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The University Daily
ASK seeks to add student to Board of Regents
By DIANE SWANSON Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
By a 52-28 vote Saturday, the Associated Students of Kansas 1980 fall Legislative Assembly chose to support the addition of a student member to the Board of Regents.
The student position, which would have full voting power on the Board of Regents, would not be available to students.
About 65 delegates, including 12 from the University of Kansas, met this weekend at Kansas State University in Manhattan to set their lobbying agenda for the 1981 legislative session. There are 83 delegates in ASK. The members could vote in person or by proxy.
Greg Schacke, KU student body president and
Greg Skeijerage said that the student position on
the university is still in progress.
"Who could better represent higher education than the primary consumers of education, who are primarily consumers of energy?"
He said many of the Regents decisions were made between the board's monthly meetings. Students who come to the meeting find decisions he made, and they believe them no chance to voice their opinions, he said.
ALTHOUGH KU's delegation voted unanimously to support a student position on the Board of Regents, not all assembly delegates agreed.
Some delegates argued that the board was set up as an autonomous group of impartial individuals and that a student member would upset the board's balance.
Randy Tosh, K-State student body president and ASK delegate, said that as a member of the board's Student Advisory Committee, he had requested information he had requested from Reeders members.
The Student Advisory Committee is composed of the student body presidents from the seven Regents schools. It has no voting power and can only make recommendations.
ASK represents six Regents schools and Washburn University. The six schools are K-State, Fort Hays State University, Pittsburgh State University, Emporia State University, Wichita State University and the University of Kansas. The Kansas Technological Institute in Salina is a Regents school but not a member of ASK.
IN ASK, EACH school receives one vote for each 1,000 students enrolled. KU has 23 votes in the student lobbying group.
The assembly voted to support the student position on the Regents board, but not as a priority issue. Bob Bingaman, ASK executive director of the College, said he new this year, it would take time to build support.
The assembly selected educational finance issues as its priority lobbying issues for 1981. They include: minimum wages for students, 100 hours of paid employment for students, funding for faculty and administrative use of
student unions; legislation prohibiting student fees to pay for academic facilities and state funding to cover the debt on academic buildings; provision of tuition fees and upgrading student financial aid offices.
THE DELEGATES voted to continue their five-year fight for a self-help amendment to the Landlord-Tenant Act and to impose legislation that would restrict legal age of 3.2 beer consumption on all adults in fall 2013.
The assembly also voted to make a statement of support for a number of other concerns in the matter.
The assembly also agreed to support efforts by Washburn administrators to get more financial resources.
Although some delegates opposed taking a stand on social issues, the assembly did vote to support reduction of the penalty for first-time convictions of marijuana possession and legislation limiting the use of non-returnable beverage containers.
The group made a statement opposing a constitutional amendment prohibiting abortion.
THE ASSEMBLY refused to take a stand on draft registration or the draft.
The assembly tabled a resolution calling for ASK lobbying efforts in finding alternative sources of funding for the proposed University of Kansas Medical Center Library. Dale Gillogly, a former KU delegate, submitted the resolution to the assembly.
The Legislature voted this spring to raise medical student fees $50 a semester to finance
However, Vernie Harnish, Wichita State's ASK campus director, said that ASK represented students across the state and should not address issues relating to specific schools.
But David Henry, another KU delegate, said that the Med Center was the only medical school in the country.
Senate axes 31 for absenteeism
Schnacke said KU would continue to fight the fee increase.
Thirty-one student senators were removed from the Student Senate Friday.
The Student Senate executive committee heard appeals from 14 other suspended senators later.
Senate rules state, "Any senator who has received two unexcused absences or four absences of any kind shall be immediately suspended from the Student Senate."
Senators were notified a week before the $ p.m. friday suspension apped, according to Friday announcements.
According to Senate rules, a senator may appeal the suspension within one week after receiving a suspension notice. If a reinstated senator receives no faces of any kind he will be immediately dismissed.
Octavio Viveros, Senate Elections Committee chair, said his committee was in the process of filling the vacancies with the candidates who will be the highest number of votes in the election last spring.
