ASK to alter CSHE's role
The proposed membership of the University of Kansas in the Associated Students of Kansas, a statewide lobbying group, may mean a bigger statewide voice for KU, but it also will mean a redefinition of goals for KU's existing lobbying group.
Roy Allen, chairman of the Concerned Students for Higher Education, KU's lobbying group, said yesterday membership in ASK would mean that CSHE would concentrate on smaller, KU-oriented projects.
"CSHE will begin to concentrate on strictly campus issues if KU is accepted into ASK, which I hope we will be," Allen said.
The Student Senate voted 55-10 last week to join ASK for one year at a reduced membership fee of $2,500. The ultimate decision will be made tomorrow when two members of ASK, Kansas State University and Fort Hays State University, vote on KU's admission.
THE OTHER four members of ASK-Washburn University, Emporia State University, Wichita State University and Pittburg State University—have already approved KU's provisional membership.
Allen said ASK would lobby on issues that were common to all the members of ASK, and CSHE would deal primarily with KU issues.
"THESE SMALLER projects will have a higher priority in CSHE after we join ASK than they did before." Allen said. "Before, CSHE had to work on it's own on the really big issues."
og issues.
"Without ASK, the questions of minimum wage and women's athletic funding would be totally up to us, which would make it hard to get anything done."
CSHE would focus on such lobbying efforts as getting funding for construction and renovation of buildings that need work, Allen said.
need work, Alice said.
Last year, he said, CSHE successfully lobbied for $6.8 million for the renovation of Watson Library and for a graduate fee waiver.
ALTHOUGH CSHE had requested a 100 percent graduate fee waiver, it received a 65 percent fee waiver. But Allen said he thought the successful lobbying efforts for Watson Library and the fee waiver had made CSHE a success in its first year.
However, he said CSHU had encountered one major disappointment. The third major project that CSHU had last year—additional funding for women's athletics—had failed.
"WE LOST miserably on that one." Allen said. "But last year was our first year, and I think it was very productive."
Allen said CSHE's strongest point was that it was a "vote lobby," which meant that it tried to make legislators think it was in their interests to vote a certain way.
"The legislators not only have a lot of students in their districts, but they have parents of those students who also vote."
He said the reason CSHE's lobby was powerful was that legislators have many students in their districts who write them letters.
"THE LETTER campaign is the core of our lobbying effort," he said, "and we follow it up with personal visits to the legislators.
CSHE now has 25 active members. Allen said. It operates on a budget of $800 a year.
KANSAN
Vol.89.No.23 Wednesday, September 27,1978
The University of Kansas
Lawrence, Kansas
After the show
Brian Franzea, 3, the youngest member of the Franzen Bros. family circus, takes time out from helping his father Wayne who has trained goat act. Players must be hard to come
Staff photo by RANDY OLSON
by on the road and the Franer family circle spends three quarters of the year traveling throughout the Midwest playing a small town a day. See story and more photo page
A Lawrence public transportation committee says it thinks the KU bus system should be expanded to carry more students to and from classes and other places in the city.
The committee, appointed by the Lawrence City Commission earlier this year, suggested expansion of "KU on Wheels" as well as other transportation services in town.
Jerry Albertson, chairman of a transportation subcommittee, said the committee was not recommending a citywide transportation system, but a less costly expansion of existing services.
The subcommittee has met since January. Albertson said, and has been reviewing a study made by an Omaha, Neb., firm on Lawrence's transportation needs and existing operations.
The committee plans to submit its recommendation to the city commission in December.
ONE RECOMMENDATION listed in the study suggested that "KU on Wheels," a student-funded bus system, be expanded to serve the entire city.
Mike Harper, student body president, also called such a plan impractical because of its cost.
Albertson said the committee was not considering such an expansion because it would cost too much to operate.
"Look at the system now," he said. "For $7 (the yearly transportation part of the student activity fee), we can't serve all the students."
He said the cost of providing service to Lawrence residents would create a large debt for the city.
"Without federal subsidies, there's no way that could happen," he said.
Although the Student Senate operates "KU on Wheels," the transportation subcommittee has not consulted with the Senate in considering the system's possible expansion
"KU on Wheels" is the largest existing service in Lawrence. It has a fixed route and schedule and primarily serves the needs of KU students. The bus service began in 1972 and its total number of passengers increased by 182 percent between fall 1972 and fall 1976.
"WE HAVE basically stayed away from it because it's a good operation and I don't like to make waves," Albertson said.
