THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
The University of Kansas
Vol. 88. No. 51
Tuesday November 8,1977
Lawrence, Kansas
Argersinger quits to teach
Rv BRIAN SETTLE
Staff Writer
William Argersinger jr., vice chancellor and dean of the graduate school at the University of Kansas, yesterday resigned his administrative positions, effective June 1.
Argerstein said yesterday he had con-
sidered resigning from his position since 1951.
Argersinger, 59, vice chancellor for research and graduate studies and research administration, said in a letter to Del Shanker, executive vice chancellor, that he was resigning for personal reasons and to return to teaching chemistry.
"You always consider whether or not you could help the University and the graduate program, in particular, better in another field. I hope you can be hoping. I hope that I can help more by teaching."
Argersinger said that working with 9d
William Argersinger
ministration and graduate program had
challenging and rewarding experi-
ence.
SEVERAL GRADUATE students who had worked closely with Argveringer in recent years.
"This is a complete shock. I'm horrified," Kathy Dugan, adjunct assistant to Gradkad, says. "I don't know why I was very fair and always very trustworthy in his dealings with the graduate program. You can always believe what he says; he'll never deal with you in an underhanded way."
Lynn Bretz, executive coordinate of the Graduate Student Council, agreed with Dana
"The graduate students have lost a tremendous friend," Bretz said. "Argersinger is the type of administrator with which I work," she agreed, but will always admire and respect
"HE IS SIMPLY a remarkable person. I can't save good enough words about him."
Ellen Reynolds, former executive coordinator of the Graduate Student Council, said Argersinger had been tremendously supportive of graduate students in the years she had worked with him.
Shankel said yesterday he would use the research committee to task force to study the organization of the graduate and research sector at KU. He said a search committee for a successor will be established.
"He's had a part in so many good things in the last few years," she said. "We've had a very nice relationship and I'm sorry to hear he's leaving."
Dugan said it seemed reasonable for Sikh leaders to graduate a program before appointing a leader.
*WHEN YOU CHANGE the administration in a high position such as that,*
*you must follow the procedure.*
See ARGERSINGER page three
Insurance requirement rescinded
BvSUSANT.HALL
Staff Writer
The policy that requires foreign students to have health insurance coverage before they can enroll has been rescinded by David Ambroix, vice chancellor for student affairs.
"After careful review and consideration, I am convinced that an insufficient rationale exists to require insurance coverage of one group of students when the same is not imposed on all students," Ambler said yesterday in a statement about the mandatory health insurance policy for foreign students.
Ambler said that starting next semester, no student would be required to show proof of health insurance coverage before he registered or enrolled.
FOREIGN STUDENTS were required to wear a mask before they could enroll. The Kansas Board
of Regents, at the request of University of Kansas administrators, authorized the health insurance requirement for foreign students last March.
Ambler said he thought the Regents ruling had been made in good faith, with the protection and well-being of KU's foreign ministers as the sole motivation for its decision.
A similar mandatory health insurance or foreign students has been in effect in Kuala Lumpur.
Bill Kauffman, Regents attorney, said last week that the Regents ruling only gave authorization to enforce the mandatory health insurance policy for foreign students but did not force administrators to adhere to the policy.
Members of the International Club, which is a coalition of various national clubs at KU University, is currently in session.
surance policy discriminated against foreign students.
Ben Broome, chairman of the University Senate's Committee on Foreign Students, said he beforwarded recommendations on the insurance policy to Ambler on Friday.
BROOM SAID THE committee recommended that the policy be rescinded "so that each individual would be allowed to participate in such a program."
Broome said that the committee also informed Ambler if its feeling that health insurance was advisable for all students, but that the reasons given for the adoption of the mandatory health insurance policy for foreign students were insufficient.
At a meeting with the executive committee of the International Club on Oct. 28, Clark Coan, dean of foreign students, said KU requested the requirement after learning that the Nigerian government would not pay for the health insurance of the students it sponsored unless insurance fees were incorporated into student's regular
There are now 1,349 foreign students enrolled at the University
Sam Woo, treasurer of the International Club, and he was pleased with Ambler's design.
"I think it's great." Woo said.
Other International Club officers were unavailable for comment yesterday.
