A LITTLE WARMER
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
82nd Year, No.111
The University of Kansas—Lawrence Kansas
Campus Center For Child Care To Open in Fall
Thursday, March 30,1972
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Traffic Nets $180,000 For 1971
By MARK BEDNER
Kansan Staff Writer
Mike Thomas, director of KU Traffic and Security, said Tuesday that approximately $180,000 was paid into his department last year from the sale of parking permits, parking fines and fees in the parking fees taken in at athletic events.
"The revenue pays for the salaries of our officers and for parking lot repairs,"
But as Thomas said there was a catch. Because Traffic and Security is in the same area, we have to struggle with rising construction costs while receiving little in the way of a budget increase in their appropriations from the state. The costs for parking lot expansion are high.
In a tight budget year as the University faced last year, the annual costs often exceed the annual revenues. This was the case when 45 percent of the 66 per cent increase in the price of parking permits this past year, which eventually was denied by the President's wage-price
THEMAS SAID the revenue lost each year from parking fines not paid amounted to thousands of dollars. Although the department had no records of student's transcript for failure to pay parking fines Thomas said be did not know of any student who has not been graduated from college.
"One person I know of had trouble in transferring some records to another school. He had a long record of traffic and the amount of damage was no shade of gray in his case although we did make an effort to reach an understanding with him," Thomas said.
Thomas said there was a limit on the amount of money a person had to pay each
"The maximum is $110. This limit was set by Cancellor Wescoe before he left and we honored it since then. I’ve heard stories of students who paid three to four dollars for lunch and that was set, but I have no way of knowing if they are true or not," Thomas said.
IN RESPONSE TO the recent criticism of Traffic and Security for restricting parking zones after the daylight hours Thomas said he felt there was a misconception that needed to be cleared up.
"We don't make any of the rules governing parking restrictions or fines," she said. "Most things are decided by the University Board and the Board of Regents. In fact I
Kansan Staff Photo by TOM THRONE
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'Holy Hubert' Preaches in Front of Strong Hall
"Evil is in you," Holbert Lundesley, traveling evangelist said Wednesday to about 150 people in front of Strong Hall. He told the crowd that if they really knew God, or had God in their lives, they would spread the word of Christianity. Harold Matney, Ottawa law
student and former graduate student at the University of Calif. at Berkeley, said that Lindsey was a former bible salesman and now talks on campuses across the nation. Matney said that he had seen Lindsey at Berkeley where they called him "Holy Holcyt."
To Clean Water
House OK's Pollution Bill
The measure, believed to be the largest single nondefense authorization ever approved by the House, now goes before a joint conference of the House and Senate Public Works Committees to iron out a proposal that one passed last November by the Senate.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The House Wednesday passed a $24.6 billion water-pollution-control bill aimed at cleaning up waterways, perhaps by 1961. The vote was 378 to 14.
A SPIKESMAN for the Environmental Policy Center said it was "a fraud on the public to put a dirty-water bill in a clean-water wrenching."
The House bill calls for $13.3 billion to be spent from fiscal 1973 to 1975 for the federal share of constructing sewage-treatment works and, for the first time, sewage-collection systems. The total called for by the Senate is only $14 billion.
Significant differences between the House and Senate versions are expected to delay for some time agreement between conferences.
The House bill calls also for the National Academy of Sciences to complete, within two years a study on the costs of requiring industries to utilize by 1981, the best available technology to purify wastes discharge into waterways. After that, the agency received the letter and decided whether to impose a 1981 deadline for utilizing the best means available.
THE SENATE BILL RIGLY adopts the 1981 deadline and calls also for all discharges into waterways to end by 1985. The House, in contrast, considers 1985 to
Residents, City Rehash Annexation
By MARK BEDNER Kansan Staff Writer
Residents of a large tract of land recently annexed by the city met with city commissioners late Wednesday afternoon over a variety of issues posed by the annexation.
Lawrence Mayor Bob Pullam said the meeting was designed to answer some of the questions residents had raised over the weekend. The commission's attempts to reach an
understanding with the opponents of the annexation.
City Commissioners Nancy Hambleton, Jack Rose and John Erick, along with Pullham and Assistant City Manager Daniel Schmidt, the city will meet in servicing the annexed area. Pullham discussed police and fire protection for the area and the procedure for placing street lights along the existing roadway so that would be constructed in the future.
The present city policy calls for a street
City Sales Tax Extended to 1973 To Finance Police,Fire Protection
By MARSHA SEARS
Kansan Staff Writer
The 1972 Kansas Legislature late Tuesday night, extended Lawrence's authority to levy its half-cent sales tax until Dec. 31, 1973.
