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Vol. 94, No. 77 (USPS 650-640)
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Friday morning, January 13, 1984
Council approves discontinuance policy
By JENNY BARKER Staff Reporter
After more than a year of debate, the University Council yesterday unanimously passed a policy outlining the procedure the University of Kansas must follow when eliminating an academic program.
Budig probably will approve the move if it receives the Senate's endorsement, said James Carothers, chairman of the Senate Executive Committee.
The proposal must be approved by the University Senate and by Chancellor Gene A. Bibbey.
"I expect and hope that we have a proposal that both the chancellor and University Senate will find acceptable," Carothers said.
IN APRIL 1982, the Board of Regents asked that its six universities form discontinuance policies. None of the other universities has
passed a discontinuance program, said James Seaver, chairman of the University Council.
If passed, the KU policy will affect only those programs that are discontinued by KU's initiation. Carriers said. If the Regents or KU program, they would not be bound by the policy.
The University Senate comprises faculty, administration and Student Senate and has
This will be the second time the University Senate will vote on a discontinuance policy. In a vote by mail last summer, the Senate rejected a law that would impose a policy, that the University Council had passed.
At that time, members of the council were disturbed because the discontinuance policy did not provide what they considered to be a suitable time before a program could be eliminated.
THE POLICY PROPOSAL passed yesterday was drafted by a temporary Senate Executive
Committee and has been amended to provide more protection for faculty and students if a
A key element of the policy is that it would require that programs be eliminated over a three-year period.
The draft now includes four provisions for efforts the University should make to accommodate students:
- Permitting students to complete higher degree programs by taking work in related departments.
- During that period, students in those programs would be allowed to finish their studies, but no other requirements were placed.
- Permitting students to complete higher degree programs at other universities.
- Making provisions, in the case of graduate students, for supervision of dissertations and administration of graduate examinations by faculty at other universities.
- Honoring the terms of a multi-year graduate
hour fellowship made before the discontinue-
ment.*
If the program that was enlisted is reinstated within five years of its elimination, the faculty positions will not be filled without a vote from the department. The first opportunity to have their jobs has
Under the policy the University would help and not enter UK for faculty members or by program.
The proposed policy also would allow faculty to continue teaching during the years their students are graduating.
The University Senate will meet within two weeks to vote on the policy, Carothers said. If a quorum is reached, the vote will occur at the meeting
CAROTHERS SAID HE doubted that a quorum would be reached at that meeting. The last time a quorum was reached was in 1971, he said.
Storm sweeps state ending brief thaw with snow and cold
From Staff and Wire Reports
Bitter days are here again as a snowstorm that swept across Kansas yesterday has brought with it a miserable reminder of December's record-breaking temperatures.
Snow flurries left a trace of snow in Lawrence, and arctic cold stung the nation from North Dakota to New England.
The National Weather Service in Topeka predicted more snow by tonight and up to 2 inches by this weekend. The high today should be between 15 and 25 degrees, forecasters said, and temperatures Saturday and Sunday should be in the teens.
Darryl Bertelsen, weather service specialist with the National Weather Service, said that roads could be hazardous this weekend because of ice.
Before the weekend ends, he said. 1 to 2 inches of snow could fall in Lawrence and up to 4 inches could fall in the western half of the state.
THE STORM FRONT that is moving across the state dropped 7 inches of snow in northeast Kansas, causing an accident involving two trucks in the city.
The Kansas Highway Patrol reported both northbound lanes of Interstate 133 between Bridgeport and Mentor were closed yesterday afternoon. Two semi tractor-trailers had skidded on the snow-slickened road and stopped, lengthwise, across the highway. Traffic was blocked, but no one was injured.
"It was a weather-related-type accident," a KHP dispatcher in Salina said. No further details of the accident were available yesterday night.
"So far we've had about 30 accident calls," the dispatcher said. "We've had so many accidents that we're working on that we haven't had time to respond."
Brookville and Baileyville reported 5 inches, and Centralia in Nemahua County reported 7 inches of snow. Most other areas generally received an
THE HEAVIEST SNOWFALL occurred in a narrow band from near Great Bend to Russell and Salina, then northeast through Clay Center and Centralia to the Nebraska border near Sabeth, the National Weather Center. Most of the region reported 5 to 7 inches of snow was common with some parts of the region reporting 5 to 7 inches.
