THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
The University of Kansas
Vol. 89, No.2
Monday August 28,1978
Lawrence, Kansas
Unhappy associates look for businessman
By JOHN P. THARP
Staff Writer
The Lawrence City Property Rental building is for rent.
That's what Junius Underword, owner of the building at 1113 Massachusetts St., said.
"I'd like to have a great time."
"We were alerted he (Scofield) was closed underneath Underwood said "and no we can't find him."
Underwood had leased the building July 12 to Robert E. Scofield, who told Underwood he was going to operate Lawrence City on the ground floor and would rent a locale rental housing for paying customers.
It seems Underwood is only one of many people who can't find Scoffield, who lists a few.
Efforts by the Kanas to contact Seofeld by telephone and at his home were unsuc-
Scofield also used to operate Topoika City Property Rental, which is closed.
Laurie Wolkey, Kansas City Kan., senior,
also islooking for Scofield.
Wokley said she and her roommate Vickie Ellman, Kansas City, Kan.,丰rennished, paid a $20 fee in the middle of July to Scoffold's business to help them find a place to live.
"It was about July 15 or 20," Wolley said, "when we saw an ad in the UDK for this outfit. We went down and talked to a red-haired guy who sold a policy to us for $20.
"He said they would provide us listings of places we could rent and he gave us one listing. We drove back from Kansas City two days ago and I signed a on the door that said 'closed today.'"
Now there is a sign on the office that says "closed due to emergency," and there's no phone.
Wolkey said she went to the Consumer Affairs Association office and filed a formal complaint against Scofield about 10 days ago.
Susie Hannah, assistant director at the Consumer Affairs office, said that Woley's complaint had been forwarded to the Douglas County District Attorney's office.
An assistant district attorney, Craig Stancifle, said last week he had received a copy of the complaint, and turned the matter in to Lawrence Police Department for investigation.
He said the letter stated that Wolkey had paid for a service to find an apartment and rented it out.
"We've got a criminal thing possibly," Stanciffe said. "If there's any question of legality in something like this we get the police department on it."
In addition to the police department the Douglas County Sheriff's office has been checking into the business, a deputy there said.
Linda Jeffrey, assistant attorney general in the consumer protection division of the Kansas attorney general's office, said she had not received any complaints against
"If I get something, like a complaint," Jeffrey said. "I can take some action."
"The main problem generally," she said, "is individuals who have paid for such a service and aren't satisfied. This leads me to believe that most of the companies are OK, but people should be aware of what they're using."
Jeffrey said she had received information from other states about rental referral agencies and she was aware of potential issues associated with the operations of such businesses.
Jeffrey said that even though she had not received complaints about Scofield she still wished to visit her.
"I if I could locate him," she said, "I could issue a subpoena to talk to Scofield."
person who would like to talk to See RENTAL page 15
Staff photo by GEORGE MILLENER
Hot'Hawks
August heat takes its toll on UK football players during a curriculum Saturday afternoon. Many Jayhawks remember KU's 1977 season opener in College Station, Tex.
against Texas A & M in their season opened, Sept. 9 in Memorial Stadium.
Enrollment increase slows down
BvDEBRIECHMANN
Staff Reporter
Although an enrollment record was set as classes began today at the University of Kansas, the increase from fall 1977 is only 12 students.
Enrollment figures released yesterday by Gil Dyck, dean of admissions and records, showed a total of 23,470 students enrolled on the Lawrence and Kansas City campuses.
Crowded hall prompts fire study
Staff Reporter
By BARR KOENIG
A complaint charging a lack of proper exits from a temporary housing area at a KU residence hall will be investigated by the state fire manslery this week.
State Fire Marshall Floyd Dibbarn said Saturday the complaint was filed with his office by an individual last week who said residents temporarily居 in some furnished rooms, a laundry room and dead corridors did not have access to an exit.
"I can't imagine that people are really
living there, but we're going to check it out anway." Dibber said.
Dibbern, whose office investigated the safety of all on-campus housing last year, said that all emergency exits and alarm systems would be installed investigation would center on the complaint.
J. J. Wilson, KU director of housing, said Saturday he did not think the temporary housing conditions caused an exit problem. He said he was not aware of the complaint or the pending fire marshall's visit until Friday.
