KANSAN
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
The University Daily
Thursday, October 15, 1981 Vol. 92, No. 39 USPS 650-640
By MICHAEL ROBINSON
Staff Reporter
The Student Senate last night approved nearly $20,000 in supplementary funding for student groups but failed to settle the issue of where to place ballot boxes during elections.
The Senate funded 34 of the 239 groups that requested funding.
The Senate passed two funding bills totaling $19,000 without a single change in any of the Finance and Auditing Committee's recommendations.
But when it came time to decide which of two ballot box bills should be passed, things did not go as smoothly.
Student Senate's old nemesis, the quorum call, this time by David Cannatella, graduate student senator, ended the meeting before the Senate
could discuss a bill placing boxes around the city during elections.
THE SENATE was one member short of the quorum of 28 members, but the quorum call came too late to spare a bill that would have taken ballot boxes out of all living groups.
That bill was defeated 18-9 after arguments about its effect on Senate's credibility and ability to govern.
"As far as I'm concerned, Student Senate election credibility is already zero," Trump, law student senator said. "I was elected with 17 votes and my school has 550 members."
The two ballot box bills were written and submitted by the same group of student senators. They said that they wrote the bills because the Student Senate Rules and Regulations do not specify where the ballot boxes should be located.
Student Senate Bill 211 would have removed ballot boxes, then all residence halls during a major strike.
apartment buildings and locations frequented by students throughout the city.
Becky Pyles, graduate student senator, and co-author of the bills, said that they were designed to plug the hole in the Rules and to equalize student access to ballot boxes.
BALLOT BOXES are presently placed in scholarship halls, fraternities, sororites and residence halls. Scholarship halls, fraternities and residence halls have the highest voter turnout during elections.
The Senate Rights Committee unanimously endorsed Bill 021 Tuesday night and the authors of the bill spoke in favor of it at the Senate meeting but the bill came under severe attack.
"I think the only effect this would have is that less people would vote," said Octavio Viveros, former elections Committee chairman.
Nehider, Association of University
See SNATE page 5
Teacher education proposal dropped
Bv LISA MASSOTH
Staff Reporter
In an abrupt about-face, the State Board of Education yesterday abandoned a controversial teacher education proposal when it realized that the supreme court legal boundaries by dictating conditions for teachers.
The decision followed an opinion released Monday by Kansas Attorney General Robert Sibley.
In the opinion, which was requested by the board, Stephan said that the Kansas Legislature had no power in matters of teacher education and certification.
INSTEAD, he said that the board, by its constitutional authority, could adopt its own laws concerning teacher certification and accreditations. He said that he could not change those laws as it had in the past.
The board had planned to file a proposal requiring a 2.5 grade point average and a passing grade on an admission test to enter the schools of education at all colleges in Kansas.
Stephan cited an article in the Kansas Constitution that said the Legislature provided for a State Board of Education which would supervise education in the state except for those duties delegated to the Kansas Board of Reeves.
Under Stephan's ruling, the proposal is no longer legal.
Rodney Bieker, assistant attorney general,
explained Stephan's opinion:
"The bottom line is if the state board had to adopt rules and regulations under statute, the content of any rule would be subject to being totally rejected or changed at will by the legislature. The state board proceeds under the constitutional authority, the Legislature can't change the rules."
STEPHAN'S OPINION concerns only one area of education, although it is the state board's main function—teacher certification and accreditation. Mertle Bolton, commissioner of the state board.
Other education regulations, such as teacher negotiations, would not fall under the board's constitutional authority.
The question of the constitution authority of the state board has risen before, Bolton said, but has not been acted upon. The board's constitutional authority determines whether it has the power to make regulations without Legislative authority.
Although Stephen's opinion is not law, it could mean the Legislature will lose complete authority over teacher education and certification in Kansas.
The Joint Administrative Rules and Regulations Committee is the body that now reviews educational rules. Sen. Merrill Werts, R-Iowa, wrote that the committee, said it would review the opinion.
Werts said the Legislature could possibly adopt an alternative resolution to counter Stenberg's position.
"I'm sure we'll look at it," he said, "but the committee doesn't have authority. The committee does."
He said he did not think the rules should bypass the Legislature.
