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Tuesday, November 8, 1977
University Daily Kansan
Public rating affects college funds
Staff Writer
By PAULA SOUTHERLAND
The public's low opinion of higher education might affect the amount of funding that Kansas universities receive, Governor Robert Bennett told a group of professors from six Kansas schools yesterday in Topeka.
J. Bunker Clark, secretary-treasurer of the Kansas chapter of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) and KU professor of music history, said that Bennett told the professors that public opinion poll rated vocational schools
bigger than universities - a disadvantage when universities tried to get funding.
According to Clark, the governor said that he and the legislature are products of public opinion, and that this affects the way they approve funds for universities.
CLARK SAID that no one at the meeting knew why the public had such a low opinion of higher education, but some professors believed it was so low that it was satisfied with what a college degree could do.
He said that college students would receive degrees and then would not be able to get a job.
"These dams are like loaded shotguns pointed at the people downstream and all it takes today to trigger that shotgun is a heavy rainfall of the kind we had over the weekend in Georgia," Rep. Leo Ryan, D-Calif., said.
WASHINGTON (UP1)—The chairman of a house panel investigating dam safety said yesterday the earthen dam that collapsed Sunday in Georgia never was inspected by federal or state officials and thousands like it around the nation may fail at any time.
Ryan forecast similar tragedies, possibly within a year, unless the government quickly begins to inspect an estimated $50,000 of his property. The federal law that has some largely unenforced.
Of the total, he said, 20,000 have been
high hazard" like the one at Tocona
Palo Alto.
Congressman says dams not inspected
Ryan whose government operations subcommittee has been looking into the dam safety situation for 18 months, spoke at a Capitol Hill news conference.
"CONTRARY TO earlier reports in the press," Ryan said of the Tocca installation, "the darn has never been inspected by any company nor audited or by the (Army) Corps of Engineers."
He said the earlier reports "may have come from a state department of transportation vehicle used in inspecting the car and the dam three days before the broke."
Ryan said his staff had not yet developed any information about the cause of the disaster. But he said that the privately owned company has been inspected under the federal law.
Asked if he thought the tragedy might have been averted through inspection, he
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thought bluegrass and fiddle music were
rancidly increasing in popularity.
GRANT CREDITED television for much of the recent growth in popularity in fiddle music because, he said, the music was taken out outside of the traditional barn dance crowd.
McMurray said he could see a great rise in the population of fiddle music, especially from the early 1960s.
Fiddling . . .
The route muse you hear today is much better than what we used to play. These kids are taking the old tunes and turning them into classics." McMurray said.
Bill Cobb, 27, contrasted the clean-cut look of the older dilders with his long hair tied
Cobb said he played classical violin for Cohn and was invited to fiddle three years ago as an because he didn't play well.
Most of the music played Sunday was old-time fiddle music, but some were bluegrass.
replied, "Totally, completely, positively
yes."
Clark said that the two budget items most affected by underfunding would be salaries for university employees and a category called Other Operating Expenses.
Ryan denounced the Office of Management and Budget for failing until this year to authorize funds for implementation of the law.
Jeff Conrad, a professional musician from Topeka, said the difference between bluegrass and old-time fiddle music was more in structure than in sound.
Other operating expenses includes miscellaneous items from chalk to computers.
"There are 20,000 dams in this nation right now that have a potential for failure and damage to the environment."
HE SAID THE CORPS of Engineers had run a survey on dams and knew the one at Tocca Falla was "in serious danger of collapse." And, he said. "I'm certain today within a year could produce the same kind of disaster."
At the meeting, William Scott, president of the KU AALP chapter and associate professor of English, presented a list of figures to Bennett that showed that in the past six years, salaries of KU professors have not kept up with the cost of living.
Clark said that Scott's figures showed that for 1971-77, professors' salaries had increased 41 percent, the consumer price index had risen by 2.5%, and apia income for Kansas went up 68 percent.
Jeff Murphy, who played guitar and fiddle at the gathering, said, "Fiddle music is something that is born or bred into you, and a person can not help likit it."
