THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
Vol. 90, No. 134
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Tuesday, April 22, 1980
Marcum favors scholastic budget
BvSTEVE YOUNG
Staff Reporter
If Athletic Director Bob Marcum gets his way, future contributions to the athletic department's Williams Educational Fund are being made strictly to providing academic scholarships.
Marcum said yesterday that he would propose removing restrictions on Williams Fund contributions to allow future excesses to be used for other department expenses.
"We have discussed the possibility of building a scholarship budget into the department budget in the near future," Marcum said.
Such a change would have to be approved by Chancellor Archie R. Dykes and by the University of Kansas Endowment Association, which controls the funds.
Marcum said he did not know when he might submit a formal proposal to Dykes, said he hoped the change could be approved by next fall.
The Williams Fund began in 1949 as the Outland Club to raise money for athletic scholarships. Between 1949 and 1973, more
than $2 million was raised. Since then, after the club was reorganized, more than $4 million has been raised.
THIS YEAR, the Williams Fund is expected to generate a record $1 million in contributions. More than $300,000 has been raised in the last month alone.
Under existing restrictions, contributions to the Fund may be made to students for student athletes. Under Marcum's plan, contributions in excess of scholarship limits could be used to help cover fees.
According to John Novotny, Williams Fund director, even record contributions this year will not meet maximum allowable contributions might not be available right away.
"Don't we have any excess yet," Novotny said. "But we hope within two or three years to be in a position to do that. We've got to plow money back into the operation."
The athletic department will spend more than $720,000 next year on scholarships for 253 male athletes, which is near the
maximum allowed by the National Collegiate Athletic Association.
IT WILL also spend up to $159,000 on scholarships for 122 female athletes, an increase over last year but still about $80,000. The amount will be funded by Intercollegiate Athletics for Women.
Noyada said he thought both men's and women's scholarships should be funded at maximum allowable levels before contributions were used for other purposes.
Marcum, however, said that most coaches of non-revenue producing sports wanted to be more competitive in their ships, and that he did not know if maximum scholarship levels would be met before they could compete.
Novotny said he didn't force any fundraising problems if the restitions on use of football were successful. He said most contributors were primarily interested in seeing successful football and men's basketball programs but would not purchase revenues revenues were used for other purposes.
TODD SEYMOUR, president of the KU Endowment Association, said the most important thing was that contributions be used as the donor intended.
"It's all going to boil down to what the donor feels the contributing agency should use the money for. We are to ensure that the donor is specifically as it was given." Seymour叫。
He said the Endowment Association's Executive Committee must approve how contributions are used as long as congratulations their money to be used for scholarships.
And, he said, until Williams Fund contributors are made aware that their money might be used for other than scholarship purposes, they individually contagion to get their approval.
BECAUSE OF, that Seymour said, the Executive Committee might not want to allow past contributions to be used for non-scholarship purposes. But, once contributors were made aware of changes, the Senate would not care how the money was used, he said.
Zeidan Atashi
Jews, Arabs can coexist,Israeli says
Amid tight security in the Kansas Union last night, Zeidan Anahsi, a member of the Israeli cabinet, the Knesset, said Jews and Arabs could peacefully live together in Israel.
Speaking to about 60 people, Atasi said Arabs have been living in Israel since 1948 and have the same rights as Palestinians.
"We have learned how to bridge the gaps between different communications," he said. "And as a result, we can be more effective."
Alashta cited many instances where Israel Jews and Alarba participated in the same societal functions such as
"Any Israeli can go to any school," he said. "But some schools are taught in Arabic for Arabs, and some schools are taught in English for English."
ATASHI SAID Arab Israelis number 500,000, or 15 percent of Israel's population.
"Israel is the home for Jewish people, but we have never denied others to live in the country," he said. "Arabs can be elected to live, national or parliamentary governments."
Israel's Knesset is made up of 120 members of which only seven are Israel Arabs. Atashi is an Arab Druze Israel. The Druzes are an Arab group who had been living in Israel before it became a state in 1948.
"We think young and want to maintain this vitality for the future," he said. "We want to maintain equality between our people, and we hope for the same with our neighbors."
ATISNH ALSO pointed out some "negative" aspects in the use of the land for cultivation, including the ownership of land and distrust between the two owners.