"Rules and regulations, once adopted, have the full force of law and this has been reserved for the Legislature," he said. "If rules and regulations are written, it would be receptive to legislative intent."
WENDALL LADY, speaker of the house, was not aware of Stephan's opinion, but he did not mind. He asked her if she had any ideas.
See EDUCATION page 5
"It sounds like there would be some real problems" he said.
Bren Abbott, student body vice president, and Loren Busy, chairman of the Student Senate Finance and Auditing Committee, direct debate during last night's Senate meeting.
Request to demolish building divides city commissioners
By JOE REBEIN Staff Reporter
A request by a local self-help agency to desolish its built environment, a new one has crested in the city's municipality of
Penn House, a non-profit neighborhood assistance organization, has asked the city to approve its plan to construct a single-level house at 1035 Pennsylvania St. that would provide easier access for its users and more space for counseling and storage.
The Lawrence City Commission is divided between tearing down the building for a newer
one and preserving it and moving the agency to another location
Commissioners split on the issue Tuesday and
voted 3-2 to defer a use permit until next week's
THE COMMISSION also instructed the city's Community Development staff to report whether Penn House's existing structure was suitable for rehabilitation.
Commissioners Don Bims and Barkley Clark voted against deferring the action. Both felt the current site would be the best place for Penn House.
But Mayor Marci Francisco and Commissioners Tome Gleason and Nancy Shontz
See PENN HOUSE page 5
On the road again, Budig preaches KU gospel
Chancellor Gene A. Budig takes time out from his hectic travel schedule to enjoy an ice cream cone in Emporia.
By SHARON APPELBAUM
Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
Chancellor Gene A. Budgi stepped out of his
briefcase, in hand, and walked down the street.
Richard von Ende, his executive secretary,
followed, singing a few bars of Willie Nelson's
song "The Night Before Christmas."
The destination: iola for lunch and Emporia
for dinner. Tuesday marked another road trip
(or dinner) to Seattle.
With the next session of the Kansas Legislature looming on the horizon, and the last session lingering in the minds of University students, the governor is expected to state to speak the gospel of higher education.
"People are receptive to the University, but they need to be given current and ample information. They will have no reluctance in exerting their strong support to elected public bodies."
"These trips are building bridges to the University," Budig said. "With each stop we improve the standing of the University of Kansas and all of higher education.
Already, Budig has visited more than 70 Kansas counties and plans to bring that number in. The program is expected to be expanded.
ON MOST TRIPS, he is joined by President
Daniel DeMoss and his administrative assistant. Mike Johnson.
evenings every week, a number that von Ende called unrecedented here.
"An effective chancellor never stops going to people—their a never-ending process, he said.
But effective chancellors must also do their homework, and as von Ender drove toola, Budig read over his agenda for the Kansas Board of Education, which is meeting in Wichita today and tomorrow.
"We can't waste the whole day in the car," von Ende said. "Things pile up too fast."
At 11 a.m., the car pulled into the lot of the radio station KIKS in Iola. Acker already was there. The two administrators were scheduled for a tapped interview to be aired later that day.
With a quick microphone test, the interview began.
There is a new era of cooperation between K-STA and KU," said Gary Lee, manager of KIKS
Budd added, "It's important that the people of the state understand the programs of higher education. Higher education represents the major asset. It must be protected in the years ahead."
ACKER WAS QUICK to reply: "We just feel that the universities of Kanaas have a statewide influence."
"At the same time, it gives us a chance to be more responsive to the people."
And so the interview ran on, touching on such sensitive subjects as decreasing federal funds
Next stop: Harold's sibirian of America, where he met the teacher was waiting to be educated about higher education.
Budig and Acker were to trade off giving speeches in the two towns. Where one spoke, the other listened.
The man who gives the introduction gets to tell a few jokes and warm up the audience, von Ende said. The serious message is left for the main speaker.
After a meal of ground beef and baked potatoes, the former president of the Kiwanis, Ken Rowe, introduced the guests: Gene Wilson as "Akker," "Dick End." or Mike Johnson.
It was then Budig's turn.
JOHNSON LATER remarked that "they" usually get one or two wrong, but three was
"People wonder why KU and K-State speak
their language," we see eye to eye as the heights it
perfect.
Both Budg and Acker stand at about 5 feet seven inches tall.
