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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
83rd Year, No. 34
Friday, October 13. 1972
Friday the 13th
See story page 8
Kansas Photo by CARLA DENNIS
Cloudburst
Thursday's downpour caught many University of Kansas students without their raincoats, hats and umbrellas. Those students caught
in the rain sound quick shelter under ledges and trees, in campus buildings and doorways, and as these five students did, under the caves of the bus stop in front of the Kansas Union. Campus bus services provided students with some protection between classes and to and from the residence halls. However there still were a great number of water soaked individuals walking into classes.
$1,000 Losses Weekly
Bus Service Costs Senate
By RAYNA LANCASTER
Kansan Staff Writer
Bus service for University of Kansas students cost the Student Senate nearly $6,000 for four weeks of service during September.
Bill O'Neill, Ballwin, Mo., senior and treasurer of the Student Senate, said not enough students used the buses. Collection officials maintained the bus service this year. The balance was financed by a $2 campus privilege fee enacted last spring by the Student Senate. The privilege fee was $198,000 for the student activity fee, bringing it to $16.
THE CONTRACT now in effect allows $9.50 per hour for bus operation and, O'Neill said, the bus company is breaking even.
The Lawrence Bus Co. was first subsidized by the Student Senate in December 2014, and then a sporadation during the bad-weather months. The senate allocated $8 an hour for bus operations but, O'Neill said, this was not a cost-effective maintenance and new equipment.
"If the bus system in Lawrence chooses
to run during the summer it is their own
choice."
Senate funding of the bus system could go on indefinitely, O'Neill said. The activity fee in the summer session does not include allocations for the bus service.
Of the $16 student activity fee, $2 is used to fund the bus service, O'Neill said. This generates about $5,000, equal to the cost of accommodates the bus system will lose this year.
The senate has been losing more than $1,000 a week, O'Neill said, but the coldest months, when the buses are used most, are still ahead.
"Sometimes during January and February, we actually made money last week."
STUDENT SENATOR Jan Kessing, Junction City senior, said, "I think that one of the problems is that students particularly the ones who weren't here last year, don't realize that the fare is only 10 cents."
The bus routes mainly serve student living groups. The organized living groups are the best source of riders, O'Neill said. Apartment complexes provide fewer riders and are needed to pick up their housing at apartment houses lose the most money, he added.
No other university in the Big Eight finances their community bus service for customers.
JOHN GREEG, vice president of the CU student body, said the bus system serving Boulder, where the university is located, is losing money.
The University of Colorado has a bus service which is owned by the university and is supported entirely by collections from riders.
"The city has a separate bus system from the university and they are experiencing a tremendous loss of money. The city would build a Boiler to buy the system." Greer said.
Students at CU buy a coupon book of 15 rides for $1.
Iowa State, Missouri, Oklahoma State and Kansas State Universities have no bans
system serving the campuses. However, all but OSU have some form of free bus service from the campus to the business or the merchants or apartment house owners.
Door Doriar, director of student activities at the university, explained because the campus and business district were close to each other. A shuttle service was attempted in the past but was unreliable.
GAK 010EN, program adviser for student activities at the University of Missouri, said, "The campus buildings are there. There is no need for a bus service here."
In Columbia, Mo., approximately 10 apartment houses provide b免费 bus service for tenants from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. The merchants of Columbia also provide free transportation from the three college campuses in the city to the business center, and from the free bus services the community bus service is "in the red." Moden said,
Students of Kansas State University are provided free bus service downtown on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
AT IOWA STATE, bicycles have eliminated the need for buses during the winter when students live in Harris, president of the student body at ISU. But during the winter months last year bus transportation was provided for students in dormitories and dormitories located off the campa.
western Transportation Co. Inc., a privately owned company in Ames, Iowa, the home of Iowa State University, said Ames does not have a great need for public transportation. Midwestern is now being used as a hub for western and the Lawrence Bus companies are owned privately and therefore not eligible for federal assistance.
THE UNIVERSITY of Nebraska at Lincoln has a central and an east campus. The student body, said some kind of public transportation was necessary for students at Nebraska. The bus system they now operate is operated from dormitories and apartment houses.
George T. Fennell, manager of Mid-
The University of Oklahoma has a unique transportation system that has been very successful, according to Lee Savage, coordinator of special projects at OU. It has been so successful, in fact, that representatives from various Florida universities have joined the service" as a possible solution to a bus service for all Florida colleges.