CONRAD SAID that although the same instruments were used in both types, bluegrass was a more structured sound, which had exactly eight counts to a measure, and old-time had more trills and improvisions.
"It is discouraging to see the inevitable underfunding." Clark said.
The difference, he said, was hard to tell.
Legislature was investigating the possibility of eliminating a mandatory retirement age for state employees, but that he did not think definitely would be done this session. Clark said.
BENNETT SUGGESTED that members of university staff must do a better job of supporting students.
"It is more of a feeling than a sound," he said.
The governor also discussed faculty retirement
According to Clark, the governor said that some legislators would not mind an early retirement plan if any extra income earned from additional employment after the professor retired was deducted from his pension.
Bennett told professors that the Kansas
CLARK SAID that the faculty's pension comes from a fund that belongs to the professor and that he did not know how the institute could deduct from that fund.
Formula funding, which Clark said would go into effect in Kansas in a few years, will budget schools based on comparisons with five peer schools. KU's peer schools are the universities of Oklahoma, Iowa, Colorado, Oregon and North Carolina.
The governor also discussed the implications of formula funding, Clark said.
The budget will be computed according to how much it costs to educate each student in the school.
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Prurient appeal lacking in photos, witness says
Fire inspectors checking for violations in buildings
KANSAE CITY, Kan. (UPI)—Some of the photographs in an issue of Screw magazine could be considered guilty or offensive but the majority are well received by the average person, a leading
A team of five state fire inspectors arrived at the University of Kansas yesterday to begin a two-week inspection of about 150 campus buildings.
The annual inspection will include only student-occupied buildings, Bill Shelton, a field inspector from Wichita who is leading the investigation and inspection, said last
He said student-occupied buildings included buildings that were classrooms, laboratories, major offices, residence halls and scholarship halls.
Small office buildings, shops, garages and maintenance buildings will not be inspected
SHELTON SAID that he wanted to inspect student-occupied buildings when they had a fire.
He said each inspector had been given a list of buildings to check. Initial reports from the inspectors weren't expected until this morning, he said.
Shelton said he checked the new Visual Arts built himself yesterday.
Although he noted a few minor violations, such as a shortage of storage space for paints, he said he found no major violations of state fire codes.
"There was nothing to get excited over," he said.
Besides the Visual Arts building, Shelton said there were three other new buildings on campus that would receive their first inspection, including the new School of Law.
Shelton said the inspectors would be checking for precautionary things such as fire alarms and sprinkler systems. Fire alarm boxes and exit boxes also will be checked closely, he said.
The KU inspection originally had been scheduled to begin next week, after an in-progression.
Shelton said the two inspections had been switched because the inspectors wanted to complete the entire campus inspection before the Thanksgiving holiday.
The inspection of the Med Center will begin after the vacation.
psychologist testified yesterday in the obscenity trial of AI Goldstein.
Pomeroy, the first defense witness, is a San Francisco psychologist and sexologist and one of the original partners of Dr. Alfred Kinsey.
"There are a good number of people who would be aroused by these pictures," Dr. Waddell Pomeroy, the psychologist, told the court. "But the pictures would appeal to me as well." So he asked prudent interest. Prurient is appealing to some sick, morbid or shameful interest."
Goldstein, publisher of the New York-based Screw and Smut magazines, and his former associate James Buckley, are being tried on 12 federal abscess charges. The trial, their second in Kansas, began Oct. 10, when he and is expected to go to the jury this week.
Defense attorney Herald P. Fahringer showed Pomeroy and the jury enlarged pages of one of the 12 issues of Smut and Screw that were mailed into Kansas. Many of the photographs depicted nudity, oral sex and sexual intercourse.
"It might appeal to the prudent interest of someone who is sadasmohasically inclined, but the average person is not sadasmohasically inclined." Pomeroy responded.
"DOES THIS photograph appeal to the purist interests of the average person?" Fahrberg asked while holding up a picture of a woman strapped to a table.
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