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Tuesday, September 5, 1972
University Daily Kansan
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Kansan Photo
Sokoloff and Friends Happy About Syndication
. . promotional campaign planned for 'Griff and the Union' . .
4,750 Students, Faculty Back Chalmers in Petition
A petition bearing the signatures of approximately 4,300 students and 450 faculty and staff members is supported by E. Laurence Chalmers Jr. former chancellor will be sent to the Board of Regents today according to Charles A. Kiesler, the department of psychology.
Chalmers reportedly is in Reading Penn. the home of his parents.
The petition circulated during class enrollment August 23 through 25 also calls for an active board and the selection of a new Chapelier.
The idea for the petition was conceived by Kiesler and 11 other concerned faculty, staff and students.
"We thought this would be the best way to thank Larken for what he did with us, but we clear the students are in favor of the petition and it is important the Board of Regents know the details of the University community."
The main effect of the petition, *The Republic of Georgia*, Regents will have a good idea of what the University community will accept or not accept in the petition.
In part, the petition commends Chalmers for the "progressive leadership" he provided for the University community "during a difficult period in the history of universities," citing that the decision of Chalmers' resignation驻 by faculty, staff and students.
The petition gives Chalmers support if he chooses to remain on campus in another position.
itentially both faculty and
students. The chancellor, the "a person who will
continue to lead the University in
his directions established by
Chancellor are discussed.
The Board of Regents are
aware of the petition Kriesi said
and hopefully will take the
role of guardian for the new
he selection procedures of a new
As of now the future of Chalmers was undecided. Nicholas and Nicholas Chancellor said Chalmers had no plans yet about his future status at the University. If he was in charge of professorship, Nichols said, then he will "stand by his (Chalmers) advice" and be added, nothing can be decided.
The petition also states "the new Chancellor must be selected by the procedures established four years ago involving sub-
By BOB SIMISON
'Griff' to Gain National Audience
Dave Sokolloff says he's tired of gangster jokes. Those are all his heard since he sold his cartoon "to Universal Press Syndicate."
For many, the word "synicate" means organized crime Sokolff's UPS editor is known to associates as "the Godfather."
For Sokoloff, though, the syndicate has meant the realization of a dream sparked three years ago when Sokoloff, now a senior, began publishing in the University Daily Kansan.
Sokoloff sold the rights to his strip to UPI in June. A promotion came when a news outlet month, and the strip may appear in other newspapers by May.
"IH5 is a big step in the right direction," said recently. "It's virtually possible to get into a large number of newspapers without being exposed."
UPS editor James F. Andrews has done more for Sokoloff than sell his strip, Sokolof says. Andrew's criticism has brought several changes in the appearance of Sokolof's characters.
"He thought Griff needed a face job," Sokoloi said. "He thought there should be more heartiest part between the characters."
Griff got the most notable face lift. Solokoff enlobed Griff's beak, shaded the end of it, bent his ears and gave him larger wings. The uniform received a hat that looks "less like a party hat."
NOKOLOK HAS BALKED,
however, at giving words to Rory
Norbing, a hapless clown whose
name was an accident in a rainstain
raincloud and a cheese cake.
"We're having some problems with him now," Sokoloff said.
"The syndicate wants him
"I'm lucky to have an extraordinarily good relationship with my editor," Sokoloff said. "I don't these changes out together."
talking, but I think he's an excellent pantomime character."
More subtle changes in the strip have taken place during the last three years. Sokoloff saws.
"It it gets harder and tarder to talk about every year," he said as he sketched a picture of Griff. He stopped sketching to talk about it.
"It it used to be merely a mere format," he said. "It has a little more depth now. The characters fully develop as personalities."
"THE STRIP IS a lot more philosophical. I've grown up here at KU and the strip has followed me."
the unicorn, for example, has become an even more confused, depressed character who bites him with templating the universe. The unicorn's rendition of Longfellow's poem, "The Bridge," in one strip is disrupted over time and is never converse in the background.
"I really strange," Sokolpkou said. "In 1869, he was very sick. Now, he knows what happened. Now he has more appeal, anyway."
