SUNSHINE
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
CLOUDY
KANSAN
The University of Kansas
Thursday September 15,1977
Vol.88,No.13
Lawrence, Kansas
Staff Photo by ELI REICHMAN
happy 25th
De Dreyfus, associate station manager of KANU-FM, has been with the station 85 of its 25 years. The station grew from obscurity
in the mid 1980s and has won several prestigious broadcasting awards. Today it marks its 25th year on the air.
Student Senate fails to act on open meetings policy
By LINDA STEWART
Staff Writer
the question of opening all Student Senate meetings to the public never reached a vote last night because several senators thought the meetings should be closed during Senate budget hearings.
The Senate is considered to be an advisory group because the chancellor can veto funds allocated by the Senate.
The question arose this summer, when Atty. Gen. Curt Schneider said Kansas State was the first in its league to pass the vote.
At its first full meeting of the semester, the Senate vote to return the bill to open all Senate meetings to the Senate Rights Committee for further consideration.
Reggie Robinson, Senate Rights Committee chairman, said last night that the Senate had to make its own rules about open meetings because as an advisory group, the Senate was not subject to open meetings laws.
open meetings because it was not answerable to K-State's president or to the state. The president was answerable to the state, however. K-State's Senate is similar in structure to KU's.
SOME SENATORS said they opposed the opposition and asked the meetings should be closed at certain times.
"It's difficult to argue with this bill because it sounds so good," Ed Duckers, Salina junior, said, "but in terms of realism, it just won't work."
Luckers gave as an example the Senate budget hearings and said senators would feel intimidated if organizations that were unaware of money were allowed to attend the meetings.
"Allowing the groups to attend the meetings would cause senators to give money to the groups that attend and tend to forget about the groups that aren't there,"
Randy McKenna, Lawrence senior, said to be awkward if the groups were allowed to leave.
From GF Kid Man N's
KING CASEY CAI M - The death toll from
King CASEY CAI M's flood rose to 22 late
yesterday, and stunned metropolitan area
officials continued to tabulate millions of
dollars worth of damage amid the residue of
dmr and mud riffle.
The death toll rose to 22 after the bodies of two unidentified women and the Rev. Harold A. Thomas, 42, of Fairway, were found by clean crewes.
From the Kansan's Wire Services
K.C. slowly struggles back from flood devastation
Police said 15 persons remained missing. It was feared some of the missing had been trapped in underground garages in the city. An officer in the normally a lazy stream, became a dead-
THERE WAS some good news for the flood-devastated areas. President Jimmy Carter signed disaster statements yesterday afternoon, making flood victims eligible for immediate federal aid in the form of temporary housing and grants.
torrent after almost 16 inches of rain fell during a 24-hour period.
Kansas Gov. Robert Bennett has asked Carter to provide federal disaster
Missouri Gov Joseph Teasdale estimated public damage alone in the five-county Missouri disaster area at $30 million. No estimates of personal losses have been made.
assistance after the state's damage assessment is completed.
Bennett declared 10 northeast Kansas counties a disaster area. Douglas County was not included among those counties, although Johnson, Wyandotte and Lincoln were east; Jefferson County to the north and Shawna County to the west all were included.
In a flood-related development, a Missouri River rave in Ray County, northeast of Kansas City M., broke yesterday after a muddy water over about 200 acres of cropland.
Authorities were attempting to shore up the levee to contain the flood water when it broke at about 3 p.m. They were unsure how much damage would result from the latest flooding, but overflow before the break had flooded 10,000 acres in Ray County.
Their petition says that since the Brush Creek drainway and its levee were built, "the city has made no substantial change, improvement or increase of adequacy."
BENNETT'S EMERGENCY order will be in full force for up to 15 days, and could be extended with approval by the Kansas insurance company. The order that Bennett mentioned severe flooding throughout northeast Kansas, particularly in the Kansas City area.
Also yesterday, a law student and an investment company with apartments in the Plaza area have filed suit against the city, arguing that the night's devastating shark attack Brush Creek.
Charles G. Knudsen, director of the central region weather service, named a five-man team Wednesday to make a study of the flood and the resulting deaths.
The National Weather Service is trying to determine why there were so many deaths during flash floods in Kansas City despite what officials consider amme warning.
Steve Leben, student body president, said that groups should be allowed to attend the meetings to learn the reasons for budget cuts.
THE PLANTIFISTS say they represent 40,000 people who live or have businesses along the creek, and they say the city owes them at least $10 million in damages.
"WE NEED to find out the reason for those deaths and if there are any aspects of the warning system that need correcting." Knudsen said.
