THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
MONDAY JULY 2,1973
KANSAN
THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Kansan Staff Photo by PRIS BRANDSTED
Chancellor Archie Dykes: He's No. 13
Kansas Stair Photo by PRIS BRANDSTEIN
Archie Dykes on Day One
By MONROE DODD Editor of the Kansan
Archie Reese Dykes of Tennessee removed the "designate" from his title Sunday and officially became the 13th chancellor of the University of Kansas—the fourth head man at KU in the last five years.
Dykes spent the morning of Day One at his home, unpacking, and later at his office in Strong Hall, catching up on his reading; he was also dusting;ashed; the reading, he says, may never be.
In midafternoon, he began what is apparently one of his highest priorities in his life: the pursuit of knowledge.
FIRST, he went to KLWN radio, where
conversation like other conversations of
the day.
It must be like Tennessee, he was usually told.
Yes, he would reply, it was like Tennessee, maybe like Memphis.
"The people in their wisdom" are the university decideers of what a university should be.
Then, the talk, recorded for replay this morning, wound on through Dykes' childhood (Hawkins Co., Tenn.), through his educational career, through his reassurance that he could not "weave" ("We felt KU offered a professional opportunity that we could not and should not let pass"), through the joys of classroom teaching ("Someday, maybe, I'd like to return to classroom teaching"), and through institutional protest, university funding, athletic action, or the rest of questions almost any new chancellor anywhere might be asked.
Dykes says he rejects the notion that a skeleton is in and say, These are the important things.
it is clear that Dykes is not ready to talk specifics. He is, after all, only in his second day at KU.
LATER, at the chancellor's residence. Dykes expanded on some of those matters.
Yet at least three broad themes do emerge from his discussions of his new role at UNH.
- Students, faculty and administrators below the top position must be included.
THE UNIVERSITY Senate is one group to which Dykes says he will turn for part of the "collective wisdom"; the Student Senate is another. And "ad hoc" committees are
—A university has a responsibility to what Dykes calls the "larger society," and it can fulfill that responsibility by ex-ample programs such as continuing education.
"Everyone should be involved in the process. My job is to make certain that the procedures are right for the collective form of the university to make itself felt."
See DYKES, Back Page
Welcome to Campus, Mr. Chancellor
By ZAHID IQBAL
Kansan Associate Editor
Residence halls came to sleep, night walt-
nacht went to sleep and what there is of
them will be forgotten.
Monday, the second day of July, Nineteen Hundred and Seventy Three.
A day like any other day—the sun roe this morning, lathered its face liberally with clouds,—and forgot to shave. Quite naturally, unwilling rushes turned dirty looks upwards as they began the day and cursed the bad weather.
It was the same as yesterday and the day before that.
AND TODAY should be the same as tomorrow and the day after that.
Except for one thing. There's a new man sitting in the Chancellor's office today—a man called Ardy Dykes, 13th Chancellor of the University of Kansas.
So what--didn't we need to have a guy called Ray Charles or something who was a singer?
Yes, there was a "guy"—his name is Raymond Nichols—and he's the one who's
be holding the fort with the wisdom and experience of a lifetime dedicated to KU.
AS FOR THE NEW "guy," from what we hear of him, he should be able to make up in dynamism what he may lack in familiarity with this campus and its administration.
You're skeptical? You have a right to be. All we've heard about Dykes has been good, so there's got to be a catch somewhere. But I'll tell you what.
Seattle Ships Battle Flash Fire Aboard Liberian Fuel Tanker
SEATTLE—Coast Guard cutters and city fire boats battled six hours Sunday to duce a flash fire triggered by a fuel explosion aboard the 560-foot Liberian tanker Cygus. Two Greek crewmen were injured. The tanker spiked between 300 and 500 gallons of air fuel into Seattle's Elliott Bay, the Coast Guard said, but the spill was not considered serious and was contained by booms and oil-kimpers by late afternoon. Cause of the explosion, which sent clouds of heavy black smoke billowing into the sky over Seattle, was not known.
So far, all we have against him is that he doars it have long base and that his clothing is too heavy.
Cambodian Rebels Hold Road
It's going to be a pretty bleak and wet day, and thundershowers are forecast for the area. Storm windows shearce, but not in Lawrence.
Nixon Signs Bill to End Bombing
PHNOM PENH—A government battalion trying to reopen the main highway about 22 miles northwest of Phnom Penh has been repulsed for the second day by Communist-led insurgents, who are dug in along the road. The insurgents opened up with antiairrox rockets, light machine guns and rifle-fired grenades. There were no American air strikes in support of the government battalion, but two government helicopter gunships peppersed suspected insurgent positions before the battalion advanced toward them.
SAN CLEMENTE, Calif. -- President Nixon has signed a historic bin切 off bombing in Cambodia by Aug. 15 with the warning that he would seek Congressional help if further actions were necessary to "win the peace" after the deadline. Nixon signed both a $3.4 billion supplement appropriation bill for fiscal 1973 and a continuing joint resolution to provide vital funding for government operations.
Chilean Rebels Request Asylum
NEW YORK—American consumers subsidized the Vietnam peace agreement and continue to do so by paying higher prices for wheat, says Rep. Benjamin Rosenthal, D-N.Y. Rosenthal charged that the sale of the wheat to the Soviet Union—while also paying $300 million in subsidies to American producers and raising the price of wheat at home—to gain leverage at the peace talks by relying on Russian sympathy.