Two years ago, "KU on Wheels" drove more than 85,000 miles on and around KU's campus, compiling more than 8,000 hours on its nine buses.
According to the study, campus access and campus travel for college students represents the biggest transportation need in the city, and the most serious transportation problem among students who live off-campus.
Now there are 12 buses in operation on six routes using a total of about 180 millions of dollars) fuel each day.
An expanded bus service would enable about 30 percent of students living off-campus without vehicles and about 40 percent on-campus students to make trips outside the campus area.
Although the most critical student transportation need is campus travel, students also have a need for transportation in other parts of the city.
The study indicates a potential transportation demand of about 9,000 daily trips in good weather and a potential 12,000 in bad weather.
A maximum of 95 percent of these students can easily get to class except in adverse weather when only 55 percent can.
GENERALLY, STUDENTS who live off-campus or are too close to drive to campus either walk, bicycle or take the campus bus.
In addition to expanding "KU on Wheels," the committee
Because senior citizens and handicapped students and citizens have some of the same transportation problems, the committee requested that Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor, appoint someone from KU to inform the committee of chief problems.
"BUS 62 should double in size immediately," Albertson said. "It serves less than 10 percent of the city's senior citizens."
has studied ways to improve the Lawrence school system bus service, the taxi service and Bus 62, which transports elderly persons in town.
"If you have a student in a wheelchair, there is not a way for him to get on a bus," Turvey said. "It's very difficult to get onto a bus if you are on crutches or if you can't stand for long periods of time."
Last night, Bob Turvey, assistant director of the student assistance center, went to a committee meeting to suggest possible improvements to help handicapped students and citizens.
USUALLY IMPAIRED people also have difficulty getting around, he said. Such people cannot read and are unable to tell where the bus is going or where to stand and wait for one.
Physically handicapped persons also have a psychological problem with transportation.
"If you know you're slow and it takes you a long time to get on a bus, you might not want to place yourself in that position," he said.
Lifts can be installed on buses to raise a person high enough to get onto a bus, he said, and rarops can be attached to allow wheelchairs to maneuver onto a bus.
The Lawrence population of elderly and handicapped represents an estimated daily travel potential of 5,500 daily trips, according to the study.
Publications wait for boxes
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Roger Martin, co-publisher of the City Moon, is waiting to find out if he can sell his paper outside Woeocra Terrace.
Staff Reporter
John Vanderhorst, president of John Graduate Students Presenting an Alternative, is waiting to find out if Today's Student can be given out at more than the present seven distribution points on the KI campus.
and Joe Radcliffe, editor of Montage, is waiting to find out how he can distribute his magazine on campus.
All three are waiting for the KU Distribution of Literature Committee to make a policy on how, when and where publications can be distributed on campus.
The distribution committee will meet tomorrow in an attempt to establish recommendations and the University Events Committee will decide whether to
The events committee coordinates and schedules events on campus.
MARTIN, WHO ALSO is an instructor in English, had charged the events committee with discrimination because he has been accused he could sell it in front of the Kansas Union.
Three other newspapers sold in front of the Union, however, had never received permission from the events committee. Those newspapers are the Kansas City Star and Times, the Topeka Capital Journal and the Lawrence Journal-World.
Martin said yesterday that he was prepared to charge the events committee with limiting his freedom of speech if he wanted him to increase his distribution of the City Moon.
"If I can't make any money because I don't have any distribution points, then I can't print my paper," Martin said.
The Moon, which contains social satire,
is published irregularly and sells for 25
cents, he said.
mattun said he could see no reason why he could not put a box outside Wescoe Terrace.
"IT WOULDN'T offend anybody's sense of decorum because there are already some rattly-looking boxes there," he said.
The Lawrence Journal-World and the Korean currently have distribution boxes on the shelves.
Vanderhorst also wants to increase the number of distribution boxes for Today's Student, which his group distributes on campus for free.
"We feel that essentially we should be free to have as many boxes as we think we need." Vanderhorst said.
queeny, Vanderhoor said, his group would like to have as many distribution points as the Kannan. The Kannan is located at 11 outside and 25 inside locations.
Unlike Martin and Vaneromert, reaccliffe would be content if he could have just one box from which to distribute his magazine.
"I'm eager to hear the committee's policy because we feel we could be getting more copies of Today's Student distributed if we had more boxes," he said.
Today's Student is published weekly by Life Now, Ames, Iowa.
"ONE BOX IN front of the Union would be good enough because we distribute in the dorms and around Lawrence," Radcliffe said.