Lawrence citizens voted last July for the half-cent sales tax increase to finance additional fire and police protection. Authority for local sales tax is provided under the property tax lid law, which originally was to expire Dec. 31, 1972.
Lawrence, Manhattan and Topea adopted this local option tax to help provide for extra police and fire protection, and Tuesday the legislature voted to allow only these three cities to continue the local option tax.
Commissioner Nancy Hambleton said Wednesday, "Assuming that the legislature realizes that cities have to supply their peoples needs from sources in revenue it should help cities find alternate sources if the legislature imposes controls."
The legislature extended the property tax lid to May 31, 1973. The tax lid limits annual increases in expenditures by $680,000. If the state gets increase unless voters approve more.
Since the half-cent sales tax was not extended permanently, Lawrence may have the same problem with the legislature every year.
Gov. Robert Docking said in a March 11 speech, "If the lid is allowed to expire, the police will not force it; either will increase property taxes to pay for the upgraded police and fire protection or dismiss policemen and firemen to cut spending prior to the vote of the people."
Hambleton said the legislature should feel obliged to help cities find alternate housing.
Docking said he wanted to make the tax lid permanent and close the loopholes. These loopholes, he said, allowed some workers to escape some of the bill's restrictions.
"The basic purpose of the tax lid is to permit the citizens and tax-payers of local units of government to determine whether taxes should be increased." Docking said.
sales tax was not extended after Dec. 31, 1973.
light at each intersection. But since the annexed area is largely rural, a problem exists because of the long distance between intersections.
RESIDENTS OF THE area said the intersections were so far apart on the county roads that street lights would have to be placed between intersections in order for residents also asked Pullman when the city planned to begin installing the street lights.
Palliam said that because the city had not officially annexed the area in terms of property tax revenues until 1974, the lights could not be installed before then.
Much of the discussion at the meeting centered on the residents' fear of a high assessment being leaved on their property and that it would be construct a sewer system in the area.
Don Kufah, a resident and spokesman for the group, asked Kallsen how much the sewer system would cost the property owners.
"The construction cost would be somewhere in the neighborhood of $120,000," Kallsen said. "We have figured from other projects that it costs roughly 7½ cents a square foot to put a sewer line in."
PULLIAM assured the residents that the city had no immediate plans to put a sewer line in the area. He said he had received instructions from septic tank systems and did not wish to pay for a sewer system. The mayor explained to the group that state law governed the placing of a sewer system only where it is need because of obvious health damage.
with county health standards, the city would not construct the sewer lines.
Kallsen said that as long as the septic tanks met the area's needs and complied
One resident remained unconvinced and questioned the commissioners on what action would be taken if he refused to pay for the cost of a sewer line.
"I'd have to refuse to pay it because I just can't afford it," he said. "In fact, 80 per cent of the people out there couldn't afford to pay a $3,000 seat assessment."
Palliam told the residents he felt that their worries were understandable but that he couldn't forsee the construction of any sewer lines by the city unless the area had been prepared for the future and the new residents requested the city to construct sewer lines.
Another area discussed at length was the Commission's proposal to 'buy out' the residents preventing the residents from absorbing the cost of a new city water system being built.
The proposal was seen as a concession to the residents, aimed at cutting down the individual cost increases caused by the city's annexation of the land.
"It could mean a minimum savings of "10 dollars a month to the residents," Kushner said.
MANY OF THE residents question Kallison's evaluation of the savings they could expect if the city bought the water lines from the rural district. They also learned that the water owners of the rural owners of the water system, in this case the residents themselves, give their consent to the sale of the system. Pallium said he had been given conflicting instructions from a commission would check on any rule governing the sale of the district's water system.
be a national goal, not a government policy.
The Senate version also would establish a federal-state permit system but would retain the 1899 Refuse Act system which House spokesmen called dulicative.
In addition, the House bill would abolish the 1899 Refuse Act permit system that requires industries to receive a permit before discharging wastes into navigable waterway. The permit system is controlled by the federal-state permit system in which states would issue permits to industries complying with federal guidelines.
The House bill would prohibit persons from filing citizen suits to halt pollution unless they could prove that their interests were affected. The Senate version leaves to the courts to decide the issue of parties of interest.
Case Worker Advocates Base Income
By STUART BOYCE
Kansan Staff Writer
A $12,000-a-year guaranteed annual income was advocated by Cenie J. Williams, President of the National Association of Black Social Workers, in a speech Wednesday night in the Forum Room of the Union.
Williams, who spoke on the role of the social worker in society, said that social workers participate in a variety of activities which allow them to deal with other people.
