THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
COLDER
82nd Year, No. 69
The University of Kansas—Lawrence Kansas
Welcome Back
Wednesday, January 19. 1972
Few Changes In Enrolling This Spring
BY NANCY JONES
Kansan Staff Write
Enrollment, that unavoidable maze students must pass through to gain access to the program.
It's time for the confused student to fumble through course catalogues to find courses that sound as though they might have the potential to enrich the mind past the academic year.
Enrollment operating procedures are basically the same as last semester's, but a few minor improvements have been made by the Office of the Registrar.
The Student Registration Data Sheet, which last semester replaced the numerous green cards, has been improved this semester.
According to William I. Kelly, registrar, the data sheet's format has been changed somewhat. The sheet's instructions have been clarified, so the student will be able to better understand the questions, said Kelly.
Kelly said that this semester's data sheet should have contained most of the information needed about the student, and so the student needed only to make a mark which indicated that information was correct.
Because the data sheet was used for the first time last semester, much of the information was collected.
Several changes were made to eliminate lengthy lines at Hoech Auditorium and at
Enrollment packages were available at 20 tables this semester, as compared to the previous year.
The east entrance at Allen Field House was opened this semester. Last semester, the north entrance was the only one available to students.
Because the east entrance was used this semester, there were 40 entrance lines, as shown in Figure 5-12.
The decentralization of the Graduate School begins this semester, Kelly said, and graduates in professional schools will be enrolling in their deans area, rather than in the Graduate School. Only graduate students of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences will enroll at the Graduate School area.
The University of Kansas is offering 56 new courses in 27 departments this spring.
Current movements and causes are the subject of several new courses.
Many of the new courses will focus on current affairs and new trends in various areas of the sciences, humanities and social sciences.
For example, two courses, the history of American feminism and the psychology of women, is designed to be of great interest for students. It also provides with the women's liberation movement.
The departments of chemistry and environmental studies have instituted a new program.
Legal courses for non-law students will be made available by several schools and departments. Courses which will focus on the law as it applies to specific fields will be introduced by the School of Business department of environmental studies.
Urban problems and community life, will be the subjects in seminars on urban issues.
Recent history and current events will offer several new courses. Included in this selection will be "The American 1960's" and African studies courses on Black nationalism and South African history since 1945.
The history of the Chinese mainland since the establishment of the communist government in 1949 and "problems in relations," will also be offered this semester.
Enrollment Maze Puzzles Even the Young
. 17.450 estimated enrollment for spring . . .
President to Propose Budget of $247 Billion
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Nixon will send to Congress Monday a fourth consecutive red ink budget, reported reportedly, of nearly $247 billion in fiscal 1973.
The size of the prospective deficit was not divulged by government sources, but they acknowledged that the deficit gap in the current fiscal year, 1972, will have widened to nearly $40 billion by the end of the fiscal year.
Without mentioning any future, Under Secretary of the Treasury Paul A. Volker told a news conference the budget will show "an exceptionally large deficit" for fiscal 1972. A very substantial increase in the budget will be asked of Congress. Volker said.
The first deficit over which Nixon presided was in fiscal 1970. The budget message for that year was among the last official documents of outgoing President Lyndon B. Johnson, Johnson bequeathed to Nixon a budget call for a $4.3 billion surplus, but Nixon's aides called it an "unnecessary deficit." Fiscal 1971, for which Nixon forecast a $1.3 billion surplus, wound up as a $23 billion deficit.
The large deficit 'can be justified under present economic conditions,' Volcker argued, since it will provide stimulus to the economy.
Teaching Lures Heller from Post
Whatever estimate of the deficit Nixon submits to Congress, the actual amount will be governed largely by the pace of the business recovery this year, since tax collections are geared to individual incomes and corporation profits.
The recovery to date has been slow
By JOYCE DUNBAR
Korean Staff Writer
Francis Heller, vice-chancellor for academic affairs at the University of Kansas, is giving up his administrative jobs at the start of the next academic year, it was announced last week. Heller is the No. 2 man in KU's leadership hierarchy.
Ittler will assume full-time teaching duties next fall as a Roy Roberts Distinguished Professor. His appointment will be in political science.
"I came to KU 24 years ago to teach," Heller said. "The classroom is my first love and in all my years of administration was only one semester when I did not teach."
Heller said that a faculty member could not ask for more than a distinguished name.
"I obviously greatly enjoy teaching and I consider this an honor and distinction."
