THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
The University of Kansas
Friday December 9,1977
Vol. 88, No. 70
Lawrence. Kansas
Icy weather causes falls, car accidents
Ic conditions yesterday closed schools, tangle traffic and sent several people to the hospital.
Staff photo by GEORGE MILLENER
Martin Wollmann, director of health services, said last night that about 20 persons were treated yesterday for injuries related to falls on the ice.
The injuries included abrasions, lacerations, contusions and a count of muscle fractures, healed.
Ice-skid streets caused five accidents on campus yesterday, according to a KU dispatcher. No serious injuries were reported.
Numerous ice-related accidents also were reported by the Lawrence police department. A spokesman said that at least 20 accidents were reported by noon yesterday and that the accidents would not be reported by owner until later because of their minor nature.
SLICK ROADS restricted KU busing to on-campus buses only. Some students, who off-campus, did not have transportation to classes yesterday.
Regardless of whether the Lawrence bus service ran its regular routes yesterday, students unable to attend classes because of the inclement weather must settle their individual instructors Ron Calgaard, vice principal for academic affairs, said last night.
David Ambler, vice chancellor for student affairs, said that according to University policy on absences, only individual faculty members could excuse absent students unless the entire University was closed down.
Del Shakel, executive vice chancellor,
said classes would close only when the weather was so extreme that it was im-
practical for students and faculty to get to
classes.
Shankel was appointed in 1974.
"HAS NOT happened that classes have been canceled since I have been here as far as I am aware," she said.
Elementary and secondary schools were closed yesterday in Lawrence, Eudora, Baldwin, Basehor-Linwood, Tonganoxie and DeSoto.
Lawrence police said last night that no roads had been closed because of the ice.
A Douglas County Sheriff's dispatcher said that no county roads had been closed.
A 'hawk in winter
Although there is no predicted measurable precipitation for today, the Weather Bureau at Topeka reports a 20 percent chance of light snow tonight.
To draw attention to today's Jellis Celebration in Strong Hali, Bill Roberts, Lake Forest, IL., junior, yesterday placed a 25-foot stretch of tennis court in front of the gym.
Hall, Gov. Robert Bennett, Chancellor Archie R. Dykes and Santa Claus will help turn on Christmas tree lights in Strong's lilybush.
Parking restrictions enforced during break
Parking restrictions at the University of Kansas will be enforced during semester break, according to Andrew Torres, chairman of the Parking and Traffic Board.
Torres was yesterday that parking restrictions on campus were often ignored by students, faculty and staff during the semester break.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Capsules From the Associated Press, United Press International
Food stamp plan
may be replaced
WASHINGTON—A special House subcommittee voted yesterday to replace food stamps with cash and to eliminate a proposed work incentive program designed to ease workers off welfare.
Both proposals were made by the Carter administration. See story page two.
Arabs meet over feud with Sadat
While Egyptian President Anwar Sadat called critics of his peace offensive 'impostors and pygmies', the neutral Arab monarchs met separately with his generals.
In Moscow the Soviet Union said Secretary of State Cyrus Vance was in direct contradiction$^6$ with the joint American-Soviet statement on Middle East issues.
Bergland says he can't give parity
OMAHA—As American farmers yesterday began steering tractors toward rallies in state capital, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Bob Bergland said the federal government did not have authority to provide the funds needed for farmers to receive 100 per cent equity of production, for their products.
Bergland, who addressed the National Farmers Organization national convention, said he supported the objectives of those who sought a full parity income, but said his department did not have the authority to start the kind of program recommended by many groups.
Acropolis restoration called for
ATHEN$^2$-Worldwide last-hour support is needed to resue the shrires of the Athropolis from pollution and aging, the Greek culture minister told an interviewer on Monday.
Locally . . .
1977 has been a year of crises in the Mideast, the inauguration of a new president, controversial canal treaties, terrorism around the globe, the Bert Lance affair, reports of deficiencies in Watson Library and apathy in the university system, accusations of bribery against the state, national and world—in a look at 1977 in review on pages four and five.
