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Mondav. December 10, 1973
University Daily Kansan
Nichols ...
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year. We came out of the year with a feeling
which Chancellor Dykes has
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 go to college; think those persons who are ploying pressure for increased tuition are wrong."
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 liv Nichols.
The former chancellor said the challenge facing the University w new ways to maintain the enrollm
"Our enrollment will decline we respond to the growing need or die 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 pa he said." "Otherwise, we'll have t our staff."
Asked what she thought was the her husband's success, Clytie replied, "He's not a frustrated p 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 goin public.
Pachacamac
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THE NICHILOSES said they plan some traveling after retirement. 1 they were going to visit their son, 1
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.
In recent years Pach has paid for a number of advertisements in the Jaywalker yearbook. In these ads, the Jaywalker panacam has stated its aims and purposes.
"The Society of Pacchacumae, although unknown to most persons on campus, plays an active, positive role in student life and is involved in the activities of "an ad in the 1870 daiyahker work."
"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 politics, the society and the government."
However, according to Dennis Mullen, Shawneen senior and president of Tau Kappa Epsilon, Pactacamaris does have a great influence 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 Pacachamac, secret societies and their activities was when he attended IFC meetings.
Mullen said Pachacamac was a detriment to the fraternity system.
Rhoads Stevens, Garnett sophomore and member of Beta Theta Pi fraternity, said Pachacamac was a potentially dangerous organization that should be brought out into
"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.
"Pach is in 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.
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.
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.
SOME PEOPLE expressed the opinion that Pach was only an elusive ghost being chased by a bunch of witch hunters, but some people have been convinced they 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 elections and activities. However, members of the group included "Inner Circle" who remained unknox secret from the public. The menin circle Inner Circle were often referred to as the "Gardeners."
Pachacamac was opposed by braternity political parties such as a 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 Pacachamac-
political party composed of Greec,
and under the wing of the Pach
independent. If party called F.O.R.
In a March, 1954, issue of the Norman Capra, a student at that tiu school, wrote that she started when a number of Pach p the All Student Council became dis because they didn't use their had for formulas. "They have form to the line" party.
HOWEVER, IN 1854, many fra
and sororites have been dise
with the Pachacamac party and de-
form a new national poll.
In 1954, 12 fraternities and 2bolt from the Pacchacae part themselves with the independen formed the Allied Greek-Independe
Over the years the Pachacamayo had been accused of dirty, undie politics. It was alleged to have ennapped a woman who is an peeking to maintain its power.
On the evening of Feb. 25, 1954, n of the "inner Circle" of the S Pachacamaca decided that the role as a student political party had co end. The party was disbanded; political dynasty broken.
A University Daily Kansan Edit an article in 1964 on Pachacamac quotation: "Is Pach really dead?" Is it? Not really. Anyway, perhaps a in smoke-foll somewhere on the campus the Socri Inner Circle of Pachacamac, or a n the same, still exists. ... All we know is that Pachacamac died by Pachom over the death of then
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Their Share of Costs Is 30% and Going Up
Students Paying More . . .
Bv ERIC MEYER
Fiscal privation may force the University of Kansas and other public universities to increase tuition and thus make it harder for students from middle-income families to attend college.
If we are to meet rising costs without lowering the quality of education," says Chancellor Emeritus Raymond Nichols, "it might be necessary to increase tuition by as much as a hundred per cent.
"That would affect not just those at the poverty level, not just minorities. It would virtually close our universities to middle-income students."
Denyng education to a large portion of the population could damage American society and make it harder to attain the Great American Dream of good health and success, according to Chancellor Archie R. Dykes.
"Education has been America's greatest instrument of social mobility." Dykes says. "Anyone, regardless of his background, of his parents' wealth or station in life can be a success if he has an education."
"Think of the discoveries that never have been made if only the children of the upper classes had been educated," Dykes says. "Most of our great scientists have come from poorer families."
Dykes says social mobility has been the key to America's attractiveness and strength.
Students currently pay for about 30 per cent of the costs of education at KU. The remainder is paid by donors by donations from private sources.
Although the students' share is relatively small, it has risen dramatically in recent years. It increased an average of 4.5 percent points from 1973 to 1988 and increased only 5 percentage points from 1933 to 1968.
Inflation and changing public attitudes caused the sudden rise in tuition. Nichols says.
Inflation has caused increases in the cost of goods and services while decreasing taxpayers' buying power and willingness to subsidize losses of government agencies in addition to their own losses.
Higher education, says the Kansas Constitution, is a "free" service to be provided by the state, and was deemed advisable because society would benefit from increased social mobility and from more educated people. Educated people might produce.
Public attitudes, as reflected by reports of the Committee on Economic Development (CED) and the Department of Conservation, have also changed rapidly.
