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Thursday, June 27, 1974
University Daily Kansan
Rehabilitation Objective Of New Judicial Center
The judicial center, soon to be built in Lawrence, can be a rehabilitative facility, which few county jails are, Mary Lee Brochmann, chairman of the Douglas County chapter of the Kansas Council on Crime and Delinquency, said Tuesday.
Brochmann said that, with a properly trained staff, the judicial center could provide a humane and rehabilitative environment.
Construction of the judicial center, which will include courtrooms for Districts I and II. Douglas county sheriff and Lawrence police departments and a combined correctional facility for the Lawrence and Douglas County, will begin in August. It will be built east of the present courthouse and county jail.
The two-story correctional facility will include a multi-purpose room for exercise or religious services and rooms for counselling. The facility is also provided for family visitation and medical
aid, as well as offices for vocational and educational counselors, social workers and nurses.
The new jail will be a maximum security facility, with steel-reinforced walls and television monitors in the corridors. Brochmann said.
"The modules are completely enclosed, allowing segregation of prisoners according to need."
The jail will also include eight modules with three to five cells each.
The judicial center could be completed by spring 1976, Water Cragan, chairman of the committee.
The project is being financed by a combination of federal revenue sharing funds from both the city and county, general obligation bonds, which will be paid off by the taxpayers, and money from a special equipment levy collected from 1983 to 1972.
Bids for the building of the center will be taken next month.
Satellite Library Project To Extend KU Resources
The Satellite Library Information Network project, to be launched in December 1975, is the first unified library effort to use a satellite to transmit information as rapidly and effectively as possible. H. Robert Maliwovnik, assistant director of the University of Kansas' education and statistics in the University of Kansas' library system, said recently.
The KU library system is one of the four major libraries in the $1,250,000 communications project, which will test the feasibility of using the satellite as an extension of local library resources for residents of 12 states.
The resources of the KU library, the University of Denver Graduate School of Librarianship, the Wyoming State Library and the Nataona County, Wyo., library, would be immediately shared with communities and residents in the 12-state area.
"Its importance is its immediacy. Malinsowy, who is KU's coordinator of the project," she said.
Librarians in the 12 states decided they needed the information network because the area has some of the more sparsely settled areas in the country.
The project has been granted "designated user" approval from NASA and would have free use of the satellite during its two-year life span, Malinowsky said.
The library project would share the satellite with eight other experiments and KU would receive the transmissions of all eight, he said.
However, the project must have funds for planning and for an additional 20 ground stations to the 56 already in operation, Malinowsky said.
"If we don't get funding, the whole thing goes down the drain," he said.
The four major participants would be responsible for different segments of the
KU's involvement would be twofold, Malinowski said. The first half would be to develop a bibliographic data base that would provide resources for cataloging information, library locations of books and materials, and information that all libraries have in common.
A person would be able to get a list of all available information on any subject in the course.
Second, KU would provide an educational program in which KU would transmit programs through the satellite to show what libraries can offer, teach librarians how a library can transmit and receive information that would be useful to government agencies.
The whole idea is to alert the listener to what is available at his library. The next step is to instruct librarians in remote areas how to locate the information that will be requested if it isn't available at the local library," Malinowski said.
Junior high and high schools in remote areas are where most of the ground stations are set up. Kansas sites haven't been determined yet.
"We are really looking at the cost to see whether the program would be feasible for our students."
Because information can be transmitted in seconds, he said, the project would be a major effort to the 12-state region. All of the services would be delivered in only 50 hours programming a year.
Donna Feinberg of Sunflower Cablevision prepares to tape a scene from the KU production of "The Glass Menagerie" to be shown on Channel 6 at 7 o'clock. The play,
directed by Ronald Willis, associate professor of speech and drama and theatre arts, University of New England.
Kansas Staff Photo
to try writing plays. The production of the
1956 adaptation of *The World of William Ingle* festival at KU
Faculty Tries to Avoid Tenure Cuts
BY DONNA HOWELL Kansan Staff Reporter
Prevention of financial exigency is the goal of a group of concerned faculty members of the University of Kansas Senate Executive Committee (SenEx). Grant Goodman, professor of history and East Asian studies, said yesterday.
The faculty members are writing a series of specific proposals that will go before the first SenEx meeting in the fall, said Goodman, who is a member of the groom.
aspects of the current effort were "to view financial exigency as a worst case possibility and to understand how it might be dealt with the potential of declining future enrollments."
In a spring SenEx report, financial exigency was defined as "the fiscal situation in which the University is no longer able to carry out its educational goals without eliminating the position of one or more tenured members of the faculty."
Goodman said the most important
"As enrollments go up, so does state funding." he said.
He said state funding of universities depended on enrollment.
This formula, he said, is becoming difficult to follow because of decreasing efficiency.
