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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Mrs. Dykes Also Busy
84th Year, No. 95
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Thursday, February 21, 1974
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Dyche Hall Now Stands on Campsite of L. L. Dyche
KU Promoted by Early Professors
Editor's Note: This is one of a series of stories about the men for whom KU burgled the museum.
By RANDY SCHUYLER Kansan Staff Reporter
Gargoyles stare distainfully from the walls of Dyche Hall, named in honor of L. L. Dyche, professor of natural history, who ordered for construction of the building in 1899.
Dyche came to KU in 1877. He was broke. He camped out where the building is now and supported himself by hunting. He distinguished himself in 1893 by exhibiting a
panorama at the Chicago World's Fair. The exhibit included the stuffed horse Comanche, the last non-Indian survivor of Custer's last stand.
He was so well known by 1877 that when the state legislature made cuts in all the faculty members' salaries, Dyche was the only one exempted. In 1899, he began lobbying in Lawrence for a new museum where his exhibits could be shown.
The building was built in 1902 and Dyche was the first curator.
Dyche was successful in publicizing KU, but Francis Huntington Snow, the fifth wife of Dyche, died.
foundation for the museum's huge collections which now have more than 500,000 books.
Snow was one of the first three professors hired by KU at its inception. To get specimens for his biology classes, he went out and hunted animals himself.
One day Snow went fishing on the Wakarawa river. He fell in. His foot hit something hard and he pulled out the lower jaw of a mastodon. This became the nucleus
Snow also distinguished himself in the field of entomology, collecting large
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By LINDA A. HALES
Kennes Staff Recruitment
Budget to Cut LA&S Staff
Kansas Staff Reporter
Severe budget cuts in the College or Liberal Arts and Sciences will result in numerous cutbacks in teaching assistants and even some faculty positions next year.
The college may lose between $277,000 and $135,000, depending on the method used to figure the amount, George Waggoner, dean of the college, said yesterday.
"We are unhappy with the cuts," Waggoner said, "and realize that they looked at the credit-hour totals of the bank. We were down some 10,000 credit hours."
At least 44 teaching assistant positions and seven faculty positions will probably be eliminated by the cutback. The full-time faculty positions are primarily visiting professors and existing vacancies that won't be filled.
"We are not proposing, to drop anyone who has tenure." Wacquer said.
Department chairmen said news of the teaching position cutbacks came as a result of the department's closures at their regular monthly meeting and were informed only of the cuts in their own
Bryant Freeman, chairman of the French department, said, there was "a guy at the club."
The envelopes, he said, contained names of people whose positions could be eliminated, in the opinion of college administrators.
Waggoner said that before the chairmen's meeting, he had been instructed by Ambrose Sarics, vice chancellor for academic affairs, to prepare a budget for the college that would fall within the confines of the cutback.
"We reduced the budget, taking into account, first, the needs of the departments and then, the rigidity of the budget as it legally exists," Waggoner said. "We looked at all things that were detachable, both full-time and part-time, to the minimum needs of the department's."
Waggoner said a "total analysis" was submitted to the department heads.
"We said, 'look at the aspects of the weather that could be dropped, then tell us what the consequences would be for each case.'" We responded that they couldn't drop anything.
Waggoner said that most departments
Ten states were given five per cent more gasoline, and 10 states got another two per cent. The increases announced Tuesday are based on a report announced Feb. 9, creating some confusion.
WASHINGTON (AP) - The latest Federal Energy Office (FEO) effort to smooth out February's gasoline distribution has given regulators more effect on service station lines is unclear.
Here, in question and answer form, is the latest, possibly final, word as explained by them.
FEO Increases Gas Allotments to 20 States
Q. You've lost me already. What was supposed to happen in February in the first week?
A. February was supposed to be the first month in which gasoline, and some other petroleum products, were distributed from refineries to suppliers, to dealers and sometimes to customers according to a new set of federal regulations.
The purpose was to provide a fair distribution during the present shortage. Farming, on which the nation depends for 80% of its food supply, it required, before anyone else was served.
