University Daily Kansan, April 4, 1985
CAMPUS AND AREA
NEWS BRIEFS
Students to study abroad
Two graduate students in art history last week received fellowships to study abroad next year.
Lucinda Friend, Stillwater, Okla. doctoral candidate, received the Bulfright-Hays Scholarship to study at Erlangen University in Erlangen, Germany. She completed a Bachelor's and social history of 19th-century Bavarian chateaux for her doctoral dissertation.
Janet Carpenter, Clarks Summit, Pa.
graduate student, received a $6,000 Kress
Foundation Fellowship in art history.
Carpenter, who is working on her doctoral degree, will travel to Taiwan to research her dissertation topic, "Traveling Among Streams and Mountains: Chin Period (1115-1234) Landscape Painting."
Earth sensing chapter to start
Students with a sense for remote sensing can help form a local chapter of the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing at a meeting Tuesday.
The meeting, which will be at 7 p.m. in the Apollo room of the Space Technology Center, will discuss forming the society's first Kansas chapter.
Remote sensing uses photography, satellites and radar to obtain information about the surface of the earth. The information commonly is used for evaluating crops, assessing wildlife habitats and monitoring irrigation systems.
James Merchant, resident specialist at KU's space technology center and one of the chapter's organizers, said he thought that the program would be in remote sensing to form a chapter at KU.
"We have a fairly large remote sensing program here at KU, and forming a chapter would certainly help to promote involvement and activity." Merchant said. "This would give us a much better opportunity to take field trips or to visit other remote sensing labs."
Glickman to talk on institute
Rep. Dan Glickman, D-Kan., is scheduled to speak at 3:30 p.m. April 19 in Alderson Auditorium of the Kansas Union.
Glickman will lecture on the U.S. Institute of Peace. He plans to answer questions from the audience after the speech, which he sponsors by KK. The instructors Glickman represents the state's 4th district in the House of Representatives.
Pikes pull out of block party
One of the seven Greek houses sponsoring a philanthrophy block party April 12 on Stewart Avenue decided yesterday not to participate in the party.
The party, which would benefit Hilltop Child Development Center, is being sponsored by five fraternities: Tau Kappa Epsilon, Lambda Chi Alpha, Phi Kappa Theta, Alpha Kappa Lambda and Evans Scholarship Fraternity. Alpha Gamma Delta sorority also a sponsor.
Kansan taking applications
The Kansan is accepting applications for the paid positions of editor and business manager for the summer session and fall semester.
Applications are available in the Student Senate office, B105 Kansas Union; the organizations and activities office, 403 Kansas University business office, JH Staffer-Flint Hall.
Applications are due by 5 p.m. April 15 in 200 Flauffer-Flint Hall.
Applications for other news and business staff positions for the summer session and fall semester also are available at the locations listed above. They are due by 5 p.m. April 18 in 200 Stauffer-Flint Hall.
Weather
Today will be partly cloudy. The high will be 63 to 70 degrees. Winds will be from the northeast at 10 to 15 mph. Tonight will be mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of thundershowers. The low will be in the mid-40s. Tomorrow will be mostly cloudy and cool. The high will be in the 50s.
Compiled from Karans staff and United Press International reports.
Shontz looks back on commission term
By MIKE GREEN Staff Reporter
City Commissioner Nancy Shontz harbors no bitterness toward voters after her defeat in Tuesday's general election. But she said yesterday that Lawrence residents who voted against her might have reacted to a false image.
Shontz received 3,911 votes in the election, which was good for fourth place in the six-candidate field. But only the top three finishes won spots on the commission.
The three will begin their terms at Tuesday's commission meeting, Sandra Praeger, who received the most votes in the election, will be the only new commissioner. Mike Amyx and Howard Paul, who placed second and third, were re-elected Tuesday.
Tuesday night's defeat meant the end of Shontz's career on the commission, which began with her election in 1981. During those four years, she said, she tried to listen to viewpoints of all citizens.
"I WAS ALWAYS interested in the processes of government and of the role individuals should play," Shontz said. "I was always concerned about getting citizen input."
numbers like they did two years and four years ago," she said.
Nancy Shontz
Shontz said she wasn't sure why she lost.
"People will offer opinions about what happened, but I don't think you can say. One thing is that the voters didn't come out in
Shontz she thought it was interesting that she received the most votes in 10 of the city's 30 precincts. But the voter turnout in those precincts, mostly in the central and eastern parts of the city, tended to be lower than turnout in other precincts.
Moyles may have been reacting to an image of Shontz as someone who was belligerent against him. The photographer,
"ANYTIME YOU SPEAK your mind," she said, "there will be resistance to it if you're not supporting the issue."
velopment, she said. This image, she said, was created by certain people in the community.
In many cases, Shontz said, people have gone back to school when she actually voted the opposite way.
Candidates in this year's race stressed economic development more than in past elections, Shontz said. Other candidates seemed to be most interested in developing new land by building new streets and attracting new businesses, she said.
“This is extremely frustrating when this happens, the said, since ‘there’s nothing you can do’.”
SHE SAID THE commission in the last two years had adopted an attitude of the ends justifying the means. Shontz said she was always strongly opposed to that attitude.
"I'm interested in economic development too," she said, "but I'm also interested in cultural development and the rehabilitation of older neighborhoods."
"I was often accessed of trying to thwart the goal of something by examining the means. I always asked myself if it was a way of getting there, and were an effective way of getting there."
In making decisions, Shontz said, she tried to anticipate the effects on people.