The Nemaha County Sheriff's Department reported no major accidents from the bad weather, but sheriff's officials were kept busy helping motorists who were stuck in roadside ditches. The snow tapered to furries in early morning, and there was little drifting in the county. All roads were open yesterday evening.
"It it just came straight down and settled," said Alice Walters, an operator for the City of Centralia's answering service. "It it's snawing and noisy."
THE HIGHWAY PATROL reported that highways and secondary roads were snow packed and icy in areas with the heaviest snowfall. The same report also noted that highways are not as well covered.
North winds of 15 to 25 mph caused some drifting snow across the northwest half of Kansas. Winds across the southeast half of the state blow from the northeast at 10 to 15 mph.
Temperatures in the state were in the upper 60s. Harsh weather is still punishing other parts of the nation. Forecasters tracked a storm brewing in the Southwest and expected it hit the Northeast by the weekend.
Temperatures in the state were in the 20s yesterday
See WEATHER, p. 5, col. 1
Larry Funk/KANSAN
Joyce Barrett, Oskaloosa graduate student, walks through the falling snow. Flurries left a trace of snow yesterday and 1 to 2 inches are expected today. The National Weather Service in Topeka said the high today would be 15 to 25.
Managua says copter was in battle zone
Administration calls attack unprovoked, awaits explanation
By United Press International
TEOТЕCACINTE, Nicaragua — Nicaraqua's leftist flight said yesterday that it shot down a U.S. helicopter because it was flying over a Nicaraguan-backed rebels were being supplied by air.
Chief Warrant Officer Jeffrey Schwab of Joilet, ipl., pilot of the helicopter, brought the 4-seat OH-58 light observation chopper down 200 yards inside Honduras. He was shot in the head by Nicaraguan soldiers after he and two Army engineers left the craft.
Å Pentagon spokesman said it was not clear if the unarmed craft was downed by gunfire or forced to land because of a mechanical problem. He added that no firefighters had the helicopter straived into Nicaragua air space.
A MANAGUA MINISTRY communique said that the Popular Sandista Army opened fire on the aircraft, which it said proceeded to carry out with missiles and lost altitude until it left Nicaragua air space.
The Sandistas said the helicopter dropped into Honduran territory and landed on a road 200 yards from the border, within sight of men on the Murpuchi command post.
"I waited until I saw that it carried no markings. When I saw that it didn't, I gave the order to open fire," said Reynaldo Zeledon, 24, of El Paso. "I knocked on the door and the incident occurred Wednesday morning."
In Washington, President Reagan condemned the shooting of the pilot as "reckless and unprovoked," said deputy White House press secretary Larry Speakes. The United States was awaiting Nicaragua's explanation before determining what action it would take.
THE WHITE HOUSE called Schwabb's death
"a great tragedy."
Speakes said, "We have put the Nicaraguans on notice that this action is unacceptable."
The helicopter was towed at dawn Thursday into the nearby border town of Citizeng, where another chopper will pick it up and carry it to the airport to be the big Pine II war games, the embassy said.
Schwabb's was the first American combat death in Honduras where U.S. troops are killed.
Some 3,500 U.S. troops are currently participating in the second phase of the joint military maneuvers in Honduras. Another round of war games is scheduled to begin in June.
U. S. OFFICIALS said Schwabb's body will be returned to Fort Campbell, Ky., where he was assigned to the 101st Aviation Group, 229th Aviation Battalion.
"The incident was protested immediately in the strongest terms to the Nicaraguan government and we are awaiting its explanation of the event." Speakes said.
"Whatever future action we may or may not take would be based on the explanation, he said.
Pentagon spokesman Michael Burch said the United States does not contemplate a military mission.
Secretary of State George Shultz acknowledged that the helicopter may have strayed into Neagarium airspace, but still called the aircraft unarmed, stationary helicopter "unacceptable."
But Shultz ruled out any direct American military response.
KU doctor goes to Mexico for research on migraines
By DAVID SWAFFORD
Staff Reporter
Ziegler, the chairman of the department of neurology at the University of Kansas Medical Center, has studied the migraines of Americans for more than 10 years. Ziegler is studying Mexico to try to find a connection between Mexican and American migraine sufferers.
Migraine headache sufferers, try to relax a little. Dewey Ziegler, M.D., is working to understand the source of your ills.
