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Thursday, August 1, 1974
University Daily Kansan
Staff, Volunteers Produce KANU Radio Programs
Station Offers History, Opera, Bluegrass, Jazz, Organ Music and Public Affairs
By KATHY PICKETT
Kansan Staff Reporter
For listeners interested in history, opera, bluegrass, jazz, organ music or public affairs, the University of Kansas radio station, KANU-FM, has something to offer.
KANU broadcasts informative and feature programs along with classical music. Richard Wright, director of KANU, said recently that for the first 17 years of KANU's existence, it was primarily a fine arts station. But then, in 1971, KANU became a member of National Public Radio.
Wright said public radio was not necessarily just educational.
"We want shows to be fun as well as educational." he said.
Wright said about 75 per cent of the station's programs were music. The rest is
news and talk programs. About 60 per cent of the music is a playful and 20 per cent jazz.
Gary Shivers, program director at KANU, said the unique thing about KANU radio programs was that there were many volunteers producing programs.
In some cases, Shivers said, KU professors were cailed or persuaded to do a program, and at other times they volunteer. Programs they produce aren't necessarily related to their academic interests.
For instance, Dan Crary, assistant instructor of speech and drama, does a program on bluegrass. In the past, John Kane taught students how to build a program on Gilbert and Sullivan.
James E. Seaver, professor of history and western civilization, has a radio program on KUTU.
for 22 years. Calder M. Picket, professor of journalism, hosts "The American Past,"
Wright said that the staffers to have its staff members help produce the professors' programs but that the professors wrote the programs themselves.
Seaver said he based his programs mostly on his collection of about 20,000 opera records. He bases the scripts on books and not the music. He uses as some information he finds in libraries.
Seaver's programs are sometimes based on particular operas or stars. At other times they cover specific operatic roles or operas of a certain country. He also does programs on special recordings, such as "Bad Records by Good Singers" or "Records that Made Someone Famous." Sometimes he strays a bit from opera and does "Opera
Snoofs." or "Folk Song."
Pickett said he used a philosophical approach to "The American Past." He uses documents and editorials along with primary culture approaches to American history.
"Every time I turn around I come across a new idea for a program," Pickett said. After he gets the idea, he locates books and records, he said.
Pickett uses many of his own books and records to prepare the programs. Especially useful records are Edward R. Murrow's "I Can hear It Now." "Campaigns and Candidates" and Life Magazine's "History of the United States" series, Pickett said. He said he had the greatest difficulty finding folk music.
gram, "Blackness Is." Black KU students produce it themselves, Wright said. The program has black music, news and even a black sopa opera, he said.
KANU also has programs produced by its staff. A special one coming up, Shivers said, is a biographical series on American composer Charles Ives. It will be produced by
A plan designed after the University of Kansas language labs will be used for a lab at the University of Sonora in Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico.
Language Lab As Plan Model At KU Serves
Ermal Garinger, director of the KU language laboratories, said yesterday that he would leave tomorrow to supervise the university's new PhD program in faculty at Sonora in English instruction.
Sawhill Advocates Hiking Rates
Shivers said Klugman had been researching Ives for four years.
MINNEAPOLIS (AP)—Federal Administrator Johnahn told lowest wage earners they would pawk the waver for the new minimum wage.
Sawhill said utility firms were in disturbing financial trouble and may not be able to build the nuclear generating plants
In return, Sawhill got from the governors a unanimous plea to drop the nation's year-round Daylight Savings Time.
"Please don't ask us to endure another winter of daylight dams time," said Gov. Arthur Link, North Dakota Dames.
Link and other governors were the year-round DST plan was almost universally hated in northern states, where the clock was not functional.
Sawhill defended the plan, saying it had resulted in an energy saving of one-half of one per cent, an amount he called "sustainability."
The governors adopted a resolution urging a return to the old system of advancing the clock only from April to October.
"Perhaps I don't fully understand the hardships...It's one of the tough decisions that will have to be made." Sawwilh said.
Sawmill told the governors that gasoline prices might be edging downward slightly but said the long-range trend for all cars would remain stable.
Mark Khugan, special projects director of KANU.
Another area KANU focuses on is public affairs.
