THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
Vol. 19, No. 85
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Jayhawks fall to 10th in poll
See story page seven
KEN COMBS/Kansan
Just jogging
Ice cold temperatures and snowfall of the past week have not deterred avid outdoor exercisers such as this logger. Despite the freezing temperatures and ice streets, Wayne Owens,
director of health, physical education and recreation, said yesterday that running outside was safe unless the temperature dipped below zero.
Rubber checks on rise at Union
BY JUDITH LYNN HOWARD
Staff Reporter
The check-cashing service at the Kansas Union has a current deficit of $15,000 as a result of bad checks written by students this year. The associate, associate Union director, said yesterday.
The amount of money on returned checks has nearly doubled since last year, Ferguson said.
"It's been coming on since last year. We see it as due to the economic condition," Ferguson said.
The situation at the Union is not unlike that at other businesses, he said.
The Union is one of the few places or campus where students can cash checks The check amount is limited to $25.
One problem with student check writing is the new student identification cards, Ferguson said. But the student's picture is not stored in the service requiring service required additional identification.
"The identification presents a problem. We have to check the signatures as well as current enrollment," he said.
FERGUSON SAID it was "hearsay" that the University of Kansas had a larger number of returned checks than Kansas State University because of ineffective
"I couldn't confirm that," Ferguson said. "Kansas State may not cash as many checks, or they may have a different balance." He said a result of prosecution, but I don't know.
Kansas law states that writing checks without sufficient funds to cover them is a criminal violation and subject to review by the county attorney.
K-State has a low rate of "incollectible checks," WLM, Smith business director of the Student Union at K-State, said. Incollectible checks at K-State total about $1,000,000 yearly.
Smith said K-State students were notified about a bad check and were given seven days to respond.
If the student does not respond, the matter is turned over to the county attorney.
K-State also requires that students have student identification to cash a check.
information and concessions at the Union,
said if more students used the Zip machines
and the Moneymatic machines, there wouldn't be as many bad checks.
student identification to cash a check.
MARY KATZFEY, day supervisor of
"The Zip is the sure way. The machine right away knows the answer," Katzfey said.
If the student's balance has insufficient funds for the check, the machine won't cash the checks.
Ferguson said the Union was planning to encourage students to use the Zip and Moneymatic machines because of the increasing number of returned checks.
"This way the Union can't lose. We validate the check. It assures us of having our money. We buy these checks and take them into our own cash." she said.
Forer's group to fly to Tehran
BY LYNN ANDERSON Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
A University of Kansas professor who made a controversial trip to Iran last December will leave New York tonight for Iran to resume his 'dialogue for recon
Forer, who is on leave of absence from the University, said he received a call Jan. 17 from student militants occupying the U.S. Embassy in Tehran.
"The students extended an invitation to the committee (for the American-Iranian Crisis Resolution) to resume intensive study," he said, and a delegation of Americans," Foer said.
FORER SAID the delegation had reason to believe it would meet with "Iranians in national life," including members of the Iranian Revolutionary Council, the newly elected President Abbas汗曼 Bani Sadr and a local Khomsi Khomni, if his health permitted.
He immediately requested the leave of absence and went to New York, he said. There, with the support of a New York business group, he led his leaders to begin assembling the delegation.
The goal of the delegation, Forer said, is to "engage in dialogue to produce further steps toward normalizing the crisis and
bringing people together in the spirit of reconciliation and peace."
occurred to give details on the delegation's agenda, saying only that the talks would be "complex discussions of a serious nature."
He said that revealing specifics of the agenda could jeopardize the group's mediation efforts.
Forer refused to link his group's mission with runners that a delegation was bound for the Olympics, and he has hostaged and that a tribunal was forming to hear Iran's complaints against the former.
"We are coming under our own initiative." Forer said. "We neither seek nor accept the sanction of our government or of the Iranian government."
LOCAL MEMBERS of the delegation are Muriel Paul, a Lawrence social worker who accompanied Forer to Iran in December; Linda Burdale, Kansas City; the Lawrence, Lawrence Jessie,isseme, chairwoman of the Prairie Band Potawatomi Indians of the Mattaya.
