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Friday, February 1, 1974
University Dally Kansan
Whomper's Success Still Unstable
By SUZI SMITH
Kansan Staff Reporter
Despite a $12,012 investment by University of Kansas students, the KU Reclamation Center (Whomper) has never been more than precariously in the black.
The Whomper has been plagued by poor management and poor organization since it began, Kathy Allen, former director, said yesterday.
The Whomper started smashing trash in January 1971. No less than six operational managers and four directors have been in the business since that date, four of them reorganization have been made.
The Whimper, so named for the sound the machine makes when it crushes cans and bottles, began operation in Memorial Stadium.
BILL EBERT, student body president in 1970-71, was appointed Whomper director in the summer of 1971 and received $1200 to a report on the operation of the Whomper
Ebert obtained a loan of $800 from McDonald Beverage, Inc., to buy a truck. According to Alien, only $200 of that loan was ever repaid.
At the end of the summer, Moll Laffley,
then student body vice president, set up a committee of three students and four
students to perform audits and to oversee operations of the Whomper.
According to the minutes of the Student Senate meeting of Oct. 20, 1971, the committee was to meet monthly to hear reports on the Whomper.
But R. T. Aangeenbrug, director of
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thought the site that was least expensive should be used.
Lenz said there might be drainage problems if a hospital was built on the latter site, but sewers, streets and power lines would have to be removed and 8-10 houses condemned if it was built next to Lawrence Memorial.
Before the meeting ended, Cerf moved that an ad hoc committee be formed to study questions raised at the meeting, but did not present no action was taken on the motion.
Also before the meeting ended, Lenz invited people who desired more information to attend a hospital board meeting next Tuesday afternoon.
institutional Research and Planning and a member of the committee, said it didn't meet regularly after Gary Jacobs was chosen director in October 1971.
KENNETH ARMITAGE, professor of biology, also was a member of that committee. He said he could find agendas from only two meetings—in November 1971 and April 1973, appointed to lead. He said he could find no copies of the minutes of those meetings.
While Jacobs was director, the truck that Ebert had bought at what Anneengrob called a bargain basement price broke down. It was taken back to Jin Clark Motors, where it had been purchased, to be repaired.
A spokesman for Jim Clark Motors said the truck, which needed a new engine, was due to arrive in Los Angeles later.
In the spring of 1972 the Whomper T-shirts arrived. The T-shirts were purchased with a $1,092 loan from the Endowment Association.
Alen said that the loan came due in June 1972, and the balance on the loan had been $50,000.
THE SHIRTS were to be sold by the Kansas Union Bookstore and area merchants as a promotional and fund-rising project. Allen said the shirts were distributed all over Lawrence but no record was kept of the quantity each business had.
She said that by writing to every Lawrence business she could think of she was able to recover about 300 of the 750 shirts.
She said the remaining 450 were either sold or stolen.
The T-shirts kept turning up in old places. A box of shirts was found in the basement of a bar when it changed color. Others were found in closets in the Union.
In the spring of 1972 the Whomper was moved from the stadium to its present location.
The new location, which is in downtown Lawrence, has been another disadvantage.
Men's liberation groups, part of the male consciousness movement at the University of Kansas, are now joining women in their rebellion against traditional sex roles.
Two consciousness groups, one male and one female, were formed at an Olive Hall meeting Wednesday night by veterans of male and female consciousness groups.
Concern with male consciousness began at KU last spring when 40 or 45 men participated weekly in three or four groups, including women. They went on to Webster, Geerens senior, said yesterday.
Male Liberation Asks End To Strictures of Sex Roles
About 300 men's liberation groups exist across the country, according to a recent National Observer article. Most members of these middle class and in their mid-tools to mid-50s.
Consciousness groups attempt to expose their participants to unrealistic sexual stereotypes imposed upon them by society, William Robinson, assistant dean of men and assistant instructor of speech and drama, told the groups at the meeting.
Deyton said, "The majority of the students and faculty members here were very passionate."
but we get our share of married, divorced and middle-aged."
Many of these participants see the male consciousness movement as an outgrowth of the women's liberation movement. The women who have participated group similar to those used by the women
Most men in the movement rebel against the traditional concepts of male-female relationships, male-to-male friendships and male home and career roles.
"Many men I know are taking a more active role in the raising of their children, taking part in their day-to-day care and often off to spend with the kids," Devon said.
"I suddenly realized that stereotypic things were degrading me as much as they were women. My biggest change was when I started to carry a canabell as men in all respects," he said.
Frank Bencivenga, assistant dean of men and former group member, said that relating to males is in some ways the hardest stereotype to overcome. "Competition among males is so ingrained that I often feel our weaknesses, to say 'I blew it,' he said.
