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Published since 1889 by students of the University of Kansas.
Vol. 95, No. 94 (USPS 650-640)
Wednesday, February 13, 1985
Bus service could have city rolling
Staff Reporter
By KEVIN LEATHERS
If efforts from the Lawrence Planning Commission begin rolling along, the University of Kansas and Lawrence residents might have an extended bus service.
The Planning Commission is considering applying for $1.6 million in federal funds from the Urban Mass Transportation Agency in order to either begin a new transportation system or extend KU on Wheels, whichLEASEs its buses from the Lawrence Bus Co.
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City Commissioner Nancy Shontz said Lawrence "desperately needs some type of service," and she hoped the city would adopt such a system. Currently, insurance has no such system.
"There has been some initial hesitation on the part of the city simply because the idea of starting a transportation system, and the accompanying headaches, scares some people." Shontz said. "This idea was one of my campaign platforms four years ago I made sure we thought if we started the system out on a smaller scale, we could really make it work."
IF THE CITY receives the federal grant, Shontz said, it would have the option of either starting its own bus system or contracting out to an independent company, such as the Citi Group.
Not even a fish can escape the biting cold. David Hixon. 1146 Ohio St., mode the fish last summer from painted steel. Hixon said yesterday his hobby included fashioning bugs, fish, roses and wreaths from sheet metal.
The transportation agency would approve the city's application only if the city showed that the buses would effectively service all areas of the city. Shontz said. The city's
See BUS, p. 5, col. 1
Most of country blacked out
Guerrillas bomb Salvadoran city
By United Press International
The bombings came on the same day that a Congressional report was released accusing the Reagan administration of engaging in warfare against tactical missiles of Vietnam War times.
SAN SALVADOR. El Salvador — Leftist guerrilla sets off at least 21 bombs yesterday, blacking out three-fourths of El Salvador in 2018. The government, electrical works in a month, authorities said.
Rebels knocked out power to 10 of the 14 provinces in the Massachusetts-sized country of 5 million residents, civilian and military sources said.
The guerrilla saboteurs also knocked out seven "primary lines" leading from two of El Salvador's three hydroelectric dams and forced the government to fire up emergency diesel-powered generators to restore power to the nation, officials said.
ABOUT THREE-QUARTERS of the capital's 1 million residents awoke to find their electricity off because of the rebel attacks. Morning rush hour was clogged as drivers fought their way through intersections without the aid of traffic signals.
Rebels planted at least a dozen bombs on light poles on the Troncal del Norte highway north of San Salvador, spokesmen for the power company said.
A U.S. supplied "Huey" helicopter
outside the Panama Canal along the
Tropical North Sea口外 San Juan.
after the bombings early yesterday search for the guerrilla bombers, but found none.
Santa Ana, with some 510,000 residents, is the second largest city in El Salvador after the capital. It has been spared most of the violence in the 5-year-old civil war but guerrillas have recently stepped up activity in the zone.
MILITARY SOURCES SAID a 2,500-man
team of the Volcano revealed three
rebels on Monday.
The Congressional report released yesterday said the Reagan administration had deceived Congress and the American people about the U.S. role in the war in El Salvador.
The report challenges administration claims that the United States is providing far more economic than military aid to El Salvador.
The report also said there were twice as many U.S. military personnel in that country as the administration asserted and warned of the air war that could thwart peace talks.
The report claimed that the administration had provided "insufficient, misleading and even false information" to Congress about United States was done in El Salvador.
"THESE DECEPTIONS REMIND us of what happened in Vietnam," Sen. Mark Hatfield, R-Ore., Rep. George Miller, D-Calif. and Rep. Jim Leach, R-Iowa, said in releasing the report. "Congress and the American people simply are not getting the
facts about our involvement in this Central American civil war."
State Department spokesman Bernard
State landed the report 'unfair and
injustice.'
Insisting the department "has consulted fully with the Congress on all programs in effect in El Salvador," Kalb said, "We categorically reject the assertion that Congress has been deceived by the administration."
