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Vol. 95, No. 126 (USPS 650-640)
Profs sound off about Murphy noise level
Friday, April 5, 1985
By MICHELLE WORRALL Staff Reporter
KU band directors have suffered temporary and permanent hearing damage because the band room in Murphy Hall cannot accommodate the intense noise level during band practices, James Moeser, dean of fine arts, said yesterday.
The problem builds in a crescendo in the fall semester when the 250-member marching band crowds into the band room, which was built to accommodate 90.
Robert Foster, director of bands, leads his 75-member symphonic band through "Beowulf" by Francis Macbeth. Foste-
was borne to accumulate wall kids in there," said Jim Barnes, assistant band director. "It's like standing behind a jet engine. It feels like you've been swimming and can't get the water out of your ears."
said yesterday that the sound level during band rehearsals in Murphy Hall sometimes reached unsafe levels.
water. LARRY MARSTON, ASSOCIATE professor of speech, language and hearing, tested the sound level of the band room during a marching band rehearsal in 1978. He indicated in a report to Robert Foster, director of bands for 24 years, that the sound reached unsafe levels.
According to government standards, people should not be exposed to sound levels greater than 115 decibels for more than 15 minutes at a time. Marston's report said. The noise level recorded during the rehearsal ranged from 105 to 116 decibels. The bands practice in the band room. Foster said, for as long as an hour and a half.
ROBERT COBB, EXECUTIVE vice
celler, said he was not aware of the hearing damage to faculty members but said he knew about the space crunch in Murphy. Chancelor Gene A. Budig was out of town and could not be reached for comment.
Marson said he conducted the test because Murphy staff members were concerned about the sound and wanted to report a report was not circulated to the administration. Foster said.
See HEARING, p. 5, col. 1
Misallocation at McCollum drains hall fund
By ANN PETERSON Staff Reporter
McCollum Hall is sweeping by with $200 of discretionary funds for the rest of this semester and part of the next because money from the fund has been misallocated by former hall government members, the hall president said yesterday.
The fund is used to pay for hall and floor parties, sports equipment, front desk sup
president said yesterday. Last semester, some members of the hall government who are no longer in office allocated too much money to too many groups in the hall, and the result is that the discretionary fund has been sliding quickly into the red, Brett McCabe, hall president, said.
pities and improvements the hall senate deems appropriate, McCabe said. Residents now have to pay for these things themselves or go without them because of the misallocations.
"WE WERE SUPPOSED to get money from our floor to have a party but when we decided to have it, they told us the money was gone." Said Saim, Algiers, Algeria, first-year graduate student, said. "It really bother me that we didn't have it and have to pay two or three dollars to go to a party."
McCabe said the fund also had been used traditionally to cushion expenses for the following year's hall government.
Fred McElheen, director of residential programs, said that at the beginning of the school year, $13.50 from the housing payment of each of the 850 hall residents went into a
discretionary fund under the control of the hall government. This year the fund began with about $11,475.
Pam Kulezyk, McColum resident director, said the hall government was not stable during the first semester, leading to the problems with the fund. The hall government had no treasurer until February and the government went through two presidents, both of whom quit.
Kulczyk said another problem was that computer print-outs telling how much money from the fund was being spent and allowance.
NEITHER KULCZYK nor McCabe would identify the two presidents in office at the time of the misallocations. McCabe said the hall president's duties included setting goals for the discretionary fund and making sure the funds were allocated correctly.
The misallocations occurred because some members of the hall senate were allocating money that they thought would come from state-handed funds, for such things as sports equipment, McCabe said. This caused the hall government to overestimate the amount of money available to allocate to different improvement groups in the hall.
were not available much of the first semester. Without the records, the misallocations continued undetected.
HOWEVER, McELHIENIE said the state- held funds couldn't be used to pay expenses that the discretionary fund should have covered.
For this reason, McCabe said, the discretionary fund had to be used to pay
See McCOLLUM, p. 5, col. 4
SenEx urges divestiture in S. Africa
By J. STROHMAIER Staff Reporter
The Kansas University Endowment Association should divest all of its interests from companies and banks that do business in South Africa, according to a resolution passed yesterday by the University Senate Executive Committee.
Venus Senate Executes
Senex unanimously passed a resolution,
which was issued by a subcommittee
composed of SenEx members, calling for
total divestment. The resolution now will
go to the University Council for a vote at
its April 11 meeting. The council is the
executive body of the University Senate.
The council could pass the resolution or defer it to the Senate, which meets April 18, for a full vote of all faculty members and all student senators.
the resolution calls for divestment because "the situation in South Africa is, by virtually every measure, morally repugnant, utterly inhumane, contradictory to our most fundamental beliefs concerning relationships among people of different races, and offensive to our sense of human rights and dignity."
IN ADDITION to divestment, the resolution also said the Endowment Association should find out from the state's attorney general whether the Endowment Association legally would be able to divest its interests. As a legal practice, the Association from making a decision about divestment based on social or moral grounds.
The Endowment Association would not be obliged to divest because it is a private, non-profit organization separate from the University of Kansas.
