THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
CHILLY
KANSAN
The University of Kansas
Vol. 88, No.101
Monday February 27,1978
Lawrence, Kansas
Association told to study scholarships
By ALLEN HOLDER
Staff Writer
A scholarship fund for minority graduate students may be eliminated next year after a review by Chancellor Archie R. Dykes and the Board of Trustees to endowment Associations. Dykes said Friday.
Dykes and Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor, answered questions from about 10 persons in an open forum in the Forum Room of the Kansas Union.
The fund, the Post-Baccaliareate Scholarship Fund, provides financial aid to minority graduate students in the schools of Law, Social Welfare and Business and some sections of the graduate school. It may be changed to provide aid for undergraduates,
DYKES SAID that he had not withdrawn support from the program but that he had asked the Endowment Association to accept the rationale for continuing the program.
"The question is, 'Where can you help the most people?' " Dykes said.
Dykes then he wondered whether more graduate or undergraduates could be the principal.
Dykes said the program was being studied because there were not enough funds available to help undergraduate minority students.
DYKES SAID the Endowment Association's executive committee would hear his recommendation on the program when it met next month. He said the Endowment Association would make the final decision.
The program last year gave various amounts of aid to more than 30 students.
"But I recognize that students occasional have just grievances over the said."
However, Shankel said he thought grade appeals could be handled by the University ombdusman, William Ballour, and by the University Judiciary.
Questions also were asked Friday about the establishment of a grade appeals court. Shankel joked that he felt "schizophrenic" about grade appeals because he was both an administrator and a teacher.
THE STUDENTS Senate petitioned the University Council in December to establish a Court of Academic Appeals for students who thought they had been graded unfairly.
Shankel also said he had heard nothing about a merger of the men's and women's hospitals.
The Senate's petition now is being considered by the Council's Academic Committee.
Shankel said he did not think a merger would be considered in the next three years as a method of university compliance with the IX of the Education Amendments of 1972.
Shankel said he thought that Clyde Walker, athletic director, had not received the credit he deserved for helping provide money from the men's football program for scholarships for women athletes and for other aid to the women's athletics program.
"We may comply with TITLE IX by 1800 if we can figure it out," he said.
Shankel said that, assuming the football program could continue its revenue level, it would provide additional funds to women's athletics each year until the program was
SHANKEL SAID KU soon could be in compliance with TIX, which calls for "equal athletic opportunity for members of both sexes."
Staff Photo by RANDY OLSOh
See FORUM page 3
Snow throw
Eldon Tefft, 1315 Naishtim St., was not satisfied with shoveling the remnants of last snow on his sidewalk and steps. So Tefft, professor of art, climbed up and cleaned off some snow.
KU enrollment increases despite percentage drop
Staff Writer
By BRIAN SETTLE
Although a record number of students enrolled at the University of Kansas this semester, the percentage of increase at the Lawrence campus has continued to drop since 1975, according to figures compiled Friday by the office of admissions and records.
Official enrollment figures, approved Saturday by Chancellor Archie R. Dykes, show 21,984 students are enrolled at the Lawrence campus and 1,897 at the KU Medical Center campus in Kansas City, Kan., totaling 23,881.
The total is an increase of 309 students more than spring 1977. Of those, 303 students are enrolled on the Lawrence campus. The Med Center has only six more students this semester than last spring.
The total number of students on the Lawrence campus this semester is 1.4 percent higher than spring 1977. In 1975, the spring semester enrollment over spring 1974 was 9.9 percent. The increase from 1975 to 1976 was 6.5 percent and 3.1 percent from 1976 to 1977.
Enrollment on the Lawrence campus for spring 1974 was 17,955; 19,738 in 1975; 21,019 in 1976 and 21,681 in 1977.
Based on study reports of the Kan-
asas high school population, 1978 should be the last year enrollment figures at Kansas universities will increase for several years, Martin Jones, associate director of business affairs, said yesterday.
The official enrollment figures were compiled after the 20th day of classes. They show the number of full-time equivalency students, the basis of legislative funding for KU.
Jones said that KU prepared enrollment estimates to receive funding from the Kansas Legislature for each fiscal year.
ALTHOUGH KU already has received the funding for this semester, high enrollment estimates could cause the difference to be made up in the next year's legislative funding, Jones said. The estimated total enrollment made by KU was 23,770.