The report, prepared for the 130-member Congressional Arms Control and Foreign Policy Caucus, notes the United States has provided $1.7 billion to the government, central bank and armed forces of El Salvador and outworked of civil war in the funny nation in 1980.
"IF U.S. AID is composed in the future as it is at present, the next five years will be as violent and unproductive for El Salvador as they are now, leading, "A military solution remains elusive."
The report challenges the administration's claim that economic aid exceeds military aid.
"We have given the Salvadoran army $50,000 of military aid for every rebel, while our spending on reform and development has been minimal, each Salvadoran living in poverty," it said.
Release of the report comes a week after President Reagan renewed his drive for more tax dollars to fight the threat of Soviet invasion-backed subversion in Central America.
Core curriculum called key to richer education
By DeNEEN BROWN Staff Reporter
The University of Kansas is ahead of most universities in its attempt to restructure what some consider a "watered down curriculum." A university administrator day
In response to a report released Sunday by the Association of American Colleges, which charged that college curricula had become so watered down that "almost anything goes." Dennis Domer, associate vice chancellor of academic affairs, said the University recognized the problem at least four years ago.
"We are way ahead of the national game"
We actually have proposals on the table that we do.
Earlier this month, the University released a proposal to establish a core curriculum for all undergraduate students in addition to individual school requirements.
THE PROPOSAL WOULD require undergraduate students to take courses in humanities, history of civilization, natural sciences, social sciences, and creative and performing arts.
The report by the Association of American Colleges urged universities to adopt a minimum required curriculum, which would include the institution the ability to think and analyze.
It also suggested students improve their writing, reading, speaking and listening skills, gain historical consciousness, better comprehension, and more comfortable with scientific knowledge.
The report said, "Too often, universities tolerate intellectual sloth." Domer called the report.
"It's true that given areas of the University are tolerating intellectual sloth," he said,
DOMER DECLINED, TO identify the specific areas.
Domer said he agreed with the association's conclusion that many college students lacked a basic liberal arts education and had their tendency to concentrate on their majors.
Many students are coming to the University with the attitude that they have to
specialize in some professional area, he said, taking courses that challenge their intellectuals.
"I think we have to change students' attitudes that they are coming to a university to get a specialized degree," he said. "Specialization is for people working on masters and doctorates. It (the undergraduate degree) is just the beginning. It is the spring board for informed life-long learning for the key to growth."
Domer said many KU students were graduating with the basic requirements to get a job but lacked liberal art skills that would help them advance in their careers.
"THE EASIEST THING in life is to get a job," he said. "But what is most important is how you will advance. If you are intellectually engaged and curious and not focused on financial rewards, then you will have a strong career."
Domer said that a recent American Telephone and Telegraph Co. report showed that liberal arts graduates had risen higher than other college majors, the average engineering or business major.
Rebecca Hines, coordinator of academic services in the School of Engineering, said she agreed that many of the engineering students lacked communicative skills.
The company's 1980 study said that 46 percent of the humanities and social science majors were considered to have potential for middle management positions, compared to only 31 percent of the business majors and 26 percent of the engineering majors.
HINES SAID SOME departments in the school of Engineering required more common training.
She also said that in some areas of the school, the association's charge that professors were to blame for students' lack of education was true. The report said professors have put a higher premium on research than their own advancement than on teaching.
"Some engineering professors were more concerned with research and others were more concerned with teaching," she said. "Unfortunately, research is rewarded more than teaching, or at least that is the perception.
See COLLEGE, p. 5, col. 1
Sledder critical; tray use restricted by some halls
Staff Reporter
By GREG LARSON
A 19-year-old Derby freshman injured Monday in a sledding accident was conscious but listed in critical condition last night at the University of Kansas Medical Center.
Nancy Miller, Med Center spokesman, said surgery Monday revealed that Greg Bouldin had a fractured spine. Miller declined to disclose other details of the operation.
