THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
CHILLY
The University of Kansas
KANSAN
Vol. 89, No. 61
Monday, November 20, 1978
Students' day in court urged See story page five
Hall increase gets 1st OK
By TIM SHEEHY
Staff Reporter
TOPEKA—The Kansas Board of Regents gave preliminary approval to rate increases for University of Kansas residence halls and apartments at its monthly meeting in Toeeka Friday.
According to Regents policy, rate increases affecting students must be considered twice. The rate proposal, which is expected to be approved at the December meeting, would go into effect next fall.
THE INCREASE in residence hall rates would affect approximately 4,700 students at KU. Students with double rooms would pay $1,365 a year as compared with the $1,285 they are paying now, a 6.2 percent increase. Rates on a single room would increase 12.1 percent from $1,695 to $1,900.
Rates at Stouffer Place apartments would rise a smaller percentage than residence halls. Rent on a single
bedroom apartment would increase 5 percent from $100 to $105 a month. Rent on double bedroom apartments would increase 20 percent.
Chancellor Archie R. Dykes said the increases were needed because inflation was causing increases in food prices.
In other action Friday, the Regents lifted restrictions on enrollment in baccalaureate nursing programs at four Regents institutions, including the University of Kansas Medical Center.
THE INCREASES are in line with the guidelines set in President Carter's anti-inflation package. Dykes said the increase was figured by averaging increases made in 1978 and 1977, in accordance with Carter's guidelines.
The Regents approved a KU request to use $3,199, which had been allocated for repairs, remodeling and special maintenance, for special consultants and testing on concrete panels on Green Hall.
Several defective panels, which make up part of the
outer surface of the hall, have caused problems since construction began.
BECAUSE OF concern that some of the panels might fall off the building, KU administrators ordered a barricade constructed around the outside of the building last week.
Sabatical财政 was amended by the board so that outside funds received by universities for faculty members are not discharged. In addition, they will implement their salaries. The change stipulates that total sabbatical pay cannot exceed the faculty member's salary.
Several legislative requests to be brought before the 179 Legislature were approved by the Regents. They included:
- Legislation to shorten the residency requirements for tuition purposes from one year to six months.
- Extension of the authority of campus police to areas immediately adjacent to campuses.
KU to plan Med library
By DAN WINTER
Staff Renorter
TOPEKA - The Kansas Board of Regents Friday told the University of Kansas to plan a new $4.9 million KU grant.
The Regents approved KU's request to an architect to complete preliminary library building plans.
Warren Corman, Regents facilities officer,' said the tentative site of the library was on 39th street across from Hall Wail, north of the Med Center's Campus in Kansas City, Kan. However, it will not be selected until the building are filled.
THE REGENTS WILL seek final planning money for the library from the 1979 Kansas Legislature. If those funds are granted, construction money will be sought from the 1980 Legislature.
Allen Wiechert, University director of facilities planning, said the tentative bid date on the project was July 18.
A study by a library consultant showed that existing Med Center space could not be used for the expansion of a small existing library because its floors could not support the weight of book stacks.
The study also concluded that expanding the existing building was not feasible because space around it was
THE 1978 LEGISLATURE appropriated $120,000 for planning a new library. However, Wiechert said noen of the money has been spent because the library consultant was hired with private funds.
uW will fund the planning with $75,000 of the $120,000 from the Legislature. Weichert said the remainder would be used for a study that would concentrate on use of space after the Center's hospital is moved into its new location in May.
Wiechert said that if funds were approved, the library could be in use by 1986.
Because the building probably would be built across the street from the Med Center's main campus, Wiechert said, a walkway over 39th Street was being considered for the library.
He said the library was founded in the 1920s when there were about 30 medical students. Over the years, Wiechert said, small amounts of space were taken over in "I." building as the library's need for space increased.
IN OTHER BUSINESS, the Regents approved a supplemental request for the fiscal 1979 budget. The requested $1,125,000 would cover costs of a scholarship program for KU medical students.
The Regents approved an additional $1,469,500 for the
The budget additions were sought because the number of medical students who applied for the scholarships was higher than KU and the Regents expected when they prepared the budgets.
fiscal 1800 budget to fund the program, the Kansas Medical Scholarship program.
Officials had estimated that 250 students would apply for the two types of aid offered under the scholarship. However, 403 medical students applied and are listed as receiving money this academic year.
LAST YEAR, in a move aimed at keeping graduating physicians in Kansas, the Regents voted to increase tuition for Kansas medical students in the four-year Med program. The median cost is $3,000 a year and from $3,000 to $4,000 for nonresidents.
