Skiing the Kaw Snow and cold temperatures have brought about some enjoyable after-effects. Cross
Staff photo by TRISM LEWIS
country skiers took advantage of the wintery conditions yesterday, as they made their way down the frozen snow, covered Kaw River. See related story page 12.
Kansas remained in a state of emergency yesterday after a blizzard Friday night brought sub-zero temperatures and dumped 12 inches of new snow on top of the seven inches that fell New Year's Eve, leaving about 29 inches on the ground.
Campus, city dig out of winter onslaught
Gov. John Carlin declared a state of emergency Monday after the storm hit and called out the National Guard to rescue stranded motorists. The Highway Patrol closed most highways in Kansas and encouraged driving on secondary roads.
KU HAS A contract for interruptible natural gas service with the Kansas Public Service Co. KU's service can be curtailed or uncurtailed, however the demand is high for natural gas.
Facilities Operations officials would not say whether the University was running low
However, William Salome, vice president of Kansas Public Service, said yesterday that 16 days was an unusually long time for KU to rely on its own fuel oil reserves. Salome said gas service to the University usually was curtailed for three or four days at a time, but might be curtailed for as many as 40 days a year.
"BUT IF L'fascination doesn't have an extremely cold February, gas reserves should be adequate and the University should be able to receive natural gas," Sallaine said.
When gas service is curtailed, KU uses fuel oil stored on campus to fire its generating boilers, which supply heat to campus buildings.
Although the National Weather Service predicted another snowstorm for early this week, no snow has fallen since Sunday. The snow again will not snow again until tomorrow or Friday.
Enrollment at KU was held as scheduled, but University officials said they expected about 1,300 students to enroll late, about 500 more than the usual number.
One victim of the cold weather has been the heating system at the University of Kansas. Since Jan. 1, KU has been using its own fuel oil as an alternative heating fuel.
However, sorority rush activities were
postponed for two days because of the weather. Rush activities are to be enclosed, today and tomorrow, according to Katie President of the Panhellenic Association.
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"WE WORKED clearing parking lots this weekend because there weren't many students around," Mathes said. "Now that we are helping we'll work more on the sidewalks."
FO has had 38 persons working on snow removal for 14 to 20 hours a day during the weekend. They have been dumping snow in the basins of Lake Ontario and in areas south of Allen Field House.
PO personnel have worked since Saturday, clearing snow from campus streets, sidewalks and parking lots, Jim Mathews, assistant director of grounds maintenance said.
Mathes said the only places that remained slick were intersections and steep hills. Workers have not been able to salt these areas, but they may be able to do so again. Salt will not melt ice in extreme cold.
"WELL WE WORKING two to three more weeks hauling snow away and then we should finish, unless we get more snow," he said.
Many Lawrence streets also remained under a blanket of snow yesterday. Highways around the city were open, the Kansas City signal said, but still were ice in many spots.
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Mathes said because the crews had been working on parking lots, snow would not be hauled away from Haymarket Boulevard and campus streets for at least a few weeks.
Mathes said most of the snow had been cleared, but the crews still had to finish building the airport.
Towing services in Lawrence reported they had kept busy during the early part of the week and yesterday were running two days behind on calls.
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The Hillcrest Wrecker and Garage, 1120 E. 23rd, towed at least 144 cars Monday. Belinda Parks, dispatcher, said, and still had a waiting list of 96 cars.
Parks said the service was taking only
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KU's spring enrollment expected to exceed 22,000
Staff Reporter
By JOHN LOGAN
A large late enrollment is not expected to affect KU's final enrollment, which officials estimate with top 2,000 on the Lawrence University KU Medical Center in Kansas City, Kan.
KU has many students from the Chicago area, Dyck said, many of whom are still snowed in by a blizzard that dumped 24 inches of snow on the city last week.
"We've had several calls from Chicago and even from Wichita and western Kansas from people who've said they can't make it back in time to enroll," he said.
Enrollment officials said they could not tell if the final enrollment totals will be higher than last spring's figure of 23,881. The enrollment probably will not be higher than Michael's enrollment, which brought 25,480 to the two campuses, they said.
Preliminary enrollment statistics are expected to be released today but the official count will not be available until after the 20th day of classes.
As many as,1,300 students might enroll late this semester because of the bad weather, Gil Dyck, dek of admissions and records, said yesterday.
