The University Daily
KANSAN
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
Thursday, September 3, 1981 Vol. 92, No. 10 USPS 650-640
Action on TV plan delayed
By EILEEN MARKEY Staff Reporter
Big Eight Conference executive officers will take no action on the College Football Association's proposed television plan until the National Collegiate Athletic Association begins a structural reorganization, a conference spokesman said yesterday.
The conference requested an official response from the NCAA by Sept. 9.
"The Big Eight is concerned with the issues of reorganization, voting procedure and structural change," said Carl James, Big Eight commissioner.
In a statement released yesterday, the Big Eight requested that the NCAA convene a special meeting by Nov. 15 to discuss reorganization issues.
Bob Marcum, KU athletic director, and Del Brinkman, dean of the KU School of Journalism, joined the Big Eight executive officers and the Board of Directors for morning in Kansas City. Mo., to discuss the GRAA's efforts.
James told the executive officers unanimously resolved to get a response from the NCAA. He added that he was not willing to accept.
representatives were not involved in the decision, Brinkman said.
Conference officers were especially interested in seeing change in voting procedures and NCAA participation.
"The NCAA is organized so that the teams who don't even participate in a certain sport have a say in issues which decide how the sport operates," J. James said.
"For instance," he said, "many schools that don't have ice hockey teams vote on issues affected by them."
The NCAA Governance Committee has discussed changes in rules and procedures that CFA member schools have been seeking for the past few years, James said.
The College Football Association is composed of 61 schools, most of which are also members of the NCAA. James said these schools had been in existence for over two decades, rules, division structure and voting regulations.
"They are speaking to the issues, but we don't want to wait for them too long." James said.
The NCAA is discussing other issues intended
to give more voice to Division 1 football interests. They include the possibility of restructuring Division 1A into a group that would include between 8 and 90 schools with similar football programs. Division 1A includes conferences such as the Big 8, Pac 10 and Bid 10.
Another issue being discussed is the possum$^{1}$ of changing the method of voting on the NCAA television football contracts. Six Big Eight schools recently ratified an agreement with the CFA that would guarantee each $1 million and two televised appearances on NBC.
Under the NCAA football contract with the CBS and ABC television networks, schools are not guaranteed coverage, but Dave Cawdow, NCAA public relations director, said schools such as the University of Kansas would probably benefit from the NCAA contract.
"Kansas should attract appearances with the CBS-ABC package because each network is required to have 82 different schools on their schedules." Cawood said.
Cawood also said the NCAA restricts the number times a team is televised by a television station for four years.
By signing a contract with the CFA, CAW and associting risk the possibility of expulsion or negligence.
Ambler says pre-enrollment not cure
By SHARON APPELBAUM
Staff Reporter
Although administrators have praised the virtues of pre-enrollment, they realize that the system wouldn't get rid of early morning classes or closed sections.
"Everyone thinks that with early enrollment you get the classes you want at the times you want," said Gil Dyck, dean of admissions and records.
David Ambler, vice chancellor for student affairs, said, "There'll still be classes at 7:30 and 8:30."
Dyck, who along with Ambler has favored early enrollment, said, “There’s still a space problem, no matter what kind of enrollment system you have.”
He said that if an instructor wanted only 20 students in a class section would be closed instead of having all the students in it.
classes months early. Enrollment for the fall semester would be in April, and November would be the month for spring enrollment.
Early enrollment allows students to sign up for
'Tobert Cobb, executive vice chancellor, will spend this semester studying enrollment methods and will report back to Chancellor Gene A. Budig by January.
Ambler said that pre-enrollment was not a panacea.
He added, however, that such an alternative system would allow more time for University departments to add sections if the demand warranted it.
"Early enrollment would permit the University to analyze student demand for classes far enough in advance of the semester to make an intelligent decision of opening a section or closing out sections where there isn't sufficient enrollment." he said.
Under the present system, departments are limited to the resources available and have a low cost.
of enrollment and the first day of classes, he said.
Richard Mann, director of institutional resources and information, said early enrolment would give departments more time to find instructors.
If all schedules were processed in a computer at the same time, the computer would arbitrarily put certain people in a class and hold the names of others.
He said there were several ways of keeping track of an overflow in a particular section.
Under another system, students would still follow a letter schedule.
That system, called an algorithmic program, would still allow certain students, such as second-grade students, to participate.
"We would keep a record of requests rejected because of space," Mann said.
EARL RICHARDSON/Kansan Staff
because of space, main said.
But the administrators said no one could
Jungle fever
See ENROLLMENT page 5
Although school started Thursday, kindergarteners at Pinkney School still enjoy every chance to play on the jungle gym. The children took a break from class yesterday to enjoy the nice weather.
KU grad to reach new heights aboard 2nd shuttle flight
BvLIZHOPPE
the Columbia, the first reusable space craft in history.
Staff Reporter
At a height of 137 nautical miles, Engle and his partner, Dick Tickle, will pass over Lawrence in
Col. Joe Engle, a KU graduate and Kansas native, will embark on a voyage Oct. 9 that will rocket him around the world 84 times, at the speeds up to 18.500 mph.
The Abilene-born astronaut, who calls Chapman home, said he had been fascinated with flight since childhood. He took his first flight in 1938 and was appointed in Chapman when he was about 10 years old.
"I blew my allowance going flying instead of taking all the carnival gifts." Engle said.
Engle has not forgotten his ties to Kansas. He
Engle said space flight was his job but it also was his hobby. He couldn't help but be excited about the Columbia.
Texas. He spoke highly of the nation's space program.
"Everytime I get in an airplane, it's exciting," he said.
ticularly since the first successful launch of the Columbia last April.