"I think the exits and the egress of the building are proper," he said, "and I don't
see how temporary housing has changed that in any way, shape or form."
Wilson said he did not notify the fire marshall's office of the temporary conditions because he did not consider the situation hazardous.
"I did not think it was so excessive that it needed to be called to their attention," he said.
Temporary housing at Gertrude Sellars Pearson-Corbian Hall is reported the most crowded of all special conditions. Appropriate accommodations include third-floor-north recreation room, Bunk beds and lockers are provided for the women, as they await permanent arrangements.
Staff photo by RANDY OLSON
Steam room
According to Fred McElhenie, director of residential programs, 240 spaces have been provided by converting available space in all but one of the nine University residence halls to accommodate students with no permanent housing arrangements.
McEhlenie said the space was made available temporarily in all residence halls except Templin until contract cancellations provided spaces for permanent housing.
Tammy Carlisle, Fort Scott junior, a victim of the housing crush, dries her hair in a corner of what used to be the sauna room at Corbin Hall, which she now shares with two friends.
Pauley Cader, resident assistant for the rec room housing area, said yesterday that the biggest problem with the living quarters was a lack of privacy and that all women who had been assigned that particular room were forced to work before they signed a temporary contract.
Living arrangements also were made at the Lutheran Chapel and University student service at 15th and Iowa streets through the dean of foreign students. A few students are staying in private Lawrence residences, McElhene said.
Students living under the special conditions were offered a temporary contract that guaranteed a space in a building for which they pay $42 a week, McEilhan said. Students in private residences work out individual arrangements with each family.
Tempin, an all-male residence hall, was not used because it lacked additional space.
KU's eight scholarship halls, which have a designed capacity of 400 residents, also were not used because they were filled, he added. The other nine halls have a designed capacity of 4,700.
"Our greatest problem is in being able to predict how many students will come to the University, and the second trick is to figure out what kind of students want housing and what kinds they want."
MElBienie said that he did not know how long the special housing would be in effect, but that students would be moved when they would have permanent space was made available.
But the biggest problem that faces the housing department regarding temporary housing is not setting up the arrangements, McEllenie said.
The housing crunch, which has hit KU for each of the past four years, usually is worse in the fall, according to McEhennie, but the spring semester is not without problems.
"It runs a lot closer in the spring," he said, "but we also have a lot higher occupancy in the spring to begin with than we do in the fall."
Last fall when classes began 23,458 students were enrolled at both campuses.
Today, enrollment in the Lawrence campus is 21,650. That figure compares with
Enrollment at the KU Med Center is 1,280,
which is one student more than last year's
summer enrollment.
Final enrollment figure for this fall will not be available for about four weeks, when the program is terminated.
Dyck estimated final enrollment on both campuses to be 25,340. This year's estimated total is 13 students more than final fall enrollment in 1977 of 25,327.
Last year's final enrollment total was about 520 more than what Dyck estimated it would be.
Dick estimated that this year's total enrollment on the Lawrence campus would top last year's total by 4 students. He said the number of students expected exceed last year's total to be about 9 students.
Regular enrollment at the Lawrence and Kansas City campuses ended yesterday, but enrolment will continue for several weeks because of late and special enrollment, along with enrolment by mail for doctoral candidates.
Last fall, 1,850 students enrolled late,
Dyck said.
If that many students enroll late this
semester, KU's enrollment would break 25,000 for the second consequent fall semester.
Chancellor Archie R. Dykes said he was pleased that enrollment was increasing.
The number of students graduating from Kansas public high schools dropped this year and is expected to continue declining. The study of projected 12th grade enrollment.
"We have been growing while other schools have not been growing," he said. "There has been a growing number of students who are concerned about the quality of their education and are coming to KU because they feel the programs are superior."
An author of the study, Kenneth Anderson, KU professor of administration, foundations and higher education, said the change in faculty ranks changed since 1970, the first year of the study.
See ENROLLMENT page 14
Harper files lost
It seems that no one is immune from the frustrations of last minute schedule changes, closed classes or lost enrollment packets.
