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University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
KANSAN
The University Daily
Monday, October 19, 1981 Vol.92, No.41 USPS 650-640
Coleman says criticism exaggerated
Bert Coleman
By MICHAEL ROBINSON Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
Student Body President Bert Coleman thinks that he is doing a good job representing KU students and that criticism of his actions has been sensationalized, he said in an interview Saturday.
"I've been elected to represent their (students)'s best interest and I try to," Coleman said. "I think I do a pretty good job."
Coleman was responding to charges made during the past few weeks that he was trying to suppress a Student Senate bill on ballot boxes and keep it in keeping his office or attending meetings.
One senator had said that Coleman was only spending "about 20 minutes a week" at his office and another senator had said that he was "plaving politics" with the ballot box bill.
Coleman denied both charges and said that he was doing his best to protect student interests.
"I don't consider myself a political person or even a politician," he said. "I's a student who's been told to stay out."
Coleman said that he had a good relationship with the University administration as a whole and with most student senators, but that he always have differences with some of them.
"I'm not always going to get along with the administration," he said, "and I'm not always going to always get along with some students."
He said several University Daily Kansan articles had made those differences seem more real.
"I'm not so sure there's been criticism levied against me," Coleman said. "It seems as though it's been sensationalized. The things that have been talked about are petty things."
He said that after talking to senators who were at the Student Senate Executive Committee meetings where he was criticized, he didn't understand the man accounts of those meetings were accurate.
"Whenever you’re in politics, you're open for public scrutiny," he said. "There will always be a threat."
"All I care about is doing a good job. I don't care about newsprint."
Coleman said he considered his presidency successful so far.
"I've made some mistakes, but everybody would. I'm human. I'm a guy. I'm a person."
"I'm a student, and I don't think I'm different from any other student," he said. "I have some successes, and I have some failures.
"I do my job. I don't do it perfectly, and don't expect me to. Anybody who does is just dreaming."
Coleman said that he not only spent time in his Kansas Union office, but that he also spent time going to different meetings around the state.
"On the average I probably spend 15 hours a week in the office, said, and that doesn't seem to be true."
"Just because I'm not pounding the pavement 2 hours a day doesn't mean I'm not worrying 24 hours a day."
Coleman had said earlier that he would veto Bill 022 and Bill 021, another that would have taken all ballot boxes out of living groups during elections, if either one passed.
Bill 021 was defeated at the last Student Senate meeting, but Bill 022 will be considered at a special Senate meeting scheduled for Wednesday.
"I thought that together they were kind of sad," she said. "I think we need to work on it." "Now he has second (022) has some marmalade."
"The feeling that I got was that there wasn't a need (for a change), but maybe there is a need."
Coleman said that the bill would need to be amended so that there would be enough ballot boxes to distribute throughout the city and enough neocole to staff the boxes.
"They (Senate) not should only pass it," he said, "but make it so that it can really happen."
He said he had always agreed with the principle of the bill.
Faculty,family members upset over Robinson fee
About the charge that he was trying to protect Greek interests by stopping the bills, Coleman said, "I don't think that's true. In fact, it isn't true.
"I was just doing what I thought was best for the students, I mean, that's my job."
By SHARON APPELBAUM
Staff Reporter
Some faculty members' tempers haven't quite cooled where Robinson Center is concerned.
University governance, administrators and athletics specialists still receive a few faculty specialties.
The problem?
Since last fall, faculty members have had to pay a fee for their families to use the facilit es at
"We had one little faculty benefit where the family could participate," James Seaver, a member of the University Senate executive committee, said yesterday.
"All of a sudden, the fee was put on."
“There’s been a number of letters to SenXen
asking why we must pay a fee for families,” he
Torn Wilkerson, director of recreational services, said the fee was imposed after visitors'
While faculty and staff can use the facility free charge, you must pay $15 a year if they want your computer $100 long term.
"Faculty family members had two hours of
classes and all families were allowed.
It was 4:46 on Sundays."
With the new Robinson addition, visitors are allowed to use the gym on Tuesday and Thursday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
"When you expand with 10 times more hours, someone has to pay," he said.
