THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
DREARY
KANSAN
The University of Kansas
Vol.88.No.23
Thursday September 29,1977
Lawrence, Kansas
Open meeting rule passes recognition shift defeated
Staff Writers
By LINDA STEWART and LEON UNRUH
The Student Senate passed a bill last night opening all of its meetings to the public and rejected a petition that would have asked the student group to approve the wav student groups can request funds.
During the meeting, Ralph Munyan,
student body vice president, chided the Senate for its "petty, power-playing bureaucracy."
After a spirited debate, the Senate passed the open meetings bill, which states that all meetings of the Senate, including committee meetings, must be open to the public.
But the Senate rejected a petition that would have given the Senate more power in determining which groups it funds. The Administration currently decides which
groups are eligible to apply for Senate funding.
THE SENATE had to make its own rule concerning open meetings, because as an advisory group, it does not to comply with the Kansas open meeting law.
KU's Senate is in a similar position.
The open meetings issue arose this past summer when Atty. Gert. Curt Schneider ruled that the student senate at Kansas State University did not have to comply with the federal law, but was answerable to the university president, thus making it an exempt advisory group.
Steve Leben, student body president, said last night that passing the open meetings bill would make the Senate more accountable for its actions.
"Some matters might come up that would
Predicted enrollment to exceed 25.000
If Dyck's predictions are correct, it would mean a University-wide increase of more than 10 percent in student enrollments.
Enrollment at the University of Kansas this fall should top the 25,000 mark for the first time in KU history, Gil Dyck, dean of admissions and records, said yesterday.
Official enrollment figures will not be available until early next week. Dvck said.
The official enrollment figure for last fall was 24,372 for both the Lawrence campus and the University of Colorado.
The official figure is based on the number of students enrolled on the 20th day of school.
DYCK SAID it would take about a week to compile the official numbers because the enrolment results were run through a system called Yck's office for errors and computed again.
As the enrolment data are compiled, Dyck said, they are divided into 4 different classifications — hours taken by each student, the number of transfer students, individual school enrollments and the number of students in each class.
Dick also said it took time to make sure all late enrollments and enrollees mailed
If the 25,000 mark is reached this fall, it will be the fifth consecutive enrollment
record for KU. The official enrollment figure is always based on fall semester enrolment, not spring semester. In the past the enrolment figure for the spring semester has always been lower than that for the fall
LAST FALL'S enrollment was 22,553 for the Lawrence campus and 1,819 for the Med Center.
Enrollment for the Lawrence campus originally was expected to reach 22,750, a figure KU administrators set last fall and which Kansas Legislature for budget outposts.
KU's budget for this year is based on that figure and KU's spending ceiling is set accordingly. Martin Jones, associate director of business affairs, said.
However, Jones said that KU could request additional funds if the increase in enrolment created a need for more classes and more teachers.
The request for more funds will be submitted to the Board of Regents by Oct. 7, Jones said, and then if the request is approved by the Regents it will be sent to the governor's office, the governors and eventually the state legislature for further approval.
Requests for additional funds based on an increased enrollment could be for this fiscal year.
be embarrassing and difficult, but at least they'll be known," he said.
Phillip Kaufman, Memphis senior, said he did not see how passing the open meetings he had with Mr. Singer would work.
"We'll be hanging out the laundry at
will," he said, "but we'll be a better
Sentee for it."
THE OPEN MEETINGS bill was brought up at the Senate meeting two weeks ago but was never acted on because some senators did not attend. The same specific times the meetings should be closed
The bill was referred to the Senate Rights and Privileges Committee which amended it so that meetings could be closed by a three-fourths vote of all members present.
The amendment was voted down on the Senate floor. 52-20.
Some senators wanted closed meetings for discussions on personnel problems, budget hearings and instances of light receive unfavorable press coverage.
Leben said press coverage could only improve the credibility of the Senate and the House.
Reggie Robinson, rights committee chairman, said the idea of the press being the watchdog of the public was questionable and open meetings was a complex issue.
"THERE are very few issues that are close-cut and open meetings' not one of them."
See SENATE page nine
While wheeling a wagon of clothes to the laundry, Ann Hamilton.
Laundry time
Columbus, Ohio, senior, rests at the top of Mount Oread on 12th Street.
KU cops step into investigation of foot-lover
BY RODNEY ANDERSON
Staff Writer
The antics of a free-spending, fear-raising
agent under investigation by the KU Police Department.
The investigation stems from an incident in Watson Library Tuesday night involving three KU women and a note requesting the removal of their moved sucks in exchange for a $5 bill.
Seconds later, a folded note containing a message and a $5 bill were dropped on the desk.
The students said they were studying on the seventh floor of the stacks section of Watson, when they noticed a person kneeling on the opaque floor above.
The note offered to trade another $2 bill for a pair of women's socks. One of the girls removed her socks and placed them on the stairs as the note requested.
THE WOMEN said they watched the stairs for about five minutes but were interrupted when another woman came into the stacks looking for her shoes.
The woman said she had taken off her shoes before she temporarily left her study site. When she returned, her shoes were clean and she did not have five dollars if she would leave her socks on the stairs. She didn't follow up on the offer, and her shoes later were found on the floor.
Both incidents took place in the upper level of the stacks, and both notes were written by the same person.
The note to the three women explained that the person liked women's feet and the articles of clothing they go in. The note that the women cooperate with his request.
The incidents were the latest in a series of
Organic bananas spice inventory
Staff Writer
Customers at one natural food store in Lawrence weigh out their own grains, grind their own peanut butter and, if they are satisfied, work two hours a month in the store.
