THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
Vol.85—No.99 Wednesday, February 26, 1975
KANSAN
The University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
By Staff Photographer DON PIERCE
Rock Chalk rehearsal
With the Rock Chalk Review only a few days away, Leah Stevens, Garrett, Savacca, sophilized her act at a rehearsal in New York City. "I wanted to be a teacher," she said.
Delt sketch, "Not with my charitie, you don't." The review will open Friday night at Hoch. See story page 8.
City to set weight limit for bridge
By JANET MAJURE
By SANET MAURE
Kansan Staff Reporter
The Lawrence City Commission agreed Tuesday to prepare an ordinance calling for an eight-ton gross weight limit on vehicles that pass through Iowa's streets Bridge over the Kansas River
The commissioners agreed to accept recommendations for the limit from John Frazer of Finney and Turnipseed Consulting Engineers and Milton Allen, both attorneys, despite protests by local businessmen who use trucks that exceed the limit.
Travis Glass, president of Lawrence Asphalt Company, said raising the limit to 10 tons would allow 90 per cent of his empty trucks to cross the bridge.
Gary Garmy of N. R. Hamm Quarry said setting the eight-ton limit would cost his company about $2,000 a year for rerouting and improving the bridge, unlike the only alternative crossing.
Buford Watson, city manager, said he understood the problem faced by the businessman. He said it would cost the city $4,000 a year to use the turnipke bridge.
Frazier said minimum repairs to the
bridge to allow heavy trucks to cross would cost about $250,000. He said the eight-ton limit would prolong the life of the bridge so it could continue to be used until a new one was built. He said a new bridge should be completed by summer 1977.
Allen told the commission the city might be considered negligent if it failed to appear before a court.
Watson said fines for using the bridge with a gross weight exceeding the limit would be from $10 to $100, at the discretion of the court.
In other business, the commission authorized improvements at Deerfield Park by the Deerfield School. Improvements will include two lighted tennis courts and two multipurpose courts for volleyball and basketball.
The commission approved a motion to keep the city landfill open until 7 p.m. on Mondays in April to allow more time for cleaning to cleanup to bring their trash to the dump.
An ordinance ordering the condemnation and appropriation of property for the construction of the city garage was deferred in 1973. The lawsuit concerning the garage is pending.
The commission also agreed to accept Allen's recommendation that the city deny a claim for $150,000 by Bety Mallonee, 40 Locust, for damages incurred at Lawrence Memorial Hospital. Allen said that the city wasn't the proper party for such a suit.
The commission also approved a site plan for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on the north side of the 3600 block of Yale Road.
A bid date of 2 p.m. March 11 was set for sanitary sewers to serve Deerfield Park and Pioneer Ridge, the commission also set a bid date of 10 a.m. March 17 for five half-ton pickup trucks. The trucks are budgeted trade-in replacements for the city water, street, engineering and building inspection departments.
The commission accepted the bid by Super-Secur Comfort Stations for a comfort station for Clinton Park. The Super-Secur bid was the only one received, but Watson recommended that the commission accept the bid since the price was in line with the regular and since Super Secur comfort stations at another park have proved adequate.
Hall deposit reduced in compromise move
By KEN KREHBIEL Kansan Staff Reporter
A deposit of $25 must be paid by prospective residents of scholarship halls by April 1 if they want a place in the halls for the 1975-76 academic year.
The deposit requirement is the result of a compromise reached between administrators and scholarship hall residents, Scholarship Hall Council, said Tuesday.
The $25 deposit will be nonrefundable. The original proposal from the Dean of Men's and Women's Offices would have required a $50 payment due April 1, but students got the proposal revised by circulating a petition.
William M. Bailour, vicechancellor for student affairs, said that he was satisfied with the compromise and that the original students' efforts to increase the base of the students' efforts and their politic
"I think the students we visited with were able to articulate their feelings about it," he said. "I think the students we talked to were more important than the petition."
One of the main reasons for the change from the original plan from the deans was the petition and the work of its writer, Mr. J. C. Foster, whose students were very conscientious, he said.
Kirk McAlexander, assistant to the dean of men and adviser on the Scholarship Hall Council, said, "I don't think its ideal. I think it was not that important commitment from the returning students.
