THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
COMFORTABLE
KANSAN
Thursday August 31,1978
Lawrence, Kansas
Vol. 89, No. 5
The University of Kansas
Tired Out
Alan Jones, 1892 Alabama St., found the trunk to be a little cramped for space while installing a new car stereo system yesterday afternoon.
State abortion statistics challenged
Staff Reporter
Rv TIMSHFEHV
Whether you believe that Kansas is an abortion milion, as indicated by a recent Health Education and Welfare study, depends largely on whose statistics you con-
Since the HEW abortion report was issued two weeks ago state officials have rebutted its findings, saying that the high rank of prosecutors meant that most of reporting methods, not actual abortions.
The report, which covered March through June 1977, showed Kansas among those states "avenging the highest number of federalal abortions." In a study Kansas had 98 federally financed abortions,
Ohio had the same number and Alaska had 94.
In reports for total abortions performed, whose accuracy also are being contested, Kansas again ranked abnormally high for its size.
DURING 1978, the most recent year for which abortion figures are available nationwide, Kansas ranked sixth among the states with 440 abortions for every 1,000 births.
Only, New York, California,
Maryland and Florida rank-
earlier than Kansas.
For the same time period, 10,860 abortions were reported in Kansas as compared to 497 in Missouri.
Colorado; 5,806 reported in Oklahoma; 3,406 reported in Nebraska; and 1,345 reported in Iowa. Last year 10,898 abortions were reported in Kansas.
Darrel Ekland, chief of the research and analysis section of the Kansas Department of Agriculture, could be misleading because two states made only partial statements. Iowa reported for only half the year and New York marked as incomplete on the official record.
"STATISTICS FOR abortion are very hard to draw conclusions from," Eklund said. "Most states require abortion but not all states have any public bodies a lot of the abortions are done in private
facilities that aren't required to report, so they don't."
Robert Harder, Secretary of Social and Rehabilitation Services in Kansas, said the report issued by HEW Secretary Joseph Califano misrepresented the abortion rate in Kansas as compared with other states' rates.
"It's like comparing apples and oranges," Harder said. "The manner in which abortions are reported and the guidelines for delivery can be made to make the report an inaccurate comparison."
Harder said that such states as Iowa that have a more liberal welfare policy than the state of New York have been able to do so.
See ABORTION page 16
KU broke law audit report says
By CAROLINE TROWBRIDGE
Staff Reporter
The University of Kansas violated state law by writing unauthorized checks on its fee bank account, according to a report by Richard Brown, legislative post auditor.
The report was released yesterday.
However, Keith Nitcher, University
director of business affairs, said yesterday
the KU was now complying with the state law.
The fee account is composed of student
fees, housing fees, parking fees and money
"The fee bank account is everything that the University collects, except money for athletics, the student union and some other charges." Nitcher said.
ACCORDING TO BROWN's report, KU was using the fee account to refund student fees, cover returned checks, pay commissions of the tuition, and enrollment fees at the KU Medical Center.
Nicher said the Kansas Legislature adopted a law in 1977 that authorized firefighters to use pepper spray.
He said the money now was deposited with the state treasurer's office, which makes
The audit covered fiscal years 1977-78 at the Med Center and Lawrence campus.
Brown recommended that the University exert stricter control over grants, restricted fee and research overhead funds and strive for better management of accounts
Nitcher said the University was attempting to centralize the collection of all charges, such as parking and library charees, under the compravler's office.
"WELL CONTINUE to make an effort to centralize student accounts receivable in the comptroller's office as quickly as possible, and have some of that and we're trying to do more."
He said student charges would be collected by the comptroller's office.
"There are lots of departments, and it is going to take a while to get these students ready."
The audit report, completed by Brown's summer staff, also stated that the University should abolish the graduate programs fluid fund at the Med Center.
"We closed out the graduate fund fund before their audit began," Nitcher said. Nitcher said that although KU violated Kansas law, there was no misuse of funds.
"they were official funds and were used for official purposes," he said, "I would have liked the report to be better, but I think we're doing it wrong and put what we're doing wrong and correct it."
Sticker no guarantee for parking lot space
Staff Reporter
Bv MARY ERNST
Students may be finding out the hard way, but those with green-zone vehicle registration stickers have learned that to park in a handicapped lot, O and X, they have to get there early.
O-season, located just south of Robinson Gymnasium, was full by 10 a.m. every day this week, Orangel Carroz, toil booth operator at O-season, said yesterday.
