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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
KU's Budget Woes
The University of Kansas—Lawrence Kansas
Thursday, August 26, 1971
82nd Year, No.1
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Kansan Staff Photo by GREG SORBER
Boardwalk Is New Addition to KU Scenery
KU students have been hearing news about the forthcoming wacoce Hall for at least three summers. This summer's first angled gateway to wacoce Hall will be a first, which will
300 yards long, was built in early June, and the building itself is now taking shape behind it.
Wallace Opposed on Busing Issue
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) -- Defied by a school board and rebuked again by a federal judge, Gov. George C. Wallace asked the governor on his school busing stared Wednesday.
A Negro lawyer asked a three-judge court to order the governor to show cause why he refused to give testimony.
HOPE Award Will Go to 3 Professors
For the first time since the establishment of the HOPE Award, the senior class this year will elect three winners instead of the usual one winner. Wednesday, seniors began the two month process that will lead to the selection of those three faculty members who will be announced at a football game on Senior Day, November 6.
Hark Russell, senior class committee chairman for the HOPE Award, said that because 73 per cent of the credit hours carried by students at KU are in the professional school, much of a chance for a teacher in the professional schools to win the award. Most of the past award winners have been in the liberal arts. At the senior coffee shop on campus, they will be a stipulation that one of the three selected must be from a professional school.
The HOPE Award is given annually to an outstanding educator selected by the graduating class. HOPE stands for Honor for the Outstanding Progressive Educator. A committee of six seniors will narrow down to 15 the number of nominations made during senior enrollment Wednesday and will interview those semi-
The suit came after Wallace ordered school boards in three Alabama counties to disregard integration decrees that had been enacted. The court took no immediate action.
The motion was filed by Montgomery lawyer Solomon Seay Jr. hours after one of the school boards, in Limestone County, decided to disobey the governor's executive order, and one day after a federal judge ruled that he had told him he bead is an authority,
Seny is a law partner of state Rep. Fred Gray of Tuskegee, one of two Negroes in the Alabama legislature and for many years associate of the late Martin Luther King Jr.
Wallace, meanwhile, got ready for what appeared to be still another confrontation with federal authorities over busing. He called a news conference for today, saying that the governor overruled his school orders, and perhaps, to issue more orders no matter what the
courts say
Seuy's request for a show-cause order was based on previous warnings from the same court directing Wallace to keep his hands off the schools. The court at one and all had jurisdiction over all but one of the schools involved in the continuing controversy.
The warnings came in 1963 after Wallace, in his first term as governor, had used state troopers to delay the opening of a newly integrated school at Tuskegee and again in 1967 when the court ordered immediate statewide desegregation. Wallace's first wife, the late Lurieen B. Wallace, was governor in 1967.
The Limestone County board, which only Monday had agreed to go along with the governor's order to reopen predominantly black New Hope Junior High School, announced Wednesday it had changed its mind and would keep the school closed as District Court Judge Sam C. Pointer Jr. in Birmingham had instructed.
UAW Pledges No Strike Against Economic Freeze
Painters' Union Threatens
By The Associated Press
The Painteries union told its 200,000 members Wednesday to "strike if necessary" for higher pay despite the federal wage-price freeze, but the United Auto Workers pledged no walkouts among 100,000 airspace workers.
"During the 90-day period, we are going to cooperate" with the freeze imposed by President Nixon, said Auto Workers president Leonard Woodcock.
But he said the freeze was unfair to workers and that his union would fight legally for later payment of any wages due, and would join the AFL-CIO to oppose major parts of Nixon's new economic program in Congress.
The painters, one of 123 AFL-CIO unions vowing to challenge the freeze in the courts and Congress, said it would authorize strikes even if any wage increases it might win can't be paid until after the freeze is lifted.
Woodcock, whose union quit the AFL-CIO in a policy dispute three years ago, said after a two-hour meeting with AFL-CIO President George Meany that the Auto Workers would join AFL-CIO efforts to win equity for workers.
President Floyd Smith of the one-million-member AFL-CIO International Association of Machinists denounced profits and interest rates from the freeze.
This would reverse an interpretation disclosed only Tuesday by the state Department of Education that the federal wage-price freeze would apply to teachers unless they commenced their duties under the new contracts prior to Aug. 15.
