THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
83rd Year, No. 94
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Tuesday, February 20, 1973
Black Identity Reflected In Theatre
See Story Page 5
Tax Breaker Loses Fight In Committee
TOPEKA (AP)—A committee of the Kansas House of Representatives killed a bill that would have enacted Gov. Robert Docking's "circuit breaker" plan for easing the property tax burden on taxpayers who who have less than $20,000 a year income.
Docking blamed Republican leaders in the legislature for obstructing passage of the bill. A similar proposal is still pending in a Senate committee.
"A few Republican legislators who appear to have been coerced by the Republican legislative leadership have voted to kill the property tax circuit breaker." Docking said in a prepared statement.
"While this is disappointing to me and to
Kansas, Mr. Kansai, he said, it is not
pursuitable."
Kansan Photo by CARL G. DAVAZ JR
Docking said the Republican legislative leadership had assumed a posture of dictator to Republican legislators, dictating the law on major legislation during this session.
The vote of the House Assessment and Taxation Committee, on a show of hands, was 13 to 5 to kill the bill. The vote appeared to follow party lines.
Rep. Shelly Smith, R-Wichita, chairman of the House Assessment and Taxation Committee, postponed a vote on another measure that has been criticized by Republicans.
Old Sidewalks Make Walking Hazardous . . . City Commission seeks to improve . . .
Originally, Smith's committee had been scheduled to vote Monday on a bill to carry out Docking's recommendation for extension of a law disallowing federal income taxes to be paid as a deduction against state taxes or by corporations and financial institutions.
The 1972 legislature enacted the law at Docking's insistence; against his wishes it became an ordinance.
Old Sidewalks Die Slowly
Sidewalks may have a hard time being born, as the recent controversy over a skeletal sidewalk plan for West Lawrence indicates, but they also appear to have a
Emick said last week that several commission members and city staff members had taken a preliminary survey of the areas directly north and east of the campus and that they intended to make a formal survey of the area.
When John Emick, Lawrence mayor,
announced his bid for re-election to the city
commission two weeks ago, he said that
among the projects the commission had
planned with the University of Kansas was
the creation of sidewalks in the
campus area.
"Some have deteriorated enough that the police said, speaking of sidewalks in the area.
"I have partial sight and love to walk, but
I cannot walk here because of the broken
bone."
MARGARET THOMAS of 1215 Tennessee St. concurrs. When asked whether anyone had complained about the sidewalk in front of her apartment, she said, "I do every time I go out to walk."
"The sidewalk all along here (Tennessee Street) is bad. Also, the one on 12th Street."
Thomas explained that she walked mainly downtown and that she used 12th Street sidewalks to get there. She said she had been done to her landlord but nothing had been done.
All one has to do is walk down the sidewalk to see that her complaints are well-founded. Parts of brick sidewalks have settled or sunk so that stretches resemble a wall, or are broken into patches of concrete sidewalks have cracked, buckled and, in some places, disappeared.
NORTHWEST OF THE intersection of
Tennessee and Tennessee,
shallow two feet in diameter in
shallow two feet.
the pavement where the two sidewalks cross.
On the south side of 130l Street between Ohio and Tennessee streets, the sidewalk drops off at one point and there is no sidewalk for about seven feet.
Mrs. Adam Kay of 1258 Tennessee St., who said that she walked occasionally but not frequently, said that some people had complained of the sidewalk in front of her home.
"We'd pay for having it fixed if the rest in the block would." she said.
The resident at 1305 Tennessee St., who would not identify herself, said of the sidewalk, "It's not very good, that's for sure."
She said that no one had ever complained and that its repair would "depend a lot on it."
THE BRICK SIDEWALK in front of the Boresteam has sunk and is covered with dirt at the base.
"People complain all the time, especially when it is muddy," the manager said.
He said he was planning to put in a new one this spring. He said it would be brick made of acrylic.
Paul Hamilton, "1414 Tennessee St.," said of his sidewalk, "We know it's in bad shape. I'd be glad to fix it when the city removes that tree."
He was referring to a tree in the parking lot that was so close to the sidewalk that as it grew it pushed to the sidewalk out of the ground.
Jim Eagan, Lawrence junior and house manager for Sigma Ch fraternity, said no one had complained about their sidewalks. He said that if repairs were necessary, they would have to be made in the future because the fraternity was presently short of money.
NEXT DOOR AT Alpha Tau Omega fraternity, the main sidewalk is cracked, buckled and partially covered with dirt. About 18 feet of it is missing.
