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 staff to lead a staff in working in Kansas City, Mo., to discuss the CFA issue.
James said the executive officers unanimously resolved to get a response from the schools. School
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," James said.
"For instance," he said, "many schools that don't have ice hockey teams vote on issues af- fairs."
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 formed to play rules, division structure and voting regulations.
NCAA Executive Director Walter Byers also attended the meeting and discussed some structural changes, but James said the Big Eight was demanding quick definite action.
"They are speaking to the issues, but we don't want to wait for them too long," James said.
to give more voice to Division I football interests.
They include the possibility of restructuring Division IA into a group that would include between 80 and 90 schools with similar football programs. Division IA includes conferences such as the Bie 8, Pac 10 and Bie 10.
Another issue being discussed is the possibility 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 them each $1 million and two televised appearances on NBC.
The NCAA is discussing other issues intended
Under the NCAA football contract with the CBS and ABC television networks, schools are not guaranteed coverage, but Dave Cawed, 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," Cawed said.
Cawed also said the NCAA restricts the number of times a team has played a conference in the four-year contract.
By signing a contract with the CFA, Cawood said a school could risk the possibility of expulsion or ineligibility.
Ambler says pre-enrollment not cure
BY SHARON AFFELBAUM
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 Amble, vice chancellor for student affairs, said, "There'll be class 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, the section would be close
after 20%.
classes months early. Enrolment for the fall semester would be in April, and November would be the month for spring enrollment.
'Robert Cobb, executive vice chancellor, will spend this semester studying enrollment methods and will report back to Chancellor Gene A. Budig by January.
Early enrollment allows students to sign up for
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 certain level of autonomy.
of enrollment and the first day of classes, he said.
Richard Mann, director of institutional resources and information, said early enrollment would give departments more time to find instructors.
He said there were several ways of keeping track of an overflow in a particular section.
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.
That system, called an algorithmic program, would still allow certain students, such as seniors, to have priority in getting in a class.
Under another system, students would still follow a letter schedule.
"We would keep a record of requests rejected because of space," Mann said.
EARL RICHARDSON/Kanaan Staff
But the administrators said no one could guarantee that extra sections would be added.
Jungle fever
Although school started Thursday, kindergarteners at Pinkney School still enjoy every chance to play on the jungle gym. The children will be in class a class yesterday to enjoy the nice weather.
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KU grad to reach new heights aboard 2nd shuttle flight
By LIZ HOPPE Staff Reporter
the Columbia, the first reusable space craft in history.
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.
At a height of 137 nautical miles, Engle and his partner, Dick Truly, will pass over Lawrence in
The Ablenie-born astronaut, who calls Chapman home, said he had been fascinated with flight since childhood. He took his first flight in 1950 and became an astronaut in Chapman when he was about 10 years old.
"I blew my allowance going flying instead of taking all the carnival rides." Engle said.
Engle has not forgotten his ties to Kansas. He
promised to wave at his alma mater when he whized by.
Texas. He spoke highly of the nation's space program.
Engle said space flight was his job but it also was his hobby. He couldn't help but be excited about the Columbia.
"Everytime I get in an airplane, it's exciting," he said.
A friendly man, Engle spoke with a drawl acquired from 15 years of living in Nassau Bay,
ticularly since the first successful launch of the Columbia last Aerial.
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 need to leave the program not be open for public scrutiny, he said.
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
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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. Yet the suits have 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.
Belcher said she didn't know why anyone would want the suits.
"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.
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LMH pays $15 to replace each missing surgical gut.
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"It depends on how big he is." he said
Her hospital bowling team, she said, once borrowed scrub shirts to wear on the first night of league play.
"When you wear them all day," she said,
you can't wait to get out of them at night,
she said.
"We're only concerned when things like disappear and there's nothing to wear when we're not."
"But we returned them to the laundry the next day," she said.
"Their inventory has been disappearing substantially," said Doug Vickers, marketing manager of Lawrence Linen Supply, which provides LMH with scrub suits.
Other suits that have disappeared from LMH have not been returned, Miller said.
"I know they walk off," he said. "It's a definite problem."
"It's just aad, " 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.
"We haven't sold that many," he said.
"We're not too happy with sales."
Vickers said that he had sold about 40 or 50 copies to the public and that most his buyers were not interested.
Tim Watt, Wichita second year medical student, said that scrub suits also had been disappearing from the University of Kansas Medical Center.
"The story that I've heard is that they did have a problem and were losing quite a few scrub suits," he said. "But now the laundries have a problem, and 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."
Miller said he was not sure how many of the s仕 he had repaired at the hospital in the paired hospital.
"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 were supposed to be wearing a shirt, probably doing something unpleasant and you are tired 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.
Watt said that anatomy T-shirts, which have the skeleton and anatomical parts labeled on them, were more popular among Med Center students.
If anybody wanted to buy a scrub shirt, Watt said, the Med Center bookstore had stocked some that say "MD 2B" on the pockets.
SCOTT HOOKER/Kansen 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
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
Sellards 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 Carly 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 get to know 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 to work."
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 the would be interested." she said.
"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 trips and getting in touch with students from trips and some socials or barbecues."
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.
BRICKER SAH he and his wife, who were invited to Sailors Hall, enjoyed getting to know the team.
"My wife and I got to know the girls on a less formal basis," he said.
But Bricker had one improvement to suggest.
"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 eight at a time, we can have five or six times to get all the girls in the hall."
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."
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Weather
It will be sunny and mild today with a high in the mid to upper 80s, according to the National Weather Service in the south. Winds will be from the south at 1-5 mph.
Tonight will be clear with a low in the upper 80s.
Little or no rain is expectable through the Labor Day weekend, with high temperatures in the mid 80s and overnight lows in the upper 50s and low 60s.
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