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KANSAN
The University Daily
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
Wednesday, September 16, 1981 Vol. 92, No. 18 USPS 650-640
Budget cuts hinder special education
By MARK ZIEMAN
Staff Reporter
For more than a year, David Esquith,
Lawrence graduate student, has been developing
ways to educate severely handicapped children.
Now, a 72 percent budget cut in the KU department of special education has thrown a monkey wrench into the application of his research and research like it.
Esquith is more than disappointed.
"The word is angry," he said yesterday.
National budget cuts in education have hurt students throughout the country, especially those in special education. H, Rutherford Turner, in the KU department of special education, said.
This year, Turnbull said, his department's budget was cut from $300,000 to $99,500.
Besides limiting the application of student research, the cuts also have forced the department to discontinue all scholarships and stipends, Turnbull said.
Ed Meyen, associate vice-chancellor for research and graduate studies, last week gave several reasons why special education was the most severely affected of all KU departments.
The most important reason, he said, is tradition.
"Federal support for the area of personnel training for the handicapped is an area which has been vulnerable for a long time," he said. "We have spent a lot of the federal government for the last few years."
Whatever the reason may be, Turnbull is concerned.
"We can't afford to hire librarians to staff our libraries," Turnbull said, pointing toward special education's stacks down the hall. "We have to put them on the shelves and the closet. How can our students get to the books?"
"We're also no longer offering certain courses, because there is no money to fund the teachers," she said.
year, unearl courses, that's what really distinguishes us from other departments."
"That's a very important course," he said.
"Last year we had somebody who was federally supported to teach it. Now we don't have the money and we don't have the person."
Turbull said the department also had little money for supplies and faculty travel expenses.
"Our faculty can't stay on the cutting edge of new knowledge," he said. "Our curriculum is less rich than it was before."
And Turnbull said he expected more cuts in the future.
Meyen said that he hoped the special education department would recoup some of its losses from the lawsuit.
"We are now competing for less funds." Meyen said. "The bottom line is that faculty members must make greater investments in the training they prepare and seek support for better ideas."
"We're in a situation where if you compete well, you'll be alright," he said, adding that other departments within the school of education have little experience with the cuts, because of their history and credentials.
Meyen and Turnbull said they thought the special education department also would do well in competition.
"I think we will be very competitive with the other universities," Turnbull said. "Our program is in the top three or four in the country, if not the best. Washington knows that."
Turnbull said that he still was not optimistic about future funding, however.
"We're learning how to live on a leather sailor," he said. "Last year we survived by the skin of our teeth. This year we're going to have to reach down into our esophagus and pull out our gullet."
Federal budget cuts have forced the closing of the library in Haworth Hall.
One of the largest pork producers in Douglas County is John Dykes, son of former KU Chancellor Archie Dykes. Here Dykes is checking the operation of an automatic feeder in one of his hog houses.
Dykes' son applies MBA to farming
Staff Reporter
By JOE REBEIN Staff Reporter
John Dykes looks as if he had been born on a farm. A Cop oap shields the sun from his eyes as his long, lean arm reaches for a pincet from a packet of leather nestsled in his back pouch.
At work he is quick, moving with an easy gait. The hogs shy away from him at first, but he moves toward them, checking each for any sign of illness.
Although he fits the American farmer mold well, Dykes, who has a master's degree in business administration, has been a farmer for only two and one-half years.
"Farming was a natural outlet for my interests." Dykes, the son of former KU
Chancellor Archie Dykes, said recently. "The business training is as helpful to me as the person who works for Boeing Aircraft. We're both looking to minimize cost and to maximize production to improve the operation."
'DYKES MANAGES Derby Farm, a 85-acre
arrow-to-finish farm located northwest of
northeast.
Dykes he got the chance to manage the farm through sheer luck.
"My father and I were at the country club eating dinner," Dykes said. "Paul Smart, the farm's owner, was there. Dad introduced us, and he offered me a part-time job at the farm. I started working evenings for Paul, and after I graduated he offered to make me a partner.
hour, but I would have entered at a low-level, highly competitive job. Here I was able to assume a lot of responsibility and manage the farm as I saw fit."
Dykes dye head first into the hog-raising business after he graduated. He spent six months in the nursery overseeing the young pigs. From there he moved through the operation until he had mastered every phase of it.
EVENT THOUGH Dykes employs six people, he still participates in all aspects of the hog farm, moving from building to building to make sure everything is working smoothly.
"Sure, it would have been easier to find a job in a business that would pay more per
Information center answers questions
"I guess I am a bit of a perfectionist," he said. "If I don't check something, then I think it will go unnoticed and become a problem that could hurt the operation."
By STEVE ROBRAHN
See HOGS page 5
Students can find out whether William Shakespeare helped write the King James version of the Bible, but they cannot get student phone numbers from the KU Information Center.
Staff Reporter
In an effort to reduce the number of calls for student phone numbers, the center placed a
About one-third of the numbers in last year's directory are inaccurate, she said, and the campus operator has up-to-date numbers on computer print-out sheets.
"It isn't so much that we want to be mean about telephone numbers, but the operator can do it better." Pat Kelché, center coordinator, said the student's lettered copy of last year's student book.
"We don't do numbers," the ad said, "but the campus operator does!"
The center, in 105 Strong Hall, has the answers to the most frequently asked questions about the University of Kansas, Lawrence and the surrounding area, Kehde said.
THE CENTER'S STAFF comprises seven women and five men, chosen for their listening skills, verbal skills, general knowledge and to make non-judgmental responses to callers.
