THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
The University of Kansas
Vol.88,No.29
Friday, October 7, 1977
Lawrence, Kansas
Ticket price hike a step closer
Bv DENNIS MINICH
Staff Writer
A proposed increase in ticket prices for
University of Kansas football games was
approved yesterday by representatives of
the Big Eight Conference meeting in Kansas
The increase was proposed by Clyde Walker, KU athletic director, to fund a renovation of Memorial Stadium that will cost more than $2 million.
Preliminary approval to the plan was granted by the University of Kansas Athletic Department on Wednesday, after the proposal with the Big Eight drew the proposal one step closer to reality.
Before construction can begin, the proposal must pass a final vote of the KUAC board, and a loan for the renovations must be arranged through the Endowment
J. Hammond McNish, chairman of KUAC and faculty representative to the Big Eight, said yesterday, "things went very well at the meeting," he added, as representatives to the proposal.
KU WAS ONE of two schools at the meeting requesting and receiving approval
or an increase. Colorado requested a similar increase on basketball tickets to the team.
The plan would raise KU student football season tickets 50 cents a game or $3 on season tickets starting next fall in order to finance the renovated rooms.
With the $3 increase, season football tickets next year would cost $23.
Measures the rate increase for students, tickets for the general public would increase one dollar a game, raising the cost from $10 to $50. Measures the tickets would increase up to 78 cents a game.
Mneish said members of the KUAC board would probably meet with the Endowment Association in early November to discuss the loan. A date has been set for them.
A proposal to extend the price increase to KU basketball as well as football tickets was approved.
STEVE LEBEN, student body president and a student representative to KUAC, spoke on Wednesday against the increase, charging all ticketer buyers for facilities for a few.
Leben also said students were not being given a chance to comment on the increase.
Leben was not alone in opposing the proposal, but the plan received preliminary approval from both the state representatives and one faculty representative voted against the proposal.
Yesterday Leben said that his opinions on the matter had not changed.
"Today's action has no final meaning. The final decision will be made here (KU)," Leben said. "And I hope when that final decision is made, it is not for the entire proposal."1
and KUAC student representative, said yesterday that she thought price increases paid by the students were unnecessary and unfair.
"Should the present proposal pass" she said, "the price of student season tickets for football and basketball will have raised from $35 to $4 since my freshman year.
"THEY ARE CLOSE to pricing the tickets right out of the range of students, and I feel intercultural athletics should be primarily for students." she said.
Pinkston said she and Leben were
working together on an alternative proposal eliminating the increase from student ticket
Also included would be expansion of the Victory Club, a facility for Williams Educational Fund contributor; expansion of the press box; adding VIP seating—an enclosed area of seats sold at much higher prices; wall to enclose the south end of the stadium.
The proposed renovation plan calls for waterproofing the stadium, replacing the synthetic turf and remodeling locker rooms, public restrooms and concession areas.
The total cost of remodeling would be between $2 million and $2.5 million. Of that figure, about $750,000 would be for water-foam insulation for the turf and $350,000 for the wall.
The remaining cost would be divided among the other proposed renovations.
Walker yesterday defended the ticket price increase, saying it would help eliminate many problems at the 66-year-old facility and would help make KU's stadium compare favorably to those at other schools.
Old bills may lower scholarship hall rebates
By MARTHA FASSETT
Staff Writer
Scholarship halls residents will probably receive less than their expected food rebates because of unpaid bills of past residents, Bob Candlin, an administration officer for the University of Kansas residence halls, said yesterday.
However, a final decision on the food rebates from the 1976-77 school year for each hall will not be made until delinquent accounts are reviewed next week.
Although using rebate money to cover delinquent accounts is not part of the scholarship halls' contract, the money had to come from somewhere to cover expenses.
Under the rebate system used by six of the eight scholarship halls, if each hall's food budget is underspent by $5 per person, the University will refund the excess.
If residents of two women's halls, Douthart and Sellards, and the four men's halls, Battenfeld, Stephenson, Pearson and Grace Pearson, overspend their food
allowance by more than $ per person, each resilient makes up his share of the differences.