Other characters have evolved almost on their own, Sokoloff says. Oscar the Dragon, for instance, is always stooing a bug
Sokoloff is constantly adding new characters and more fully developing older characters. Harvey Merlin, the incept wizard, Harvey Merlin, the centaur, are just beginning to interact with personalities, Sokoloff says.
CHIP, THE BIRD who does
"Kelly said he was trying to have fun and make me laugh, but I consider it a valid art form. I should certify I express myself as if I were doing something."
"The strip is still in its infancy," Sokoloff says. "That shows it will keep growing."
imitations, is a favorite with the Kansan staff. Chip Crews, a former editor who also does business with him, decided to see himself so portraited.
NOKOLOFF CALLS Cervantes' character, Don Quixote, his patron saint (a reason for the windmills?) He says he likes the humor of James Thurber and Woody Allen. He terms George Washington as "strip," "krazy Kat," the "classic in American cartoon strips."
One form, "Toxocara canis",
transmits eggs in dog feces. Coll said the larva penetrated the skin. The parasites often are during the warm months when students go barefoot.
Sokoloff's love for literature may be one source of growth. Although he has taken mostly art courses for his major in ad-
ministration and editorial art, Sokoloff has thoroughly explored literature.
themselves. Someone once asked Wait Kelly, the creator of "Pogo," what was behind what he was doing.
"I wish I could play jazz piano and terrific pong pung." Sokohkoff said. "I too around on the piano, I too around on the piano, especially for those who prayed for us."
The number of dogs running loose on campus and in buildings harboring parasites that could cause health problems for students, according to several professors and health officials.
William Coll, parasitologist, and professor of systematics and evolutionary biology at the students were aware that dogs could transmit rabies, but he said that not nearly as many were infected with it. They infected intestinal parasites. These parasites, many of which are known to live in dogs in at least two forms, he said.
Still, there are two things Sokoloff says he wishes he could co.
"I was the first artist in the family, and they didn't quite know how to handle it."
chairman of the University Animal Care Committee, said his committee was concerned with the danger of dogs in campus animals. He said the problem of dogs on campus had been discussed by a few members of the committee meeting, tentatively scheduled for September 23, ways of minimizing the dangers on an campus would be discussed.
"The strip looks like a junk yard," Sokoloff says. "The clocks, dice and windmills all look old." They probably obsess me. They're not synths.
Sokoloff's development as a cartoonist has not been panicked. He got away from his family until he started publishing his strip in the Kansan
OIL SAD that when a dog is pregnant these worms can move across the placenta and also infect the puppies. Parasites associated with these worms are therefore be linked with humans.
"Dog Ascariis" is a more spectacular form of the worm, called ascari. This worm affects the retina and optic nerve and can result in the removal of an eye. The egg is transmitted from the person's intestine to the egg must be orally ingested by the person, he said. This larva is hatched in the person's intestine and can cause severe diarrhea.
"The whole thing kind of bewildered my dad," Sokolek said. His father is a clothing salesman in Chicago.
Wear also emphasized that dogs could exchange diseases and transmit other parasites if allowed to run loose on campus or enter buildings. He said this was more important to the dogs as well as *i* students.
Now Sokolloff say his hobby may become painting—"my kind of painting," he says. "Dice, Dice and windmills—what else?"
"If the strip gets an idea across, I shouldn't have to talk about it. They should explain
Loose Dogs at KU May Transmit Harmful Parasites, Officials Say
By VICKI MONNARD Kansas Staff Writer
*Ancylostoma braziliense*, a parasite of the skin that eruption or plumber's disease also affects individuals by penetrating the skin in larvae.
entered buildings where experimental research was being conducted.
Laurence Draper, associate professor of microbiology and
U.S. Colleges . . .
John A. Weir, professor of physiology and cell biology, said that other parasites and diseases could be transmitted by dogs that
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LAWRENCE CITY
MANAGER Buford Watson Jr.
day that the University
"is indicted as employer
we have in the city.
they provide locally by being here."
