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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Student Discusses Year in Ghana See page 8
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
83rd Year, No. 1
Thursday, August 24, 1972
Kansan Photo by HANK YOUNG
Traffic and Security Reorganized
... Parking services give tickets now ...
'Head Checks' Numerous
91,000 Bad Checks Written
BY MARTHA NORDYKE Kansan Staff Writer
This year in Lawrence, people will sign about 14 million pieces of paper with dollars and cents figures on them. These clips of paper will then go to banks where are supposed to change into money. Approximately 91,000 won't make the transition.
A more common name is insufficient funds checks, and a survey of Lawrence bankers revealed insufficient funds checks a common to the tune of about 310 a day.
New York writer Jimmy Breslin called these checks "head checks"—checks written by people with money in their heads but not in the bank.
BUT ONE BANKER who requested anonymity said his bank had handled as many as 350 insufficient funds checks in one day.
As a percentage of the total volume of checks written—statistics of the Kansas Bankers' Management Clinic for 1971 showed the four Federal Depository Insurance Corporation banks in Lawrence handed 15,788,284 checks in that year—the number of insufficient funds checks is very small. The bank figures include business payroll and overhead checks. These checks are very rarely not backed with money.
THE BANKERS interviewed said they had no way of estimating the volume of checks written in Lawrence excluding checks written by local businesses.
Viewed from a hypothetical angle, if each check that bounced averaged ten dollars, the city deals in a one million dollar loss. Or, simply halving the size of the hypothetical amount enough are written to give every man, woman and child in Lawrence ten dollars
towards a bad credit rating each year.
But most bankers and merchants agree that the majority of insufficient funds are from consumers.
Dick Raney, of Raney drug stores, estimated the number of uncollectable checks handled through his three stores by the amount of the total volume of checks written.
Concurring, Russ Watkins, a Douglas County State Bank official, said "Compared to the total volume, the number of contant funds checks is really not all that high."
However, statistics compiled by the Douglas County Sheriff's office suggest the amount of insufficient fund checks passed with perhaps less than the best of motives.
DEPUTY SHERIFF Marilyn Steele said that in 1971, the sheriff's office was involved in approximately 700 insufficient funds check cases which represented
Students often find it difficult or at least aggravating to cash a check. Bankers are swamped in an enormous maze of paperwork simply processing 13.8 million checks a day. And pity the poorer customers, who get stuck with wasted hours trying to collect returned checks, or in the end, taking a loss on the uncollectable ones.
about $40,000 dollars in checks.
Whether the number of insufficient funds checks written in Lawrence is considered staggering or not so surprising, it can be caused by headaches for everyone involved.
ANYONE WHO trades in Lawrence, recognizes the signs, "Checks cashed for checks," "No checks cashed for checks," and "No checks cashed." The merchant will accept a check at all, two or three proofs of identification are usually often asked for an invasion of privacy.
College to Revise Requirements
By MARY PITMAN
Kansan Staff Writer
Overhair of B.A. requirements will continue to be a top priority of the College Assembly in autumn 1972, according to George Waggoner, Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences of the University of Kansas.
Requirement changes fall under the province of the Educational Policies and Procedures Committee within the College Assembly, Waggoner explained.
The College Assumbly in a mail ballot early in the summer approved a new Bachelor of General Studies degree for the Cancellor and the Board of Regents.
IF APPROVED by the Chancellor and
the President, would as the present BAs, a liquid
New associate Dean of the College Howard Baumgartel, who recently drafted the proposal of the General Studies degree to be sent to the Chancellor, said that in the fall the College Assembly must "get hot and follow-through on the B.G.S. degree."
a student to take forty upper class hours within a minimum number of 124 hours for graduation. The new degree program would also preserve the present distribution requirement of the present discipline eliminate all other requirements.
And a student under the B.G.S. degree program would only optionally choose a major or program of concentration, unlike in order to be an a.B.A. who must file a major asJuniors.
The degree recommendation will be thoroughly studied by the regents, after which time it will pass to the Committee of Academic Affairs, where it must again be approved. If approved, the recommendation will then pass on to the Council of Presidents and finally to the Academic Committee of the Regents.
Francis Heller, vice chancellor for academic affairs, listed the hurdles the new degree must pass to receive final approval.
Campus Traffic and Security Dept. Divided into Parking, Police Forces
"Most major universities with comprehensive police programs have separate directorate offices. The police directors across the country have advised me to reorganize in this direction because the police job on campus has grown so much that it presents so many demands on the men."
The department divided into two sections, one for parking services and one for police services, according to Mike Thomas, director of Traffic and Security.