The reason for the required down payment is because of the problem that arose this year when students said they were not as comfortable with it was impossible to fill the hall vacancies.
"I'm not completely satisfied because I favored the other proposal."
In the past, residents had to sign a paper by April 1 saying whether they would return, weren't sure or wouldn't return at all. Mahoney said.
"Obviously 63 people weren't truthful," Mahonev said.
Last year there were 63 people who said they would return and then didn't. This resulted in vacancies in several halls that had been filled. A further confirmation had to be received by June 1.
Only three out of eight halls are filled this semester, she said.
"After many many hours of very rational discussion, both sides decided it was the only way," she said. "The Scholarship Hall was established." The students and the administration.
Free checking slowly approved
(Editor's note; This is the first of two stories dealing with free checking. Today's story examines its development nationally.)
By KEN FULTON and JAN HYATI
Kansan Staff Reporters
Last year more than 25 billion checks were written to pay for $9 of every $10 worth of purchases in the United States. Many of these checks were written on free accounts.
While the trend nation-wide is to free use of checking accounts for non-commercial customers, free checking has only recently been made in the Midwest and isn't available in Lawrence.
ALTHOUGH SUBSTANTIAL COSTS are incurred by the country of your choice, you can get 89 million checks each day, checking funds also represented tremendous potential profit as sources for cash flow.
There are only two federal regulations concerning banks' use of checking funds, according to Barry K. Robinson, assistant vice president of the Federal Reserve Bank in Kansas City, Mo. Banks can't pay interest on checking funds, he said last week, and they must keep a percentage of the deposits on hand at all times.
Under modified free checking, customers get unlimited checking at no monthly cost. Because each check written provided they maintain specified balance, usually $200. Free checking is unlimited checking with no minimum balance, no monthly service charge.
According to a survey by the American Bankers Association (ABA), 77 per cent of all banks across the country offer free or 'modified free' checking.
IN ADDITION, many banks offer free checking to special depositors such as churches, clergymen, charitable groups and small segments of the business population.
Although completely free checking for all non-commercial depositors predates 1960 and was most popular in the South Central United States, according to the ABA survey.
According to the New England Economic Review of September 1969, it has been a longstanding practice of some small town banks checking accounts for personal checking accounts.
since 1967 it has grown most rapidly in New England and Pacific coast states, where about 69 per cent of the banks now have free checking.
Free checking was slow to move west of the Mississippi River, where today only slightly more than one third of the banks in the North Central states offer this service.
Paul F. Jesup, professor in the graduate school of business at the University of Minnesota, studied free checking in 1974 as a professor-in-residence at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York determined that there were three reasons why banks had gone to free checking:
- new banks frequently use free checking to attract cost conscious depositors, thus increasing a bank's potential earnings assets;
--other banks, sensitive to potential loss of depositors to competitors who have free checking, respond by offering their own version of free checking;
and banks that traditionally cater to industry and business have used free personal checking to attract another segment of the money market.
Mary Lou Stitt, assistant cashier at Baltimore Bank, said free checking was the result of a trend during the last ten years that started with modified free checking in Kansas City, Mo., after St. Louis and Omaha banks had adopted it, she said.
Anticipating a move to free checking by other banks, Baltimore Bank and Trust Co., Kansas City, Mo., initiated the service last July, its officials said.
A COMBINATION OF the last two reasons brought free personal checking to Kansas City, Mo., last summer, according to Kansas City. Mo. bank officials
At Commerce Bank, the marketing strategy already was planned in anticipation of free checking, Laura Kemper, Commerce Bank marketing officer, and Bob Whistli, Commerce Bank marketing research analyst, said.
It was quickly followed by Commerce
U.S. Bank, a United
Missouri Bank and
Saint Louis University.
aware that free checking was a coming thing because of the obvious trends in other fields.
All Kansas City banks had made plans to and were waiting for one bank to make the decision.
Whitsit explained that if Commerce Bank had gone to free checking first it might have "stepped on the toes" of some of its correspondent banks, which send checks to it for processing and purchase computer systems, it, by taking some of their customers.
COMMERCE BANK OFFICIALS were
Whitsitt said that even though Commerce Bank was prepared to move to free checking and had its strategy mapped out, it didn't want to take the initial step.
