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The University Daily
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
KANSAN
Monday, July 27, 1981
Vol. 19, No. 160 USPS 650-640
Chancellor Frank Strong (2nd from right) stands with other digitalaries on the steps of old Fraser Hall during inauguration activities. Strong was inaugurated on Oct. 17, 1902. Photo courtesy of
Tradition colors event Budig inaugural set
By MARTHA BRINK Staff Reporter
The 14th inauguration of a KU chancellor will be rich with pome and tradition.
Gene Budig will be installed as KU's 14th chancellor at 9:45 a.m., August 24 in Allen Field House. The ceremony will be part of the annual University convocation.
ALTHOUGH MANY details have not been arranged, the ceremony will follow many of the colorful traditions of formal academic exercises.
We plan to carry out the inauguration in a simple, dignified manner," said Robin Eversole, University relations director of photo services and a member of the inaugural committee. "We hope to involve as many people as we can."
The University has sent out 5,000 invitations, that Jeannot Seymour, coordinator of University public relations and a member of the inaugural committee. The invitations were sent to legislators, alumni, donors and community leaders.
Invitations will be given to students with their registration materials.
ABOUT 1,400 PEOPLE have been invited to march in the opening procession from Murchy Hall to Allen Field House.
Academic processions follow a traditional order. The University chief marshal or a mace bearer will lead the procession. The visiting delegates from colleges and universities will follow in the order of the years their institutions were founded.
Following the delegates will be the KU faculty, the university trustees, guest speakers and other dignitaries. The chancellor-designate marches alone at the end.
Those marching in the procession will wear academic robes.
Academic dress traditions began hundreds of years ago. In the 14th century the statutes of several English colleges fordade "access in women" recommended that faculty wear long gowns.
Universities strictly uplift the dress codes. In the late 1500s, at Oxford University, the vice-chancellor had authority to punish any student who broke the rules of gardens by a nail's breadth.
AMERICAN COLLEGES and universities
first adopted an academic dress code in 1895. The code stipulated that the gown for a bachelor's degree candidate had pointed sleeves, while the master's degree candidate had ohions sleeves.
KU has inaugurated 13 chancellors in its 115-year history.
Chancellor Frank Strong had one of the most elaborate and festive inaugurations. It took place Oct. 17, 1820. Activities for the event included a grand dance held in the Natural History Museum.
Students played a major role in the inauguration. They also doubled the number of students in the University's Ingleby Hall.
As they walked, the students called out their class yells.
Ra, Ra, Ra; Zip, Boom, Bee; Rock Chalk
Jawhawk; 1900!" the senators showed.
because the Natural History Museum was not completed, students decorated the bare walls with colorful banners, emblems and designs.
The final day of inaugural week was devoted to athletic events. Students participated in tennis and golf matches, a cross-country race and a football game. The week ended with a football game.
ONE OF THE MOST informal inaugurations was for Deane Malott in September, 1939. At Malott's request, the participants did not wear robes, malott dressed in a dark blue suit.
With the Nazis gainz strength in Europe, Malott's ceremony stressed religious freedom. This tone was echeol in Malott's speech: "Either we are afraid of heresy or we are not," he said. "I stress freedom because it has vanished in large areas of the globe."
Archie Dykes' 1973 inauguration was also informal, but participants wore academic robes. About 5,000 attended the ceremony at Allen Field House, held during the 108th convocation. Like most KU inaugurations, Dykes' inauguration began with an invocation and ended with the singing of "The Crimson and the Blue."
A minister read the 4th Psalm from a Bible used in the first religious exercises held.
Ed Julian, University relations director of special programs, said he expected a similar crowd of at least 5,000 for Budig's inauguration.
May grads are finding jobs
By TIM ELMER Staff Reporter
Job placement of KU May graduates has been very good, KU placement officials said last
Staff Reporter
"I am confident that we are doing very well helping our students get jobs," Vernon V. Geiselman, University placement director andordinator of the University Placement Center, said.
Gelsaier said he measured the success of University placement programs in two ways.
FIRST, KU GRADUATES have been placed in excellent positions in several corporations across the country because KU has a good reputation in the quality of its graduates, he said.
"I have been around the nation visiting different corporations and attending personnel recruitment meetings," he said. "We have a very good image. I sense that all the time."
James R. Henry, director of placement for liberal arts and sciences and fine arts, said the real gains in job placement of KU graduates had been in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, which has had traditionally low employment opportunities.
A second measure of success of University
placement programs is in the salaries KU
graduate and graduate students.
"We keep track of the salaries our graduates are getting compared with those of other university graduates in the nation," he said. "We give them a normal average on salaries offered to our graduates."
"Two years ago, we had 21 companies come to the placement office at the School of Liberal Arts and Sciences," he said. "This year, we had over 100 companies coming to look at our graduates."