Women educators want recognition of skills, potential
Staff Reporter
By KATHY BRUSSELL Staff Reporter
OVERLAND PARK—The women weren't meeting to lament their lack of equal rights in a man's world, not to pound lecturers and demand instant recognition and appreciation.
Rather, the women were educators who had come to voice a common conclusion—women working within the modern university system can gain more influence with their male counterparts and compromise with the ability to argue effectively for the changes they think should be made.
As participants in the Women's Concerns in Higher Education Conference for Region VII, the women gathered this weekend at Johnson County Community College in Overland Park. They came from universities and junior colleges across Missouri, Iowa, Nebraska and Kansas.
About 85 people registered for the third annual conference, where directors and members of women's programs were given the chance to attend a workshop made and the problems they had encountered.
FOUR REPRESENTATIVES FROM THE University of Kansas attended the conference, which was sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education, the Metropolitan Community Colleges of Kansas City, Mo., and Johnson County Community College.
The conferences usually accomplish three things, according to Harold Blackburn, the
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Cyclists from the Octoctima bike tour pedal toward Clinton Lake early Sunday morning on a rural Douglas County road. Over 300 cyclists participated in the 98-mile tour.
Bicyclists pit stamina against Kansas hills. wind
Staff Reporter
Yesterday's early morning sun glistened on thousands of spinning spokes as a mass of colorfully clad cyclists peddled machines down Massachusetts Street.
By COLLEEN KEEFFE
This centipede-like spectacle marked the beginning of the annual Octoginta, an 80-mile bicycle ride sponsored by the Mount Oread Bicycle Club.
A variety of bicyclists were on hand for the event. The cyclists ranged from weather-beaten tourists and their bikeweights to lean, rugged and their leather-weight, low-geared cycles.
The instructor, Joyce Sulanke, dubbed the ride "Oetoginta," which is Latin for the
The Octoginta is the biggest bicycling event in Kansas, according to ride director Jack Stoppa. This year's ride attracted more than 370 participants from as far as Nebraska and Colorado.
THE OCTOINTGA BEGAN in 1969 when a KU Latin instructor decided to stage an 80-mile bike ride instead of the 100-mile rides common in autumn.
number 80. About 50 riders took part in the
event, but only about 15 were
when the second Octoberia was held in 1972.
Cool, ideal cycling weather and the brilliant autumn colors of the Kansas countryside made yesterday's ride an attractive one, Khoes said.
Referring to the first few miles of the tour, Stan Sololday, Larned senior, said, "When you turn off Clinton Parkway and come over the hill, you can see the morning sun shining and the moon reflecting."
THE RIDE BEGAN at a chilly 8 a.m. at South Park, and most riders danced warm-up suits and gloves before pedding out of the parking lot early opened Clinton Parkway and bike path.
About 18 miles into the ridge, many cyclists could be seen peeling off layers of clothing as they warmed up from riding up and down the hills on the course.
Riders began to spread out as they followed the paved route around Clinton Lake to Highway 40. The route was marked with occasional white arrows painted on the road.
"We wanted to dispel any myths about Kansas being flat," said Gene Wee, SUA program assistant, who helped coordinate the ride.
By the time the first riders reached the mountains, the road to Lecompte, the mass of bikers had thinned.
SEASONED BIKERS AND speed-happy racers were often the first to arrive at the rest stops, while others dotted the road for miles behind.
Guaty Kansas winds accompanied the cyclist to a park and a soup table at Ferrery Park.
"Riding into the Kansas wind is like riding into a wall," said Rick Barr, a racer originally from Lawrence who now lives in Aspen, Colo.
"I forgot how much heavier the air is down here than it is in Colorado," he said.
Barr, like many of this year's participants,
has ridden the Octoginta before.
"Eighty miles isn't really that much," Barr said, although some riders disagreed with it.
TAMMY HANSEN, MCPHERSON junior,
before the Octavista.
"I think I can make it," she said before the rainy start, "matter of keeping my personal hideu in place."
Later, after completing the ride, Hanson exclaimed. "It was great!"
She said that she wasn't very sore although "that might be different tomorrow."
Six of the racers on the ride challenged the hills by trading their conventional ten-speed bikes for track bikes, which have a fixed gear and usually no brakes.
A few tandems, bicycles-built-for-two, were present in the pack. One tandem belonged to a student from New York.