The 1978 Legislature approved the scholarship plan shortly after the tuition increase by the Regents.
In other action, the Hergents voted to extend the authority of Mid Center policemen to enforce Kansas laws.
The Regents also voted to extend the amount of health and malpractice insurance, to KU medical residents at both the Med Center and the medical school branch at Wichita. The Kansas Med Center residents under the new coverage are those hired by the physicians corporations at the Med Center.
Prof is community college liaison
Winners
A written agreement with Johnson County and Kansas City, Ks., community colleges will be established.
Staff Reporter
By JAKE THOMPSON
"THE REASON for my job is to enhance our relations with the community colleges and give them a contact person here if they have problems with things like transfer of credit," he said. "Another is the fact that we are not required to compete with other rather than have any competition. But I don't see any competition between us and the community colleges."
Staff photo by BRUCE BANDLE
Phil McKnight, associate professor of curriculum and instruction, is KU's liaison with the university.
Much of the cooperation between the University of Kansas and the 19 Kansas community colleges relies on the efforts of one KIH associate professor.
He said recently that he was fascinated by the role of community colleges in relation to higher education.
"The rationale is that it would be silly to offer duplication courses," McKnight said. "Each level has a unique role and shouldn't compete with each other."
McKnight's job, as KU's coordinator with the community colleges, is to serve as a contact to handle the community colleges problems, complaints or questions, he said.
Phil McKnight
"They serve their immediate areas and have a unique mission in education," McKnight said. "I'm fascinated by the way they work and treat their students. They each have a flavor of their own."
have agreed not to offer any upper division courses without KU's approval.
That same agreement exists in verbal
division courses without having them ap-
rise on campus at the community colleges,
McKeithany College.
And, conversely, the community colleges
"The point is not being a nuisance, but showing our interest in the whole system," he said. "Part of that is compromise from both sides."
McKnight appeared to be prepared for the occasional tensions of working out compliance with regulations.
form with the other state colleges, McKnight said. He said the community colleges were bound by a state law that said they could not offer courses in another
Caroline, sat on his lap and repeatedly tried to cover or pull off his glasses.
MCKNIGHT TOOK the newly created job of the University's coordinator for community colleges in May 1977. At that time, he said, he received many complaints from community college administrators because he was not well acquainted with the state system of higher education.
Kansas State University students put the final destructive touch to the north goalpost at KSU stadium after a 36-20 victory over the Jayhawks. Both posts were eventually knocked out in the second half, but the team won.
However, too much communication might also be harmful, he said.
HE SAID that frequent travel to the community colleges was not necessary to maintain communication and that he felt a need to stay close to his family.
Since then, relations have grown stronger and more help has come from within the University and from the community colleges. McKnight said.
"Basically my job is one of communication," he said. "Most of the hard feelings are caused by people not in touch with one another."
'I do most of my work by phone',
Macknight said. 'I can contact most of the people I work with.'
McKnight attends all the joint meetings between KU and community colleges, telephones college administrators and travels to each school at least once a year.
The second group is students who want business or vocational training, such as nursing. These students often receive the training at community colleges, McKnight学院.
The third group is older students looking for extra knowledge or for certification in nursing.
ICKNIGHT SAID it was KU's role to help
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He said the role of community college had been changing in the last few years to allow the colleges to better serve their immediate regions.
Thirteen of the 19 community colleges have more than 50 percent non-traditional students, McKnight said. There are three colleges where students in community colleges hears.
Traditional academic students are the first group. For many reasons, these students choose to go to community colleges or transferring to KU or other Hegent schools.
Calgaard considered for Trinity position
Caligarad, who has visited the Trinity campus twice in the last two months, said Saturday that he was being considered for the president's position. A search committee is expected to make its own decision tomorrow to Trinity's board of trustees.
Ron Calgaard, vice chancellor for academic affairs, probably will know tomorrow whether Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas, will ask him to be his
Calgaard said he did not know whether he would accept the job at Trinity if it were offered to him.
"MUCH WOULD keep on the conditions, and I frankly don't know whether I would take it." Calgair said. "Since I was very nervous, I wouldn't want to say whether I'd take it."
Calgaard said Trinity was a liberal arts and sciences university that has 3,500 students and a new campus. Trinity was founded in 1897.
been going on since January 1977. Calgaard said his name had been considered for some time.
"They have aspirations to be one of the best liberal arts and sciences colleges in the country," he said. "They have the resources to do it."
Trinity's search for a president has
"I was asked a long time ago by a friend if I would mind having my name submitted as a candidate and I said I had no objections," he said.
