THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
The University of Kansas
Vol. 88, No.3
Tuesday August 29,1978
Lawrence, Kansas
College benefits outweigh costs, chancellor says
By CAROLINE TROWBRIDGE
Staff Reporter
The monetary cost of a college education is high, but the cost of ignorance is deadly. Chancellor Archie R. Dykes said yesterday at the 118th annual University of Kansas
Dykes told about 2,000 faculty and students that it was possible to calculate the cost of not going to college, just as it was to evaluate the cost of attending college.
"To educate and to do it well is costly." Dykes said. "Not to educate is suicidal."
"The real cost (of ignorance) must be measured not just in reduced earnings, but in reduced life expectancy as well; not only because of its negative standing; not only in less social and cultural progress, but also less personal satisfaction and enjoyment from life."
Staff Photo by ALAN ZLOTKY
HE SAID education was essential for the continued progress of man.
"Modern society's reliance on education is not only necessary, it is unavoidable if you don't."
Dykes said state universities might be the nation's most meaningful creation. Change and progress, Dykes said, are integral parts of the university.
"What our society tends to forget is that intellectual talents and capabilities developed in the university make for reasoned, productive and predictable change, not unthinking, capricious and arbitrary change." Dykes said.
He said most of those present at yesterday's ceremony probably had not attended the event.
"SUCH IS the life of the University; ever-changing, ever-moving; ever-regenerating, always adapting to the future, in its hands the rich resources left by it the pressing generations of students."
One person attending his first convocation at KU was Tara Tsasu, vice chancellor at UCLA.
Sacked out
Yusufu, the Nigerian university's chief administrator, has been at KU since Sunday to lay plans for exchange programs between the university and the University of Shankel, executive vice chancellor, said.
Following a slide show about life at KU, James Ralston, associate professor of ensembles, led students and faculty in singing and "and the Blue" and "I'm a Jayhawk."
Alan Nickelson, Maryville freshman, found the strain of the first day of classes a little too much to handle. Nickelson dealt with the problem by taking a short camph behind
Fire inspector to study conditions at GSP-Corbin
A building inspector from the state fire marshal's office is scheduled to be at the University of Kansas today to investigate a complaint regarding temporary housing conditions at Gertrude Sellars Pearson-Cobin Residence Hall.
State Fire Marshal Floyd Dibbarn said yesterday that GSP-Corbin would be inspected in response to a complaint he heard from the company temporarily housed in some furnished rooms, a laundry room and dead-end rooms. He did not have access to an emergency exit.
The freshman-sophomore women's hall reportedly is the most crowded of all temples.
According to Deb Holt, GSP-Corbian resident director, about 20 women are living in the third-door-north room and three women are living in the hall's sauna. About 40 women also are living in sewing rooms and other special-use rooms in both halls.
HOLT SAID some of the temporary residents already had been permanently placed so the numbers of those housed temporarily were chaning constantly.
Clark Brubaker, a building inspector from the fire marshal's office in Topeka, said the investigation would check exits and the overall safety of the hall.
The scheduled inspection will not cause any last minute changes in the temporary conditions, according to Fred McElbenie, director of residential programs.
"His visit is not causing any stir over here (at McEilene's office)" he said.
McElienie said permanent residential spaces were becoming available yesterday. Arrangements are under way to move those temporarily housed into the opened areas.
"SOME SPACES are beginning to open up," McEilien said, and for space to open it must be understood that people must be contacted and they must be moved."
McEhlene said a stipulation had been put in this year's residence hall contracts stating that students who did not claim their rooms by the first day of classes had to forfeit their room assignment. Those persecuted will have their assignments will be notified in writing.
"We will write to each individual and tell
them what we've done and ask them to respond," he said.
McElhenie said those temporarily housed would be moved into permanent spaces according to the date the temporary contract was signed.
He said an effort would be made to provide permanent spaces in the same hall
the students were now housed in if they qualified for a permanent space there. But the main idea, he said, was to find a space anywhere.
"If they are freshmen, we will try to make space available for them in a hall that houses freshmen," he said, "and if by any chance we meet any of their preferences, we will."
Figures released Sunday by Gil Dyk, dean of admissions and records at KU, show an increase of 12 students over last year's attendance at Kansas City campuses.
OFFICIALS AT the universities cited the decreasing size of high school graduating classes as the main reason for the leveling-off of the enrollment increases.