DYCK SAID many students who usually fly to Kansas City were stranded when Chicago's O'Hare Airport was forced to shuttle them to the airport runway, only four of the airport's seven cars were cleared of the snow, which had forced O'Hare to close for the sixth time in its history.
Between 600 and 800 students usually enroll late each semester, Dyck said, but this semester an estimated 500 more students would come rather than be trained in last week's storm.
AFTER THAT date, KU will be able to
figure its full-time equivalency number. The number is reached by dividing the total number of credit hours being taken at KU by 15, the average number of hours taken by a student. The result gives KU an equivalent number of full-time students.
All six state universities, enrolling on the same schedule for the first time, use the equivalency number as the basis for their budget requests.
Most of the students who will be enrolling were kept out of Lawrence by the writer.
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Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor,
said university officials had discussed
moving the last day of enrollment from
Monday to Tuesday but had decided against
it after learning that residence halls were 96
percent occupied. Officials said the high
occupancy rate indicated that most students
had arrived.
Late enrollment will begin today and
through Feb. 27. Students enrolling today
will not be charged the usual $10 late
fee for missed classes. Amber,
vice chancellor for student affairs.
The $10 fee will be charged students enrolling tomorrow through Feb. 13. After that date the fee is $25.
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To enroll late a student must fill out an add slip for each course he wants. Each slip must be approved by the appropriate department.
Dyck said the University hoped to make the process easier by setting up a later enrollment center in 112 Strong Hall. By using two computer terminals in the center, students will be able to tell students enrolling late which sections and classes are closed.
Officials suspend handouts policy
By JOHN LOGAN
Staff Reporter
A controversial policy that banned the distribution of literature in campus buildings was suspended Monday by KU administrators, pending review by the University Events Committee.
But members of an academic freedom group announced that despite the suspension they would hold a series of demonstrations for free speech, which would have violated the old policy.
pursuicy Del Shankel, executive vice cchancellor, announced the administrators decision to the University Senate Executive Committee in a letter sent to SenEx Chairman Evelyn Swartz, professor of curriculum and instruction.
In the letter, which asked SenEx to study the Events Committee's review, Shankel said the policy had been in conflict with the Faculty Code of Conduct and the Code of Student Rights, Privileges and Responsibilities.
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Shankel said he expected the policy to be changed to allow literature distribution inside campus buildings, but he warned that distribution could not interfere with classes or cause a disturbance.
THE POLICY, which outlines the place and manner of distribution of literature on campus, was introduced by the Events Committee and approved by the administration in October.
Although it was a part of University guidelines for several years, the distribution policy did not attract much attention until the Events Committee decided to make it a formal restriction last semester.
The decision sparked several quiet demonstrations by the
KUBY SAID he was happy the policy had been suspended, but he questioned the need for a review.
"We certainly consider that a positive step," he said. "But I think it's ominous that it will be reviewed. I just can't understand why we need a whole new policy."
Kuby said the demonstrations would continue as planned to let the administration know there were persons on campus concerned about free speech.
Kuby said a table would be set up in the Union and Strong Hall and coalition members would distribute copies of the Bill of Rights, the Fourth Amendment Rights, Privileges and Responsibilities, as well as copies of a Kahneman editorial last semester that criticized administration policies.
Friday's rally has been tentatively scheduled for 11:15 a.m. Kuby said all 40 members of the coalition probably would attend.
Ron Kuby, a spokesperson for the coalition, said the group planned three similar demonstrations for this week. Kuby said two members of the group would hand out literature on free speech in the Strong Hall rotunda today and in the Kansas Union lobby tomorrow. A free speech rally in front of Strong Hall is being planned for Friday, he said.
"We want them to know that should an episode like that occur again, that there will be demonstrations," he said.
Academic Freedom Action Coalition, whose members deliberately violated the rule by passing out literature in campus buildings. In early December the coalition handed out 175 copies of the Bill of Rights in Strong Hall. The bill was attached to copies of the literature policy.
Iranians' funds slow to arrive
Even though Saeed Pirnazar, Tehran, Iran, graduate student, has not been home since last summer, the political strife there has had a major financial effect on him.
Many of the approximately 240 Iran students at KU also have financial difficulties this semester, according to Clark Coan, director of foreign students. Some students have been waiting for more than three months for mail from Iran.