"In the past, people seemed to have thought the University was closed down during the break between semesters." Torres said. "Then they are always surprised when they receive a ticket for illegal parking."
Torres said a tremendous amount of research by professors and preparation for the upcoming semester was done during the break.
"I want to make it emphatic that parking restrictions are valid throughout the entire year, not just during the fall and spring semesters," he said.
IN PAST SEMESTER breaks, Torres
vadis, vehicles with brown or yellow permits
or driver's license.
He added that intersession also would be held.
blue zones, which were closer to the main campus, thus forcing people with red and blue parking permits to park in other, incorrect zones.
Torres said lot B-1, near Carruth O'Leary, parts of lot D west of Hoch Auditorium, lot g behind Malot Hall, lot h along Poplar Lane, lot l behind the Kansas Union, lot t adjacent to Danfort Chapel and lot v beside Summerfield Hall were restricted from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mondays through Fridays and 7 a.m. to noon on Saturdays. Interval time is 11 p.m. Boulevard is restricted Monday through Friday from 6:45 a.m. to 4:45 p.m., he said. Otherwise the boulevard would be open to general parking.
In an attempt to clear up possible confusion, Turtles yesterday outlined the basic rules.
Exam violations cause complaints
By BRIAN SETTLE
Staff Writer
Complaints about violations of the new final exam policy that prohibits instructors from giving a final exam during the last week of classes have evoked administrative advice about how students can handle the abuses.
The chairman of the University Senate Calendar Committee, Harold Krogh, said yesterday that he had received more than 40 phone calls and visits from students and faculty members in wording of the exam policy, violations of the policy, and requests for exemptions to the policy.
Besides prohibiting early final exams, the new policy also prohibits unit examinations from being given during the last week of classes unless a comprehensive final examination also is required in the course. The policy is in effect for the first time this semester.
*WAS ON the phone till 7 p.m. wednesday night returning phone calls.* Krogh wagged.
He said he had advised students who thought their instructor was violating the final exam policy to try to settle the problem with the individual instructor.
"If the two could not agree on the policy at that point, I advised students to go to professor Balfour, ombudsman," Krogh said.
However, Ron Calgaard, vice-chancellor for academic affairs, said yesterday he would advise students to take three steps in the case of a final exam violation.
Calgaard said students first should go to the department chairman and dean of the college.
"If there is still a problem, they can come to me and I will make the safety the problem not be made."
Krogh agreed with Calgaard.
"I DON'T THINK a professor can tell another professor how to run his class, but I
"ANY EXCEPTIONS to the above paragraph must be approved by the Chair of the Committee must be submitted at least three weeks in advance. Students' academic best interests shall be the criteria for the Calendar. Committee's decisions on
think Dr. Calgaard has the authority to enforce the policy, "Krogh said.
"The final examinations for a course must be given at the regularly scheduled time. No final examination shall be given on the last scheduled day of classes or six days prior to the last day of regularly scheduled classes. The final examinations may not be scheduled during those same days unless a comprehensive final examination is also required in the course.
Krogh said the Calendar Committee had given one instructor permission to give an optional final exam on Monday, Dec. 12, before classes end.
However, he said, this was because the instructor had indicated to the class that the students could take the exam on Monday or the regularly scheduled day for the final.
“In that case,” Krogh said, “it was ob-
served the teacher was not trying to get out of
his exams early and we felt it was to
the indebted person as is what the
policy was made for anyway.”
also a member of the Calendar See FINAL page seven
The exam policy, initiated by the Academic Procedures and Policies Committee, was designed to ease the problems students had when instructors gave final exams during the last week of classes. The professor and voiced concern that final week was underused because of the many early exams being given by instructors.
The policy, from Article 1, Section three of the rules and regulations of the University Society.
By ROBERTBEEI
Staff Writer
Tire prints provide possible murder lead
According to Lt. Kenneth Harmon, the assumption that the results will not be complete until now is false.
"They (the tires and prints) look the same but further tests are needed to be sure."
