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University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas
Vol. 93, No. 162 USPS 650-640
Friday, July 29, 1983
Weather
Today he will sunny and hot with highs of
100 to 105, according to the National
Weather Service.
Winds will be from the south 10 to 15 mph.
Tonight will be fair with lows from 75 to 80.
will be made in the same, with
the high expected to be in the 100s.
Journalist recounts public life
Clyde Reed, former publisher of the Parsons Sun, brings his knowledge and many years of experiences to the classrooms of KU.
Staff Reporter
By ANN REGAN Staff Reporter
In 1963, when Clyde Reed was chairman of the Board of Regents, he offered himself as the sacrificial lamb to tell Wichtians that their college should not become part of the state's education system, according to Keith Austin, a friend of Reed's and former editor of the
"They were ready to lynch him, tar and heather him. He had trouble getting out of town."
REED DOES NOT LIKE to talk about that incident — “It wouldn’t serve any purpose now, it’s over” — the same way he does not like to read his impishments or the famous friends he has re=do.
Reed, a KU graduate of the class of 1937,
returned to the University of Kansas last fall to
teach a class in editorial writing in the William
School of Journalism and Mass Communications.
The subject is one he knows something about. His father bought the Parsons Sun in 1914, the year Reed was born, and Reed worked his way up to the boy to editor and publisher of the newspaper.
Reed became owner of the paper in 1953. In 1982, he sold the Sun to the Harris Group of New York.
He said he had learned a lot about Kansas, especially when he ran as the Republican candidate.
"MY THOUGHT IS THAT every newspaperman should run for office at least once, and preferably be defeated," he said. "I got to know Kansas and Kansas people. I got to know things about Kansas that I could learn in no other way than by an active candidacy."
Austin, a Reed supporter during the election, said Reed's severance of a waiver tax on real estate was unacceptable.
regrets losing the election for one man.
Reed said one of the highlights of the election was when President Dwight D. Eisenhower came to Abilene and, in an appearance in front of the Sunflower Hotel, endorsed Reed's candidacy.
"He wasn't able to speak his mind, even if it wasn't the popular thing to do." Austin said.
"It was its downfall. But I don't think he wants to leave the election for one minute."
"IT MADE ME FEEL. GREAT for the moment," he said.
Reed was in national politics from 1941 to 1942 when he worked in Washington, D.C., as a se. secretary for his father, who served as a U.S. senator from Kansas from 1939 until his death in 1949. He also was governor of Kansas from 1929 to 1931.
"But he didn't want me to stay in Washington." Reed said of his father.
"He said he had seen too many politicians — good people — who were ruined by staying in the city."
While in Washington, Reed, who is described as a "fire buff" by his friends, joined the Friendship Fire Association, which was founded by George Washington.
Association members would assist firemen at fires by providing coffee and doughnuts, he
Reed said he first became interested in fires when he had to hae fire engines and police
ALTHOUGH HE NEVER held public office, Reed was frequently appointed to serve on boards and committees and received several awards.
In 1961, Gov. John Anderson appointed him to the Board of Regents, and he served as its chief executive.
In 1976, he was appointed to the board of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting by the Board.
Reed also has served and been honored by his alma mater.
He was vice president and president of the University of Kansas Alumni Association in 1955 and 1965 and is now a trustee of the Kansas University Endowment Association.
One award that has special meaning for him is the citation he received in 1963 from the William Allen White Foundation for journalistic merit as an outstanding Kansas editor.
REEED SAID HIS father was a close friend and political ally of William Allen White, the editor and publisher from Emporia, after which he began his journalism and Mass Communications is named.
Reed said that, as a child, he often went with his father to visit White.
"I remember Mr. White presiding over a great, huge salad bowl when he had guests for dinner. He relished it, and that's no pun," Reed said.
Reed, like White, used his newspaper editorials to support what he believed was best advice.
He supported the severance tax in an area where it was extremely unpopular, fought the
railroad bosses when they were still very powerful and, in recent years, upset his town by supporting a controversial redevelopment plan.
