University Daily Kansan, February 8, 1983
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Tod Mearedy/KANSBAN
Lawrence firefighters worked through the morning to extinguish a fire at 1345 Vermont St. No one was injured in the fire, which gutted the house.
House damaged by fire; loss placed at $60,000
No one was injured yesterday morning in a fire that gutted an apartment at 1345 Vermont St. and caused an estimated $60,000 in damage, the chief of the Lawrence Fire Department said yesterday.
Chief Jim McSwain said investigators had not determined the cause of the blaze, but it appeared to have started in the basement of the house, a two-story woodframe building that had been converted into nine apartment units. The apartment belonged to Joann Quandil, he said.
THEREE FIREFIGHTERS were slightly injured at the fire, McSwain said. Capt. Jerry Karr injured his knee, and debris from the fire fell into the eye of another firefighter, Seth Griffin, McSwain said. He said he did not know the name of the other injured firefighter, nor the type of injury.
He said the men were treated at the scene and continued to fight the fire.
Firefighters responded to the call at 5:43 yesterday morning and fought the fire in extreme cold, he said. The fire was under control by 8 a.m., McMain
"It was pretty treacherous," he said. "We had to do extensive work on ladders, and the water kept freezing on them."
McSwan said two fire engines originally responded to the call and later two more engines and a ladder truck arrived.
HE SAID THE firefighters at the scene had a hard time controlling the fire because the building's hollow wall encouraged the fire to spread.
"We'd knock it out in one place, and it would pop up in another."
"The fire kept spreading through then arteries," he said. "They were there."
The fire burned through the apartment's roof and walls in several places. Denise Lathrop, Hays junior, who lives next door at 1339 Vermont St., said she heard some yelling at about 6 a.m. that there was a fire. She said she called the fire department, who had already received a phone.
"The flames were shooting out of the basement and around the stairwell."
SEVERAL OF the occupants of the building stood and watched it burn, she said. She said all of the occupants appeared to have been fully clothed.
The flames from the building came near her house, Lathrop said.
Officials unsure of cuts wanted by Dykes
"I was afraid it might start our house on fire," she said.
By JOEL THORNTON
Staff Reporter
Once again, suggestions are being tossed around to help the Regents schools survive the state financial crisis.
And once again, the schools are wondering areas are vulnerable
Recently appointed Regent Archie Dykes, former KU champion, said at his confirmation hearing last week in the Kansas Senate that the state would have themselves financially by dropping needlessly duplicated programs.
BUT KU OFFICIALS said Sunday that they did not know which University programs fit Dykes' description of duplicate programs.
premature statement," Deanell Tacha, vice chancellor for academic affairs, said. "In general, we work very hard through the Regents system not to lobby."
Robert Cobb, executive vice chancellor, could offer no more than Tacha. He said that the Legislature and the Board of Regents were responsible for dropping what they saw as duplicate programs.
"I suspect the answer to that is in the eve of the asker," he said.
If a particular school found it was duplicating programs, it would be responsible for correcting the problem, Cobb said.
TACHA SAID that some people mistakenly thought that programs were being duplicated at various places because of similarity in their names.
For example, she said that although
KU and Kansas State University both offered similar majors in hard-sciences, K-State's related more to agriculture.
And in teacher education, which is offered at all state universities, KU has emphasized its graduate program, she said.
Cobb said that the University had eliminated some duplicate programs in the past few years but in general had not significantly increased or decreased the number of majors offered.
KU dropped its home economics program several years ago because K-State had a professional school in that area, he said. The human development and family life department has over some of its elements, he said.
DETERMINING whether programs are duplicated is difficult because it is
hard for universities to know when a particular might be in demand, Cobb said.
"I'd like to think it's not a matter of doing it or not doing it, but doing it in a form appropriate to the times," Cobb said.
Presidents of other Regents schools agreed that it was hard to determine which programs were being duplicated in the Regents system.
John Visser, president of Emporia State University, said all Regents schools had programs in common, but each school had its particular emphasis.
FOR EXAMPLE, he said, it would be foolish for Emporia State, which has strong teacher education and liberal arts schools, to add an engineering program, because three state universities already offer engineering.
KU officials sav NCAA should get tax exemption
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By ANDREW HARTLEY Staff Reporter
Their reactions came after NCAA lawyers went before the Kansas Board of Tax Appeals to get exemption from property taxes on their headquarters in Mission. The NCAA is seeking $40,000 in property taxes in addition to the ruling.
