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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
82nd Year, No.6
New Leader For KU Bands
Tuesday, September 7, 1971
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Kansan Photo by SCOTT EATON
19th and Naismith Route Losing Money for Lawrence Bus Co.
End of Service Possible
City Bus Firm Sinking Ever Deeper in Red Ink
BY JOYCE NEERMAN Kansan Staff Writer
... Number of riders falls off sharply .
After more than 10 years of serving students and the community of Lawrence, the Lawrence Bus Co. may soon have to quit business.
"We feel committed for this semester. We'll go ahead and run, if we can, this semester, but after that we just don't." Mr. Kochler said the thankful holder of the bus company, said recently.
The company has been losing money for the past three years. This year, in spite of $8,000 in help from the city, Ogle still expects to lose between $3,000 and $4,000.
Ogle cited the decrease in residence hall population, the over-all tight money situation and the great increase in the number of cars and bicycles on campus as major contributors to the declining number of people riding buses.
"The 24th and Ridgecount court last year, dollar-wise, was just as good as ever."
"We used to help 4,300 people a day." Ogle said. But Wednesday we only had 800.
The Daisy Hill routes aren't losing money you put out the other routes are dying down.
Ogle said, "But this year we just can't get it off the ground. It doesn't look very encouraging. Of course things may pick up as we move forward, but we're off to a slower start this year."
THE ROUTE with the most trouble is the 19th and Naismith run, whose riders are mostly residents of Naismith Hall, Oliver Hall, College Hill Manor, Stouffer Place apartments and the fraternities and locally located near 20th and Stewart streets.
Roy House, driver for the 19th and Nassimathon route, said recently that during enrollment the number of fares was low. He said before classes started things would pick up.
House said. "We need between 250 and 300 passengers a day just to break even on
By 4:30 p.m. Friday, only 96 people had ridden that bus.
Ogle said, "There's a good chance, if the 19th and Naisimuth, and the 24th and Ridgecourt runs don't start paying for themselves, that we might combine them and maybe drop service to the fraternities and student housing on the 19th and Stewart."
Nixon Praises Freeze Response
Bv The Associated Press
The President made his annual Labor Day address in a 15-minute radio broadcast from his mountain retreat at Camp David, Md.
President Nixon Monday praised the "overwhelming response" by Americans to his "belt-tightening" wage-freeze; but Sens. Hubert Humphrey and Edmund Muskie had some criticisms of the program.
Nixon called on Americans to work for "a goal we have rarely been able to achieve in the past 40 years—a new prosperity without war and without inflation." Nixon said, "Our success is rising to the challenge of peace will depend on the competitive spirit of the American people."
He said this spirit is ingrained in the American character, and "that is why most of us consider it immoral to be lazy or slothful—even if a person is well off enough not to have to work or avoids work deliberately by going on welfare."
Picturing competition and productivity as the key to "a better life for the American working man and his family," the President said, "We must reestablish a management, and a pride in good service, that results in quality workmanship."
"I read a report recently about some on welfare in one of our cities who objected to taking jobs that they considered menial," he said. "As I read that report, I thought of my own father. During the years that I was growing up, he worked as a street-car
motorman, an oil-field worker; he worked as a farmer; he worked also in a filling
"Let us recognize once and for all," Nixon said, "no job is mental if it leads to self-reliance, self-respect and individual dignity."
The President said that his 90-day freeze on wages, prices and rents has brought complaints, countersuggestions and criticisms "by special interest groups."
"But the most heartening reaction," he said, "was the surge of national confidence in him. It was a positive spirit, the willingness to make a personal sacrifice in pursuit of worthy goals by the man in the street, the worker in the factory, the worker trying to balance the family budget."
Calling for a rise in productivity, the President declared, "We are not going to build protective walls to shelter us from honest competition. We are not going to live in our cocoon while the rest of the world passes us by."
Humphrey said the freeze was based on an "old conservative theory" that the economic windfalls of business and could be "trickle down" to the working man.
The Minnesota Democrat told members of the United Rubber Workers at Barberon, Ohio, that the nation needed "not trickle down, but percolate up," proposing a "fair deal" with provisions for new jobs. The Republican defended of Social Security tax increases.
If the two routes are combined, Ogle may use one of the buses to start a new route that would run by Meadowbrook Apartments at 15th and Iowa.
