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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
The University of Kansas
Vol.88, No.41
Tuesday October 25,1977
Lawrence. Kansas
Regents approve Watson funding
Staff Writer
By MARY-ANNE OLIVAR
A $291,000 Kansas Board of Regents' authorized budget request would provide shelving and lighting for the University of Kansas library system, KU library officials said yesterday.
The request was approved last Friday by the Regents and authorizes KU administrators to request the funds from the Kansas legislature.
According to John L. Glinka, associate dean of libraries, KU libraries have tried for three years to get about $300,000 for lighting and painting both the Spencer Research Library and Watson Library and to buy bookshelles for Spencer Library.
Glinka recently estimated KU's libraries would need $292,700 for those improvements. A total of $61,900 would be used for lighting and painting and the remaining $230,800 would be used for shelving expenses.
Both the basement areas of Spencer Library and the east sub-basement of Watson Library need better lighting and painting, which will improve the lighting by reflection, Glinda said.
THE BOOKSHELVES would be
placed in level A of Spencer Library and would be for general library use.
With the increased use of microfilms, the library will need about $9,500 for microfilm storage and additional microfilm readers for places in Watson such as the periodicals reading room, Glinka said.
ABOUT $18,000 will be spent on shelf units to solve a storage problem in the University Archives, Glinka said.
According to Eileen McGrath,
curriculum librarian, books that are
not frequently used are stored in the
east sub-basement of Watson Library.
Staff Photo by PAUL ROSE
Although most people who use the library will not see these changes, they are needed as much as other im- plexes. Jim Nelee, reference librarian said.
"I'm happy to see any additional
company in the market where
the money is flowing."
Cleanina up
Three days of steady rain over the weekend produced more than three inches of moisture
and shoak lose mounds of wet leaves from campus trees. Facilities Operations workers raked up some of the leaves along Sunvida Avenue yesterday.
Survey says graduates pleased
Most 1977 Kansas college graduating seniors were satisfied with their overall education and the quality of instruction in their major fields of study, according to a Kansas Board of Regents' survey released last week.
A total of 3,559 graduating seniors filled out a 40-item questionnaire in April. They were asked to evaluate such items as library facilities, student union services, the accessibility of instructors, book store amenities and courses in their major field of study.
Students at the six state universities were asked to rate their educations on a scale of one to five, with five being the highest rating.
Students gave Regents' institutions an average rating of 3.8. Seventeen per cent were very good.
overall education. No student said he was very dissatisfied.
The quality of instruction in students' major fields also was rated 3.8.
CAMPUS HOUSING food services and assistance from faculty advisers in location where we were later located, combine rating for any item. Students' access to courses in their major field of study was given the highest rating, and students who responded said they were very satisfied.
Although KU students recently had complained about the lack of sufficient library hours, libraries at Regent's universities received an average rating of 4.0. Forty-one per cent of the respondents said library facilities were adequate.
Twenty-nine per cent of the seniors said they found job placement services at the
universities very helpful. The overall placement services rating was 3.5.
The survey also revealed that 28 per cent of the graduating seniors already had objection to this study.
The questionnaire was developed by the Council of Institutional Research, which is composed of a research officer from each Regents' university, and from the National Center for Higher Education Management Systems.
About fifty-four per cent of the 6,852 seniors who expected to graduate in June, were enrolled.
The results of the survey were presented to the Regents Friday.
The survey also showed that 39 per cent of the seniors would attend the same institution if they could do it over again and 47 per cent would have attended the same institution.
Jefri Hines, St. Louis junior, and Tom Leigh, Lenexa junior, use the only cover they had during yesterday's intermittent rains.
TWO PER CENT said they definitely would not attend the same institution.
Laughing in the rain Staff Photo by RANDY OLSO)
One month before graduation, one-fourth of the students already had applied for admission to another educational program. One-third of the applicants had been accepted for admission.
By ALLEN HOLDER
Staff Writer
Students gain voice in funding decisions
Staff Writer
"In my mind the big help would be that they are more familiar with student organizations," he said. "I can see that the process of selecting the students in this process the better your decisions will be."
Students will now have a voice in the process that recognizes groups for Student Groups.
Mike Harper, StudEx chairman, has appointed three Senate members—Ralph Munyan, Reggie Robinson and Kim Wetzel. Mr. Munyan will serve in interim basis to David Amber, vice chancellor for student affairs. The vice chancellor for student affairs is responsible for recognizing groups that meet the administration's guidelines for Senate funding.
Ambler said last night that the plan would aid his decision-making because the students could give candid advice on the qualifications of groups.
The three students will act only as advisers and they will have no vote in Amber's decision.
CURRENT ADMINISTRATION
includes revised relations with
substantially oriented toward politics
and religion or expression of sexual preference.
