THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
Minorities Office
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PLEASANT
82nd Year, No.40
The University of Kansas—Lawrence Kansas
Monday, October 25,1971
Pay Board Can Thaw Wage Hikes
WASHINGTON  (AP) — A chief lieutenant of President Nixon's anti-force仗 said recently the new Pay Board has the power to allow American workers to collect reuputively any increases blocked by the current freeze.
But Donald Rumsfeld, named by Nixon as director of the Cost of Living Council, would not predict what the tripartite Pay Board might do on the crucial issue that could decide whether organized labor will be able to participate in the Phase 2 program.
Retroactive increases are illegal under the freeze, but once the freeze is altered
it would be within the power of the Pay Board to make judgments that would enable a person, in effect, to recoup." Ramsfeld said in an interview.
Asked whether pay raises that were promised to a worker, but that were frozen by Nixon's Aug. 15 economic declarations, would automatically go into effect at the end of the freeze Nov. 13, Rumsfeld responded:
"The freeze will stay in effect until the Pay Board renders a decision, or in the absence of such an action the COLC could act. It is anticipated that they will make some judgments and announcements prior to the Nov. 13 date."
Limit Set For Debate On Kansan
The Student Executive Committee voted Sunday night to limit debate to one hour at the special Student Senate meeting called for 7 Wednesday night. The meeting was called by the University body president, to consider restoring funds to the University Daily Kansas.
John B. Bremner, chairman of the Kansan Board, said that the Kansan would continue to publish as usual until further notice. The board was expected to meet this afternoon.
In other action taken Sunday night, StudiEx appointed three senators to the ad hoc committee, on the All-Student Council, Susie Cowden, chairman of the Communications Committee; John House, a member of the Finance and Auditing Committee; and Joe Bullard, a Kansas State University graduate. The remaining four positions on the council were left open to senators interested in being on the committee.
StudEx recommended recognition of Scientists and Engineers for Social和政治 Action, an organization to advocate for the rights of the Association of Mexican-American Students, and the Samantha Stevens Hop committee, organized to promote "happiness, joy and good times through the use of sock hops and reversion to the Hip Hop".
Rep. Larry Winn, Jr. left, and Sen. Henry Listen listen to an Indian spokesman at a meeting of the United Indian Tribes of Western Oklahoma and Kansas Saturday
at Haskell Indian Junior College,
Delegates from 23 tribes discussed
financial and employment problems. See
related story on page 3.
State Senator Blasted At Forum on Welfare
By JOYCE DUNBAR
Kansan Staff Writer
State Sen. Tom Vandick, R-Fort Scott, received criticism, threats and jeers for his support of the welfare cuts at an open forum on the warfare crisis Kareas at a meeting in Mugabe's M宫殿.
Van Sickle, chairman of the Senate Ways and Means Committee; Dr. Robert Harder, director of the State Welfare Board; and Mrs. Hedy Dorse, representative of Pennsylvania House, a lawmaker from North Carolina of Aid to Dependent Children, were the speakers at the forum, sponsored by the University Christian Movement.
The crowd of 150 consisted of welfare recipients. University of Kansas students, women and African-Americans.
THE FIRST SPEAKER, Mrs. Dorsey,
said she did not think the legislators or
the state directors really investigated the
problem and realized how the 20 per cent
Sept. 1 welfare cut would hurt and affect
the neocle of Kansas.
Most of the recipients of welfare in Lawrence were unable to pay light and gas bills last month, Mrs. Dorsey said. They were keeping a hard time keeping children in school.
When the discussion began, Mrs. Dorsey asked Van Sickle if he would be able to support his family on the welfare check typical for a family of that size. Van Sickle said he probably would not be able to do so, but that he would try.
"You expect me to keep my boys out of the streets and out of the Boys' Industrial School," Mrs. Dorsely said. "If I can't provide an apple for my boy every once in a while, I know he'll go to the store . . . and come out with that apple. When the put
Mrs. Dorsey said that it would cost the state more to put her son in the BIS than it would to raise her assistance payment check to last year's level.
him in the BIS," she said, "I'll come lookin for von."
"IM NOT GOING to see my child star, and we are starting us," Mrs. Dorsey told Van Stickle. "I'm not going to have to wear a woman to feed my child—that's pride!"
It is very misleading to single out one area, Harder said. He said that the welfare crisis existed because of deficiencies in training, manpower training and health service.
Harder said that welfare across the nation and across the state had become the convenient "whipping boy" for many of national ills that beset the states and
Van Siekle was asked if welfare wasn't a right in this country.
"I would have to say no," the senator answered, "because under this system of government of laws, the law does not say we must give welfare as a matter of right. We have provided a system of welfare based on what we in the state want to do; it is not given as a matter of right but set aside as a means of belief people."