THE COLLEGE of Liberal Arts and Sciences includes disciplines such as computer science, geology, physics, statistics and chemistry, Henry said.
"We have really good job opportunities for students in computer science, geology and chemistry," he said. "Job placement opportunities in physics and statistics are also very good."
Job opportunities in the humanities have also improved, Henry said.
"In the humanities, job placement has improved a good bit." he said.
Disciplines included in humanities, which also are part of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences are history, English, foreign languages, biology, political science and biochemistry.
in addition to the central job placement office for the University, there are job placement offices at other universities.
The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences' job-
numbing preparation program has been the key in
providing students with the skills they need.
In 1980, 300 liberal arts and sciences students enrolled in job placement workshops. This year, 1,068 students enrolled in those workshops, he said.
"It isn't that there are more job opportunities for students in liberal arts and sciences this year," Henry said. "There are probably no job opportunities than last year. However, because of our efforts to get students into these workshops and to attract companies to our placement offices, there has been a dramatic increase in our job placement success."
The job placement workshops offer sessions on resume and application letter-writing, and on resume writing.
ACCORDING TO NATIONAL statistics from the College Placement Council, engineering and nursing graduates lead all other KU students in job opportunities.
Pam Madl, KU engineering placement director, said 95 percent of the KU engineering students using the placement service who graduated in May had found jobs. About 70 percent of the 300 engineer graduates used the services of the placement office, she said.
Doris Geitgey, dean of the KU School of Nursing, said there had been at least three jobs available for each of the 125 May graduates.
"The problem that nurses face is that they are still getting poorly paid and we need to concentrate on that." Getguyfted. "We also need to provide training for faculty members in the nursing school."
Information from the KU School of Allied Health indicates that there is a high demand for the school's graduates. Respiratory and physical medical records administrators are in short supply.
Fred Madua, KU Business School placement director, said that of the 414 undergraduates this year, more than half had jobs and that about 75 were going to graduate schools.
JOB OPENINGS FOR students in some disciplines however, are difficult to find.
Information from the KU School of Education indicates that job opportunities are tight, but that students with specialities in science, engineering or vocational fields are finding the job market easing.
William Allen White School of Journalism, said, "It's a tight year compared to previous years, but if students remain flexible geographically, they can also provide the professional need they."<sup>14</sup>
Edith Black, assistant dean of the KU School of Social Welfare, said if students were willing to go where the jobs were, they would have a better chance of finding jobs. Graduates who have experience in other colleges' degree were finding jobs as long as they remained geographically flexible, she said.
Surveys show businesses and public want new department stores,not mall
Information from the School of Architecture Indicates that the job market is tight because of a lack of applicants.
Staff Reporter
MARC HERZFELD Staff Reporter
Most of Lawrence's downtown businesses do not want an enclosed mall built in the city, according to a survey released Friday by the Lawrence-Douglas Planning office.
The survey, directed by city planner Dean Palos, showed that 76 percent of the businesses want new department stores in Lawrence, but 66 percent did not favor an enclosed mall.
Palos said that the general public, surveyed last fall, agreed with Lawrence businesses in approving new department stores and rejecting an enclosed mall.
BUSINESS AND PUBLIC rejection of an enclosed mail presented a major obstacle to attracting new department stores to Lawrence, Palas said.
"I'm sorry they've taken that position, but I'm not surprised," Palos said.
City Manager Buford Watson said the department stores that could locate in Lawrence: J.C. Penney Co., Macy's, Sears, Roebuck and Co. and Montgomery Ward liked to locate new stores in malls and not free standing buildings.
Penney spokesman Duncan Muir said that all 550 full-line Penney stores are in shopping centers, although Muir added, "I'm not saying that's a hard and fast rule."
The controversy concerning an enclosed mail in Lawrence has been brewing since last April, when the City Commission rejected a Cleveland and its plans for a suburban mail south of downtown.
The J.C. Penney Co. gave Watson and former mayor Ed Carter plans for an enclosed mall downtown last March, plans the city and plan a building the man of Robert Teska Assoc; are still studying.
Pales said that Penney's had not changed its original plan because it was waiting for Teska's help.
PALOS' SURVEY showed that downtown businesses wanted an enclosed mall located downtown if there were no alternatives, although 20 percent of the public favored a downtown mall.
Palas said that some businesses wanted the city to act soon on the redevelopment of下载站.
"They feel somewhat constrained about making photos until they finch out what's going to happen." Paladin
In spite of their uncertainty concerning the city's redevelopment plans, most businesses were satisfied with downtown Lawrence, Palos said.
The survey showed that 96 percent of the businesses wanted to remain downtown, mainly because of convenient access and good traffic exposure.
