KANSAN
83rd Year, No.28
The University of Kansas—Lawrence Kansas
Bicentennial Hall Proposed For Clinton Lake
Thursday, October 5, 1972
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Limits Urged On Population, Raw Materials
WASHINGTON (AP) - Reporting under government contract, a scientific panel Wednesday urged that the United States regulate and its consumption of resources.
It said the nation, already heavily dependent on foreign raw materials, must shift its industrial base to materials from minerals and massive mineral crusts within decades.
The panel needed its employer, the National Commission on Materials Policy, accusing it of ignoring the demand factor and the risk of energy crises in energy and raw materials.
It noted that the commission's interim report of last April "nowhere alludes to the existence of any such matter."
BUT THE panel, drawn from the National Academy of Sciences, said it that the difficulties imposed by growing U.S. cities and populations pervade all areas.
In midder terms, the U.S. scientific panel aligned itself with the general thrust of the "Club of Rome" report and British research on Survival," both published last January.
It also said, "There can be no effective national or international materials policy" that evades the relationship between national demand and environmental impact.
The Club of Rome, a group of international scientists and economists, predicted the collapse of modern industrial society unless population growth and material consumption are stabilized within the next few decades.
THE U.S. National Commission on Materials Policy was appointed in 1971 with the mission of recommending a new president and Congress by June 30, 1973.
The commission issued an interim report identifying at least 36 issues in the area of materials supply problems, but it noted the list might be incomplete, and it contracted with the National Research Council for another study of issues.
That study, now published, said, "There was but small support in the panel for the view that market forces alone will solve the foreseeable problems."
IT SAID appropriate governmental incentives and controls should be applied to increase production to meet the needs of unavoidable population growth, but at the same time convert the economy in the long run to a no-growth stability.
The report said the United States is already heavily dependent and is becoming ever more dependent, on foreign sources for its raw materials.
Kapsen Photo by MALCOLM TURNER
James Gunn's novel "The Reluctant Witch" currently is being filmed by Curtis Hemsley.
campus, Dallas Curtis (left), unit director, Bob Birchall, director of photography, and Hal Reed, assistant cameraman (right), were shooting the opening shots Wednesday. After the opening shots have been taken the production crew will assemble in the Ozarks for three or four weeks. The crew will return to KU to finish the film.
KU Enrollment Decreases by 272; Drop May Cause $750,000 Loss
By GARY ISAACSON Kansan Staff Writer
The University of Kansas could lose $750,000 or more as a result of a decline in enrollment, according to Raymond Nichols, acting chancellor.
fall enrollment figures released Wednesday by Registrar William L. Kelly showed a total of 18,246 students enrolled on the Lawrence Campus. This figure represents a decline of 272 from a comparable figure for the fall of 1971.
Nichols said the decline was caused in part by students not returning to school so they could "rethink their goals and life plans."
"IF *SOME* additional funds come in, although I don't know where from, the freeze will be relaxed or possibly lifted comelylv." he said.
Because of this loss in expected revenue, Nichols has instituted a freeze on hiring and equipment purchases. Nichols said the would be in effect as long as it was needed.
Half of the shortage will be covered by funds the University had carried forward from last year. Not all the fees collected last year were spent, Nichols said, because a Kansas Board of Regents limit on the number of student fees. He gave no specific figures.
John Conard, director of University relations, said the University had hired teachers last year on the basis of projectored enrollment figures. He said if resignations of personnel did not occur in the right places, there might have to be some lay-offs.
*"Students, especially part-time students, are not carrying as many bags."*
NICHLOS SAID part of the loss of money was due to a lower average fee paid per annum.
Nichols said that the average had been down for the last two years but that the
regents last year may have been unusual. Nichols said the University had been told to wait to see whether it was a definite trend.
Keith Nitcher, vice canceller for business affairs, agreed with Nichols' $750,000 estimate although he said the final figures had not been computed.
Although the total enrollment figure showed a decline, Kelly said, the figure for "full-time equivalent" (FTE) students this fall was higher. The FTE total is obtained by dividing the total number of credit hours being taken by 15, which is considered a full-time load. The FTE figure increased by six.
The number of students in each school is: College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, 108; Education, 106; Education, 104; Engineering, 918; Fine Arts, 1,042; Journalism, 523; Law, 481; Pharmacy, 257; Social Welfare, 346; Intensive English, 108; special schools, 541;
"The Chancellor's estimate is definitely not a high guess, as the final figures may be."
IN ADDITION, the number of new freshmen enrolled increased from 2,613 in 1971 to 2,643 this fall. The number of women on campus rose arose, from 7,223 last fall to 7,833.
