The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
84th Year. No. 68
Thursday, December 6, 1973
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Kansan Staff Photo by DAVE REGIER
Snow Slide
J. W. Knapp (left), Kansas City, Mo., freshman, and Jim Fluker, a season to tray on the bill behind Elwirk Hallwalt
Top Aide to Dykes Sought
By BETH RETONDE
By BETH RETONDE
Kanana Staff Reporter
A search committee has been formed to fill the new administrative position of executive vice chancellor, Chancellor Archie R. Dykes said yesterday.
The person filling the position would be the primary administrative officer for the Lawrence campus of the University of Louisiana at Monroe inside the university community, he said.
The committee, directed by Chancellor Emeritus Raymond Nichols, will accept recommendations for the new position through Dec. 20.
The person who fills the position would handle the routine duties of the chancellor's office and the internal affairs of the university. Nichols will also take over some of the duties now performed by Nichols, he said. Nichols will retire from the state payroll at the end of the year but will remain as a consultant to the university through the spring semester, Dykes said.
DYKES SAID the new administrator would give him more time to attend to long-range planning and policy issues. He said he planned to assume more responsibility for the KU Medical Center and to better fulfill obligations as charceler throughout the state.
Nichols' retirement is also a reason for creating the vice-chancellor position, he
A similar post, that of provost, or chief aide to the chancellor, was eliminated by
former chancellor E. Laurence Chalmer's Jr. in 1691. Since that time, several committees have suggested that a similar position be created in the administration.
Besides assuming the day-to-day duties of the chancellor's office, the new vice chancellor would formulate policy for the Lawrence campus, administer programs at the University and work with other vice chancellors, Dykes said.
The Medical Center is almost as large as the Lawrence campus and is currently involved in new construction that will double its size. For this reason, Dykes said, he thought he should devote more time to the Medical Center than is now possible.
altered because of the addition to the staff, Dykes said.
He said, however, that the person hired for the position might want to realign present administrative responsibility and would have the power to do so.
Nichols said last night that he definitely thought there was a need for the position.
TOP ADMINISTRATORS had said they were in favor of the addition of the vice chairperson.
He said that there had been an increase in demands on the chancellor to attend acc
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Other reasons for selecting someone from Lawrence are that it would take less time for a local person to become familiar with the University and its administrative structure and that it would take longer to find hire someone from outside the campus.
Cost of Home Heating Oil To Increase in January
WASHINGTON (AP)—The government authorized yesterday a two-cent-a-gallon increase in the price of home heating oil in an effort to increase production of the fuel.
The Cost of Living Council simultaneously ordered a one-cent decrease in the price of most consumer goods.
Meanwhile, the Saudi Arabian oil minister, Sheikh Ahmen Zaki Yamiani, said his government would be willing to relax its oil embargo on the United States in steps phased with Israel withdrawal from occupied Arab lands.
Yamani met with Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger and later with the senator whom he had met at a dinner.
Present administrative jobs wouldn't be
agreed to a timetable, there could be a timetable to relax the embargo.
The two-cents-a-gallon increase will take effect in January. But consumers probably won't use a price decrease in gasoline at the pump unless they incur increased costs in producing gasoline.
The permitted increase for heating oil applies to all distillate oils from refineries. The permitted increase for heating oils is
Dykes said he had requested Nichols' committee to consider only persons already at the University because the nature of the campus should fill the post.
DYKES SAID he had a duty to inform alumni and state legislators of KU's problems, responsibilities and opportunities. He said having a person to speak for the university would give him more time to devote to the external affairs of the University.
The action will serve as a test of a theory of many high administration officials that the government can force adjustments to china's energy shortage by changing prices.
WASHINGTON (AP)—President Nikon's energy advisers, who are considering proposals to ration gasoline, are leaning toward the use of coupons would be transferable in work.
Government planners said a World War II-type plan, in which coupons were nontransferable among drivers, had been practically rejected.
Favored Ration Plan Calls For Transferable Coupons
The proposal, dubbed the "white market" by government planners, could be combined with a stiff increase in the federal tax or stand alone as a coupon system.
The proposal is called the "white market" because it amounts in effect, to legalizing the trade.
Administration planners prefer the transferable-coupon approach because, as one said, it would stop the black market and the burglary would be smaller.
The new energy adviser, William E. Simon, is known to favor a combination of the transferable-coupon and a gasoline tax to cut consumer demand for gasoline.
Sources said the transferable-coupon idea now topped the list of proposals should be extended, because rationing was necessary. They emphasized that no final decision on rationing had been made.
The black market flourished in World
War II despite a huge bureaucracy set up to run the rationing program.