The SenEx subcommittee — composed of Norm Yetman, professor of sociology, Milton Betty and Michael Foubert, student senators, Betty Banks, SenEx secretary, and James Carothers, council president — drafted the resolution Wednesday.
ON FEB. 7, the University Senate Human Relations Committee issued a report suggesting that the Endowment Association divest from companies that primarily do business in South Africa.
In contrast to the report, the SenEx resolution calls for total divestment.
Because of the South African government's policy of racial segregation, students and faculty should not be beneficiaries of income from firms that help financially support the economic system in South Africa, the report said.
The subcommittee drafted the resolution after a forum conducted last Thurs-
tion after a forum conducted last Thurs.
See S. AFICA, p. 5, col. 3
Ricky Galvez, 2, shades his eyes from the sun while he walks with his mother, Carmina Galvez, Call, Columbia, junior. Ricky's mother said yesterday that her son enjoyed sporting the fashionable shades.
Regents may discuss sports fee increase
By JULIE MANGAN and CECILIA MILLS
Staff Reporters
A bill to increase the student sports fee by $2 might still be considered by the Board of Regents this月 this month, despite its death in the Student Senate on Wednesday.
The Senate rescinded a bill passed early last month that would have increased the student sports fee from $4.50 to $6.50. The fee supplements women's and non-revenue sports. Students pay the fee each semester with their tuition.
The increase would have raised about $40,000 more each semester to be divided among all sports other than football and men's basketball.
Tim Henderson, Senate Finance Committee chairman, said KU administrators have the authority to recommend that the Board of
regents approve an increase in the sports fee. The bill cannot be reconsidered by the Senate because the deadline to propose financial legislation was March 15.
WILLIAM EASLEY, student body president, said the increase could still be approved by the Regents this year, notice it when the agenda for its meeting April 18 and 19.
Because Chancellor Gene A. Budig already has approved the increase, Easley said, the Regents can decide whether to listen to the chancellor or to the Senate.
"I'm sure the chancellor will contact them or they will contact him," Easley said.
The Athletic Department has included the fee increase in its proposed budget for the 1985-86 school year. It will present its budget on April 16 to the University of Kansas Athletic Corporation, which is the governing body of the department.
Athletic Director Monte Johnson said
yesterday that he wasn't going to overreact to the Senate's decision to rescind the fee increase.
"WE'RE STILL in a position, budgetwise, where we can make adjustments," he said. "Until I hear officially from them, I wouldn't want to express anything other than disappointment."
Dennis Highberger, Liberal Arts and Sciences senator, said he led the move to rescind the bill increasing the fee because it was no longer attached to a petition criticizing the Athletic Department. He said he thought some senators may have approved the fee increase only because they wanted the petition to pass.
"I think that seriously affected the decision of some of the other people." Highberger
sam The petition attached to the original
See SENATE, p. 5, col. 4
Country Club week back on the books
Staff Reporter
Rv MICHELLE T. JOHNSON
Country Club Week is back. But the emphasis will be on academics — not partying — as residence halls open their doors a couple of days earlier this August for the fall semester.
In the past couple of years, however, halls have opened later to avoid what many regarded as excessive partying. This fall, they will open August 19. Classes will begin Aug. 26.
Orientation week, the week in which students arrive at residence halls for the start of the fall semester, in previous years. Students are encouraged to christened Country Club Week by students.
"We will make every effort to promote more academic efforts to our students," said Ruth Mikkelson, associate director of residential programs. "But I'm somewhat fearful that we will move back into our 'Country Club' image."
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DAVID AMBLE, vice chancellor for student affairs, said a University orientation planning committee approved the earlier
opening date for the halls to make academic advising smoother for students and faculty
poetry.
“That’s proved to be a little too tight a schedule.”
Ambler said.
in the past couple of years, the halls have opened later in the week, Ambler said. But that schedule had required most residents to move in, get academic advising, participate in hall and campus orientation, enroll and pay fees in a matter of days.
schedule Ambler said the University dates also were selected to allow professors to have a more accurate indication of enrollment in classes.
EXTRA DAYS ALSO will give residents the opportunity to spend more time on social activities. Mikkelson said the usual activities included theme parties, film showings, sports competitions between hall floors, meetings, campus tours and workshops on topics such as alcohol abuse, time management and survival skills.
Mikkelsen said residents would be encouraged to spend these extra days taking advantage of campus and educational opportunities.
opportunities. Mikelson said the office of residential programs worked with the halls to plan activities for orientation week.
Mike Hart, Payola junior and resident assistant in Templin Hall, said hall staff was glad to use the extra days for getting acquainted with residents and planning more
Each hall organizes an orientation committee that plans events and activities for that week. Mikkelson said.
"WE ARE GOING to take advantage of the extra week we have," Hart said.
Hart said orientation week was viewed as a drinking week by some, but the staff would try to steer residents away from drinking activities.
Beth Crawford, assistant resident director for Hashinger Hall, said Hashinger would expand its usual program for orientation week.
Movies, an all-hall party and a games night are some of the activities usually scheduled during the week, Crawford said.
Pam Kuleczky, McColm Hall resident director, said the focus of orientation week would not change because of the earlier opening date.
Kulczyk said the emphasis would be on acquiring the residents with artistic and cultural opportunities in Lawrence.