THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
ICY
The University of Kansas
Vol. 88, No.69
Thursday December 8,1977
Lawrence. Kansas
Sales drop is afflicting yearbooks
The elimination of option cards from students' enrollment packets has caused a drop in sales of the Jayhawker Yearbook this year, the Sunbury, yearbook business said.
About 1,500 yearbooks were sold at enrollment this fall, compared with about 1,200 in the previous year.
Stanley attributed the decline in sales to the fact that the fall of 1976 was the last time students could buy a yearbook by filling out a blank card when paying fees at enrollment.
The Office of Admissions and Records had discontinued the use of all option cards because it had received too many requests from groups wanting cards in the packet, he
He said he thought the office had not realized what the impact of the move would be.
Stanley said many students had been accustomed to buying a bookyear when they paid their fees and did not realize they had not bought one at fall enrollment.
“It’s not that people aren’t interested in buyback books,” he said.
THE YEARBOOK was sold this fall at a table beyond the point where enrollment fees were paid. Stanley said he thought the inconvenience of having to go to another table and of having to wait in line engaged many students from buying a book.
The yearbook staff staged a sales drive last week, but only 300 additional books were sold. Stanley said the staff needed to sell 3,000 books to break even.
He said the staff had ordered 3,700 yearbooks from its printer this year, about a quarter of the year.
Staff Photo by RANDY OLSON
the urop in sales created a cash-flow problem for the staff, he said, because it would not have enough money to pay the printer when deadlines were met. The last deadline is March 10, two months before the books are scheduled for distribution.
ABOUT 500 books usually are sold at the MAY distribution, he said, but the staff can arrange a delivery.
The price of the yearbook is $9, an increase of $1 from last year. Stanley said the staff raised the price because of higher printing costs and because it anticipated a rise in sales.
Yearbooks currently can be purchased at the Jawayher Yearbook office in the Kigaham.
Basketball worship
Pat Perine, Topeka junior, shows her anxiety as she room for the jachawshe hallow in allen Field House. KU defeated Tigers at home on Sunday.
figures. Before the men's game the KU women blasted Claremont Junior College of Oklahoma, 10-34. See stories页
Senate passes petition for court
By MELISSATHOMPSON
Staff Writer
A petition asked the University Council to establish a grade appeals court was passed by the Student Senate last night. The court issued its decision after people who thought they had been unfairly graded.
The Senate also passed two other pieces of legislation and confirmed three appointments at its hour-long meeting. The senate was the last one of the fall semester.
Rhonda May, Academic Affairs Committee chairman, presented the grade appeals court petition to the Senate and said it would provide a standard grievance process that all students and instructors could use.
The court which would be patterned after one that exists at Wichita State University, would consist of students and tenured faculty members.
STUDENTS COULD BRING complaints before the court only after they had talked with their instructor, the head of the department that offered the class and the dean of their college. The court. May said, "There was a last resort. Its decisions would be final."
If the court decided that an instructor had not provided justification for his grading of a student, and evidence showed that the student had earned a grade other than the one that he had received, the court would impose a fine directly to the University Registrar's office.
The Senate also passed a bill to amend a part of the Senate Rules and Regulations to require that the Senate's members vote
The petition will be sent to the University Council for further action.
be vetoed by the student body president or revised by the Senate.
THE BILL STIPULATES that no revision or veto can be made during the 12 months after the referendum was held. However, Steve Leben, student body president, said it was possible for the Senate to either or reverse a referendum despite the rule.
All that the Senate would have to do, he said, would be to suspend the rules with prior notice. The referendum then could be reconsidered.
He said that referrents, especially those that allow an increase in student activity fee money, are affected by outside factors.
An example, he said, would be a fee increase authorized by students in a referendum earlier this fall for the building of a satellite union.
Leben said if building costs are greater than the maximum increase allowed in the referendum, there might have to be an increase.
That increase would mean revising the referendum, he said.
HE SAID HE HOPED the Senate would never overrule the student body by suspending the rules and revising referendum.
"It is my hope that the Student Senate would never take it upon itself to do that," he said, "but in a time of extreme emergency, it might be necessary."
The final piece of legislation passed by the Senate last night was a petition asking the U.S. Supreme Court to halt the Senate Code. The amendment would stipulate that the student members of the Parking and Traffic Board be appointed by the student body president with Senate approval.
Tidy offices prove inviting, prof determines
By LAURIE MARTIN Staff Writer
It used to be that having a tidy office was not considered a prerequisite for a professor to have good rapport with students. But research in psychology may change that.
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FBI releases files on JFK killing
out three weeks after the Nov. 22, 1963, murder, Hoover advised President Lyndon Johnson he had some letters in which someone in Cuba had apparently encouraged Oswald to kill Kennedy. He persuaded Johnson not to release an early official finding that "Oswald was the only man." See page story two.
WASHINGTON-Forner FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover never doubted that Lee Harvey Oswald fired the bullets that killed John F. Kennedy, according to FBI files released yesterday.
CAIRO - Egypt said yesterday that Communist agents were trying to build opposition to President Anwar沙af's peace initiatives with Israel and ordered the Soviet Union and four Eastern European countries to close their consulates and cultural centers outside Cairo. See story page two.