"These things also create jobs and inject profit into the community, but they also help
"If I thought a particular action benefited a large number of people, then I usually supported it," she said. "But if I thought it was privileged to privilege for a few, then I couldn't go alone."
Shontz said many Lawrence residents had relied on her to have their opinions heard on the commission. She said she didn't know where those people would turn now for help.
"IT WORRIES ME," she said. "The commission generally allows public comment, but there isn't much interest. The commission is to be selective about who it chooses to hear."
Her interest in city government will continue desire her defeat, she said.
"I have an abiding interest in city government and the community, and I will continue to observe events and get involved," she said.
She said she planned to become active with the Audubon Society and also with Kansans for the improvement of Nursing Homes. She said she had more time to devote to things around the house.
Shontz ruled out running again for the commission.
"I served for four years, and I did it mentions." That enough. I will serve in other positions too.
SenEx to talk on divestment in South Africa
HER FOUR YEARS on the commission, she said, were a valuable experience. She said that she had learned the edge of problems in the city and the processes that had to be undertaken to solve them.
By J. STROHMAIER Staff Represent
Staff Reporter
A resolution on whether the Kansas University Endowment Association should divest from companies doing business in South Africa is scheduled to be considered by the University Senate Executive Committee in its meeting this afternoon.
The resolution was written Tuesday by a SenEx subcommittee comprising Norm Yetman Jr., professor of sociology; Michael Foubert and Milton Scott, student senators; Betty Banks, SenEx secretary; and James Williams, president of the University Council.
Yetman, Foubet and Scott are members of SenEx, the executive group of the University Council. Banks and Carothers are ex-officio members of SenEx.
1 manan said yesterday that the sub-
committee had written a resolution taking a position on the divestment issue, but he
comment on the nature of the resolution.
SENEX COULD CHANGE the resolution or vote to send it to the council for final approval. SenEx also could take no action on the resolution.
If SenEx approves the resolution, it would go to the council for a final vote at the April 11 council meeting. If the council approves the resolution, the Endowment Association wouldn't be legally bound to adhere to its provisions because the association is a non-profit organization separate from the University.
In other business, a SenEx selection committee searching for a new University ombudsman plans to interview seven of the 13 applicants in the program. SenEx executive secretary
THE OMBUDSMAN IS a liaison between faculty, students and the administration. William Balfour, the present ombudsman, plans to retire in May.
Wick said the selection committee would interview the seven candidates and choose three to recommend to Chancellor Gene A. Wick to make a final decision on who will receive the position.
The selection committee probably will submit the three recommendations to Budig the week after candidates are interviewed, Wick said.
She said a new umbudsman probably would be chosen before the end of the
Wick said many of the applicants had outstanding credentials.
Gragg Myer, Topeka junior, left, and Rex Boyd, Overland Hall. Myer said yesterday that he had been juggling for Park freshman, practice their juggling in front of Strong about four years.
Panel increases Med Center allotment
Staff Reporter
By NANCY HANEY
While other Board of Regents schools had to settle for less money than the Senate had recommended for them, the University of Kansas Medical Center received about $144,000 extra yesterday in the House Ways and Means Committee's budget proposal.
The committee endorsed fiscal year 1986 budget proposals for the Med Center and other Regents schools. The full House is expected to debate the Regents budget package next week before the Legislature recesses for two weeks.
The Regents schools are the six state universities and the Kansas Technical Institute in Salina. The University of Kansas budget is divided into budgets for the Lawrence campus and the Med Center in Kansas City, Kan.
THE HOUSE COMMITTEE's budget recommendation for the Med Center was about $70.3 million. The portion of the budget set aside for capital improvements
was about $4.7 million, the same amount recommended by the Senate.
The Senate recommended that about $170.2 million be appropriated to the Med Center.
The Med Center requested a budget of about $179.3 million for fiscal 1986, which begins July 1. The capital improvements portion requested was about $6.6 million.
The House committee approved the extra money because of an unexpected surplus in the Med Center's hospital fund, said State Rep. John Solbach, D-Lawrence.
Money generated by Bell Memorial Hospital at the Med Center goes into the state's coffers, then is given back by the Legislature to finance the Med Center.
SOLBACH SAID, "THE hospital has generated money in the last couple of years, and that definitely benefited the Med Center budget."
The Med Center had requested that $2 million in capital improvement funds be appropriated for renovation of the in-patient pediatrics unit at the hospital.
The committee decided to spread that amount over a three-year period. About
$150,000 of the $2 million is left over from the fiscal 1985 capital improvements budget.
for fiscal 1986, $750,000 was allocated for the renovation. Another $1.1 million will be recommended for appropriations in fiscal 1987.
State Rep. David Heinemann, R-Garden City, and a member of the subcommittee that analyzed the Med Center budget, said spreading the total over three years made it easier for the state to finance the project.
"THE IMPROVEMENTS WERE needed," he said.
Heinemann said the Med Center would not be hurt by spreading the allocation over three years.
The House committee also approved $750,000 in capital improvement funds for parking lot improvements. A portion of that funding is provided by the parking fee funded paid by students and faculty.
The committee also recommended that unclassified employees and student employees at the Med Center receive a 5 percent increase in salaries.
65¢ cans of Miller and Miller Lite
Miller points will be awarded to participating organizations.
Free prizes
Free prizes
Bring your group and chug'm on down!
--presents a
KU Microbiology Society
3—part Symposium on Allergies:
- Introduction
- “Diagnosis & Treatment of Allergies”
- "Food Allergies"
Tuesday, April 9, 1985
3-5 p.m. Jayhawk Room of the Kansas Union
FREE—Everyone welcome!
funded by GSC & Dept. of Microbiology