Because the postal services are on strike in Iran, Pinaraz had not received the tuition money his parents sent three weeks ago to him and his sister, Haydey, a freshman. He said he was able to get his education online, but he could not have dig to his亿美 savings to get enough money to pay her tuition.
Coan said many Iranian students were borrowing money from friends for tuition.
MOHAMAD AHMADIAN, Esafah Iran, graduate student, said he had been able to pay the rent for his Stouffer Place apartment, but that he had borrowed money from friends to pay for his college. He was waiting for money from his parents for more than 2½ months.
According to Pernazar, a student could get money from Iran by having friends who are traveling abroad bring the cash outside the country. Ahmadian said he had borrowed his tuition money from a friend who had been in Iran recently.
Coun said another option for an Iranian student would be to apply for short-term loans from the office of financial aid. These loans must be repaid by the beginning of the following semester.
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However, Coan said, the money from these loans might not be enough because the maximum amount available to an undergraduate student without a co-signer was $400. A graduate student can get the full amount for tuition.
A few students have sought loans from Lawrence banks because of the loan policy, Coan said.
the most recent book on this semester.
Cann said he thought most Irian students could make do by borrowing from friends. According to Ahmadian, most of the students he knew had been able to enroll successfully.'
The last resort for some students, Coan said, is to transfer to other schools, where the tuition might be substantially lower than out-of-state tuition at KU, which is $850.10 this semester.
Funding, wages '79 goals
By TAMMY TIERNEY
Staff Reporter
Battles over bucks by the University ... Kansas and its students are expected to be the KU top concerns in this session of the KU's deplurate, several area legislators say.
The University's battle is for formula funding, a new method of figuring budgets for Board of Regents schools, and students who want to get minimum wages for student workers.
State senators Paul Hess, R-Wichita, and Arnold Berman, D-Lawrence, and representatives John Vogel, R-Lawrence, and Mike Glover, D-Lawrence, agree that formula funding and student minimum wages will be among the most important and controversial issues of the session for KU.
Formula funding will go before the Legislature as part of KU's 1980 budget. Past budgets have been based on the results of students enrolled at the University.
Formula fundscompares the financial status of KU to five "sister schools", the universities of Iowa, Oregon, North Carolina, Colorado and Oklahoma. A standardized formula determined that KU was underfunded last year by almost $4 million in comparison to the other schools. A request of $2 million to help make up that deficiency will be included in the 1980 KU budget request.
remain at $2.65 because the Regents did not request additional money from the bank.
Another student issue is the minimum wage. Although the federal minimum wage increased from $2.65 to $2.90 an hour Jan. 1, wages for students at Regents schools will
Hess said he supported the minimum wage for students because it could help improve them.
"I view University jobs as a kind of work scholarship, so I would support anything
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that we can do to get people through school," he said.
HE SAID he was "open-minded" toward formula funding and called it a more honest and realistic way of funding higher education.
Because KU has a heavy concentration of master's and doctoral programs, he said, the University should get more funding under formalis funding.
"My initial reaction is that it will have tough sledding." he said.
"I think we should pass formula funding not because the universities want us to, but because it may be the best way to fund higher education," he said. "I will require more sophistication on the part of the Regents and the Legislature and it will not be an easy road, but I think it will be worth it."
Although Berman said he "didn't see anything wrong" with formula funding, he predicted it would encounter opposition in the Legislature.
"There is a school of thought in the legislature that formula funding was more important."
enrolment, mainly at the other tegents\
enrolls," Berman said.
Because the present funding system is based on the number of students enrolled, funding would decline if enrollment declined.
BERMAN SAID it was difficult to predict how KU's bid for formula funding and minimum wages would fare.
"It will depend on the Governor's budget message and on whether a state spending lid is passed," he said.
Glover said he was not sure how successful the minimum wage issue would be in the United States.
"I'm sure it will come up, but KU's minimum wage probably will lag behind the federal minimum wage," he said. "We'll have to work with parents to support from students and their parents."
Glover then he favored formula funding because it was an opportunity to put in his name. He did not
"Our old system, because it was based on enrollment figures, tended to prostitute academia because universities could offer students that attracted a lot of students," he said.
However, he predicted that formula funding would have difficulty in the Legislature because it made the Regents be "changing horses in midstream."
"NOW THAT enrollment is declining," he said, "it looks like we're trying to find another way to get money."