Certain essential services, which purchase gasoline in bulk quantities, were also
to receive all they need. Other services, including service stations, were to receive as much gasoline as they received in February 1972, but those allocations would be reduced, if necessary, in proportion to the shortage.
Q. Yes, I remember now, but I sort of argue that while I was waiting in line an employee asked me to pay the bill.
A. Well, you see, there was one little hitch in the program. The regulation was not designed for getting equal amounts of money from the dealers or areas or anything like that.
The allocations were to be carried out by粗油 oil company, based on its own supply
Some companies had larger supplies than others. Some served certain areas more heavily than others. The FEO says the February allocation would have reflected historical distribution patterns, and there would have been imbalances in some areas.
Q. But I thought that the energy office told all the states exactly how much they would pay for the job.
Wait, the word "energy" is clearly visible.
The whole sentence is:
Q. But I thought that the energy office told all the states exactly how much they would pay for the job.
A. That's right. On Feb 6, the energy
Office gave newsmen a 55-page computer
However, it wasn't an official allocation, but only the oil companies' estimates for each state. The FEO says those estimates were largely inaccurate.
printout listing the gasoline allocations to each state. They presented it, at first, as the
A. They sent special study teams into 20 states that seemed to have particularly tough problems of gasoline supply to check those estimates, and energy chief William E. Simon said Tuesday study teams would be sent to all 50 states.
A. On Feb 9, the energy office asked the oil companies to transfer some gasoline from 10 states with relatively good supplies to the district of Columbia, all having poor supplies.
Q. Well, what are they going to do about it?
Q. That's very nice and I hope they get their straight in time for March, but what?
Nominations of Teachers Sought For Four KU Teaching Awards
Q. How much?
A. Up to two per cent of each state's original February supply.
A. Not necessarily. The companies had to make the transfers only to the extent practicable and considering limitation of their distribution systems. That means they didn't have to do it at all, if they could find a good excuse not to.
A. No, Up to two per cent. It could be less.
Q. Well, at least it's more than they had been.
Nominations for four University of Kansas distinguished teaching awards are now being received at the Office of the Vice President in Academic Affairs. The deadline is March 8.
As previous winners, these faculty members are ineligible: Anthropology; Felix Moos, Business; Kirk S. Prentice; Kenneth W. Knopf; Chemical and Petroleum Engineering; Don W. Green, George W. Swift; Chemistry; Clark E. Bricker; Education: Flora Wast; English; Peter Casmrangle; Roy E. Roy; Dennis B. Nickelck, Dennis B. Gunn; Elizabeth Schultz.
Q. Two per cent?
Chancellor Ambrose Saricks in 231 Strong Hall
Q. Which states, under the F. 9 order, may get from two to two per cent more land?
Funds for one of the awards were donated by H. Bernerdorf of Topkea, a 1931 firm, for whom the award is named. The funds are financed by the Amoco Foundation, Inc.
The selection committee is anonymous and comprises both faculty members and students.
A. Right, I left illinois, Maryland, New Jersey and Virginia because they no longer fit in that group. I'll explain about them in a minute.
French and Italian: Barbara Craig,
Geography: Robert W. McCall; Geology:
Albert J. Rowell, German: Helga Viiglano,
History of Art: Jaume Stump; History of
Art: Jeanne Stump; Journalism:
John Bremner, Calder M. Pickett, Lee F.
Young, Mathematics: Fred S. Van Vleck;
Mechanical Engineering: Louis Burmeister,
Music Theory: John W. Pozdzik;
Philosophy: Afonso de la Pesquisa e
Political Science: Anael Pezzani;
David S. Holmes, Slavic Languages and
Literatures: Sam Anderson, Spanish:
Andrew Debicki.
A. Arkansas, Delaware, the District of
Columbia, Kentucky, Maine, Mississippi,
Missouri
Q. That’s only nine; you said 12 plus the District of Columbia.
There is neither form nor formula for nomination. The committee, however, requests that letters of nomination include a letter of support and a list of Letters should be addressed to Vice
The four awards, each carrying a $1,000 stipend, will be presented at *Commitment*
A. Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, New Mexico, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma.