Several KU officials said yesterday that the National Collegiate Athletic Association should be declared a tax-exempt educational organization rather than a multi-million-dollar business.
JOHNSON COUNTY says the NCAA should have to pay property taxes
because the $23 million association increases its payroll significantly each year and rules over hundreds of universities.
Attorneys for the NCAA used 3,000 years of sports history to argue their point that athletic competition helps to build character and is necessary for a complete education.
Sports Information Director Sid Wilson said he thought the NCAA should be declared a tax-exempt organization because the association is a body representing universities.
them lose that money. It would mean that the schools would have to pay the taxes."
Wilson said, "I'd also hate to see
HE ALSO SAID sport was useful for building character and would benefit athletes in later life.
schools take great pride in the performance of their athletes," he said. "Not just on the field but in business. I learned from them and honed their competitive edge in sports."
Monte Johnson, KU athletic director,
said he would not comment because of
his illness.
person later but questioned the objectives of the NCAA.
Bob Frederick, assistant athletic director and Williams Fund director, said he agreed that values learned in competitive athletics could help a
"The question is whether big-time football and basketball exist for the purpose of teaching those values, or not" for some other reasons." Frederick said.
DEL BRINKMAN, NCAA faculty representative and dean of the School of Journalism, said the critics of the NCAA would say that the association had strayed from its original purpose indicated for the accumulation of money.
And, he said, the NCAA would say that the accumulation of money was not its purpose and that it had struggled to uphold the founding principles of education.
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Wednesday last day to add; some students may be foiled
by ELLEN WALTERSCHEID Staff Reporter
Although the timetable always has specified the last day to drop a class, the deadline to add is a new policy, Gary Thompson, director of student records and registration, said yesterday.
Tomorrow is the last day for any student to add a class.
Tomorrow is also the 20th day of classes, the point at which official enrollment figures are calculated.
Because all classes must be added by then, Thompson said, enrollment figures probably will be more accurate than in the past, when students often waited until the end of a semester to officially add a class.
For some classes, the last day to add was two weeks ago.
The Kansas Legislature uses these figures to help determine how much money it allots to the University.
All business, engineering, physics and astronomy courses and some English, mathematics and religious studies should not be added after last month.
FULL-TIME enrollment figures are calculated by dividing the total number of undergraduate student credit hours by 15, the total number of graduate student hours by nine and the total number of law student hours. (Table 32.)
Although the early add deadlines for the English and mathematics courses were listed in the timetable, the deadlines for business and engineering courses were omitted with a clerical error. Thompson said.
THOSE ADD deadlines, and the deadlines for physics, astronomy and religious studies courses, were listed only in the timetable addendum, where many students probably did not see them. Thompson said.
The physics, astronomy and religious studies early add deadlines were not listed in the timetable because faculty members were allowed to wait until mid-December to submit them, he said.
Thompson said he gave faculty members the extension to help ease confusion caused by the switch to early enrollment last semester.
But Thompson said he feared that some students would be denied permission to add the classes in the new curriculum early deadlines in the addendum.
Shelton said he thought many departments that wanted to list early add deadlines had failed to submit them in time to be listed at
Thompson said he had received no complaints from students who did not know about the early add deadlines.
Robert Shelton, chairman of religious studies, said he did not know whether any students had tried unsuccessfully to add the religious studies classes whose early names were listed only in the addendum.
But many faculty members who wanted early add deadlines for their classes and did not submit them have asked him to tell students they cannot add those classes, Thompson said.
TO ASSURE that all early add deadlines for next semester are listed in the timetable, he said, faculty members must submit the dates by tomorrow, when they turn over their course listings for the full timetable.
He said he refused the faculty members' requests.
American public stopped Vietnam, Ellsberg says
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On the record
LOS ANGELES — Daniel Ellisberg told a conference on the Vietnam War yesterday that the American people ended U.S. involvement in Vietnam and must never forget they have the power to stop "future Vietnam."
Ellsberg, who leaked the Pentagon Papers, said President Nixon's memoirs revealed Nixon believed he could continue bombing North Vietnam indefinitely — even after agreeing to the pullout of U.S. troops in 1975.
BURGLARS STOLE $1400 in cash from under a McColum Hall resident's bed last week, KU police records say.
VANDALS KICKED IN an elevator door and broke glass in a door at McColm Hall Sunday night, KU police had no estimate of the damage.
A PAY TELEPHONE,valued at $200,
was stolen Sunday morning from the
1200 block of East 16th Street, police said.
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