Two Regents' universities show declining enrollments
By JOHN FISCHER Staff Reporter
Both Fork Hays State University and Emporia State University show a decline in enrollment, while enrollments at the University of Kansas, Kansas State University and Missouri State University and Pittsylvania State University crease over last year's enrollment figures.
The enrollment figures will be made official after Sept. 25, the deadline when the six schools must submit their figures to the Regents.
Meanwhile, the other four universities under the Board of Regents apparently have a higher degree in foreign languages.
Enrolment figures for two of the six state-supported universities in Kansas apparently were below the average.
JAMES KELLERMAN, registrar at Stuyvesant Hays State, said the university's enrollment was down by 37 students from last fall's figure of 5,628.
"Enrollment has increased over the last three years," Kellerman said. "And I think we have a lot of room."
He said the university hoped the figures
would stabilize in the future rather than decline.
Kellerman said that the university was hurt by the declining numbers of graduating high school seniors, and that Fort Hays State is offering more continuing education courses to the public to make up for the decline.
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Dykes says merger plan could aid women's sports
By TOM RAMSTACK
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Staff Writer
Chancellor Archie R. Dykes said yesterday that a merger of the men's and women's athletics programs, which has come under consideration by University administrators in the last two weeks, could increase support for women's athletics.
According to Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor, the merger is still in a preliminary planning stage. Shankel said Dykes was awaiting the opinions of the men's and women's athletics directors before taking further action.
Marian Washington, women's athletics director, said about the possibility of a merger. "It's important for me to meet with Mr. Marcum (men's athletics director) and continue to talk about some of the concerns we have."
Bob Marcum, men's athletics director, said that he discussed a possible merger of women and athletes with Friday and that she expressed concern that women's athletics would become secondary to men's athletics. When contacted Sunday, however, Washington would not discuss her
"SHE WAS CONCERNED about the position her people might be placed in," Marcum said. "I think she seemed receptive with some reservations."
Dykes said, "I think a merger would help to strengthen the total sports program, especially the women's. It would maximize our resources and help us to be more effective in fund raising."
"It would make it easier to raise funds because it eliminates the competition for contributions. With one program, people who support men's athletics and people who support women's athletics would contribute to the same fund."
Dykes said that after Iowa State University completed its present plans for a merger of women's and men's athletics, he asked the school to make Eight school that had separate programs.
"Most of the universities in the country are going to single athletics programs," he
A COMMITTEE began studying plans for a merger of athletics departments at KU at a time when it was difficult to afford.
"Schools like the University of Oklahoma and the University of Nebraska have substantially greater funding for athletics because of their football programs, and we have to find some way of compensating for that to remain competitive," Dykes said.
"We want to have a comprehensive, competitive program of women's athletics and a comprehensive, competitive program of men's athletics." "Our commitment to both is inseparable."
According to Title IX of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare federal guidelines, athletic opportunity for men and women at federally funded institutions must be equal.
The deadline for compliance with Title IX guidelines was July 21.
DVKES SAID that if the merger occurred, leadership of the sports program would not arise.
KU is scheduled this fall for a new HEW Title IX compliance review, which was planned following complaints of discrimination made this summer by two students in Kansas Elizabeth Banks, a University of Kansas Athletic Corporation board member.
He said that the budget for a total sports program would remain about the same if the men's and women's departments were reduced and the basketball would not be a reduction in personnel.
"Marian Washington would continue as women's athletics director and probably would be an associate director of the total sports program," Dykes said. "Bob Marcum would of course continue as athletics director."
Marcum said he was involved in the planning of a merger of athletics departments at Iowa State before he assumed the position of KU men's athletics director on Aug. 1. He was the assistant athletic director at Iowa State.
Bookstores compete in text sales
Staff Reporter
Regarding the merger, Marcum said, "You hate to talk about it, but it's a reality. I think it will certainly be expensive."
For years the Kansas Union Bookstore was students' only source of textbooks. But now the Jayhawk Bookstore, 1420 Crescent St., brings students the opportunity to shop around.
He said he needed input from other KU sports programs and the women's athletics department before he could say how a basketball athletics department would be most effective.
BySAMVANLEEUWEN
Informal studies done separately by the Union and the Kansan indicated the prices for new textbooks at both stores were identical.
The advantage to the student of having a choice appears to be greater availability of used textbooks. Both stores usually sell used textbooks with a percent off the current retail selling price.
