"The chancellor was out meeting with
legislators until after midnight last night
and up for a 7:30 breakfast meeting this
morning. It've been the same way with me."
Hess said, "These next two weeks are the critical time for the KU budget in the Senate. The total Regents' budget will probably be before committee next week and Watson may come toward the end of this week."
The governor's proposed budget, unveiled in January, includes a KU budget of $109,233,245. Legislators had said one problem in getting the budget passed will be the need for more education on higher education when they are concerned about farm problems and parity.
"Senator Hess has already been through Watson," he said.
The faculty salary will be given to KU in a lump sum and allocated by KU officials to faculty members based on merit and promotions.
The support from Hess comes at a time when administrators are making their final push for KU budget proposals.
HESS ALSO said he thought the request for a 7 percent faculty increase probably would be approved in the ways and means committee.
The Regents' budget, which appropriates money for the six state universities, is
traditionally acted upon late in the legislative session. The budget usually is approved in April, when legislators are certain how much money will be available for university appropriations.
THE BUDGET process begins in the fall when KU submits a proposal to the Regents. After approval by the Regents, it is submitted to the Budget director, who makes his traditional cuts.
After the governor makes his recommendations in January, the budget goes through hearings in a joint House and Senate Ways and Means Committee, in the Senate subcommittee assigned to each university, in the first Senate committee to the full Senate. The budget must go through the same process in the house after Senate approval.
Another item on the KU budget is funding for a fee waiver program for graduate teaching assistants. The program is based on tuition waivers that equal $234,195. The state would provide the extra money to offset fees not paid by teaching assistants.
Complications make death in county jail a mystery
OTHER RECOMMENDATIONS made by Bennett include $381,700 for window glazing and insulation to conserve energy, $150,000 to renovate Spooner Hall, $335,000 for remodeling and special maintenance of Robinson Gymnasium, $250,000 for renovation of Summerfield Hall and $250,000 for planning the renovation of Marvin Hill.
BY JOHN WHITEWOOD
Lennis Eugene Johnson was no stranger to the Douglas County Jail.
During the past few years he had been to the jail frequently, usually after an alcohol-related incident, according to the sheriff's department. And it was in the Douglas County Jail that Johnson died on the evening of Sunday, Feb. 19.
Staff Writer
However, Dallas Murphy, undersherif in charge of the charge, said Johnson had been delirious and hallucinating from the time he was arrested. Murphy said the sheriff's department thought the hallucinations were related to Johnson's alcoholism.
Johnson was arrested Feb. 15 for possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, but the charge was later dropped when it was discovered that he was not a felon.
Hess said he thought the planning money for Summerfield would be appropriated. However, he cautioned against making assumptions about approval of the full budget.
"WE DECIDED to keep him in protective custody until he could be examined by a psychiatrist," Murphy said. "He was very irrational. He was inoccent most of the time he was in custody and when he was uninocceded he knew, but he never complained of any pains or problems."
"The Legislature is not in the mood to spend as much as the governor requested," he said.
Johnson, 43, was ordered committed to Topeka State Hospital, a psychiatric hospital, by the Douglas County District Court on Friday, Feb. 17, but officials at the hospital said they could not hire him until the following Monday. That appointment was be admitted to the hospital Johnson died from the effects of a lung and chest infection.
Johnson was examined by a psychiatrist for termination of Feb. 16, but it was not a sample.
But one question still remains unanswered. Why was Johnson still in jail more than two days after he had been committed to the Topeka State Hospital?
District Judge Mike Elwil, who presided at the commitment hearings, said the court had attempted to have Johnson admitted to the hospital Friday afternoon.
"AFTER THE commitment proceedings Friday our clerk called the hospital and was told they couldn't take him until Monday morning," Ellwell said.
morning. Even said.
A Topeka State Hospital spokesman said
that patients could be admitted on weekends and that a doctor was always on call to examine incoming patients. However, officials at the hospital have repeatedly refused to comment on the delay in admitting Johnson.
Information involved in the commitment proceedings, including the psychiatrists' findings, is not available. Elwell said, however, that it is not public information and is sealed.
Ewell said that after the court ordered an inmate committed it was left to the court clerks and the hospital to work out the final arrangements for the transfer. Only under a police medical emergency is the hospital required to accept the patient immediately, he said.
Although no emergency was declared in Johnson's case, Murphy said the sheriff's department urged the court that Johnson be accepted by the hospital as quickly as possible.
"WE SOMETIMES have a lot more cases that would appear more urgent than him."
"It could have been detected, but it would have been very difficult," Laurance Price, a law professor at the University of Texas.
Although the reasons for the delay in transferring Johnson remain a mystery, one official said it would be questionable whether a physical exam would have discovered an infection that would have received a complete physical at the time he was to be admitted to the hospital.
AN AUTOPSY performed by Price last week indicated that Johnson's chest infection was the result of several broken ribs that had gone untreated. Price indicated that the broken ribs had probably been suffered in a fall severe disease because he was on his way to The Fall, Price said, could have been caused indirectly by Johnson's alcoholism.
Last-minute class changes thwart early enrollment
By ALLEN HOLDER
"He had no external evidence of trauma," price said. "There was one braiser, but it was too late."
Staff Writer
Murphy said. "He was very irrational, but he didn't seem to be in danger."