If the estimates are lower than the actual count, as is the case this spring, Jones said, KU would request authority from the Legislature to spend a portion of the activity fee from the surplus of students.
The 20th day of classes was Feb. 14. Gil Dyk, dean of admissions and records, said last week that the final count had been delayed slightly because of additions to the memory core of the admissions computer and because of stiffer verification procedures.
THE OFFICIAL figures will be send today to the Kansas Board of Regents and the Kansas Legislature's education panel, Dvck said.
Initial enrollment for the University was 22,340 students. However, an unusually high number of students was expected to enroll late this semester because of a four-day gap between the last day of enrollment and the first day of classes.
The gap was caused by changes made in the enrollment dates last spring to comply with the Regents' common calendar.
ENROLLMENT for both fall and spring semesters was conducted Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. However, the Regents' calendar dictates that classes start Monday in the fall and Wednesday in the spring, causing the gap between enrollment and the beginning of classes in the spring.
Although enrollment has increased from last spring, the enrollment totals show the traditional fall-to-spring loss. Final fall enrollment for 1977 was 25,327, which is 1,446 more than the final enrollment this spring.
Late enrollment continues through tomorrow.
Testing not needed, official says
Staff Writer
By DIRCK STEIMEL
The institution of competency testing of Kansas elementary and high school students mainly would be a public relations action for the state, Carl Knox, superintendent of Lawrence public schools, said Friday.
"I think competency-based education has merits and value only when it is followed up with remedial programs to help students catch up." Knox said.
The Kansas House passed and sent to the Senate Friday a bill that would establish standardized reading, mathematics and spelling. If a student did not pass the test his eighth grade year, he would continue to take similar competency tests each year until he graduated.
The standardized state tests are unnecessary because most Kansas school districts already give diagnostic tests to all students. Knox said.
Those tests, Knox said, are designed to give the administrators an idea of the area in which more educational emphasis is needed.
"If a school district does a good job with these tests already, then it has little to be gained from standardized state tests," Knox said.
Brad Tate, principal of Lawrence High School, said the schools were in the process of getting local standardized tests approved by the school board.
The standardized tests and existing
Elusive man seeks art fair funds
By MELISSA J. THOMPSON
Staff Writer
Stan Writer Who is R. Gregory Walstrom?
County leaders would like to know because he had asked them whether he can rent the Douglas County fairgrounds for an arts and craftsy festival this summer.
Neither group seems likely to find Walstrom, though, because the mysterious man exists officially only through a post office box.
Student Senate leaders would like to know because he has asked them for money to fund the project.
Walstrom approached the County Commission several months ago about the rental of a classroom at the Society of Art, was interested in staging a major outdoor arts and crafts fair. He told the commissioners they could contact him on the school box at the University station in Strong Hall.
Walstrom's Society surfaced again Thursday when the Senate office took a budget request from a man identifying Walstrom, the sponsor for the Society of Art.
THE COMMISSIONERS have since tried to contact him at that post office box to finish the rental transaction and have had no success.
In the Senate budget request, Walstrom
also included a typewritten sheet outlining the society's articles of purpose.
"TSA MEMBERS live in local communities as inside-outsiders," the sheet said. "With this identity, we live a neighbor, friend, interested citizen, professional worker and community participant," the sheet said.
The purpose, the sheet said, was to build a community of members who have a capacity for a life of dedication, integration and service.
The Senate request listed the same post office box that Walstrom gave the commissioners. It was notarized and asked for $600 in student activity fee money to finance a festival, postage, printing, film and music rental and a journal.
That same day Walstrom applied to the
student offers for registration of his group.
The sheet made no mention of a proposed arts and crafts fair or of any student work.
Instead of a post office box number, this application listed 1128 Ohio St. as the address.
Walstrom, however, is not a full-time resident at 1128 Ohio St.
A man who lives at that address said that Waltstrom, sometimes stayed there, and sometimes didn't.
also is a listing on the mailbox for the society.
On his applications for Senate funding and for registration, Walstrom listed several people as references and advisory board members for the society.
Walstrom was not at the residence on Ohio yesterday and the man living at that address said he did not know where Walstrom was.
BILLY RAY Hastings, a silkscreen printer in Garland, Kan., was one of the people listed in the Senate budget application. He said yesterday that he knew Walstrom and thought the society was a leitimate organization.