"Because they have the opportunity to understand quality in life, social workers have the potential of becoming the best leaders." Williams said.
Williams said that social workers "must become a powerful lobby, must provide leadership and become vocal advocates for ideas."
SOCIAL WORKERS are “going to have
to wake up and lead this society to its
ascent.”
"We have always had socialism for the elite," he said.
"Congressman have free medical care. Lockheed Aircraft Corp. was given big bacon."
He said it was time for socialism to be applied to all classes.
WILLIAMS SAID he deplored the fact that there were 50 million hungry and destitute Americans while the government paid farmers not to grow crops. People are forced to steal because they are victimized by this society, he said.
"I am advocating a guaranteed annual income of $12,000 a year," he said. "A 'Bronx' fund is being established."
Williams said that Whites in America should realize that Blacks are not the only groups of people who deserve this.
"Blacks are not on the draft boards. They are not in Congress. They are not in the Senate."
He said the problems facing Blacks in America were 'small compared to the U.S. population'.
Social workers can create a sense of awareness, he said.
"They can live with a sense of hope. They can adopt the idealism of youth instead of looking for 1,000 reasons why they can't do something.
DeansUnsure of Reorganization's Long-Range Effects
Editor's Note: This is the final story in a three-part series dealing with the reorganization of the University since E. Chalmers Jr., became Chancellor.
By JEROME ESSLINGER Kansan Staff Writer
The concepts of reorganization are understandable but we are not sure of long-range implications that it might produce, said most of nine University of Kansas deans interviewed in the past two weeks.
The deans, who said they were disenchanted by the free use of ambiguous terms to describe the reorganization process, expressed a variety of concerns regarding centralization, the formulated budget and the computerized information system.
current reorganization process was "sort of fuzzy—like walking through fog."
Charles Kahn, dean of the School of Architecture and Urban Design, said the
"We can't predict whether it will work to improve or work to a disadvantage." Howard E. Mossberg, dean of the School of Pharmacy, said.
MOST OF THE DEANS interviewed said they would like to see a clarification of functions of the new vice-chancellors, and would work within the new organization system.
such a clarification, however, may not come soon. Chancellor E. Laurence Chalmers Jr. said recently he intended to give his colleagues personalities define relationships. Any definitions, he said, will probably be worked out after at least some experimentation by all administrators interacting with the new organization.
vice-chancellor for research and graduate studies would have an assistant for research and an assistant for graduate studies.
William P. Albrecht, dean of the Graduate School, said he assumed the new
WILLIAM ARGERSINGER, dean of research administration, was recently named to the new vice-chancellor position. Except for some yet unspecified divisions, all positions in the operating functions of the Graduate School will be incorporated into the new office of vice-chancellor for research and graduate studies. Some divisions of each office are still expected to be decentralized to departments such as the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
Albrecht said that Argeringser's new position would probably have only staff responsibility over the graduate council and some overall policy and governing responsibilities of University graduate programs.
George Waggoner, dean of the College of
Liberal Arts and Sciences, said he thought the deans' concerns "might be based on the deans' council's wanting to have a more inclusive curriculum for the two once-chancellor positions."
Some deans said they were concerned about the possible extent of increasing administrative duties because of decentralization of graduate students' records and admissions from the Graduate School to schools.
Another concern of some deans was that increased administrative duties were required.
ALL DEANS interviewed said they create some difficult cases for their schools because of increased office loads and bookkeeping without additional clerical
Thomas Gorton, dean of the School of
Fine Arts, said, "We already spend much
of our time in the studio."
committee meetings looking at each other, so that we don't have enough time for interruptions.
DEANS HAD DIFFERING opinions on
amendment and their understanding of transgression.
"When we get roles so mixed up that everyone gets involved in administration, we need to make sure students are for students to study and the real administrators' arms are tied behind their backs."
Gorton, however, as most other deans,
saw a possible benefit of decentralization.
In recent years, many departments would be given a greater voice in reviewing graduate students'
One dean said he had been completely informed and understood nearly all aspects of reorganization. Another dean said he knew no reorganization almost nothing about reorganization.
Some deans wondered whether increased revenue and other aspects of a decentralized, formulated budget system would change the emphasis from the quality of education in a school to the quantity of students admitted.
Tight budgeting has prevented the growth of the School of Business and put an added emphasis on quality of instruction, Clifford Clark, dean of that school said.
Clark said he hope reorganization "at least gives students a greater choice in what to do."
The new budget system will have a formula based on historical records, evaluation and predictions from a computerized information center, according to the Chancellor. The formula is based on data from schools and departments and give credibility to the total University budget submitted to the Kansas Legislature.
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