The money goes to operate the building and replace equipment, he said.
"That's why we have enough to keep the weight room in good condition."
Students pay $2.55 of the activity fee for recreation activities, and some of that goes to charity.
The amount for the family fee was based on the
student price, taking the average family size of two children per family. Wilkerson said.
Robert Cobb, executive vice chancellor, said he still heard a few complaints, but thought the fee was justified.
"It's not a fee I rejoice at, but it's the best of a set of options."
Cobb had told a University Council meeting earlier this month that the fee could be eliminated, but to make up for the lost money, he would have to be closed evenings or weekends.
Seaver said some of the faculty's anger may not be due to the cost of the fee, but the way it feels is
"There wouldn't be as much furor if it had gone through the proper channels," he said.
Last year, the department of health, physical education and recreation proposed the fee, the office of academic affairs approved it, and Cobb "rebutably" approved it.
But at last Friday's SenEx meeting, member George Worth said, "On the method of handling it, they ate crow last year. No one should be forced to eat crow."
Seaver said he still hoped to improve communication with Robinson officials. He plans to observe the next meeting of the Recreation Advisory Board.
The board formed last year, includes student, faculty and athletic representatives.
Seaver said he would try to bring up the fee issue again.
"I'm not sure I want it eliminated, but I'd like to see it talked about and discussed. Finally there's a committee where a faculty member can have some input."
Wilkerson agreed that more communication was needed.
He said many complaints were founded on the misunderstanding that faculty members, as well as students, are not involved in decision-making.
"There's a lot of misconception about what's actually the case," he said.
Baldwin Maple Leaf Festival celebrated by record crowd
By TERESA RIORDAN
Staff Reporter
But even though appl. ds, desky tree lice, have sucked the usually breathtaking shades of orange and red from i t maple leaves this year, a record crowddebrelr. ted autumn in Bidwell with
If Baldwin maple leaves had made as drab a showing 24 years ago as they did yesterday, botanist Ivan Boid probably never would have been inspired to start the Baldwin Maple Leaf
Saturday, the town swelled from its normal size of 3,000 to about 5,000 as spectators watched the annual parade on Eighth street, which was lined with mall trees and American flags.
Maple leaves, already faded, swirled across the cobblestone street as onlookers sprawled on lawns or sat in lawn chairs and watched beauty spread. The children were handed to the ooah-pads of a dozen school bands.
vest Saturday to make up for the dull color of the trees, first started the festival in 1957, there was no parade—in fact, the festival was not much of a success.
suggested having a festival to celebrate our beautiful trees to the Commercial Club," said Boyd, who first came to Baldwin in 1941 to teach at Baker University.
BUT WHEN BOYD, who wore a bright orange
"They said fine and appointed me chairman." Although Boyd had advertised the festival for the entire weekend, the townpeople did not want it to last more than one day.
gave bus tours of historical areas around Baldwin.
That Saturday, people sold fried chicken and
Monday Morning
But when Sunday rolled along, "the Commercial Club left me in the lurch—I was at wit's end because a bunch of people showed up for the
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It will be sunny today with a high temperature in the mid 60s, according to the National Weather Service in Tongtou Tonight will be clear with a low near 40.
Tomorrow will be sunny with a high in the 70s and overnight lowns in the upper 30s to low 40s. The rest of the week will be cooler, with highs around 60 and lows near 30.
Winds should be from the west to northwest at 10-20 mph.
Laid back
Keith Birch, age 3, right, proved he knew how to enjoy the good life as he laid back and let his sister, Judy, age 4, do all the pushing. The children enjoyed the fall weather during the weekend by playing in Central Park.
KEITH FLANERY/Kansan Staff
KU requests dominate Regents' list
Staff Reporter
BV LISA MASSOTH
WICHTA—The vibrating explosion of jackhammers and the clink, clink, clink of construction workers pounding steel signal renovation and expansion across campus.
These expansionistic distractions will continue to pervade University life if Gov. John Carlin and the Kansas Legislature are in next legislative session of mind during the next legislative session.
