THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
Vol. 96, No. 44
10 cents off campus
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
free on campus
Planning staff OKs rezoning
Thursday, October 25, 1979
See story page six
Pumpkin powered
Chris Waters, Topka sophomore, takes it slow and easy as he drives carefully checking the pump to make sure it does not fall off his mower. Waters was taking his pumpkin house yesterday.
Stephan warns KU to enforce law against drinking at games
By JEFF SJERVEN
Staff Reporter
Students at the University of Kansas can expect more stringent enforcement of state and University rules against liquor consumption during football games. The university will also vice-channel for student affairs, said yesterday.
Ambler held a meeting yesterday with administrators and about 20 representatives of student organizations and living groups in which he encouraged students to police themselves.
However, Ambler said, the University has received letters from Kansas Attorney General Robert Stephan that urged the University to control incidents related to alcohol consumption in the
"We don't want to invite outside enforcement," the member said. We want to appeal to students to stop their behavior.
"I personally don't think that we have an extreme problem, but it doesn't take much to create problems."
AMBLER PRODUCED a letter from a student at
North Texas State University who attended the KU football game Sept. 29.
In the letter, the student complained of drunken behavior by KU students. The student also complained of excessive drinking.
Mullens, KU police captain, said the incident referred to in the letter involved two KU students and one KU graduate who stole pendants from two women.
"One woman who was about 50 was knocked down and a woman who was 35 years old had a pinstripe on her arm."
three were charged with disorderly conduct. Mulleners 84 percent of similar incidents involved adults.
The increased security will not violate individual rights. Ambler said.
"We won't be frisking people as they walk in," he
Mullens said KU police would wait for instructions from the University general counsel's office.
said, "People who are not obviously disruptive will be let alone.
"Making arrests gets complicated," Mullens said. "If the violator is a student or a Kansas resident, I can issue an order for them to appear in court to answer charges."
But if a violator is from out of state, he would have to be arrested because an order to appear in court is not made.
Amber and Mullens said the administration would examine the possibility of using students to learn through a blended approach.
Local gasoline prices stable for now, but observers wonder about the future
"If proper training is provided and the right students are selected, it could be very helpful," said Dr.
Penalties for alcohol consumption on state property range from fines of $5 to $100 and up to six months' jail.
By BRIAN VON BEVERN
Staff Renorter
Gasoline prices in the Lawrence area have stabilized after meteoric increases earlier this year, according to area oil officials and gasoline station owners.
According to Bob Utley, a spokesman for Amoco Oil Co. in Kansas City, Mo., the gas of price should remain constant unless foreign suppliers raise their prices.
Recent increases by minor oil-producing countries might cause a one or two cent increase, but consumers have yet to see the higher cost at the pump he said.
"Whether prices stay where they are depends on whether other countries follow their lead." i.e. cann, "OPEC has scheduled a meeting in December, and you know they're going to discuss prices."
However, Joe Fishbein, fat allocation officer for the Kansas Energy Office in Topeka, said it was too early to make a decision.
A check of 12 local gas station shows that regular gasoline averaged 65 cents a gallon and unleaded gasoline averaged 99 cents a gallon, an increase of about 32 cents over October 1978 prices.
Utley agreed. "Our inventories haven't improved that much," he said, "but as long as people continue to reduce their driving, there shouldn't be any shortages.
"Right now supplies look good," he said. "We've had no evidence of shortages right now."
"Some people are of the opinion that there is plenty of gas on hand, but if they start driving foolishly we could see a return of this summer's lines."
Dale Solwedt, owner of the Standard service station at 2rd and Louisiana streets, said that although gasoline prices were stable, he was unsure about future price increases.
"I don't know," he said. "Prices have risen more
less a lt thought they would. I suspect they
were wrong."
SOLTWEED CHARGES 95.9 cents a gallon for
regular and 99.9 cents a gallon for unleaded.
He said he had taken steps to cut overhead expenses, including closing on Sundays.
Steve Conner, manager of the Phillips 66 station
"We've got the same profit margin we had in 1973," he said. "Because of competition from the cult-rate stations, dealers in this area are not likely to take the full mark-up the government allows."
The prices at his station are 97.9 cents a gallon for regular and 104.9 cents a gallon for unleaded.
CORNER SAID he thought an increased need for heating in this winter might cause only a small increase.
at 25th and Iowa streets, said he thought gasoline prices would keep rising.
Bill Edmons, owner of the Molial station at 23rd and Ninshuth街, said he thought prices had
"The prices out there on my pumps haven't changed in two months," he said.
Senate decides upon last fund supplements
Those prices are 94.9 cents a gallon for regular and 98.9 cents a gallon for unleaded.
Staff Renorter
I don't think people were waiting gas before the bus. I won't wait for you. They're going on vacation because they're afraid of being kicked out. And they shouldn't be.
He said that he was getting the same allocation he had received last year and that business was good.
By ELLEN IWAMOTO
The Senate voted on requests last night from the 10 organizations it did not hear at last week's meeting.
The Student Senate wrapped up inappropriate funding or, not before organization has ratified a net, not before prolonged debate over budget requests by the KU Advertising Club and SOMOBEME, a group that opposes KU.
A total of $19,610.34 was allocated to student organizations. About $45,000 was available for supplementary funding, access to professional schools, Senate Budget committee chairman
The money not allocated to the student organizations will remain in the Senate's unallocated account.
The Senate denied four other student organization requests: Women in Law; Masters in Public Administration; Architecture and Urban Design Student
Council; and the Iranian Student Organization.