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Last-minute changes in timetable listings for classes stand in the way of early enrollment at the University of Kansas, GI Dyck, dean of admissions and records, said
Dyck told members of the University Senate Executive Committee that he did not know when, or whether, KU would switch to a computerized early enrollment system.
Dyck said he thought that KU had almost all the technical capability to switch to computerized early enrolment that it would have in the semester before the semester began to use that capability.
Dyck said 3,000 to 4,000 changes were made in each timetable.
He said the company should have a 50-passenger limit on each bus to make service faster and more efficient. But the company would need six more buses to operate with
"IF THEY CAN get on, we move them,"
"We're in the people-moving business."
DYSAK BID an addendum to this spring's timetable was about 49 pages long.
He said many students never were advised before enrollment actually began. Students would have to be advised during one semester for classes during enrollment. Dykk said. Early enrollment for spring classes probably would be in November.
However, Dyck said early enrolment also would help in preventing with advancing during the regular semester.
"In the past six weeks, I'm not too sure the students have been satisfied with the service," Ogle said. "We're hauling them like sardines."
Most of the professional schools' class schedules were firmly set when the timetable was printed, Dyck said, but the old Art A and Sciences had many changes.
However, driver Helen Bowen, 2112 Tennessee ST., said it was so crowded one day that if she had opened the door to let more people on, people would have fallen
EVEN IF enrollment were computerized,
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Driver Jim Nugent, Los Angeles junior,
said, "When it's overcrowded, you have to be a little more patient. It's tough to steer and see out the door."
Staff Writer
By PEG SPENCER
Short bus contract limits growth
Ogle said he was quite aware of tension that the overcrowding had been causing. Feb. 17, company David Gayle hit in the face by a student passenger.
"I've always been able to pack them in. I never been so bad that I had to leave them."
ouk. "Overcrowding." she said, "Right now that's the only way we can get them back and forth."
The problem of extreme overcrowding on the KU on Wheels bus system this semester has led to building tensions between drivers and passengers. In many groups, the system must be improved.
However, the bus company and the Senate were operated on year-to-year contracts since 1928.
With the goal of solving this overcrowding problem in mind, Steve McMurray, chairman of the Student Senate Transportation Committee, said recently that improvement would be possible if a long-term contract was signed with the Lawrence Bus Co.
"For us to buy new buses," Ogle said, "you'd have to pay about $3 a bus pass. We're operating on a very small margin and price ourselves out of the market."
DUANE OGLE, president and general manager of Lawrence Bus Co., said the company could not buy new buses at a cost of $70,000 each.
Mike Harper, student body president, said last week that he wanted the Student Services Committee to consider negotiating a three-year contract.
Because the bus company operates on one-year contracts, McMurray said, the bus company has been reluctant to make major purchases that would allow the bus company to expand.
"We have too many people and too little equipment," he said.
OGLE SAID part of the problem was the sale of bus passes.
Funding for the bus system is provided in a number of ways. Currently, full-time students pay a $1.80 transportation fee each semester.
McMurry said the Senate took in about $60,000 in individual fares, $60,000 in transportation fees and $120,000 in pass sales every year.
The Senate operates the bus as a nonprofit service to students.
MeMurry said that any unspent money that had accumulated would be used to help keep down the cost of the proposed improvements.
The improvements could expand some routes to include new areas and add new buses to some of the established routes, McMurray said.
"I want to complete the job we we've started so that everything runs as perfectly as they do."
possible with the routes we have now," he said.
FOR EXAMPLE, he said, the timing on the Frontier Route is bad. Students get to campus about 40 minutes before most classes begin, he said.
A possible solution to the problem would be to include Frontier Ridge on a new northern Lawrence route that would cover the Lawrence Memorial Hospital area, several trailer courts and Woodcreek Apartments, McMurry said.
Another new route possibility would be in the western side and Haskell Indian University College area.
"We're beeping up the system we have and addon calls to Murrry said, "The murrry next fall."
He said the possibility of adding one more bus to the 24th and Ridge Court route also helped.
McMurry said the system simp* did not
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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN-
Capsules From the Associated Press, United Press International
Education aid increase proposed
WASHINGTON -President Jimmy Carter asked Congress yesterday for a $12.9 billion budget for education in fiscal year 1979, which would be a 24 percent increase in spending for education.
If adopted by Congress, the increase would be the biggest in federal aid to education since Lyndon Johnson's administration. See story page two.
Park pledges cooperation, help
WASHINGTON - Tongsen Park began his first day of testimony before House investigators yesterday by saying he wanted to help Congress and the American people put the South Korean influence-buying scandal behind them. See story page two.
Weather
Freezing drizzle should change to light snow this evening and tomorrow, according to the National Weather Service. Temperatures should reach 30 this afternoon and tomorrow and the low tonight should be in the upper teens. The probability of precipitation is 40 percent today and 60 percent tonight.
Locally . . .
A new in-home pregnancy test recently released for public sale may not be an accurate test. Tummy Trot, a nurse practitioner in the family planning department of the county health department, said the early pregnancy test, or e.p.t. test, did not effectively screen for false positive and false negative results. The test instructions, though, say that the test is anywhere from 80 to 97 percent accurate. See story page 10.