SANTIAGO, Chile—Five leaders of an ultrantirrish Chilean group have asked the Ecuadorian Embassy for political asylum following the failure of an armed rebellion against the Allende government. They asked asylum Friday afternoon after President Salvador Allende called the rebellion by the 2nd Armored Regiment had been crushed, 22 people reported killed and more than 30 wounded in a three-hour battle Friday when part of a disgruntled army unit tried to storm the Defense Ministry building and fired on the Government House nearby.
Did Grain Buy Viet Peace?
Dull and Grey Today
Prof Says Athletic Corporation Has $272,000 Operating Deficit
By GERALDEWING
Sterling said that the current deficit for fiscal 1972-73 was about $272,000 and that the deficit was being covered by receipts from the donated ticket sales for next year's games.
Kansan Staff Writer
The University of Kansas Athletic Corporation is in serious financial difficulty, according to Robert R. Sterling, professor of business and a member of the Athletic Board that governs the Athletic Corporation.
"The immediate solution is cutting costs in the short-term," he said. "But cutting costs is very difficult to impose on any organization."
He said that if there were an operating deficit in fiscal 1973-74, the corporation would take on some of its debt.
He further said that the problem wasn't limited to KU, but that nearly every intercollegiate athletic department was facing the same crisis.
"There is a constant lament from the press and everyone that there isn't any money," he said. "As of now, I haven't encountered a workable solution."
The problem of cost overruns is not a new one. The corporation has had overruns since 1969, with the seriousness of the situation increasing every year.
The Kansas Board of Regents is studying the possibility of providing supplementary funding for this program.
Sterling said one alternative would be to
Sterling said one of the problems was a reluctance on the part of the 20-member team to participate.
Currently, the state can only pay salary expenses of athletic departments. So apparently the state could pay the salaries of coaches and police and cleaning help for athletic events, according to Regent Henry Bubb.
Another problem associated with the board is that it meets only four times a year. Sterling said that this was a hindrance and did not work out to be sufficient time or attention to the problem.
cut out one or two of the minor sports such as golf, gymnastics or tennis.
"I haven't been able to impress upon the other members the seriousness of the problem," he said. "There is strong resistance on the board to the cutting of costs. In effect, they said it is impossible to cut costs."
Regents OK Slashed KU Budget
Special to the Kansan
TOPEKA-The Kansas Board of Regents has approved a KU budget for $30,085.06. The budget includes plans for a new Law School and provides a 10 per cent increase in faculty salaries.
The new law center was approved despite a bid by the Wichita Bar Association, in conjunction with the Wichita Chamber of Commerce, to delay the decision.
The Wichita groups wanted the Regents to consider a law center at Wichita State University.
THE APPROVED budget is $400,000 less than the submitted budget. The regents cut requested increases for all state schools and 16.9 per cent to 9.7 per cent over fiscal 1974.
Chancellor Erimertis Raymond Nichols's top priority of $10,145 for Supportion.
KU Finances . . . Page 3
Pittsburg, $7.6 million, $2.2 million; and Hays, $3.3 million, $5 million.
a program that provides educational and financial assistance to low-income minority
Regent Henry Bubb of Topeka proposed that the state supplement the athletic department budgets of the three state universities. The board decided more information was needed before action could be taken.
Also approved were computer support,
$126,200; women's intercollegiate athletics
program, $85,757 (cut from $90,107); a one-year
program for library books and journals,
$100,000; and final plans for a new
library building, $130,000 plus $4.4
million for construction.
Prior to the budget session, the Regents approved a motion by Bubb to provide funding for repairs to damage caused by the June 16 wind storm.
Repair cost estimates for damaged trees
$14,954, $10,600, Allen Fieldhouse,
$1,543 and $1,343
A REQUEST FOR $85,413 for pharmacy department aid was cut. It would have been a policy to help the pharmacy students receive accreditation.
See REGENTS, Back Page
The 1975 school requests and 1974 allocations are:
But maybe he'll do something for this University or at least make its few short-corners easier to bear. Maybe tomorrow or next week, he will feel that someone's caring about us.
Nichols had termed his requests as "minimal and conservative." In his budget he had pruned $1.3 million in requests from divisions of the University.
KU, $35.5 million, $25.9 million; KU Medical Center, $20.7 mil. $14 million; Kansas State University, $34.1 million, $28.8 million; Oklahoma State University, $7.6 million; Emporia, $7.9 million, $7.5 million.
HE MIGHT do big things, like pulling in huge amounts of money from some fount or the other to give this University many of the things it so badly needs.
A LECTURE-DEMONSTRATION of
electronic music will be at 10:30 a.m.
Tuesday.
"SHAKEPEARE'S WOMEN" will be presented at 8 o'clock time in the Experimental Theatre in Murphy Hall. Be served in the Murphy courtyard at 7:30.
See WELCOME, Back Page
Tom Piggott, director of educational programs for ARP Instruments Inc., will demonstrate on the ARP synthesizer owned by the University. The program is sponsored by the music theory and composition department.
Or maybe he'll do little things. Like giving the women their own sauna or thinking up
While the Sun Shines
Kansan Photo bv RAYNA LANCASTER
The farmers in the Lawrence area are busy making hay and putting away a large supply for winter. Here, a farmer pauses before going back to work the rest of his field on the outskirts of town, because the area last week and is expected to be finished in a few days.