University Daily Kansan
Tuesday, January 22, 1974
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Life Went on During Holiday Break But Slowly and Oh So Carefully
By BOB MARCOTTE Kansan Staff Reporter
With students out of town for semester break, the KU campus assumed the appearance of a deserted institution in mothballs. And with the coming of the new year, the entire Lawrence area gave the appearance of having been put in a deep pit.
During a 15-day siege of cold weather and snow from December 30 to Jan. 13, temperatures averaged 8.9 degrees, never rising above the freezing mark and dipping to a low of -12 degrees on Jan. 12. There were five days with sub-zero temperatures.
Snowfall accumulated to as much as 9.5 inches, creating hazardous driving conditions.
Ice jams on the Kansas River backed water up to within four feet of flood stage on
In the midst of the siege, natural gas was cut off at KU for three days, causing the
University to resort to fuel oil. Radiators in Tempill Hall f烙, broke and caused about $10,000 damage on floors 2 south and 4 north, including damage to the hall's electrical system. Damage from flooding was described by housing officials as "major" in eight rooms. The breaks occurred during the weekend of Jan. 5 but housing officials said the rooms would be cleaned up in time for occupancy by the beginning of this semester.
Local automobile drivers found that driving had become not only more hazardous but more expensive as well. Gasoline was reached 80 cents a gallon early in January.
Despite the severity of the winter setting and the absence of students, activity wasn't an issue.
Chancellor Archie R. Dykes narrowed to four his list of unannounced candidates for the post of executive vice chancellor at the Lawrence campus. William O. Rieke was
named executive vice chancellor for the University of Kansas Medical Center in
A wilful strike was staged at the medical center Jan. 2-5 by about 300 nonprofessional workers. They returned to work after the Board of Regents promised to take into consideration their demands for higher wages.
There was good news for the University with the announced receipt of a $1 million gift from a KU graduate, Dr. Louis R. Fletcher, who died in San Francisco on Dec. 29. Fletcher had designated privately last July that the money be used to the departments of physiology, anatomy, biochemistry and pharmacology at KU.
University officials were also encouraged by Gov. Docking's budget proposal for fiscal 1974 which culls for an 8.3 per cent reduction in military spending, though their original request was for an
increase of 10 per cent. The budget's demand would give KU a total of $33,848,524 in educational and general funding as commensurate with the budget of $43,636,100 by the Board of Regents.
It was also announced that Theoree D. Barker, Scranton senior, has been named one of this year's 32 Rhodes scholars. Burk, a biology major, is the 20th KU student to be awarded the Rhodes scholar the leader among the nation's public universities in producing Rhodes scholars.
The KU football season ended on a dismal note in Memphis at the Liberty Bank Dec. 17 when the Jawahires were soundly defeated 31-18 by the North Carolina State Wolfpack, then defeated Oregon 67-96 on Dec. 15 to win the Jawahry Classic for the second year in a row.
Meetings Planned on Financial Exigency
The Committee on Financial Exigency of the University Senate Executive Committee (SenXe) will have three open days for business in the financial crises at the University of Kansas.
The first meeting, at 8 p.m. Wednesday,
will concentrate on defining the term
The Jan. 29 meeting will concentrate on defining faculty rights during the possible financial exigency, the Jan. 31 meeting will concentrate on establishing subscriptions regarding financial exigency.
According to the policies of the American Association of University Professors (AUAP) financial exigency is one of the few grounds for dismissing tenured faculty.
All meetings will be held in the Big 8 Room of the Kansas Union.
Vern Miller was back in town on the night of Dec. 27, popping out of a car trunk again, to aid in the arrest of four men on marijuana charges. It was the fourth in a series of relatively small scale drug raids which were conducted in Lawrence since last July.
Faculty positions and resources at KU are designed to enrolments, and there is a project team of ten faculty members.
The decline could lead to a financial crisis or "financial exigency."
Financial exigency was used recently in Emporia State College and Kansas State College at Pittsburgh when a few tenured professors there were dismissed, according to Grant Goodman, professor of East Asia University and president of the KU chapter of AUP.
The Committee on Financial Exigency, which received its charges from SenEx last Dec. 19, has suggested several definitions of the university community by the university community. They are:
The KU chapter of AAUP recommended to Chancellor Archie R. Dykes last October that faculty study groups be organized at KU to consider the matter of financial exigency. Goodman said study groups at KU should develop a difficult situation there more bearable.
(1) Only at the immediate university
An estimated 19,440 students have enrolled at the University of Kansas for the spring semester, Chancellor Archie R. Dykes announced last night.
The preliminary figures, which were computed by the office of admissions and records, show an estimated 17,825 students enrolled on the Lawrence campus and 1,615 students at the Medical Center in Kansas City. The figures included an estimate of the number enrolled in the outreach program in Johnson County.
First Figures Show Record Enrollment
"(2)A the University level, but consider both the immediate and future situations, e.g., when enrollment drops in the first semester or dropped in the following year as well.
level, e.g., when university enrollment drops, say 2 per cent or more in a given
“(3) When enrollments are decreasing in a particular unit of the university.”
Undeterred by the defeat of the airport improvement bond by Lawrence voters in December, city officials announced that they have authorized the development of a master plan to coordinate any future airports. The plan will cost the city $4,318.
The University community was cautioned by a letter from Chancellor Archie R. Dykes on Nov. 28, 1973, to Prof. James E. Seaver, chairman of SenEx.
The committee points out that "units" can be a variety of things from entire numbers to fractional units.
Dykes said this was a record spring enrollment for KU. It is increased by 314 over last spring's enrollment, when 17,528 Lawrence and 1,560 at the Medical Center.
And it was conclusively shown that the city's warning sirens will operate even in the bitterest cold when they were inadvertent. In Jan. 5 and sounded for about five minutes.
"It isn't feasible, Dykes wrote, "to define financial exigency in precise and quantitative measures," and to define the operation of alternative. Clearly, it is not synonymous with budgetary convenience" and normally will involve demonstrated financial inefficiency.
The committee will coordinate its report, due March 15, with those of two other committees of SenEx: the Faculty Senate Committee on Faculty Rights, Privileges and Responsibilities (PRPR) and the Budget Committee on Planning and Resources (PBR).
Other members of the committee are Art Breipohl, professor of electrical engineering; Darwin Dauce, professor of political science and law; Prentice, professor of political science and law; John Wright, professor of human development; George Griffin of the KU library; Leroy McCormick of Western Civilization; and Susan L. Fowler, human development undergraduate.
It was later learned that a dispatcher at the Douglas County Sheriff's Office had accidentally pushed the button that activates the sirens.
Chairman of the committee is Robert Adams, associate dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and associate professor of mathematics.
Charles Kieser, professor of psychology and chairman of FRR1 and Sandy Mason, assistant director of special collections for the University, and chairman of P&R are in the committee.
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