Monday, November 12, 1973
University Dally Kansan
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KU Heat Reduced; More Steps Planned
BY BETH RETONDE
Kansan Staff Reporter
With the exception of turning back thermostats, no definite measures are currently being taken to conserve natural gas in the state and are according to University administrators.
"Other than turning back the thermostats, we've not had 'any formal declaration you to do,' Keith Nitcher, vice chancellor for business affairs, said Friday.
The thermostats in University buildings were ordered by Chancellor Archie R. Dykes three weeks ago to be lowered to 70°C and the change was completed a week and a half ago.
AT A WEEKLY STAFF MEETING Friday, Dykes directed Robert T. Angenebrug, associate professor of geography and director of institutional research and planning, to study the amount of energy used by KU and to set goals and a timetable to economize on the consumption of natural gas and oil.
Aungeenbrug said he would explore suggestions and base any decisions on conserving energy on facts. He said any effort to be fair and result in real energy saving.
Aaenbeengbrug said he was working with Security and Parking and the department of Buildings and Grounds to determine what steps to take to conserve energy and what effect any proposals would have on campus security.
Nicher said the energy source for the University usually was natural gas supplied by the Lawrence Gas Company. If the university needed to supplement, the physical plant can use fuel oil.
William C. Salome of the Gas Company said service to KU would be interrupted if the gas company did not operate.
THE UNIVERSITY IS DEFINED as a
Law Committee Rejects Shield For Newsmen
A House-Senate committee of the Kansas Legislature rejected Friday a proposed bill that would limit the use of oil drilling.
The Civil Law Committee, directed by Sen. J. C. Tillotson, R-Norton, rejected the original shield law bill offered by Sen. Ted Snaar, D-Pittsburgh.
The bill would have prevented newsmen from being required to reveal their confidential sources to any state or local government body.
Edward P. Bassett, dean of the William Allen White School of Journalism, was called by the committee to make recommendations on the original Saar bill.
Bassett and Del Brinkman, associate professor of Journalism, created a new model pattern followed after Oregon's shield law.
language which the legislature can implement, now or in the future. I would hope that this shield would help new legislation," Bassett said of the bill he presented.
"I think it is vital that newsmen have such protection, although we're a much less complex state than others and I'm not convinced that media relations are bad enough to need man to man the trenches now, but this does not mean we should not be vigilant."
"They don't believe newsmen should be above the law. I suspect it ill disposed to bring the committee a bill which seems a private privilege for newsmen," Bassett said.
in brief
Turner Gets Award
Kathleen Turner, Overland Park senior, is one of five recipients of the Paul B. Lawson Award. The award recognizes students with the highest academic record in the College during their first three years of enrollment.
The selection committee omitted her name from its announcement last week.
large commercial, intermittible customer. Salome said that if the gas needed in this part of the country increased because of cold weather, the City Service Gas Company
gas to the local gas company, would instruct him to interrupt service to some customers.
Nitcher said the current fuel oil capacity of the University was 297,000 gallons, about a two-week supply. In September, the Board authorized a $35 million conversion a 200,000-gallon water storage tank near the power plant into an oil storage tank. In October, the Board authorized KU to increase its 1974 fiscal year budget request by $30,200 to fill the tank with fuel oil.
Salome said most boilers could be converted to oil use from gas use in a matter of hours.
The danger of KU running out of gas or fuel oil depends on whether gas service is available.
--through a transition from a vocational school to a junior college.
"With it being a national problem and whether there will be a reordering of priorities, we just don't know what would happen," he said. "Hence there might be a curtailment of weekend activities. I'm sure there will have to be some of that."
"This is a brand new emergency, and concern that is accelerated and accentrated at this particular time. We are gathering information now. The buildings and grounds people and traffic and security have been alerted to make proposals."
THE UNIVERSITY ALREADY HAS felt the pinch of the gasoline shortage. In previous years, the approximately 150 state-owned cars and trucks used by KU got their gasoline from the buildings and grounds tanks.
Buchholte said the gasoline supply was far below last year's. Users of University cars have been instructed to use credit cards and get gasoline from off-campus sources so a convenient supply will be available for lawn mowers and tractors used on the campus.
Nitcher also said he was expecting a letter from Henry Schwaller, secretary of the state department of administration, that would include a plan for decreasing gas and fuel oil consumption.
--through a transition from a vocational school to a junior college.
Nichter said the University administration was trying to organize proposals that when implemented by the chain, would decrease gas and fuel oil consumption.
A Haskell Indian Junior College student stood up on Thursday to tell Secretary of Interior Rogers C.B. Morton that despite Morton's efforts to improve the over-all Indian assistance, immediate problem had caused Haskell that was more important to the students.
Legal Issue Muddles Haskell Hiring
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BY LINDA HALEY
Kansas Staff Reporter
Morton spoke at an assembly and was accompanied by Kent Frizzell, solicitor general, and Bill Rogers, assistant secretary of interior.
