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Thursdav. February 21. 1974
University Daily Kansan
Search for Privacy Cited as Cause for Dorm Decline
Editor's Note: This is the first of two stories on housing conditions and trends in
By SUZI SMITH and JILL WILLIS
Kansas St. Anfarniere
The need for privacy has caused more and more University of Kansas students to move into apartments during the past five years.
According to a KU housing report, 53.1 per cent of KU students now live in campus rooms or apartments. This compares with 31.5 per cent in the fall of 1969.
Bob House, Wichita senior, said recently that he had moved into an apartment complex from a fraternity house this year, mainly because he wanted more privacy.
HOWSIE SAID HE LIKED apartment living more than fraternity living because it was a place to relax and enjoy life.
and the obligations were fewer.
Carol Patterson, Carthage, Moe, graduate student, said her apartment, which is in a building near the university.
Patterson said she chose an apartment in a house instead of a complex because she said the apartment complexes were poor and their walls were thin.
Charlie McCord, Kansas City, Mo., junior, who also moved out of a fraternity, shares a house with two other men. He said he didn't like eating at specific times, as he had to do in the fraternity. He said living in the house was more flexible.
THE HOUSE IS MORE quiet and more private for studying, he said. The only disadvantage, he said, was in getting things around because the landlord lived in Philadelphia.
Shari Brooks, St. Louis sophomore, said
Brooks said she lived in a residence hall last year and didn't like it. She said she didn't like the idea of living in a sorority house "with 60 other chicks."
JOHN BEISNER, SALINA JUNIOR and former president of the Association of University Residence Halls, said students would benefit the Halls for economic and convenience reasons.
With rising food prices, it's cheaper for a student to have the food prepared for him by a local vendor.
The number of students living in KU residence hills has dropped 8.5 per cent in the past five years. Now 16.9 per cent of KU students live in residence halls.
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LA&S Budget Forces Faculty
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according to John Landgrebe, chairman of the department.
“It’s going to hurt,” he said. “It could put a punch to sections at the freshman in line.”
The geology department will lose four teaching assistants, Ernest Angino, chairman of the department, said. The department now has eight teaching assistants, a decrease of six over the past few years.
"It is going to cripple one of the stronger geology programs in the country," Angloin
Three teaching assistants and one visiting lecturer will be lost, he said. One position left open because of a sabbatical won't be filled.
The German department may have to reduce graduate offerings and options currently available to undergraduate students in beginning courses, Helmut Huelsbergen, chairman of the department, said.
New and expanded programs in the
history and political science departments will suffer because of teaching cutbacks,
Earl Eehrling, chairman of the political science department, said one assistant professor has been charged with stealing money.
"We were going to use the vacancy for U. politics and public administration jobs."
Charles Sidman, chairman of the history department, said he would lose two graduate assistants but no faculty members.
"At the moment, department morale is
he said, and "I think I can sustain it
for a year."
However, Sidman said faculty members were developing new courses and teaching off campus and at night, "and paying it out of their own pockets."
One faculty member could have been let go legally, he said, but wasn't, possibly because the history department had ex-cep tions to a "tremendous increase" in enrollment.
The psychology department has lost one
--full professor in the past year and is being allowed to fill the vacancy with an assistant professor, Charles Kiesler, chairman of the department, said.
Jodi Deutsch, New Shrewbury, N.J. senior, and originator of Whistle Stop, said yesterday that the project would serve a dual purpose.
Whistle Plan Tries to Stop Rapes
However, he said University funds had accounted for only 60 per cent of the full professor's salary, so the dollar in return to the department wasn't substantial.
Liz Witt, co-president of the Lawrence
A community wide effort to reduce sex crimes by urging women to carry whistles and making alone will be studied by the dean of law enforcement and Lawrence law enforcement officers.
The sociology department will be allowed to negotiate one faculty position, Marston McCluggage, chairman of the department, said.
chapter of the National Organization for Women, said the whistle campaign would also serve as a symbol of solidarity among women trying to stop attacks.
