THE SUMMER SESSION KANSAN
Health Lab Underfunded
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Tuesday, July 20, 1971
81st Year, No. 12
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Kansan Photo by Hank Youns
Crowded
brieflisting, sorting and cataloguing, but funds are not available. The library will be cutting back its hours slightly this year.
A cataloging area in Watson Library exemplifies the shortage of space, for materials and people, in the KU library system. More personnel are needed for
Regents Aim for Consolidation
Plans for consolidation of overlapping areas of study among the six state institutions of higher education in Kansas are gaining momentum, according to Francis Heller, vice-chancellor of academic affairs for the University of Kansas.
The consolidation effort, aimed at eliminating duplication of educational facilities and programs around the state, has been talked about since 1960.
But Heller said recently that nothing much was done about it until two years ago.
And he added that the first recom-
mendations will not be made before next
season.
Heller said the movement toward consolidation was first formally suggested about 1980 by Whitney Austin, editor of the Salina Gazette, a former member of the Board of Regents.
Austin suggested that the Regents' cut down on duplication of educational programs. Heller said that as a result of Austin's suggestion, the education extension divisions of the six state schools were combined to form the Statewide Extension Service.
The one area in which study was really made was correspondence study. Holler state.
In September, 1969, the Board of Regents decided that the state should have a master plan for growth in higher education. The job was given to the Council of Presidents, made up of the top administrator of each state school. The Council of Presidents, being the most unified officer as the Board of Regents, were appointed by the Academic Officers, called COCAO for short.
In January, 1970, Heller said, COCAO agreed to meet for two days every five or six weeks, and work on the masterplan for growth of state educational institutions.
"You reach a point of very considerable carder. 'Heller said of the two-day sessions.' It is gotten to be a very good working office. The members know each others problems."
Heller said the Council has not yet begun to make very many specific proposals for consolidation or elimination of particular programs.
"We're still engaged in an effort at getting all the data," he said.
Heller noted that some people doubted whether a group of administrators from the state schools would be willing to cut back on programs at their own institutions. He said the chairman of the state legislature's senatorial education committee, Sen. Joseph Harrington, had demanded the ability of the council to be tough on unnecessary or overlaid programs of study.
"We've established a track record for doing some tough thinking," Heller said. He said the Council has already designed and imple- mented a new program at any one of the state schools.
"There is considerably more coordination than the public is aware of," Heller said. As an example, Heller said both KU and Kaplan were involved in start a doctoral level program in computer science.
"We told them "Fellows, you better work together or that it"s. "Heller said."
Other areas of study which are under
scrutiny to eliminate duplicating programs or sequences over a long period of time include law, journalism and engineering. Heller said that the psychology programs at KU and Kansas State were another example of partial consolidation. He said that although both schools offer a Ph.D. in psychology, Kansas State does not coarse offerings in clinical instruction. He said the psychology faculty at Kansas State was wise however, in the area of industrial psychology.
He also brought back memories—as the U.S. table tennis team died before him of the coronavirus, he said.
On arrival in Peking the Chinese kept their promise of strict secrecy, even to the point of whisking him away from the airport in a car. The two rear windows hidden by thick silk curtains.
Conversely, Heller said KU was very strong in clinical psychology, but has not made and will not make an attempt to build up a strong program of industrial psychology.
Priest Heads Illinois ACLU
CHICAGO (UPI)—The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago Sunday ordered an investigation into the appointment of a parish priest as the executive director of the Illinois Division of the American Civil Liberties Union.
He said the discontinuance of the home economic program at KU in the early 1900s was a major problem.
The appointment of the Rev. Carl Lezak
was announced Saturday by the ACU officials,
who said he was the first Catholic clergyman
organization's history to head a state chapter.
Heller said he had no doubts that if it appears that a program should be recommended for removal, the Council would not be afraid to recommend to the Council of Presidents and the Regents that the program be discontinued.
Kissinger Reveals Details of Trip
The archdiocese's chancery office issued a statement expressing "amazement" at the announcement. The statement said the priest, who has been active in civil rights and government for years, had never discussed the ACU post with Cardinal John Cody or church authorities.
Kissinger revealed that and other details of his Peking trip during a talk station aboard Air Force One as President Nixon and his party returned from California. Nixon called some of his cabin and congressional leaders to discuss his uninformed China tour.
WASHINGTON (UPH) - Henry Kissinger's trip to China was so secret that even one of the two Secret Service agents who went with him didn't know the destination.
Kissinger declined to discuss what type of aircraft was used on his clandestine trip, or even what route he traveled. But he said one of the two Secret Service agents with him was in the dark—until he spotted a Chinese aircraft, presumably on the flight into China.
Once he began his 20 hours of talks with Premier Chou En-lai, he said, the Chinese leader proved to be better informed about some of Nixon's more recent statements than he was. He said Chou immediately started peppering him with intelligent questions about an off-the-cuff briefing Nixon held for newsmen in Kansas City July 6.