Melvin Neely, head of what formerly was the Kansas State Teachers Association, said a key point in the new ruling provided that if any school employee
The executive secretary of the Kansas National Education Association said Wednesday a cost by President Richard Nixon's cost of Living App can apparently clear the way for boards of education to contracts which were signed prior to July 1.
The AF1-CIO American Federation of Teachers saw a slight beam of hope for the future.
Oklahoma Cancels 133 Classes
NORMAN, Akla, (AP)—The University of Oklahoma has canceled 133 classes previously scheduled for the fall semester due to the COVID-19 measures, OU officials revealed Wednesday.
The university is having to cut its budget by about $870,000 for the 1971-72 school year, primarily because enrollment was to be as high as expected, one official said.
About 50 per cent of the canceled classes are at the freshman level.
Officials said that in most instances, students still would be able to take the specific courses they want, at limited times and in possibly large classes.
OU administrators indicated Wednesday that the freshman class was not expected
to increase significantly this year and that over-all enrollment would likely rise by 25%.
The cancellation of classes was reflected Wednesday by some 5,000 students who filed into the Couch Center cafeteria to reclaim their courses. Last year at this time about 3,000 students showed up to change classes for various reasons.
"We are attempting to more fully utilize available classroom space and instructors' time. Our present enrollment estimates indicate that many of these sections would not have been completely filled."
An official university statement about the cancellations read;
James Bednar, director of registration.
University administrators conceded that 133 is an unusually large number of classes to be cut, but pointed out that the 3 per cent budget cut in the academic and instructional area is relatively low compared with cuts in other areas.
said there was some grumbling among students over the cancellations. He said he couldn't blame for being unhappy about the situation.
Officials said that in the area of administration, finance and operations the cut would be 4.1 per cent; in the University community, 11.8 per cent; in continuing education and university services, 4.9 per cent; in other departments, 8.9 per cent; in university relations, 14.7 per cent; and in university development including construction, 41.5 per cent.
worked under the new salary schedule prior to Aug. 15, the pay schedule was in Aug. 14.
On the international economic scene the U.S. dollar sank for the third straight day in European money markets Wednesday while America's trading partners protested Washington's campaign to curb imports.
British Leyland Motors Inc. announced the prices of its 1971 cars would rise
temporarily by $ 3^{1}_{2} $ per cent
President Nikon's 10 per cent surcharge to slow imports into the United States drew the ire of major trading nations for the second day of an emergency meeting in Geneva of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade—GATT.
The 34-nation GATT council ordered an urgent study of the impact of the surcharge and other commercial aspects of the Nixon program on world trade.
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By GAYLE TRIGG Kansan Staff Writer
Football Tickets, Parking Affected by Nixon Freeze
The University was placed in a virtual freeze by the Kansas Legislature this spring and in so terms of the overall budget. President Nixon's wage-price freeze will have little effect. But it's those small items that are causing problems on the hill. For one and a half weeks in the aflerry trying to determine which certain cost increases which some departments had planned to levy this fall.
The general attitude of the University has been one of compliance with the wage-price freeze. But interpreting the law, which was only this week received in written form, is difficult. Many items had to be referred to the regional office of the Office of Emergency Preparedness just because communication has been achieved on these items, but no written statement has been received by the University.
It has been decided that the proposed $15 increase in the cost of parking permits, the increase in the cost of football and basketball tickets and the $45 increase in the cost of the Jayhawk will not go into effect because of the freeze.
Increases to be noted by students that are not affected by the freeze, however, in the arest of music lessons, which went into effect this summer, the cost of a new student identification card, and the $3 increase in Kansas Union operating fees.
No ruling has been received on the 10 percent increase in some charges at Watkins Hospital, the increase in the cost of student health insurance due to a change of interest policy and the penalty for late payment of fees incurred by the Board of Regents last spring.
After much consultation it has been decided that only $10 will be charged during registration for parking permits. During the freeze the rate for using campus and residence hull zones will be at $32 per month ($10 for 12 months).
A special announcement concerning university tuition and fee increases was relayed from the national Office of Emergency Preparedness through the University Mail. It says that increases announced prior to Aug. 15 are unaffected by
After the freeze is lifted, the lift for campus parking will be $2.08 per month as originally planned ($25, for 12 months). The lift will return to the planned $2.39 per month.
the freeze and are permissable
Vice Chancellor William Balfour termed the guidelines difficult to understand, noting that "some win and some lose" on the part of students. Hepected that the ruling on college tuition was related to the fact that university budgets are made up a year in advance, were dependent on certain sources of funding, and that it impossible to meet without those sources.