Forer said the delegation was divided equally between whites and minorities, and forer said the delegation included American Indians, Puerto Rican Americans, Mexican-American and
Forer said that the group would travel to Iran under the sponsorship of the Lawrence-based committee but that the delegates necessarily members of the committee.
Birthing room survey disputes LMH stance
By ANN SHIELDS Staff Reporter
Lawrence Memorial Hospital officials who have said that not enough women would use a birthing room to justify its being built have been contradicting their own survey.
Ninety-three percent of the obstetrics patients surveyed last March said they would have preferred to give birth in a hospital, as opposed to an ambulance, LMH family relations director.
However, Henry Buck, chief of obstetrics, has said repeatedly that he thought only 10 percent would use the room.
Campbell said yesterday that 300 surveys were mailed to women who had given birth at I.MH over a period of four months.
Robert Ohlen, hospital administrator, said 99 percent of the surveys were returned.
Almost 99 percent of the women who responded said they thought the hospital should install the room, and 84 percent said they knew knowledge about birthring rooms, he said.
HOWEYER, BUCK stood by his estimates. He said that he thought many women who said they favored a birthing room would down if given the option.
"There was nothing in that survey that indicated that there was a risk," he said.
Women were usually hesitant to sign the necessary form saying they knew birth rooms were risier than standard delivery rooms, Buck said.
Sue Elkins, co-chairman of a Birthling Room Support Group leading an LMH boycott, said, "Maybe only 10 percent of his friends come to the room because he discerns them."
Elkins also said that although Ohlen estimated that only 20 women were seeing doctors in other cities, her group already had counted about 45.
"And that's one thing we be doing at the meeting. This day—find out who's going where," she said. "So I think those figures are incomplete."
Even the most workable plan, which would have enlarged a labor room, would have made a birthing room 36 square feet or college's recommendations, he said.
The support group will hold a public meeting Thursday at 7:30 p.m. in the Gallery Room of the Lawrence Public Library.
OHLEN SAID he did not think the boycott would affect LMH
Lind Ingham, chief of staff at LHM, said recent rain often when the issue came to the medical staff in May unless Buck's obstetric-gynecological team recommended
Buck said that none of the proposed areas for a birthing room in LMH fulfilled the minimum safety standards of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.
"The medical staff thinks this is a special area falling within the jurisdiction of the obstetrics team," he said.
KU tour shows budget needs
By GRANT OVERSTAKE
A blue van pulled up near Flint Hall yesterday morning. A well-dressed man jumped out of the front seat and opened a door. The man, unapposed men then filed out of the back.
The driver of the van left the engine running and rushed ahead of the four men to open the front doors of the Allen White School of Journalism.
The out-of-breath chauffeur was Richard Von Ende, KU's executive secretary, and the well-dressed doorman and Shankel, executive vice chancellor.
The four men getting the royal treatment were members of a state House subcommittee now considering the University's 1981 budget.
See LEGISLATORS page six
The representatives, David Heinemann, R-Garden City; Ralph Bussman, D-Mound Valley; Ernie Tailley, R-Wichita; and David Monic, legislative fiscal analyst, spent a month with the administration's view of the 181 budget.
After a preliminary discussion of the University's budget requests, the committee members were given a tour of the major building projects recommended by Gov. John Carlin. Included were Flint Hall, the site of a proposed $744 renovation, and Haworth Hall, the $18,000 addition is being planned.
All aboard
Del Shanker, executive vice chancellor, left, holds the door of a Strong Hall elevator open for a group of touring legislators. The door is raised as soon as they come in.
analyst; Ernie Tauley, R-Wichita; Ralph Bussman, D-Mound Valley; and David Heinemann, R-Garden City are members of a House subcommittee in charge of KU's budget. The group yesterday inspected areas for which the University is requesting funding.
Watson renovation no cure for tight space
By KEVIN MILLS
Staff Renorter
Editor's note: This is the first story in a three-part series on the Waxton renovation.
"There are two problems with space in the library-quantity and quality." Ranz said. "Renovation will improve the quality of space in Watson, but it won't give us any more space."