HARDER RESPONDED to the same question by quoting several legal precedents supporting the concept of welfare assistance as a right.
Van Sickle said that in 1970 the supplemental appropriation for general welfare reached $21.8 million. He explained that a substantial due to the Medical Aid plan that year.
"It's part of the laws and tradition of our country," Harder said.
Drug Violations Alleged
Injunction Filed by Miller To Have Gaslight Closed
By ERIC KRAMER
Kansan Staff Writer
Alty. Gen, Vern Meller made good his invitation by filling an anjunction Friday to attend the funeral service.
The injunction, prepared by Miller and Douglas County Attorney Mike Elwell, asks that the Douglas County District Court declare the Gaslight a common nuisance and order it closed. Miller said at the time of his Sept. 24 drug raid that he was contemplating action against the Gaslight.
HAROLD STAGM, Gaslight manager, chatted with customers about the problem Friday night, but he refused to comment when asked to by the Kansas.
Miller's petition alleges that "violations of the laws regulating narcotic and dangerous drugs, which unlawful activities were carried on or permitted to be carried on, in or about said real property during the months of June, July, August
and September, 1971, and appeared to be of a continuing nature."
Reginald Scarrbaugh, operator and lessee of the Gaslight, has also declined comment since the petition was filed, but he said he had said he fell Miller's plan was unjust.
"We've always had someone on the floor trying to keep out drugs long before Miller was around," he said. "We have no great amount of drug traffic."
Mary M. Rowlands, owner of the property, has also declared comment.
Although a few faded "Kimball for Sheriff Stickers" can still be seen on Oned Avenue, the neighborhood around the house was taken over by the University of Kansas.
Three green Independent Study Center trailers now sit south of the Gaslight between it and the Kansas Union. Behind the Gaslight is the University Extension Building. Across Orcad Avenue, in front of the tavern is R-zone parking lot.
THE BROWN HOUSE next to the parking lot is now the KU Speech and Hearing Clinic. North of the Gaslight on the same side of the street Sandalwood, a head shop, and the Campus Barber Shop are gone.
Sandalwood has been replaced by The Mercantile, a small grocery store, and the barbershop is now a soda shop called The Last Straw.
North of the Last Straw is still an old house that serves as an apartment building, but next to it the "White House" is gone. R-Z zone occupies the space where the former "River City Club House" once stood.
Even George Kimball, who based his campaign for Douglas County Sheriff from the Gaslight is gone. Kimball, a self-proclaimed Vippee, has moved to Boston. The Gaslight has 20 days to respond to the petition. If it responds, a bearing date will be set. The Gaslight will be able to continue operation until the hearing.
Armitage Likes Concern
Editor's Note; This is the third in a series of interviews with the 10 HOPE
By JOHN BAILEY
By JOHN BAILEY
Kansan Staff Writer
Kenneth Armitage, professor of biology and physiology and professor of cell biology, is at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, where he works on an environment for teaching and research. He also likes the concern for excellence and the willingness on the part of the University community to allow the faculty with new ideas and new techniques in teaching.
However, Armature uses this favorable academic environment hindered by a lack
"In spite of the troubles and problems," Armitage said, in a recent interview, "it's been difficult for us to keep up."
Armittage thinks that while grades are over-emphasized, the University does need some kind of evaluation system. Armittage said that the grade system had problems, but that every evaluation system had major faults. As an alternative, he would like to see more pass-fail options offered.
The basic problem the University is facing now, according to Armitage, is a general confusion as to the purpose of higher education. People are reluctant to vote money to support an organization whose function they do not clearly understand, but without support, the departments could only work day by day, or not at all, on no new invoices, and teaching assistants would be under great pressure.
"WE ARE TRYING to do for the
majority of our people what was once done only for the elite," Armitage said, "How can the University mass educate," he said, "turning the student into a number."
Arrmagee says as the greatest change in the student body its awareness of contemporary problems. The students seem to be generally more concerned about the changes in society and the challenges also thinks the students are more prepared to handle the challenges of colleges.
“Overall, they're better prepared as students. They come to the University with more training and better prepared than, say, those of a generation ago,” said ARC.
Armuatee plans to carry on his research in environmental biology. More importantly, Armuatee plans to work to establish the undergraduate program in biology.
Armitage hopes to develop new programs to give students more opportunities to engage in interesting and worthwhile activities. He hopes to increase both the flexibility and the range of choice that students can make the programs more individualistic.
THE GOAL OF ARMilitage's programs is to place less emphasis on formal course work and more emphasis on individual work.
Armitage said that examinations should be teaching devices and that "by and large, finals do not serve that function." In reason, Armitage's finals are optional.
Armitage received his B.S. at Bethesda College in West Virginia. He received his M.A. from Harvard University.
years in the Wisconsin educational system before coming to the University of Kassas:
According to Armitage, his interests have always been in the broad area of environmental biology. In the last eight years, he has become interested in developing undergraduate activities in biology.