Budg continued with comments about last Saturday's football games, applauding the manager and his team.
Acker then took the podium and spoke of the "quality of students" at all institutions.
He also said, "The most important job that we have is to attract and hold good personnel."
ranging from declining
See BUDDING page 13
To generations of students, taverns KU tradition
By BOB MOEN Staff Writer
Staff Writer
On a recent Friday night in the Jayhawk Cafe, music blared from the iukebox.
THE HAWK, the Wheel and the Crossing—known by a variety of names in the past—have served generations of KU students everything from vanilla Cokes to brewed malthes and hops. And through the years, they have become, in their own right, a KU tradition.
Custom up the street at the Wagon Wheel Cafe,
customers danced and sang as they stood on the
And at the Hawk' Crossing, someone moved through the crowd playing a saxophone.
"You can't buy tradition and you can't create tradition." Ken Wallace, owner of the Hawk, 1340 Ohio St., said as the Friday afternoon crowd greed.
Wallace, owner of the Hawk for eight years,
said the Hawk was a full-service kitchen until
the team's relocation.
But although the tradition of serving KU students has changed since the early 1920s, they have chosen
Union started its food service, but since 1972, the owner decided not to compete with the Union.
Also, he said, sometime during the 1960s, the two buildings that now make up the Hawk were joined. Before the addition, the building next to the bar was a grocery store.
"We were classified by some research organization in Illinois as being the last of the
historic species."
For example, orders were given code names to avoid confusion. A Coke order was a "shoot," a cherry Coke was a "shoot right," because it was to the right of the Coke machine, and a lemon was a "shoot left," because it was to the left of the Coke machine.
PAUL SINCLAIR, co-owner of the Hawk from 1945 to 1965, said the cafe was primarily a restaurant that served beer to its customers, 99 percent of whom were KU students.
SLANG CAFE, Sinlair explained, was a term
that allows the language used to yell
(fountain orders)
But it wasn't the beer that made the Hawk unique.
"We had people come down at night just to hear us order," he said.
Sinclair is now the manager of the KU athletic training table.
ACROSS FROM the Hawk, on the corner of 14th and Ohio streets, are two short paths beaten through the high grass. The paths lead to the Wheel, owned by John Wooden since 1965.
"If it weren't for KU, I wouldn't be here," he said.
The Wheel, 507 W. 14th S.L., opened in 1964 and was a bookstore that backfaced back at least 1190 years.
WINDOW BARS installed in Rowlands Bookstore during the Great Depression are still intact at the Wheel, as are the wheel chandeliers and the Large converted the bookstore into a bar.
To show the Wheel's close link to KU—the University owns land next to the building—Wooden painted jayhawks around the bar's interior in 1974.
Unlike the Hawk, the Wheel continues to sell food.
Like the Hawk, the Wheel has had its recognition. In 1978, actor Flip Wilson, who was in Lawrence making a film, bought $200 of beer for students at the Wheel.
But as the Wheel's second owner, Wooden
"They'd have to bury me in one of those棉袋 out there," he said, pointing to the wall.
wasn't sure how long he would continue serving KU students.
A THIRD BAR frequented by KU students is now called the Crossing, at 1018 st. But KU graduates from the Roaring '20s to the flower generation would recognize it as the Rock Chalk.
Harold Johnson, who went to KU in 1936, said it was Rock Chalk back then was quite different from the rest.
THE ROCK CHALK was opened in the early 1920s by Clifton Ramsey. It was a fountain and food shop and a typical "Betty Boop" hangout, said Jeff Mowry, owner of the Crossing...
VIRGIL, COOPER, who owned the Rock Chalk from 1853 to 1969, said the building during those years was wood and stucco with a glass front. He
"People didn't enjoy themselves as they do now," he said. "No one had enough money to buy
See BARS page 13
On top of that, Kansas was then under prohibition, and the only way to get beer was through a bar.
Weather
Today's forecast from the National Weather Service in Topeka is for cloudy skies and a 30 percent chance of rain. The high will be in the mid-40s and tonight will be in the mid-58s. Fri. high will be in the 60s, with cloudy skies.
The extended forecast for the weekend is for cloudy skies and a warm temperature. The temperatures diping into the 30s and 40s with highs in mid-50s and low-60s.
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