THE OTHER TWO women's halls, Muller and Watkins, do not operate on the rebate system. Their residents pay a smaller fee than the other halls, but they buy their own food.
Officers of each of the six halls tallied their food expenditures at the end of the last school year and decided that they were under the budget and should receive rebates. Housing officials said that actual food expenditures were very close to the budget and that no rebates would be returned.
Grace Pearson had counted on a $50 rebate for each resident, $35 for Sellars, $25 for Pearson and $20 for Stephenson. He checked their books to determine any claims.
J. J. Wilson, director of housing, said he is reluctant to relocate figures he found differed from those in the study.
ACCORDING TO Wilson, the rebates are
figured by taking the difference between the amount of money collected by each hall for food and the actual food expenditure and by 50, the number of residents in each hall.
Housing office figures show that Grace Pearson residents would each receive $17.80; Sellars residents, approximately $15.90; O'Downt, Southt, $13; and Battfield, $2.00.
Stephenson Hall ran into deficit spending and he would have to pay $19.76 @ Tax. He made the same mistake in making the trade.
Julie Gordon, assistant dean of women and scholarship halls adviser, said the discrepancy between the halls' figures and the housing office's figures arose because hall expenditures were made on the halls for residents of each hall paid their bills on time.
If some students paid their bills late or left bills unpaid, the housing office could find that some halls did not have enough income to cover food expenditures. Gordon said.
BOB ROZZELLE, assistant to the dean of
men and scholarship halls advisor, said he was waiting to hear from the University accounting department next week about the number of delinquent accounts before a decision would be made about the rebates for each hall.
Wilson said yesterday that delinquent accounts were to be expected and "everything averages out" the next year and that "nobody was being ripped off."
He said the All Scholarship Hall Council (ASHC) would decide what to do about collecting the unpaid accounts and what amounts each hall would receive in rebate
Ken Ervin, ASHC president, was unavailable for comment.
Barbara Howe, resident director of Stephenson Hall, said that if the housing office received more late payments from students, the discrepancy in figures would be alleviated. Howe said all bills from scholarship hall residents were paid and no money had been collected had no idea of who had paid what and how their account stood.
JAN KARLIN, wife of last year's resident director of Stephenton Hall, said she had been an excellent colleague.
On the Kaw
Staff Photo by RANDY OLSON
Estella Mahan drove into Lawrence from Kansas City, Kan., yesterday, in the hopes of getting a few fish. Mahan settled for a few sacks in her line and a few that got away and returned to New York. She later spent two weeks in the city.
Staff Photo by ELI REICHMAY
Fritz Heider, internationally known psychologist now retired from the University of Kansas, walks each day to and from the KU campus. Heider, who is 81 years old, is best known for his research on affective learning.
Walking man
See REBATES page 10
Famed prof active in retirement
By DON WILSON
Staff Writer
Almost every day a man with a plaid jacket and shock of white hair leaves his home on the south edge of the campus and walks to the top of Mt. Oread.
When he reaches the top, instead of going to a classroom or an office, he turns and walks back down the way he came.
The students who walk by him on the sidewalks pay little attention to him.
Fritz Heiter, 81, a retired University of Kansas professor of psychology, has in recent years become famous within the field of psychology for the pioneering work he has done in interpersonal relations.
HEIDER HAS received most of the acclaim because of the increasing acceptance of some of the theories presented in his only book.
Perhaps if they knew he was a man whose name and reputation were known to psychologists around the world, they might be more mindful of his presence.
The book, "The Psychology of Interpersonal Relations," was published in 1968 and was, according to Heider, the culmination of 40 years of work.
The book deals specifically with individuals' impressions of other individuals, the ways in which these impressions affect human relationships.
"It has been very interesting to watch the development of my ideas by others over the years and it has been very intriguing," she said, with the accent of her native Austria.
OF HEIDER's book, Michael Sterms, director of the social psychology program at KU, said, "It is probably the most important book in modern day social psychology. Most of the popular theories in his book."
If there were a list of the top 10 social psychologists, he would certainly be near the top, he said.
