The University Daily
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
KANSAN
Wednesday, October 1, 1980 Vol. 91, No.28 USPS 650-640
Consumer Affairs receives largest share of Senate fund
By DIANE SWANSON Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
The Student Senate Finance and Auditing Committee finalized its supplementary budget request recommendations to the Senate last night, allocating $15, $18.93 to student organizations and staying $550.42 under the total amount available for funding.
The Senate initially received $88,896.35 in supplementary funding requests from 57 organizations but had only $16,067.35 available to allocate.
The largest funding recommendations went to
Consumer Affairs Association and Friends of Headquarters...
The committee voted to give Airman Affairs $1,546 for a director's salary with fringe benefits and to give Friends of Headquarters $2,943.43 for directors' salaries, supplies and other expenses.
"These two groups more directly serve the KU students at times they really need assistance than any of the other groups we're funding," Dan Coulson said. All Scholarship Hall Council advisor, said.
THE TWO GROUPS had requested several hundred dollars more than what they received. The salaries were funded, Cunningham said, but the staff could not function without full-time personnel.
The third largest funding recommendation was $1,535 for JKHK-FM to buy equipment the Federal Communications Commission requires for a station power increase from 10 to 100 watts. Money also was allocated for the station's fall promotion campaign.
THE GROUPS AND their allocations are:
The committee recommended that 26 other groups receive senate funding.
Blacks in Communication, $650; Black Student Union, $231.75; Black American Law Students Association, $367.25; Chinese Student Association, $472; Israeli Student Organization, $100; Kansas Defender Project, $150; Kansas Undergraduate Business Council, $100; KU
See SENATE page 5
Basketball game to be rescheduled
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ByCINDTCURRIE Staff Reporter
The KU-Morehead State University men's basketball game, which had been in limbo because of a finals-week rule, has been rescheduled for Dec. 8, Wayne Martin, Morehead State basketball coach, said yesterday.
The game previously was scheduled for Tuesday, Dec. 9, which is "stop day," a scheduled day of study for KU students before finals begin.
The controversy over the game's date arose because of a University Senate Code rule that prohibits scheduling athletic contests during finals week or stop day.
The Morehead State game was not approved by the University Senate calendar committee two years ago. The athletic department was violated of the violation again in December 1978.
When the committee realized earlier this month that the game had not been rescheduled, it notified the University Senate executive committee of the violation.
SENEX WHOTE a letter to Acting Chancellor Del Shankel and Bob Marcum, athletic director, insisting the date of the game be changed.
Martin said the Morehead State basketball department had contacted the athletic department at KU yesterday and verified the change.
the confirmation by Morehead State, located in Morehead, Ky.
Marcum said he had not been notified about
As soon as KU sends the Morehead State athletic department a letter confirming the game change it will be official said Sonny Moran, director of athletics at Morehead State.
MARTIN SAID they already had begun to change their schedule because of the negotiations made by phone between the two universities.
"As far as I'm concerned," Martin said "it's changed."
According to Moran, the rescheduling was beneficial for Morehead State.
He said the university also had a policy
See CAMP page 5.
Vanguard composer invokes artists' ghosts
The ghosts of James Joyce, Marcel Duchamp and Erik Satie played out scenes formed by the use of L'Chance ching operations in a reading last night by John Cage, experimental American composer, at the Spencer Art Museum Auditorium.
Cage spake to an overflow crowd in the 300-seat auditorium, but about 150 to 200 more people were harred from the speech, according to Mr. Khalaf, who sat in a crowd of latecomers outside the museum.
"They said there was no more room inside, that people couldn't go in because of fire laws," said David Willig, Kansas City, Kan., sophomore. "Nobody seemed to know what was
going on. Nobody bothered to tell us what we were supposed to do."
The auditorium was closed about 15 minutes before the speech was scheduled to begin.
"I just thought it was an abominable thing to have it in this room where not very many people could get in," said Ted Johnson, professor of French and Italian.