Egypt reduces ties with Soviets
WASHINGTON—In an important step toward resolving a legislative deadlock on federally funded abortions, the House agreed yesterday with the Senate's position that statutory as well as "forced" rape victims should be entitled to Medicaid abortions.
Also yesterday, Jordan's King Hussein and Saudi Arabia diplomat attempted to give President Haafaz of Assad and Sadat to make up before the war.
The House added a stipulation requiring approval of two doctors before a pregnancy could be terminated for health reasons.
WASHINGTON - A House-Senate conference committee made its first substantial compromise on energy taxes yesterday, agreeing to a tax on gas-guzzling automobiles to begin in 1979. But Speaker Thomas P. O'Neill said there was not enough time for Congress to complete an energy program this year.
Panel agrees to tax gas-guzzlers
State Farm Bureau rejects strike
The tentative agreement would set up a tax of $200 for a car getting fewer than 15 miles per gallon, $300 for cars getting fewer than 14 mpg and $500 for cars getting less than 9 mpg.
TOPEKA - The Kansas Farm Bureau rejected a proposal yesterday to endorse the Dec. 14 farm strike and instead passed a resolution encouraging individual members to decide for themselves whether to support the nationwide demonstration.
Locally...
During its three-year life span, the People's Energy Project (PEP) has above all tried to increase the public's awareness on energy issues. Conservation, insulation and coordination among government, industry and consumers are some of the key targets for utility rate increases and nuclear power plant construction. See story page 19.
David Campbell, assistant professor of psychology at the University of Kansas, conducted a research project to determine what type of office made students feel more comfortable. Campbell discovered that students had the most positive effect on students.
"The question was whether a difference in office arrangement affected the quality of interaction between student and professor," Campbell said recently.
To the 251 students who were involved in the research project, the tidy office was the room inviting and the questionnaires from the team and questionnaires also indicated that the tidy professor, whose office they were evaluating, seemed to be more interested in papers and had interests similar to their own.
THE STUDENTS in the project were asked to rate different offices that varied in desk arrangement, neatness and tidiness, presence of aesthetic objects such as posters and paintings and the presence of plants such as plants and fish in aquariums.
Campbell showed 16 slides of possible combinations to students.
The students were asked to place themselves in the visitor's chair of the office and answer questions about what they were asked to rate the office according to how 'comfortable, inviting and welcome' they felt. They then were asked to predict what the professor of that particular office would like to see them do.
"The results were kind of interesting," Campbell said. "Tidiness had the most
powerful effect of all, and if you put the living things and aesthetic objects in the office, we found the students felt much more comfortable and the professor seemed more welcoming."14
TWO PREVIOUS research projects prompted Campbell to begin studying his area of research. The first project dealt with how different office arrangements affected how a student felt about that particular professor.
Campbell worked with students from his environmental psychology class. They observed furniture arrangements in the 128 bedrooms, and determined two dominant types of office.
Campbell labeled the office arrangement with the instructor's desk against the wall.
leaving no barriers between the professor and visitor, as an open office. He labeled the office arrangement with the professor's desk in the middle of the room, serving as a barrier between the instructor and visitor, as a closed office.
Although social psychologists say that the placement of partitions and barriers in a room affects social interaction, Campbell found in his previous research project that there was no difference in students' reactions to closed and open offices.
CAMBELL and his students discovered that full professors were more likely to have closed offices and assistant professors were more likely to have oen offices.
"the message to me was, clean 'up your office, use plants and put up posters," Company said.
Carlin says legislative duties take priority
Although he is organizing his bid for the Democratic nomination for governor in 1978, State Rep. John Carlin, speaker of the Kansas House of Representatives,
yesterday stressed that he would not forget his duties to the Kansas Legislature.
"My primary responsibility is to run the 1978 legislative session," Carlin, D-Smolan,
sat at a press conference in Lawrence. The legislature will convene Jan. 9 and continue
Carlin, in town for a meeting with the
House Speaker John Carlin
Staff Photo by ELI REICHMAN
Carlin said the kansas Atty. Gen. Curt Schneider, who this week said he probably also would be seeking the Democratic candidate, would have no bearing on his plant to run.
Competition in the gubernatorial race has been growing.
American Association of University Professors, said he would announce his candidacy for the gubernatorial nomination in mid-April. after the session was over.
Carlin also said that Republican Gov. Robert Bennett's decision to run for reelection would not affect his gubernatorial aspirations.
CARLIN SAID that a recommended raise in KU Medical Center tuition, a proposed revamping of the state correctional system and drawing attention to the draw attention in the legislature this session.
He said he has had reservations about supporting a recommendation of the interim House Ways and Means Committee, a group that would lead the Center from $1,150 to nearly $5,000 a year by
See CARLIN page three
Tops of trees chopped, stolen
The Christmas season is here and people are beginning to acquire trees for decorations.
Some trees, however, are taken at the expense of others.
KU police reported Tuesday that someone cut off the tops of three juniper trees on campus sometime between 4 p.m. Sunday and 7 a.m. Monday. The trees, valued at $120, are on the south side of the O-Zone parking lot.
Police speculated that the tops would be used as Christmas trees.
The theft is under investigation.