Operators will go to a lot of trouble to find an answer to almost any question, Kebhe said, but they draw the line when it comes to doing students' homework.
Ross said she didn't sing old songs, either, although some operators have done that in the
William Shakespeare had any part in writing the King James version of the Bible, and wasn't Shakespeare really two people, Mr. Shake and Mr. Speare?
After reading an excerpt from a reference book, Jana Svoboda, a Topека senior working in the center, concluded that someone had been feeding the caller misinformation.
"the calls are really unpredictable," she said. "could last anywhere from 15 seconds to about an hour."
ONE CALLER ASKED yesterday whether
infinity'reputable. At the center of the system, main functions is informing caller about upcoming events, Kebes said, and it is the only agency that keeps track of academic lectures.
"I think they're pullin' your leg," she said.
It also serves as an information source to combat rumors, she said. The center was started for that purpose in 1970, during a time of anti-war protests.
One scrap of paper read 'caller heard that North Lawrence was blocked off and the Lansing escaped cons were at Rusty's! KUPD says no truth to it.'
Victims of Iranian clash try to identify suspects
HOWEVER, OTHER TIMES there is some truth to a rumor, such as the report of the president's son, Jeb Bush.
By LILLIAN DAVIS Staff Renorter
Staff Reporter
KU police met last night with the victims of the recent violent clash between two factions of Iranian students in an effort to place names with faces of eight of the possible suspects.
Using information from the victims and a tip telling where they could be found, police were able to talk to the suspects Sunday and take them to the police. The pictures were shown to the victims last night.
Jim Denney, director of police on the Lawrence campus, said late yesterday afternoon that he expected the list of suspects to increase as the number of victims would provide suspect identification.
So far, no arrests have been made in con-
cern. A police officer occurred at the Kansan
Ukrainian Union Saturday night.
"Right now they are only possible suspects",
"Dney said. "We do not have sufficient ID yet to"
"carry them."
Police said the victims, an anti-Khomeini group of Iranian students from Lawrence, Pittsburg, Kansas City, Mo., and Oklahoma, had been conducting a meeting in the Parlour Room of
the union when a pro-Khomeini group, the Persian Shinggu Group, forced, the guyn in
Persian speaking good for life. It's way in.
The ensuing fight left many people cut and bruised and one man with a stab wound in his back.
Denney emphasized that the police did not know whether either of the groups were part of the Muslim Student Association, the Iranian University or a leftist group, the Marxists-Leninists.
Police said the carpeted floor was strewn with broken ashtrays, coffee pots, sand, andashes and drops of blood. Chairs were torn up and the carpet had several cigarette burns.
"The victims kept referring to their attackers as part of the MSA, but we do not have any evidence."
"All I know is that the only people involved in the fight were Irianians," Denney said.
Denney said the MSA included all Middle East Islamic students, not just Iranians, to assume that either of the groups involved in the fight were representing the MSA would be unfair.
However, a Kansas Union official did say that the group who reserved the Parlor Room identified themselves as part of the Iranian Student Association.
Senate to debate budget bill
Staff Reporter
By MICHAEL ROBINSON
It is a lengthy, complicated process that many students are not aware of or do not understand.
Monday, the fall budget process, which Senate leaders say is relatively efficient, will begin. But spring budget allocations are a different story.
Twice a year, committees of the University of Kansas Student Senate determine how thousands of dollars in student money will be spent.
"There are a lot of junior politics there," said David Adkins, chairman of the Student Senate Executive Committee. "To a lot of them, it's just a game."
According to Adkins and several other Senate leaders, spring budget hearings, in which up to $22,000 is allocated, are nightmare of poor at-times interest funding and at times, unfair allocations.
And tonight, a controversial budget bill, which is designed to correct at least some of those that were approved earlier, has passed.
The Senate gets its money from the $1.50 student activity fee which each student pays
The majority of the more than $500,000 the activity fee raises is allocated automatically to 14 student organizations such as the KU bands, the University Legal Services and the University Daily Kansan.
But allocating that one-tenth of the activity fee, $1.42, consumes much of Senate's time and energy—too much, Adkins said.
One tenth of that amount, the $25,000,
is earned among more than 100 other
organizations each.
He said the budget was taking up time that could be spent on other student issues.
And he said the Senate's attempt to reach out
"I don't think that's worked," he said. "I think what we have is a lot of mediocre organizations because of it."
to a large number of groups through budget heartins had failed.
Adkins said the budget hearings were best characterized as "extremely boring."
One chronic problem was poor attendance, Leaders said.
"Student Senate should put the budget process on the back buster, where it thinks it belongs," he said.
Adkins said most committees have about 30 people listed as members, but said far less than that.
"During budget surgery, 'I'd be really happy if 10 showed up,' he said. "I'd say probably five IQ points."
Several Senate leaders said that because of the low attendance, very few people were involved.
Another problem with last spring's funding was that members of an organization would join a committee while their organization was being considered for funding, they said.
Because there is no limit to the number of people on the committee, organizations could "pad" committees with members favorable to their funding requests.
"No group has ever done it (padding) intentionally," Busby said, "but there's nothing wrong."
Busby said that last year large numbers of engineering students joined the Academic Affairs Committee and "engineering groups did very well."
He said he believed this unintentionally gave the engineering groups a funding advantage.
See BUDGET page 5
Weather
A LITTLE COOLER
Today will be partly sunny and cooler with a high near 76, according to the weather forecast.
Winds will be from the north at 5 to 15 mph.
Tonight, it will be clear and cold with calm winds and a low of 45.
Tomorrow will be sunny and continued cool with a high of 73.