A senior member said that, to his
The codes specify that no part of a sidewalk should be missing, that earth or other substances should not be allowed to accumulate on a sidewalk, that no segment of a sidewalk should rise above the normal level in a manner that might trip someone down or depressions that could cause injury to a pedestrian should occur in a sidewalk.
The filing deadline for Student Senate and class officer positions is 5 p.m. Wednesday. Students may file with Sterling Hall, Sublette Avenue and Senate Elections Committee, or in the Student Senate office.
knowledge, one no had complained and no plans to repair it had been made. He pointed out that the house did have a perfectly good curbside sidewalk, which extended south across several properties almost to 17th Street.
According to the city codes of Lawrence, the maintenance of sidewalks is the responsibility of the property owners adjacent to them.
Candidates for senate must pay a $5 fee when they file. Class officer candidates must pay a $5 fee and present a petition with the signatures of 50 students who support their candidacy.
If a property owner does not repair a sidewalk by the time required on a notice given him by the city, the code said, then he repairs the repairs and charge them to the owner.
Student Posts Still Open
One candidate has filed for each of four positions of junior class officers. No candidates have filed for any of the positions of senior or sophomore class officers.
Mert Buckley, Wichita sophorone,
and Nancy Archer, Anamosa, Iowa,
junior, the only candidates for student
president and vice president, have
announced they will not run with a
slate of candidates for the senate.
KU Budget Oversight Adds to Faculty Cuts
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences,
four; School of Law, two; School of
Engineering, one; and School of
Education, two.
In October, Chancellor Raymond Nichols said that 23.5 unclassified, or faculty, positions and 7.8 classified, or public employee. positions would have to be cut.
A total of 44.7 faculty positions, instead of an earlier estimate of 23.5 positions, must be cut from next year's budget for the University of Kansas, Ambre Saricks, vice chancellor for academic affairs, said Monday.
By CAROLYN OLSON Kansan Staff Writer
But several weeks ago, Saricks said, he discovered that 21.2 faculty positions which had to be included in the budget hadn't been provided for when the budget was originally generated.
Saricks said that in addition to the 23.5 faculty cuts, an additional 21.2, total of 44.7 positions, would now have to be cut to 30 for the persons who have to be embolished."
The 21.2 positions for which plans weren't made were for persons on leave, employed on a part-time basis with the understanding they would be given a full-time position with the University in fiscal 1974 or on a federal grant that had expired. Saricks said.
He said another possibility for reducing the number of faculty positions would be to totally phase out a program, such as the economics department or the School of Economics.
At 5 p.m. Monday, 11 candidates had filed for senate: North College, one; School of Journalism, one;
THE DISCOVERY of the omission of the 21.2 faculty positions means that an additional $25,000 must be made up somewhere in the budget, Saricks said. The reduction of personnel in various departments and schools within the University.
Saricks said another possible way to cut faculty positions would be to release those persons who are tenured, though he definitely does not favor this plan.
"Many teaching assistants could be cut from departments to make up some of the costs," Saricks said. "The College of Business will ensure the greatest number of faculty reductions."
"If we decided to cut the original figure of 23.5 faculty positions from teaching assistants, we would have to cut 47 teaching assistors," Saricks said.
CHANCELOR RAYMOND Nicholas has said it is difficult to fire a person with tenure because the case must be taken before a judge. Nicholas and the Related Problems Committee.
Saricks said he was in favor of cutting the number of teaching assistants but that they only counted as half-positions for budgetary considerations.
In explaining the 21.2 additional faculty position cuts, Nichols told the Council of Deans Monday that the positions not included in the "invisible budget of the University."
Number of 'Incompletes' Indicates Class Loads
internal problems have necessitated the increase in the total number of unclassified personnel to be cut," Nichols said in an interview before the meeting.
Courses requiring extensive out-of-class work are difficult for many University of Kansas students to complete within a month. Courses "from the registrar's office indicate"
Professional schools that have courses based on field experience or laboratories, such as the School of Social Welfare and the School of Journalism, find they must give more incomplete grades than schools which depend on the classroom.
INDIIDUAL DEPARTMENTS and schools will be notified this week as to how
The Schools of Business and Engineering and other professional schools give fewer incomplete than any other classification the registrar uses.
Last week, the registrar's office com-
mitted that the course grade given to students last semester.
When the statistics were broken down among the various schools and academic departments,
Rank Classification Inc. Enrollmt.Avg.