The agent, Kissinger added, nearly dropped his teeth.
The following morning Chou sent him a copy of Nixon's remarks, in English, with his personal notations on the margin and a note reading "please return, our only copy."
Kissinger said he has no illusions about an immediate friendship forming between Nixon and Choi; but he said there seems to be mutual respect already.
Although no date for Nixon's visit has been announced, Kissinger said diplomatic negotiations were underway to make sure the groundwork will be well laid. White House officials said Nixon will probably go late this year or early in 1972.
served 12 courses at every meal, but he did not use the ivory chaplets, fearful of his
Kissinger said he had to admit he had been invaded and was out of touch, save for press releases. He said that the police were trying to find him.
Miller vs. Drugs
Talking to newsman, the attorney general said there's "no doubt in my mind" that drug pushers have promoted some of the festivals. So they did those women were suspect or if they were in Kansas.
TOPEKA (UPI)—Attorney General Vern Miller said Monday drug purchasers in the past have promoted rock music festivals to provide a place to sell their wares.
Miller said festivals in Kansas have been taken at a minimum this summer mainly to benefit children.
"I think we have a much more sophisticated approach now to the drug festivals. We know how now to infiltrate with agents and make arrests," he said.
TOPEKA (UIP)—Gov. Robert B. Decking Monday made a last ditch effort to halt the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) funding for the nuclear waste dump near Lyons.
Docking Fights AEC
"I do not believe the AEC has made every effort to determine the safety of the Lyons project. Many of our state's prominent scientists, knowledgeable in the technical complexities and potential dangers of storing radioactive waste, have joined with me in asking that the AEC conduct further research on the technology of Lyons project before proceeding with site acquisition and construction." Docking said in the letter.
The governor's office released the text of a letter sent by the Kansas governor to all 100 members of the U.S. Senate. The Senate will consider the request today.
Expenditures Drop This Year
Docking asked the Congress approve AEC funds for research on the project, but defer the requests for funds to acquire land and fund the project until all safety tests are completed.
Watson More Crowded As Library Funds Shrink
The governor said the AEC "for the most part has ignored our concerns" and gone "away."
Every area of the University suffered from the budget cuts administered by the legislature to the University's request for funds.
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but few have suffered as much in recent years as the University library system.
The AEC wants to take over an abandoned salt mine near Lyons in central Kansas for the nuclear waste dump. Radioactive waste would be deposited at the facility.
The problems facing the library are numerous; increasing book prices and borrowing fees; increasing operating income; and increasing collections coupled with decreasing circulation.
David Heron, director of the University Libraries, said recently that while the book budget has remained static, the price of books has gone up rapidly with inflation.
"Some retailers prices this year are up 2 per cent," Heron said.
The library has a book budget of less than $100,000 annually. About $10,000 comes each year from the Summerfield book fund, and about another $8,000 from other endowment funds. Added to the state allotment of about $5,000 is the library's about half of what should be spent.
"We should be spending at least one million dollars a year for books." Heron said. "Requests for books from faculty exceed by at least 25 per cent what we can get."
The University of Kansas Libraries Annual
report for 1969-70 noted another area of
use for the collection: books.
"Interlibrary borrowing is a reflection of demand for library resources which cannot be filled locally," the report said, "and its volume inversely relates to the adequacy of the Libraries' collections. This volume continued to increase during 1969-70."
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The number of bound volumes in the library's collection has increased from 1,122,138 in 1965 to 1,500,073 in 1970. This has put a burden on the system for storage of bound volumes, in addition to government public libraries, and foreign documents which are not bound.
"Watson Library is not in desperate shape at the moment in terms of book space." Heron said, "It will be in two or three years. In 1968, Watson Library will be fully loaded of the contents and staff of Watson Library."
Heron said, however, that the library system as a whole was overcrowded.
*science- and law libraries are really crowded- and books are having to be stored in the library.*
The annual report for 1969-70 called the shortage of library space "severe."
"Present space problems in the science libraries are indeed severe," the report says. "Application of the Bareth-Schillingen space formula to the library system as a resource for the public space it requires. The Spencer Library of fords substantial storage space for the time
being, but (by the same formula) the science libraries have only one third of the space they
"Statistically, it's rather short of seating space," Heron said. "We should be able to seat 4,500 in the entire library system. We have seating for 2,500. This is somewhat less crowded than there are too many times when this building (Watson) is terribly overcrowded."
Heron said the University will need a new library in the next decade. He said Watson Library built in 1928, has three additions and still contains that it "is not an ideally designed building."
Another problem the library has is a shortage of personnel.
Heron said the library needs more employees to speed up the briefing work.
"This year the work load is going to increase," Heron said, "and there will be fewer, rather than more, people working here. The library also has a brieflisting problem. There are currently about 250,000 books in Watson which are only briefly cataloged. To the user of the card catalog, brieflisted books are not as useful.