When Mike Harper, student body president, went to Wescole Hall last week to pick up his confidential folder, he was told it was missing. A telephone call by enrolment personnel to the Numeraker still failed to locate the missing folder.
Harper was told to go to Window 3 on Strong Hall's first floor where, he said, he got in line with 50 other students who had similar complaints.
"They asked me whether I had ever been enrolled as a student here before," Harper said.
Harper's folder has not been found, but he was given a permit to enroll.
The next day, during a meeting with Chancellor Archie R. Dykes and Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor, Harper told Dykes about the lost folder.
Harper said Dykes' response was, "It's not good to lose the student body president's folder."
Shankel suggested that the folder could be in transit between offices.
Staff Writer
By TOM RAMSTACK
Error forces withdrawals in Med Center tuition suit
An error by the attorney for 227 University of Kansas Medical School students who are bringing a lawsuit against the Kansas State University of the students to withdraw from the case.
The students fitted suit May 9 following a 287 percent increase in tuition at the Med Center. Along with the increase the Kansas Legislature authorized a scholarship giving free tuition in exchange for cash sent by the university in Kansas one year for each year of free tuition.
The students filed the lawsuit saying that the combination of the fee increases and the scholarship program illegally forced medical school graduates to practice in Kansas. They also said the increases violated an earlier agreement of lower tuition rates.
Fifty-seven of the students who were plaintiffs in the suit were forced to withdraw after their attorney, Gerald Jeschir, agreed to a motion by Mike Davis,
University, general counsel, that plaintiffs fighting the tuition increase could not be represented.
Jesichard the motion came during a May 8 hearing in which it was determined that the temporary restraining order blocking the fee increases would remain in effect.
"It was a tactical error on my part," Jesehr said.
Jereshick he agreed to the University's motion not realizing that the date by which students must apply to receive other financial aid had passed.
In an Aug. 23 letter to James Lowman, dean of the school of medicine, asking that students be allowed to remain as plaintiffs in the suit and still get the scholarship, he told the Times they would actually in a position where they are forced to drop the suit because they cannot afford to not be on scholarship. Had they known that this restriction (that the students either have to pay or not pay) would be applied, they would have made other arrangements. Had I known of their
reliance on the scholarships, many based on encouragement from your University. I certainly would have strenuously objected to this restriction."
Lowman did not respond to Jeserich's letter and refused to comment on the letter.
Jesearch also said some of Lowman's personnel knew before the Aug. 8 hearing that she was unsure about her scholarship. He said there were some suggestions that the financial aid office may have encouraged students to apply for the scholarship knowing they would then be eligible.
In the letter to Lowman, Jeserich said, "I want it clear that I am not personally accusing you or your staff of acting in bad faith, although my clients almost all have been praised for the obvious large number of plaintiffs who have been prejudiced by this restriction."
If the students win, only those bringing suit would be eligible for the original tuition
See TUITION page 15
Dissertation urges athletic degree
Rv JEWELL WILLHITE
Staff Reporter
University students who hope to become professional athletes should be able to select a major in professional sports tailored to meet their specific needs, John Sier, Lawrence graduate student, said Friday in lecture of his doctoral dissertation in education.
Silver, whose dissertation is titled "An Academic Program for Career Athletes: A Philosophical Inquiry into the Place of Sports in the Modern University," said his idea was the result of his experience as a University of Kansas teaching assistant.
In spring 1975, Silver taught History and Philosophy of American Education, a
AS A RESULT, Siler said, many college athletes were suspended by the National Football League coaches
course required for education majors. Among his students, he said, were physical education majors who were members of KU's athletic teams.
These students had difficulty completing the assignments, Siler said, not because they lacked the ability or interest but because participation in athletics took so much of their time. They could not take a test in math and English, but require students who participate in intercollegiate sports to take 12 credit hours each semester, he said.
in 1975 found that 96.7 percent had not graduated from college.
Another problem faced by college athletes, Siler said, is that they may be required to pay for a significant interest. While many major in physical education, he said, studies have shown that many professional athletes want careers in business when their days on the playing field end.
"They should be given a degree program that they are interested in." he said.
The degree program Siler advocates would give college athletes academic credit for athletic practices and chalk talks. These, along with courses in physiology and
See DEGREES page 15