Investigators will try to match the tires of a stolen car, found in Kansas City, Mo., with tire prints found at the scene that 30-year-old Billy O'Reilly and slain, a police spokesman said yesterday.
Police were looking for the car, a 1977 Chevrolet, because it was seen in Lawrence and at Bellevue.
A warrant, charging the car's occupants with exercising unauthorized control over a stolen vehicle, was issued by the Douglas County attorney Saturday.
The car reportedly was stolen in Denver.
The ear reportedly was stolen in Denver. NORWOOD WAS FOUND dead. Nov. 29 of each pair of ears. A man disappeared Nov. 28 after leaving the F.W. Woolworth store, which he managed
Police Chief Richard Stanwix said that none of the items Norwood reportedly had with him when he left the store had been found.
The items include a beige top coat, a camera with flashballs and film, a camera
Harmon said the abandoned car, stolen in the Denver area, had been towed by the Kansas City, Mo., police the day after Norwood's body was found.
Lawrence investigators found the car in the storage area, Harmon said. Kansas police was wanted in connection with the murder because Lawrence police did not place the car's tag numbers in the National Criminal Identification Computer until the following day.
IF THE CAR is not registered with the computer, the police will hold it for 30 days. A penalty may be imposed.
Rex Johnson, Douglas County sheriff, said no new letters had been received in the reward offer for information about Norwood's death.
Four letters have been received in the Norwood and Vanera Smith cases.
Smith was found beaten to death in her home on Nov. 8.
Johnson said leads are still being checked out.
Computer boom to alter students' way of life
By JERRY JONES
by JERRY JON
Hungry? Go talk to your toaster.
That's what Earl C. Joseph, a futurist with Sperry-Univac Computer Systems, predicts we'll be doing within the next decade.
At the University of Kansas, Charles E. Hallenbeck, professor of psychology, predicts that computer terminals will be operating in dormitories within the next 10 years, offering services 24 hours a day, seven days a week to students.
"You could awaken some morning five or 10 years hence," he wrote in a recent paper, "speak a few simple instructions from your bed to your toaster, coffee pot and frying pan and walk into the kitchen minutes later and a fully prepared breakfast."
These predictions are of many offered by experts who are charing the recent development in 1974 of the microprocessor—a minicounter about the size of a tooth with the capabilities of a room-sized machine—for easing and expediting lifestyles.
GLOWING PREDICTIONS of future ease and comfort certainly are not new. A notable example was provided during World War II as a test of the post-commission issued predictions on post-war
America to let the GIs know what they were fighting for.
The commission forecast that by the late 1940s a monorail would connect the coasts, speeding passengers at about 200 miles an hour. Traffic jams would be eliminated because everyone would be driving—that is, flying—airborne vehicles.
After the war, planners said, the housewife could relax. Clothes would be
made from a cellulose fiber that would never dirty or wrinkle. Nutritious pills would eliminate the need for food packaging and be cleaned automatically with sonic waves.
These ambitious predictions inspired lyrics like, "We'll sell down in Dallas, in a little plastic shop." Then fly off to Cairo, In our brand new auto-croo.
A QUICK CHECK of the neighborhood
"No, ma'am . . . I HAD it done, but my dog wet on the computer."
tells us that the planning commission probably stood too long without earplugs next to the artillery range. They did foresee the development of the auto-gyro—the helicopter—but it's hardly a vehicle to be found in every garage.
So it isn't difficult to understand the skepticism that greets predictions of an easier, more efficient future. But the computer people think they're on solid footing and they have one powerful tool — their recent predictions continue to come true.
Envision, for example, a university that has at least one computer terminal for every 20 students. At this university, professors assign their students at least one project a week that requires computer use, and students have no relationship to computer science.
THAT UNIVERSITY may be the University of Kansas in 10 years, but today it is not. The university is Pittsburgh, according to Hallenbeck. At Carriege-Mellon, he said, computer terminals are available for student use at campus. And Carriege-Mellon is not unique.
"A'dMentmouth, for instance, there are as telephone booths," *Halliburton* said.
Dartmouth and Carnegie-Mellon in-SEE COMPUTERS page eight