Although a $6.2 million renovation of Watson Library will vastly improve physical conditions there, it will not alleviate the University of Kansas library's primary problem—a lack of space.
That is an opinion shared by Jim Ranz, dean of the library, Politicko Diotke, chairman of the Senate Libraries committee, and other administration and faculty members.
Politeks said the Senate Libraries committee was very concerned with the shortage of snack.
"We desperately need the space," Politikse said.
The space we have now is not nearly adequate for our needs. The space we need will be even more needed.
Chip Casteen, a student representative on the committee, agreed.
"The renovation is just a cosmetic improvement," Castaen said. "It's a necessary move but it doesn't require much."
THE LIBRARY space deficiency was first brought to the administration's attention in 1980 by the North Carolina law passed in that year.
Measured against standards set by the Kansas board of Regents, the association found that the team's results were superior.
GUIDELINES SET by the Board of Regents for 10 percent of the students at a rate of 30 square feet per student; for 10 percent of the faculty at a rate of 75 square feet per student; and for the collections at a rate one square foot for every 11 students.
Today the deficiency has leveled at 33 percent. Completion of basement space in Watson, expansion of the Science Library and the temporary use of old computers have kept the situation from deteriorating.
When the association returned in 1974, it found the situation mostly unchanged—except that the deficiency had risen to 34 percent because of increased enrollment and acquisition of books.
But by 1894, the identified deficiency will be 40 percent. By 1898, if no new facilities are built, the space deficit will be 50 percent and there will be no space for students to study.
Including space for processing and library staff, the libraries now require 427,951 square feet. Only 206,331 square feet are in existence. The libraries are located on the third floor of the student space prescribed by the Regents.
"We have about 280,000 square feet." Ranz said, in institutions such as Colorado, Iowa and San Francisco. "We have about 280,000 square feet."
Plans were drawn for a new library, tentatively referred to the West Library in 1973. Under these plans, the library would offer an international Military Science Building, and would house college-based business, engineering, architecture and music department offices.
EXISTING BRANCH libraries would be conti- nated into the new building, and Wakson Library would remain in its original location. In the social sciences collections. The library's administration offices and technical operations would remain in
"If we can move ahead now with the West Bank settlement, said that "we must give our airstate literary rights."
Politokse said the Senate Libraries committee had written to the principal administrators of the University, urging them to be concerned about the lack of space.
The first phase of the new building would consist of about 200,000 square feet. A second phase, about the size of the existing structure, would
The project's cost was estimated in 1977 at $1.5 million. The cost should be increased to would be predicted for the Kansas Legacy.
Chancellor Archie R. Dykes informed Pollocks last Friday that a West Library would be given top priority on next year's budget request to the Legislature.
"Books and journals can be tightly packed on shelves." Ranz said, "but after a certain point, content may become cluttered."
*How generous the Legislature will be depends on
  how we can then the concept of the West Library to
  develop.
"If the Legislature approves it, it would then be at least another five years before construction could begin," Politkose said. "It could take as long as eight years.
IN THE MEANTIME, the library's space
compactity will continue and the use of
more memory will be realized.
"And so it is with the staff, who can be physically crowded only so much. This necessities to provide a
Carol Chittenden, a reference librarian in charge of publicity for Watson's renovation, said the situation would progressively worsen until the West Library was built.
minimum of space for books and staff has forced us to pre-empt more and more reader space. Today students and faculty have been largely pushed out of the 'library.'
"We're not gaining shelving space in the renovation, we're losing some," she said. "Things will become so complicated by trying to squeeze them together and then that users will become totally discernable."
"If a library's physical setup is such that it makes its use a hail beyond a certain minimum level, then the library has to be installed."
THE WEST LIBRARY, she said, would simplify the process of cataloging and maintenance of books. Also, the need to duplicate books for various branch libraries would be eliminated.
"It would be more efficient," Chuttenden said. "Right now there are so many places a book can go. Because a library's materials are so interdependent, some parts you have, the more problems you have."
Students would have an easier time finding the books they want if there were two libraries, she said.
"Renovation was a first step, and the West Library is a second step," she said. "Without that second step, we would never be able to do this."