THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas 10 cents off campus Tuesday, November 8, 1979
Groups request heftier budgets
Bv STEVE MAUN
and ELLEN IWAMOTO Staff Repersents
The Student Senate Finance and Auditing Committee heard requests for increased allocations from four student groups last
night, as it began budget hearings for organizations funded through the Senate Revenue Code.
The combined request of the Graduate Student Council, Recreation Services, KU Bands and KU Foresigns was up by about 835.50 over last year's sum.
Organizations funded through the Revenue Code receive an automatic block allocation from the $11.10 student activity fee. Those groups funded are deemed as being responsible and permanent campus employees will spend the money allocated to them.
Budget blues
Ketley Hayden, the graduate Student Council, ponders a question posed by a member of the Student Senate Finan-
Auditing Committee during last night's budget requests. Hayden, an Anteater graduate student, presented the GCS' request to the committee.
Recreation Services requested the largest increase in capital, capital capital and lowa streets and for predicated minimum wage increases among other factors.
Tom Wilkerson, director of Recreation Services, also proposed that sport clubs make budget requests to the Student Senate and make budget requests to the Student Recreation Advisory Board, as they do now.
Under its current policy the Recreation Department programs or reduce the number of hours facilities are open in order to fund the expected increase in sport clubs, Wilkerson
The Graduate Student Council requested an increase of $2,814.70 in addition to its current allocation of approximately $5,000. Kley Hayden, director of the GSC, said the money was needed to meet the increased cost of printing the graduate student resume and for other graduate student organizations and for increasing the organization's travel fund.
Some committee members questioned whether the Student Senate rules allowed the allocation of money for travel to conferences.
Matt Davis, committee chairman, said,
"The graduate travel fund is exempted from qualifications of certain other groups in the program," he said that can determine how to use its money.
Hayden said if the GSC did not receive money specifically for travel it would spend another part of its allocation on travel.
The KU Bands requested an increase of $18.851 from its present allocation of about $11.000.
"Inflation is just eating us alive." said Bob Foster, KU Band director. "Take the inflation rate in instruments. The only thing I see class to that today is gasoline."
request an increase of See BUDGET page three
Consultant describes how downtowns develop
Staff Reporter
Bv ANN LANGENFELD
University communities are ideal for downtown revitalization, Maurice Johnson, keynote speaker for the first session of the College of Education held in the Kansas University, said yesterday.
Johnson, chairman of the Fidelity National Bank, Louisville, KY., was a leader of a project to revitalize downtown Louisville and has served as a consultant to the Lawrence Action 80 group, which is developing a downmarket mall for Lawrence.
"It is difficult to recover the downtown of a small city after a suburban shopping center has been bulld." Johnson said. "Many downs are sick and should not downs should add color to our lives. Health downs provide a good call back."
He said university people could and should be interested in making downtown vital. A good downtown can make a good impression on students and their parents, he
Many people and organizations at a university can help revitalize a downtown area. Students can form an endowment association to invest its money in downtown land and then lease it to a real estate company.
AN ACTIVE, prosperous downtown can be a good employer, he said, and will help improve the quality of life for the people in the city. If people have good jobs this will automatically help improve the housing market because people will have more money to spend.
Johnson outlined 11 steps that should be taken when developing a downtown:
—City officials should join with appropriate political downtown and neighborhood people to study what needs to be refurbished.
—The group should look beyond the city core and see what effects the refurbishing will have on housing.
—A qualified planner should be employed. He should be hired by group consensus rather than by an individual.
The group should have the power of eminent domain, which would allow it to take over property if owners will not sell.
—The group should assemble a list of developers who have been successful in developing other downtowns.
The city should make sure the state government knows what the city is planning.
The group should select a leader who makes certain all elements of the project move forward. The leader should know how
to reach the right federal and state officials and bankers.
The city and developer should share evenly a front-end fund to finance preliminary planning.
The selected developers should be invited to the city one at a time to look over the situation and to make recommendations.
—After the trips have been made, the group should then select the developer for the city. When the developer has been selected a representative of the developer can be invited to visit the city and time can be avoided. He told the Louiseville project took three years to develop.
A blue-ribbon group should be selected to visit successful downtown projects of the favorite developers in different places.