The acceptance of Heider's ideas and his book has occurred gradually, he said.
Dan Batson, professor of psychology, went farther and said Heider 'was an internationally known figure in the field of social psychology'.
See HEIDER page nine
Graduate fee waiver study ends
Problems with graduate assistant wages and hiring policies and a possible fee waiver will be explored in a task report to be released next week.
The task force recently completed a six-month investigation into graduate student
William Hogan, associate vice chancellor and chairman of the task force, said yesterday that he had been called by KU administrators and would be released sometime next week. Hogan said he could not comment on the contents of the report until the officials had reviewed it.
LYNN BRETZ, executive coordinator of Graduate Student Council (GSC), said a major concern of graduate students was the fee waiver. She said that GSC had been working since 1973 for the graduate assistant fee waiver and that she would like to see the task force's recommendation on the waiver "finalized."
The task force was appointed last fall by Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor, to investigate wages, hiring policies, grievance procedures and other benefits of graduate students working as teaching assistants (TAs), assistant instructors (AIs) and research assistants (KAS). Hogan, two deans, six professors and five students were involved.
The fee waiver has been approved by the Kansas Board of Regents and has been included in KU's budget requests for next year. The waiver, which would cost the state **$203,024**, has to be approved by the governor before it could become a reality at KU.
Hogan would not say whether the task force would recommend the fee waiver but did say the report "speaks of it in a very favorable light."
The fee waiver would be on a graduated scale. For example, a half-time graduate assistant would have all incidental fees waived and a quarter-time assistant would have no incidental fees. This fee waivers
She said that hiring procedures were vague and that job hiring was many times controlled by only one person in the department. Committees should make the decisions relating to assistantships, she said, and there should be guidelines
ALTHOUGH THE FEE waiver is GSC's primary concern, Bretz said, there also is a general discontent among graduate assistants about hiring policies and wage discrepancies among departments within the University.
established to standardize the hiring procedures as a protection.
Dugan also said many job agreements in the past had been made orally and unexpected changes in appointments and wages had occurred. She said the departments hiring assistants should be more accountable for their decisions and should
provide reasons for their decisions,
especially when an assistant is dismissed.
so you need a new requirement that all agreements be written was a 'great and valuable' contribution.
The new requirement was issued this summer by Ron Calgaard, vice chancellor
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Capsules From the Associated Press, United Press International
Carter's energy plan suffers defeats
WASHINGTON—President Jimmy Carter's proposal for cheaper electricity during non-peak hours was defeated yesterday by the full Senate, and the Senate Finance Committee voted against his proposal to levy a stiff tax on industries that use oil and natural gas. The committee also voted to block Carter from imposing a tax on imported crude oil as another means to force energy conservation. See story page two.
Strikes, unions prohibited in military WASHINGTON—An order forbidding strikes or union organizing on military bases has been issued by Defense Secretary Harold Brown. The order also prohibits negotiating or collective bargaining by commanders. See story page two.
Organized labor 2, big businesses O
WASHINGTON- Organized labor twice triumphed over big business yesterday when the House approved a controversial labor law revision to severely penalize employers who violate labor laws and when the Senate voted to raise the minimum wage to $3.40 by 1981.
Labor had given its approval to every significant amendment made to the labor law revision and pro-labor senators proposed the minimum wage increase. See stories page two.
PLO to allow non-members in talks
UNITED NATIONS—The Palestine Liberation Organization said yesterday it would allow some not-see PLO members to join the Palestinian delegation for the G20 summit.
Meanwhile, Secretary of State Cyrus Vance said at a United Nations luncheon for Armenia that a middle East peace treaty would not be achieved within 10 years.
Locally...
One man in Lawrence is primarily responsible for choosing which movies are shown in town. Dona Starkweather, Commonwealth film booker for Lawrence's eight screens, does research for his job by keeping his eyes and ears trained on college students. The 18-to-30-year-old age group supports the theater, he says, and the director has a keen eye to see how age group is limited, its choices are diverse enough to draw films from "Star Wars" to Walt Disney's "Fantasia." See story page eight.