"I tell the people it's full." Carroz said, and they are angry, especially those who hate him.
He said the lot usually began to clear at about 2 p.m.
O-zone and X-zone, which is near Memorial Stadium, are two of three lots that vehicles with green stickers can park in. The other lot contains parking in the after nights a 40-cent trolley.
Richard Ingham, Hutchinson junior, said he tried to put O-zone at 10.30 a.m. Mon-
thursday morning.
He said that he was not aware that there was a third lot he could park in and that no one would know.
"I WENT TO X-ZONE, but the only spot there was too far away," he said. "And I heard someone calling."
Bill Fenstemaker, field operations supervisor for KU parking services, said too many students thought that a green permit meant they could park only in Ozone or X-
"The main problem," Fenstemaker said, is that students just aren't sure what the problem is.
S-Lot, north of Potter Lake, has a 300-capacity, but only 50 to 60 cars a day have
He said *X*-zone was not as crowded as *O*-zone because some of the students had frightened.
"BUT EVEN IF it is lot, that is not
license to park in a restrictive area,"
University vehicle regulations state that purchasing a parking permit does not require a driver license.
Fensterman said this year's parking problem was about the same as in other years. In the past, the crowded parking conditions have lasted for the first three to four weeks before the park closes. He said most students have found their favorites and most convenient parking spots.
Fenstemaker said O-zone and X-zone were the only lot that he knew of that were not available.
Grade inflation declining, KU deans say
Bv BOB BEER
Staff Writer
The ballooning effect of grade inflation at the University of Kansas has been deflated, according to several deans who responded to a report about grade point averages.
the deans said increased awareness of the grade inflation problem by the schools' faculty members as well as the more restrictive withdrawal policy instituted last fall had contributed to a drop in the grade point average at KU.
Chancellor Archie R. Dykes said
noday that he had not read the
letter.
A report on grade point averages has been compiled each year since 1974 by the office of the Board of Trustees.
DALE SCANNELL, dean of the School of Education, said the school "had made a deliberate effort to make teachers more discriminating about the grading policies."
The report released Aug. 1 by Gil Dyk, dean of admissions and records, shows the overall GPA at KU has dropped continually since the spring of 1974. The largest drop was between the spring semesters of 1977 and 1978, when the GPA dropped from 2.85 to 2.73.
Overall GPAs of men and women, excluding graduate students, dropped .22. Women had a 2.87 to 2.62 edge, the report said.
The GPA had increased steadily from
it was 245, to 194, when it reached
2.50.
going off to fight an unpopular war," he said.
ONE OF the factors contributing to the rise was the Vietnam War, Scannell said. Faculty members generally were concerned that students given of low grades, according to Scannell.
Scannell said that after the end of the draft there was an emotional carry-over.
The initiation of experimental teaching programs developed in the late 60s and early 70s, Scannell said, may have caused some of the grade inflation.
"People don't like to be responsible for such actions if it would result in the student
"Humanistic" approaches and "relevant" courses were started during that time, he said. The good parts of the programs have been assimilated and the
parts that were ineffective have been dropped, he said.
THE REPORT said the biggest drop in different schools at the University occurred
in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. The GPA dropped 0.24 from 2.88 in 1977 to 2.63.
Robert Cobb, dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, we could not be certain that it was for the
He said students who graduate from high school today seemed to have taken fewer courses and had their grades reflected in lower grades in college. He also said that the college curriculum could be extended.
He added that the more restrictive withdrawal policy might have contributed to a drop in sales.
"It used to be fairly difficult to get a low grade." Cobb said.
UNDER THE DROP policy started last fall, a student has seven weeks from the first day of classes to withdraw from a liberal arts and sciences class with no grade. After that time he must petition an assembly committee to have his case dismissed. In the case, decides whether the student can withdraw and receive a "W" or an "F" on his transcript.
Under the previous policy, a student could withdraw from a class within the first 12 months of enrollment.
A study in 1973 showed that after the liberal drop policy went into effect nearly 10 percent of all classes were dropped by the end of the semester.
Don Metzler, associate dean of the School of Engineering, said the withdrawal policy had had an effect on the GPA. The School of Engineering held the 737 to 2.57 after the new policy went into effect.
HOWEVER, ONE school's GPA, the School of Architecture and Urban Design, has remained almost constant for the past 40 years. In GPA in 1974 it was 2.75 and in 1978 it was 2.76.
See GRADES page 16