"There's no question in my mind that the era of low cost energy is over," he said.
Sawhill said any gasoline price cuts would be minor, with inventories now higher than for the past two years.
Garinger said that Alberto Rodriguez, director of foreign language study at the University of Sonora, had been at KU to look over the language lab. Rodriguez requested that a plan be designed for the University of Sonora, Garinger said.
He said supplies of heating oil this winter be adequate unless there was unusually cold weather. Sawhill said a threatened strike by coal miners could alter the situation and said there would be a continued shortage of natural gas.
"I wouldn't see any sharp reduction in price because, fundamentally, the price is determined by the price of the oil we supply."
Sawhill took his strongest stands on the need to provide bigger profits for power companies and natural gas producers. He said he was dedicated to deregulating the price of natural gas as an incentive to find new supplies.
Sawhill said power companies had 100 nuclear plants on the drawing boards but added that utilities were failing to attract them.
He said utility firms now netting 11 or 12 per cent should be allowed to "earn 14, 15 or even 16 per cent."
"It's up to the states to streamline the regulatory process and to expedite rate decisions so that utilities can quickly meet
Without new nuclear plants, power companies will need millions of barrels of imported oil, he said.
Most governors agreed with Sawhill that the national 55 mile hour speed limit was a success. Sawhill said it was saving money.
"You just have to tell them to drive at 55 miles per hour," said Sawhill.
"What do you tell the truckers?" asked Gov. Christopher Bond of Missouri.
Kansans Report About Energy Supply
Dole said the August allocation for the state was within 1 per cent of the June harvest allocation, the peak monthly allotment.
Some professors offer programs related to their academic interests. Edward C. Mattila, associate professor of music theory, offers "On the Contemporary Side" about contemporary music. James Moeser, associate professor of organ, has hosted the Orgianist." The department of history has series called "History in Today's World."
Dole said the figure was "significantly larger than the amount requested by the state, and should be adequate to meet the demands of Kansas industry and consumers during the coming month."
"The long-range energy problem is still with us." Dole said. "We must continue to upgrade conservation efforts until our country has obtained a level of energy self-sufficiency that will prohibit foreign blackmail by our energy suppliers."
TOPEKA (AP)—U.S. Sen. Bob Dole, R-Kan., reported yesterday that the Federal Agency Administration had approved an August gasoline allocation for Kansas of 143 million gallons.
He said he was encouraged by the amounts of fuel being made available to Kansas but cautioned Kansans to continue to practice fuel conservation measures "even during these periods of fuel availability."
"We are getting more and more involved in public affairs in the community," Wright said. "We want to break down the town-gown wall."
WICHTIA (AP)—A Wichita mayor's energy conference was told yesterday the Cities Service Gas Co. would not be able to meet industrial demand for natural gas on "peak days" during the next two years.
Richard Jackson, vice president for engineering and purchasing, said that by the winter of 1978-79 the firm would no longer be able to meet residential loads on peak days.
The peak days, he explained, are three-day periods that occur three or four times a year and are associated with zero-degree or lower temperatures.
In the past, the history program featured programs chosen by individual professors according to their special interests, Shivers said. This year the programs will be based on more general topics, such as baseball, death and mysticism.
Even on days with 10 to 20-degree weather, he said, there will be some "serious curtailments" this winter to industry.
Cities Service supplies more than 90 per cent of the natural gas to the Wichita area, Jackson said.
The Cities Service report was given to about 200 Wichita government, business and industrial representatives during the mayor's energy conference.
August Building Hours to Change
There will be special hours for buildings on the University of Kansas campus for the period Aug. 4-28.
University buildings will be open room 7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Monday through Friday. The buildings will be closed on weekends and will remain open until noon on Saturdays.
The Kansas Union will be open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Friday.
The Museums of Art and Natural History will maintain their regular hours throughout the break period.
All University buildings will return to regular hours Aug. 28, but all buildings will remain closed until further notice.
In addition, all buildings will be open from 7:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Aug. 24. Strong Hall will be open from 7:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. Aug. 31.
In addition to the special hours for the buildings, there will be two changes in normal maintenance service. On Aug. 6 and Sept. 7, we will operate an electric shutdowns from 5 p.m. to midnight.
