The University Daily
KANSAN
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
Wednesday, March 30,1983 Vol.93,No.124 USPS650-640
Surddy Mangine/KANSAN
Allen Smelser, a framing worker for the JDS Construction Co., holds on tightly as he hammers a beam to a support truss. The frame is the start of an industrial warehouse being built on the 1900 block of Delaware Street.
Classes fall beneath budget ax
By DAVID POWL Staff Reporter
By DAVID POWLS
Students who have picked liberal arts classes from the fall can timetable may be surprised to find that those sections have been eliminated. College officials said yesterday.
However, departments in the College found out this week from Robert Lineberry, dean of Liberal Arts and Sciences, that they would receive from 5 to 10 percent less money to pay their teachers, a larger reduction than had been anticinated.
The budget reduction means that fewer part-time graduate teaching assistants and full-time faculty will be hired for next year, so department heads are already printed in the timetable.
James Carothers, associate professor of English, said that 12 course sections in his department had been canceled for next fall.
"THIS IS JUST THE TIP of the iceberg,
"We're having a hell of a time with the bodies."
Gerhard Zuther, chairman of the department of English, said that the department would
receive 10 percent less money for graduate teaching assistants next year than was received last year. He estimated that the budget for teaching salaries would be cut by an unexpected
He said that the remaining sections of those three courses would be offered only to juniors
Carothers said that the following sections of English had been canceled: English 359 with line numbers 24745, 24753, 24758, 24776, 24772 and 24776; the 24806 and 24811 sections of English 366; and the 24842, 24854, 24850 and 24862 sections of English 362.
Victor Wallace, chairman of the department of computer science, said he expected a substantial decrease in the number of CS 200 course sections because his department would receive 25 percent less money for teachers next year than it received last year.
RECEIVE THEM "WE MAY HAVE TO CUT one-third to one-half of the sections for CS 200 and we expect other courses to be tight," Wallace said.
He also said that some junior-senior level courses did not have instructors yet.
1080 Spires, chairman of the department of Spanish and Portuguese, said that his department had canceled one of its 700 level courses for next fall because the department could not afford to fill a faculty position.
"We will be able to cover all the beginning level courses unless there is an enrollment increase." he said.
He also said that his department would close sections after 32 students had enrolled in them. Before budget cuts went into effect this year, a normal class size was 24 students.
Charles Himmelberg, chairman of the department of mathematics, said that his department would offer fewer remedial math courses than last year.
"NEXT FALL COULD BE a disaster."
Himmelberg said. "We haven't got enough faculty to teach all the courses."
Gunther Schlager, chairman of the division of biological sciences, said that six course sections in that department might have to be chopped from the fall schedule.
Next fall about 1,500 math students will be affected by the reductions of sections, and another 1,500 will be added to that figure in the spring, he said.
House panel OKs medical scholarship phase-out
We're trying to set sections up so that we can See FENGLISH page 5
By JEFF TAYLOR
Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
TOPEKA House lawmakers yesterday rejected Gov. John Carlin's request to dismantle the state Medical Scholarship Program at the University of Kansas Medical Center by 1894.
But the House Ways and Means Committee did adopt a plan to gradually eliminate the use of nuclear power.
The committee sent the Med Center budget to the full House, but included an allocation to pay for 100 scholarships that will be awarded to people attending medical school next fall.
Under the committee plan, only 75 scholarships would be available to medical students in 1985 and only 50 scholarships would be granted in 1986.
THE PANEL WARNED the University not to guarantee scholarships in the future because legislative appropriations might be limited.
elegent appropriations might be limited
In other recommendations, the committee
approved an additional $ 8.8 million for operating expenses at the Med Center for 1984.
Carlin recommended $154.7 million for 1984 Med Center operating expenses, but the Med Center declined.
The committee also approved more than $1 million for buying and installing new hospital equipment.
State Rep. John Solbach, D-Lawrence, said he themed the Center budget was fair.
"Considering budget problems and economic times, the Med Center came out all right," Solbach said.
IN OTHER MATTERS, the committee gave an additional $28,000 to the Med Center Poison Control Center to hire either a nurse or pharmacy student to answer phone calls on the poison hotline. With the money, the Poison Control Center can also install a second hotline.
State Rep. Jessie Branson, D-Lawrence, lobbed committee members to increase funds for the poison control center because phone calls to the batline had increased.
"The situation is really critical at the Medical
Center because of the number of calls coming in," she said. "I guess you could say the center has been successful beyond our imaginations."
One nurse now handles calls on the hotline, which serves hospitals and citizens across the state.
AMONG OTHER CUTS, the committee recommended reducing funds for the Med Center residency program by $270,000 and asked the Med Center to drop 20 residents from the program next year.
In other Board of Regents action, the Senate Ways and Means Committee yesterday adopted a plan to eliminate oil and gas drilling fees charged by the Kansas Geological Survey.
The $40 intent-to-drill fee, initiated in 1881, generated more than $2 million, some of which the Survey used to finance an addition for Moore Hall.
The Survey also used $500,000 from the drilling fee to pay for new equipment.
The $4 fee will expire July 1.
While considering the KU budget, the Senate
committee eliminated a House proposal that would have forced the University of Kansas Endowment Association to use $1.2 million for installation of computer equipment. The money, which was a bequest from Lee M. Bush, an alumnus from the class of 1911, was given to the University last year.
Election news
In Tuesday's city election, voters will select from a field of six candidates to fill three open seats on the Lawrence City Commission. Beginning today through the end of the week, the University Daily Kansan will feature profiles of each of the candidates. Today's candidates are Ernest Angino, chairman of the KU department of geology, and Mike Amyx, of Amzy Barber Shop, $842½ Massachusetts St. See page 6.