The conference is an annual event for representatives of the Big Eight cities to discuss mutual problems.
Union board to seek student fee increase
Members of the Kansas Union's govern- board unanimously agreed Saturday to propose a $2 student fee increase for fiscal 1981.
The University of Kansas Memorial College Board Chair DIRECTORS will present its proposition to the Senate for a proclamation at the Nov. 14 meeting, Warner Pergusson, associate director of the Union, on Wednesday.
Ferguson said the increase would generate an additional $80,000 for operation of the union.
This year the Student Union Building fee, which goes to support the union, is $15.00 a semester for full-time students and $1.50 for part-time students.
Due to inflation, net profits from incom-
producing departments of the Union and
the student fees were not enough to support
Union facilities. Fernsus said.
"We expect our income-producing departments to be self-supporting. Student fees are primarily responsible for building maintenance." he said.
IF THE INCOMING funds fall short, Ferguson said, there are only a few alternatives from which to generate more income.
"Our sources are limited," he said. "We can increase prices in our service areas. We need to educate students about both a price increase and a fee increase will affect the students because students are our sources."
Reducing service hours and eliminating bookstore dividend sharing are also alternatives he said.
Although a fee increase would curb "across the board" price increases,
FERGUSON SAID that he was not planning another increase for fiscal year 1982, but added that the situation was "touchy" and that a similarity if a price increase would be necessary.
Ferguson said some price increases would be made simply as a means of keeping up with inflation.
Ferguson said he thought the proposal had a good chance of winning approval in the Senate, but it wasn't enough for members on the corporation board who were also student senators reacted negatively.
"They are the spokesmen of the student body," he said.
If the Senate voted against the increase, he said, the board would have to reconsider its alternatives.
The last similar fee increase was in 1977 when students paid an extra $1 in fees at enrolment to help the Union. In 1976, a $2 fee increased for the satellite $7.50 fee increase for the Satellite Union.
The increase could be put into file without Student Senate approval, but Ferguson said the board of directors always prepares a list of cases the past before recommending an increase.
Student board members had expressed displeasure with the option of eliminating the "share the profits" program.
Ferguson said that if the proposal failed in the Senate, the last means of generating income would be a reduction in the level of services provided by the Union.
The Kansas Board of Regents would have to give their approval before the fee increase went into effect.
Khomeini's followers take British Embassy
By The Associated Press
Ayatollah Rubailah Khomeini's student followers, already holding scores of hostages in the U. Embassy in Tehran, seized two U.S. consulates and the British Embassy yesterday, in an escalating war of words over the Middle East, America, and its "well-armed" ally.
The students and Iranian leader Khamini demanded that the United States and Britain hand over two "criminals" for trial—the deposed Shah Mohammad Reha Pahlavi, hospitalized in New York, and former minister of Finance Mahmoud Akhtar, living in exile in Western Europe.
But the Carter administration rejected the demand that it expel the shah, and the British said they did not have Bakhtiar, that he was living in France.
Radio Telran said the students holding American diplomacy also demanded that the United States and Iran's petroleum minister said a cutoff of oil exports to America was
BROADCASTS OF THE government-run radio, monitored in London, said students seized the U.S. consulates in Tabriz in northwest Iran and in the southern city of Algeria.
No injuries were reported, but it was not known whether any staff members were taken hostage.
The State Department said another mob occupied and ransacked the Iran-American Society building, a cultural center, in Isfahan, central Iran.
The British Foreign Office later reported that students invaded the British Embassy in an apparently peaceful takeover.
It said some staff members were believed
inside the embassy at the time, but it was not known whether they were taken hostage.
The Modern clergyman Khomeini, in a headquartered city of Qatar opened her office on Saturday. E. Embassy and said it had been a center of "plates" by the great Satan, America," she wrote.
HIS REPRESENTATIVE Ayatollah Seyyed Khansi declared that America, Russia and Britain were each "more evil than the others."
The department estimated that 60 Americans were being held in the embassy. Previous reports said seven or eight Iranian employees also were held.
The State Department said it continued to receive indirect assurances from the students that the hostages taken when they seized the U. E. Embassy on Sunday "all are
The Carter administration was relying on the Iranian government's efforts to secure the hostages' release, department spokesman said.
