BY JOHN WHITESIDES
State aid, solicitation produce more research funds
Staff Writer
Despite concern by University of Kansas administrators about the future of research in higher education, a recent report shows that KU last year received a record amount of research money.
received report.
The request is issued recently by the Office of Research Administration, lists a total of a $1,499,839 received for research during fiscal 1977, an 11.5 percent increase over last year's total of $1,997,878. This year’s total also betters the fiscal 1974 previous record total of $1,432,000.
record tour to $49,000.
Chancellor Dykes in his convocation address three weeks ago warned that American universities and the nation faced a "bleak future" if
Dykes said Tuesday that increased faculty efforts had boosted UY's percentage increase, but that he did not believe the data was reliable.
research funding were allowed to decline. He said research funding in the United States was lower than for other countries.
"We haven't really contrained national trends," he said, "but we have been able to compete well for the research dollar. Our faculty has worked hard and we are constantly increasing our efforts at research."
Henry Snyder, dean of research administration, said last week that the two reasons for the increase in funding were that the faculty more actively sought funding and that state funding of research increased.
"I was really two years ago that we started to expand our contact with the faculty, and they have responded marvelously," Snyder said. "They have invested in our research and secured funding in the face of much keen competition."
The report shows that a total of 691 research proposals for more than $42 million were submitted to research agencies last year, resulting in 381 awards for the $14.5 million total.
Dykes said in his address that the percentage of the U.S. Gross National Product devoted to research had
Snyder agreed that it had become more difficult to secure funds for research.
declined in the past twelve years, leaving only 2 per cent of the current GNP devoted to research.
"In the last several years our real dollars recruited for research had failed to keep pace with the increase."
Several factors have combined to contribute to the general tightening of research purse-strings, he said.
"All of the problems of the late 1960's and '70s combined to alter the funding of universities," he wrote.
He said that the Nixon administration had made great efforts to cut down on allocations to universities. He said it was important that he
trend. The government also had tried to shift some funds from the public sector private industries, he
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"There is now more emphasis on applied research on identifiable needs such as environmental concerns, social issues and immediate kinds of things," Swadler said.
He said that despite the general trends, KU had managed to maintain its position among the top 50 universities in the country.
"For example, the Nixon administration put a major focus on cancer research," Snyder said. "Cancer research has received increased funding, sometimes at the expense of other programs."
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KANSAN
The University of Kansas
Lawrence, Kansas
Thursday September 22,1977
shows her displeasure while Steve McMurry, Norton senior, looks on in sympathy.
A few decisions cause some frosts last night at a meeting of the Student Senate Rights Committee. Marcure Luke, St. Louis junior,
Didn't like it
By RICHARD E. MEYER Associated Press Writer
Lance home to Georgia; Carter laments resignation
In a letter of resignation that ended the first major crisis of the Carter presidency, George W. Bush wrote:
WASHINGTON (AP)—Bert Lance resigned yesterday as director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and insisted he was returning to Georgia with a clear conscience and with his good name restored.
See related story page two
have continued to be an effective OMB director. But he said he was stepping down "because of the amount of controversy and the continuing nature of it."
Lance's resignation ended months of mounting controversy over his past handling of his personal finances and his Georgia banks' affairs.
CARTER ACCEPTED Lance's resignation with "the greatest sense of regret and sorrow" and described him as a "good and honorable man."
"Bert Lance is my friend," Carter told a nationally broadcast news conference. "I know him personally as well as if he was my own brother."
He said Lance acted to spare the White House further controversy. Carter acknowledged that what already had happened doubted doubts among the American people.
The President said he did not prompt the resignation and asked with what he called his "doubtful" response a position in the
Carter said Lance aided at the OMB would be carried in person. He said he had not carried a wheelchair.
A FELLOW GEORGIAN, James Mcintyre, 36, who has been Lance's deputy, likely will succeed him, at least temporarily, as acting director.
Carter's news conference was delayed two hours while Lance completed his resignation letter. By the time the President entered the auditorium for the announcement, copies of Lance's letter of resignation had been distributed.
Every question from reporters concerned the Lance affair. While answering them, Carter's eyes frequently were downcast, his lips drawn in a tight line. After 34 minutes, he ended the news conference without waiting for the traditional "Thank you, Mr. President," from the senior wire service reporter.
Sen. Charles Percy, R-III, who asked some of the harshest questions during Lance's three days before the committee, told the reporters that Mr. Lance have made the correct decision."
SEN. SAM NUNN, D-Ga., Lance's principal defender on the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee, said the current atmosphere in Washington made it impossible for Lance to perform his duties at the OMB.
Before responding to questions, Carter read the letter. When he reached the sentence, he decided to submit an email with his decision of OMB, his voice stumbled on the word resignation.
