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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
Vol. 90, No.6
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
free on campus
10 cents off campus
Royals take Western lead
Friday, August 31, 1979
See story page ten
Looking up
Alison Roebell, Writicha sophomore, tried her hand at rappelling down the side of the Military Science building with a little help from the Army ROTC. Roebell found the experience very scary but said she'd try again today. The worst part of rappelling,
Rooedell said, is just getting off the top of the wall. The Army ROTC has been helping students get the feel for rappelling this past week and will give anyone another chance next Thursday and Friday. See story page five.
Regents schools on rise
By JEFF SJERVEN
Staff Renorter
Slight increases in enrollment at five of the six Board of Regents schools are in keeping with projected national trends, according to an examination of enrollment analysis, said yesterday.
Parker, vice president of admissions and records at the University of Cincinnati, said he was not surprised by enrollment increases in Kansas and ashews, but added that the number of students probably would increase and perhaps decrease in one or two years.
KU administrators announced last week that students in the Department of Kansas were increased to about 400 or 600 students, an increase of between 1 and 2 percent. Last year's fall enrollment was
Officials at other Regents schools reported that
*Enrollment at Kansas State University as of Tuesday was 15,791, an increase of 110 from the same date last year.
- Wichita State University expected enrollment to reach 16,100 to 16,200, up from
- Pittsburgh State University projected total enrollment of about 5,500, up from 5,457 last year.
*Emirica State University was running slightly ahead of last year's enrollment and expected final enrollment to exceed 5,800. Port Hays State University has enrolled about 15 percent in register a decrease in enrolment, with 109 fewer students than last year. So far, 4,187 have enrolled.*
In addition, the University of Iowa, one of KU's peer schools, anticipates a final enrollment of 23,290, up 210 from last year.
A peer school is a university with enrollment, academic emphasis and research facilities similar to those at the University of Kansas.
The University of Colorado, a second peer school, expects to maintain its enrollment at the state-set limit of 20,157 students.
Parker said he had expected the moderate increases in college enrollment this year, but that decreases could begin as early as next year.
"We are at the top of the buge for enrollment in the 1970s," he said. "But we can't go on in having increases forever, because the number is 15 percent in enrollment by the mud 1980s."
Parker said that concern over declining numbers of 18-year-olds was understandable, as the shrinking uniform classes cost them by other factors in the next few years.
"Although there are fewer 18-year-olds, those in older age groups are attending college in larger numbers," he said.
Parker also said the recession could account for a short-term increase in college enrollment.
"Initially, a tight job market can increase college enrollment," he said. "Of course, the recession last too long, people will run out of money to pay for college."
However, Bob Bruce, director of information at KState, said that a strong economy also encouraged college enrollment.
"Kansas has had a good year
second semester," he said. "We are able to return for second,
third and fourth years. We attribute our in-
ternship to cutting the upper-education attrition rate."
"If you conducted an empirical study," McCallum said, "you'd find that the number of graduate students doesn't matter. What does matter is the percentage of graduate students who decide to go to college. This percentage has increased in recent years."
However, Byron McCalmon, registrar for the University of Colorado, said declining numbers of 18-year-olds were no threat to enrollment in the short term.
Food stamp errors fixed
By PAM LANDON
Staff Reporter
Local representatives of Social
Rehabilitation Services should
receive food servicers should no
longer have to wait months to receive
stamps delayed because of computer
system issues.
In a four-hour meeting at the Lawrence Public library attended by representatives of the NAACP and the Council, SRS officials said that, in the future, applications rejected by their libraries.
Previously, applications rejected by the computer were set aside and the applicants often were referred to local welfare agencies.
SBS officials said the computer problems
cropped up last June when a new program was fed into the computer.
Richard Burr, state food stamps director at said at least 18 Lawrence families had been denied food stamps because of problems with the program. The nation had been denied for five months, he said.
"This has been corrected and their benefits are being mailed." he said.
Lawrence Emergency Services, which comprises several local emergency centers such as Penn House and the Salvation Army, had expressed concern for those families that would not receive their aid before the long Labor Day weekend.