The proposal might work under the following procedure;
Each motorist or vehicle would receive a specified number of coupons, each limiting them to a specific number of gallons of gasoline.
Present thinking is to issue the coupons either by driver's license or by vehicle registration. The administration is reported to be thinking of allowing 10 to 15 gallons of water per person to the vehicle would be good for a period of several weeks, meaning they could be saved up.
But, if a motorist found he didn't want to use all of them, he could sell them freely.
or, he could cash them in at a designated place, probably a bank, for money at a price to be set by the government. The government asks banks to help issue and cash in the coupons.
"He could put an ad in the newspaper, for example," said one official.
With a gasoline tax, the plan would work differently.
The coupons would excuse a motorist from paying a heavy gasoline tax of from 20 to 40 cents. Once he runs out, he would have to pay the tax.
Again, the coupons could be transferred.
1918 Pach 'Hotshots' Remembered
Kansan Staff Reporter
By ERIC MEYER
Pachacamac, a secret fraternal organization, has been involved in student government at the University of Kansas overtly and overtly for more than 60 years.
A former KU student said Tuesday that Pachacamac had been a "very highly secretive bunch of hotshots" when he had attended KU from 1914 to 1918.
The former student, E. Lawson May of Hutchinson, said he had known of Pachacamac's existence but hadn't been a member.
nity," he said. "All of the fraternity men we didn't know belonged to us."
"I was a member of Pi Upsilon frater-
May said the first overt evidence of Pachacamac's existence had been in a biographical sketch of another former student, C.R. "Dick" Gelvin, published in the 1918 Jayhawker yearbook. Another page in the yearbook identified Gelvin, Page Wagner, Foster Dennis and Fred McEwen as members, May said.
"Dick seems to have been the only VIP who wanted his name associated with Pachacamac, for there were a half-dozen active men who either weren't
Pacachamacs or didn't want it known,' May said.
May listed Don Davis, editor of the Jayhawker that year; Harry Morgan, the Jayhawker's business manager; Brick Chandler; Rusty Friend; and Dutch Uhrlauk, a basketball player, as possible members of Pachacamac.
The 1918 yearbook also said members of Pachacamac had "started trying to run things" in 1914 so a rival group, the Black Tank, had been organized by Warren Wattles.
May compared Pacachaca and the Black Mask to other secretive organizations found about that time, including the Golden K,
"He was almost incredulous that this could have happened." Nixon's chief of staff, Alexander Haig Jr., told U.S. District Court Judge John Sirica yesterday as he recounted the sequence of events that led to the public disclosure of the gap.
Earlier, Rose Mary Woods, Nixon's personal secretary, was called for the third time and forcefully again that she couldn't have caused the 18-minute gap. She also complained that she thought she was on trial by the media and that she had read that Sirica had reasonable doubt she had told
Nixon was disturbed three weeks ago when he heard about 18-minute erasure of tape.
Sirica told her he hadn't commented on her testimony.
Pioneer Mission Control is casual place
There's a striking contrast between the relaxed atmosphere at Pioneer's cramped headquarters at the Ames Research Center and the down-to-business feeling one gets at Skylab's roomy quarters at the Johnson Space Center in Houston.
using surplus equipment and small budget
Pioneer 11, also being watched by Pioneer Mission Control, was launched last March and will reach Jupiter a year from now and then head for Saturn.
Pioneer control operates in an office about twice a normal living room. It will keep track of F10receiver of F10 as it heads toward a 1987 escape from the building.
Houston Mission Control, by contrast, occupies a four-story building.
Gov. Robert Docking will propose vote by state on public funding of campaigns.
Docking said, "The public financing of political issues issue is of such magnitude that it should be aided fully by all our state's citizens for an objective assessment of its advantages and disadvantages, with the final decision on the paths to be followed to be dictated by the people. . ."
Republican leaders expressed surprise that Docking would make the proposal to the 1974 legislature. His proposals for a state-wide campaign financing referendum and for reforms in governmental ethics, including full abortion protections, came in a letter he sent to majority leaders of the Kansas Senate and House.
Truckers seeking lower fuel prices and higher speed limits snarled nation's traffic
Governors of Pennsylvania and New Jersey said they would ask help from the National Guard in the event of future highway blockades. The governor's actions followed a massive snarl at the Delaware Memorial Bridge, a major link between New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware.
Other states, including Ohio, West Virginia, Connecticut and Indiana, have experienced blockages, although there was no immediate indication that the gasoline pipeline had been shut off.
Rep. Kenith Howard, R-Overland Park,
mailed in his resignation as speaker.
