The University Daily
KANSAN
Friday, March 6, 1981 Vol. 91. No. 110 USPS 650-640
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
Shankel to address issues
By KATHRYN KASE
Staff Reporter
Major issues facing the University of Kansas will be addressed at a University-wide convolution after spring break, Acting Chancellor Del Shankel said yesterday.
Designated as the convocation's feature speaker, Shankel declined to say what issues would be addressed. He said that the convocation was suggested yesterday by KU's chapter of the American Association of University Professors executive board.
The AAUP was not the first group to express
"The members of the AAPU executive board felt there were some major issues the University needed to address," he said. "They asked if I would convene an all-University meeting and I agreed."
concern about the issues facing KU. Shankel said
various administrators talked to him as well.
But he denied that the convocation would be held as an emergency measure.
"There are just a number of major issues that they wanted me to address," he said.
However, the convocation was the AAUP's idea, Shankel said.
The approach Shankel had planned was a tactical strategy, similar to the letter in the Kansan Wedgeheads.
That letter discussed academic standards for athletes. Those standards have been in question since the Kansas City Times published an article describing how academic standards were lowered for athletes.
Adverse public reaction to the letter did not affect his decision to assemble the convocation,
He said it was too early to tell about reaction to the letter.
"We felt that this was the time to bring some of these issues out into the ooen." she said.
Swartz would not reveal what the AAUP and Shankel thought were the major issues.
Evelyn Swartz, AAUP president, lauded Shankel's endorsement of the convention
these issues out into the open, 'she said,
'Sarah would not reveal what the AAUP and
their group are doing.'
"I think I have to respect his confidence on that," she said.
No specific date for the convocation has been set, Shankel said, but it will occur after spring break, which ends March 22. He said the date would be announced next week.
Funds sought for Howorth addition
The place is also uncertain.
"It depends on whether I think there might be 50 or 300 people. Shankel said, "think that Armenia could have a population of 1 million."
Neither Shankel nor Swartz could remember the last time such a convoitation was held.
By LAUREL RANSOM Staff Reporter
When students are away, the burglars will play.
That's the pre-spring break warning to students from Lawrence preventive intervention program.
"We expect to see burglaries go up in student areas during long vacations and breaks," Mark Brothers, Lawrence Police analyst, said. "During Christmas break this year, there were 81 burglaries in one apartment complex alone."
"When students leave for break, they don't take precaution." Harper said.
Nan Harper, director of the Oread Neighborhood Association, accrès
Mark Denke, assistant director of residential programs, said student negligence was the major security problem in residence halls.
Similarly, residence halls are prime targets during vacations, Mary Ann Robinson, sergeant of community services for the KU police, said.
Burglaries in residence halls numbered 32 last semester, and there were 71 thefts. This semester nine burglaries and seven thefts have occurred at the hall, Robinson said.
He said that students didn't close their doors and that when they did, they didn't open them.
He cited an example of a student leaving the door to his room open with the key to his drawer left in plain sight. The result was that he had been locked in the drawer.
"Students are very good targets because the last thing in their minds is the lock," Brothers said. "They think the door was locked, but they aren't sure."
While students in residence halls are stuck with available security, those in apartments can do something about themselves and their possessions.
Brothers suggested that students look at an apartment's security measures before renting. The best kind of lock, he said, is a rooftop that can be only opened with a key.
If an apartment lacks such a lock, Brothers' advice is "buy one."
*Forty or $0$ to install a lock is a drip in the hole compared to what they have lose.
A landlord's obligation to have secure apartments is limited to the Kansas Landlord Tenant Act's statement that in cases where an tenant can expect "protected habitation,
Harper said most landlords installed new locks after a tenant moved out, but students should always check and get a new lock if it's needed.
In addition to door locks, students should
lock all window locks and use them if
they are locked.
Engraving valuables is another way to discourage break-ins. Both ONA and the Lawrence police have electric engravers available. They suggest using driver's license numbers preceded by the letters KSDL, for Kansas Driver's License.
Harper said the ONA had tools available to attach to pin window frames for security.
'My advice to others is : write down all
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During Christmas break, Liz Hose, Overland Park park, learned the value of engraving. The house that she rents with five other girls was burglared and over $700 in stereo equipment was stolen. None of it had been engraved.
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governor to offer an amendment to his recommendations to put back the $188,065 to cover the University's expected deficit in its contributions to the employee retirement fund.
The full committee will finish hearing subcommittee reports today and will take final action on the individual and system-wide budgets.
Both houses are facing a March 13 deadline to take action on their own bills, so that they can avoid the federal debt limit.
The KU subcommittee's stand on the Haworth addition drew the only debate yesterday.
"Maybe those are euphemisms for what we saw there." Hein said, referring to the language in
Subcommittee chairman Ron Hein, R-Topke, said that Snow Hall was inadequate, unsuitable and overcrowded and that steps to alleviate the burden would be the best interest of the University and the state.
"That's correct." Hein answered.
COMMITTEE MEMBER Jack Steineger, D- Kansas City, Charge for doing anything, but "but"
Steineger told the committee that this was an example of why the public criticized lawmakers.
Hayden shared Steineger's feelings about the Legislature, but for a different reason.
"We in government can't figure out how to work things around," he said. "It would be more important to fix up conditions (at KU) than to teach education) playing fields at Wichita State."
He said the deep cuts were being made in Carlson's proposed budget to avoid a tax increase near the end of the year.
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Hayden said it was not fair to ask some to sacrifice while others were told it was all right to go ahead.
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"The right hadn't like any form of reform and the left said that it hadn't been enough." he said.
But Stansifer said the reform did not result in reduced violence.
There were an estimated 13,000 people killed in El Salvador in 1980. Stansler said that it was impossible to determine which side, left or right, was doing most of the killing.
But both sides have accused each other of being involved in the political struggle.
Stansifer said that he had been surprised to find that most of the people he talked with in El Salvador were more upset with the leftist terrorists than with those of the right.
Stanisuer attached in El Salvador in August 2013 to the group that called for a general strike against the government.
He said the strike was a failure. The govern-
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