(To escape this provision of the constitution, tuition at the six state colleges and universities in Kansas is legally called "student fees" and is spart not on basic instruction but an additional enrichment and other services.)
But today students take advantage of their "free" education and receive substantially higher salaries because the college offers a Carnegie Commission have recommended that students pay a "more realistic percentage" of the costs of education.
But increasing tuition without providing additional financial aid to students could create more problems. Yes, says Cianlansi Archir R. Dykes.
Scholarships and loans are available to students from low-income families, he says. Affluent students could afford the tuition increases. But to middle-income students, who cannot qualify for income benefits, parents' incomes are too high, tuition increases could become barriers to their education.
"We are faced now with a situation in which students can't afford to go to college," Dykes says. "More and more, they are being forced into taking part-time jobs to help pay for their education."
Larger numbers of part-time students have placed another financial burden on the University, Dykes says.
According to present funding procedures, KU's appropriations from the Kansas Legislature are based on a number of factors credit hours taught. Part-time students, Dykes say, often require administrative expenditures equal to or larger than expenditures for full-time students. But the state appropriate less.
To subsidize the lack in state support, tuition increases could become necessary, causing further decreases in the number of credit hours taught and resulting in a vicious circle, Dykes says.
However, the Carnegie Commission and the CED recommended extensive new systems of financial aid for middle-income students.
But controversy has arisen over the interpretation of "middle income." The reports set the maximum allowance to "$30,000" "middle-income" families at $12,000.
The chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives' special subcommittee on education, James G. O'Hare and Richard M. CED and the Carnegie Commission represented "the chairmen and presidents of America's biggest and most prestigious corporations, law firms, banks and a six-year annual income."
Labor leaders have also spoken
As Students Pay More, Visits Here Will Increase.
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Whether the proposals are accepted is crucial, Nichols says.
"The Nixon Administration, by its actions, has been indicating its support for these kinds of concepts," Nichols says. "What is most important in our present society people believe in our present system and speak out in favor of it."
Nichols, who has been one of KU's chief budgetary officials for more than 40 years, predicts public opinion in favor of higher tuition eventually will prevail but student fees increase rapidly in the meantime.
"I hesitate to say it, for fear it might sound like an endorsement, but things are going to get a lot worse before they get better, as far as student fees are concerned," he says.
Nichols says the only realistic solution to the impasse between state legislators and students, neither of whom wants to assume a greater
"I hesitate to say it . . . but things are going to get a lot worse before they get better, as far as student fees are concerned."
out against the suggested tuition hikes.
"The CED proposals are simply one more attempt to force the workers of America to carry an unfair share of the burden of financing a war that would have been president of the AFL-CIO, the nation's largest labor organization.
In a separate report issued by the AFLC-COI Department of Education, the union contends increased tuition grants would be consumed by tuition increases for families with an annual income of $8,000 or more.
A dissenting member of CED, Robert C Weaver, says the proposals could result in "significant economic mix in student bodies."
burden, is for the federal government to fill the void.
"This is what we were promised when the President first proposed his revenue-sharing plan," Nichols says. "But federal aid has been delayed indefinitely now. We calculated what we would have to share and we would have gotten more than a million dollars."
The Vietnam "peace dividend," which would have been caused by a projected drop in defense expenditure, never materialized. Nichols saws.
"I am confident," he says, "that our legislators won't allow the percentage paid by students to increase much over what it is now."
Dykes, on the other hand, takes a more optimistic view.
Dykes says per capita income in Kansas has risen dramatically and recent agricultural price increases have resulted in a large influx of money. He predicts state appropriation help lessen the students burden.
Dykes' contention is partially supported by Kansas legislators. Robert Bennett, p. resident of the Kansas Senate, says the state will help replace "some" of the federal "soft" money recently withdrawn. When the placement will be adequate or equal, Ken has bothed some educators.
"We hope to get more funds by expanding our services." Dykes says, "particularly through our outreach and easy access programs."
Both programs are part of Dykes' overall plan to enlarge University extension and continuing education activities.
"there is a limit to the amount of money you can save by better administration and management," have just about reached that limit."
Nichols disagrees. He says courses offered in two departments could be offered only in one. Programs taught at more than one school could be offered only once and classes could be offered only once a year and class sizes could be increased.
However, he admits these so-called economizing moves could cause hardships for students and faculty members and effectively decrease the quality of education. Yet he doesn't classify such moves as wrong or right, and other measures like hiring less qualified or experienced faculty members, which would more directly reduce the quality of education.
"There are a lot of things we can do before we begin cutting into the actual quality of education here." Nichols says. "I hope you are confident we will, but we never have lower our quality. But we may have to tighten our belt a bit."
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