"Amost everybody we talked to would like to
meet with you at the primary retail center in
the city," Palas said.
A problem mentioned by many businesses in the survey was downtown parking. Forty-seven percent of the businesses rated downtown parking fair, the percent said that parking was their main problem.
PALOS IS WORKING on a parking survey now, and he said that the survey had revealed a lack of employee parking for downtown businesses.
All three of Teska's proposals presented last month showed expanded parking for downtown, but only one plan showed the freestanding stores the Lawrence public and businesses favor.
Teska will have the job next month of balancing the wishes of Lawrence with the requirements of the major department store chains.
Businesses disclose public preferences for shopping mall
Downtown Business Survey Results
%Businesses %Public
More dept. stores needed: 76 72
No need for dept. stores 13 23
Location of dept. stores downtown 85 52
Suburban location for dept. stores 6 25
Mall needed 18 29
No need for
mall 66 64
Location for
mall : down-
town location 59 20
Suburban mall 15 30
Other location/
don't know 26 50
Palas said that there was a 95 percent certainty that the survey is within 7 percent of the actual figures. The June 1981 survey included businesses south of the Kansas River, west of Rhode Island St., north of North Park St. and east of Kentucky St.
Weather
There will be a 70 percent chance of showers and possibly heavy rain today, according to the National Weather Service in Topeka. The high winds from the northwest at 5 to 15 mph, with winds out of the northeast at 5 to 15 mph.
Low wires at Clinton boat ramp present hazard
Tonight's low will be in the mid 60s. There will be a 50 percent chance of rain.
Tuesday's high will be in the 80s.
By CONNIE SCHALLAU
Staff Reporter
Capsizing in a sudden storm is a potential hazard sailboats face every time they sail. Running into an electrical wire going from the parking lot where the mast is often raised to the boat ramp is not.
The 23-foot mast on the sailboat to Gordon Wiseman, professor of physics and astronomy, struck a neutral power line just beneath a 7,200 volt line. One was injured, but if the mast had been a few feet higher a serious accident could have occurred. The mast on the 7,200 volt line, the shimamura could have transmitted electricity and seriously injured or killed people on or near the boat.
However, such an accident occurred last Sunday when a KU professor accidentally ran his sailboat into a power line near the Bloomington West boat ramp at Clinton Lake.
When Wismen hat the neutral line, the line flipped up and hit the 7,000 vol line, which caused a fuse to blow, Bill Winnerling, staff engineer for the Kaw Valley Rural Electrical Cooperative, which operates the line, said.
The power line hangs above the exit and part of the parking lot near the boat ramp, where many boat owners put their mats.
The line that was hit was 21 feet high. Most sailboats at Clinton Lake are 20 to 28 feet high.
The height and position of the power line were within the National Electric Safety Code and the Rural Electrification
CRITICS HAVE said that if the is case, the codes should be revised because it is unsafe to have a power line close to the base.
Victor Counts, project manager for Clinton Lake, said he could ask the electric company to change the location of the power line.
He said that he probably would not make such a request.
"We could do that and they would probably say, 'Sure, if you pay for it,' " Counts said.
he said that he probably would not make such a request.
The Bloomington West ramp is one of the lesser-used boat ramps at the lake, Counts said. The incident occurred during Wiseman's first trip to that ramp.
"I never used it before, so I wasn't aware that there was a low-hanging power line." Wiseman said.
that low-ranging power lines are near the boat ramp.
"I don't think one incident warrants that." Counts said.
There are no signs along the road to the boat ramp that warn of low-hanging power lines.
An 18 inch by 18 inch sign would cost about $35, according to Tim Carey, a representative of the project director.
Counts also said he would probably not put up a sign warning that low-hanging power lines are near the boat ramp.
WISEMAN, WHO HAS been sailing for several years and belongs to a sailing club that sat at Clinton every Thursday night, said that he was not looking for power lines because he did not imagine one would be placed so near a boat ramp.
heard a power line problem in years. Betonde has been sailing for 20 years.
Mark Retonde, owner of the Clinton Lake Marina at Bloomington East, also said that although he wasn't familiar with the Bloomington West ramp, he couldn't understand why a power line would be placed there.
"Power lines are an old problem," Retonde said. "I haven't heard a power line problem in years."
The Bloomington East boat ramp doesn't have power lines over the parking lot because of sailboats, he said.
On any given weekend during the summer, one can see people putting their masts up in the parking lot before going to the boat
Wiseman said that he put his mast up before he reached the ramp for two reasons.
First, he said that the ramp was not level, which made it difficult to maneuver on.
He also said that it was common courtesy to do as much rigging as possible before using the ramp.
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"Rigging can take a white and when there are people waiting to use the ramp, most people try to keep them from having to wait