Senate panel approves closed meetings bill
The Senate Democratic majority leader, Robert C. Byrd of West Virginia, said, "The nation cannot afford to have as director of the Office of Management and Budget a man whose personal problems are so great that they distract from the performance of his duties."
Staff Writer
By LEON UNRUH
A bill that would allow closed Senate会议rooms approved last night by the Senate was passed.
The full Senate last week rejected the open marriage bill and sent it to the Rights Committee.
The committee voted to reject a bill that would have required the Senate and its committees to keep their meetings open. The committee will recommend instead a bill that would allow any meeting to be held with a three-fourths vote by those attending.
The rejected bill will be returned to the Senate, accompanied by the alternative committee proposal allowed closing a lawsuit. The rejected bill will be presented next Wednesday.
The open meetings issue arose this summer when Atty. Gen. Curt Schneider ruled that the Kansas State University Student Senate, as an advisory group, was
answerable to the university president and did not have to comply with the state open meetings law. KU's Senate is in a similar position.
THERE NOW is no rule defining whether
Senate meetings should be open or
close.
The opposition last night to the original bill was led by Russ Engel, chairman of the elections subcommittee, and Steve McMurry, transportation chairman, who argued that some of the actions taken against personnel matters and when counting student body election ballots.
when a personnel matter arises, Engel said, it should be closed to protect the interests of the individual from misinterpretation by visitors and the press.
Engel said, "I feel we need that option open to us, but we need to make it hard to
the original bill was proposed by Steve Leben, student body president, and favored
by Reggie Robinson, Rights Committee chairman.
IT WAS ROBINSON, however, who at last week's Senate meeting moved to return the bill to the committee after the bill was met by serious arguments.
Robinson and others had argued against changing the bill because they said any loopholes in the open meetings rule could be twisted to cover almost any circumstance.
"I wanted to refer it so we could consider the bill, not change it," he said. "If this had stayed in the Senate it would have passed. I didn't think it would change like that."
Robinson asked McMurry to introduce the altered proposal at the Senate meeting next Wednesday, after saying, "It doesn't express my sentiment."
LEBEN SAID budget hearings and similar meetings had been closed before, but he said the practice should stop. In closed budget hearings, arbitrary cuts had made late at night and the groups requesting money had no official way of
knowing why the cut had been made, he said.
"If arbitrary budget cuts do need to be made early in the morning, the groups should be there to hear why. Leben said. He asked them what he would speak, but they should be there to listen."
The three-fourths vote, McMurry said,
was a win for a meeting was closed only for serious matters.
The committee also rejected a bill that would require the presence of one graduate student on the committee.
The bill, even though rejected by the
Senate, will be presented at the Senate next Wednesday.
THE BILL, introduced by Larry Crosgrove, Jeffersonville, Penn., graduate student, required that one of the three students representatives on SenEx be a graduate student.
Cogrove said graduate students had no way of insuring their representation on a
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KU police enforce bike rules more closely
By WALT BRAUN
Staff Writer
The day of the bicyclist who whizzes down Jayhawk Boulevard between pedestrians and past stop signs will come to an end soon if the KU Police Department has its way.
The police this week began enforcing bicycle regulations more closely than in the past in the face of several injury accidents involving bicycles this semester.
Lt. Vic Strad said yesterday that although no big crackdown had begun,
"We've had two injury accidents and countless misses involving bicycles already this year," Strand said. "Right in front of us is a bicycle with no brakes, and in a crosswalk, there is no excuse for that."
Fire safety inspections in progress at University
careless cyclists could expect to be ticketed
police. Police already have
starting ticketing system.
Biannual fire inspections of the University of Kansas sororites began Monday to see whether recommendations made last fall had been followed, Harold Mallonee, an inspector with the Lawrence Fire Department, said last night.
Strandd said he was most concerned with the total disregard by some cyclists of apeed to reach their limits.
HE SAID he had received complaints from drivers who had almost hit cyclists
Mallone said that seven of the 12 KU sororites had been inspected as of yesterday, and that the results were "mostly good, but some have a few things left to do." The remaining sororites will be inspected this week.
Inspections of the 23 KU fraternities will begin tomorrow after fraternity presidents meet with the fire inspectors tonight, he said.
"maybe when they're rigging in and of traffic and riding in the wrong lane, they forget how dangerous it can be," he said. "They're putting all that much chance against a 3,000-pound car."
Paul Markley, technical adviser to the state fire marshal, said last night that he expected to receive the fire inspection reports of each house in the area. He said he would review the reports to see whether each house was in compliance with the recommendations.
He said some houses might not have met the recommendations either because they might have made special arrangements for him or because they had asked for extra time.