Rose Stewart, attorney for Kansas Legal Services, asked SRS officials if the local SRS office could give at least $10 of food to
anyone who does not have food stamps by Saturday.
"There's no way we can do that." Burr said. "No regulation would allow us to do that."
Tony Stars, state director of the Office of Economic Opportunity, said some form of and would be available tomorrow at the Office of Economic Opportunity 18th St., for people who have an emergency.
"This will be a one-time thing," he said. "But we are taking about an emergency situation here in Lawrence."
"Some of the things I've heard, you would not believe were happening in Lawrence, Kansas," Stewart said. "One mother said she was going to work and a daughter would get one meal a day. Some
Bell Memorial takes patients
See STAMPS page 13
Staff Reporter
By ROSEMARY ITFEN
Bell Memorial Hospital at the University of Kansas Medical Center opened its doors to inpatients for the first time on August 17, 2015.
Between 30 and 40 patients have been transferred from the old university hospital to the $8 million building, according to an analysis by JFK.
"It was a tremendous moment in the history of the University of Kansas Medical School," Hartman said yesterday after patients were placed in the internal medicine and surgical units of the hospital.
"It was a very smooth transaction," Hartman said, "and it hasn't interfered with patient care."
The University Daily Kanan will not be published Labor Day, Sept. 3, but will resume publication Tuesday, Sept. 4.
Hartman said a certain number of patients remaining in the old hospital would be transferred each Thursday until all were healthy.
The hospital, which officially opened in May, has been offering outpatient treatment in internal medicine since July.
The surgical outpatient center opened just week and the psychiatric outpatient center will open soon, Hartman said.
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Hartman attested the delayed transferal of patients to the
attendant.
Susan Shipley, head of University Relations at the Med Center, said the addition of radiology equipment to Bell Memorial played a big role in enabling patients to be transferred.
The 531-bed hospital is divided into 159 private rooms, 57 semiprimary rooms and 78 intensive care unit beds. The hospital can be expanded to accommodate more patients if necessary. Shields said.
"The Bell Memorial Hospital is one of the finest health care centers in the country and we are very pleased to have this facility as a part of KU to treat patients and to teach future doctors." Dykes said.
A legal battle over defective panels on the outside of the new building caused a three-month delay in the opening of the hospital. Construction of the structure began in 1972 and the first patients were to open in April, with patients being admitted in May.
Chancellor A. R. Dykes toured the new hospital yesterday as patients were transferred and expressed gratitude.
The Med Center is represented in the disagreement by Jerry Dickson, a lawyer in charge of all legal problems concerning abortion.
Dykes spent most of the day at the Med Center and said he would go back today and tomorrow. He also will spend every day at the Med Center.
A disagreement over the contract with Vincent S. D.Ciaro General Contractors Inc., of Kansas City, Mo., resulted in $350,000 being withdrawn from his $3.5 million contract. The money was to be used to renear the defective panels.
Staff Reporter
Kansan on Connally trail
By TONI WOOD Staff Reporter
Jack Ranson, former chairman of the Kansas Republican Party, has joined former Texas Gov. John Connally's 1986 presidential campaign.
"I always told Gov. Connally that he ever ran for president, I would be pleased to work for him," Ranson said yesterday from Connolly campaign headquarters in New York.
In January, Ranson decided not to run for re-election as party chairman, a position he held for six years. Morris Kay, former commissioner of the law, Lawrence was elected to the post.
Connally announced his candidacy Feb. 5, and a staff member of the Connally for Governor nominated him to ask him to join the campaign. He agreed and has since traveled across the country as a public speaker.
"Kansas has not been a high-priority state," he said. "Dole is running and, of course, is getting plenty of home-state support.
Ranson said activity for Connally in Kansas was minimal.
"BUT IF BOB drops out, we feel that the
majority of his supporters will switch to Campally."
Ranson said Kansas voters would support Connally instead of President Jimmy Carter in the 1980 election.