In sharing his thoughts about teaching, Heller said that he really couldn't think of anything better to do in life. That said it might be difficult for students at university and why we have universities.
Chalmers Rejects Bid For Ohio State Job
The university's statement on his leaving did not use the term "n resignation" in regard to Heller's decision. Rather, it focused on his acceptance of the professorship and the accompanying teaching duties.
Heller was considered at great length in recent months for the presidency of Rutgers University. He was one of two final candidates for the job, which ultimately was not offered to him. He said that his age of 55 worked against the possibility of his advancement to the presidency of a university.
Ohio states said last Thursday that Chamers was considered a prime candidate for the state's president of the University of Iowa, who also announced his intention to stay put.
In a statement Chalmers said that it was his intention to remain at KU and work to maintain his job.
Chancellor E. Laurence Chalmers Jr. requested that his name be removed from the list of five potential candidates for the presidency of Ohio State University last week.
support higher education and level of excellence.
"The only thing that would cause me to voluntarily seek other employment," said Chalmers, "would be a feeling that I had accomplished about all that I am capable of in my present position and a belief that the people of Kansas are unwilling to
Roger Mezger, editor of the OSU student newspaper said Tuesday night that Fawcett's current salary was $50,000 per year.
The president of OSU, Novice G. Peckett, is retiring effective September 1, 2017 [1972]
"Neither of those conditions exist at this
time."
More Deficit Spending
Chalmers salary is currently $40,000 per year.
Chalmers, who since coming to KU in the fall of 1980 has been "a little battered, a little bruised, but not beaten," said last week that he now felt he had the "opportunity to do something of lasting significance for KU."
Heller said there was little to equal the pleasure which resulted from standing in front of a class and seeing a half-dose eyes light up. He also spoke of the reward of having former students come back to school, who had really learned something in a class.
in announcing the appointment,
Chancellor E. Laurence Chalmers Jr.
said, "Francis Heller is one of the most
professional administrators and
administrators I have ever worked with.
His tireless energy as an administrator
is equaled only by his stature as a teacher
and scholar KU honors itself by naming
him the chair of distinguished
scholarship.
The Roberts chair in political science has been vacant since the spring of 1970. Heller's book, "The Presidency: A Modern Perspective," is considered one of the classic interpretive appraisals of the American presidency. The political science department noted his book in nominating Heller to serve as President of the writing of President Truman's memoirs; his competence as a scholar and his abilities as a teacher.
Heller said that halfway through law school he realized he wanted to deal with ideas, the practice of law and political science. He confided he would never have had the freedom to work in administration. He has served 15 years of administrative responsibility. He said it
Cleaver Out As Panther Leader
NEW YORK (AP)—Eldridle Cleaver has been replaced as head of the Black Panther Party's international section in Algiers by Pete O'Neal, formerly of Kansas City, it was reported Tuesday here.
O'Neal was found guilty by a federal jury in Kansas City, Kan., of transporting a firearm across a state line after previously being convicted of a felony. He dropped from sight in November, 1970, while free on appeal bond.
O'Neal was a leader in founding Kansas City's Black Panther chapter in the mid 1960s. Later the chapter disassociated itself with the national Black Panthers, renaming itself the Sons of Malcolm, with O'Neal still in charge.
had a wearing impact, whereas teaches involves talent and freshness.
O'Neal and Cleaver are among a group of expatriates charged under United Nations sanctions.
A Missouri warrant was issued for him in November by the Jackson County Circuit Court in Kansas City when he failed to appear on an appeal of a magistrate court conviction for disturbing a religious assembly.
Heller also serves as chairman of the Kansas Board of Regents' Council of Chief Academic Officers, and is chairman of the Council of Academic Affairs of the National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges.
Heller is a native of Austria who holds both the J.D. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Virginia. He has served as a member of the KU faculty since 1948, and has held various administrative jobs since 1956.
Heller served six years on the Lawrence City Planning Commission, was a member of two state commissions on constitutional revision, was a member of the executive committee of the American Political Science Assn., and served on the selection committee of the Merit Scholarship Corp. and the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation.
He is a member of the board of directors of the Harry S. Truman Library Institute, the Institute for Community Studies in City, and Benedictine College in Athens.
Heller has directed the Western Civilization program at KU and was responsible for the administration of the honors program and the overseas study programs as associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, and a named dean of faculties in 1967 and became vice chancellor for academic affairs in 1970, in a reorganization.