"Students at KU and Haskell Indian Junior College contribute substantially to the city's development," prefer that the city never has to levy a tax or fee directly against its students or their institutions."
However, Watson said he thought "there should be some kind of tax on taxes for services by city and county governments, especially in the future as the University has to have been raised."
Both the University and the state have imposed an exempt from financial obligation to the city of Lawrence, according to Keith Nitcher, vice president of the firm.
Nitcher said he did not know of any other state-supported university that paid a fee or in any other way compensated its city.
Watson disagreed, however. sauton that "at least two Big Eight universities offer assistance either from their universities or the states that support them."
ONE OF IOWA's state
unit OE of its city government,
with its city government,
and another in
Oklahoma maintains a fire
engine.
Watson said he estimated that about 50 per cent of all property in Lawrence was tax exempt.
"The University of Kansas covers a large part of that 50 per cent," he said.
Although Watson said the city had felt the pressures of inflation he and Lawrence city attorney He and Allen concurred with Nitcher that the city presently has no legal status to be a university or its students. "We have no jurisdiction whatsoever at state-support institution. Allen said."
The practice of paying sums to city governments has been more common among private institutions among state-supported ones.
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology paid a similar amount to the city of Cambridge, while Dartmouth College in New York paid more than $300,000 annually on its nonacademic facilities.
IN CAMBIA, MASS., Harvard University paid $110,000 to that city last year for its academic facilities.
Stanford University, in Stanford, California, actually pays property taxes on its nonacademic holdings.
According to Nicher, a list of University real estate has been filed annually with the Douglas County Land Trust to certify that academic and nonacademic properties are being used for purposes of higher education.
Although the tax-exempt status of a company is never directly questioned, state statutes do require that the property be filed with the local government.
Watson noted that city responsibility to the University
and the student community had increased in recent years because of campus unrest.
HE SAID he could not estimate the costs of services by the city fire department to the University.
"All the fire equipment we had was probably used for the most part of a day at the Kansas Union fire in April 1970. Watson said.
The "troubles we had in 1970 were the basic impetus for the elite police and 20 policemen to its payrolls in November of last year."
Part of the revenue from a half-
part sales tax levied in Lawrence
on July 1, 1971, is paying the
state budget on police and fire departments.
The tax, which provides about $800,000 annually in city income to the mayor of Topeka. The local sales tax option is linked to the property tax lid
The 1973 state legislature is expected to decide the future of the tax.
Watson said Lawrence's city government would be "in pretty bad shape" if the tax wasn't written by May 1573. We've put up the city so that its functioning practically depends on it," he said.
THE CITY RECEIVES about twice as much from local sales tax and half-cent sales tax. Income from property taxes accounts for about $1 million of the city's $2,625,000 operating budget, according to the data.
Locally, the burden of property taxpayers has abated because of new industry which has moved to Lawrence recently.
According to the KU Traffic and Security report, the eighth floor was searched but no bomb found. The building was not evacuated.
Bomb Alert Rouses Few At Ellsworth
Ted Stimak, the KU weather observer, said. Lawrence recorder了 191 inches of rain from the last month—most of that came Friday.
During the four-day period temperatures ranged in the 70s, which was far below the average 80s for this time of year.
At 12:25 a.m., the resident director on duty at the lobby desk received a call that a bomb would be at Ellsworth in 36 minutes.
KU Traffic and Security
researchers say
many students left Lawrence to take advantage of the last
week's Thanksgiving
break. November 28-31
The weather dampened many vacation plans, however. Area lakes had fewer visitors than had been expected.
A bomb threat at Ewells Hall early Monday was the only break in a quiet Labor Day Day at the University of Kansas.
GOP to Have Grand Opening
The Douglas County
Railroad Museum holds
his grand opening at 10 a.m.
saturday in the Crystal Room
of Eldridge Hall, 703 Massachusetts
Morris Kray, Republican gubernatorial candidate and Sen. Ted Cruz, Republican gubernatorial candidate and Rep. Larry Winn and Dave Owen Republican candidate for lieutenant governor also have to attend. The public is welcome.
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