THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
Vol.85—No.105 Thursday, March 6, 1975
KANSAN
The University of Kansas Lawrence. Kansas
Senate fills vacant posts
Wednesday was election night for the Student, Senate.
The Senate filled seats on University Council and SenEx, elected a chairman for StudEx and approved the appointment of a new executive secretary.
Groom boom
there's a spurt in the barber business in Lawrence this week as University students prepare to go home for spring break.
one executive secretary's duties include
keeping the minutes of Senate meetings and
administration; nominating a
secretary.
Ed Rolfs, student body president, nominated Tom Curzon, Lawrence junior, as the new executive secretary for the department to unanimous approval to the appointment.
The Senate elected Bruce Woner, Hutchinson junior, as the new chairman of StudEx. Woner was Rolf's campaign manager, and he student body president several weeks ago.
StudEx is the executive committee of the Senate; it sets the agendas for Senate meetings. It can act in the place of the Senate on legislation it considers urgent, but the Senate has the option of reviewing StudEx's action.
StudEx is composed of the chairman of the Senate's seven standing committees, the three student members of SenEx, the two student members of SenEx, and the student body president and vice president.
The Senate also elected nine senators to the University Council. They were: Curzon; George Bruce, Wichita sophomore; Mary Lou Reece, student body vice president; Scott Siebels, Prairie Village sophomore; Jon Kenasser, Johnson junior; Steve O'Neill, Manhattan graduate; Bill Blessing, Senate parliamentarian; Adrienne Hyle, Manhattan graduate student; and Mark Hanson, Lawrence graduate student.
The senators elected to SenEx are: Hyle, Siebregch and Tedde Tashef, Wichita州
Barber Wayne Abrams applies the scissors to Bruce Bricker son of Clark Bricker, professor of chemistry.
Curzon was elected to the University Council seat.
The final elections were conducted to fill seats on University Council and SenEx that were vacated by Rolfs, who had to give up the positions after being elected president. The terms will run until the end of the semester.
The election for the SenEx seat created a brief controversy. After the nomination of Josserand, who served as an assistant governor, the motion was made to end the opinions.
The nomination process was reopened and several other names were submitted,
By JIMMcNICKLE
Kansan Staff Reporter
Haircats are popular among male University of Kansas students before they leave for spring break, several Lawrence barbers said Wednesday.
"Every day before breaks and holidays get busy," Chuck Schman, owner of Plaza
Several students said they were getting haircuts before they went for job interviews, Joe Leach, owner of Stadium Haircuts, and another last week had been unusually busy.
All of the barbers interviewed said that business was good, although in the late '80s and early '70s, 80 to 100 barbers in the United States left the profession daily, Wayne Mercer, owner of Southbank Barbershop, said.
Seven arrested in Lewis incident
Seven Lewis Hall residents were arrested on misdemeanor battery charges Wednesday in connection with a Feb. 24 incident at Lewis.
The seven, all black women, were arrested at Lewis by Douglas County Sheriff's officers. They were taken to a police station. Then they were paligned on $260 bond apiece.
They are scheduled to appear in Douglas County Court at 11 a.m. today.
By BILL GRAY Kansan Staff Reporter
The residents arrested are Jacqueline Ledbetter, Kansas City, Kan; sophomore; Mary Stuart, Greensboro, N.C., freshman; D'Anne Tombs, Kansas City, Mo.; freshman; Karen Raynes, Hopkins, Minn.; sophomore; Taunya Looney, Wichita freshman; Duane Brown, Overland Park; Duane Hilgen Pilot, Kansas City, Kan; freshman.
Debra Lee Wastell, Topea freshman, said Wednesday that she and her sister, Dense. Topea freshman, had signed to play the seven women. The Wastells are white.
A KU Security and Parking department report about the Feb. 24 incident said the Wastells and another Lewis Hall resident were allegedly assaulted by a group of approximately 20 black female Lewis residents.
The report said the incident took place in the Lewis cafeteria and was prompted by long standing hard feelings between the girls involved.
Two black women who said they had been involved in the incident said Friday that Security and Parking hadn't reported the incident correctly. The police say the recent action at the cafeteria and that one of the Wastels had instigated the problems in the beginning.
The incident took place in the Lewis basement, not in the cafeteria, the women said, and only about six or seven women were involved besides the Wastells.