Reed said that Parsons was an important rail center and that in 1947 the Missouri, Kansas and Texas railroad charged hands and the new president "began whacking, away at the payroll." By the end of the year more than 1,000 area men had been transferred or fired.
WHEN THE RAILROAD posted a notice one Sunday that it was going to close its accounting office, putting 150 men out of work. Reed said he could not believe it.
"Firing people is one thing, firing them on Sunday is quite another in my book," he said. Reed said that, although he did not win the first fight against Tommy Robinson, he brought the issue to the nation of the middle
Redevelopment was another issue Reed felt strongly about and brought to the public's
Max Bickford, former executive officer of the Regents and a crony of Reed's, said, "If Clyde had to list one of his greatest achieve-ments, it would be the development of downtown Parsons."
REEED WAS CHAIRMAN of the Parsons Urban Renewal Agency from 1998 to 1973. While he was chairman, the agency carried out a series of brown removal that covered 35 shameful streets.
Bickford said that completion of the project was a hard-fought victory for Reed but that Reed "was a fighter in whatever he believed in."
Reed tries to instill in his students the same sense of commitment and willingness to take a
"I want them to take a position. I don't care if it's for or against an issue. I just don't want them to waffle."
Voters may get say in redevelopment
By GENE HUNTER
Staff Reporter
Lawrence Mayor David Longhirst and City Commissioner Mike Amyx have been promised that Lawrence residents will have a chance to decide whether downtown development will
According to Dean Palos, a city planner who has worked extensively on the project, they will.
PALOS SAID YESTERDAY that Lawrence voters would have to approve any general obligation bonds to help finance the city's share of the estimated $4.5 million project. The city has proposed issuing $1.6 million in general obligation bonds to finance capital improve-
But will Lawrence residents get that chance?
issued, the City Commission would first have to approve them. If approved, the law states that the matter would have to be put to a public vote in either a general or special election.
General obligation bonds would be used for financing either, parking spaces or a pedestrian plaza and would be financed through an increase in the city's mill levy, he said.
Palos said that before the bonds could be
receiving to the city's proposal, other sources
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New program to benefit work-seeking students
By MARY ANN COSTELLO
Staff Reporter
A new, off-campus, work-study program is expected to create about 50 student jobs in Lawrence this fall. Pam Houston, coordinator of the Student Employment Center, said yesterday.
Last spring the Kansas Legislature allocated $30,000 to the University of Kansas for the
Academic Building.
TO BE FLUBIGIBLE for the jobs, students must qualify for the federal College Work-Study program, she said. Students can apply for work-study status by completing a Family Financial Statement, available at the office of financial aid in Strong Hall.
She said the $89,000 would be used to subsidize local employers who create career-oriented jobs for KU students.
Mark Tallman, executive director of the Associated Students of Kansas, said the program would subsidize jobs related to any area of college study.
THIS SPRING the Legislature allocated money for the program to all Regents institute and provide staff training.
The financial aid and business offices at each of the institutions have been working with the Regents to establish guidelines for the program, he said.
The program is modeled after a similar
program in Washington state, he said, and several other states have adopted, or are
Marvin Burris, associate budget director for the Regents, said that each university would administer its own funds for the program. However, uniform guidelines were established so that students at all the schools would have an equal opportunity under the program.
Any private or non-profit business or organization, or any public agency in Kansas, can participate in the off-campus program, he said. THE STATE WILL MATCH half of the student's salary if he is paid the federal minimum wage, but, he said, individual schools may use the state funds to match a higher salary.
Tallman thinks the program will create jobs in the business community.
"Now an employer could afford to pay two student employees for what it has cost him to pay."
The program is meant to create new jobs, Tallman said, not give someone else's job to a student. Holders of full-time jobs are not likely to be held in this program because it only supports part-time jobs.
Houston said the office of financial aid would send letters publicizing the program to local businesses in a couple of weeks. The office has an email list of few calls from interested employers, she said.
KU officials study proposal to issue common final exams
Staff Renorter
By GUELMA ANDERSON
Students who think they can transfer college credit in English or math to the University of Kansas and get out of taking English 101 or Math 102 must complete an upcoming year, according to a University official.