Howard, speaker pro tem of the Kansas Legislature, resigned as representative from the 23rd District in Johnson County. His resignation followed action Monday in the Johnson County Probate Court that removed Howard as co-administered of a $181,000 estate.
Skylab astronauts photographed comet
as it streaked toward loop around sun.
Gerald Carr, Edward Bardon and William Pogue were to study the comet for four hours, using four different instruments. Their data may help scientists learn the composition of the comet, which is still a fuzzy dot in the distant heavens. Comet Kohoutek is expected to be about 100 times brighter than Gerald Carr.
The astronauts were in the 20th day of their 84-day mission.
May said he had been a member of the Owl Society.
"Pachacama was more secretive than the Owls and Sachems," he said, "but I don't think it was any more important or influential. There was no jealousy over Pachacama. I don't believe many of us paid much attention to it."
After May left KU, Pacachacam apparently dropped its cloak of secrecy.
Chancellor Emeritus Raymond Nichols said he had been associated with Pachacamac while he was a student at KU from 1922 to 1926.
"Iran for student offices several times as a member of Pacachane," he said. "It was one of two campus political parties during my days as a student. The other was the Black Mask. Each of them represented about the same number of votes from students in Iran. We competed for the independent (non-fraternity) vote."
Nichols said Pacchiaean had existed as a regular campus political party until the
Nichols also credited the introduction of residence walls at KU as another reason for the need to provide them.
"The importance of campus parties started to dwindle in the late 1930s and the early 1946," Nichols said. "I think what probably caused their demise, among other things, was the GI glace—many, many soldiers rioted on KU and H and KU on KU on the GI Bill. For the most part, they weren't interested in student politics."
"I thought Pacachacan had died and gone away until I saw a full-page ad for
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In other energy developments;
—the Cost of Living Council said it had received complaints that some truck stop operators had been overcharging truck drivers and promised an immediate investigation.
—The council said it had estimated the potential shortage of petroleum resulting from the Arab oil embargo at 2.1 million barrels a day, which is considerably less than the White House estimate of 3.5 million barrels a day.
-Senate House conferences will meet today to work out a compromise bill that would put the nation on year-round daylight saving time, probably by Dec. 30.
—The Law Enforcement Assistance Administration said the nation might face an increase in street crime and consumer fraud as a result of the energy crisis. The agency said, and activities related to the energy crisis could be a target of con men.
Arthur M. Okun, an economic adviser to the late President Lyndon B. Johnson, said that riots might occur at service stations if the government failed to act quickly to ration gasoline or pass a tax to dampen its consumption.
The Senate refuse* to delay action on a $2 million, 10-year program of energy renewal.
- Teamsters President James E. Fitzsimons requested a conference on the energy crisis with President Nixon to discuss trucking industry and Teamsters members.
—The American Petroleum Institute survey reported an expected increase of 3.5 per cent in operable petroleum refining plants, 30 because of increased refining plants.
By BETH RETONDE Kansan Staff Reporter
Dykes Issues Final Stand On Tenure
Chancellor Archie R. Dykes 'final tenure policy statement, released yesterday, clarifies the administration's stand on teacher peer evaluation of teaching effectiveness
The statement essentially supports the preliminary report submitted in October by the University Senate Executive Committee (SenEx).
The committees are to operate within guidelines developed by the University of Texas at Austin.
In a letter to James E. Seaver, professor of history and chairman of S.W. Dykes said that the relative importance given to student and peer evaluation of teaching would be determined by the committees that deliberated on tenure nominations.
Dykes told the relative importance of teaching, scholarship and service in granting tenure also would be determined by university Senate guidelines by the committees.
The statement said the only guidelines in effect for this academic year were that the committees consider the instruction, the requirements and obligations of the departments involved.
The relative weight given to student and peer teaching evaluation was one of two areas that Dykes in his preliminary statement had asked the SenEx committee
THE OTHER ISSUE, a check back procedure for the various committees considering tenure and promotion nominations, was accepted by Dykes in the
The check back procedure would allow a representative of a committee from a lower unit to discuss a tenure case with the committee on Promotion and Tenure (UCP) if there were conflicting recommendations.
The statement issued yesterday concerns only those actions recommended by SenEx that the chancellor could act on immediately. Two other sections of the original tenure report require further study of the state legislature, Dykes said he would study these other recommendations in the next few weeks before responding to them.
SEAVER SAID last night that the chancellor's final tenure statement was acceptable to all SenEx members. "SenEx very pleased with every aspect of it," he said.
He said another area the committee wanted to clarify was the definition of "financial exigency" when used as a reason for dismissal of a tenured faculty member.
Dykes said in his statement that it wasn't possible to define the term in any exact way but that it didn't mean "budgetary convenience."