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Monday, December 10, 1973
University Daily Kansan
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year. We came out of the year with a feeling
unity, which Chancellor Deyes has
thought is important.
Nichols compared the students and faculty of 50 years ago with those of today and concluded that there had been a significant improvement in both.
"In fact, I'm not sure I could have made it as a student here had I come today," said Nichols, secretary of the Phi Beta Kappa chanter here for 42 years.
"A decline in the birth rate is going to affect our enrollment in the coming years," he said. "Also, the growth of the community colleges will affect our enrollment. They're going to take a higher percentage of freshmen because it costs so much to go to college, think these persons who are pllying pressure for increased tuition are wrong."
NICHOLS GREW serious as he speculated on the future of KU.
Nichols said the public was questioning the value of higher education.
"The thinking in school is more that education should be career oriented and
less simply learning how to live Nichols.
The former chancellor said the w challenge facing the University w new ways to maintain the enrollm
“Our enrollment will decline us respond to the growing need and public to continue education b education to the public. We must door of education to the housewife professional man,” he said.
"We must expand our present pi he said. "Otherwise, we'll have t our staff."
Nichols cited a business admin course to be offered in Topek example of the University's goin nublic.
Asked what she thought was the her husband's success, Clythe replied, "He's not a frustrated pear has a very neat mind and a w memory. He's got great vitality ability to be objective."
THE NICHOLES said they plan some traveling after retirement. They were going to visit their son, I.
Pachacamac
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secret societies. He added that most Greeks weren't involved in Pach and that they probably didn't know of it or its activities until the last few weeks.
In recent years Pach has paid for a number of advertisements in the Jayhawk yearbook. In these ads, the Jayhawk paracamac has stated its aims and purposes.
"The Society of Pachacamac, although unknown to most persons on campus, plays an active, positive role in student life and helps them stay well educated ..." an ad in the 1975 Jawkeywer read.
"Pachacuchac isn't an organization that exerts its power through coercion or force, but instead is a society which, because of the quality of its members, believes its aims can be realized through influence and persuasion.
"There is today no affiliation or undue concern with campus politics; the society has not had a problem."
However, according to Dennis Mullen,
Shawnee senior and president of Tau Kappa
Epsilon, Pacchiatano does have a great
disadvantage especially in the Interfraternity Council.
"SOME MEMBERS of the Interfraternity Council are involved in Pachacamac from the top level on down," he said, "and they have great influence on fraternity affairs."
Another past member of the IFC said the first time he heard of Pachacamac, secret societies and their activities was when he attended IFC meetings.
Mullen said Pachacamac was a detriment to the fraternity system.
"Secret societies are a thing of the past," he said, "and I see no need for an underground group to accomplish social and political objectives.
Riads Stevers, Garnett sophomore and member of Beta Theta Pi fraternity, said Pachacamac was a potentially dangerous situation that should be brought out into the open.
“Pach is an organization that seemingly wants to take care of us,” Stevens said, “but I consider this an insult to the intelligence of the people, especially when an organization thinks it knows how to take care of us better than we ourselves.
SOME PEOPLE expressed the opinion that Pach was only an elusive ghost being chased by a bunch of witch hunters, and that their own abilities were matters of historical record.
On Oct. 26, 1912, the Society of the Inner Circle of Pachacamac was founded as a student political party supporting William Howard Taft for the presidency of the United States. Taft was the Republican candidate.
The next year, Pach turned to campus politics and started to build a dynasty of political power and influence that was to last for the next 42 years.
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--but the livelihood of that involvement may be seriously restricted as President Nixon's proposed federal budget for 1974 begins to take effect.
Other semi-secret societies and parties were founded in prolife during the first three decades of tury.
Pachacamac was a fraternity party that participated openly in the party, but always had a number of members "Inner Circle" who remembered unknot secret from the public. The meme inside Inner Circle were often referred to as "Lady Gaga."