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Capsules From the Associated Press, United Press International
47 persons die in weekend floods
Since Wednesday rain has fallen intermittently in the Southeast, particularly in northern Georgia, where 37 bodies have been found since water burst an
ASHEVILLE, N.C.—Workers digging through mud and rubble found seven bodies yesterday in the flood ravaged Blue Ridge Mountains, bringing to at least 10 the number of victims of Sunday's flash flooding, and raising the total of known dead after flooding in the southeastern United States to at least 47.
The chairman of a House panel investigating dam safety said yesterday that the dam never was inspected by officials and that thousands like it around the country have been injured.
Israel threatens possible retaliation
Israel warned Palestinian gunmen in southern Lebanon yesterday that it might respond with more artillery fire if rocket attacks are continued in Israel.
The strong words from Israel came in a report from the state-run national radio as Arab leaders engaged in diplomatic activity centering on the issue of Palestine.
Palestinian forces in southern Lebanon fired rockets Sunday at the Israeli coastal town of Naharayi, killing two civilians, and Israel returned artillery fire.
Elections unlikely to signal trends
New Jersey and Virginia elect governors today and more than 30 important cities elect mayors, but the issues in this year's elections are local and are unlikely to provide clues of any trends in voting.
Voters in three Kansas City-area counties will decide whether to repeal, on a local basis, Missouri's Blue Law, which has restricted Sunday sales in that state for 152 cities and county districts. The expected to easily win today's four-way mayoral election.
WASHINGTON—The State Department, admitting it had not realized 12ugman police policies in the United States, announced yesterday that the department was restricting its forensic work.
Ugandan pilots training in Texas
A State Department spokesman said there was no U.S. involvement in the training and that the pilots' visas were issued at a U.S. field post, possibly during the war.
The training is at the Bell Helicopter Co., school at Fort Worth for pilots in civilian models, which were sold to Uganda before 1971.
Koch
British firemen to strike for raise
LONDON-Britain's 35,000 firemen will abandon their duties and strike next Monday for a 36 percent pay increase, their union announced yesterday. The pay rise is in line with the general mood in London.
Locally...
The remains of a woman, about 35 years old, were found last week in a creek bank in Platte County, Mo. The investigation of her burial, however, will be a little different from the usual study of the death of an unidentified person—this woman is thought to have lived as long ago as 1,500 years. Excavations have shown evidence of a French, assistant professor of anthropology, and the woman's skull, including well-preserved teeth, has arrived at KU for further study. See story page five.
About 1,700 signatures collected on petition
By MARY HOENK
Staff Writer
A petition opposing a student football ticket price increase to help finance 2 million of renovations at Memorial Stadium has about 1.700 signatures.
Stuart Brown, Dodge City senior, and one of the originators of the petition, said yesterday that 850 signatures were collected at the football game on Saturday and another 850 had been gathered from agains living groups and from around campus.
The petition, which duplicates a proposed Student Senate resolution opposing the proposed increase, will be presented to the Senate sports committee tomorrow.
The proposed Senate resolution opposes a University of Kansas Athletic Corporation (KUAC) proposal to increase student season fees from $20 to $23 to finance the renovations.
BROWN SAID HE was pleased with the number of signatures that had been obtained, but that his group probably would not reach his goal of 6,000 signatures.
"AT THIS TIME the resolution will be passed by the sport committee," McGoway says.
The number of signatures will be compiled tomorrow, Brown said, after petitions remaining in some campus living groups are collected.
If the resolution is sent to the Senate for the evaluation, it is possible for the
Barney McCoy, sports committee chairman and a member of the KUAC, said the petitions may be considered at tomorrow's sports committee meeting if the committee decides to support the Senate resolution.
Pettitions have been posted in scholarship balls, most fraternities and sororities and colleges.
Renovations that are opposed by the Senate resolution are partial student financing of the proposed expansion of the Victory Club, a stadium room for Williamsburg and contributors; VIP seating; and the addition of a wall around the south end of the stadium.
The resolution supports partial student financing, if necessary, of stadium renovations including new synthetic turf, improved public restroom and concession areas.
KUAC has proposed to finance the renovations initially through a loan, which it may request through the University of Kansas Endowment Association.
ALTHOUGH A formal request for the loan has not been made to the endowment association by the KUAC, Todd Seymour, president of the endowment association, said Chancellor Archie R. Dykes would have received the $2 million loan could be an overrook.
He said the purpose of the meeting would be to discuss any developments and coor- ditions.
McCoy said student representatives of the PTA announced the time before the partygiving of the full KUGA.