Q. O.K., now which states may lose anywhere from nothing to two per cent in inflation?
Any KU teacher may be nominated by any faculty member, student, school, department, campus organization or group of individuals.
Q. What now about those four you left out?
A. They also appeared on the list of 20 states announced Tuesday by the FEO.
None of the others were listed twice.
Q. What does that mean?
weren't happy with the reduction and that he and other college administrators sympathized.
The decision on which positions to eliminate, he said, was left for the department.
A. On Tuesday, the FEO listed 10 states whose February gasoline supply would be increased five per cent: Alabama, Arizona, Texas, Florida, and New Jersey; Vermont, West Virginia, and New Jersey
Several chairmen indicated that they approved of Waggoner's handling of the problem.
The department hasn't hired a full-time faculty member since 1971, he said, because of funding and "the way the administration perceives our enrollment."
Enrollment in the department has declined some, but is stabilizing. he said.
Brower Burchill, chairman of biological sciences, said only one of two faculty vacancies would be filled because of the cutback.
and Virginia. Those last two were on the old list. Their previous "maybe" two per cent in now included in their definite five per cent, but those must provide those five per cent increases.
The February supplies of gasoline were also increased two per cent Tuesday for Connecticut, Florida, Indiana Massachusetts, Missouri, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Illinois and Maryland.
These last two also were on the old list. Their "maybe" two per cent now has been made a definite two per cent which the oil companies must provide.
"It's a complex situation and it has been dealt with very well," said Rex Martin, chairman of the philosophy department. "In thought, though, the students will be burt."
Oliver J. Phillips, chairman of classes and classical archaeology, said, "Waggoner promised to help us but I don't know if he's ever been caught in this kind of bind."
Freeman said the chairmen were given 24 hours to defend in writing the positions that they have agreed to.
The English department will lose seven assistant instructors and one full-time position will not be filled, George J. Worth, chairman of the English department said,
will lose four part-turtles teaching assistants,
one assistant professor and one visiting
fact of this c time is due in part, he said,
to the fact that assistant professors must be
notified by March 1 if their contracts aren't
to be renewed.
"I wish it could have been with more advance notice, more lead time." Freeman
"I'm disappointed but I think I understand why it's necessary," he said.
The French department, Freeman said.
Although Burchell had the option of filling the faculty positions at the expense of teaching assistant positions, he said he really had no choice.
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"We traded teaching assistants for faculty last year. he said. "To do it again we had to hire a new instructor."
the wall wouldn't leave the same marks,
the experts said they hadn't done that but
were certain that pulling the plug would not
leave marks.
2 Challenges Emerge From Tape Reports
The challenge came from Allan D. Bell Jr., president of Dektor Counterintelligence and Security, Inc., who appeared first on a Washington television interview program. He said the team had been linked to the power input on the machine, could have caused pulses that would have left the same marks the experts said were caused by pushing of buttons on the computer.
Members of the White House staff suggested to reporters that they watch the televised debates.
The chemistry department will lose three out-of-time equivalent teaching assistants,
And both challenges were factors that prompted U.S. District judge John J. Sirica on Tuesday to order all those involved in the trial to further public discussion of the matter.
One challenge came from a volunteer, the other from an unnamed expert consulted by James D. St. Clair, President Richard Nixon's chief Watergate attorney.
WASHINGTON (AP)—Following encouragement from the White House, two challenges have emerged from a crucial moment in the Watergate scandal, examining the subpoenaed Watergate tapes.
The experts also testified that they had found a defective part in Miss Woods' recorder and replaced it. That action was the basis of the publicized challenge.
At issue is the report of the six-member panel of exports on the 18th - minute gap in the tape of a June 20, 1972, conversation between the President and H. R. Haldenman.
The panel, chosen jointly by the White House and the special prosecutor's office, and then appointed by Sirica, told the court it had determined that the Uber 5000 recorder on which Rose Mary Woods, the President's secretary, had listened to the complaint was dismissed and started manually at least five times during the 18%-minute segment.
The experts said they based their conclusion on the electronic marks made by the record and erase heads on the Uber wiper head. The head is left on the tape when the record key pops up and sends a momentary pulse of electricity through the heads just before
St. Clair questioned the experts about whether they were certain that decapitating animals could cause brain damage.
