University Daily Kansan
Tuesday, November 21, 1972
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Kansan Photo by CARLA DENNES
Some Old Movies Do as Well at Box Offices as New Ones
School Board Approves KU Teacher Proposal
By PAT BREITENSTEIN Konson Staff Writer
A University of Kansas teacher corps proposal was authorized by the Lawrence Unified School District 497 Board of Education at its meeting Monday night.
The proposal, which previously has been endorsed by the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce, will be examined by the Office of Education. Its decision on the proposal will be made known sometime in February 1973.
THE KU PROPOSAL will require the cooperation of the Lawrence school district and the Kansas City, Mo., school district, he said.
If the Office of Education approves the plan, could you go into effect during the summer program?
David Kendall, assistant superintendent in charge of instruction and personnel, said Monday, that the teacher corps program, sponsored by the U.S. Office of Education, was designed to improve the characteristics of classroom teachers in urban areas.
The proposal was designed by a KU professor, Evelyn Swartz, professor of education, in conjunction with Lemon Caps, the founder of the Jolla Foundation and Joanne Hart, a Laptop resident.
At its meeting the board of education also approved a tentative list of projects to be financed by the special capital outlays building fund for the 1972-1973 school year. The budget was financed by a special mill levy and can be used only for permanent capital improvements.
The entire list of proposed expenditures for the fund included 48 items. However, the
LHS Considers 6 for Principal
A series of six interviews with prospective replacements for Bill Medley, departing Lawrence High School principal, are continuing on schedule, Carl Knox, Lawrence school superintendent, said Monday.
The interviews began last Tuesday and will not be completed until Nov. 27.
Knox and two assistants considered the qualifications of several applicants for the position. In 2018, Knox
No date has been set for the final selection, said Knox.
The six applicants under consideration were well-qualified, and the new principal was selected from them, Knox said last week. However, he lacked the necessary ability to make a commitment at this time.
He said he hoped that the new principal begin work as principal at January 23, 2014.
The superintendent's office has a commitment to find the right person, rather than a commitment to make the selection on a specific date, he said.
The interviews with the six applicants would last approximately eight hours each and include sessions with the Lawrence Hill School faculty student-faculty committee, Knox said.
board was forced to choose 2 of these for action this year because of the limitation on
FUNDS AVAILABLE for expenditure this year totaled $214,550. The items that could be allocated to the long term are 16,700 to be added to $9,000 already allocated for long range planning and $10,000 for replacement of curtains and backdrops on the stages of several buildings
Also included were; $12,000 for repair and
upkeep of blacktop parking areas; $15,000 to
keep the district paint crews operating and
to general repair of district buildings.
Included also was $8,000 for repair of roofs on 21st district school buildings; $12,450 for an offset press and photo plate maker for use in the administration center; $16,450 for a small engine repair building; and $9,000 for a vertical milling machine.
The board also viewed a video tape display of vocational education programs used at Lawrence High School. The display includes an image of productive agriculture and data processing.
Some of the board members suggested that the class members in landscaping could be utilized in maintenance of the grounds around Lawrence High School. The Lawrence High School landscaping institute working with only a few students but might prove unfeasible if the entire class was used.
The board took under consideration the possibility that the growth of women's sports would require additional funding. John Spearman, board member, suggested that the board give consideration to the diversity of varsity athletics for men and women.
THE VIDEO display revealed that the emphasis in productive agricultural training may change from farming to horticulture and landscaping. The display said that the construction of Clinton Reservoir and the continued growth of the reservoir will also demand an amount of good farm land available in the immediate area. The same urban growth will provide an increasing number of jobs in landscaping.
By ALBERT SWAINSTON Kansan Staff Writer
"Olldies but好edses" is a term that can be applied to old movies for more than one reason. From the standpoint of popularity, "Dr. Zhivago" and "three local theatres agreed that the better old movies such as "Gone with the Wind" or "Dr. Zhivago" do as well at the box office as "The Shining."
Oldies but Goodies Attract Crowds
Jones went on to describe the survey that the local theatres were conducting. He said that there were sheets available in the lobby with questions about the methods of advertising, the show times the theatre used and suggestions for movies. In response to those questions, he watched the movies. Jones said he was expecting to get some of these films possibly in January.
Dave Jones, manager of the Hillcrest Theatre gave the other reason for the popularity of old movies. He said the old movie theater was a great place which generation can see; they're timeless."
He said the Varsity had more old movies planned, but that it was hard to say when they would be run because the theatre movies only two weeks ahead of time.
