KU
78th Year, No. 4
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY kansan Serving KU For 78 of its 102 Years
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
WEATHER FAIR See details below
Thursday, September 21, 1967
KU riddled with shortages
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Increase needed for new section
By Rea Wilson Kansan Staff Reporter
A shortage of funds is blocking construction of a new wing on Watkins Hospital and will bring an increase in student health fees, Dr. Raymond Schwegler, health service director, said.
"There has been no action through the legislature for building funds." Schwegler said.
Schwegler also said that since there are no state appropriations in sight and due to inflation, there will be an increase in student fees.
Fees increased to $20
"Student fees for hospital services were raised this year to $20," Schweger said.
"Watkins has never been so crowded."
He said Watkins, built to serve 4,000 students, now serves 15,000 students.
$750,000 needed
Approximately $500,000 is needed for construction of the new
wing, Schwegler said, but with rising construction costs, $750,000 may be needed.
The Wakkins Memorial Fund provides for between $15,000 and $16,000 each year, but this money must go into the general operating fund for the hospital, Schwegler said.
Operating funds are also at a minimum, he said.
Finances sound
"We are financially sound at the moment, but unable to maintain a full crew of physicians. Other people offer more money."
Nurses salaries are also low, he said.
"Although the legislature has permitted us to compete with Lawrence Memorial Hospital, we are still grabbing at the coattails of their salaries," Swegheg said.
"People from other universities are agast at our conditions," Schwegler said. "They say it is quite impossible, that we can't do it. But we are doing it."
Nasty 'Beulah' no worry here yet
Fair weather tonight and Friday is forecast by the U.S. Weather Bureau. Cooler tonight with a low in the upper 40% to near 5 degrees. Precipitation probabilities less than five per cent through Friday.
Ey Robert Entriken jr.
Kansas Staff Reporter "It's a little odd." said a spokesman for the U.S. Weather Eurcau Wednesday evening. "Generally, we have pretty good weather when a hurricane hits the Gulf Coast."
Heavy showers fell
However, Hurricane "Beulah" described by the flight commander of a Navy hurricane hunter squadron as "just about the biggest and nastiest storm I ever seen," is not affecting Kansas weather vet.
The front, situated on a line running through Salina and Dodge City Wednesday evening, is pushing weak squall lines ahead of it, bringing the showers to northeastern Kansas.
The moderate to heavy showers through which KU students have been running for the past few days have been caused by a frontal system which is stagnating and dissinating over the state.
Rainfall here has been relatively light. The KU weather station reported 1.37 inches have fallen since Monday, while cities behind the front have received as much as seven inches in one day.
The frontal system lies in a deep trough of low air pressure extending from Hudson Bay in Canada. Another front follows
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close behind which extends through North Dakota and down across the Continental Divide.
Front moves through
The Kansas front is expected to move in a southerasterly direction and was forecast to lie nearly parallel to the southern border of Kansas this morning.
The Weather Bureau predicts the second front will merge with the first sometime today and are hoping that the front will then be strong enough to keep "Beulah" confined to Gulf Coastal areas until she dissinates.
She was situated 70 miles south-southwest of Corpus Christi, Texas, at 5 p.m. Wednesday with winds estimated at 90 miles per hour. She was moving northwest at about 10 m.p.h.
Gulf coast hurricanes generally produce good weather in Kansas because the intense low air pressure of the storm forces high pressure cells, generally accompanied by good weather, ahead of them to the north.
"Beulah," called "one of the worst Gulf hurricanes of the century" by the weather bureau, headed up the Texas coast leaving 68 dead and millions of dollars of property damage in the Caribbean, in Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula and in Texas.
The present situation differs in that the low pressure trough from Hudson Bay divides the high pressure cell, leaving the bulk of it in the area of the western states.
Produce good weather
More than 30,000 persons are homeless in Texas where the
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Library has lack of funds for payroll
By a Kansan Staff Reporter
A shortage of funds to pay student employees is the cause of the shorter hours at Watson Library which began Sunday, Thomas Buckman, director of University libraries, said yesterday.
Since fall classes began, Watson has been open six hours a week less, Buckman said. Its doors close at 10 p.m. instead of 11 p.m. Monday through Friday and also close at 10 p.m. on Sunday. Saturday hours are unchanged. The new hours affect all portions of the building, he said.