"I am very impressed by all that you are trying to do," said the student, Margaret Williams, "but we have a problem here that is very real to us and we can hardly see."
"The situation has gotten so bad that we don't know by the end of the month whether we will have chemistry and physics teachers," said Williams.
In one case, Frizzell said, the court held that giving preference to Indian job appraisal was against the law.
MORTON REPLLIED that the lack of instructors at Haskell didn't been caused by a lack of funds. Frizell said the teacher shortage was the result of recent decisions in two conflicting court cases involving the Interior Department's hiring practices.
Civil Rights Act. However, in a separate case, another court held that "you've got to follow Indian preference in each and every personnel action," he said.
The problem is a lack of instructors at the junior college. she said.
A request by the Interior Department for a stay of the first court order has been granted, but no stay has been granted for the second order, said Frizzell.
Haskell Superintendent Wallace Gallucci said that until the department resolved the issue at the Supreme Court level, Indian and U.S. law officials must receive preference over all others.
Haskell would be obliged to hire an Indian or veteran who meets the minimum job qualifications of a master's degree with 40 hours of experience, two hours in school, school said.
At least two Haskell instructors, both holding doctorates, have been affected by the court decision. They are Robert T. Barkhurst, M.D.; Rudyard C. Barkhurst, chemistry instructor.
GALLUZZI SAID that to find qualified instructors, the Haskell personal office was forced to actively seek Indian and American candidates through the Civil Service Commission.
Dixon has taught physics at Haskell since he received his doctorate from the University of Kansas in 1790. He said he had been taught about electricity and he had been paid through a contract with KU.
AT THAT TIME HASKELL was going
Dixon said payment through KU had been made on an emergency basis to get money for additional faculty members during that first year.
Since that time, Dixon, Haskell's only physics instructor, has organized the physics curriculum and taught classes, but has been classified as a temporary educa
Last June, neither Dixon nor Barkhurst,
whose situation is similar, were reaped
from the tax.
Gallucci said Dixon, Barkhurst and others had been hired as temporary employees because of a federal ceiling on the number of permanent employees allowed at Haskell. The two were terminated, he said, because of the court decisions on Indian preference.
BOTH INSTRUCTORS were rehired on a 30-day emergency temporary basis in mid-October, said Dixon, and Morton's team in late October assuring their positions until Dec. 16.
Dixon said he would rather not say whether he thought the extensions were a result of his own ideas.
Haskell students explained the situation to Rogers after Morton's speech Rogers gave the students verbal assurances that he would look into the matter promptly.
A permanent solution to the problem, however, must await the actions of the IIAR.
Galuzzi said it was possible for Dixon and
Barkhurst to be rehired on a permanent basis, but Haskell would first have to show it had made a concerted effort to find suitable staff. It was clear that Haskell had advertised for instructors.
GALLEZZI SAID he sympathetic with the students in their concern about the continuation and quality of the chemistry and physics classes.
"I agree that the chemistry and physics teachers are outstanding," he said.
"I know I have been recommended by the admin's audit," said Dixon.
He added that his office had asked that Dixon and Barkhurst be retained permanently.
Eventually, Gallucci said, either Dixon or Barkhurst would continue as permanent employees or others would be hired. He said there wouldn't be any disruption of classes.
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Lawrence Officials Take Steps to Conserve Fuel
Lawrence officials are cooperating with most of President Nixon's suggestions for conservation of energy this winter, according to Dennis Kallsen, assistant city
Kallsen said Friday that the mayor's office already had instructed city offices and employees to save fuel whenever possible.
Thermostats in city buildings have been set lower. Kallsen said.
Drivers of city vehicles have been instructed to observe a 50-mile-an-hour speed limit, Kallsen said, even though most of the vehicles are used only within city limits and seldom travel faster than 50 miles an hour anyway.
Christmas lighting in the city will be
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The University of Kansas Theatre
presents
"A Doll's House" by Henrik Ibsen
November 14,15,16,17 at8:00 p.m.
November 18—Matinee at 2:30 p.m.
K. U. Students Admitted without charge with Certificate of Registration
UNIVERSITY THEATRE—MURPHY HALL
Ticket Reservations: 864-3982
(This program is partially funded by the Student Activity Fund)
Kalsen said Lawrence didn't face as critical a fuel situation as did some larger cities, and a quota fuel system wasn't needed for its industries.
curtailed somewhat this year. The Lawrence Jaycees have announced that the annual home Christmas lighting contest has been cancelled. The Downtown Lawrence decision had to push for a reduction of Christmas shopping hours by a year.
—TONIGHT—
SAN FRANCISCO TRIP Planned for Dec. 27-Jan.6 Organizational Meeting
7:30 p.m. Council Room in the Kansas Union. For more information contact the SUA office 864-3477