Michael Young, associate dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, said yesterday that to assure uniform standards the Dean's Task Force on General Education was discussing the possibility of common finals for all KU students who take basic English or math courses.
*STUDENTS WHO TAKE English 101 or
English 123 elsewhere have difficulties in other
areas.*
"Students say that they hear 10) is hard, well it
is hard because we want to ensure a high fidelity
Michael Johnson, director of freshman-sophomore English, said that a common final was a good idea but that it would be hard to handle.
"The University has never done anything quite like that," he said, "Trying to get all the students from different schools together to take the exam would be difficult."
Johnson said that he hoped the task force would suggest strengthening the English program's remedial courses so that they would available to more students.
He said that he also would like to see English 101 become a more intensive writing course.
IN ADDITION TO ENGLISH, the task force is discussing the possibility of a common final
Charles Himmelberg, chairman of the department of mathematics, said that sometimes basic math courses at other universities were not as demanding as they were here.
The tank force is comprised of 14 faculty members and students from several departments within the College, he said, and will be able to take a fall to the dean and the College's departments.
He said that the review would be finished this spring.
Young said that the task force was part of an overall review that began last fall of the year.
"Students would take courses in Eastern Civilization or Black Studies along with Western Civilization because you get a better perspective on the world that way." he said.
Young said that the task force also was interested in increasing the number of faculty members.
"If a student really needs to take another course, such as calculus or statistics, the final grade is determined by taking the class."
He said that 15 faculty members taught the honors sections, but that teacher assistant Janice Avery was the only one.
Student uses computer idea to improve film production
THE TASK FORCE also is discussing the development of complementary courses in the
SEAVER AGREED, saying that more faculty should teach other sections and that he wanted Western Civilization to become a core requirement for every school in the University.
Staff Writer
Complementary courses would broaden the many topics now addressed in Western Civi-
By PAT COONEY Staff Writer
Animation photography at a local film production company is easier and costs less now because a part-time KU student programmed a computer to take over some of the manual work of photographing individual drawings.
"It could save the student from the unpleasantness of flunking a calculus or statistics course."
Roger Holden, 31, Lawrence senior, said Wednesday that he programmed an Atari home computer to control "robotic" motors that position the individual drawings and camera used in making animated films.
"The course would give everyone a better idea of where they come from." he said.
HE ALSO HELPED DESIGN the computer hardware that links the Atari computer to the existing camera system at the film company, Centron Corp. Inc., 1621 W. 9th St.
Before Holden devised his system for Centron, he said, each position of the camera or the drawings had to be set manually by turning cranks.
"It cuts down the time required for animation photography by as much as a half," Holden said. "One second of animated film requires the filming of about 25 individual drawings."
The whole project cost about $5,000. Holden, a communications major, said.
"It would have cost $35,000 to $40,000 if they had purchased it on the road," he said.
THE EFFECT OF ZOOMING is achieved by
the camera up or down, he said,
and
panning is accomplished by moving the drawing left or right.
Loren Dolezal, director of animation photography at Centron, said that he could now do a
new production.
"We can do filmographs quicker than before," Dolezal said. "Before we might do three a day. Now we can do eight to 12 a day."
"Each motor is controlled by a translator," he said, "which responds to impulses from the computer."
"The program he is working on now will enable us to use more motors," he said.
HOLDEN'S SYSTEM NOW uses three motors to make position adjustments, Dolezal said. More motors would allow a wider variety of positions for both the camera and drawings.
Holden, who works at the audio-visual center in Lippincott Hall, said although he became involved with Centron quite by accident, he had been interested in computers since 1976.
Dolezal said the new photographic system was only the start.
Before getting into films, he said, he was trying to duplicate the exact sound of a Stradivarius violin with a computer. He said that he succeeded in synthesizing tones but that lack
Holden said after he told Dolezal he worked
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About two years ago, Holden said, he called Centron to get information about film processing and was referred to Dolezal.
Roger Holden, Lawrence senior, works at a computer that he Dolezal, director of animated photography at Centron, works with programed to control an animation camera for Centron Inc. Loren the camera.
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