Drugs, Permisiveness Target of Inquisition
The incidents started Friday night when a colorfully altered Bergie led 308 hippies into the street.
PALMA MALDORCA, Spain (UPI) — Police have jailed 57 hippies in the latest raids as part of Spain's growing campaign against Court sources said many were Americans.
The youths were arrested over the weekend in a crackdown on the island of Ibiza, long afternight for long-handed young people. Police moved in on complaints of villagers against drugs and sex parties on beaches, public nudity, disorder conduct and theft of fruit.
Those arrested will appear at a magistrates court later this week, sources said, and some of them might be charged with vagancy and rape. The judge refused to make any statement on the affair.
The raids brought an exodus of young people from Ibiza, one of the biggest gathering places for hippies in Europe. Some of those who line up at Ibiza Harbor for boats to Barcelona said those detained included Robert "Blind Bob" Berge, 44, a Californian who lives on Ibiza and frequently hosts hippie parties.
The latest crackdown followed raids on what authorities said were centers of immorality at the mainland resort of Tormellos where 129 persons were temporarily detained and where a dozen bars and nightshirts shot down earlier this month.
In the past weeks, Spanish authorities have increased 10 times the fines for possession of drugs. A number of recent court cases and action by censors showed that authorities in Spain can be taken into account again dedicated to stamping out what they consider unhealthy influences from abroad.
what he said was going to be a birthday party. Police, aided by some villagers, fired warning shots, then proceeded to round up hippies. Police said some hippies were beaten by police.
The crackdowns of the past weeks, however, were not only aimed at hippies and nippers.
Authorities recently suspended the Madrid magazine "Knifo" for four months because it published articles contrary to accepted law, one of which allowed laws permitting divorce.
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Dor Diesel, Germany's leading news magazine, has been repeatedly banned. Last week's issue of Time Magazine was held up at a fire; the magazine said it contained a picture of two men.
Workman Killed At KI
One worker died and another was in the acute care center of Lawrence Memorial Hospital Monday after the scaffold on which they were working collapsed.
Dead is Jack Johnson, 1305 Jewell in Topeka. A spokesman at the hospital said Jackson died shortly before noon Monday as a result of injuries suffered in the fall
The name of the second man is being withheld.
The mishap occurred at about 4:45 Monday morning. Johnson, a sub-contractor for the Cassion Construction Company of Topeka, and the other man were working on an addition to Haworth Hall at KU, when the scaffold apparently gave way without warning and the men fell about four stories to a concrete sidewalk below.
Between 1959 and 1970, the number of masters degrees awarded at KU has increased 187.2 per cent, the number of doctoral degrees has increased 303.4 per cent, and the number of bachelor's degrees has increased
The root of the libraries' troubles is the refusal of the Board of Regents and the state legislature to allot more money for books, library operation and extension of facilities.
In 1968, 69, the total expenditure of the Kansas University Libraries was $2,143,538 and expenditure was $1,991,221. Hence said Robert Doyle, 1970-71, would probably drop below $2,000,000.
Heron said the administration has been advocating a new system of budgeting, called formula budgeting, used widely by other institutions of higher education. He said that the library submitted a formulated budget for $100,000 in which it requested an additional $50,000 in budget was turned down by the Board of Regents it never made to the legislature.
The annual report for 1960-70 summarized the success of the formula budgeting technique for that year: "It went down in flames with the rest of the restraint, but some day when the weather improves it should fly better than the old magic carpet."
With a shortage of employees and operating funds, another economy instituted by the Bank of Canada has been created.
"This is a problem this summer," Heron said. "People who work during the week can't do it because of the weather."
Heron said that the library would be closed on Friday evenings during the coming school year, and that the library would be forced to curtail its hours of service a total of five to ten per cent during the year. He added that the state schools were having the same problems.
The University of Kansas library system is not facing an immediate crisis. Libraries at KU will continue to operate. But they will be overcrowded, understaffed, and the quantity and quality of resource materials will continue to future years unless the libraries receive more financial aid from the Board of Regents and, ultimately, the state legislature.
Spencer Closed This Week
Spencer library has been closed due to a 12,500 volt cable broken by a construction worker at the site of Wescou Hall Tuesday, July 13.
There has been a generator installed to keep the library at a cool temperature. It is not known how well the generator will provide the library until the cable is repaired.
Spencer contains many old documents, manuscripts and rare books which might be destroyed if not kept in a controlled atmosphere. There are no lights in the library.
The closing of the library has caused an inconvenience for approximately 40 students and 45 faculty members who are using the library this summer. Three of these have been provided with space near a window in the library to continue their studies. Two are doctoral candidates and the third is a faculty member.
Most of the staff employed at Spencer Library have been transferred to Watson.
The Casson Construction Co. said the cable would probably be repaired by the end of this week.
Kunsan Photo
Spencer Library with emergency generator