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Foreign students could get center
By JOHN LOGAN Staff Reporter
The 1,452 foreign students at the University of Kansas may have a home-away-from-home if a preliminary proposal for admission has been approved of the faculty and administration.
The center, according to recommendations in the report, would be a place for meetings and social activities held by student leaders if it would sponsor lectures, foreign exchange.
The proposal, scheduled to be discussed by the University Senate Executive Committee today, recommends that the United Ministries building, 1984 Oread, be bought. The building is the home of eight KIU students and also is a center for religious counseling.
The center also would house the offices of the KU international Club and other international student groups, according to the university's policy. Currently share an office in the Kansas Union.
The proposal, contained in a report to SenEx by a University Senate subcommittee, estimated that the building would cost more than $200,000. The subcommittee's report also recommends an fund of $400,000 to run the center.
According to the report, funds for the center could be raised as early as next fall.
If funding were obtained and the building could be purchased, the center could open.
for the center be solicited from countries that send students to KU. Last semester students from 99 countries were enrolled
"indications are that it would be possible to obtain at least (seven $100,000) doubtful contracts."
But a representative of the owners of the building, the Presbyterian Synod of Mid-America, expressed doubts that the building could be wold quickly.
THE REPRESENTATIVE, the Rev. Thomas Hensock, a member of the Synod board of directors, said the sale would involve lengthy negotiations. Five committees of the Synod would have to review and approve the sale, he said.
"The sale is complicated because the building belongs to 665 congregations in Kansas and Missouri," Henstock said yesterday.
Henstock said a long-term lease of one of the building's three floors would be easier to arrange. The Synod would probably welcome the opportunity to share the building with a foreign student center, he said.
Other sites are being considered in case the United Ministries building cannot be obtained, according to Mark Bernstein, a student and member of the subcommittee.
BERSTEIN the subcommittee also looked at the PkII Kappa Tau house, an orphanage in Boston.
According to the report, remodeling the house would cost an estimated $200,000. But Arthur Dijang, assistant professor of business and chairman of the subcommittee said students on the sub-committee objected to the remote location of the fraternity.
The subcommittee also considered building a center, according to Bernstein. The group studied a similar center built at the State University last year for $25,000.
THE SUBCOMMITTEE met with members of the International Club in December 1977 to review programs at other universities. The club drafted a list of proposed families for a reading room, a dining room and kitchen, a reading and study room, a TV room, recreation rooms and smaller rooms for offices. The subcommittee reported that most of the needs listed could be met by the Nainstries
Members of the subcommittee emphasized that planning for the center is in the preliminary stages and that no decisions have been made. The hearing before SenEx and the presentation of the proposal to the committee was opposed and posed to work out any objections that the two groups might have with the suggestion, the subcommittee members said.
"IT'S PREMATURE to make any formal
request," Diang said. "We don't want
Several administrators responded cautiously to the proposed center.
"I would support it, depending on the concept," David Ambler, vice chancellor of the College of Education, would tend to isolate foreign students. I would be concerned. There are already students.
George Waggoner, associate vice chancellor for academic affairs, agreed with
*Foreign students already tend to associate only with each other.* Waggoner
A foreign student center could add to that problem. he said.
QUESTIONS WERE also raised about the funding of the center. According to University regulations, all fund-raising must be made in the name of Kansas University Endowment Association.
Even then, no faculty or staff member can raise funds without the approval of the chancellor. Approval of fund-raising efforts depends on the University's need for the project.
But the subcommittee report insisted that a foreign student center would be beneficial.
KANSAN
Wednesday, February 7, 1979
The University of Kansas Vol.89,No.89
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
Lawrence, Kansas
Senior scholar
kU at. KUEN, 3603 W. 10th St., is one of "29 senior scholars" auditing KU classes this semester. His class, History of the People of Kansas, is taught in Bayle Hall.
The class is different, but it's the same classroom that 70-year-old Winston Anderson, a retired physician, had for a chemistry class 32 years ago when he was an undergraduate.
Basketball bill goes into overtime
RvGENE LINN
Staff Reporter
TOPEKA—The push to force the University of Kansas and Kansas State University to play basketball against Wichita State University went into overtime yesterday. The team presented a bill presented by WSU backers back to committee.