In other action, the Senate passed a resolution supporting the sale of 192 football tickets at KU student prices to Haskell Junior College students.
WOMEN IN LAW did not receive its acceptance for the budget committee, because group members did not appear before budget committee hearings or attend the Senate hearing.
See SENATE page nine
Masters in Public Administration's request of $200 for travel expenses to a conference was denied because Senate rules prohibit travel of travel to conferences and conventions.
The Senate also denied a 4734 request for the Architecture and Urban Design Student
By HAROLD CAMPBELL
Staff Reporter
Soviet author says he helped save icons
A visiting Russian novelist and poet, Vladimir Soloukhin, thinks two of his works helped save part of Russian medieval art.
Soloukhin said yesterday in an interview that his books, "Letters from the Russian Museum" helped and "Blackened Icons," helped the Soviet government work on the program to deform during Joseph Stalin's regime to a recognition of the value of icons.
ICONS ARE religious images painted on panels used in Russian Orthodox Churches from the Middle Ages until the 19th Century.
Solukhun is visiting the University of Kansas for the next two weeks as part of the Slavic languages and literatures his visiting Soviet writer program.
Gerald Mikkkelson, director of the department, said the Soviet policy concerning icons had changed radically. The new policy allowed to leave the Soviet Union, he said.
"The Soviet government now recognizes icons as a part of Russian culture." Mikkelson said.
"Enormous quantities of icons were destroyed," he said. "However, I said in my books that icones were valuable as a vital art of Russian medieval art."
He said he submitted the "Blackened icon" to two Soviet magazines who refused to publish it for fear of challenging government policy.
However, he said, a third magazine, Moscow, agreed to print the work.
"There are still some subjects that are taboo for *Soviet writers*.* he said. These subjects include Stalin's policies, the history of agriculture and Soviet Chinese relations.
SOLOUKHIN, who was born in 1924 in the village of Alepino, which is about 200 miles north of Moscow, became a
See SOLOUKHIN page nine
Vladimir Soloukhin
Psychoanalytical computer has its wires crossed
By SUSAN SCHOENMAKER
The student walked into a cramped room, pulled up a wheel and neonlights found the copier.
The counselor's answer was in electronic letters, strung across a video screen.
"I'm depressed," he said, "I feel like jumping out a window."
The counselor was ELIZA, a computer program designed to imitate a therapist—minus the counselor.
"What other problems do you have?" the counselor answered
ELIZA was sent to the University of Kansas two years ago from Honeywell Corporation, Minneapolis, Minn., and can be called up from the KU computer center, according to Bill Maxwell, assistant director
But for those expecting a computerized Freud, ELIZA, with her limited repertoire of responses, is a disappointment, according to professors and computer science students.
The brainchild of Joseph Weizenbaum, a computer
science professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass., ELIZA was an early experiment with the language-handling capacity of a computer—not a theanist.
Grammar is ELIZA's only linguistic accomplishment to be better than Kate K. McCauley, a professor of psychology who teaches a class on artificial intelligence. He said ELIZA could manipulate sentence structure, but not vocabulary.
THE COMPUTER is named after Eliza, a character who learns correct English in George Washington University.
"ELIZA has a handful of little tricks," said Bethek. He said ELIZA can identify words and verb and sentence structures, which are often found in ELIZA also picks on certain cues words, such as "mother," "father" and "dream," and plugs them into the context.
But ELLIZA's electronic wizardry does not masquerade as intelligence for long, according to Max Coe, a Lawrence graduate student in computer science.
"You may be amazed for two or three lines—if you're lucky," said Coe. "But suddenly you hit all the
"I am an only child," a student told ELIZA.
"How long have you been an only child?" asked ELIZA.
For example. ELIZA failed in genealogy.
IF ELIZA is dim-witted, at least she is diplomatic.
"There are only twenty-four hours to a day," a
"second student told ELIZA, complaining of
the lack of sleep."
"Did you think there might not be 24 hours in a day?" resplained FILZA.
Spending time with ELIZA can often invite frustration, according to Cullen Kitchen, Hutchinson
"I can't take it for more than ten minutes; it is very crunting. she said, explaining that ELIZA's job was to give
Kitchens' frustration was shared by a California computer, which once held a telephone counseling service.
The conversation with the California computer, a programmed schizophrenic, rapidly deteriorated, and died.
UNLIKE HUMANS, the California computer wasn't taken in by ELIZA's pre-packaged responding techniques. Annoyed, the paranoid schizophrenic hung up on ELIZA.
Kitchen said she thought real computer therapy was a long way off.
"Well, you saw EI.IZA." she said.
Computer programs can outstrip conventional therapy in several ways, said Kenneth Colby.
But ELIZA, a 1967 invention, has since been up-graded to more advanced developments in the field of artificial intelligences.
The computer program was 90 percent accurate, while the success rate of psychiatrists was 30 percent.
For example, a computer program in a University of Wisconsin experiment out-performed psychiatrists on suicide predictions following interviews of a number of troubled individuals.
COLBY, WHY is attempting to design a computer
program, said computers were objective,
computer science was the core.
And the price is right, according to Colby, who said compares charges $5 to $8 an hour when computer chips are sold.
But psychiatrists won't be priced out of the market, according to Bethke.
But according to Coe, a complete and satisfactory therapeutic computer program has yet to make a dent.
"I wouldn't want a computer to second-guess me," he said.
Today's researchers have scaled down the time expectations, but not the goals, according to Coe.
"People are a lot more reasonable about how much time it will take." he said.