Pachacamac was opposed by braternity political parties such as Mask in the 1920s and the Prc Student Government League in th. However, in 42 years as a political leader, he never held the upper hand in campaigns
There was also a Pachacimaca-
political party composed of Greec
and, under the wing of the Papal
King of Greece, an independent I
party called F.O.R.
HOWEVER, IN 1954, many fra and sororites have done disce with the Pachacamac party and deform a new political party.
In a March, 1964, issue of the Norman Capras, a student at that ti in Chicago, wrote that he started school first of Pach p the All Student Council became dis because they didn't feel they had to form the party line.
In 1954, 12 fraternities and a bolt from the Pachacantac part themselves with the independence formed the Allied Greek-Independence
Over the years the Pachacamahuad been accused of dirty, undepolitics. It was alleged to have enraged a group of people are peking to mount its power
On the evening of Feb. 25, 1954, p. 14 of the "Inner Circle" of the S Pechacamaic decided that the role as a student political party had end. The party was disbanded political dynasty broken.
A University Daily Kansas Edn article in 1964 on Pachacamac quotation: "Is *Pach* really dead?". Yes, it seems that the author knows? Perhaps in a smoke-fill somewhere on the campus the Soch Inner Circle of Pachacamac; or in a the same still exists. ...All we know is that Pachacamac was overlaid by Pach men over the death of their
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Cutbacks Threaten Quality
Bv BOB MARCOTTE
One of the goals Chancellor Archie D.Rykes set for the University of Kansas at his installation was to "atamas in education in re-entry and scholarship."
Research Funds Tight
KU, along with most of the nation's colleges and universities, faces substantial reductions in funding for basic research and graduate student support under a new plan that seeks to hold government spending below $270 billion.
Administrators and faculty members at KU are concerned not only over the immediate effects of reduced funding but also over the possible long-range impact. We believe that the quality of education the University can offer.
Nixon's budget provides $1.99 billion for research and development programs in colleges and universities in fiscal 1974 as compared with $1.91 billion in actual expenditures and obligations to the programs in fiscal 1973.
However, the apparent increase is misleading. Requests in fiscal 1973 totaled $2.25 billion. The difference is accounted for in impound- funds.
For example, $82.4 million in fiscal 1973 funds of the National Science Foundation were impounded. Of this amount, $60 million was for the support of graduate students.
The federal government has announced that it is phasing out all entirely its funding of training at doctoral and post doctoral students.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) supported 24,694 graduate students and fellows in 1969 but will have funds for only 11,900 in fiscal 1974. The support is to be entirely terminated by 1977. The NIFS has a system which supported 9,317 graduate students in fiscal 1968, will support 1,500 in fiscal 1974.
Congressional efforts are now under way to reinstate enough funds for the NIH to support up to 20,000 students. But any congressional measure faces possible veto or impoundment of its funds.
Equally disturbing for colleges
and universities is the shift in the government's funding emphasis from fundamental research to applied research, which will hopefully deliver technology for solving immediate problems.
According to a report prepared in February 1973 by KU's Research department, the university placed research and contracting with industry and nonuniversity research institutions will "undoubtedly result in a further loss of funding for education."
The same report estimates that KU could lose as much as $1.7 million in federal awards for research and for graduate students in 1974.
"The ultimate picture is not at all clear." Henry L. Snyder, associate dean of the Research Administration, says, "There is a strong likelihood that federal awards will go down.
It is clear, however, that the proposal to phase out graduate student training programs will be strongly felt at KU, where, according to Snyder, 129 graduate and 16 undergraduate students were supported in this way during the last academic year. The program provides equipment and some faculty money.
The University now will have to pick up the cost of these salaries with funds from the state as the awards expire, Snyder says. The loss could be a huge potential "double loss" to the University because if enrollment goes down and the University is required by the state to eliminate positions, the simultaneous loss of federal salaries would compound the problem, he says.
Synder estimates that KU will be particularly hard hit in its health-related research programs. Of the 10 national health institutes, only two, the cancer and the heart and lung disease institutes, have been ear-marked for funding increases on the national level.