THE MANAGER OF the Varsity Theatre, Bob Callstrom, differed with Jones on the reasons for popularity. Callstrom said the current popularity of old movies depended on the popularity of the movie when it was released the first time.
"When it (the popularity) falls off it will be sold to TV." Callstrom said.
According to Roberts one of the reasons for running old movies in the fall is that there are fewer new movies to choose from than earlier in the year. He said that March films were better months for new pictures and that they played the theatres "run out of things to run."
Children shows are run by all three theatres but the Granada runs more of them since it has the M.G.M. series of children's movies. Roberts said the Granada ran afternoon shows on Saturday and Sunday for the series. Roberts called the response "exciting," even though their own," but that the crowds were not near as large as crowds for adult movies.
Ulysses White, Lawrence graduate student and a black member of Air Force at Marine Corps, told me why the number of minority officers was so low. The reasons, he said, are the increase in opportunities for minorities in civilian occupations and the away from the military life by minorities.
2 KU Students in Fair Condition After Car-Truck Crash Saturday
Roberts said Friday that the first show had a very good attendance, but that he would have to wait until the second show to make any decisions on the total turnover.
White said he thought the Navy and the Air Force ROTC were "bending over backwards" to establish programs that were a cross-section of all American backgrounds.
Gresham, Swaney and Jones pointed to accelerated recruiting of minorities and the recognition of their specialized needs as evidence of the steps they were taking. Yet the KU ROTC's have found the number of minorities in their ranks low.
The Granada Theatre is showing "Funny Girl."irl," which assistant manager Mike Roberts described as "really popular when it came out the first time."
All three ROTC programs at KU are actively seeking black and other minority members, Swaney said. He said the reason for the scarcity of minority officers was that the military had too much competition from civilian jobs.
GRESHAM SAID THE accelerated recruiting was not something one could see results in immediately, but that he thought the KU program was doing well. He said there were "pros and cons" as ethnic minorities have shown interest in joining the Air Force ROTC next year.
When asked about new movies all three
agreed that there had not been a drop
in the number of films.
The officers said that this year there were 11 students from minority groups out of 148 Navy ROTC students, eight out of 100 Air Force ROTC students, and one out of 65 Army ROTC students.
THE OTHER TWO theatres said they did
children's show at time of
epaion, gave social workshops.
ROBERTS REJECTED the nostalgia theory as the reason people go to old movies. He said people would go to a movie they enjoyed the first time they saw it.
In an effort to increase the number of minority officers, ROTC programs representing the Air Force, Army and Navy have been established on several predominately black college and university campuses.
JONES SAID THAT about three years ago efforts to recruit and promote black officers in the Navy rose from 194 in 1962 to 57 in 1972, but this was still less than 1 per cent of the population.
Jones said that some movies would not be big box office sellers despite the amounts of money spent and the reputation of the actors in the movies. To support his
WHITE SAID HE thought the Air 10r
and Navy were making the greatest at-
Both the Army and Air Force also have established minority affairs officers, according to Capt. Jack Swaney, assistant professor and minority officer for Army and major J. E. C. Gresham, assistant professor and recruiting officer for Air Force ROTC
Two University of Kansas students were reported in fair condition Monday night at Lawrence Memorial Hospital following a car-truck collision Saturday night at the intersection of 19th and Iowa streets which claimed the life of one person.
In the past three years, the Naval commanding officers have been issued orders to appoint a minority affairs officer to act as a deputy commissioner and the commanding officers, Jones said.
Callstrom had bad acting could be covered up in some movies by a good story and filming. He also said there was less schooling and work by some of the actors in his films. Callstrom has not noticed any overt drop in the quality of the newer movies, he said.
The two students, Angelos Pharmakidis,
Nea Smyrna, Greece, graduate student, and
Efex Galacatos, Bogota, Colombia, special
student, were passengers in a car driven by
Solitro Lallos, 34, Beechwood, Ohio who
was pronounced dead at the scene.
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Military Extends Minority Drive
Roberts said. He used "Butterflies are Free" as an example of this need. Roberts said that the first week in Lawrence the movie was doing poorly at the box office, but that it picked up during its second week to become one of the most popular of the movies. He said that the word he had to spread around that the movie really was worth seeing.
An outbreak of racial staircase earlier this month aboard three U.S. Naval vessels has caused military commanders to take a closer look at the equal opportunity problem of the military, according to three University of Kansas ROOT administrative officers.