Although a cure for migraines is probably impossible, he said, answers to specific questions about them might help find a treatment for those who suffer from migraines.
"THE INTERESTING THING to me is that the headache problem is related to environmental stress and that's why I'm studying differently in their own environ- "Zegler said.
Ziegler arrived in Mexico City last Friday and is now surveying segments of the population with Garcia Pedroza, M.D., of the Universidad Mexico in Mexico City.
March, when he will return to the United States to analyze his findings. Part of that analysis will be to look for a correlation between the frequency and causes of migrations.
means. Bigger is better.
He plans to stay in Mexico until the end of
AFTER HE FINISHES analyzing his migrates in Mexico, Ziegler will go on the road to China to see whether headaches of the East are as severe as those of the West.
Ziegler's wife accompanied him to Mexico and they are now living there in an apartment. Ziegler said that his wife had enrolled in an intensive course in Spanish.
Ziegler said that his interest in studying migrarians came from his training in both countries.
"I've always enjoyed treating patients and that's why I got into migraines — because I'm doing it."
Zeigler, who learned to speak Spanish for his trip to Mexico, said that he would not try to learn Chinese. He said that he would have to rely on an interpreter.
Ziegler plans to arrive in China in the spring. He did not know whether he would stay one month or two. After he returns from China, he said that he thought he would spend six months to a year interpreting the data from China.
Library dean fears inadequate budget
By GRETCHEN DAY
KU libraries may not have enough money next year to keep pace with the increasing price of books and periodicals and might have to seek out other items, the dean of libraries said yesterday.
Jim Ranz, the dean, said the libraries would need a 10 percent budget increase for fiscal 1985. "We are getting better," he said.
In his budget blueprint announced this week, Gov. John Carlin proposed a 5 percent increase in other operating expenses for the University of Kansas.
Staff Reporter
Library costs fall under those operating expenses, referred to as OOE. The administration decides how those funds will be allocated within the University.
"IF WE ASSUMED the libraries also got a 5 percent increase, books and periodicals acquisitions would be at a loss." Ranz said
The Board of Regents had requested a 7 percent increase in KU's operating budget.
Ranz said he wasn't very optimistic that the University would allocate 10 percent or more to the program.
Any cutbacks in the library budget would have to come out of books and periodicals acquisitions, he said. He said reducing the staff would reduce services to faculty and students.
KU's fiscal 1984 operating fund is about $34.95 million. The 5 percent increase Carlin recommended would add $690,644 in general use funds. The library's OOE fund for fiscal 1984 is $2.406 million.
The Regents had requested $1,545,009.
Carlin also recommended that $360,000 be allocated to KU to improve laboratory equipment and library acquisitions. This would be additional financing over the OOE budget.
OUT OF THE library's OOE fund, $2.096 million is used for acquisitions — books, journals and binding. Shawbaker said.
in fiscal 1982, $182,065 was rescinded from the library's budget. Ranz said, most of which was taken out of staff positions. Five positions were eliminated, but the employees from those positions were employed elsewhere in the library.
The Association of Research Libraries ranked
John Davidson, chairman of the department of physics and astronomy, said, "I'll be very concerned that we can't maintain current funding."
George Woodyard, associate vice chancellor for academic affairs and a member of the Senate Library Committee, said, "We've tried to maintain strength in spite of everything. In the last fiscal year libraries were the highest priority in academic affairs."
Davidson said that although KU's libraries are strong, continued funding was essential to support them.
Ranz said that KU's libraries were not as well off as they were 10 years ago, but that the problem was shared by libraries across the country.
He said, however, that he thought the Legislature had done an adequate job over the years to support the Regents schools and that he must insure KU could get more funds for the library.
KU libraries 37th in the nation. KU ranked higher than any other Big Eight school.
Ranz said renting warehouse space and carting books back and forth would be more expensive in the long-run than building more shelf space on campus
KU FACES ANOTHER problem in its
own way would be out of
obtaining space within the workspace.
When that happens, he said, books will have to be stored in warehouses on campus and in other parts of Lawrence. Students and faculty may have to wait two days for particular books.
Carlin, in his five-year plan for capital improvements, which he outlined this week in his budget recommendations, recommended building a science library at KU.
But, Ranz said, if such a library is built, it won't be done until at least 1900
"And that's about 10 years too late." he said.