State Rep. Mike Glover, D-Lawrence, whose motion to send the bill back passed 58-0, said that the bill needed revision and that the schools should be given a chance to schedule the games on their own.
the next session of the Legislature, we can make the bill the state law."
The bill would require KU and K-State men's and women's basketball teams to play WSU teams one game each year. Under the bill, the home team would keep all the game profits.
"I think the athletic departments will take the initiative now," Glover said. "If the games aren't scheduled before
However, State Rep. Mike Meacham, R-Wichita, a sponsor of the bill, said the two older state schools, particularly KU, would not make a good faith effort to schedule the games.
THE ATHLETIC directors from KU and K-State did not appear before our committee hearings on this bill," he said.
Glover said the bill was not practical in its present form. "It would take effect on July 1, and KU and K-State already have their schedules set for the next three years," he said.
overer also said the legislation would cost KU and K-State money because it would eliminate an home game
"NOW WE CAN schedule schools that are less than national powers and not have to play a return game on their court," he said. "We can get 12,000 to 14,000 fans for games with these teams even though they aren't national powers."
Glover made his motion to send the bill back after legislators who opposed the bill had spent more than half an hour on it.
The bill was almost killed when 49 representatives voted to add Burton County Community College to the list of candidates.
Staff photo by BILL FRAKES
However, 51 representatives voted against the amendment.
Gordon Bute is far from ordinary. But, then, so is his Alma Hotel, nestled in the heart of downtown Alma, population 285. The "Purple Chef," as some of his patrons call him, operates his extraordinary restaurant in this rural town about 28 miles west of Topeka.
See story and pictures on page 5.
SOME OF THE other amendments called for arm wrestling matches between the schools and a women's golf game between WSU and Johnson County Community College.
Chef's delight
Panel to hear pipeline debate
Bv LYNN BYCZYNSKI
Staff Reporter
A heated debate on the merits of a coal slurry pipeline will make its first public appearance in Kansas next week when the Kansas House Judiciary Committee bears testimony on a bill that would permit the construction of the pipeline through the state.
Proponents maintain that the pipeline is an energy-saving method of transportation because it reduces carbon emissions.
Opponents say it is the force that will break the backs of Kansas railroads and help them recover from the collapse.
The proposed 1,400-mile pipeline would carry a fifty-fifty mixture of water and finely ground coal from the rich surface power plants in the East to power energy-hungry power plants of the Southeast.
The 38-inch diameter pipeline would be laid under 300 miles of central Kansas farmland, cutting a 50-foot wide swath for the pipeline's right-of-way.
CONSTRUCTION OF the pipeline could begin in 1981, according to Walter Hale, Midwest area manager for Energy Transportation Systems Inc, the firm that was formed six years ago to promote the pipeline.
Energy Transportation Systems is composed of four energy and construction systems.
The $1 billion pipeline could be completed by 1983 if Kansas and Nebraska, the last two states refusing to permit the pipeline, approve legislation this year.
The bill that the judiciary committee will consider would clear the way for the pipeline in Kansas by granting limited eminent domain to the company. Eminent domain is the state's rule to take land from the owners when it is needed for the public good.
Under the provisions of the limited eminent domain bill, Energy Transportation Systems would have the right to build on land belonging only to entities that already have eminent domain, such as utilities and railroads.
THE COMPANY would have to negotiate with private landowners for permission to build the pipeline on land that was not owned by the railroads or utilities.
This year's bill is a change in tactics for the pipeline proponents, who are making their fourth annual bid for eminent demand. For the past three years, Energy Transportation System has filled up every landowner in the path of the proposed pipeline.
limited eminence domain bill was "just a foot in the door" for the company.
"If they win, they'll be back next year to amend the bill because if even one landowner said no, they'd be stymied," Schultes said.
THE KANASM Railroad Association is one of the most venerable opponents of the coal slurry pipeline because of the coal hauling business the railroads might lose.