ROBERTS SAID he had not noticed any drop in the quality of the newer movies, but he believed that film quality and acting as reasons. He said there still were some actors that had little skill.
Commander C. B. Jones, associate professor of Navy ROTC, said that Admiral Elrom R. Zumwalt, Jr., chief of U.S. naval operations, issued orders in 1970 demanding that the commanding officers of all units should provide equal opportunity for all men.
Kansan Staff Writer
To be able to judge movies a person has to be exposed to many films in order to appraise their value.
Mass. Street to Miss Bright Lights, Tinsel
statement, Jones cited the example of Cheopatra. The spent millions and it
seemed to be a problem.
p. m. when the car driven by Lallosa, west bound on 19th Street, failed to yield to a stop sign and attempted to cross Iowa Street, police reported.
So far, the best box office movie of the semester has been "The Godfather," which played at the Hillcrest, where Jones said it broke all records for attendance.
BY DIANE YEAMANS Kansan Staff Writer
At the Granda the best attended film this semester has been "Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex But Were Afraid to Ask" with Woody Allen. That movie was followed closely by "Butterflies Are Free."
The car was struck broadside by a tractor-trailer truck south bound on Iowa Street driven by Robert D. Boyke, 25, Ottawa.
Although Massachusetts Street in downtown Lawrence will lack the Christ-mas frills it has known in past holiday seasons, shoppers still can enjoy the merchandise that always seem to appear for the day-after-Thanksgiving sale.
Boyke suffered a bruised arm, police reported.
The accident occurred at approximately 7
A Douglas County deputy sheriff, Randall Pine, applied mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to Lalloas at the Scene. Lalloos was pronounced dead at the scene by deputy Douglas County Coroner Dr. Alan Sanders, who attributed the death to a skull fracture.
Pharmakidis, 34, suffered fractures of both arms and legs and a skull fracture, and one foot was broken.
temps to improve relations and numbers in both women and ethnic recruits.
"It isn't something you're going to see a change in overnight, but I think it will eventually prove advantageous," White said.
White said many black people were not aware of the opportunities offered by the merchant.
The KU Air Force ROTC was preparing high school visitation programs for the near future. White said that he planned to pay visits to some of the predominantly black high schools to make members of the minority groups aware of the opportunities
of BOTC
Gresham said that education programs for minorities had been established in all branches of the service, and that these programs were designed to prepare minority members for competition to enter the officer training programs.
WHILE THE UK Air Force ROTC does not have such a program, Gresham said, they have recognized that a test administered to ROTC recruits is "culturally biased."
Because of this, an allowance is made for minority class members. They do not have to get as high a qualifying score as middle-class whites, Gresham said.
FBI Searching . . .
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Burgess said the car did not belong to a student or faculty member.
The FBI gave receipts to persons claiming to own the items, Burgess said. No arrests have been made, according to Young.
Burgess said the administration and students reportedly had been informed last week by the FBI of the investigation and search warrants.
MANY OF THE students sympathized with the AIM objectives, Ronald Johnson, student body president, said, but did not suggest that the organizations the organization took in Washington.
No follow-up groups have been formed or petitions circulated concerning future decisions.
Johnson said he thought some students were already feeling repercussions from the Washington incident. A few local grants and funds may be provided, and some may possibly be reduced, he said.
"There hasn't been a total freeze on things coming out of the BIA," Johnson said, "but there has been a lot of confusion."
Wallace Galluzzi, a spokesman, said he thought all degrees of support and opposition to AIM were held by students, but the group says they say what forms their responses will take.
Galluzzi said he had been notified of the FBI investigations as "a matter of courtesy" but was not sure if they had found any evidence in use of conflicting reports he had received.
A note was mailed to all members in the association asking them to decorate stores and store fronts as much as possible to make up for the lack of street decoration. All stores did not need a note to tell them to decorate their stores as they have done for years.
Whitenight said the association had planned to light the trees along Massachusetts Street except that they also had not been installed.
Gibson's Discount Center simply was late in getting its merchandise out, said Vera Ternsberg.
The Christmas decorations that were planned by the association, Pete Whitenight, president, said, were to be connected to the high-density lights that were installed at the intersections because of some imperfections in the light pole's construction.
The Thanksgiving holiday traditionally has begun the Christmas season for merchants although their preparations began months earlier.
"Every store in a 75-mile radius has had its merchandise out since October," she said. "We checked this out and we were one of the last ones."
Christmas bells and Santa Claus started up in some of the stores as early as the 1920s.