CHANCELLOR ARCHIE R. Dykes said he had not discussed the matter with Calgaard for about a week.
"He told me then that he was being considered at Trinity University," Dykes said.
Calgary came to KU in 1963 as an assistant professor of economics. He became a full professor in 1972. He became KU's chief academic officer in 1975. He taught at the University of Iowa for three years before coming to KU.
Calgaard completed his bachelor's degree in economics at Luther College in Decorah, Iowa, in 1959. He received a master's in economics in 1961 and a doctorate in economics in 1963, both from the University of Iowa.
Calgaard said he was not certain when he would know about the Trinity board's decision.
opponents say IHP short-circuits learning
By DEBRIECHMANN
A father of a former student of KU's Integrated Humanities Program sharply criticized HIPs professors Saturday for allegedly short-circuiting his daughter's education at the University of Kansas.
Other opponents of the program, which offers a traditional approach to studying Western civilization, criticized HIP's professors for presenting their personal ideas to students.
Dean Tolelson, Glathe, was among seven HIP opponents who spoke at a public hearing this week. The hearing was part of an evaluation being made by the HIP advisory committee.
Staff Reporter
One father of a former HIP student accused one of the professors of persuading his son to join A French
The 3½-HOUR session was tape recorded for use in further deliberations by the committee, which has approved the final version.
The purpose of the session was to hear testimony from people who have opposed IHP in letters to the House.
After the hearing, Qunn Quinn, director of HIP, said he thought the committee was just going through the paperwork. He said he had no reason to oppose it.
wanted to cancel the second hearing, scheduled for next Monday, during which proponents of HPW will
"I find this all tedious and very boring," Quinn said. "I think it was fair, except that no serious attempt was made to talk only about the academic merits of the program as was supposed to have been."
TOLLEFSON SAID he wanted to advance the study of the humanities and had approved of his daughter Nancy's enrollment in IHP. His daughter graduated in 1977 and is now in Africa working for the Peace Corps.
"I was delighted when I heard my daughter say she was going to enter a classics program at KU," Tolleffson said. "Little did I know of the heartache that was to follow, both because of the distance that developed between us during the ensuing years and because of the way her own education would be short-circulated."
The six members of the advisory committee questioned Tolletion after he gave background about his experience.
Tollefson said his daughter eventually became
prejudiced against the rest of the University's faculty and programs.
He said he tried to persuade her to seek other studies, but she told him other programs would not accept his results.
"WE ARGUED and sometimes fought violently and then just avoided the subject," Tolelson said.
He said the IHP professors were too dynamic. He
Richard and Gloria Anderson, Kansas City, Mo., talked about their experience with IHP.
Philip, the Anderson's son, was persuaded to join a benchmaster by John Senior, an IHP teacher.
The Andersons said Philp's behavior changed drastically after he became nort of IHP.
Anderson held a notebook filled with plastic-covered letters from his son. He said that at the beginning of his son's participation in HIP, he wrote that he was going to change the heading later changed to "Dear Anderson."
"Philip said I was his biological father, but that Senior was his real father," Anderson said.
The Andersons said they knew of 11 other former
IHP students who were living with their son in the monastery.
A FORMER IHP student, Amy Hackler, Kansas City, Mo., who graduated in 1975, was critical of IHP but prefaced many of her comments with praise of the program.
"It sounds as if I'm really negative about the program," Hacker said. "I would never give up the experience that the teachings gave me. That's something I treasure."
Katieheen Pound, Parsons sophomore, another former HIP student, enrolled in HIP last year but dropped out because she said she did not like the professors' attitudes.
She said, however, that the three HP professors and HP students immersed her in the program and that she did not receive other educational experiences.
"You spend so much time with those same people that unless you make a point of developing friendship, there is no point in thinking tivities, IBIP is your whole world," Hacker said. "You begin mind thinking about the realm of what the universe is."
The Rev. Vern Barnet, leader of a group opposed to IHP, said he had two concerns about IHP.
"I FELT IF I remained in the program I would get so angry and so frustrated and further antagonize myself that it would be a waste of my time," Pound said.
First, he said, IHP is an "educational disappointment". Second, he said, IHP leads to violations of the constitutional principle of the separation between church and state.
Mike Shaw, a member of the advisory committee,
questioned Barbert about his group, the Committee
of Experts.
Barret said he was the director of a four-member steering committee that represented 25 sets of data.
BARNET SAID that he did not object to the IHP professors expressing their ideas but that he objected to Barnett's view.
He had a suggestion for improving IHP.
"I would hope that the University could better devote its resources to a more embracing sort of program where the humanities are more of a continuing discussion on the large questions of life,