Hale said the company had received more opposition from the railroads in Kansas
Schulteis agreed that the Kansas Railroad Association wanted to haul all the coal that came through the state but said it was too expensive and needed the coal business to solvent留.
"Railroads need a tremendous volume to make money, and coal is by far the railroad's largest single source of traffic and revenue." Schultes said.
KANANS' EIGHT railroads, which employ 14,000 people, would be hit hard by the diversion of coal to the coal slurry pipeline, he said.
The Kansas Railroad Association will be joined in testimony opposing the pipeline by Joseph Goodman, assistant manager of food service at the Kansas Union.
Without coal traffic on the railroads, all the cost of maintaining the lines would be passed on to the railroad's other customers, most of whom are farmers, Goodman said.
Goodman said he was a concerned citizen and not connected to the railroads in any way. He said he would testify against the railroad, which has reasons similar to the railroad's complaints.
'the basis of Kansas' economy is agriculture, and the railroads are essential
for transporting the harvest. Twice a year there's harvest traffic, but the rest of the season doesn't.
But the Kansas Railroad Association does not intend to fight the coal slurry pipeline only on the merits of rail transportation for Kappas.
Instead, the railroads will attack the eminent domain bill on technical legal grounds.
Utilities and common carriers, which serve anyone wanting transportation, are granted eminent domain because they work for the public good, Schlauss said.
Hale said that, as of last week, Energy Transportation Systems had not found any answers.
THE PPELINE has not been designated a common carrier nor is it likely to be because it will not serve anyone in Kansas, he said. Therefore, the company should not be granted the right of eminent domain over anyone, including the railways, he said.
But the company maintains that the pipeline is essential because the 28-million tons of coal that it would move each year were more than the railroads could handle.
The railroad association, in a position paper, has flatly denied that charge. A recent study by the state Office of Technology Assessment found that "rail coal hauling capacity is sufficient to transport any expected new coal traffic."
Environmental effects of pipeline disputed
Bv LYNN RCZVNSKI
Staff Renorter
Environmental problems have received less attention than the economic aspects of the coal slurry pipeline issue, but they are a small bone of contention.
The proposed 1,400-mile pipeline would carry a fifty-fifty mixture of water and finely ground coal from Wyoming to the Southeast. The pipeline, which would be 38 inches in diameter, would run under 300 miles of central Kansas farmland.
Energy Transportation Systems Inc., the company that wants to build the pipeline, says the pipeline is the safest and cleanest way to move coal.
The worst that could happen to the pipeline would be a rupture, which would damage both pipes and cause damage.
ground, according to Walter Hale, Midwest area manager for the company.
The Black Mesa pipeline, the only coal slurry pipeline operating in the United States, has had only one spill in eight years of operation. Hale said.
The availability of water is also becoming a concern in the pipeline plan.
WHEN A PIPELINE does break, the coal slur is left on the ground until the water evaporates, then the coal powder is taken up and back to the pipeline entrance. Hale said.
But pipelining opponents worry that such a spill could contaminate ground and surface
were concerned about the amount of water that would be taken from the arid West to
State Rep. Robert Frey, Kansas House majority leader and member of the judiciary committee, which is hearing testimony on the pipeline next week, said he
"I wonder if it would be right to encourage the use of water for that purpose." Frey
AND WYOMING residents, including the governor, are having second thoughts about the water rights they granted to the pipeline company five years ago.
Geologists from that state have warned that the six billion gallons of water the pipeline need need annually may be more expensive than applesmile while meeting the needs of Wyoming.
Energy savings are another factor being considered in the pipeline debate. Energy Transportation Systems predicts that the percentage of fuel savings will drop by 15 percent in 30 years because of fuel savings.
The Kansas Railroad Association says that the amount of energy needed to grind the coal and, at its destination, remove the ash from the plant is greater than the diesel fuel trains would use.
BUT ENERGY and environment are not serious enough problems to prompt the formal opposition of environmental groups to the pipeline. On this bill, the environmentalists have remained almost silent.
Frey said he had not heard any major arguments against the pipeline from eminent officials.
"I don't think there are any major environmental problems for Kansas. If there were, I don't think we would even consider the pipeline because we have a good alternate form of transportation." Frey said.