"We have four to five years to prepare for declining enrollments. If we prep now when enrolments are not declining, the expositional exigency will be prevented," he said.
Goodman said the group was making sufficient leeway in their planning to avoid the possibility of a runaway.
He said the group was developing plans that would sustain a high quality of education.
There are other means of funding a university than by the number of students enrolled.
Goodman said there was now a committee of three persons appointed by the local chapter of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) studying the possible organization of a collective group of students in order to obtain their demands. He said this group would put their proposals before the AAUP in the fall.
The process of obtaining collective bargaining is a complicated task, he said. In 1971, the Kansas Legislature passed the Public Employee Relations Act, which enables university employees to engage in collective bargaining.
If 30 per cent approve, an election is to select a group, such as the AAUP, to be the unit's collective bargaining representative. If a unit doesn't elect a representative, Goodman said, there can be no collective bargaining.
College at Pittsburg had a petition approved by the board in April.
However, after the PERB approves a petition for collective bargaining, at least 30 per cent of the petitioning unit must request representative, Goodman said.
Goodman said that 50 per cent of the faculty members responding last spring to a questionnaire on collective bargaining favored collective bargaining and from 80 to 90 per cent of them wanted the AAUP to represent them.
The Public Employee Relations Act provided that no fewer than five state employees must be on a collective bargaining before the Public Employee Relations Board (PERB), he said. PERB must give its approval before a state employee group can become a collective bargaining party.
U. S. Steel Corp. Announces Price Increase
U. S. Steel Corp., the nation's largest steel producer, raised its prices yesterday by approximately 15 per cent on products used in the construction, automobile and appliance industries. Those products represent about half of the steel produced in the United States, but ranked-ranked steel producer, increased its prices about the same amount Monday.
House Subcommittee Okays Livestock Loans
Senate Passes Bill to Extend Veteran Aid
The Senate passed legislation to keep benefits from expiring Sunday for four million veterans who served between 1955 and 1966. The unanimous action was taken after the Senate and House Veterans Affairs committees remained deadlocked on how much in additional benefits veterans should receive under the new law. But some veterans were removed from the bill for separate action, and the House is expected to pass it today. The extension will cover 285,000 veterans now enrolled in school.
A House Agriculture subcommittee approved an emergency credit-relief measure authorizing $2 million in guaranteed loans to livestock producers facing heavy losses in a sagging market. The full committee will act on the measure this morning and is expected to report it to the floor quickly. The committee added sheep and goat-raisers to those eligible for the loans. The measure would set a limit of $85,000 on each loan and limit each operation to one loan.
Liberals Give Up Tax Cut, Reform Efforts
Faculty members from Kansas State
Secretary of State Henry Kissinger described as "nonsense" charges that Congress was not completely informed of negotiations with the Soviet Union on arms limitations. Sen Henry Jackson, Den. Wash., had charged the administration with an attempt to cover up secret negotiations to close a loophole that would have allowed Soviet deployment of 70 additional sea-based missiles. Kissinger conceded that the Joint Chiefs of staff saw a loophole in the 1972 agreement but said the whole question represented a "middle-level bureaucratic argument."
Kissinger Denies Secret Negotiation Charge
Senate liberals gave up their efforts to tie tax-cut and tax-reform amendments to a debt-limit bill and allowed the measure to be passed with nothing attached to it. They made the decision after they had failed in another attempt of an ill-fated buildup against their reform proposals. The outcome of the liberal's argument on the proposed amendments strongly opposed the tax cut and reform. In eight days of debate the liberals never succeeded in getting a straight vote on the tax cut or any of their reforms.
Collective bargaining the future depends on the attitude of the legislature and regents toward KU and the attitude of the administration toward the faculty, Goodman said. He said both attitudes are positive now.
Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor,
said the administration would have to re-
quire its policy of meeting with the AAUP if it became a collective bargaining group.
Commission Okays Plans For Subdivision, Rezoning
By SHARON WALSH Kansan Staff Reporter
The preliminary plan, or plan of a town site, of a large subdivision and two rezoning requests were approved at a meeting of the Planning Committee. County Planning Commission yesterday
The preliminary plot of Vankeer Tank Subdivision Estates, a 420-acre subdivision located north of 32rd Street in Douglas County, was approved with two conditions. All lots in dense wood areas must be a minimum of one acre in size and areas with more than a 15 per cent grade must be shown as such on the final plot. This condition would allow prospective buyers to be well-informed of the rather steep grades.
Mike Davis, newly-elected chairman of the commission, and recently named university attorney, said the approval of the commission would benefit the city if the area is annexed.
If the property is annexed, the city will take on responsibilities for the police and fire protection of the area, as well as for providing water and other facilities.
Since the area is not a part of the city at this time, water and air will be the residents' developers.
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