The Kansas Board of Regents revealed its priority list of capital improvements for Regents institutions at its meeting here Friday.
Carlin and his advisors will then put together a budget and recommend it to the Legislature during the opening week of the fiscal year, director of facilities planning, said Friday.
The Regents formally approved the list, which will be presented to the governor, along with other budget items, sometime in November.
THE LEGISLATURE will then make the final decision.
The University of Kansas received three of the ten five rankings on the Reuters' list.
On the Regents' list the first two priorities were requests for $4,460,000 that the Regents will use for all their schools for repairs, maintenance, remodeling and energy conservation.
The next three priorities belong to KU for renovation of the Medical School in Wichita, for a small job at the Kansas City Medical Center for an addition to Haworth Hall in Lawrence.
Naturally, the KU administration was happy with its ranking on the priority list.
"Of course we're pleased," Jim Scally,
administrative assistant to the chancellor,
said yesterday. The Wichita project "we
expect to have funded since it is almost
completed."
The Haworth addition ranking was especially welcome.
"We've been trying for a couple of years," scaly said. "We hope this year it stands by."
CHANCELLOR Gene A. Budig was out of town yesterday and could not be reached.
The request for the Wichita Medical School is $1,600,000 for the third phase of the renovation of the old E. B. Allen County Hospital. Wiechert had
Sedgwick County turned the hospital over to the state for the School of Medicine. Renovation will involve converting the old hospital rooms to classrooms.
Phase one, energy conservation measures,
is under water now. Phase two, which was
Enrollment up at area law schools
By MARK ZIEMAN
Staff Reporter
A better than 90 percent chance of finding a job after graduation is one reason why more students are accepting offers to enter law school. The University extends its officials from several area law schools.
Law school officials at the University of Kansas, Washburn University, the University of Missouri at Kansas City, the University of Colorado and the University of Oklahoma last week reported an increase in the percentage of students who accepted offers of admission in 1981. Each of the five schools also reported a placement percentage of at least 90 percent.
The KU School of Law reported a 1981 first year enrolment of 209 students, compared to 196 students in 1980. The school accepted 372 applications this year, compared to 374 a year ago.
The unexpected increase in student response is putting a strain on the school's resources, said Jocelyn Carson, vice president of marketing.
"We can't handle too many more classes of '20," he said. "Next year we will take less."
NOT ONLY ARE more students accepting information, they are also entering school with better information.
"The credentials of the incoming class are the highest that they have been in five years (since the move to Green Hall) and the third best in the history of the school," he said.
An applicant's credentials are based on his GPA and Law School Admission Test scores, Davis said, although other things are taken into consideration.
"A small percentage (10 to 15 percent) of the applicants reflect so high a LSA or GPA that we simply make a quick look through their files to see if they didn't commit a felony or some awful thing."
The files of other applicants, Davis said, are checks for other candidates. The managers also look at background and work experience.
Bill Rich, associate dean of the Washburn School of Law, agreed with Davis.
"To some degree it's a hot field," Davis said. "There's just a lot of people hiring out there right now."
Regardless of what credentials applicants might have when entering law school, a large number of them are getting jobs when they get a record from the college or government record for graduates seeking employment.
"I'm sure that people can see that the legal profession is a good place to be," he said.
"The reality is that any good law school
graduate has an almost certain chance of getting good, in-term employment."
RICH SAID that the placement percentage of 1981 graduates was up about 10 percent from last year's pace, and that he expected it to peak at about 95 percent.
Through Washburn offered admission to only 350 applicants this year as compared to 400 applicants last year, the school still maintained a first year enrollment of 200 students, Rich said.
"We ended up with about 10 more people than we wanted this fall. More people are accepting
Rich said that he had talked to officials from several eastern law schools, and that he felt the increase of student response was a national trend.
Northwestern University had so many people accept its offer of admission, he said, that the school had to write a letter to 50 applicants asking them to apply again next year.
Rich said the quality of the applicants at the school had improved over the last couple of years, but, unlike KU, the total number of applicants had decreased.
this year, he said, the school received six hundred applications, compared to six hundred fifty-nine.
RICH SAID he felt the total number of ap-
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