Friday, March 22, 1974
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Faculty Grievance Motion Delayed
The University Council yesterday postponed until April action on a motion by a council member to establish a Faculty Grievance Committee.
The motion to establish the committee was introduced by J. Bunker Clark, associate professor of music history, who requested that the Organization and Administration (O&A) Committee study the issue.
Clark's resolution said that the grievance
According to council members, the main reasons for postponement of the motion were the present work load of the OKA staff and the increased study by the end of the academic year and
committee should be charged with accepting "miscellaneous grievances, problems, or complaints in matters not covered by existing University committees."
Crisis or Problem . . .
The council also received a report that the Board of Regents Retirement Committee had approved a document on faculty retirement.
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Allan Schwartz, a carpenter for KU Buildings and Grounds department, commutes in a car pool to work. Schwartz is known for down about 10 miles southwest of Lawrence.
Schwarz said that there were six people in the car pool and that three of the people do the driving, each driving the third week. All six people work for the University.
Schwarz said he thought the car pool saved at least 10 gallons of gasoline a day. Although the value of the car pool has been accentuated by the energy crisis, Schwarz said his pool had been in operation since before 1965.
Most local businessmen interviewed have experienced higher delivery costs and heating bills because of energy price increases.
Schwarz said that because the cost of gasoline has increased so much in the past year his family had cut down on the number of pleasure drives it took.
DON RANDALL, owner of Owens Flower Shop, 846 Indiana St., said the shop has begun charging a 50 cents delivery charge because of increased fuel and maintenance costs. He says its thermostat at 65 to 68 degrees in heatings on save money on heating bills, he said.
VI. Alexander, owner of Alexander's Flowers and Gifts, 826 Iowa St., said her shop had felt the pinch of higher energy costs in the form of delivery charges. He asked her to grant her shop have begun charging for her addition to their normal delivery charges.
Gene Durham, manager of Campus Hideaway Pizzaer, 106 W. North Park St., said the gasoline shortage hadn't forced the team to delay for delivering pizzas and other drippers.
"The only problem it's caused is concern," Durham said of the energy crisis.
the fact that council members to be elected the next week should have an opportunity to vote.
Durham said Campus Hideaway had done its best to absorb the increased costs and resources of campus, but it still needed
LAWRENCE FREIGHT Line, Inc., 1321
North 43rd St., started charging a 6 per cent
fuel service charge on all deliveries on
the road to Dale Black,
manager of the company.
Black said the company had to institute the charge to cover increased fuel and gasoline costs.
University Dally Kansan
"We were absorbing the costs last year," he said.
Customers don't complain about the 6 per cent charge once the company explains about the increased fuel costs, according to Black.
The company keeps a supply of diesel fuel and gasoline in tanks in Lawrence, he said, and doesn't have much trouble getting fuel for its trucks.
MOST OF THE LAWRENCE residents interviewed said the cost of heating their homes hadn't caused any major rearrangement of their budgets. Most of the heaters were replaced down their thermostats in accordance with recommended conservation measures.
Most residents of Lawrence and the rural area nearest the city heat their homes with natural gas. The cost of natural gas is regulated by the government and hasn't increased at the rapid rate of propane price increases.
The dialing down of thermostats by natural gas customers has been apparent to Kansas Public Service Gas Co., Inc. 735 Massachusetts St., according to W.C. L. Merrill, the manager of the company. The company supplies natural gas to the Lawrence area.
The document will be forwarded to the Council of Presidents for their review and recommendations. The document will be returned by the council to each of the six state campuses for final comments and then be sent to the recipients for action.
Salome said the gross income of the company was down considerably from last year. The reduction in gas consumption is only due to the relatively mild winter, she said.
The company hasn't computed the percentage of the consumption reduction at Calumet, but he has. Salome said, but he said the company expects to have the computations finished.