Arnstadt has been instrumental in the revisions that have taken place in both the laboratory and lecture sections of Biology Department. She is also a graduate program in environmental studies.
Kenneth Armitage
Deans Sav Student Representation Benefits Schools
By NANCY JONES
BY NANCY JONES
Kansan Staff Writer
Student representation on policy-making committees in the University of Kansas' various schools apparently has proved to be beneficial for the overall improvement
Deans of several of the University's schools, in interviews last week, agreed that student opinions and judgments on the school are more made in the best interests of the schools.
Most schools begin to have student welfare programs. Arthur Katz, dean of the School of Social Welfare, believes that students present an important challenge to the general feelings of the faculty.
"We don't find decisions being made out of power struggles, but rather the decisions are made out of what is going to be best for the entire school," he said.
Most schools began to have student
representative in the prison or fall of 1980
The School Council is the main policy-making body in the School of Social Welfare. The council makes decisions on graduation requirements and admissions.
THE GOVERNANCE DOCUMENT was passed by the School Council this fall. The document has defined the rules and duties of the School Council's committees.
"The most recent result of student and
governance docu- tions is a governance
document." Kaila Galt
"...constituency will be 50 per cent current full-time students in the School of Social Welfare and 50 per cent faculty. It will include all full-time faculty and a corresponding number of students, 50 per cent from the graduate program and 50 per cent from the undergraduate program."
The document states that the council's
This year, the School Council is represented by 30 full-time faculty members. Student members were elected this fall.
The Curriculum Committee, the Graduate Student Academic Performance Committee, the Admissions Committee, the Student Orientation Committee and the Faculty Personnel Committee are the council's main committees.
A RECENT CHANGE in the school that was made through the council was the consolidation of all classroom courses to the Lawrence campus, which will go into use soon. All other courses of the courses are taught on the University of Kansas 'Medical Center''s campus.
Katz said approximately eight persons serve on each committee, four faculty members.
The students on these committees may be elected by the school at large or they may be appointed to positions.
Katz said that when the whole student body was brought together the results would be a greater variety of courses and a more effective use of the faculty.
The School Council has also been involved with a major curriculum change in
There has been a close integration of the undergraduate and graduate programs.
The school's present program consists of
"These efforts will eventually allow students to complete a master's degree in accounting."
Student assessment and feedback are used for promotion and tenure. Students' evaluations are a significant factor in determining effectiveness of a teacher, Katz said.
Final policy in the School of Law comes from a council composed of all faculty members.
Students who serve on the council are chosen through interviews with the
Background Report
a four-year undergraduate program and a two year-graduate program.
"Courses are being distributed in new ways. In order to revise the school's new program, juniors and seniors are building new courses on the campus, even only on the graduate level." Katz sped.
STUDENTS ALSO participate on a committee that makes recommendations to the dean on appointments of new faculty members.
Dean Martin Dickinson believes the
Curriculum and Teaching Methods,
Library and Petitions are some of the
important sources.
president and vice president of the Student Bar Association, and with a student who was a graduate.
All committees within the school come from within the main council. Two students and three faculty members serve on all standing committees.
advantages of student participation on policy-making committees are innumerable. Their views, knowledge and opinions are extremely valuable, he said. It is important to have the immediate feedback that they are affected by the policy process, he said.
The School of Religion has 35 graduate students and approximately 6 full-time students.
The school committee is concerned with matters on registration, the library and office.
There is an ad hoc committee that studies the curriculum structure.
THE SCHOOL'S POLICY-making
team of the faculty
members and two students
Lynn Taylor, religion dean, said students and faculty were in the academic process together and students often gave fresh insights on academic matters to the
Dean Charles Kahn said the initial arrangement for student representation,
The council bylaws state that one student from each class in the five-year school and, if required, a sufficient number of students at large, will make up the 20 per cent.
The number of student members must equal 20 per cent of the total number of voting members of the Faculty-Student College, School of Architecture and Urban Design.
which preceded the adoption of the bylaws by over a year, provided for the election of two student representatives, one regular and one alternate, from each class. By common consent, all elected representants and the Faculty-Student Council meetings.
THE CHANGE from a five-year to a four-year undergraduate program, and the attendant revisions of that four-year program have been made through the established structure of the council and its committee system. Kahn said.
The five-year bachelor's program and the one-year master's program will be phased out so that the graduating class of 1973 will be the last five-year class, he
It will be replaced with a four-year
program and a two-year
master's program.
Kahn said there were no committees in the school dealing with school policy that would consider these issues.
There are three major committees. The functions of the first two committees are apparent by their names—the Academic Operations Committee, the Operations Coordinating Committees.
These two committees have similar structures. Each is composed of a student or faculty member elected by the previous year's committee, a member elected by
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