Because of the loss, Nitcher said, the University would present its case at a later date to the Board of Regents for a readjustment in state funding.
NITCHER EXPLAINED that the state provided funding and the University provided an upfront payment upon collection of fees. Because of the decline in enrollment, the actual fee collection fell short of the projection and this was where the loss came from, Nitchers said.
The biggest loss came in the School of Education in which enrollment was down by 58 percent.
Kelly said some students were enrolled
in more than one school. This explains why the total enrollment figure is different from the total when the numbers of students in each school are added.
Senate Defers Plans For Welfare Reform
WASHINGTON (AP)—The Senate voted Wednesday to test three welfare reform plans rather than put any of them into effect, apparently shelving the subject for years.
It adopted 46 to 40 an amendment of Sen. William V. Roth, R-Del., to knock out of the Social Security-welfare bill the work of the proposed bill with a test of it and two rival plans.
Then it defeated 50 to 35 an attempt to nullify the Roth proposal and adopt instead a Family Assistance Plan similar to that sponsored by President Nixon.
Republican Leader Hugh Scott of Pennsylvania backed this amendment, saying it was very close to the administration plan.
But Sen. Russell B. Long, D-La., floor manager for the bill, said White House liaison men had told him Nixon opposed this effort.
With the prolonged fight over welfare reform apparently over, although the basic issue remains unsettled, it seemed that the opposition would massive billy by the end of the week.
It contains dozens of Social Security,
Medicare and welfare benefit provisions.
The Roth amendment could delay for five to eight years any action to reform the Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program.
AFDC is by far the largest of the welfare programs. Its rolla have tripled in the last year.
The vote was a defeat for the administration, which strongly opposed the
Long and Sen, Wallace F. Bennett, RUtah, the chief sponsors of workfare, said they had hoped to get it through but had been defeated by the Senate would not adopt it at this time.
It also was a defeat for the conservative
finance Committee, which drafted work
on it.
Therefore, they supported the Roth amendment.
Elliot L. R. Richardson, secretary of health, education and welfare, said it is necessary to conduct at least two years to conduct them. The amendment would allow up to four years, a year to evaluate the results and draft legislation and a year or two for Congress to act.
The tests would be supervised by HEW, which would reach agreements with the states on them. The states actually operate independently and they would cover an entire state or a part of one.
Besides workfare, the tests would cover Nixon's Family Assistance Plan and a liberalized version of it sponsored by Sen. Abraham A. Ribieoff. D-Conn.
Nixon's plan would fix a guarantee annual income of at least $2,400 for a family of four and for the first time documentary payments to the work app.
The workforce plan would require many parents on the ADFC plan to take jobs with them.
Rubicoff's plan, defended Monday, would set guaranteed income at $2,600 and give workers a 10% tax credit.
Republicans for: Bellmon, Okla;
Curtis, Neb.; Dole, Kane; Hruska, Neb.
Democrats for the amendment:
Swiminton, Mo.
republicans for: Bellmon, Okla.; Curtis, Neb.; Dole, Kane; Hruska, Neo. Democrats against: Eagleton, Mo.; Harris, Okla.: Hughes, Iowa.
Group Delays Action On Charge by Demos
Republicans against: Miller, Iowa; Pearson, Kan.
By MIKE BAUER Kansan Staff Writer
The University Events Committee deferred action Wednesday on a charge by local Democratic organizations that a 1968 Board of Regents proposal limiting
Senate Approves Petition For Mandatory Evaluation
By JOHN PIKE Kansan Staff Writer
The Student Senate passed a petition to the University Senate Wednesday night calling for mandatory use of the computer on Survey (CIS) by the srine 1973 semester.
The petition, sponsored by Alex Thomopoulos, Sapelle, Nigeria graduate student and chairman of the Senate Academic Affairs Committee, asked that the CIS, as a co-administrator the CIS, using one of three options available for handling the results.
One option would return the results to the faculty member, the departmental chairman and the dean of the school. It would also return the results in the CIS publication. Feedback
A SECOND OPTION would return the results to the same persons as in the first option, but would not allow printing the results in Feedback.
The third option would return the results only to the faculty member.
Nancy Harper, Lawrence graduate student and director of CLS, addressed the issue of how to keep students healthy.
of the CIS possibly would be started on just one level of the University, such as one or more of the colleges. She said mandatory use of the CIS, with the three options, would follow at other levels until the program was used by the entire University.
THOMOPULOS said he introduced his petition because he felt the CIS was of little value in its present voluntary form. He said the CIS must become mandatory or the Senate allocation for its operation should be used elsewhere.