A student pays $10 for a semester bus ticket. This is done through the campus traffic bureau Rider collections and ticket services to easily support the service, Gagne said.
The "trans-service," an open trailer in which students stand, is drawn by a jeep. It is subsidized by the university and the student senate. The service receives an $18,000 allotment from the student activity fee.
Senate to Consider Budget Ceiling Issue
WASHINGTON (AP)—The Senate Finance Committee cleared for floor debate Thursday the bill giving President Nixon unlimited power to hold federal spending to $250 billion in the current financial year. The Senate is expected to debate the bill today.
The panel failed on an 8-8 tie vote to write into the House-passed measure restrictions on the President's power to make budget cuts to stay under the $250-billion ceiling.
The President said at the White House session he considered the vote the most important of this session of Congress.
Chairman Russell B. Long, D-I.A., with his group then decided to send the measure to the Senate and let the issue of whether to limit Nixon's power be decided there.
In Atlanta, Nixon urged Senate approval of "my taxproof ceiling on spending" and declared "the financial fate of the taxpayers" now rested with the Senate.
Long predicted that a substantial number of senators would vote to place some limits on the presidential power in the floor debate.
Top administration officials opposed any such restrictions in testimony before the Finance Committee Wednesday, insisting the President must have full flexibility to make the ceiling work properly.
Nixon during the day twice applied pressure for the ceiling, once at a White House session with GOP congressional leaders, and at a political appearance, in Albuquerque.
Long said the principle of limiting the
President's authority had won eight votes in his committee although specific language was not brought up for a vote.
The spending ceiling was attached to a bill raising the national debt ceiling by $15 billion to $465 million for the remainder of the current fiscal year.
The eight senators supporting the principle of limiting the President's authority were Long; Herman E. Talmade, D-Ga.; Vance Hartke, D-Ind.;
Abraham A. Ribicoff, D-Donn; Fred R. Harry, D-Rokia, J.; William Furbight, D-Ark; Gaylord Nelson, D-Wis; and Len B. Jordan, R-Idaho.
Voting to approve unlimited authority to make reductions were Clinton P. Anderson, D-N-M; Harry F. Byrd Jr., Ind-Va.; Wallace F. Bennett, R-Utsah; Carl T. Curtis, R-Rusk; Jack Miller, R-Iowa; J. Paul, F. Jamin, R-Ariz; Clifford P Hansen, R-Wyo; and Robert P. Griffin, R-Mich.
By GARY ISAACSON Kansan Staff Writer
KU Search Committee Plans First Meeting
William Hagman of Pittsburgh, Kan., president of the Alumni Association, was appointed temporary chairman by Jess Forsyth, chairman of the Kansas Board of Regents.
The Campus Advisory Committee for the selection of a new chancellor will meet for the first time Sunday to get acquainted and to elect a permanent chairman.
"We will use the meeting to get to know each other and to discuss organization," Hagman said. "The only business transacted will be the election by a chairman."
Jacob Kleinberg, professor of chemistry and one of the faculty representatives, said he could not foresee the discussion of any procedural guidelines.
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KU Medical Center Picks Student for Search Group
A fourth student representative to the campus Advisory Committee to select a new chancellor was named Thursday by Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City.
Loveland and Trutt were selected by the Medical Center's all-student organization
Loveland said he had been on search committees at the Medical Center and at the KU Lawrence campus as an undergraduate.
"There is a definite need for Medical Center representation on the search
The student is G. Charles Loveland, Riley fourth-year medical student. An alternate member is Gary Truitt, a graduate student in pharmacology.
committee," Loveland said. "There is a need to explain how the Medical Center students see themselves as part of the University.
Loveland said he wanted the new chancellor to be a dynamic leader who would carry out programs to improve both KU campuses.
"I think I can tell the search committee about the particular problems of Medical Center students, just as the faculty members will do on the search committee," Loveland said.
The Medical Center's faculty representative and alternate on the search committee should be announced Monday, according to a spokesman for William O. Rieke, vice chancellor for health affairs
"IT IS OUR first meeting and we must use it for organization and to familiarize ourselves with each other." he said.
Kathy Allen, Topeka junior and student body vice president, agreed.
"We just have to meet and find out what each other's attitudes are," she said.