Space launches are open for public view, he said, which says a lot for the confidence participants have in the program's efforts. If they want to be involved, they would not be open for public scrutiny, he said.
A friendly man, Engle spoke with a drawl acquired from 15 years of living in Nassau Bav.
The craft is a historic breakthrough that will cut the cost of space research and travel for years to come. Because the craft is a reusable and multi-purpose vehicle, the Columbia and its engineers have seven years of experiments waiting for the craft, Engle said.
He said morale was high at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, par-
Because it can go into space and come back
See ENGLE page 5
Clothing fad leaves hospital staff un-suited
By JOLYNNE WALZ Staff Reporter
Doctors aren't the only people wearing scrub suits these days.
Nobody, including hospital personnel, is supposed to take the suits from the hospital, Steve Miller, director of environmental services at Lawrence Memorial Hospital said yesterday. The suit has been appearing around town and on campus.
Miller said that he hadn't tried to make anybody return one of the hospital suits, which are stamped "LMH," and he wasn't sure that he would try.
"IVE BEEN IN Gibson's and seen people in them," he said.
LMH pays $15 to replace each missing surutil suit.
Belcher said she didn't know why anyone would want the suits.
"It depends on how big he is," he said.
"The only time they're handed out to the public is when a father goes into the delivery room," said Priscilla Belcher, a nurse's aide at LMH.
"When you wear them all day," she said,
"you can't wait to get out of them at night," she
said.
Her hospital bowling team, she said, once borrowed scrab shirts to wear on the first game.
"But we returned them to the laundry the next day," she said.
"We're only concerned when things like
the disappear and there is nothing to wear
with us."
Other suits that have disappeared from
Milwaukee have received. Miles co-
"Their inventory has been disappearing substantially," said Doug Vickers, marketing manager of Lawrence Linen Supply, which provides LMH with scrub suits.
"I know they walk off," he said. "It's a definite problem."
"It's just a fad," he said. "They're comfortable."
Vickers said he often saw people wearing LMH suits outside the hospital.
His company started selling suits to the public for $19.95 last spring.
Vickers said that he has sold about 40 or 50 students in public and that most of his buyers were student.
"We haven't sold that many." he said.
"We're not too nanny with sales."
Tim Watt, Wichita second year medical student, said that scrub suits also had been disappearing from the University of Kansas Medical Center.
Miller said he was not sure how many of the suits he had replaced at the hospital in the city.
"The story that I've heard is that they have a problem and were losing quite a few scrub suits," he said. "But now the laundries are full, so they have got pretty tight security on it now."
"We have some that wear out," he said, "so it's hard to tell how many we replace."
"If you're wearing a scrub suit and you're not a doctor," he said, "you're trying to pretend you're somebody you're not, and you get hassled. If you're supposed to be wearing clothes, you'll probably doing something unpleasant and you'll tire and you don't like wearing it."
Watt said he had heard rumors that the Med Center had lost thousands of dollars worth of stolen linens, mostly because of all the stolen scrub suits.
If anybody wanted to buy a scrub shirt, Watt said, the Med Center bookstore had stocked some that say "MD 2B" on the pockets.
Watt said that anatomy T-shirts, which have the skeleton and anatomical parts labeled on them, were more popular among Med Center students.
SCOTT HOOKER/Kansan Staff
mark Showlater, Edgerton junior, is one of many students today who wear surgical scrub suits to class.
Professors,students congregate over dinner
By LISA MASSOTH Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
Last spring, Sellars Scholarship Hall had Clark Bricker, professor of chemistry, and his wife over for dinner as part of a "Faculty Associates" program.
This fall, Bricker and his wife are having
Sellars Hall over for dinner.
"Faculty Associates" is a program to develop ongoing relationship between faculty and students, said David Ambler, vice chancellor for student affairs.
The program was modeled after a similar program that has been done at Indiana University, where Caryl Smith, dean of student life, was involved with it.
"I worked with it at Indiana University and was very favorably impressed," she said. "It provides out-of-class contact with staff members so you can知 them as human beings."
THE SCHOLARSHIP HALLS were chosen to initiate the program because of their small size,
"The intent was to start in a small group, such as the scholarship halls and get the program well run."
The program started last February, said Joyce Cliff, assistant director of residential programs, but it didn't actually get off the ground until a few months later.
"We got the word out in the scholarship halls and asked if she would be interested," she said.
The six halls that participated voted on which professors they wanted to visit, and Cliff wrote to the faculty members, informing them that they had been chosen for the program.
"The main thrust of the program is to establish an ongoing relationship with the group," she said. "It started off with the professor coming to dinner. Later, some showed slide shows from a presentation."
BRICKER SAID he and his wife, who were invited to Sellards Hall, enjoyed getting to know the women and were glad they had participated.
"My wife and I got to know the girls on a less formal basis," he said.
"It ought to be reciprocal," he said. "We are having some of the girls over to our house next week. We're going to have about eight at a time, and we've got five or six times to get all the girls in the hall."
But Bricker had one improvement to suggest.
The program also enhanced faculty-student relationships and gave some students more confidence to approach their professors, Smith said.
"It made the faculty much more approachable," she said. "Sometimes, the students used the faculty as a resource and had them introduce them to other faculty members."
bom or the School of Jour-
See INVOLVEMENT page 5
Weather
It will be sunny and mild today with a high in the mid to upper 80s, according to the National Weather Service in Windsor. Winds will be from the south at 5-10 mph.
Tonight will be clear with a low in the upper 50s.
Little or no rain is expectful through the Labor Day weekend, with high temperatures in the mid 80s and over-night lows in the upper 80s and low 60s.
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