Permit Pickup Begins Tuesday
Students, faculty and staff who have mide application for parking zone permits should pick them up in Allen Field House, between 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. by alphabetical groupings on the following dives:
Those who cannot come during the designated times should go to the Traffic and Security office in Hochfeld at 8 a.m. and noon, Saturday, Sept. 11.
Tuesday, Sept. 7 A-E
Wednesday, Sept. 8 F-K
Thursday, Sept. 9 L-R
Friday, Sept. 10 S-Z
Study Says Birth Decline Could Reshape Economy
This schedule does not pertain to those students and staff who requested residence hall parking. They may pick parking parkers beginning Monday.
and fares for downtown and outlying apartments from 20 cents to 30 cents.
WASHINGTON (AP)—The United States has a birth rate decline that presents the possibility of zero population growth and threatens to force a major reshaping of the economy, a new study shows.
The "baby boom" of World War II has been replaced by the greatest decline in the nation's under-5 child population during the 120 years for which statistics have been kept, the 1970 census has revealed.
The "bust" coincided with one of the largest recorded 10-year increases among young adults in the principal childbearing are range of 15 to 34.
Yet children under 5 years of age decrease d by 15.5 per cent.
According to the study made by the Washington Center for Metropolitan
Studies, the drastic decline in preschool- age children could:
Ogle expressed serious doubts that there would be another fare raise. He said the company would resort to that only as a reward and not to recover one of the money already lost.
- Reduce demand for youth-oriented industries such as toys, clothing, records and games
- — Empty some classrooms that were built to house products of the World War II baby.
- Reduce birth to a level where they would be equaled or exceeded by death within six months.
- Affect industries which have depended heavily upon growth and new-family formation like housing and many types of durable goods.
The study was financed by the Ford Foundation, the Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation and the Eugene and AgnesE. Meyer Foundation.
In the same vein, Muskie, unannounced candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, suggested a $7 billion contract that would directly benefit Americans in need."
"WE USED to operate with a 10-cent fare, but even if we ran capacity at those prices there would be no way for us to break even now. Since that time, equipment costs have tripled and insurance has gone up." Ogle said. "Every time we raise the price, we know we lose passengers. If we have another fare hike it will put us out of business."
Some 708 members of the Catholic Labor Institute, including top Los Angeles labor officials, gave the Maine Democrat a standing ovation as he kicked off an event to mark his West seeking support for his expected entry in the 1972 presidential primaries.
"It is not fair for just a handful of well-off citizens to find out what their country can do for them," said Muskie. "... I do not support and I will not support a program like the Nixon plan, with approximately $14 billion in benefits to big business by December of 1972 and only $16 million for American workers and consumers."
He suggested that "instead of an $8-billion investment tax credit for corporations by Jan. 1, 1973, we should develop and consider a temporary and completely new $7-billion consumer tax credit."
In January 1979, the company raised on campus bus fares from 15 cents to 20 cents
Odle said that the company had decided not to run past May 31, 1971, unless it received some help. About 80 per cent of the company's annual revenue came from the company went to the University and to the Chamber of Commerce for aid, figuring that the University could come up with two-thirds of the $8,000 the company paid in taxes. But the University turned the firm down.
"Some university officials and I do, too,
think that there will be a greater need for a mass transportation system in a few years. There are just getting to be too many cars for the campus. But the problem is now to space the gap." Qidie said.
Voters Have Until Tonight To Register
Today is the last day to register to vote before the special bond issue election on Sept. 28. The city clerk's office in room 416 of the First National Building Bank in 91 Massachusetts St. will be open from 9 p.m. a.M. to 10 p.m. and be closed after registration until after the bond issue has been voted on.
A student is eligible to register for this election, if by Sept. 28, 1971 he will be at least 18 years of age and is a citizen of the United States. If he has been in Kansas for six months and is going to serve another time, Kansas law allows a student to designee his school address as his permanent address.
The Sept. 28 election is to decide the fate of a proposed $6-million city-county government center. It would be a joint development, courts and law enforcement.
City Seeks Replacement For Aide Rick Walker
A full-time aide to Vern Sturns, Lawrence human relations director, will fill the vacancy left by the resignation of Hokkei city manager Buford Watson
Watson said the full-time position was already in next year's city budget, Walker received half of his salary from the University and half from the city.
Walker worked on several projects in attempts to bind the different segments of the road.