A proposal, called Whistle Stop, was discussed yesterday afternoon at a meeting of about 35 university and city officials and the Kansas City mayor in the Kansas Room of the Kansas Union.
McCluggage said that his department had been understaffed, but that in light of other cutbacks, "We don't have anything to kick about."
According to Deutsch, a whistle could startle the attacker long enough to allow the victim to get away. Deutsch also said that if people were aware of the project, they would know to come to the aid of the victim or call the police.
Lawrence expired of Police Richard Stanix expressed concern that a whistle would only excite the attacker and cause him to seriously injure the victim. However, when he did not give his whistle on the attacker would probably be little different from that of a scream or shout.
Anthropology department chairman Henry Lordsgaard he said would lose two teaching assistants and one and one-half faculty members. The "half" faculty anthropological linguistics and is also employed in the linguistics department.
"The faster we can get the information, the better off we are," said John Thomas, who worked with the company.
Law enforcement officials at the meeting stressed the importance of immediate action.
Lawrence police also urged citizens to use Crime Alerts, a telephone number that anyone may call to give information to law enforcement officers are not required to identify themselves.
Lindaugaard the elimination of that position would mean the end of a sub-region. A sub-region is
an organized housing situation while still having independence," he said.
Graduate students studying an-
thropological linguistics have protested in a
charter to Charlene Archie R. Dykes, and
Landgraf Schmidt had appealed to
Dykes, without success.
"At the high administrative levels the priority is on vocational training," he said. "We're not deemed quite as relevant. The whole notion of the liberal arts college is being challenged like never before. It's disgusting."
Mark Hanson, Shawnee Mission freshman, said an advantage of a residence hall is the opportunity to work with other students.
THER'S ALWAYS PLENTY of hot water,
he said, and the plumbing and heating are
Hanson complained, however, about noise and a lack of privacy.
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"When there are 500 people stacked on top of each other," he said. "It's impossible to stay up."
Although there are fewer persons living in a scholarship hall as compared with a residence hall, she said, there is still a lack of privacy.
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Joel CoX, Wichita senior, said there wasn't much privacy in his scholarship hall, but she had a room.
Sara Henderson, Webster Groves, Mo,
juniar, she moved from Nainshi Mall to an apartment because she didn't like the city. She said she she said she appreciated the mall service.
Cox said the advantages of his scholarship hall were low cost and closeness to campus.
cooperative living situation, said Pam Hoover, Lawrence freshman.
relaxed and studious atmosphere in the house during the week.
SINCE 1969, THE percentage of the student who has divided from 9.6 to 7.0 per cent sorbites from 4.8 per cent to 4.2 per cent. The fraternal system has, however, shown a decrease in this ratio.
AT TIMES YOU WOULD think there was a lack of privacy in the fraternity, he said, but there is always a quiet place in the house to study.
"WE GET TO DECIDE pretty much how things go and that's something you don't run into much," she said. "You have room for change."
He said he preferred fraternity living because of the possibilities for self-government and because of the lasting relationships he thought he would make.
Mary Babbey, Salina sophomore and
Mary Babbey, Omega sorority, said she felt
she was in love with her.
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Women aren't permitted upstairs at Bengston's fraternity except Friday, Saturday and Sunday evenings. Bengston said he thought this rule permitted a more
Greg Bengston, Greg sophomore and a member of Phta Delta Theta, said he liked the team's ability to work in a group.
"You don't have a bunch of people you don't know when you're in the TV room," she said.
Barbee said she also got to know many people through house activities.
Another advantage, she said, is that there someone to help her with school work — maybe even a homework helper.
Henderson said it was easier to study in her apartment because there has been no person in the house.
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"THEY GIVE YOU a lot of freedom but they make you feel like you’re constantly under surveillance," she said. "They try to screw you when they can as far as money is."
The number of students living in scholarship halls has increased slightly, but the percentage of the entire student body in these halls has remained unchanged.
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