Nixon's optimistic forecast of a year ago that 1971 national output would total $1,065 trillion out to be roughly $20 billion too high.
The lag caused a serious shortage in income to the Treasury while outfalls climbed higher than expected. The 1972 deficit, which Nixon last January estimated at only $11.6 billion, apparently will be about 3½ times that amount.
However, the White House again forecast a "full employment surplus." This means that spending will not exceed the amount of revenues which the Treasury would take in if the economy were running at full employment and full production.
If such prosperity prevailed, and if unemployment were down to around 4 per cent instead of the present 6.1 per cent, the tax system would produce roughly $248 billion in fiscal 1972 revenues. With federal spending at around $247 billion, there would be a "full employment surplus" of about $1 billion.
However, the "full employment budget" is merely an economic concept and a planning tool. As long as it stays in balance, economists say the real dollars and cents deficit will be stimulative but not inflatory. Nixon warned a year ago that the employment budget must never fall into deficit because that would be inflationary.
Increases for Schools In Governor's Budget
By JOYCE DUNBAR
Konean Staff Writer
Gov. Robert Docking revealed his fiscal预案 year 1957 budget last week. It contained a recommendation that the University of Kansas receive $4,916,807 in educational and general funding, and increase the salary increase for some faculty members.
James Bibb, state budget director, had recommended a budget totaling $341,812 and a 2 per cent salary increase for the agency as a year in which they received no raises.
Both Docking and Bibb recommended a one-step increase for classified employees of the University, an increase of between 3 and 5 per cent.
Other restorations by Decking included $70,000 for National Defense Student Loans and some funding for capital improvements.
The governor is recommending $87,700 for planning for an addition to Learned Hall to accommodate portions of the School of Engineering, now housed in Fowler Shops, which would be remodeled into a visual arts facility. His budget suggests $13,600 for preliminary work on the conversion of Fowler.
Docking also restored $50,000 for the upgrading of animal quarters, $80,000 for electrical work in Malot Hall, and $75,000 for the replacement of campus steam lines, a project which KU has requested for the past 14 years.
KU officials expressed disappointment Docking is recommending that funding for the replacement of the steam lines and the electrical repair work come from the Educational Building Fund, originally designed solely for the construction of new buildings. Last year was the first time that money from that fund had been used for maintenance and repairs of the same nature
KU officials voiced their disappointment about what they called an apparent lack of recognition of the effects of inflation for the second year in a row.
Concerning the recommended 5 per cent salary increase, KU Executive Secretary Raymond Nichols said, "While it falls short of our justifiable request in an effort to retain and recruit our students, it indicates the desire of the state to retain and recruit top-notch faculty members."
Chancellor E. Laurence Chalmers Jr. expressed gratification that higher education was selected to receive a higher proportion of anticipated new state revenues than its proportional representation in the total budget.
Chalmers expressed concern, however, over what he called the low increase recommended for classified employees, which include jantors, clerk-kypists and others, calling the "the most distressing point of the budget." He said that although the 5 per cent increase recommended for faculty "was less than we had hoped for," it was too little. It does not favor with the governor's recommendation of last year, which was 1 per cent, and with Bibb's of last month, which was 2 per cent."
Nichols warned that, to offset inflation,
"corresponding reductions will have to be made somewhere in the budget, because of the lack of any major increase in other operating expenditures for the second year in a row."
The governor is recommending a total budget of $86.6 million for the six state colleges and universities, representing an increase of $2.2 million or 7.7 per cent from the estimated expenditures during the current fiscal year.
"Budget recommendations emphasize the instructional programs of the schools, while restoring reductions made by the 1971 legislature in my previous administration for organized research, agricultural extension and certain other purposes." Docking said.
Docking also said he was attempting to emphasize increased state support for the instructional programs by helping the students understand the competent faculty and supporting staff.
KU will have educational and general expenditures totaling $44,509,247 during the current fiscal year, with $2,637,534 in state tax money. The recommended $46,196,807 represents an increase of 4.4 per cent, with an increase of 6.8 per cent in federal funds. The recommended $21,184,494 come from general revenue during the next fiscal year.
The governor's budget proposal and accompanying tax reform measures designed to raise the additional revenue will now face a 94-day legislative session.
Gov. Docking, Lt. Gov. Shultz Clasp Hands after Budget Message . Governor proposes 5 per cent raises for some faculty . . .