8 Monday, December 10, 1973 University Daily Kansan Nichols ... From Page One year. We came out of the year with a feeling which Chancellor Dykes has mentioned. 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. 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 more to train those person who are applying for increased tuition are wrong." "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 said the public was questioning the value of higher education. "The thinking today 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 wi new ways to maintain the enrollm "Our enrollment will decline u re respond to the growing need or des 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 phe he said. "Otherwise, we'll have to our staff." Asked what she thought was the her husband's success, Clytie replied, "He's not a frustured pha has a very neat mind and a v memory. He's got great vitality ability to be objective." Nichols cited a business admit course to be offered in Topek example of the University's goo public. THE NICHOLSES said they plan some traveling after retirement. They were going to visit their son, I Pachacamac From Page One 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 past few weeks. However, according to Dennis Mullen, Shawnee senior and president of Tau Kappa Epsilon, Pachacamac does have a great effect especially in the Interfraternity Council. In recent years Pach has paid for a number of advertisements in the Jayhawk yearbook. In these ads, the Jayhawk Parkacama has stated its aims and purposes. "The Society of Pacachacme, although unknown to most persons on campus, plays an active, positive role in student life and is a leader in the college . . ." an ad in the 1975 Jawkeyer read. "Pachacuchan 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. "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." "There is today no affiliation or undue concern with campus politics; the society has not been forced to change." Another past member of the IFC said the first time he heard of Pacachacm, 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. Rhoads Stevens, Garnett sophomore and member of Beta Theta Pi fraternity, and 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. 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. SOME PEOPLE expressed the opinion that Pach was only an elusive ghost being chased by a bunch of witch hunters, but it is not the case that witch hunters were matters of historical record. Alexander's - Specials Everyday - Dried Flowers - Gifts - Bath Botique V12-1320 826 Iowa CRESCENT APARTMENTS - Crescent Heights •Oaks •Acorn •Gaslight •Rental Office 1815 W. 24TH 1 and 2 BEDROOMS GUITARS • AMPS • MUSIC GIBSON KUSTON FENDER KASINO OVATION EPIPHONE Area's Largest Selection Rose KEYBOARD 1803 Mass 843-300 1903 Mass. 843-3007 Open Evenings Guitar Strings ½ Price Friday Nite . . . Other semi-secret societies and parties were founded in prolific during the first three decades of tury. Pachacuchan was a fraternity party that participated openly in holidays and activities. He admired the men's inner "Inner Circle" who remained unknen secret from the public. The membi inner Circle were often referred it to as the "Fat Man." Pachacahaca was opposed by bratty political parties such as Mask in the 1920s and the Pre-Student Government League in th. However, in 42 years it was a political party with no strong hold on the upper hand in campus elections. There was also a Pachacima- cipal party composed of Green, and under the wing of the Pach cipal independent f part called F.O.R. HOWEVER, IN 1954, many fra and sororites have been in touch with the Pachacamac party and deform a new political party. In a March, 1964, issue of the Norman Cappa, a student at that ti quoted as saying, "The ideas for a new curriculum should be the All Student Council became das because they didn't feel they had fréed how to vote; they felt they had fréed how to vote." In 1954, 12 fraternities and s bolted from the Pacchacanac part themselves with the independenf formed the Alaskan Greek-Independence Over the years the Pachacamaca had been accused of dirty, undeputies. It was alleged to have enriched his family by peeking to maintain its power. On the evening of Feb. 25, 1954, m of the "Inner Circle" of the S Pacchainac decided that the role as a student political party had con end. The party was disbanded. political dynasty broken. A University Daily Kanan Edif an article in 1954 on Pacachamac quotation, "Is Pacach really dead?" When it was published, perhaps? Now appears in a smoke-filled somewhere on the campus the Sock Inner Circle of Pacachamac, or a in the same still exists. *All we know is that Pacachamac died by Pacch man over the death of their WHY RENT? RIDGEVIEW Mobile Home Sales 843-8499 3020 Iowa (South Wiley, 59) Page 12. The University Daily KRANSAN Books Stored in Basement of Spencer Library Await Shelf Space in Watson Kansan Staff Photo by DAVE REGIER "It's a God-send just to have space to store (books), although it makes browsing a little difficult. We can survive another five years, . . . although . . . things will be a little congested." University's Heart Feels Squeeze of Scarce Money If, as Chancellor Archie R. Dykes says, the library is the heart of a university, then the University Library is the heart of the university. By JEFFREY STINSON According to David Heron, director of the KU libraries, only 24,000 new books were purchased this year as compared with 26,000 last year and 67,000 in 1968. Of all the University's components affected by budget cuts and inflation, the RU libraries have felt Despite a 13.6-per-cent annual rate of inflation, Heron says, the library has the same amount of investment capital as any other public library. In 1971 and 1972, the KU library system was ranked 31st in size among college libraries in the country. It was ranked 32nd in the number of vol- tures offered and 47th in the number of available operating expenses. Inflation has severely hampered Heron's ability to continue subscriptions to periodicals. He has required all departments to cut back the number of publications by 10 per cent to help combat the lack of money. "The only way to meet inflation is to distribute it equally in the areas and departments of the life-saving ways. Heron is reluctant to cancel some subscriptions because it would mean that he would later pay as much as five times the current cost to obtain some periodicals. Before buying or cancelling a subscription, Horn checks with Kansas State University and PIONEER Wichita State University to assure that there is no duplication within the state system. The KU library system has about 40 per cent of the student seating space it should have. Heron says, and it has about 85 per cent of the shelf space it should have. "People are doing this in other places, and it is creating some problems for publishers because they are getting more cancellations," he says. "To compensate for the cancellations, they raise their prices." Since 1969, almost everything in Watson Library has been either moved or rearranged to make the best use of it. Books are being stored in boxes in the basement of Spencer Library because of the lack of shelf am or this shifting of services and of collections is expensive, and the more crowded the libraries become, the less advantage results," states the 1971-72 report of the KU libraries. "We will be increasing the storage in Spencer," Heron says. "It's a God-send just to have space to store them, although it makes browsing a little difficult. "We can survive another five years with the children. We will survive five of five years, will things be a little congested?" According to Heron, the state has spent less on KU's library than it has on those of other schools. Spencer Library was a gift to the University from private donors. "All other schools have new or improved library buildings. I think KU's condition is the worst of any of them." The Mall's Shopping Center Maria Muldaur on Warner Bros. Records Stock Available Now! Ten Top Selling LP's Only '29 Diamond Needles—Reg. '995. '1095—Now '595