"I would think Connally could hardly beat Jimmy Carter in Kansas," he said. "The campaigning is in its early stages, but the team has not been called or called in to see how they can help out."
campaign leaders and a headquarters for a Connally campaign in Kansas will be selected in September or October, he said.
Mirren Brown, executive director for the state Republican Party, said there were so many Republican candidates in the presidential race that many party members
John Langstrup, chairman of the Republican Central Committee in Lawrence, said the local party would not vote to elect a candidate until after the national convention.
ON CONNALLY'S popularity in Lawrence, Langstrom said, "I haven't seen anything at me. But I've heard among them that it is possible to be a very competent leader who would
But his job on the campaign soon will become more influential, he said, as he looks forward to a new era that hold conventions instead of presidential primaries, including Oklahoma, Colorado, and Iowa.
Ranson said his function on the campaign had been to pinpoint Republican leaders in certain states who would support Connally and to determine what issues should be addressed. In Maine, Washington, Alaska, Hawaii, Arizona, Utah, Nevada and Virginia.
make a much better president than the one we have now."
Kansas will hold its first presidential primary election April 1, 1980. The Kansas Legislature voted during the past session to change from state conventions to primaries.
RANSON SAID Connally would come to Kansas before the primary, but a trip had not been scheduled.
Connally served as the governor of Texas for three terms. He was President John Kennedy's Secretary of the Navy and Governor of Vermont to the Republican party in 1973.
See RANSON page 13
SenEx to discuss banner policy
By DAVE LEWIS
The University Senate executive committee will consider a recommendation today from the KU chapter of the American Society of Civil Engineers. Professors to replace KU's banner policy.
Staff Reporter
The committee also will discuss 53 AAUP recommendations that aim to prevent race and sex role stereotyping at the University.
The AAUP Executive Committee, in a July 23 recommendation to Chancellor Archie Dykes, said "the present policy of no banners should be replaced by a policy that speaks specifically to anticipate problems of balancing the right of free speech with obligation to preserve order and to prevent interference at University events."
THE COMMITTEE'S recommendation
The recommendation also said, "The University law enforcement authorities should be directed to refrain from taking part in demonstrations of disruption or distortion of University viewpoint is very likely to occur or when the participants or participants are in jeopardy."
See related story page three
was prompted by an incident at KU's Commencement ceremony May 21.
According to a report by the Academic Patronage and Future Committee an AAUP professor was inducted into a graduate student university, unfurled a banner at Conventurement that said, "KU Out of South
The AFT's report said KU police officers told Tuky that banners were not permitted in the stadium, but Kubu refused to leave on Tuesday. Tuky also said a constitutional right to freedom of speech.
The AFT's report also said that the 'Chancellor did not claim that the policy was a published policy, but that it had been in effect since Chancellor Chайner's
DYKES WAS NOT available for comment yesterday, but has said he would support a change in the no-honor policy.
Kuby was arrested on charges of interfering with the duties of a police officer, according to Colt Knutson, Lawrence city attorney.
THE COMMITTEE'T first three recommendations asked the University to review the proposed model, the numbers of graduate students by sex, race and age and the availability of faculty.
Kuby's trial in Municipal Court is scheduled Sent. 20.
"I think the question of freedom of speech has been brought up by the Kuly decision," Gerhard Zuther, chairman of SenEx, said yesterday.
"A great deal of our agenda is what the institution brings to us or what students and faculty members bring to us through communication. We deal with various complaints."
The 15 recommendations, aimed at "eliminating both personal and institutional forms of racism at the University of Kansas," could be implemented this year in the Senate's April 30 report from the Committee to Reduce Sex and Role Stereotyping.
Our goal is to monitor and participate in as high a degree as possible in all important aspects of the project, we said. "For that purpose, we are meeting with administrators, who sometimes come
Pigeon protection
Workers from Facilities Operations covered ventilation holes in Memorial Stadium with wire screens. The screens are intended to prevent pigeons from roosting inside the Stadium. Work is expected to continue next week.