Balfour also said that it could be assumed that the $1.50 charge, for new LD's and the $25 penalty for late fee errors, would have been reduced. No official comment, has been made.
Dr. Raymond Schweigler, director of the student health service, said that Watkins would be "staring bankrupt in the face" if it is not allowed the 10 per cent increase in rates for some services offered at Watkins. Until a ruling is made they will not charge those rates, however, and will use any surplus funds available
The wage aspect of the freeze had virtually no effect at KU. All persons due raises on the hill will receive them because they are on an 12-month contracts that started July 1. Seven are on career development grants that carry contractual clauses assuring pay increases, four have raises reflecting position or workload changes and one has the Kansas Geological Survey because of commitments by the university.
A number of employees in the student health center also will get pay increases. They are paid from student fees, and the legislature this year removed doctors from the list of classified employees so that salaries paid by student health facilities be made more attractive. Several coaches paid from athletic funds also gives raises.
About other aspects of the price freeze, Keith Nitcher, vice-chancellor for business affairs, said, "I assume our money will go further, although we do have items of supplies such as tires, lumber, paper products and other commodities for which we lack the capital under state contracts. Whatever slows down inflation should help the University."
There is no office in Lawrencer ce or at KU designed specifically for dealing with problems relating to the freeze. Bailour, vice ccnchler for student affairs, said that if any major problem comes up, a student can bring it to the attention of his office and he will then request a ruling from the new regional Office of Emergency Preparedness in Kansas City, Mo.
Enrollment Strikes Again
By MELISSA BERG Kansan Staff Writer
Students sitting on bleachers bending over timetables to select another class, staring into space to collect their thoughts or having an embarrassed little cry, immersing with friends or taking a break from school. In the airwish of the card-nolling nerds.
Toward the middle of the afternoon when the heat intensified the senior cry of "Do you know of any good electives?" grew louder. Brewers were knet in con- furtures to furrows of perplexion upon confronting a schedule card filled with conflicts.
After circling the Field House, perhaps several times, to pull cards, students paused at the stairway leading to Station 9 for checkout. They created a bottleneck, balancing themselves against guardrails and using the floor, as they sorted cards in the registration packet to speed up the procedure at the checkout station a floor below.
These were some of the sights and sounds of the first day of enrollment at McKinley.
There were sighs of relief as students
realized that the whole procedure was drawing to an end.
"They're so relieved that they don't have to hassle with anyone else here. Some are so glad to be done that they throw their cards down without filling them in." She cuts even after three years, some students still hadn't gotten the procedure down pat.
Jane Shook, Wichita sophomore, who worked at Station 9, saw students' reac-
tions.
Olsson said he liked the practice of saving back some of the course cards for students who enrolled later in the week. He added that "we were 'pretty fair' when you average it out."
Enrollment probably has at least one little frustration for everyone. But for
"It wasn't that big a headache," Evan Olson, Salma sophomore, said. "First semester my freshman year was the worst it ever was. I was tired and didn't know what was going on."
Dede Freund, Bonner Springs sophomore, said that this year she "didn't have to fight." "For two hours last year I just kept walking around and around. This
year it only took me 45 minutes."
Two freshmen, Joanne Mulligan, Norfolk, Va., and Harald McDonald, Los Angeles, Calif., registered pleasant surmount smoothness of the enrollment procedure.
Several students said they appreciated the streamlined Student Registration Data Sheet (SRDS), but some said they didn't. Some students added the Union to Hoch to the Field House.
"I thought it was going to be a lot more complicated." Miss Mulligan said, adding that she had heard rumors that it would be better if the problem was not getting all the things I wanted.
McDonald said he thought that enrollment was efficient as it could be. He suggested that there should be greater opportunities out that are there at the wrong times.
"That closes the classes for those who come at the right time," he said.
For other students the day wasn't going so well. Kristy Burton, Prairie Village, found herself trapped in the senior course and had to a 20 hour semester to graduate on time.
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Kansan Staff Photo bv GREG SORBER
Terry Foile, Overland Park Sophonore, Awaits Class Card . . . Anticipation of closed classes brings tension . . .