THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
The University of Kansas
Monday October 17, 1977
Lawrence, Kansas
Vol.88,No.35
Staff Photo by ELI REICHMAN
Balancina act
Bill Sears, professor of music therapy, had a few control problems with his baton during his special performance at the University of Michigan.
received his Ph.D. from KU in 1960, began twirling in 1936 and won national titles in 1942 and 1948. He performed while an alumni marching band played.
Split spring enrollment could create time crunch
By JOHN WHITESIDES
Staff Writer
The proposed enrollment schedule for the spring 1978 semester has met with criticism that it will produce extra difficulties in the enrolment process.
Critics say the schedule would not allow enough time after enrollment for adjustments in class schedules, would produce a crush of students enrolling on the final day and would create a security risk for personal records and enrollment materials.
Semester break this year would be shortened by about one week because of the revised enrollment schedule. Last fall, final examinations ended Saturday, Dec. 18, and enrolment for the spring semester was closed on Friday, Dec. 19, final examinations this semester is Dec. 23.
The proposed schedule calls for enrollment to begin on Thursday, Jan. 12, and to continue on Friday, Jan. 13, and Monday, Jan. 16. There would be no enrollment during the intervening weekend. Classes would begin Wednesday Jan. 18.
Because of an error in previous calendar committee planning, KU has been in violation of the policy for the spring semester starting date since the policy was adopted in 1970. KU spring semesters have the last three days of the preceding week.
THE REGENTS calendar dictates that we start on Monday in the fall but on a Wednesday.
The Jan. 18 starting date this spring is mandated by the Kansas Board of Regents calendar. The Regents have a policy of requiring students to complete semester dates for all Regents schools.
The enrollment schedule changes were made in the KU calendar last spring in
Rain calls Oliver residents out with buckets
He said that after enrollment ended he had to assign instructors to different sections, combine some sections and occasionally hire additional instructors for
"With luck, I think I could manage," he said, "but with poor luck, there I would be Wednesday morning, with all those students and no classes or teachers."
RUSSEL BRADT, mathematics department chairman, said it would be hard for him to arrange his department's schedule in this spring if enrollment was held as scheduled.
Similarly, others said there might be problems with the short adjustment period
"It's a loany schedule." James Moeser, dean of the School of Fine Arts, said last week. "It seems nonsensical to shut down everything right in the middle of the enrolment period. I'm very hopeful the schedule might be changed."
He normally spends all of Friday after enrollment, all day Saturday and most of Sunday working on the adjustments, he said.
By GAIL MIROSTAW
The main cause, McConnell said, was students throwing objects out of their windows, creating holes in the roof.
A final decision on the schedule's fate has been postponed until after a meeting Friday between the Council of Deans and the Chief Executive Director Committee, which made the schedule.
During the last downpour residents used 16 buckets to catch the shower of water in the lobby. Arkeketa said.
She added, "The leaks have been a continuous thing for the last two years. It's gotten to be a part of the personality of us."
open day between the end of the enrollment period and the first day of classes would not be enough time for departments to prepare and organize their class schedules
"We might be affected by some of the same difficulties, though we're used to having to do that anyway," Paul Haack, associate dean of education, said.
Staff Writer
When it rains at Oliver Hall some residents have learned to automatically form a bucket brigade. Brandy Arkeketa,
The first cause McConnell dismissed lightly because, he said, maintenance cleans the drains every one and half-a-
"Students have thrown chairs, concrete blocks and anything else that fits on the windows. Anything with any of these."
As of last week, three holes in the ceiling of the lobby, one measuring about two feet by one and one-half feet, had not been plastered. Arkektea said, and the leaks had been reported to Connell, director of housing maintenance, after the raft.
MCOCNNEL ATTRIBUTED the problem to two causes, trash buildup in the drains and vandals.
Arkekaed said the reasons for the irritating problem were a mystery. Reasons she has heard range from the damage students have caused throwing furniture out of the windows to the damage of furniture in the west side of Oliver, causing drainage between bricks.
He said only a few students were causing the problem. His policy is to correct structural problems as soon as possible.
order to comply with the Regents' common calendar.
But other residence hall personnel have not reported any damage as severe as Oliver's.
"We keep all our student records over in Allen Field House because we do our student advising there," he said. "Under the present schedule, we'd have to tear everything down for the basketball game, put it back up for Monday's enrollment."
Arkeketa said she had lived in Oliver for three years and there were leaks before students began throwing furniture.
"IN RAINY SEASON roofs are always a big problem," Wilson said.
Wilson agreed with McConnell that Oliver's problems were correct, but he added that other evidence balls also had problems.
Jay Thalmann, resident director at Joseph R. Pearson, said his hall had no躲 at all.
Gilbert Dyck, dean of admissions and records, agreed there might be some problems with the proposed spring semester. I didn't think that security was one of them.
"There are no problems with the roofs over the dining room, the kitchen or on top of the building," he said. "All the roofs are the same age and the roof above the lobby is the only one the students have access to."