1. Social Welfare 188 349 329
2. Intensive English 158 108 277
3. Journalism 114 160 194
4. Professional College 118 912 197
5. Centennial College 197 102 197
6. Architecture 197 104 193
7. Architecture 197 104 193
8. Architecture 197 104 193
9. Health Care 197 104 193
10. Education 400 379 106
11. Education 400 379 106
12. L.A. & Co. 316 1,440 106
13. Medical College 316 1,440 106
14. Medical College 316 1,440 106
15. Medical College 316 1,440 106
16. Medical College 316 1,440 106
17. Medical College 316 1,440 106
18. Medical College 316 1,440 106
19. Engineering 65 1,113 658
20. Engineering 65 1,113 658
21. Engineering 65 1,113 658
22. Law 2 481 004
23. Law 2 481 004
24. Law 2 481 004
Except where designated, the graduate students were included in each school.
Bradford W. Sheafor, associate dean
the school of Social Welfare, said the school had many two-hour courses in the senior semester and taught five students to find a student with seven courses in one semester, he said, and therefore, the pressure around the end of the semester projects, papers and exams can become intense.
The undergraduate in the School of Social Welfare spend one day a week in field experience, Sheafor said, and the graduate student spends three. These can be in Kakata or Leavenworth, Topeka or Lawrence, he said, which costs the student traveling time.
The field experiences are supposed to be coordinated with certain classes, he said, although it is difficult to have the case studies end when papers on them are due.
Donald E. Metzler, associate dean of the School of Engineering, said that although laboratory reports had to be written outside of class, a good deal of the work is completed during the time allotted to the laboratory.
Other statistical phenomena were found in the Schools of Social Welfare and Jour-
Approximately 75 seniors were eligible to graduate from the School of Journalism last fall, Sammee Messick, secretary in charge of the program, said no do so because they took incomplete.
Four of the 17 or 18 seniors to graduate in social welfare last semester
See 'INCOMPLETES' Page 3
many faculty positions will have to be cut,
Sariks said. He said there would have to be
negotiations with the departments until
about mid-March, when the faculty position
cuts must be submitted to the chancellor for
approval.
After the chancellor approves the budget, the requests will be sent to the Board of Regents.
The original 23.5 unclassified and 7.8
classified personnel cuts were necessitated by a decrease in the projected fall enrollment figure. There was a difference of 584 students between the projected fall enrollment figure and the actual enrollment figure of 18.546.
Keith Nitcher, vice chancellor for business affairs, said in October that the University had originally planned to add 26 new faculty members for fiscal 1974.
Cease-Fire Guarantees Stunted by Bickering
SAIGON (AP)--The chairman of the international peace-keeping commission for Vietnam said Monday the warring parties have failed to make their cease-fire work in the 23 days since they signed it. But he said the country would move ahead anyway to begin policing it.
Canadian Ambassador Michel Gauvin, chairman of the International Commission of Control and Supervision, said the cease-fire would prevent a repeat Joint Military Commission in becoming fully operative, had presented the commission with serious problems in meeting its obligation.
The commission is made up of representatives of Poland, Hungary, Indonesia and Canada. A temporary Joint Commission is appointed by the peacekeeping body in policing the ceasefire, is composed of delegations from the United States, North and South Vietnam and the Viet Cong. It is supposed to operate under unanimity but has been slowed by bickering.
The peace agreement provides for 825 personnel on each delegation of the Joint Military Commission. The United States and North and South Vietnam are up to full deployment, with Viet Cong have only 200 men assigned, thus slowing deployment of its field teams.
South Vietnam and the United States have their observers already in place at 23 of the 28 subregional states. The North Vietnamese are placed at five of them, the Viet Cong at nine.
The Viet Cong blame a lack of security, inadequate accommodations and South Vietnamese attacks on Communist militants. The Communist side is seeking frivolous privileges such as officers' and non-commissioned officers' clubs and television sets at the sites, while the United States and other countries agree to accept austere conditions.
The U.S. sources say the Communist requests are unreasonable because of four-party Joint Military Commission will be disbanded March 28, the deadline for the return of all U.S. prisoners and withdrawal of all American troops from Vietnam. At a hearing on Thursday in Washington Control and Supervision will take over full responsibility for the cease-fire.
"In spite of the unassatisfactory conditions which it exasults as a result of the parties' to the agreement, Mr. Galvin abide by the agreement," Gauvin said, "the commission has decided to proceed to the teams of its leagues at the subregional level of entry and to the demilitarized zone."
Solemn
The burning bush window of the School of Religion echoes the sound of the University Church.
Kanean Photo by BARBARA KELLY
that would not be consumed has been a symbol of the eternity of knowledge, wisdom and God. University tradition maintains that Mount Oread is hallow ground where sacred fire burns in the Trail campuses which once dotted the Hill still burns within the University.