Watson said he was not sure that the new aide would come from the student community. He said that the city was looking forward to seeing who would definitely be from Lawrence.
Walker resigned Wednesday after he received a combined Fulbright and University of Kansas direct exchange scholarship to do graduate work in psychology at the University of Tubingen in Germany.
Watson said that Walker did a "real good job," and that he succeeded in opening up communications among different parts of Lawrence.
Walker said he thought his most positive action toward bridging gaps in Lawrence had been the Menninger program. He helped the Menninger Clinic organize teams to bring together several segments of Lawrence to exchange opinions.
Watson said the police-community relations program could not be continued on its previous scale because a federal grant that has funded the program will no longer be available. He said that the program could continue on a Saturday and evening basis, but that the previous weekend meetings had been too expensive.
The City Commission will discuss the program in the next few weeks, Watson
Enrollment Reflects Changing Direction of University
By GAYLE TRIGG
Kansan Staff Writer
There is a widespread rumor that state high school students are abandoning KU. That rumor seems to be substantiated by a number of surveys of students estimated to be enrolling at Kansas State University this fall as compared to the 2.3 per cent increase at KU. But there are many not-so-subtle, but in some cases acts that don't show up in those lone figures.
While other state colleges and universities are playing the numbers game, University of Kansas administrators are concerned about the changing "student mix"—the number of students in each classification.
A STUDY NOT YET released by Kenneth E. Anderson, executive director of the state Master Planning Commission on Higher Education, is expected to show that while KU is no longer the first choice of high school graduates across the state, it is the first choice of the vast majority of the people polled as to where they would like to
That study is given considerable substation by one done last spring by the Regent's Committee on Enrollment Evaluation. An analysis of enrollment figures for the fall of 1970, broken down by student classifications for the six state institutions and Washburn, a municipal university in Topeka, shows that KU is the more senior universities than freshmen, more junior universities, and more seniors than juniors. All other schools show a decline in the number enrolled in upper classes.
do their upper division or graduate or professional studies.
The Regent's study, headed by George B. Smith, shows that the number of freshmen-sophomore credit hours taken at KU were 73 per student, and the number of credit hours taken at the University as contrasted with 48 per cent at K-State, 51 per cent at Wichita State, 48 per cent at Emporia State, 47 per cent at Kansas State, and 51 per cent at Washburn.
THE SAME THING is pointed out by the
fact that 40 per cent of the students enrolled at KU are studying at a level above the junior classification. The other six institutions have only 30 per cent or less of the student body classified as seniors or higher.
What all this means is that KU's role in higher education in Kansas is changing. Of total enrollment in the seven institutions,
two and a half times the post-baccalaureate students, one and a third as many master's degree candidates, and another number of doctor's candidates last fall.
AS A RESULT OF this differing student mix, KU has a higher cost per student than the other schools, a lower student-teacher ratio and teachers here teach fewer
Background Report
KU had enrolled last year a third of the students, 73 per cent of fifth year students, a third of the special students, 65 per cent of the post-baccalaureate students, 31 per cent of the master's degree candidates and 70 per cent of the doctor's candidates.
The other state institution that _wrolied nearly as many students classified above the senior level, K-State, had only less than 10 percent of its total number of fifth year students as K-State.
student credit hours (which represents only the number of students times the hours taught—a fact often misinterpreted as meaning KU professors don't work as hard). The more upperclass and postgraduate students there are, the smaller the classes must be and the better the credentials of the instructors.
In terms of overall growth KU is making more than some of the schools in its region from the school.
See Enrollment, Page 5
spring of 1965 to the spring of 1971, KU has increased its enrollment by greater than one half. At the same time K-State has grown by less than one half, Wichita State by greater than one-third, Emporia, Fort Hays and Pittsburgh by about one-quarter, and Tulsa by cent. All of the schools made their greatest increases in the years 1965 to 1966.
The above is not a factor of population control either. While those seven institutions are on one expected to increase 22 percent by the end of 1980, public community two-year
BUT IF KU'S projected enrollments for this year and the next five are as accurate as past estimates, KU will only grow by one-third more than the fall, 1970 enrollment in the six years to 1976. There will be a reversal in percentage of industry employment state by a third; Wichita State greater than a half, Emporia; Fort Hays and Pittsburgh by 43 per cent; and Washburn by 35 per cent.
Chalmer Sees Changes
"Student mix" demands adaptations .