A STUDENT comparing prices, policies and textbook availability at both stores would find, according to the Kansan's survey, that:
- By shopping both stores, 21 of the 31 checked could be bought in used condition.
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- The Jayhawk bookstore had 20 of the 31 titles available in used condition. Nine of those were not available in used condition at the Union.
- The Union had 12 of the 31 titles checked available in used condition.
- "In most cases the prices were comparable, whether it was used or new, with a price of $100."
- When used books are available at both book-stores, prices at the Jayhawk were lower than those at other stores.
- Although prices for the 31 titles checked when purchased in new condition were identical, Union customers are eligible for a percent rebate if they save their receipts.
- The Union had all 31 titles in stock.
Three of the 31 titles checked were not
available.
WARNER FERGUSON, associate director of the Union, said the Union's comparison of 20 books indicated that six were below 75 cents lower at the Union.
Students apparently were taking advantage of having two bookstores yesterday as crowds slowed check-out lines at the Jayhawk. Business also was brisk all day at the Union and crowds continued into the evening.
Courses, book titles
African Studies 420
Inter-Racial Communications Biology 104
Investigations in General Biology Business 642
Business Law American Languages and Cultures 642
The Tales of Genji I Economics 140
Economics English 101
The Norton Reader English 208
Washington University English 208
Selected Short Stories of Faulkner Snow of Killimanjaro
Three by Flannery O'Connor
Uncle Trom's Children German 128
Die Deutschen History 720
The Divine Comedy Companion to the Divine Comedy The Discarded Image History 544
Tudo Constitution England Under the Tudors Korean 104
Mygdodos Korean I Math 821
Lectures on Algebraic Topology Mechanical Engineering 743 Physical Metallurgy Principles Political Science 110
American Politics National Science 615
The Changing Voter Elections of 1976
Elections in America Psychology 574
Journey into Happiness Spanish 104
Vetas Hispanicas Vetas Hispanica lab book Eso Ea Speech 140
Interpersonal Communications Western Civilization 104
Collected Readings Student Manual
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Prices are from a Kansan spot survey conducted Friday and yesterday.
Cave-ins linked to soil conditions
By HENRY LOCKARD
Staff Reporter
A construction worker was killed in Newton early yesterday in the sixth of a series of trenching and excavating accidents that caused mass construction companies this summer.
Last June 28 in Topeka, a University of Kansas football player, Demin Balagna, was killed and a former player, John Gomez, was injured when a ditch caved in on them.
The worker, Richard Graber, was killed
the walls of a ditch he was working in
golden
Similarly, in the Kansas City vicinity, two men were injured and another was killed in a car crash.
Last week. James Sanders Jr..635 West
25th St. an employee of Brown Brothers Contractors, was sent to Lawrence Memorial Hospital with broken ribs and an injured back from a ditch cave-in.
Jeff Spahn, Kansas area director for the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, said yesterday that in the past three months fatalities from such accidents had occurred.
"WITHOUT QUESTION they are on the increase," Spahn said of the accidents, adding that not all trench accidents were reported to OSHA.
Speculation on the cause of these accidents is varied. Workers tend to classify them as unmanual, while persons who are familiar with the weather blame the weather and say
carelessness exists on the part of job supervisors.
Lawrence city officials who had been to the site of the Lawrence accident before that cave-in were satisfied the project was in compliance with OSHA standards.
Bob Brown, owner of Brown Brothers Contractors, said the Lawrence cave-in was an accident. He said Brown Brothers had men in their 50s and had never lost a man in a cave-in.
SPAHN, referring to trenching and ex-cavating operations, said, "The methods
"We're always very cautious about how we handle a job. Brown said, "It's just like driving in a car," and that never have had an accident and one day go out to the store and have
used have been established and have worked well for years."
He said the weather was to blame in most cave-in accidents.
Spahn said either a great deal of rain or a great deal of dry weather could affect the soil. The May rains perhaps did something to the plasticity of the soil, he said.
Plasticity of the soil is the soil's ability to retain its shape after pressure deformation, and it can be damaged by erosion.
The KU Weather Service recorded 4.7 inches of rainfall in May and 3.51 in June. More than three inches of rain fell between October and March, just six days before the Topeka accident.
Harold Dickey, a soil scientist with the Kansas Department of Agriculture, said
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