The price of natural gas to the home owner has risen about 10 per cent in the past two years, Salome said. Kansas Public Service has requested a 7 to 8 per cent rate increase from the Lawrence and Lawrence companies expected to increase to be approved within two months.
The council also heard a report on recent University Senate Executive Committee (SenEx) activities. The activities included studies of the potential problems resulting from campus drug raids and of the Faculty Senate request for an investigation of security on campus in the evening hours. Other studies reported were on the Parking System and the Campus police, the hiring and firing policy of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
James Seaver, SenEx chairman, said that SenEx had decided not to make an official recommendation on the traffic report. The decision, he said, was made after a SenEx meeting with University officials and a student representative.
This rate increase appears to be a herald of the future. Energy costs aren't likely to reverse the upward trend in energy costs, according to Milstead, manager of
"People are never going to see the real low prices again," he said.
the traffic issues in more detail, he said, and they will express their individual positions. He said that no action would be taken on the report by Chancellor Archie R. Dykes until a Student Senate committee submitted a report in April.
Individual SenEx members want to study
The University officials and student who participated in the meeting, Seaver said, were Capt. Joseph O. Marzillr, professor of Navy ROTC and board chairman; John M. Thomas, director of security and parking; Keith L. Nitcher, vice chancellor for business affairs; R Keith Lawton, director of operations; L. Ian Davis, office manager for security and parking, and John Beisser, Saluja minor and student body president.
Other action taken by the council included appointment of a committee to count ballots in the council election, passage of three articles and introduction of new members.
The resolutions proposed minor changes to the Senate Code and the Rules and Regulations of the Senate. The resolutions will not be final until they are voted on Thursday at the University Senate meeting, a spokesman said.
The new members introduced were Ed Kolls, Junction City sophomore, and Bill Wrenner, sophomore.
As things stand now, "Every effort will be made to diploma at commencement in May," according to Gilbert Dyck, dean of admissions and records.
Previously Dyck had decided not to issue diplomas at commencement because of a time problem with the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, which had to manually agree check. For 1,800 to 1,000 prospective students in a span of two and a half days.
Administrators to Meet To Study Diploma Plan
The professional schools, Dyck said,
could handle their degree checks in two and
three weeks.
University administrators have changed their minds several times on whether graduating seniors will actually receive their diplomas at commencement.
But now the degree check for the college
will be processed by computers, according to Dyck.
The computer process had been considered earlier but Dyck said that the Administrative Information Systems Group should program the program would take 58 days to set up.
But after Chancellor Archie R.Dykes and the vice chancellors discussed whether diplomas should be issued at com- mon universities, Dykel said he decided to review the question.
Dyck said that he would meet today with executive vice chancellor Del Shankel, AIS and the college to discuss whether the events at commencement would be possible.
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A 47 million gallon mistake in computing the base gasoline allotment for Kansas almost deprived the state of 7.9 million gallons of gasoline for the month of March.
Harold Wills, state fuel coordinator, said yesterday that the Federal Energy Office (PEO) had computed the Kansas gasoline as the base figure for March 1972.
He said a check of the Kansas Department of Revenue records showed that Kansas received 162 million gallons of gasoline in that month.
"The allotment for Kansas for March 1974 was derived by using a 105 million gallon base figure and adding two per cent of that figure, plus 10 million gallons." Wills said. "Weddon don't have any idea where the FEO got that base figure."
Wills said the 105 million gallon figure was provided to the energy office by a company called Alta.
The oil companies had intended to put 126 million gallons of gasoline in Kansas, as they did for the oil that were allotted. They have agreed to go ahead and put in 126 million gallons, so we're not really receiving any extra gasoline from our supply. We tended to give to Kansas in the first place."
"Our figures can be substantiated," Wills said. "To crosscheck them we took the Department of Revenue's figure of 159 million gallons of March, 1972. This figure didn't include the gallonage of one oil company that had pulled out of Kansas, so we took the last known figures for that company and projected them up to 100 per gallon, so they would have delivered the state. The total was off by $80,000 gallons.
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