But Ziegler also told reporters at a briefing on Tuesday that Bell wasn't the expert St. Clair has cited in statements of the committee. Hussein has refused to name the experts.
More recently, when Bell's theory was discussed favorably in an article in Science magazine, a publication of the American Association for the Advancement of Science House Press Secretary L. Ziegler told reporters they should read the article.
Bell said in a telephone interview that his conclusions were drawn from an examination of the panel's report. He said he had no access to either the tapes or the recorders that were turned over to the court-appointed group.
Vets Fight for Academic Survival
By BOB MARCOTTE
Kansas Staff Reporter
Steven Wheelseh, Lawrence freshman, enlisted in the Navy in October 1984 and served four years, most of them aboard landing ships in the Orient and the Pacific, to evacuate some of the last marines to live Vietnam and was shot at by the enemy.
He's now one of about 1,100 veterans enrolled at the University of Kansas, some of whom are Vietnam veterans like himself. The transitions he had to make after leaving the service and coming to KU are in many representative of the experiences of others.
Wheelhouse isn't one to brag about his military service, but he said the experience had given him a different outlook from most students.
"A LOT OF PEOPLE are here only to party," he said. He spent three years barbring in the navy, he said, found it a waste of time and money, and after another week, he left.
His experiences in the service taught him that "40 per cent of the people you meet outside of school only can you as a friend for the advantage they can take of you. A lot of students don't know what it's like out there."
"They think the only thing on your mind is sex and booze—in that order." he said.
He said he hadn't encountered any resentment from fellow students; but when he first came to KU, he said, he encountered a joke, especially among girls, of the navy man.
Because of that, he said, he usually doesn't tell other persons that he is a veteran until he has "talked to them for at least 10 minutes."
"THEY HAVE TO KNOW what is really inside of me before I let them know."
One of the reasons he enlisted, he said, was to keep his parents from having to put him through college. He had a sister attending KU at the time of his enlistment.
He drew $220 a month in GI benefits after coming to KU from the service. It wasn't enough to cover all his expenses, he said, and he ended up having to get money from KU or from another month or so to help with big expenses such as payments for car insurance and tutition.
"I was over there doing a job. I went in to
she else wouldn't have to." he said.
He applied for part-time work at four or five places when he first came to KU, but he said he hadn't received a reply from any of them.
RENT ALONE EQUALS about one-half of his monthly check, he said.
His benefits went up $40 a month after he married in December, he said, but the total still equaled only about one-third of the pay and benefits he got while he was in the
DEAN KACLEY, AN ADVISER in the dean of men's office, said he had talked with Mr. McPherson.
He has at least a casual acquaintance with about 15 or 20 other veterans on campus. He is philosophical about his military service.
But it hasn't been all hardship for him since he got out of the service. He is now in his third semester at KU and his training in geography has made a huge difference in meteorology and geography.
Kackley said he hesitated to make generalizations about campus veterans, but
They face the same challenges, he said, as other students who come back to school.
he said most were older and more independent than many students and faced the challenge of acclimatizing themselves to a very different social environment.
"A lot of veterans did not crack a book to study for four years," he said. Some of them went into the military because they didn't like the "academic bag," he said, but later found that they didn't care much for military life either.
For these, the process of becoming students again is a tedious one of disciplining themselves to sit down to study. For those who are among veterans on campus, he said, is finance. The sole source of income for most veterans, he said, are the benefits provided by the GI Bill. The benefits, he said, are just enough to get the veteran through school. But GI benefits are often not enough, he said, for a veteran to buy civilian clothes or to purchase a set of pots and pans for his household. Most veterans persons straight out of high school would already own or could borrow from their families.
Several veterans are interested in jobs, he said, but have been unable to find any.
Other veterans he has talked with, he said, seemed as though they were lost.
"They seem indefinite about what they want to do. They get here and feel like they know."
AFTER THEIR EXPERIENCES in the military, Karkley said, "we view things differently."
He has noticed a camaraderie among campaver students, and not in the sense of friendship.
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