Steve Leben, student body president, said yesterday that the students would serve only on an interim basis. A committee appointed last spring recommended that students be appointed as advisers, but the Senate has yet to sponsor a Senate petition.
Leben proposed at a recent Senate meeting that the recognition process be eliminated entirely. His proposal was defeated by the Senate by six votes.
Ambler he thought the Senate was registering support for the administration when they opposed Leben's petition last month.
THE PETITION to the administration again will be presented for Senate vote at the next plenary session.
Even if the petition were passed, Leben said, the administration would not have to follow its request. The petition could only ask the administration for a change.
Fewer persons than necessary for a quorum voted on the issue at last month's Senate meeting, Leben said, and at least five other members now have decided to vote for the petition.
Decision could affect athletic financial aid
The petition would cut out a step with the administration and send the groups directly to the committee.
By MARY HOENK
Staff Writer
Policies concerning financial aid for athletes and two seasons of University of Kansas track records may be affected by an upcoming appellate court decision.
The case, to be heard by the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver, stems from a declaration of inability to run in 1976 against Clifford Wiley, KU sprinter, by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA).
Wiley was declared ineligible to run by the NCAA because the amount of money he received from a federal Basic Educational Opportunity Grant (BEOG) combined with
his track scholarship exceeded limits set by the NCAA.
However, Wiley competed in the 1976 and 1977 track seasons after the Douglas County Legal Aid Society obtained a restraining order against him, followed, the court decided in favor of Wiley.
The case now is being appealed by the NCAs to the 10th Circuit Court. Phillip Larsen, a lawyer for the NCAs, said:
ACCORDING TO the legal aid society's student director, Dave Wing, all briefs have been submitted and oral arguments are due to be heard within the next few months.
See WILEY page two
Bob Timmons, KU track coach, said
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Capsules From the Associated Press, United Press International
Fighting breaks out in S. Lebanon
BEIIRUT, Lebanon - The most serious fighting in nearly two weeks flared yesterday in southern Lebanon between Palestinians and Lebanese leftist militants.
The guerrillas and militiamen exchanged machine gun fire near the rightist held town of Marjayun, a Lebanese reporter on the scene said. He did not indicate whether Israel, which had provided artillery support for the rightists, participated.
The fighting came in spite of a cease-fire that was implemented in the area Sept. 26. Lebanese officials continued to pursue contacts with both rightist and Palestinian leaders to prepare for the entry of about 1,400 army regulars into both sides' positions to consolidate peace in the south.
Egypt, Syria oppose Geneva plan
Sadat
CAIRO, Egypt—Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Syrian Foreign Minister Abdel Halim Khamkham both voiced opposition 'zestday to the U.S.-Israel working paper for reconvening the Geneva Middle East peace talks and indicated that a new Arab-Israeli war was possible.
Sadat said Egypt was prepared to teach Israel a "cruel lesson" and demanded that the Palestine Liberation Organization be allowed to participate in the peace talks.
See stories page two.
Panama unhappy with treaty terms
PANAMA CITY--Although voters approved the proposed Panama Canal treaties by a 20-1 margin in a national referendum here, the vote was unexpectedly close and indicates that Panama is not completely satisfied with the agreements, a Panamanian government negotiator said yesterday.
"We're sending a message to the U.S. Senate that we're not entirely satisfied with the treaties,"尼忻罗斯Carol Lopez Guevara said.
The treaties would give Panama control of the Panama Canal by the year 2000.
Nations demand S. African boycott
UNITED NATIONS-African delegations, angered by a crackdown on dissent in South Africa, yesterday demanded that the U.N. Security Council approve a resolution to end the ban.
impose a comprehensive arms and economic boycott against the white-ruler Speaking on behalf of the African group, Ambassador Mahmoud Mawdiri of Tunisia said the time had come for the Council to go beyond issuing condemnations of the South Africans. He said the recent closing of two black newspapers and imposition of stiff penalties against critics of the government "have exposed the true intention of South Africa."
Committee okays energy standards
WASHINGTON - Comprison legislation requiring efficiency standards for home appliances and providing more than $1 billion to weatherproof schools, hospitals and homes of the poor was agreed on by a House-Senate conference committee yesterday.
The committee also decided the government must replace its present efficiency targets with mandatory energy-use cellins within 30 months of the election.
Locally . . .
University of Kansas students and alumni have won first prize in the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics design competition and have row for their design of an experimental airplane.
Jan Kroskam, professor of aeronautics, said the winning airplanes were built as part of a two semester class. During the fall semester, students compete with each other to design the
best airplane. Rokamask that after he selects the best design, the students build the plane during the spring semester. The completed airplane is then flown to a remote location.