The women asked that they not be identified.
The women said they would file charges against the Wastells. No charges had been filed in Douglas County Court against the Wastells by late Wednesday afternoon.
Brown, one of the seven, said that none of the accused women went to comment. *Gus*
"I have an attorney, and everything is under control." Brown said.
Molly Laffin, resident director of Lewis, said Wednesday that she didn't think there was any sort of tension in Lewis about the incident.
Looney, also one of the seven, said she and the rest of the women wouldn't comply. "She's very shy," Looney said.
"For as long as I've been here," she said,
this is the first time anyone has hit her.
College students, who typically had long hair three or four years ago, still have longer hair than 10 years ago but it is better groomed. Schamle said.
She said she had met with staff members from the dean of women's office, but she
See LEWIS page 5
Although he doesn't have as many customers as he once had, Schamle said his profits have increased because of the cost of more elaborate haircuts.
About 60 per cent of his customers are students, he said.
Joe Lesch, who has been a Lawrence barber for 36 years, said he gave haircuts to regular customers more often than two years ago. But 10 years ago, he said, most men got a haircut every two weeks. Today, it's once a month.
Lesch's business decreased in the early 70's, he said, but only lost one of the three other barbers in his shop. He still gives advice to customers, he said, but they are exceptions.
business good
Most people now want their hair fuller on the sides but short on top, Schamele said. This requires a cutting technique that many older barbers were not used to. In order to keep up with hair trends, several Lawrence barbers said they had attended weekends in Kansas City where demonstrations of styling and hair drying were given.
Several men's hair establishments in Lawrence couldn't really be called barbershops in the traditional sense of the word. Barber shops are reflected in their prices and services.
Mike Noel, who has worked at Hairbenders for three years, said people are asking for shorter cuts and more casual looking cuts.
At Hairbenders the customer often gets a shampoo and maybe a cream rinse before getting dressed.
year. A barbershop used to be in its place.
Browning said he opened Gentlemen's
Quarters because he thought the time was
right.
Rocky Browning has operated a style shop, Gentlemen's Quarters, for almost a
Even if it is long, he said, the person usually wants it designed so that it's easy to handle.
"There has been a drastic change in hairstyles since 1927," he said.
The new styles, although they don't demand cutting as often, are definitely more expensive. The average price for a haircut at four style shops contacted is $7.50. Included in the price is usually a shampoo and sometimes a conditioner.
People are getting their hair cut more often and shorter, he said, because long hair takes so long to fix and care for. A lot of people want their hair styled, he said.
Enrollment up; problems grow
By ALLEN QUAKENBUSH
As enrollment at the University of Kansas continues to soar, many schools within the University are facing problems of overcrowding.
"WE'RE GOING TO FACE enormous problems with space and faculty next year," Kahn said. "We have some faculty increases based on our increased enrollment, but it looks as if we're going to have the same enrollment increase again next year."
The second largest increase came in the School of Engineering, which has 16 per cent more students than it had last spring. It was followed by the School of Journalism and the School of Business. Both schools have 14 per cent more students.
This spring's enrollment of 21,483 is 10 per cent more than last spring's enrolment of 19,591. This increase is reflected in the increased number of many of the schools within the University.
Kahn attributed the increased enrollment to increased interest in professional schools. Also, he said, for the first time the school didn't limit its enrollment. He said that in the past the school's policy was to require a certain percentage of certain students to certain figure. In the best interests of the University, that practice was discontinued this year, he said.
But the increases mean problems for many schools. Some were already overcrowded before the increase and are now being hit even harder.
The School of Architecture and Urban Design had the largest increase Its alumni have made in the last spring's enrollment, Charles H. Kahn, dean of the school, said that because architecture students required studios in which to do their work, space could become too crowded.
Kahn said studio space was already limited and if enrollment continued to rise, the school would face a shortage of facilities. Kahn said the addition to Learned Hall would help this problem because it used a student faculty to move its offices to that building.
Mechanics, patrons split by car repairs
By JOHN JOHNSTON Kansan Staff Reporter
Dissatisfaction born of misunderstandings between the customer and the auto repair man is widespread, but there are many ways a customer can get out of a bad fix.
"There's a general lack of trust between people who get their cars fixed and people who fix them," Carol Boone Strohben, the National Protection Association, said last week.