Those people seem to be as mysterious as Walstrom himself. All but four of the references were not listed in any telephone directory and only two could be contacted
The only connection that Hastings said he had with the society was a $5 registration he paid earlier this year to Walstrom in excerpt 10, and he says it to show his prints at the proposed arts fair.
HASTINGS expressed concern about the status of the plans for the arts festival.
He said that he did not know, however, that he was an "advisory board member" but that he guessed it would be all right to be listed as such.
"I hope things work out," he said. "Greg
is a way-out guy and he's always thinking of good things to do."
He said his last contact with Walstom had been on Monday the last week. The address was 1128 Oshawa Rd.
To the best of his knowledge, Hastings said, Walstrom had fairly complete plans for the festival, including the place to hold the dance, and it is likely that the fairground did not have to be rented.
ONE OTHER reference that Walstrom had listed on his application was available for comment yesterday. That person, David Burroughs, a special student in the School of Education, went to the festival but knew little about the society or about Walstrom.
Burroughs, who lives in Kansas City, Kan., said he had met Walstrom because Walstrom sometimes used a typewriter at Burroughs's place of employment.
He said that Walstrom had asked him one day to take photographs of the festival but that he had not seen Walstrom for about seven weeks.
THE STATUS of Walstrom, the society and the arts festival is shaky, as far as county officials and Senate leaders are concerned.
See WALSTROM page 3
County officials have said that Walstrom does not have a firm reservation for the
In addition to standardized competency testing, the House bill would establish remedial programs throughout the state for those who fail the competency tests.
However, an amendment that would have provided state funds to help local districts with remedial program costs was defeated on the House floor after much debate.
remedial programs, Tate said, are designed to bring all students graduating from Lawrence Hindi to at least an eight-grade level. In addition, nine-th grade level in reading and composition.
Knox said the state should have to pay for the remedial programs if they forced the school district to set them up.
The cost of the remedial programs would be hard to determine, Knox said, because there could be several approaches to remedial education, such as hiring additional teachers or reducing class sizes.
The Kansas Senate is scheduled to debate similar competency-based education bill to be sponsored by Gov. Mike Huckabee.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Capsules From the Associated Press, United Press International
Chinese invasion of Taiwan urged
TOKYO-Hua Kue-feng, Chinese Communist party chairman, opened China's八大 National People's Congress yesterday by urging military readiness for the takeover of Taiwan. He said the People's Liberation Army, with its members, must make all the preparations necessary for the liberation of Taiwan.
During his 3½-hour speech, Hua also said China would continue to struggle against social imperialism.
But he indicated indirectly that China would continue its policy of improving relations with the United States and the West.
During a televised portion of the congress' opening, members rose in silent tribute to three leaders who died in 1976 - Mao Tse-tung, Chu En-li and Chu
Park returns to U.S. to testify
WASHINGTON—Tongusan Park returned to Washington yesterday vowing to tell the truth to Congress about alleged South Korea payoffs to U.S. Congressman. Park has remained in Korea for the past 1½ years while various government officials have attempted to force him to testify.
In other matters concerning Park, Newsweek magazine reported in this week's issue that Park made a $500,000 loan to Goi. Yang Du Wan, chief of the Korean Central Intelligence Agency in Washington, park denied that the loan was coerced by Yang and that the loan has not been repaid. See story page 31.
Chlorine gas kills eight in Florida
YOUNGSTOWN, Fla.—A freight train deralignment near Youngtown yesterday spread a cloud of deadly chlorine gas across a busy highway, killing eight persons and injuring at least 67. As the gas spread, automobile engines apparently stalled when the chlorine came in contact with cars carried into roadside ditches, while some motorists filed into a swamp near the city, only to be obscured by the searing greenish-yellow cloud. See story page two.
Locally ...
Anyone who has complaints about campus parking tickets can air those complaints before the University of Kansas Parking and Traffic Court in the School of Law. The court is in session at 7 p.m. every Monday, Tuesday and Thursday.
Tickets may be appealed at the Traffic and Security office in Hoch Auditorium within 14 days after they are written.
Tickets that were obvious mistakes may be canceled there. If the ticket seems contestable, the person who is appealing the ticket is assigned a first-year law degree.
Last semester 48 percent of the contested parking tickets that were appealed resulted in reduced or eliminated fines. See story page six.