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Mondav. December 10, 1973
University Daily Kausan
Nichols . . .
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year. We cannot out of the year with a feeling that we were, which Chancellor Dykes has felt.
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 chapter here for 42 years.
NICHOLS GREW serious as he speculated on the future of KU.
"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 them to think these persons are applying pressure for increased tuition are wrong."
Nichols said the public was questioning the value of higher education.
"The thinking here is more that education should be career oriented and
less simply learning how to live Nichols.
The former chancellor said the challenge facing the University w new ways to maintain the enrolm
"Our enrollment will decline in response to the growing need or desirability of our students and education to the public. We must door of education to the housewife."
"We must expand our present pr he said. "Otherwise, we'll have t our staff."
Asked what she thought was the her husband's success, Chlyce replied, "He's not a frustrated pus he has a very neat mind and a w memory. He's got great vitality ability to be objective."
Nichols cited a business admin course to be offered in Topek example of the University's goin public.
THE NICHELSES said they plan some traveling after retirement, 1 they were going to visit their son, 1
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Pachacamac . . .
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 Parkacam has stated its aims and purposes.
"The Society of Pacchacamac, although unknown to most persons on campus, plays an active, positive role in student life and encourages the generation of ..." an ad in the 1967 Jawahir readway.
"Pachacaca 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 policies; the society is more important."
However, according to Dennis Mullen, Shawnee senior and president of Tau Kappa Epsilon, Pacchacarnas have a great deal 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."
Mullen said Pachacamac was a detriment to the fraternity system.
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.
"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.
Rhoads Stevens, Garnett sophomore and member of Beta Theta Pi fraternity, said Pachacamac was a potentially dangerous condition 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.
On Oct. 28, 1912, the Society of the Inner Circle of Pacachacam 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.
SOME PEOPLE expressed the opinion that Pach was only an elusive ghost being chased by a bunch of witch hunters, but it wasn't so. The authorities' activities were matters of historical record.
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Other semi-secret societies and parties were founded in prolific during the first three decades of tury.
Pachacamac was a fraternity party that participated openly in the party. They always had a number of members "inner Circle" who remained unknown secret from the public. The member inner Circle were often referred to as "aunties".
Pachacamaca 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 held the upper hand in campus e
There was also a Pacchacamac-
political party composed of Greeks
and, under the wing of the Wing of
the People's Republic. Independent I
party called F.O.R.
HOWEVER, IN 1954, many fris and sororites had become insept with the Pachacamac party and deform a new political party.
In a March, 1964, issue of the Norman Carpaugh, a student at that ti quoted as saying, "The idea for a new curriculum should be the All Student Council became dis because they didn't feel they had fred of how to vote—they felt they had wronged it."
Over the years the Pachacima had been accused of dirty, under politics. It was alleged to have enlisted in 1946 and was peeking to maintain its power.
On the evening of Feb. 25, 1954, ruf
of the "Inner Circle" of the S
Pacchahmcad decided that the role
as a student political party had con
end. The party was distanced
political dynasty broken.
A University Daily Kanan Edit an article in 1964 on Pachacamayac quotation: "Is Pachy really dead? Do you believe that? Perhaps in a smoke-follower somewhere on the campus the Soil Inner Circle of Pachacamayac, or in a the same still exists. . . All we know is that Pachy died by Pachy men over the death of their
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Kansas Economy Looks Bright
Bv KAREN HILKER
There's a glow on the Kansas economic horizon, and the prospect of more of the last few years' prosperity has University of Kansas officials hoping some of the sunshine will fall on them.
It's simple, they figure. Higher income levels in Kansas mean bigger tax revenues. Bigger tax revenue means you'll have more cash to spend. And that, they hope, means the legislature will spend more on higher education.
Although it might not be as simple as that, reports from several economists suggest that most personal incomes in Kanaas are higher now than any other time in the past.
Figures from the Kansas Crop and Livestock Reporting Service indicate that in 1972 Kansas farmers increased net farm income over 1971, in net farm income over 1971.
The production of beef, wheat,
soybeans and hay in 1972 reached
record hights in Kansas. The 1972
index of prices received by Kansas
farmer was 301 per cent above the
1951 level. The second behind the
1951 state high.
Higher Kansas incomes in 1972 weren't limited to the farm sector. The 10th Annual Economic Report of the University of Iowa in the first quarter of 1972 was up 8.2 per cent over the first quarter of 1971 and the second quarter was up 13.3 per cent.
"Even if the money comes into Topeka, there's no guarantee they'll
Figures for 1973 aren't complete yet, but agricultural economists say they're ontinistic.
Despite the optimistic outlook for the state's economy, however, additional tax revenues may not be sufficient to institutions of higher education.
"I's a choice of the legislators and how they want to spend the money, explains Darwin Daicoff. He says he adviser to the state budget director."
spend it on higher education." Daicoff says. "They may even cut taxes."
Tax support of higher education in Kansas has declined sharply since the 2010s, when it was the professor of economics and associate dean of the College of Liberal Arts.
"If you look around the region, the tax effort has gone up," he says, "while in Kansas it has declined substantially."
Calgaard cites figures that place Kansas $15 above the national average of state and local tax collection in 1957 and $4 below the average in 1970. Figures from Missouri, Colorado and Nebraska indicate that in 1957 the lower tax effort per $1,000 of income than Kansas, Calgaard says.