"There has been confiscation of Arab land," he said. But this has been slowed down by pressure from the U.S. government.
"There has also been distrust because Arab Israelis can work in any industry except those connected with the desert."
"But Israel is pushing for equal rights. The Arab Israelis have well-established hospitals and schools."
atlash said that all Israelis were feeling a sense of dissatisfaction with the "political scene" of their country.
"We have not yet achieved peace in our area, he said. 'I want arms to make peace with its neighbors.'
Atahsi said that despite the peace agreements from
the United States, the United Nations has not
satisfy it to the Palestinians or the typical mid-eastern
ATASHI SAID that he forcasses a Palestinian state
developing within five years near the West Bank and the
Gaza Strip.
"The Palestinians should be granted autonomy," he said. "We should know the results by the deadline for the takeover."
"Many have advocated the Palestinian position, including some members of the Knesset.
"But we have seen no peace movement in Arab states. They don't acknowledge the Israel movement."
Palestinian members of the audience questioned Atashi about the exact location of the original Palestinian state, which forced many Palestinians to leave when Israel took land in the area.
"I yougnored your rights to stay in 1948," he said. "People have the right to live anywhere."
Private bus run concerns Senate
By SUSANSCHOENMAKER
Staff Renorter
Although concerned that an unexpected blessing, a privately run Jaywick West Apartments bus service, may prove to be a distraction, the Board cut off service to Jaywick West apartments and added an East Lawrence office at its meeting yesterday. The changes will continue until March 14.
Board members said they feared that Jayhawk West, 524 Frontier Road, would encourage a host of other apartment complexes to offer bus services.
The Jayhawk bw bus service, which began March 4, runs between 3:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. for campus residents. The bus does not run on campus because it has not been issued a permit.
The University Senate Parking and Traffic Board is considering Jayhawk West's application for a campus driving permit. The board decided a decision to solicit Student Services.
THE BOARD last night recommended that we extend the permit for Jayhawk West, but said if other started offering bus services, it could lead to overcrowding on Jayhawk Boaraview and Jayhawk Park.
"I know it's going to be a problem," Steve McMurry, Board Chairman, said. "They're going to put a bus out at Gatehouse Apartments, I'd bet my life on it."
"If our ridership goes down our money goes down and that is all there is to it."
However, Steve Cummings, manager of Gatehouse Apartments, 2168 West 82nd, said that offering a bus system would be a drain and that there were no plans to do so.
"This is a precedent situation," Kearns said. "What we decide the Parking and Traffic Board makes we will have to live with for many, many years."
DOE KERNES, director of Parking and Traffic, said he had heard rumors of a man named Peter Vittorio being apartment complexes. He said he didn't want "KU on Wheels" to be jeopardized by the police.
Kearns said the Jayhawk West bus had run on campus for two weeks before it was
noticed. He said it was slowing trance because it parked too long at bus stops.
"They just started operation and assumed they could operate like the Lawnchair buses. System buses are required to run five minutes apart—if one bus sits at a stop you turn."
Kearns said the Jahayk West bus sat as long as 18 minutes at the bus stop waiting for a ride. The bus was available to Jahayk West be allowed to make only two stops on campus one across from the Union building.
The Parking and Traffic Board will decide today whether to allow the Jayhawk West bus on campus.
Although the board's decision to add an aerial section depends on the density of any Parkway and Traffic Board actions, board members admitted they would only be able to offer the route if they were not already licensed.
THE BOARD tentatively plans for the Frontier Ride route, which runs to Jayhawk West, to be renamed the Frontier Ridge and extend as far as Trailridge apartments.
The Trailridge route will add service to Florida and 7th Streets and Lawrence Mountain Park. Wood Creek apartments, According to Lawrencebus Co. records, ridership to Wood Creek apartments was low and still increasing. The other two stops on the Wood Creek route, which passes Daisy Hill, ride only as far as Daisy Hill will be reruled to cover East Lawrence.
IN OTHER business, the board decreases to 25 cents and increases the summer users' fee from 25 cents to next year's rate of 35 cents. The service is expanded to Oliver Hall, Mamaroneck, NY.
The board decided against a proposal to trim the bus service in order to extend it to a one-hour loop around Lawrence.