The Traffic and Security department of the University of Kansas underwent a major reorganization during the summer. It included a separation of parking and security operations and a planned addition of a policewoman to the force.
The reorganization is aligned with funding for Traffic and Security, according to Thomas. Money for salaries used to come from the state, from parking services on campus and from housing. Under the new program, parking service will be provided from the state, fromcome, patrolmen in the police services will be paid from state funds and housing system will be used for residence hall security forces.
Captain Bob Ellison remained the chief
"The reorganization will provide better service and better parking coverage because the men will not have to shift back and forth between writing parking tickets and police reports as they have done in the past," Thomas said.
Thomas said occasionally the police service patrolmen would help the Parking Officer to find them.
TRAFFIC AND Security personnel include about 40 persons on the parking, police and residence hall security forces, six positions in the office and four part-time positions for University students as dispatchers and control station personnel in X-zone.
THE PARKING service division will be responsible for ticketing in parking areas, parking supervision for special events, coordination with the University Parking Department, registration of the control stations, registration of cars and the sale of parking permits.
HELLER SAID, because of the time required by each of these steps, the new degree could become effective no earlier than the 1973-1974 school year.
The offices for the two divisions are in the front hall of Hoch Auditorium.
of Traffic and Security operations and of heads the police services division. Thomas said the division would be responsible for protecting students in a college hall security and investigations.
By TRISHA TEETER
Kansan Staff Writer
"A whole lot of things are burning from last year," Dean Bungartel said, referring to the work of the College's Physics Department at the EPPC, in reviewing requirements.
The Pearson Integrated Humanities Program will again come up for approval by the College Assembly in the fall, Baumgartel related.
For example, Shirley Easum, head checker of Kroger Family Center, explained her company's check cashing policy. Two identifications are required in order to check a customer's purchase, she said. Anyone wanting cash must fill out an application for a Kroger checking card. The application is sent to the applicant's bank for a general credit issue. Upon approval, a check cashing card costs $100 and soars to $50 more than the amount of purchase.
Among the other requirement changes which will come under consideration in the fall will be an alternate to the present speech requirement, Baumgartel said.
Foreign language requirements are also under consideration, Baumgartel said. Foreign language professors met with the EPPC in the spring semester of 1972 to develop a foreign language requirement, either with culture courses or concentrated 5-hour courses.
continue to be considered in the Assembly,
but Baumgart said, "There is no com-
pletion."
The EIPC is considering a proposal to, in Baumgartel's terms, "open up the speech requirement" to alternatives such as drama courses.
The proposal to extend the College-College into four-year schools "reminds me that I have been a student."
**SPEAKING OF merchants' reluctance to cash checks, Rhodes said," A check is issued and returned."
BAUMGARTEL SAID new programs, like the Women's Studies major and the Peace Studies major, would also need to be reinforced in definition in the College Assembly this fall.
Baumgartel cited the scarcity of resources throughout the departments of the College as a prime prohibition against the University year College within the College plan now.
Speaking as a man who is often asked to cash personal checks, he added. "We got our new account and we're ready."
See COLLEGE, page 8
This highly controversial proposal will
Although reluctant to cash checks, the merchants apparently harbor no personal
see BAD CHECKS, page 6
KU School of Education Makes Plans for Changes
BY DEANNA VANDERMADE
Konson Staff Weiter
Few major changes will be made in the fall curriculum of the School of Education, but Dale P. Scannell, dean of the school of education, said the changes were being planned for the future.
Although the number of graduate students will probably increase only slightly, a decrease in undergraduates. Scannell said this was because many students had decided not to go into the field because of its perceived lack of interest, indicated the decrease would not be sizeable.
THE SCHOOL will be working with the Multi-Institution Teacher Education Center in the Kansas City, Kansas and Shawnee Mission School districts to organize a sixteen-week student teaching practicum to get prospective teachers trained. The program was an eight-week block. The new program will last one semester.
Several existing programs in the school will be expanded or altered for the fall program.
The School of Education has also recently received a grant for training educational decision makers. Cecil Miskell, professor of education, is coordinating a workshop in August for 20 people who will work in middle
MISKELL IS ALSO working on a project to develop new programs for training educational administrators. The project is being conducted state-wide, and several colleges and school systems are participating. Wichita State University is working with the Wichita Public school system; Kansas State University is working with the Junction City and KC area, and Kiowa Valley with the Kansas City school system. The participants observe and work with administrators to come up with methods of training and upgrading administrators in local school systems.
management positions for the school districts.
in the area of special education,
the School of Education has received a $35,000
need for adult handicapped individuals,
and the training of personnel to work with
them in sheltered workshops, day care
and work-study coordinated projects.