A report this year by the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges places Kansas 48th among the 50 states in percentage gains for funding of higher education since 1963-64. The study was made by M. M. Chambers, executive director of administration and consultant on higher education at Illinois State University in Normal.
Only North Dakota and South Dakota gave smaller percentage increases to higher education between 1963 and 1973.
"The golden years of support" came between the mid '50s and mid '60s when former NBA player Raymond Nichols, a KU administrator for 45 years, Kansas ranked fourth in the nation in NBA players since then. Nichols says.
"You know what the governor says—we're 14th in the country in personal income," he said. "Now why do we rank 31st in terms of agriculture, or is it another good agricultural year may move us even better than 14th."
"Excepting the '30s, this is the most dramatic decline of support in recent years."
The greatest fear of University officials is that good faculty members will be lost to institutions that offer higher salaries.
Faculty salaries at KU are at the "very, very bottom in comparison to other universities" ranked by the U.S. News and World Report University Professors. Caledar said.
Both Calgaard and Nichols agree that research and study conducted at the state colleges helps to develop the Kansas economy.
Research at Kansas colleges has developed new strains of rust-resistant wheat, cancer detection and burn treatment methods and better exploitation of the state's mineral resources, Nichols says.
"Kansas shouldn't be an island and expect other states to do the research for them," he says. "They must do some of their own."
The availability of research centers and competent technicians is a major factor, Calgaard says, in attracting industry to Kansas.
"Business firms are looking for a labor force that is highly skilled," he says.
Additional tax revenues spent by the Kansas Legislature for higher education would be an economic inference. Kansas'凯撒，Calgard says。
"It will have a direct return, but how much is the question," he says. "It's awfully hard to say with any precision what the impact will be."
"The North Central Association said the University of Kansas was a better institution than the state deserved on the basis of financial support it provided to the University. There is no doubt that the University of Kansas will rate among the best universities in the nation.
"But if Kansas wants to maintain a 'quality higher education system, it's going to have to provide more dollars to sustain it."
If adequate funding is not restored, Calgaard said, the quality of education in Kansas will erode.
"High quality education is not going to come cheap."
By MARGIE COOK
State Grants Aid Private Schools
Kansas is avoiding payment of $13 million more in annual education tuition grants. The university annual tuition grants program, some of the 13,000 students at Kana-
The $13 million more in bills is what it would cost the state, if the state educated in public institutions those students at the state's private colleges, according to Arthur Zook, a professor at the Independent Colleges of Kansas. His office in Topeka represents the 21 private colleges in Kansas.
Student tuition at private colleges pays about 70 per cent of total costs.
The Kansas legislature apparently has begun to realize that the state's private colleges should be looked at as a significant industry, as Zook says.
Because of legislation first introduced in 1970, students at private colleges have been eligible for tuition grants since last year. The tuition grant legislation provides, according to student financial need, up to $25,000 in student aid. The appropriation for the current year is $2.5 million.
Zook says the tuition grants help equalize the cost of attending private colleges with that of attending public schools; however, are only available to students who demonstrate financial need.
gifts and grants and 5 per cent from endowments.
Of the gifts and grants, according to Zook, denominational funds account for about 4 per cent and alumni gifts account for even less. Only about 10 to 30 per cent of the gift is denominational, and the average gift is about $20.
The 1971-72 operating budgets at the private college totals $33 million and make it easier to see why the schools are judged upon as a significant industry.
Tabor College in Hillaboro employs one funding technique for which no model is known. In the
The economic multiplier applied to payroll alone adds up to the sum approximately $120 million. Zook offers a program that colleges approximates $180 million.
Among reasons for the tuition grant legislation was a need to help the private college student meet the rising costs of tuition at Kansas' private colleges.
Among reasons for the tuition grant legislation was a need to help the private college student meet the tuition at Kansas private colleges.
"During the last five years, the average tuition has risen from $1,000 to over $1,000, or an average of $100 a year." Zook says. "Therefore, on college transfer days, the student is climbed. During the past six years that decline totaled 18 per cent."
Besides the 70 per cent of income for operating the private colleges from tuition, 25 per cent comes from
Neal Malikey, acting president of Baker University in Baldwin, where enrolment has declined slightly reiterates the suction the grant lent legislation
last three or four years, about $400-
000 has flowed into the school's
budget from the profits of a series
of real estate investment projects.
"It allows the student to make a freer choice on the type of college that he wishes to attend in pursuing his higher education," Malicky says. "We want them to be able to state to assist in helping students to gain their higher education."
Bethel College in North Newton has 201 students on tuition grants totaling $195,000. About 82 per cent of Bethel's students receive some kind of financial aid. Bethel officials admit that it's near the bottom of both in Kansas and nationally, in parental income of its students.
Even with the $2.5 million tuition grant legislation, Zook maintains that the independent sector of higher education provides high quality education at an incredibly low cost to the taxpayer.
About 40 per cent of incoming freshmen at the private college graduates, 37 per cent to Zook, that is about average for American colleges. Of Kansas' private college graduates, about 37 per cent to graduate school, usually in Kansas.
"It is no secret that a fair share of enrollments in the graduate schools are underperforming, even these colleges," Zook says. "However the percentage may change due to the fact that at present jobs requiring a degree or degree seem to be on the decline."
Bethel, however, closed its fiscal year with a surplus of $27,422—the first surplus in five years.
"The independent colleges contribute greatly to the cultural, social and educational life and level of the state," he says.
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