THE GILMANS HAVE ridden in the Octoginta five times, and they said they considered it an 'excitting' event. They also have been riding in the Kansas tour, a trip that spans the length of Kansas.
The fastest finishers completed the 80-mile route in about six hours, while the bulk of the riders cruised into South Park seven or eight hours after the ride began.
Some riders, like Hanson, said they were happy to finish, but others, including racer Phil Heley, Merriam sophomore, said they would ride the asr just 'another 80 miles on a bike.'
One weary cyclist, while pedaling her way
to the station, was asked by a photographer to
"hold it" for a new
"Are you kidding?" she said. "If I stop now, I'll never move again!"
Circus brings magic of make-believe to campus
By RAY FORMANEK
Staff Reporter
Instead, four clowns perform in and around a circus ring that is one-fourth the size of a regulation circus ring. Working along with them are a miniature horse, two performing dogs, a 250- pound Himalayan black bear, a woolly monkey and a cat.
Nick Weber's tricks is like most circuses, with its magic tricks, dangerous stuns and animal tricks. But the animals in Weber's show aren't like the ones women doesn't feature freaks or on horsesback.
Weber, a Jesuit priest from Santa Barbara, Calif., said the show traveled to more than 200 college campuses, shopping centers and parks and the eight months a year it spent on the road.
Weber calls his traveling show the Royal Lichtenstein Quarter-Ring Sidewalk Circus. The show was presented Friday in front of Watson University KU students and staff with a poor-time diversion.
HE CHARACTERIZED the show as a `n`-'fastening verbal corral made up of a palourfowr b
"The longest piece is seven minutes" he said,
encourage audience participation, share
success stories and build confidence.
Weber, 41, has masters degrees in theology and theater. He taught drama at the University of Santa Clara, Santa C拉利, Calif., for several years before forming his circuit in 1971.
THE MORE A PERSON is able to play, Weber said, the monologue that person will be to see a *neutral* character.
Weber said his circus, which depended on the elements of surprise and wonder, was his main attraction.
"Iused to hold circuses in my backyard when I was eight," he said. "I've always wanted to perform. I couldn't very well join the circus, so I turned to the theater."
Weber said his frustration of reaching only a few people in the theater led to his starting the campaign.
"It emerged out of the theater group," he said. "I started out giving street shows doing mime and magic."
SINCE THEN, WEBER'S circus has expanded to include Jill, a Himalayan black bear which gently takes a marshmallow from Weber's mouth; Dan Rice, a miniature horse named after a 19th-century clown; Susie, a woolly monkey from South America, Pepe and Jingle Bells, two performing dogs and Gabel, a cat which does not perform in the show.
In addition to the animals, three other animals are present in guiding the audience into the land of make-believe.
"the rationale of making people happy is what enticed me into joining the group," he said. "It is that I am interested in helping."
One member of this year's troupe, Chris French, Sacramento, Calif., said he first saw the show five years ago and kept track of it all the way through college.
leaving the truck, but the performances are something special."
FRENCH, 23, said that he had never performed before he joined the circus in July but that he had taught himself to juggle. He handles the circus' public relations while it is on the road.
"I miss my friends and family," he said.
"There is no racial social life."
Another member of this year's troupe, Steve DeSaulniers, Albuquerque, N.M., said that the show was one of the best forms of entertainment he had ever seen.
However, DesSaulniens said that the sacristy had been worth it and that he intended to stay with them.
DaSulmaini, 21, agreed with French that the hardest part of joining the circus was life on the
Weber and his show left Lawrence Saturday afternoon for Kansas City, Mo., where they will meet the cast of *The Duckman*.
"I first saw the show three years ago," he said.
"I taught myself to juggle using tennis balls while working the graveyard shift at an all-night gas station. I joined the show in July."
Weather
It should be mostly sunny and warm to-day with a high of 78, according to the KU Weather Service. Winds should be from the southwest at 10-15 mph.
Tnight should be fair and mild with a low of $2.
It should be slightly warmer tomorrow under sunny skies, with the expected high in the lower 30s. Mild weather should elmine into Tuesday night with a low of 54.
Wednesday also should be sunny with a high in the lower 80s.