Mechanics and service managers generally accept this problem as a given fact. Misunderstanding is usually the basis for the conflicts between customers and repairmen, according to several men involved in auto repair in Lawrence.
"We always have complaints," Jack pilera, owner of Jack Ellen Buck Old Country Store in Lansing.
of communication and probably a lack of knowledge on the customer's part.
Larry Zirkle, service manager at Jay-bawk Volkswagen, agreed.
He said it was an age-old problem that existed because the public wasn't educated about what to do.
Paul Barron, chief consumer investigator for the Shawnee County district attorney's office, said 50 per cent of the complaints his staff handled were related to fraud and standings. He said his office acted as a mediator in 30 per cent of the complaints because of a lack of communication between the businessman and customer. Only 10 per cent of the complaints involved actual fraud. Barron said.
A big source of misunderstanding is the determination of labor costs. Almost all auto repair services use the flat rate system in calculating labor charges.
See REPAIRS page 3
By Staff Photographer DON PIERCE
Kite for sail
Although yesterday's weather was ideal for flying kites, Bill Dougan, Pretty Prairie freshman, and Gall Denton, Overland Park freshman, deferred to other patrons. The
William P. Smith, dean of the School of Engineering, said the addition to Learned Hall would alleviate space problems but the school's computer systems would burden on the school's faculty. He said the school needed assistant instructors badly but had none included in its budget for next year.
warm, windy weather should continue through today, and there is a slight chance of rain tonight.
Smith said more people were becoming interested in engineering than in the past and he expected the school's enrollment to continue its increase.
PICKLER SAID THAT all the classrooms in Summerfield Hall were in use from 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. every day. He said the building was used by the department of economics and other departments as well as by the business school.
D Brinkman, acting dean of the School of Journalism, and Joseph A. Pichler, dean of the School of Business, both agreed that the booming enrollment in their schools
Fichler said an immediate need for the school was a place for the students to study. He said the library now in use had only 44 books, and he largely 1,000 students who used the building.
"Frankly, we're out of room," Pichler said. "We have four or five new faculty members for next year but we won't have any." The university is really putting a strain on the building.
Brinkman said that remodeling the third floor of Flint Hall had helped the overarching vision but that office space remained a problem. He said he didn't foresee any immediate solution to this problem because he expected the equipment to continue its inertia.
BOTH PICKLER and Brinkman said the increased enrollment was putting a strain on the school. They also reported that student-teacher ratio in the journalism school continued to get worse each year because increases in faculty were unable to keep up with the rapidly increasing enrollment.
Other than increases in various schools, the largest increase in the University was in special students. After having only 17 special students in the spring of 1973, there were only four graduates in category, Gilbert K. Dyck, dean of records and records, said the increase was a result of opening up easy programs and courses off the campus. Dyck said the University now has programs in Johnson andDOTtote county, Leaweorth and Toeka.
Because these programs are held either off-campus or during odd hours, they should put no strain on the facilities at the University. Dvck said.
"It it's just a matter of cycles," Dickinson said. "The problem is that three years ago, we had a couple of very large classes so our students were smaller than it would normally be.
Several schools lost enrollment. The largest decrease was 12 students in both the School of Law and the Intensive English Program.
martin Dickinson, dean of the School of
the decrease in that school was
only temp.
Edward T. Erazmus, director of the Intensive English Center, said despite the loss of enrollment in that program he was pleased with its number of students. He said the school had experienced unusually good results in his few years and this year, was no exception.
"It's just a temporary lapse. We'll be up again next year."
Political pressure could become a factor in the appointment of students to the University of Kansas Medical Center if state legislators are allowed to make appointments, William O. Hieke, executive director of the Med Center, said Wednesday.
Political risk in new bill, Rieke says
A bill, currently being debated before the House Federal and State Affairs Committee of the Kansas Legislature, would allow each district to enter into a new entering class of the school every other year. The 83 legislators from odd-numbered districts would make appointments in odd-numbered districts and even-numbered districts would make appointments in even-numbered years.
"The way the bill is worded, there certainly is the possibility of political pressure," Rike said. "With regard to whether this is a good idea, I don't know let me just say that I know of no medical school in the nation where such a system is used."
Only time would tell whether the system could lower the quality of entering medical data.
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