Lack sufficient funds
"The University does not have sufficient funds to keep the library open the extra hour," Buckman said. "Our budget for student assistance was not increased this year. (A rise in) the minimum wage went into effect this past year, so the same hours of student assistance cost us more money."
A change in Watson's hours has been under discussion for some time, the library director said.
Buckman indicated there is little hope of restoring the old closing hours until at least next June 30, because the University's budget is at a fixed figure until the end of the academic year.
Could solve problem
"There is a solution," Buckman said. "A large reading room on the lower level of the library is on the same level as the branch book store. We hope changes in the building could be made at low cost, enabling us to keep that portion open later than the rest of the library."
The reading room would be a study area only, he said.
Asked about reactions from students and faculty members regarding the new library hours, Buck man said, "Most people would like to have the library open for longer periods of time, of course. But that was true even when we closed at 11 p.m."
Page 3—American War dead in Vietnam continues to increase. See lead wire story.
WHAT'S INSIDE
Page 2—Lawrence voters are congratulated for voting down a $10 car tax in a city election this summer. See leading editorial by Allan Northcutt, The Kansan's Editorial Editor.
Page 7-Five KU seniors participate in living and learning program.
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Frosh overflow; English 1 expands
The unexpected enrollment of 500 more KU freshmen than earlier anticipated has forced the English department to hire 10 additional graduate student assistants to teach new sections of English I, said George Worth, department chairman.
But John Willingham, director of the freshman-sophomore English program, said funds have been "reserved" from next spring's budget to hire only six or seven teachers in the fall.
The new graduate student
teaching assistants will teach an extra 17 sections of English I, Worth said. He explained that each new section will consist of 25 students with two of the new assistants teaching three sections apiece and four others responsible for two sections each.
By a Kansan Staff Reporter
By the Kansas Union Reporter
The Kansas Union Bookstore was unable to supply enough books for about 10 per cent of all course books this fall, according to Jim Stoner, manager of the Kansas Union Bookstore.
Big enrollment affects supply of textbooks
Stoner attributed the shortage, which affected approximately 400 classes, to several causes. Enrollment exceeded the number anticipated by both the instructor and the departmental load analysis, he said. Some professors ordered the wrong number of books or the wrong books.
New faculty assignments and a shortage or delay at publishing houses also cause shortages, Stoner said.
Advises telling instructors
Advises telling instructors Stoner advised students who cannot obtain a book to inform their instructors of the shortage so the instructors may reorder the book. Periodic checks of the shelves are made and books that are sold out also are reordered at this time, he said.
Also asked about the new assistant's salaries, George Wagoner, dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, said money for them could come from gifts to the University or from next semester's budget.
All recorders are wired directly to the publishers, Stoner said. A normal delivery takes from 10 days to three weeks, while a rush delivery takes from four days to two weeks.
Orange-striped vests were purchased this year to help students spot bookstore employees who help locate books.
Rushes not over
Stoner indicated that the bookstore rush is essentially over. However, he said, spot rushes will occur until the second week of classes as course requirements change.
An April deadline is given to the faculty to submit their book orders to the bookstore. These orders help the bookstore know how many used books to buy from students at the end of the semester.
Sometimes, Stoner said, the bookstore gets overstocked with a particular book. The bookstore must then pay to ship the books back to the publishing houses.
A new addition to be completed
by November, 1968, will expand the bookstore, Stoner said. This new addition will allow the book-store to stock a larger non-course general books department, he said.
LATE BULLETINS
EMPORIA — The Kansas Board of Regents today passed a resolution approving the installation of private telephones in KU residence halls, possibly by September. 1969.
Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe presented the proposal which received complete support from the regents.
Richard Ray, Topeka senior, is reported in satisfactory condition at Watkins Memorial Hospital as a result of injuries sustained in a traffic accident today at 9th and Ohio.
The KU youth was taken from the scene of the accident to Lawrence Memorial Hospital, and was transferred to Watkins at about 10 a.m.
U.S. seeks end to war
UNITED NATIONS -(UPI) The United States said today the Vietnam war should be ended as soon as possible by a political solution and called for the "active participation" of all U.N. members in such a quest for peace.