The Downtown Lawrence Association, which usually coordinates the downtown Christmas decorating, was told last week by officials of the Constant Construction Co. that because the construction was not completed, the decorations could not be displayed.
Even then, Weil Reichman, manager of the F. W. Woolworth stores, said some of them would be cut.
The display of Christmas merchandise begins so early because of the early demand for certain items, according to several Lawrence merchants.
"They should be here by now." Reichman said. "They usually get here the first part of November. As soon as they come in, we'll put them out."
KU Project Monitors Air Pollution
The Nov. 20 deadline for sending packages and cards overseas forces many people to begin their Christmas shopping early.
Kansan Staff Writer
He said that in the next two to three years he should know whether changes were taken.
Compared with other cities, Lawrence is relatively free of air pollution, but it is in the midst of a region of industrial growth and, therefore, susceptible to air pollution.
Because of this, the Corridor Air Pollution project was begun 18 months ago to monitor
Robert J. Eastmond, visiting assistant professor of botany and principal investigator for the project, said that the work during the first 18-month period had been in the exploratory stage and that results were just starting to come in.
By LINDA DOHERTY
By observing a relatively clear area over a long period of time and by keeping track of the changes that occur, Barr said, it should be possible to determine before any serious damage is done to the environment, because pollution is going to cause pollution problems.
In the Corridor Air Pollution project the amount of pollution is measured and the climatic effects are observed in a 6,000-ha plot. The site is Topkaka, Levenworth and Baldwin.
"We don't want to frustrate economic growth, but we would like to see the area maintain a good quality environment." B. G. Barr, professor of mechanical engineering and one of the project designers, said recently.
The project was designed, Barr said, to rest some of the concerns about pollution in students.
"THE MAIN WIND is to come up with alternative courses of action," he said. "We hope that our data will be sufficient so we can act in a reasonable advisory capacity."
Barr said he and several other professors designed the project about two years ago when ecological concern culminated in Earth Day.
This 6,000 square area was chosen, Barr said, because there is a national need to look at clean-air regions in the country to observe long range effects of industry.
"WE HOPE TO KEEP this project going forward," he said. "We years ago were looking at subtle changes in the agency Barr said. "We want to look at the facts about the granting and their effects on the program."
"Three of us had some concern about the economic development of the Lawrence area and we wanted to see what part the University would play in this," Barr said.
"Iawrence is the smallest of three urban areas in the project and the pollution levels here are relatively low. In fact, they are more harmful than any instrument by our instruments." Eastmond said.
JOE EAGLEMAN, associate professor of geography and project investigator for the atmospheric science section of the project, said the instruments used for the project
were loaded into a station wagon that was driven to different areas to take meals.
The instruments register fine particles. They read the amount of sulfur dioxide, a product of coal burning usually found in industrial areas, and carbon monoxide levels from automobile exhausts, Eagleman said.
"We hope to gain information not only on what the pollution levels are, but also on what effects they may have on urban environment," he said.
Committee for CWC Study To Be Announced Today
Members of an ad hoc committee to study the Colleges-within-a College, will be announced at the College Assembly meeting at the In Forum Room of the Kansas Union.
The CWC committee was appointed by George Wagdon, dean of the College of Engineering, to recommend made at the October meeting of the assembly. The CWC committee report is scheduled to be presented to the faculty before the end of the 1972-73 academic year.
In other business, the Committee on Evaluation and Advancement of Instruction (CEA) will present a proposed policy for experimental programs in the College.
proposal, which states the evaluation plan and schedule for development of each experimental program, be presented to the mittee and, if approved, the mittee also suggests that an advisory panel of assembly members be appointed for each new program. These guidelines will help to ensure the support and success of experiments within the College, according to the CEAI.
A report by the College Interim Comitee on Graduate Studies will also be presented at the meeting today. The report sent Oct. 2 to William Argeringer, vicium study for resale and graduate studies utilizing the graduate treatment to Task Force II, a proposed plan for the decentralization of graduate studies at the University.
Kansan Deadline Nov. 27
One week remains to submit applications for the position of editor and business manager of the Kansan for the spring semester.
Deadline for completed forms is noon Nov. 27. Forms should be given to Dana Leibengood, assistant dean of the School of Journalism. 105 Flint.
Application forms may be obtained in
the Student Senate office, the dean of men's and dean of women's offices or in 105 Flint.
Interviews and selection by the Kansan Board will be Nov. 28. The remaining staff positions will be the new editor and business manager.