Because the loan may be reviewed by Dykes, Brown plans to make the petition on behalf of the tenant.
At the last KUAC meeting, all four student representatives and one faculty member opposed asking the Big Eight conference for help to use the increase, but were attested 80.
"We just think that Dykes should be aware of student opposition to the inference."
The proposal was later approved by the conference and the final vote by the KUAC committee.
Fledaling fiddler
Despite her youth, April Sunshine McLaughlin displays the form and concentration of a seasoned professional. April was the youngest fiddler at the Old Time Fiddler's Gathering Sunday which attracted musicians whose ages ranged from 4 to 80. She is a student at the Hilltop Day Care Center.
Fiddler's gathering draws all ages
By DIRCK STEIMEL
Staff Writer
Whether they came to watch or to fiddle around, everyone seemed to have a good time Sunday at the Old Time Museum of Off-The-Wall-Hall, 737 New Hermitage St.
The event spanned generations, as small children, elderly folk and every age in between gazed on the distinctive string instruments and listened to the sounds of bluegrass and old-time fiddle music.
Gloire Throne, director of the Kansas Folkore Center, a non-profit corporation that sponsored the gathering, said the group's mission was to offer a chance to listen and play fiddle music.
This was the second fiddlers' gathering sponsored by the folklore center. The first one was last spring.
Throne emphasized that the fiddlers' gathering was only a get-together and
not a contest. No entry fee was charged
and no prize money was awarded.
"THIS IS JUST A chance for the fidlers to get together, entertain, and maybe pickup a few new tunes and for them to play. And if you could not normally hear," Thorne said.
Cactus Jack McMurray, 80, was the senior player of the day and Patrick Murphy, who played guitar with his father, was the youngest.
McMurray, who is recognized as one of the better fiddlers in the area, said he had been playing fiddle for 69 years and still had a lot to learn. He said he had gone to the gathering last March and didn't want to miss this one.
"The good thing about these get-togethers is that it encourages everybody to play better, and all of us could stand some improvement," McMurray said.
Bud Grant, 80, who says he plays everything that has strings, said that he
See FIDDLING page two
KU bus system changes urged
A spokesman for an Omaha planning firm said yesterday that he was concerned about how the Student Senate was handling the KU on Wheels bus system.
"The Student Senate hasn't grappled with the real issue at hand," said Jim Morley, of Henningson, Durham and Richardson planning firm. "They have one person grappling with a system equivalent to the bus system in Omaha."
Henningson, Durham and Richardson is conducting a study of Lawrence's tran-
He said that the Senate needed to have more than one person running the bus system in case that person suddenly could become a Senior, Norton senior, now is in charge of the program.
McMurry said he hoped to implement Morlev's proposals.
Morley's suggestions were discussed
yesterday so that definite recommendations
could be made to Navigator services
could be made to Navigator services
He told representatives of the city, KU on Wheels, the Lawrence Bus Co., the cab system, the school district and Bus 62, a county minibus system for the elderly, that he would recommend changes within each unit to meet their needs for their coordination into a single system.
Lawrence has to wait until 1980 for the
MORELEY SAID that he probably would also recommend that the city organize a staff planning group to keep communication active between area transportation companies.
He said the companies should work together for changes that could be planned through 1980 when federal money would be available to improve transportation
Morley said that KU on Wheels is in great
funds because the city needs a census report showing its population to be 50,000 or more. City officials have said that the city has over 50,000 since the last census, taken in 1970.
The money from UMTA, however, would have to be matched with local funds, the spokesman said. The total would have to include 20 percent local funds to purchase equipment and 50 percent to operate a transportation system.
An Urban Mass Transit Administration (UMTA) spokesman said that about $400,000 a year would be available to Lawrence to replace or expand its bus and cab systems. He said the money would have to be given to the city, but the city could filter it through to private companies such as the cab company.
need of expansion into new areas, such as the Woodcreek Anchors north of town.
MORLEY SAID THAT he also would recommend that Bus 62 get grants now available from UMA to expand its system. He said that the cab company should also use the city's transportation system because it was the only transportation open to the public.
He said that the cab system was the only completely privately operated system, yet he was surprised by the lack of knowledge.
Mayor Marlene Argersinger said that she was glad that Morley was not going to give just one recommendation. She said that an advisory board to supervise the whole system, and methods for helping the cab company should be studied more.
"I think some of these things can fall into place if we take a good look at them," she said.