City Commission approves ordinance
Today will be partly cloudy and warmer with a high in the upper 50s. Winds will be light and variable.
Tenight will be partly cloudy and mild with a low of 40.
Tomorrow will be cloudy and mild with a high in the cos.
Staff Reporter
By NED STAFFORD Staff Reporter
The Lawrence City Commission unanimously approved an ordinance this morning that gives the city's Human Relations Commission the power to order back pay, reinstatement and compensatory damages in cases of discrimination.
The vote came at 2:30 a.m., after about four hours of debate.
The proposed ordinance is a revised version of the city's present human relations ordinance, which gives the Human Relations Commission authority to attempt to conciliate charges of discrimination.
of the ordinance that would have given the relations commission the power to assess punitive damages in repeated instances of discrimination.
incomplete charges of misconduct.
The City Commission voted to delete a section
CITY COMMISSIONERS Tom Gleason and Nancy Shontz against the deletion.
In other business, the City Commission approved a funding list for allocation of $814,700 in Community Development Block Grant funds.
As debate on the human relations ordinance started, Tom Moore, vice-chairman of the relations commission, told the City Commission that the only remedies for discrimination under the present ordinance were public hearings, which would expose a person to public scrutiny, and taking the case to the City Commission for action.
He said the revised ordinance would be more
effective, because it gave the relations commission the power of enforcement.
"YOU MUST HAVE that enforcement power if you are to have effective remedies for the victims of unlawful discrimination," he said.
John Lungstum, an attorney representing several large business firms, said that giving the relations commission the power to assess fines and fines gave the commission too much power.
"That creates a very extensive, far reaching civil rights court," he said.
Lungstrum said he thought that an objective legal review should be made of the ordinance.
He said that attorneys favoring the ordinance and those against it had spoken during meetings of the relations commission last week.
See HUMAN page 5
Student says KU candidate misrepresents
By SARA KEMPIN
Staff Reporter
A KU student who in March won the Republican primary race for Prairie Village city councilman has misrepresented himself, contends the former chairman of KU College Republicans.
Kevin Yowell, Overland Park senior, said that Morrison had been elected chairman of a group that called itself the KU College Republicans, but that it was not registered with the University of Kansas or with the state College Republican board.
But Morrison denied that he had misrepresented himself.
"During the primary campaign, I mentioned that I had previously been chairman of the College Republicans," he said. "I didn't register with the University because I thought that Jim Ramsbottom, who was president before me, had already registered."
Ramsbottom, Belleville junior, said he was not aware of such a mistake.
MURRISON SAID that KU College Republicans had decided to work outside the state organization because it was not benefiting from its association with the group.
Yowell said, "Dave was looking for things to help him into law school. But to my knowledge he's never done anything for the Republican party.
"He's been a hindrance as far as College Republicans goes. He has slowed us down and given us a bad name."
Yowell said that Morrison was elected president of the group while it was not registered with the state.
"He agreed the elections that made him president were fraudulent and said he would resign."
See MORRISON page 5
Former chemistry professor remembers his halcyon years
By LAUREN PETERSON Staff Reporter
His slender, age-spotted hand gently pointed across the small apartment to a three-tiered, dark wooden bookshelf.
His haze eyes focused intently on the second shelf, which held about 10 organic chemistry textbooks written in different languages with the name Brewster on each binding.
"My books have been translated into Arabic, Polish, Spanish, Japanese and Chinese," he said with a smile. "They are all out of print now, but there is one lab manual still around."
Ray Brewster, KU professor of chemistry from 1919 until 1963, admitted, at age 90, that he was still a chemist at heart and wore a lab jacket most of the time.
BREWSTER, CHAIRMAN OF the chemistry department from 1940 to 1956, wrote the first modern organic chemistry text. The book remained in print for 31 years and earned the largest chemistry textbook sales record in history.
His lab manual, "Unitized Experiment in Organic Chemistry," is in its fourth edition, he said.
"They make good housecoats, and I feel at home in them," he said.
He was also instrumental in planning Maloft Hall, which was finished in 1953. The chemistry department had been crowded into a small building and a Quonset but during the post-World War II years before the hall was built.
The Ray Q. Brewster Auditorium in Strong Hall was dedicated to him in October 1981.
"Chancellor Malot was a good supporter of the department," he said. "He let us have adequate money to bring the top men here for
much of what the chemistry department is now is tracelay to R Brewster," Harmony said. "He set the mold for the future. He was an outstanding teacher and a grand oil man."
On the south wall of Brewster's Lawrence Presbyterian Manor apartment hangs a gold-plated plaque. It says:
interviews, and we got the cream from everywhere from Stanford to Harvard."
MARLIN D. HARMONY, current chairman of the chemistry department, who joined the KU faculty in 1962, said that Brewster helped to build the KU chemistry department.
Brewster said he cherished the gift commemorating his 44 years of teaching at KU, but he noted that his last class had been his 69th class, and that "greatful" was an amazing skill and that "greatful" was an amazing skill.
To Professor Brewster
Greatful students and chemistry still need you
Your 83rd and last KU class
A FOREIGN STUDENT who could not speak English very well had the plaque engraved on his chest.
Brewster, born in a log cabin 12 miles north of Guthrie, Okla., in 1892, moved to Sedon, Kan., in 1896. He said that he had considered only one other career besides teaching and that was
But he fell under his uncle's farm wagon when he was a boy, he said, and damaged his knee. Then, bone surgery was unheard of, so his knee was permanently deformed. The injury forced him to use a cane and, after he retired, a wheelchair.
See BREWSTER page 5
David Waterman/KANSAN
Hay Brewer, former KU professor of chemistry, relaxes in front of his piano in his Presbyterian Manor apartment. Brewer, 90.
who taught at the University for 44 years, says that although he always has loved music, he plays only for fun.
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