But McConnell said, "I've been four years and there were problems before I came. We don't have other roof leaks of this type in other residence halls. I can't explain why."
McConnell said the location of the needed new roof was proof that students had caused the damage.
Wilson said Corbin was getting a new roof, Gertrude Leward Pearson was getting a new flat deck and Lewis and Tews were getting a new skylight.
J. WILSON, director of housing, said that a $17,000 bid would be taken as soon as the project was trimmed down.
The new roof will cover only the area above the lobby
and the kitchen. The ceiling is a single-floor window
winter climbed to the half, which has 10 floor
Oliver will have a new roof as soon as the University receives another bid, McConnell said.
"Thankfully, that is one problem we don't have." Thalmann said.
Mike Lancaster, director resident at Templin said the housing department was looking into his hall's leakage.
That schedule, he said, would also solve a security problem created by the large numbers of fans flocking to Allen Field last season. But the KU basketball game with Oklahoma.
Pam Hornie, resident director for Gertrude Sellars Pearson and Corbin, said that her halls had some leakage, but that housing fixed the leaks as soon as the problems were reported.
we are prepared to handle that," he said. "Friday night we can remove everything, and we have several storage rooms for anything we need to keep secure.
Hashinger Hall's resident director could not be reached for comment.
Ken James, assistant resident director at McCollum, said his hall had no structural leakage.
McConnell said he should have the ceilings plastered before next weekend. Parent Day
"EVERYTHING WE use at enrollment is numbered, so we know where everything goes," he added. "We can take it down and put it up back with no big problem."
"No, I'm not concerned what the parents will think. I just think it ought to look nice," he said.
MOESER that rather than have seniors enroll a half-day on Thursday, as scheduled, there should be full enrollment on Friday and Friday and a half-day on Saturday.
MCCONNELL SAID he had only one mason, making it hard to schedule all the jobs that need to be done.
But in case it rains, a fountain that puts out more water than the Chi Omega fountain can be at Oliver, Samuel Brown's.
Ellsworth, Lewis and Hashinger Hall reports no leaks. Arkelae said that besides the root leakage problem at Olivea, the basement sometimes flooded, often reaching Olivea's househouse where food for all the residence hall is stored.
"Being at the bottom of the hill causes the rain to come down 19th Street and back up to the loading dock and go into the warehouse. Then the sewer backs up. I know nothing can be done about this, but something can be done about the rain."
James Seaver, chairman of the Western Civilization department, said, "I'd like it a lot better if there was a half-day of enrollment on Saturday to wind up that. We've had so many students that aren't expecting a big problem because we have a decreased enrollment in the spring."
The word around Oliver during the next downpour, Burns said, will be to "bring your swimmers."
"it's going to be a one-day enrollment period," Moeser said. "Two-thirds of the students will wait until a Monday to enroll so they won't have to be back out as early."
He said he understood that some departments were concerned that there wouldn't be enough time to make necessary adjustments and agreed that might be a possible problem.
Doctor shortage woes bitter pill for students
BvSHIRL KASPEF
Some officials fear the KU Medical Center may lose some of its best students if legislation tentatively increases by an interim committee last week becomes law during the next session of the Kansas Legislature.
Staff Writer
enroll, thus creating a crush that day at Allen Field House.
The proposal would give medical students the option of practicing in Kansas after graduation or paying higher increased salary from the present $1,145 a year to $4,900 by 1980.
BUT OPONENTS say the measure all but forces financially strapped students to take classes in preparation for addition, they say highly qualified applicants who do not want to serve in Kansas would forego attendance at KU in favor of a transfer. The number of tuition would be little more than at KU.
Students who chose to stay in Kansas would have all tuition waived, with a $500 per month stipend going to those who agreed to stay. Students in the state. Students would serve one year in
The measure's supporters say it is the best way to get physicians into understudied areas of Kansas. They say tuition waiver is needed by medical students who want to serve in state.
Ervin to speak on justice
"It's totally unreal for a state institution to 'it's totally unreal to that much tuition.' State Rep. Luzzi扎, D-Wichita, said last week. "If a student wants to best the
Kansas for each year spent in medical school.
Sam Ervin, former U.S. senator and chairman of the Senate Watergate Investigation Committee, will speak on "My Rights at the University in Murphy Hall."
Non-medical students now pay about 25 per cent of their total educational costs. Non-medical students pay $610 a year out of about $2,940 in educational costs, leaving the state to pay about $1,530 toward each students education.
But a co-author of the legislation, State Wint. Wink Winter, R-Ottawa, said the measure would bring the percentage of tuition paid by Kansas medical students more in line with that paid by non-medical students who attend state-supported Kansas schools.
Ervin, a North Carolina Democrat in the Senate for 20 years, is expected to focus on his experiences in the Senate and on the Watergate committee.
Luzzati, who was an outspoken critic of the scholarship program during committee meetings, said she agreed Kansas needs more doctors. It is the method legislators propose to get those doctors that Luzzati opposes.