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according to Chuck Magerl, the store's manager.
They shop at the Community Mercantile, 700 Maine St., because they can buy foods that other local grocery stores don't carry.
"Most grocery stores don't have a selection like this," he said.
Organic bananas displayed on a coat rack are just one example of the unique products carried into the store. The bananas are brown and smaller than ones found in other
"We're the only place between Iowa City
and Denver that carries organic bananas, " Mageri said.
THE BANANAS are brought from Mexico and are not treated with chemicals like the bananas sold in other grocery stores, he said.
He said the chemical, called thiabendazole, was sprayed on the bananas sold in stores.
Ben Glinke, a salesman at Associated Grocers, Kansas City, Kan. said yesterday.
Organic store
Randy Strickland, produce clerk at the Dillon's supermarket, 1740 Massachusetts St., said cases of bananas received there had been stamped with a note stating the bananas were treated with thibendazole for preservation of quality.
Natural foods including organic fruit and produce. herbs and
Magerl, one of four managers at the Community Mercantile, said his store preferred not to carry foods that contained nonnutritive chemicals.
that their cases of bananas carried a message that the chemical had been used on them.
Staff Photo by PAUL ROSE
spaces are specialties of the Community Mercantile, 700 Male St. Most of these natural products are not available in supermarkets.
Repta said calling a chemical cancer-causing because it was similar to a known carcinogen.
"WE DO NOT carry them because we are concerned about the nature of the chemicals
Magerl said he thought thibendazole might be harmful to people because he read research reports indicating similar chemicals caused cancer.
However, Arnold Repta, associate professor of pharmaceutical chemistry, said the chemical was not classified as a toxic agent. He added that a fumicide and deworming agent for foods.
"That's a good way to sell health food," he said.
MAGERIL preservatives were not needed at his store because of a high fur-
Magerl said the possibility of cancer was not the main reason his store did not carry them.
"Chemicals and preservatives aren't necessary to preserve the fruit," Magerl said. "You don't need it unless you want extra long shelf life."
He said that bananas in his store were allowed to ripen naturally, but that those in grocery stores were often ripened artificially with ethylene gas.
Ed Smith, head of produce sales for Associated Grocers, said his firm used ethylene gas to ripen bananas, but it was the bananas themselves during ripening.
"They'll throw off their own gas and ricken." he said.
See BANANAS page nine
similar incidents dating back to last spring. Nan Gaudt, art library assistant, said
Gauthier also said a student assistant in the art library found similar notes last spring.
"He asked a woman and told her his knee was dislocated and he needed something he didn't know."
Magerl said using ethylene gas only ripened the bananas superficially. The gas turns the skins yellow, he said, but does not ripe the meat of the banana.
A SIMLAR incident happened at the library about a month ago, she said, when a man in her dorm room tried to steal her phone.
The incident has caused one of the women to say she was afraid to return to the stacks.
Paul Schultz, KU police detective, said an investigation of the matter would begin.
"We have to be sure that students, faculty and staff have full access to all the facilities of the University without any kind of intimidation," he said.
Schulz said this was the first time KU police had been notified of the situation.
Compromise lets senators sleep
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Capsules From the Associated Press, United Press International
WASHINGTON - After 36 hours of almost continuous debate in the Senate on natural gas pricing, a compromise was reached last night that allowed senators to get some sleep. The impasse was caused by a filibuster led by two members of the Senate who were stressed and threatened to force the Senate into a second all-night session last night.
With the exception of a two-hour breakfast break, the Senate had been in session since 9 a.m. Tuesday. At issue is a critical part of President Jimmy Carter's energy plan allowing for natural gas prices but providing for increased production and longer-lasting longest since an impasse over civil rights legislation in 1944. See story page xx.
Hijackers release two Americans
DACCA, Bangladesh-Japanese Red Army terrorists who hijacked a American airliner yesterday morning have released five persons, including two Americans, of the 136 passengers and crew members they were holding as hostages in Pakistan. The bombings killed 59 million ransom and release nine immigrated members of the terrorist group.
The hijackers earlier had threatened to execute one American, a bank president from California. There were 11 Americans on board the jet when the hijacking occurred, following a stopover in Bombay at a Paris-to-Tokyo flight. The pilot was forced to land the plane in Dacca. See story page five.
B-1 bomber funds still appropriated
WASHINGTON — The House Appropriations Committee refused yesterday to cut $4.54 million from the Pentagon's budget for construction of three B-1
The surprise 34-21 vote rejected President Jimmy Carter's proposal to eliminate the B-1 funds from the current budget. Carter earlier ordered a halt in production of the B-1 and proposed a recision of the funds. The recision law requires approval of both houses of Congress to put it into effect.
Since a vote in the full House cannot be taken before the Oct. 4 deadline, sources said the money must be nect.
Diamond cutter tells bizarre story
NEW YORK — A diamond cutter has told police a bizarre story of murder, robbery and kidnap, describing how he hid the body of a stain associate under his office desk for days out of fear of the killers, until he was kidnapped and robbed himself.
The body of gem merchant Pinchos Jaroslawicz, 25, who vanished last week with an estimated $1 million in gems, was found yesterday under a desk in Tal's Manhattan office. Tal, who disappeared Sunday, was found sleep and unharmed in his wife's parked car in Queens borough. See story page five.
Laut
Locally . . .
When he teaches beginning through graduate-level students, college professor Edward Laut wants his students to remember automatically to do about 30 things at once. Laut came to KU this year after performing with the Cleveland Orchestra for three years. He has performed with professional symphony orchestras in Canada, the United States and the United States, and because he is at Cleveland University, he sees story page two.