However, the real power in Iran lies with Khomeini's Revolutionary Council of Moslem clergymen, and not with the head of Prime Minister Mehdi Bahrami.
In New York stock prices fell sharply yesterday amid reports of a possible Iranian oil embargo against the United States.
Iranian Oil Minister Al Akbar Moinfar said he would not rule out the possibility of an embargo on oil shipments to the United States.
A cutoff of oil supplies from Iran could plunge the United States into another energy crisis, and that possibility had Wall street observers jittery.
Open School is free, focused
Bv JENNIFER JACKSON
Staff Reporter
Thirty children, twisting and stretching in every direction, all the while breathing deeply, assemble each morning on the playground or营运ed garage at 14th and Monterey Way.
No, this is not a classroom gone mad. But it is one of those mysterious "free schools" that you don't usually quote the opposite here. This is one of the remarkable features of the Lawrence School.
The exercises and deep breathing are part of a daily routine at the school and are designed to strengthen your exercise together, focusing intently on their breathing. "Centering" is a way for students to relax and become aware of the real school day begins, according to Michael Bryant, director of the Open Library.
"Centering is what most astounds visiting teachers. They cannot believe that we can allow kids to do their own exercises, and still maintain order," he said.
Bryant said centering in the morning and at intervals throughout the day was a preventive measure which enabled children to concentrate better.
The seriousness of centering extends into the other activities at the school. In a classroom setting, students language arts, math, social studies and science, the children spend much of their time interacting with each other in the house has been converted into a study hall with cardboard study cards and desks
"The need for discipline is avoided," he said.
The "do not distur" signs displayed throughout the room illustrate that the
students, ages five to nine, are serious about their work.
For a child a love of learning is vital to a good education. Bryant said.
"The Open School is dedicated to learning self-reliance and learning how to learn," he said.
Failure also is virtually eliminated in the school, Bryant said. A child's goals are set by the parent, the teacher and the child himself. If a child cannot attain a goal, the teacher can give it to the child as realistic level. Minimal failure also enhances a child's self-concept, he said.
Children of all aptitudes are welcome, he said. The emphasis on individualized instruction is important to the gifted child to work at their own pace. Five instructors teach the thirty children of the school.
The school is a private school with a philosophy that lies somewhere between a public school and a free school concept. But it is not a private school in the conventional sense. The children are not wealthy, Bryant said. About one-third of them are on scholarships.
One effect of individualized learning is a less competitive environment among students, which nurtures a child's self-concept. Brant said.
He said that if parents failed to pay fees,
The emphasis on parent participation is an important feature of the school. Each parent must work with teachers a number of hours each month in addition to paying fees. Peers are on a sliding scale according to family's ability toNav. Brent explained.
"We teach the kids that constantly comparing yourself with others will only make you unhappy," he said.
work the required number of hours or attend the regular monthly meetings their child could be removed from the school.
the *senior*, a mid-portfolio corporate; is *headed by an elected steering committee.*
*Senior officers teach fourth-graders, but Bryant hopes to expand it to include fifth and sixth-graders.*
Bryant said his ultimate goal, however, was "to make the Lawrence Open School a place for all." As such, it would have access to the more abundant resources of the public school
The school is now funded entirely by tuition payments and donations, Bryant said.
Although the school is state-accredited, it still has the task of proving that the open concept is a viable educational alternative, he said.
The school recently received a $63,000 grant under the Comprehensive Employment Training Act to develop in-depth curriculum fourth through sixth grades. The Kansas Council on Children and Youth also has provided $500 for Children and Seniors Together, a program in which Open School students perform plays for the elderly in
Bryant said he thought that the open school concept could work at the secondary level as well as the primary.
"All the standardized tests showed that our students were at or above grade level." he said.
But more important to Bryant is the attitude of children who have been educated at the Lawrence Open School.
"Our kids will have had six years of liking school before they enter junior high," he said.
Educational exercises
Thomas Newton, left, a student at the Lawrenr Open School,
checks his form with that of Michael Brant, the school's
educational coordinator. The students do "catering" exercises, exercises and breathing, each morning to improve their concentration.