The Senate also voted to pay a salary of $80 per month to the chairmen of the Student Executive Committee (StudEx). The move went against the recommendation of the Senate Finance and Auditing Committee.
David Dillon, Hutchinson senior and Student Body president, sponsored the bill.
Dillon said the amount of time required of the StudEx chairman warranted the salary, particularly since Dillon and Lee had been hired as president of the Student Body, were in-
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political campaigning on campus is unconstitutional.
Carroll Grant, associate professor of constitutional law who represented the McGovern-Shriver organization at the Supreme Court, insisted prohibited freedom of speech.
The committee, which must approve all events requiring solicitation of money, refused to allow the collection because it was "against the Regents' proposal."
THE PROPOSAL says that state facilities are not available and-rising rates of unemployment political events could be held at the University if they are restricted elsewhere.
The controversy began when the McGovern-Shriver organization was not allowed recently to set up a table in the Department of Union to collect campaign donations.
The proposal also states that political office holders and candidates cannot be introduced or recognized on campus, participating in a campus-sponsored event.
Distribution of handbells and other advertisements is banned inside buildings in which public events are held. The Regents' guidelines, which prohibit the display of any adornment or permission of the committee, are clarified further in "Insight", a student bookbook.
THE GUIDELINES were established in 1968 when minegraphing and stenclining equipment were used for political handouts.
Grant said, "Freedom of speech is a preferred right, and freedom of political expression is a fundamental right."
and to the committee, "You are
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Ralston Stresses Power of Music
Editor's Note: This is the seventh in a series of lessons with the 10 HOPE award sealments.
By JIM KENDELL Kansan Staff Writer
Ralston graduated from the University of Kansas in 1952 with a bachelor's degree in music education and became choral director in 1966.
"I think it's probably my job as a conductor to reveal the true beauty and power of the music we're working on," James Kelley wrote in a chocolate and director of choral music, said.
He currently directs a section of the University Chorus, a nonaudition choir; the University Singers, a freshman chorus; the New York Choir. The best singers in choral music.
"The whole idea really is to allow my student to be creative in certain way." Risky.
RALSTON Said that there was a need or people to say express themselves and that man should have the right.
The underlying power of music is nonverbal, Ralston said, so people don't have to overcome the communication barriers inherent in words.
"Music, because of its 'ongoining' and its system of tension and release reflects most adequately the rhythmic cycle of life as Alston said. "Everything we do is rhythmic."
"The beauty of music is in that moment of great tension before the release."
IN PREPARING a piece of music for concert, Ralston takes it through two stages. First the singers learn the score, then they tone and the dynamics—the mechanics.
"I think music educators, if they're worth their salt, will so inspire their students, it won't be a problem," he said.
Then the difficult work begins—finding
the source of beauty and power in the
soul.
Ralston said that motivating his students was not a serious problem.
RALSTON RELIES on attendance to determine grades. He said the people in choirs really wanted to be there, because of the time choirs required.
He figures that anyone who has time to give, probably or near the top here, is more likely to
Ralston grew up in Columbia, Mo. As a paperboy for the Columbian, the student paper of the University of Missouri, he dreamed of working for a newspaper.
During his sophomore year at KU he noted that he was getting *k*/s in music and the band was playing well.
"I discovered that the most rewarding aspect of music for me was teaching it,"
AFTER GRADUATION Ralston spent
three and a half years in the Navy and was in the Korean War.
In 1986, he received his master's degree in music education from KU. Then he went on to teach choral music at a high school in Kansas City, Kan.
Ralston is still in the process of working on his doctorate. So his official title is *M.D.*.
In 1962, Ralston returned to KU to work on his docterate. In the fall of 1963, he became assistant director of choral music, and in the fall of 1966, he became director.
When Ralston came to KU, there were two University choruses and one chair. Now there are two University choruses and four chairs.
'MY PROBLEM right now is more support for materials,' he said.
Since he came to KU, Ralston has also instituted a master's degree program in choral conducting and is considering a doctoral program.
Ralston is also frustrated by salaries and the lack of response to the University
Last spring he requested 6000 from the Student Senate to purchase music for the mass choir concerts held once a semester in Hoch Auditorium, but was turned down.
He said the University Chorus offered a unique opportunity for people to sing a major choral work without trying out. Ralston said that the idea of singing a
large piece and only one piece possibly scared people away.
He is considering having the mass chorus sing several shorter compositions to suit the audience.
Ralston wondered whether the choral department was filling people's needs to get more people into church.
Ralston have never used Feedback, KU's system of student evaluation of teachers, because he thought it was more applicable to other types of classes.
James Ralston