City officials said last fall that the Whomper was a possible hazard to the buildings.
RECORDS SHOW no apparent problems with the Whipener, despite a frequent staff call.
At that time a suggestion was made by Lawrence Mayor John Johnrick that the town should move to a new location.
That suggestion was unworkable for the Whompron Allen said, because of the equipment that would have been needed and because of fire regulations concerning the
In the summer of 1973, Allen found that someone had made a contract with a man in Kansas City to provide him three sizes of caps on a regular basis.
Alen found out about the contract when the man threatened to get an attorney because the contract had been breached. He tried to release the Whomper from the contract.
THE WHOMPER was overdrawn at Lawrence National Bank, Allen said, because of a deposit that was lost when she received the deposit to the new board treasurer in December.
The Reclamation Center was closed during the semester break but reopened a week ago. Only cans are accepted. Problems with getting a truck from Owens of Illinois, which bays the Whammer's glass, have caused overflowing, overflowing, with barrels of crushed glass.
As of Jan. 15, the employees' salaries had been paid. This leaves the Whomper $20 at Lawrence National Bank, $396.80 in a senate account restricted to supplies and expenses, and enough in another senate restricted account to pay rent until June 30.
The Whomper was incorporated with the state of Kansas as of Jan. 11, 1974 and a capital disposition contract was signed with the Student Senate on Jan. 27. The contract makes the Whomper liable for its own debts and takes it out of control of the senate.
The future of the Whomper is still clouded, Allen said. One problem is that it costs more to recycle glass than it does to produce glass from natural resources.
But, she said, aluminum is cheaper to recycle. The Adolph Coors plant buys aluminum from the Whomper for $200 at ton. The aluminum canns weigh only a fourth of a ton.
Allen said the Whomper had shown that it could attract public response and cooperation for recycling, but success for the market for the materials the public supplied.
Bicentennial Group Favors County over City Activities
The Lawrence Bicentennial Committee vote last night to coordinate activities for the U.S. bicentennial celebration on a countrified instead of a civilide basis.
The decision that local bicentennial activities should be conducted on a countywide basis came because some committee members were county residents and representatives from other communities had expressed an interest in a joint effort.
The committee also elected an executive committee and established nine other committees designed to elicit community input and provide information to interrelated parties.
University of Kansas professors were elected to two of the other nine committees.
Elected to the executive committee were Ted A. Kennedy, RFD 2, chairman; Mrs. Clencoe Hills, 845 Illinois St., vice-chairman; Mrs. Julie Hack, 2216 Massachusetts St., secretary-treasurer; Charles Stough, 2022 Massachusetts St., publicity and promotion; and Richard Raney, 1658 Crescent Road, finance.
W. Stiff Robinson, professor of history, was elected to the educational coordinating committee, and Paul E. Wilson, professor of history, was called to the speakers bureau committee.
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Chrispin Burnham works full time at the Village Inn Pancake House. He is enrolled, however, in the University of Kansas during his program which was begun last semester.
"All you had to do to enroll was go up and tell them what course you wanted and they'd check up on it to see if the class you wanted was in." Burmash said we write it down. "Burnmash said Wednesday."
He said persons of all ages enrolled in the easy access courses.
"There were a lot of people past college are, but just a few old people." he said.
The easy access program with more than 350 courses, attracted 241 persons this semester, up from about 150 persons last semester.
GLBERT DYCK, dean of admissions and records, said he didn't any idea what kind of person enrolled in the easy access courses.
Dyck said that the courses weren't gared for a particular segment of the population, but that about 50 per cent of those enrolled in the course courses didn't enrolled at KU previously.
"We assume the people who enroll in the easy access courses are non-traditional learners who apply to study a new area of work and back into the swing of school," he said.
Burnham said he thought easy access was
'a very恨 thing because it ties together.
the university and the town and give people a chance to take a course that they're interested in but couldn't take under normal circumstances."
Dyck said nearly half of the courses offered met in the late afternoon, evening or Saturday morning. Although these times are more popular among people, Dyck said, they are often unwilling to attend.
The future of the work with KU students depends on the willingness of the departing staff.
"My own hopes—and I think these are the Chancellor's hopes—are that this program can expand," Dyck said. "Any program like this has to start small. But this is a start."
Easy access courses are also available to KU students, Dyck said.
Dyck said most participants enrolled in one or two courses and credit loads ranged
Two students, Dyck said, had enrolled in 15 hours of easy access courses and then thumbed their noses at their colleges, which had kicked them out for low grades.
SOME STUDENTS have found easy access convenient for other reasons too. One student enrolled in an easy access course to retain his job with the University.
"All of them were in the timetable, and we took whatever was left from the field house to the Union the following Sunday for this program," he said.
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