Students enrolling in summer school are required to pay a privilege fee to subsidize bus operations. This summer's privilege fee will remain at $5.
Staff Reporter
By SCOTT C. FAUST
Kansas private colleges fight to survive in the '80s
The facts, figures and prognoses match up.
Kansas' 16 four-year private colleges will be fighting for survival in the 1890s college market hit hard by inflation and a declining pool of students.
But administrators at the schools, which are all church-linked and trying to provide a more individualized education and an individualized approach to learning, are not shooting dooms and gloom
All of the schools, however, are faced with the increasingly difficult problem of obtaining their share of students from a shrinking total.
A KU forecast projects the number of Kansas high school graduates will decline 14 percent by 1984. Nationally, the number of students expected to drop 15 percent by 1990.
Kerneth Anderson, a retired professor from 1978 to 1979 made Kansas president and the Kansas Legislature, said private college enrollment in the 80s would remain steady.
A January projection of student credit hours at Regents schools for fall 1984 shows them dropping 10.8 percent at KU, 13.4 percent at UC Berkeley, and 13.5 percent at Emory State University.
THE DROP in the number of available freshmen is also expected to hurt the Board of Regents schools.
Anderson said that continued funding of the $4 million Tuition Grant program that provides scholarship money to private school students is important, as it affects both students and donors to colleges and individual college students could greatly alter the effects of the decline.
He also said the declining enrollments combined with higher costs could force a few of the state's independent schools to close within the decade.
Steadily rising costs will be a heavy burden for the independent colleges, which are now providing education among fewer students than the state schools, and who have the massive state debt to pay.
No federal funds available for campus bus system
PREVENTING INFLATION from increasing tuitions that are already almost six
SEE COLLEGEFS page five
By SUSAN SCHOENMAKER
Staff Renarter
Trolling for more than one billion dollars in Urban Mass Transportation Administration grants, "KU on wheels," the campus bus system, has gone fishing for federal funds.
Editor's note: This is the second story in a four part series on the "KU on Wheels" bus system.
But so far, federal dollars have eluded KU's hook.
We were unsuccessful at obtaining federal money, but I think we're on the trail," Gene Schenkau, student
body president and last week. "We'll keep what we
body president and be reaching a limit to what the
Student Service."
See COLLEGES page five
A 22 percent increase in diesel fuel prices from September to March this year, coupled with booming inflation, has provided incentive for "KU on Wheels" to cast around for additional funding.
Next year, it will cost "KU on Wheels" an extra $46,000
in contract costs just to maintain its current level of service. 'KU on Wheels' now contract with the manufacturer.
Before "KU on Wheels" could dip into UMTA funds, the system grants would be donated to the sponsor the bus system. UMA funds, which are all owned by the system grants, are only allocated to "public bodies" such as cities or transit authorities created by the system grants.
MARSHALL SAID KU could actually operate the bus, but that the city would be responsible for owing the bus to the government. Funded transportation project, the government grants 80 percent of the necessary funds while the city must cover the remaining costs.
"You can't make any money running a bus system. They're all running in the red." Joe Marshall, UMTA spokeswoman.
Buford Watson, Lawrence city manager, said Lawrence taxpayers would probably be unwilling, at this time, to shoulder the cost of a city-wide transportation system.
"Your big problem is getting a public back to you to expand into town. Marshall said, "Your main challenge is getting people to sign up."
"I know the city doesn't have the money to put on a full-fledged bus system." Wetson said. "We would have to put on a new tax. Our costs are all going too—without administering a new service."
"With cutbacks in the federal budget, I wouldn't anticipate that we would be on the front line (for grant
See BUS page six
HOWEVER, MARSHALL said this year's total budget for $7.27 billion would be supplemented by $670 million generated from President Carter's windfall profits tax on oil revenues. He said the fiscal 1981 budget request of $1.41 billion went through a budget-conscious plan with no funding cuts. Fiscal 1981 begins July 1.
Helping hand
CATHY JARRETT/Kansan
Lawrence traffic investigator Larry Kasson checks over Jeff Cooper, Wichita treeman, in the car in which he was riding collided at 11am and 11th
Indiana Streets. Cooper was taken to Lawrence Memorial Hospital, treated and released.