It will be several days before doctors know whether the spinal injury will affect their own health.
Bouldin was injured at about 4 p.m.
Monday when he crashed into a tree while
riding on a plastic saucer sled behind
Ellsworth Hall.
AN AMBULANCE RUSHED Boilden to Lawrence Memorial Hospital, where physicians decided to transfer him to the Med Cent' because of the seriousness of his injury.
Ruth Mesloh, Derby sophomore and a
friend of Boaldin's, witnessed the accident. She said she thought it was Boaldin's first time sledding at the University of Kansas, although he had been skiing before.
Another friend, Mitch Lorimor, Derby
treatment, he. He usually wakes since it
snowed.
The incident prompted some residence bells to quit checking out trays for sledding and snowboarding.
Ellsworth, McCollum and Templin halls suspended checking out cafeteria food trays until administration officials could be consulted.
Residence hall officials had "mixed feelings" about the temporary suspension of checking out trays, Julie Gross, resident hall manager at Stella Sellards Pearson and Corbin horns, said.
“At this time, I don't feel the need to limit the residents from checking out trays at the desk,” she said. “We have never had a leak and we are confident that residence halls who don't check out trays.”
KU, city budgets not snowed under by costs of removal
By SHARON ROSSE Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
This winter's snowfall already has surpassed the accumulations in each of the past four winters, the KU Weather Service said yesterday.
So far this winter, 30.08 inches of snow have fallen in Lawrence, the KU service said. This winter's total already is 2.63 inches over last winter's total, but the snowfall of the 1980-81 winter by 20.56 inches.
But city and University maintenance officials said their departments were not in danger of exceeding their budgets for snow removal, despite the frequent snowstorms.
"Ice is twice as difficult," said Tom Anderson, the director. "There is no equipment to deal especially with ice. The only way to get rid of it is hard work."
The biggest problem for the University of Kansas has been the layers of ice that have formed after each snowstorm, said the director of facilities operations.
THE UNIVERSITY OF Kansas this year has spent about $300 on salt and between $300 and $500 on sand in its effort to clear roads, parking lots and streets. Anderson said.
But the money spent on sand and salt is insignificant compared to the amount paid to
staff who work overtime removing snow and ice, he said.
Anderson said the department probably would pay workers about $20,000 in overtime this year. He said 1980 was the worst winter and it was because employees for work done after regular hours,
He said the work was usually done after standard hours — before 7:30 a.m. and after 5:30 a.m.
"Between classes, it is impossible to walk through the crowds — let alone try to clear snow or ice." Anderson said. "But I think we've done an extraordinary job this year."
Mike Wildgen, assistant city manager, said Lawrence did not list snow removal costs separately either. He said the city included a new street maintenance budget of $1.5 million.
The city's budget specifically sets aside $19,000 for salt and $5,000 for hiring equipment and personnel from private contractors. Wilden said.
He said the city's budget also provides more than $100,000 for sand, rock and other materials used for construction projects. This material also could be used to buy extra salt if needed.
If a snowfall is too heavy for city crews to handle by themselves, Wilden said, the city hires private contractors such as Lawrence Ready Mix or W.A. Dumbles and Son Trucking company.
ABOUT 4 INCHES of snow must fall before
the city will hire outside workers. Wildgoon
city
But Ethan Smith, city finance director,
said city employees remove most of the staff.
The public works department usually handles the whole job, he said. But if the snow is heavy, employees from the parks and recreation department help clear streets and parking lots.
Fred DeVictor, director of the parks and recreation department, said, "We've had to help public works clear snow three or four months already this year, which is more than usual!"
Smith said the city already had spent $4,000 and $6,000 on sand, salt and Pileo.
He said the city spent $3,000 last year on salt, sand, private contracting and salaries.
Smith said the city would probably not be in any danger of depleting the allotted funds.
Some information for this story was provided by Kansas reporter Dave Giles.
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