"If we have the faculty qualified to draw in these areas, it could level out the funds we receive. But that's a bit if." Snider says.
Given a reduction in its NIH funding comparable to those of the other eight institutions, the University could buy up $755,000 in NIH funds, he says.
A university not only transmits but also creates learning. "If you drop research, you're back at the college level."
These are the programs Snyder says are most vulnerable to cutbacks in the fiscal 1947 budget.
He figures that of $3.2 million in federal training grants for graduate study and support started at KU in fuselase 1972, about $82,500 came from the NIH and gave going every effort" to have the NIH program abolished. Snyder says.
The Research Career Development Awards sponsored by the U.S. Public Health Service are also being terminated. The awards provided salaries for young faculty members in various research projects. Seven KU faculty members received such support during the past year.
Snyder says there is no indication that the state will provide additional funds to compensate for reduced federal funding in these areas.
Several departments at KU will be directly affected by the reduction in federal funding.
The department of psychology is being hurt "in all ways at once" by the gradual phasing out of program courses. The department has been bringing the department about $300,000 a year, according to Charles Kiesler, professor of psychology and department chairman. These programs have sequenced "out within three years."
Thirty-two graduate students in psychology presently receive 12-month stipends that enable them to devote full time to research, Kiesler says. The termination of this support is what most disturbs him.
"I don't want to see our students
going to graduate school and having to "sing hail" to it, he says. "We demand total commitment of the students; it hurts the quality of their graduate experience if they have'-riven them or are irrelevant to their studies."
the department of medicinal chemistry also faces the loss of federal support for students and faculty.
The department will miss the equipment that is often provided through the faculty awards and through direct federal equipment and training grants, which are also being discontinued.
"We've had to go to the federal government for a majority of the $1.5 million worth of equipment in the department," says Edward M. Brennan, department chairman and professor, of pharmacy and medicinal chemistry.
The department's number of M.A. students has nearly doubled in the last year. Fletcher says he thinks the department's new school schools no longer can offer as much federally sponsored student support as leverage against the N. 8 national ranking of the KU department by attracting students to their programs.
"Unless support and incentives are available, there will be a diminution of area studies students." Fletcher says. "They just won't be able to keep up with the students we have students bailing out after they get a B.A. instead of an M.A."
Ironically, the department of Soviet and Slavic area studies appears to be "bent-fitting immensely" from the national trend toward reduced federal support for graduate students, according to William Fletcher, department chairman and professor of Soviet and Slavic area studies.
On the other hand, Fletcher cautions, the department and its fellows across the nation may be in trouble over the long run if the trend of federal support for faculty and graduate student programs isn't halted.
Funding presently unavailable to area studies departments is needed to enable faculty members to visit periodically the countries in which they specialize so they can keep up with what is happening in each.
And the recent trend toward detente with the Soviet Union indicates there may soon be an increasing need for Soviet and Slavic specialists by both government and business. Those specialists aren't going to be available unless funding becomes available, he says.
There has been a substantial decline in the amount of federal support for both graduate and undergraduate students in the department of physics and astronomy, according to a professor of physics and astronomy.
A research participation program that enabled four to six KU undergraduate physics students a year to complete their studies has been discontinued, be says.
PIONEER'
The awards provided stipends for students, some money for equipment and a modest amount for faculty salaries during the summer. The awards provided stimulus to good students in physics and students from outside the University to work closely with faculty at all levels. For example, with faculty research, Wiseman says.
At the graduate level, federally supported research assistanceants and fellowships in the physics department have declined, according to a report by BMJ to B3 in 1968. This year, 11 are being supported with federal funds.
The Van de Graaff laboratory has been especially hard hit, according to Robert Bearse, associate professor of physics. Over a 15-year period, the laboratory received $2 million in Atomic Energy Commission funds.
In 1967, these funds supported the projects of six faculty members and 10 graduate students. Now the lab is barely operating, according to
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