The events committee in August tabled Radcliffe's request for a permanent box until the literature distribution policy was adopted. The second issue of Montage, which came out this month, has been released from a temporary box near Old Green Hall.
nadiceff said the aim of his magazine was to combine journalism and fiction and offer talented persons an opportunity to get published.
Last week, the events committee decided to have the literature committee's original recommendations revised because of an opinion by Vickie Thomas, assistant in the University general counsel's office.
THOMAS' OPINION said that the events committee had the right to regulate how, when and where publications could be distributed on campus. But reasonable numbers of distribution points at locations of public access must be provided.
One of the literature committee's original recommendations was the construction of lock boxes in front of the Union for publications.
The Moon and Public Notice currently are being sold in the lock boxes, which were provided by the Union.
Public Notice is published in conjunction with the Community Mercantile, 700 Maine St. and offers stories on gardening, local history and alternative food ideas.
By JAKE THOMPSON
Trash truck called boon to KU overflow
Staff Reporter
About once every month and a half, a trash truck breakdown causes some of the University's trash dumpsters to overflow, which forces streets to be scattered by sportive winds.
"Things go just fine for about one and a half months and then the bottom falls out," he said yesterday. "If one of the trucks breaks down the paper really piles up."
But the arrival of a new trash truck sometime this week should help KU's Facilities Operations stay ahead of the problem to Odelt Wiley, assistant director of FO.
"If you want to see what paper is, just go down to the stadium after a game—and that's only in one afternoon. Just think of that every day all over the University."
The new truck will not be used immediately, Wiley said, because it had to be taken to Nashville. Teemu, and have a driver in service within a month, he said.
The amount of trash at the University has increased markedly in the last few years, Wiley said, and the equipment is barely able to keep the University clean.
"Between breakouts and the increase in trash, it's to the point where we'll have to run three trucks just about all of the time," he said. "Right now, when one breaks down, you have to use four trucks (lamb) and on Saturdays. Even then, that gives them only about one extra day."
"IF EVERYTHING goes right they can
get off a bed a day. The way to the landfill in
**WE TAKE spells at it**, he said. "Like flat tires. When it was muddy out there last spring we had one flat every time a truck went out. We use tires that have a special tread to trave a mail around. But when the trucks get in that mud it's a different story."
north Lawrence. They usually average about seven a day, though."
Two trucks in constant use would be able to keep up with the University's output of tractors.
“As long as we keep the two of them running every day we'll hold our own,” he said. “The oldest one will be used as a cup after we pull the chutney and use it.”
Hospital move approaches
He said there were more than 70 dumps scattered around the campus. About 10 have to be emptied daily and a breakdown or repair creates problems.
KANSAS CITY, Kam... The state's largest single building project ever is almost finished and when it is, Russel Miller's job will be over also.
Miller, a vice chancellor for the University of Kansas Medical Center, has been working closely with designers of the U.S. Army Hospital since construction began in 1973.
rew will coordinate the move from the old hospital to Bell Memorial, which will be his home.
Wiley said the size of the "boxes", or trash dumpsters, also was causing problems. Some hold three cubic yards of trash and some on order will hold 15. The little ones are hard to balance and the bag hurts when they fall. The landfill because of their height, he said.
"We've got some three-cubic-yard boxes, and if you just look at them they'll turn over," he said. "None of the drivers like to bundle them. They're tracheous.
"We've ordered three 15-cubed-yard boxes, and the only way I can get them to the landfill is to take a devious route. I can't go under the underpass in north Lawrence. The drivers could go to sixth Street and cut across the highway, but that's a long way
Miller will head a committee of Med Center staff members who have been appointed to supervise the move that will begin next month.
"There's some nervousness among committee members," Miller said. "But we shouldn't have any big problems unless there are some equipment fouls-up."
"WE'RE NOT tot nuvies about moving into new buildings but, we've never done it."
nothing this big better.
Miller said the move would not be difficult.
because the new hospital was connected to all the other Med Center buildings.
The state will accept the building from the contractors a floor at a time, he said. However, the state may not accept the building's outer skin.
An inspection conducted last May showed that about 146 concrete panels that form the walls of the building are cracked.
The panels, similar to defective panels on KU's new Green Hall, give the hospital the power to repair it.
A final inspection will be made a week from today to decide whether the panels
"The warm tone panels like the ones used on the law school aren't made anymore and the white ones look a little austere," Miller said.
DESPITE THE problems with the panels, the committee still plans to begin the long process of moving into the new hospital next mouth.
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