SEVERAL SPECIAL education programs will be extended into the Lawrence public schools this fall. Several classrooms will be used on an experimental basis to determine how effectively programs for exceptional children can be carried out in a normal classroom.
BY MARTHA NORDYKE Konson Stoff Writer
Chancellor Chalmers Reflects on Pressure, Politics
With fevered November election race just ahead, students' political focus is naturally turned in that direction. Few persons now or ever have realized that politics and power plays combine with pressure and interest groups to forge a microcosm of political intrigue here at KU.
The job of KU chancellor, executed for the past three years by 'E. Laurence Chalmers Jr., is by his own definition lonely.' Power and pressure from self-esteem has driven 1870 nearly cost him and perhaps this University their potential prominent futures.
"I have to avoid, at all costs, involvement in partisan politics." Chalmers said in a recent interview. "I avoid advocacy like the plague."
It's simple. Regardless of his personal feelings, there is really very little he can say or do as an individual without implicating the University of Kansas.
Controversy has permeated Chalmer's stint as KU Chancellor. Each crisis has proved agony for one man between his personal feelings, feelings as a private person and his obligations as a public figure.
THE UNIVERSITY, a stronghold of individual and academic freedom, is perhaps considered, in some circles, as the last place where first amendment rights of
freedom of speech and expression are restricted. Chalmer's are. Not by law, of course, but out of personal courage and the firm conviction that as Chancellor he can't be concerned with the immediacy of the moment in his actions. Rather, he must think of KU's future as distant as 1980 or 2000.
Chalmers, it turns out, could have played a significant role in the U.S. Senate vote that was to confirm or reject the associate justice of the Supreme Court.
Persons in Washington, D.C., bent on blocking the Supreme Court Bench to Carswell, learned that the judge had allegedly told Chalmers, a native of Florida and an acquaintance, that he must have been Kansas' to get away from the niggers. His himself was supposedly contemplating. Some felt it that the Chancellor could verify
this rumor, it would cinch Carswell's defeat in the Senate.
Regardless of his personal feelings and the knowledge that he might be important in deciding the philosophy behind one of mindfulness programs, years to come, too many Kansas politicians were involved in the fight back East. The University might inevitably be in the middle at home and be dealt an apparent body blow come budget time.
CHALMERS WAS contacted and asked if he would go to Washington to testify or at least to confirm or deny the rumor. He did neither. He couldn't.
"It's just a rule of thumb," Chalmer said. "The good of and future of this University has to override all other considerations."
Chalmers has been able to make very few personal statements when controversial issues are involved. In 1970, he addressed the graduating seniors at his institution, commencement, predicting they and those to attend, and as the committed generation. He called the students of the sixties the concerned generation. Unlike his students, Chalmers
could afford to be concerned but not committed.
THE YEAR 1979 was his first at KU. In many ways it was a bad year for being a new chancellor at the state's largest public institution. It was the spring of Jackson-Announcing President Nixon's decision to send American GI's into Cambodia publicly.
That spring produced one of the few crises in which the Chancellor felt he could not for his conscience's sake say something. He admitted that personally he shared the concern of students and faculty members over the incident, but KU, he added, could not be committed to a dove or hawk stand.
become painful, almost haunting. He has no one person to confide in.
"I'm not partisan to anyone," the Chancellor insists, "but when push comes to shove, I am perhaps the one person who can represent nearly 20,000 students, 1300 faculty members, 10,000 active alumni and 2,500 employees."
Unfortunately, in the spring of 1970, the issues didn't call for across the board support from Chalmers' entire conference committee to decide decisions. More often than not they
WHEN PRESSED on the point,
the officer bears bear part of his burdens of decision.
E. Laurence Chalmers Jr.
There is the danger that others may feel excluded, but more than that, in a man's most vulnerable moments, those when he personally is the target of front page headline attack, someone else could easily too greatly the decision making process.
"That wouldn't really be fair," he said. And in the crisis hours, there is no regular confidant. Chalmers said he felt there was too much danger in relying on one or a handful of persons to help guide the University.
"You never do grow a thick enough skin to become immune," Chailers said of personal attacks. "The only thing you can do, and only for a short time, is to read newspapers or watch the television until I see you." You have always Ive done that before," he recalled.
When asked about his most painful crisis, Chalmers pulled that familiar pipe from his mouth as though he'd been visited by a friend, recalling memory and said, "Mav 9. 1970."
THAT WAS the day the student body, assembled in the football stadium, was to play.
ttered options for ending the
SEE CHALMERS, page 11