25 to allow faculty members to pick up class rosters for the fall.
On Aug. 7 the affected buildings will be Murphy, Summerfield (except the Computation Center), Snow, Strong, Wescoe, Hoch Auditorium, Broadcasting Hall, Fowler Shops, the Military Science Building, Lindley Hall and Annex, Spencer Research Library and Marvin Hall and Annexes.
Aug. 19-23 the Union will be open from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. The Union will have an open house from 7 a.m. to 11 p.m. Aug. 24, and it will be open from 1-9 p.m. on August 25.
Other buildings are Watkins, Miller,
Iatterfeld, Stephanow, earl Peck,
Chancellor's Chapel.
On Aug. 6 the affected buildings will be the north portion of the Kansas Union, a portion of Spooner Hall, Dandorff Chapel, Fraser, Brake, and the Blake Hall Annex.
The shutdowns will allow electrical contractors to make a high voltage connection on the main power cable that feeds the buildings.
Nixon Could Get Pension Of $60,000 If He Resigned
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WASHINGTON (AP)—President Xion would be eligible for the $80,000 pension paid former presidents if he resigned, but would lose it if he were impeded and removed from office, a report of the General Accounting Office indicates.
The station has a call-in program on which faculty and townpeople answer questions.
Because of the electrical shutoff KANU radio, which is in Broadcasting Hall, May go off the air at 5 p.m. Aug. 7. It will resume broadcasting at 7 a.m. Aug. 8.
"Clearly, if a president is impeached by the House of Representatives and convicted and removed from office by the Senate, he would not be entitled to receive any of the benefits granted to former presidents by the presidential pension law." GAO wrote.
The report, written in impersonal terms without specific mention of Nixon, was prepared at the request of Sen. Philip A. Hart, D-Mich.
There will also be a special primary election feature in the near future. Wright said
There is also a student-produced pro-
GAO also said that a president who previously as vice president, representative, senator, a federal employee or a member of the military might have other pension rights. Nixon served in all these capacities.
"Since the statutory language is clear and unambiguous, it appears that a president will have any time prior to a conviction in the Senate be entitled to the presidential pension . . . "
This law provides for former presidents a pension equivalent to the salary of a cabinet minister.
The legislative history of all of the pertinent statutes is silent on the point of reference.
Secret Service protection for former presidents is provided by a different law that does not go into how a president leaves office, GAO said. It provides that, at the request of the secretary of the treasury, a former president and his wife are entitled to lifetime protection.
"NEW THREADS:" is a study in fiber art on display until August 31 in the art gallery on 7 E. 7th St. The artists are Susan Wall and graduates, graduates of design. The university of Kanaka is open from 12 noon to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Sundays.
In addition to the personal pension, a GAO spokesman said, an impeached and convicted president would lose the allowance granted to former presidents to maintain and staff an office, a sum that could run close to $100,000 annually.
Presumably this would apply to Nixon even if he was convicted and removed from office.
THE LAWRENCE MANDOLIN and Guitar Ensemble will present a concert at 8 p.m. Saturday in Meade Hall. 92% Massachusetts St. Selections will include a symphony by Mozart, the Scott Joplin Rag and several other classical and contemporary selections. There will be a $1 charge for admission.
"If a president is impeached and removed from office, it would be for the Civil Service Commission and the courts to decide what the president should do on his civil service annuity," GAO said.
in brief
Performers will include the Frank Smith Trio; Bette Miller and Milt Abel; Eddie Baker and the New Breed Orchestra; the Joe Salibury Trium; Herman Bell and the Sounds In Vince-a-Bill; Sunny Kenner; and John Hutton.
A VARIETY of jazz groups will be featured in a three-hour course 7:30 p.m. Friday at the Crown Center Square, Kansas City, Mo.
The show is sponsored by the Crown
Court Office of Cultural Affairs and will be free.
The important advantage of a national public radio station is the NPR hook-up with Washington 24 hours a day, Wright said. The station receives prepared programs, such as the daily news magazine, "All Things Considered." The station also receives special programs, such as a speech by Henry Kissinger.
In addition, the station read the transcripts of President Nixon's tapes.
"We're not advocating anything," Wright said, "just making information available."
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