Johnson said the University planned for a possible overflow since Cage was an important ally of the university.
THE PEOPLE WHO got into the auditorium before the museum doors were shut the night Cage enact scenes featuring the ghosts of three contemporary artists.
Cage said he chose Joyce, a writer, Satie, a composer, and Duchamp, a painter, because they defied understanding.
"They have resisted the march of understanding and so are as fresh now as when they started out," Cage said. "All three, since the first ghosts, and such as inhabit the smape we do."
He said he used I-Ching chance operations to determine the accessory characters for a scene and the directions the scenes would take. The I-Ching method is an ancient Chinese method of future prediction.
HOUDINI, HEIDELBERG and Homer were a CASE page 72.
Working high above the corner of 11th and Louisiana are journeymen linemen Dennis Ryder and John Liggins, both employees of the Kansas Power and Light Co. The Douglas County office building is in the background.
Williams Fund may be tapped for KUAC bills
By ARNE GREEN
Staff Reporter
The University of Kansas Athletic Corporation soon could be looking for changes in the use of the Williams Educational Fund to provide a cure for its financial ills.
The Williams Fund, made up of private contributions to KUAC, is restricted to athletic scholarship expenditures and cannot be used for other operating expenses.
But Bob Marcum, athletic director, said yesterday that there had been discussions within the athletic department about the possibility of lifting that restriction.
"We have certainly looked into it," he said,
"but we haven't taken any action to change it yet."
FOR THE RESTRICTION to be lifted, the chancellor would have to request a change from the Kansas University Endowment Association. It then would be up to the Endowment Association's board of trustees to decide the issue.
"We are one of the few universities in which the fund established with the Endowment Association has restrictions on how much money they can give money for scholarships, but also for
John Novotny, director of the Williams Fund, said the University was somewhat unusual because it restricted use of private contributions.
operating expenses and capital improvements."
The Williams Fund was one of the few areas in which income exceeded the amount budgeted for or last year. It raised more than $1 million enough it was only expected to raise $800,000.
THAT SURPLUS allowed KUAC to keep scholarships at the same level this year, while in men's non-revenue sports, operating expenses such as travel had to be cut back.
Men's sports are the only ones funded by KUAC alone.
Novotny said that he would like to see a change in the restriction on the William H. Johnson property.
should be on raising money for athletic scholarships.
"What we need to do is come to an understanding about some kind of ceiling," he said. "We could designate a certain amount to be raised for scholarships and perhaps to have expenses designated by the athletic director to help pay extra operating expenses. We can do both with that idea."
Novotny said removal of the restrictions on the Williams Fund would be a possibility in the future.
"As long as the athletic department continues to tighten its financial belt, and granted we are able to continue raising more money, it is likely," he said. "However, if our fund raising takes a downturn, it cannot happen."
Lawrence firefighters test equipment for efficiency behind their headquarters at 19th and Haskell. The testing program was designed by Fire Chief James McSwain in hopes of identifying weaknesses
within the department. Firefighters are spreading foam from the department's aerial truck. The foam is used on fires involving chemicals and different types of fuel.
A Douglas County District judge will ask the kansas attorney general whether two people of the same sex should be tried.
Opinion sought on marriage of 2 women
The request for an opinion came after two women with addresses were denied the license Monday.
Mike Elwell, the associate district judge who denied the license, said yesterday that Kansas law did not specifically prohibit same-sex marriages.
Although Elwall had heard of other states granting marriage licenses for persons of the same sex, he had never heard of it being done in Kansas.
Kimsa Elwell said he was uncertain what to do and would send a letter today to Robert Stephan, Kansas attorney general, asking for his advice.
See OPINION page 5
Weather
It should be another sunny and warm day with a high in the low-to-middle 80s, according to the National Weather Service in Topeka. Light and variable northerly winds should blow at 10-15 p.m. h.
A cooling trend should set in late tonight with a low near 48.
The outlook for Thursday shows clear skies and no precipitation. The high should be near 75.