Fraternities and sororities were given one year to comply with recommendations made last fall after a tragic fire at a Baker University fraternity house.
Stradn mentioned the Chi Omega Circle and 15th and Naismith Drive as two intersections in which careless cyclists hindered already congested traffic.
and from pedestrians who had almost been run over by cyclists.
Cyclists can find bicycle regulations in the parking and Traffic Regulations areas.
THE FIRST paragraph states, "Bicycles are subject to all traffic laws applying to motor vehicles. Bicycles are not to be ridden on lawns or sidewalks. The pedestrian has the right-of-way over bicycles as well as over motor vehicles."
Strand also said that sidewalks were not suited to bicycles but that he was not sure how they would work.
Strand said that he was glad to see more bicycles on campus because they meant fewer cars but that the cyclists had to be aware of pedestrians and other vehicles at
He said, "Not only are cyclists the ones most likely to be hurt in an accident, but without even knowing it, a few of them are giving cycling a bad name."
One person who does not want bicycles to get a bad name is Eugene W. secretary of agriculture.
Wee said he rode a bicycle because it
offered inexpensive transportation, exer-
cise aeration. He said most good cyclists observe the road.
"WE DON'T condone careless bicycle riding in any way," he said. "I've seen people on bikes not only run stop signs, but not even slow down to check oncoming traffic. It could be more than one life they are risking."
In reference to a state law that says cyclists must ride as close to the side of the road as is practical. We said he thought the law was practical, and made many ways. He said it could be abused.
"I ride fairly far over to the side unless the road is obstructed or not good to ride on," he said. "I'll usually pull way over if I'm slowing down a line of cars, but if I'm slowing down one car, I won't pull over just so be daunt't have to change lanes."
We said he supported the police in their efforts to improve bicycle safety.
Wee said the M. Oread Bicycle Club planned to sponsor public awareness advertisements stressing bicycle safety and laws.
"In the long run, I think it will be good for bicycling," he said. "I don't think there should be a grace period on the enforcement. There shouldn't be a grace period when someone's life may be at stake."
Information on bicycle rules and regulations is available at the parking service offices in Hoch Auditorium and the SUA Office in the Kansas Union.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Capsules From the Associated Press, United Press International
CIA investigated alleged drugging
Israeli troops advance in Lebanon
WASHINGTON - The possibility that a covert drug attack was launched against members of former President Richard Nixon's traveling party during a visit to an unidentified "potentially hostile country" was investigated by the CIA, a former CIA science chief told a Senate panel yesterday. The surprise disclosure came as he tried to defend the CIA's 21 years of experiments with drugs. See story page two.
BEIRUT, Lebanon - Israeli tanks and troops pushed farther into Lebanon yesterday and hit Palestinian positions with heavy artillery barrages. The Palestinians retaliated with the first rocket attacks on an Israeli town in 18 months.
months.
The fighting opened the possibility of a Syria-Iraeli confrontation and coincided with a meeting in Washington between Secretary of State Cyrus Vance and Egyptian Foreign Minister Ismael Fahmi. See story page twelve
American Indians air complaints
Means
GENEVA, Switzerland-American Indians said yesterday that the natural resources of their national lands have been plundered by the United States and that the American Indians are the beneficiaries of the Nations. Russell Means, a leader of the American Indian Movement, told a conference sponsored by 80 international groups exploring the problems or native populations in North and South America, that he wants to help them down President Carter's "drastiscal" as often as possible.
Amtrak warns of service cutbacks
WASHINGTON—Several Amtrak passenger train routes will be dropped and service will be cut on many others if Congress does not increase Amtrak's budget. Paul Risluttert, Amtrak president, could probably be cut back to three or four days a week instead of daily service if it is not funded. See story page two.
Energy officials arrival delayed
TOPEK E. The arrival of Steven Karras, Kansas' new energy director from Ohio, has been delayed until October by the chairman of a legislative interim committee to let controversy about him settle. Sen. Arnold Berman, D-Lorence, who was angered by the decision, earlier had asked that Harris be brought before a panel this week on charges he had led to the State Finance Council about federal funding for the Kansas energy plan.
Earlier yesterday Gov. Robert Bennett defended Harris by telling reporters he didn't think Harris had利了. See story page three
Colborn
Locally...
The Kansas City Royals, behind the strong pitching performance of Jim Colborn and the hitting of Darrrell Porter and George Brett, clinched at least a share of the American League Western Division championship last night with a 10-5 victory over the Minnesota Coyotes, who pickup the win in the year. Col邦, who picked up the win in the season, being getting relief help from Doug Bird in the ninth. Elsewhere last night, the Chicago White Sox were eliminated from the Western division pennant race as they lost to Oakland 8-4, but Texas remained alive with a 9-1 victory over California. See story page 10.