Knudsen said there were good forecasts and warnings, dissemination of warnings by television and radio stations and prompt action by local safety officials.
"Often arbitrary cuts are made in groups' budgets at the wee hours of the morning when committees are just trying to get things done. That's the more reason to let these groups attend."
"Excluding these groups would make the process smoother." he said.
He said that cuts in groups' budgets had to be made and that if one group was cut and another was not, the first group might feel resentful.
Groups do not always understand why funds may be cut, he said.
Leben said he thought the Senate should not have set settings from which no group would be excused.
"Look at the Kansas Athletic Corporation (KUAC). Leben said, "It's budget hearings are always closed and no one has any idea why the budget comes out the way it does or ticket prices are raised. I want the Senate to be able to say all of its meetings are open."
Duckers said the many questions raised about the bill indicated that it should be returned to the Senate for further consideration.
In other business, the Senate passed a bill opening most of its records to the public.
THE BILL GAVE the responsibility of compiling and updating an index of the Senate files to the executive secretary, who also will make the files available to the
The Senate also passed a bill stating that the Senate open house festival later this year.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Capsules From the Associated Press, United Press International
Lance case embarrassment grows
WASHINGTON — On the eve of Bert Lance's long-awaited public defense against what he termed "allergies, innuno and hearay," the White House was embarrassed Wednesday by Press Secretary Jody Powell and by charges made at a Senate hearing.
The charges were made by a federal bank regulator at a hearing of the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee. He said Lance might have illegally received $10,000 through bank overdrafts used in his unsuccessful 1974 campaign for Georgia governor.
Also yesterday, it was reported that Powell had leaked a rumor to newspapers about Sen. Charles Percy, R-III, top Republican on the governmental affairs panel and an aggressive interrogator in the Lance Cave said his闸n actions were "inappropriate, regrettable and dumb." See related articles.
Violence mars independence fiesta
MEXICO CITY — Terrorists off 23 time bombs at government agencies, police stations, banks and stores in three Mexican cities early yesterday, and kidnappings were reported in a wave of violence on the eve of Mexico's independence day celebrations.
Police reported at least five injuries and a clothing warehouse fire that destroyed $20 million in goods.
deployed to 20MA training. We have been allowed to be leftist urban guerrillas who call themselves professional revolutionaries dedicated to fighting hunger, unemployment and poverty.
Gym memorial proposed at Kent
KENT, Ohio — Kent State University President Brage Golding said yesterday he saw "no alternative" but to build a gymnasium near where four students were shot to death, and he proposed dedicating the building to all victims of the tragedy.
tragedy.
Goldberg, said he would formally ask the university Board of Trustees to provide the $6 million gym to the "stain, the wounded, the National Guardmen, the townpeople and the university community" in memory of those involved in the May 4, 1970, shootings during a campus anti-war demonstration.
After Golding's statement, the May 4th Coalition, the group opposing gymnastics construction at the site, and it would use "mass action" to stop
LONDON - A cholera epidemic has spread to Europe from the Middle East, where it has struck more than 2,300 people and killed 69. Britain reported two cases yesterday and Italy, West Germany and Holland each reported one. In case the victim recently had returned from Iraq or Turkey
Mideast cholera moves to Europe
earth case, the victim became Ten countries have been struck by the epidemic, and health officials warned that the estimated total of one million Moslems returning from their annual pilgrimage to Mecca, Saudi Arabia, could spread the disease around the world.
Locally . . .
Norris Banks has been the starting fulback for the Kansas Jayhawks since he arrived on campus two years ago. During that time, Banks, now a senior, has played in the shadow of Nolan Clemon and Laverne Smith. But Banks is drawing more attention this year from the fans and KU coaching staff. He will be one of the offensive load this season, and Banks says he is ready and willing to take on that assignment. See story page six.
KU budget prepared for state director
The University of Kansas fiscal 1979 operating budget, which includes $23 million more than this year's budget, will be submitted today to the state budget director's office.
The proposed budget, which requests increases of the $83,206,060 for the Lawrence campus and $117,754,142 for the KU Medical Center, will be examined by James Bibb, state budget director, before it goes to the governor later this fall for further scrutiny.
Last summer the Board of Regents approved the KU budgets now being submitted to the governor. The governor, with several cuts in KU's original budgets, and now further cuts are expected to be made by the state budget director's office, according to officials, associate director of business affairs.
Banks
"IT IS CUSTOMARY that the budget director make severe cuts," Jones said.
But Jones said the governor and the state legislature could restore some of those cuts.
The Med Center budget includes funding for the Kansas City and Wichita campuses, and the family practice and outreach programs.