Max Bickford, executive officer of the Board of Regents and ex officio member of the campus committee, said no guidelines would be imposed on the committee other than the ones already stated. Generally, he said, the previous guidelines stated that anyone could submit nominations to either the chairman of the committee or the chairman of the Board of Regents.
THE GUIDELINES also stated that the committee must submit a list of five names to the Regents in alphabetical order so as not to show preference. The final selection will be made by the Regents' selection committee.
Stewart said he would be at the meeting Sunday to meet all the members and present the committee with a charge. He will be with the full, board on Thursday Oct. 20.
"The meeting will be informal and brief and will serve as a question and answer period for both groups," he said.
Hagman said the campus committee would meet after the meeting with the Regents.
Others on the KU committee include Dave Dillon, Hutchinson senior and student body president; Clyde Chapman, Newark, N.J., graduate student; and Ronald Caalgard and Marilyn Stokstad, associate deans of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. The alumni members are Roy A. Edwards, Kansas City, Kan.; Jordan L. Haines, Wichita; and Ned Smull, Shawne Mission.
Candidates Sift Juvenile Probate Problems
By EMERSON LYNN Kansan Staff Writer
The two candidates who are running for Douglas County probate judge agreed Thursday that an increase in the probation office staff and the establishment of a law firm would be instrumental in reducing the Lawrence juvenile delinquency problem.
At a luncheon sponsored by the Douglas County League of Women Voters, which met in the Forum Room of the Kansas Union, Republican candidate Mike Elwell spoke. Both officials agreed both said the county budget would be an obstacle to the two improvements.
Forrest Swall, head of the Douglas County Committee on Correctional Service, moderated the speeches. The two candidates spoke on the present condition of the state and upon their qualifications and the possibility of a juvenile detention center.
ELWELL, Douglas County attorney, told the audience that standards should not be unreasonably high for the staff of the probation office. If the standards were too high, the county would eliminate people who might have more initiative and understanding than others who had college degrees, he said.
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To establish consistency, applicant's qualifications should be standardized, Reed, a Lawrence lawyer, said. He agreed that staff qualifications should not be restrictive high. The office should have
Mike Elwell
the chance to choose between numerous applicants, he said.
THE PERSON who hopes to become a part of the probation staff must be able to cope with the frustrations of the job, Reed said. The individual must be one of a stable character and one who has had background in dealing with people. Qualifications such as these do not require the applicant to have a degree, he said.
"Contrary to what other people may think, I think that even with the present, low salary we would be able to find able personnel who could handle the responsibilities touched the personnel resources at the University of Kansas." Reed said.
Personnel in the probation office make judgment decisions daily, Elwell said. Common sense and an ability to deal with difficult situations to handle the demands of the office work.
"I THINK it is obvious that the salary is not enough for the quality of person we are asking for." Elwell said, "but we have a budget problem.
“If we add a person to our staff, we have to reduce salaries. If we don't add to the present staff we are difficult as effective as we should be. It's a difficult dilemma.”
In the probation office the child is cared for only while the court is making a decision, Elwell said. After the child is released, contact with him is lost.
"We had 694 juvenile offenses last year
"We need a probation officer who has the time to counsel the juvenile when he is being placed in custody."
concerning 311 juveniles. Reed said, "We need at least one more probation officer to help."
ONCE A JUVENILE is taken into custody, the problem arises of separating the juvenile offenders from the adult offenders. The evidence needs a detention center, he said.
"So many people think we are taking the juvenile out of society to protect ourselves," Ewell said. "We have to reverse this trend of thought. The detention center for juveniles would certainly be beneficial in accomplishing this."
The problem of financing a detention center is the same as that of raising the salary of the probation staff; the budget is too tight, he said.
It would be more economically feasible to incorporate the detention center in a future complex, he said. In his opinion, Lawrence should solve the problem by developing the basement of the jail into a suitable room for the juveniles.
"We need a modern, well-staffed place to keep the juveniles," Reed said. "Some place completely away from the adults. This should not be a correction center,
REED AGREED with the proposition for a detention center for juveniles but said he thought waiting for a complex to accompany the center would be too time
simply a suitable place to keep the invenients until the time of their hearings.
"I think the Lawrence citizens should be quick about it. I can't see placing children in jail any longer than is absolutely necessary."
Herman K. Reed