His first elected office was as a representative from Burke County in the North Carolina House in 1923. He was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives
At the time of his retirement in 1974, he was chairman of the Senate Government Operations Committee; the second-ranking member of the Senate committee; and chairman of its subcommittees on constitutional rights, revision and codification of laws and separation of powers. Today Ervin is a constitutional lawyer and opponent of the Equal Rights Amendment.
education, he would not go to Kansas for $5,000. He would go to Harvard or Columbia—a private institution which only allows students in which did we lose some of our best students."
Harold Krogh, Calendar committee chairman, said his committee was aware of the concerns about the enrollment schedule, but he did not say they after it meets with the Council of Deans.
from North Carolina's 10th District in 1946 and served as a senator from 1954-1974.
The speech is sponsored by SUA. Admission is $1.
doctor shortage. Winter said there are only four counties in Kansas that meet national averages for number of doctors per population.
Shlaughter said there were many underserved areas in Kansas. A study in progress by the State Department of Health documents is expected to pinpoint those areas.
A MEDICAL STUDENT in a four-year Med Center program pays about 5 per cent of what it costs to educate him for a year—$149,165 for a $1,454 year and the state pays about $22,000.
Winter called the legislation a "bankable deal" because physicians traditionally have higher incomes after they begin practice than do many students graduating in non-
HE SAID that the School of Education traditionally had a Saturday morning enrollment for public school teachers who would attend a daycare. That practice would continue this spring.
Winter said he and State Rep. Mike Hayden, R-Atwood, co-authored the scholarship program" as a way to encourage students after graduation and to solve the state's
"The secret to this plan," Winter said, "is that tuition has to be increased for the medical student to where it is comparable to what other students pay."
ACCORDING TO 1974 statistics on file at the Kansas Medical Society (KMS), Kansas has 134 physicians for every 100,000 people. The national average in 1974 was 159 doctors for every 100,000 people. The director of KMS, said the 1974 figures were the most up-to-date on file.
"I DON'T LIKE the idea of forcing someone to practice somewhere by raising tuition so some have no other choice. Kansas does have a problem, but you can't socially engineer people to live somewhere they don't want to live."
"It's a terribly strained way of arriving at an end that we would never have done in the way to go about it.
"if we had our choice, though, we'd rather enroll all day Saturday," he said.
That idea was echoed by people who thought that many students might prolong the school year.
State Rep. Mike Glover, D-Lawrence, who would like to see more documentation on the actual need for doctors in Kansas, also is concerned about the scholarship program.
About 480 of 600 medical students are on See MEDICAL TUITION page 15
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Terrorists kill airliner's captain
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Capsules From the Associated Press, United Press International
Castro in Jamaica to solidify ties
A band of terrorist hijackers landed a West German airliner in Somalia early today and shot the plane's captain, the West German embassy reported. The hijackers, who are asking release of 13 jailed terrorists and $15.5 million in damages in the airliner, which they captured last Thursday. See story age two.
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Cuban President Fidel Castro said last night he was visiting Jamaica as a "revolutionary" and would work to "strengthen the bonds of solidarity between the people of Jamaica and the people of Cuba." Castro received a bear hug from Jamaican Prime Minister Mianle Manley, who later lavished praised Castro for fighting "against colonialism, imperialism and neo-colonialism. See story page two.
U.S., U.S.S.R. close to accord
MOSCOW — The United States and the Soviet Union are close to an agreement on a new Strategic Armies Limitation Treaty, according to Pravda, the Soviet Communist Party newspaper. Remaining problems can be solved if countries agree to accept the principle of equal security of both countries," the paper said. See story page two.
Rov considering Pearson's seat
TOPEKA — Only one political figure, Bill Roy, has declared a strong desire to seek the Senate seat being vacated by the surprise retirement of Republican James Pearson, the state's senior senator.
Bill Roy
"I'll probably run, but I have a lot of bases I want to touch before I make a final decision." Roy, former Kansas congressman, said Saturday night at his topkee home. Roy, a Democrat, gave up his house seat in 1944 for an unsucculent son. Ralph Robert Bonnett is considered the strongest Republican might seek Pearson's seat.
Joan Little escapes from prison
RALEIGH, N.C. — Joan Little, who escaped from prison over the weekend, was under too much pressure because of publicity she drew two years ago when she was acquitted in the death of a jailer who she said had assaulted her, Jerry Paul, his attorney, says.
"I in many ways the public won't let the woman alone and let her be in peace," he said.
Little, serving a seven-to-10 year sentence on a burglary conviction, escaped from the North Carolina Correction Center for Women Saturday. She had been turned down for parole last December but was scheduled to be considered again for release in a month.
Jerry Jeff Walker
Locally . . .
There was more than a football game during homecoming this year. The Beach Boys brought their special brand of sand and surf music to Allen Field House Friday night and brought the crowd to its feet — and attracted some barbs from Kansai and Brooklyn, where they had down-home music in Hoe Auditorium Saturday night. Meanwhile, theater-goers got a look at Oscar Wilde's sate, "The Importance of Bearng Earnest." See reviews page five.