The Regents-approved 1979 operating budget totals almost $200 million, with $100,781,728 for the Med Center and $97,857,590 for the Lawrence campus.
This year's operating budgets are $900,000 for the Center and $400,000 for the average coverage.
More than $10 million also is being requested by KU for capital improvement funds for the Med Center and Lawrence campus.
**INCLUDED IN THE BUETD is a 7 per cent increase in unclassified salaries and a 10 per cent increase in student employment funds. Most of the student employment money is to meet a project budget of minimal costs, at $2.30 to $2.65, and I will create any new student jobs, Jones said.
poses the salary increases, which amount to almost $3 million for the Lawrence campus and nearly $2.2 million for the Med Center, the largest increases are requested for the expansion of base programs.
Salary increases were established by the Regents and are the same for all seven届
The Regents-approved budget request asks for about $2.3 million for the Med Center in funds to improve programs that already exist.
KU had requested more than $1.7 million for the Lawrence campus and $1.6 for the Med Center for new programs, but those centers were cut considerably by the Regents.
KU attendance unites family
By VENNIE WHITE Staff Writer
Three days a week, four members of the Ralph Garcia family design and build fantasy cars such as a batmobile, Cinderella's Coach or a vehicle that would seem at home at hortons on than on the streets of Kansas City, Kan., where it was made.
These dream cars have an earthly purpose. Profits from them put their creators through college.
On Mondays, Wednesday and Fridays, Ralph Garcia, 40, his son, Ralph Jr., 21, his daughter, Toni, 20, and Ralph Jr.'s wife, Pam, 20, leave their automobiles in Lawrence City and drive to Lawrence to attend the University of Kansas.
All four are juniors and plan to graduate together in 1979.
Ralph Sr., who has owned and operated beauty shops and taught cosmetology, said he started it all two years ago.
"I ALWAYS wanted to go to college," he said.
"And he talked the rest of us into going." Ralph Jr. said.
the four received associate degrees from Kansas City, Kan., Junior College in May.
"At first I thought KU would be too big," Toni said. "If my dad hadn't come here, the rest of us wouldn't have come."
"I told them we could handle it," Ralph Sr. said.
It took the Garcias five days to enroll.
"We had to keep waiting for each other," Pam said.
Pam and Toni are studying elementary education and arranged to take all their classes together. Father and son are studying secondary education and have all their classes together. All of them take the same history class.
The Garcias have tried to keep their family ties a secret from their classmates and their professors.
Family affair
Staff Photo by PAUL ROSE
Fountain memorials the Ralph Garcia family are on the University of Kansas campus three days a week, taking some classes together and studying with one another at night. From left, Toni, Ralph Sr., Ralph Jr. and his wife, Pam, plan to graduate in May 1979.
"WE JUST tell them we met once." Ralph Sr. said, "I'll planned for us to slip up here, make good grades and slip out unnoticed."
when the Kansan asked for an interview, the younger Garcías persuaded Ralph Sr. to accept, and he let the majority rule, he said.
Ralph Sr., wearing a red and blue KU Javhawk cap, said he liked school.
"I like the peace and tranquility of the campus, and the teachers are great. I'm enjoying everything, from introduction to Educational Psychology," he said.
He said he did not mind going to school with students half his age.
"He's just like any other kid," Toni said.
"I don't feel 40," he said. "I ride motorcycles and dune buggies and play baseball."
“BUT I sympathize, too,” Rahp Sr. said. “I know how hard of some the work is, and sometimes I think they should have a better grade than they receive.”
"The only problem with having him in my classes is that I can't say I don't have homework," Ralph Jr. said. "He's right now, and so there's no excuse for grades."
The Garcias study together every night for two hours.
"The TV goes off and we hit the books." Ralph Sr. said.
books, helpers Pam said studying together helped all of them.
There are two more Garcias at home, Ralph Sr.'s wife and their daughter, Reneta, 8.
Ralph Sr. said his wife thought it was great that he and the others were going to college, but that she was not interested in joining them.
But Reneta wants to go with her dad to KU. Some days she heads for her third grade class dressed in a KU t-shirt and KU shorts, carrying a KU bag, her fathar
sarto.
The Garcias plan to teach in Kansas City when they graduate, and Ralph Sr. is considering graduate school.
"THE KIDS don't know it yet, but in two years we'll be having another talk about that," Ralph Sr. said.
about that. Help me keep Keeping his car-loving kids in school when they are having second thoughts about it is easy, he said.
"Take Toni, for example," he said. "She has one Mustang and she wants another. I just have to induce them with a little glitter on wheels."
little gitter of woods.
For as Ralph Jr., his interest lies in '57
Chevies. He owns six or seven.