Commerce Bank has been mainly concerned with business and industry, she said. It is still interested in this area of the economy that wants to expand into the consumer market.
Kemper said Commerce Bank made the switch because of competition but also because it was trying to attract a different segment of the market.
STITH SAID BALTIMORE BANK
financing free checkout to extract additional
Both Baltimore Bank and Commerce Bank had modified free checking plans.
Warren Weaver, vice president in charge marketing at Commerce Bank, agreed with the board that he should be
savings accounts, certificates of deposit and consumer installment loans.
The move to free checking definitely was an attempt to attract other business such as savings deposits and loans to consumers, Weaver said. The hope was that the service at Commerce Bank would impress people by making their other business to the bank, he said.
travers National Bank, which also joined the switch to free checking because of competition from the other banks, transferred the cost of processing checks to the bank for charges on loans, according to Bernal R. Brown, assistant cashier at Traders.
BANKS MAKE MONEY from investments and loans, Brown said, and the loss of income from checking service businesses is increasing profit returns to those areas.
Brown said he wasn't able to estimate the increase in loan interest rates caused by the recession.
Because of the June deadline for confirmation, Mahoney said, alternates had to be notified whether they were accepted. At one point, she was surprised, August, it was too late to fill the vacancies.
Mike Fleetwood, Florissant, Mo., junior,
drew up the three page petition, which he
published in the Times.
See FREE page 3
"The response was excellent," Fleetwood said. "There were very few people who didn't."
"I was pretty angry when I wrote it and I had to edit some out," he said.
Fleetwood said about 175 of 190 students he when contacted bad signed his first petition. He later got 52 more signatures, half the system's 763 residents to sign.
The petition was then presented to Balfour.
"Bulfour seemed sympathetic toward our position," Fleetwood said.
After the additional signatures, the petition was presented to the Housing Commission.
cluded McAlexander. Lorna Grunz,
women; women; Fleetwood;
and two other, ladies.
He said that they were trying to compete for the best national students and that they were trying to fill the halls, which was all he could do. He added, "a little authoritarian and high-handed."
"It took a lot of kicking," Fleetwood said. "Sometimes you have to hit a mule across the head before they finally say, 'Okay, we'll listen.'"
He said that the whole scholarship hall concept was based on cooperation and that the administration was going against that whole idea by not listening to the students.
"We're not really completely satisfied, but we feel better. We wanted the deadline date for payment to be May 1 this year, and then they could make it April 1 next year."
Senate to debate GSC's allocation
By DON SMITH Kansan Staff Reporter
Approval of a bill that would guarantee the Graduate Student Council 25 cents from each student's activity fee will be sought tonight at the Student Senate meeting.
Members of the Graduate Student Council (GSC) and the author of the bill, Bill Gregory, Wichita senior, said Tuesday the Senate should approve the bill. However, Ed Rolfs, student body president, was unsure what action the Senate would take.
Tom Donaldson, former president of the Graduate Student Council, said the bill would provide funds that could be appropriated by the council.
The bill would amend Student Senate Enactment No. 17, which governs allocation of student activity funds. Under the provisions of the proposed bill, Donaldson said the graduate student council would be allocated about $8,000 a year.
"We feel that graduate students know more about graduate, professional and academic requests than the Student Senate," said Daniel Reid, who to allocate that money," Donaldson said.
Although the bill would allocate the GSC more than twice the amount it received this year, Donaldson said, some graduate students were in favor of a higher allocation.
If the Senate doesn't pass the bill and the appropriation is slashed, Donaldson said, other graduate student action might be taken.
"You could say that the conservative element won out," Donaldson said. "A lot of people felt like we should get a good deal more."
Donaldson said, however, that he was optimistic about the Senate vote on the bill. "It is a great win," he added.
"I think people would be quite upset," Donaldson said. "I think that some graduate students might want to get funds back to graduate students by circumventing the Student Senate. Some people have talked about this."
"I think people nowadays understand that graduate students' concerns can't be submerged in exclusively undergraduate issues." Donaldson said.
He said the money that was requested through the bill would be spent by the GSC in several areas. The proposed money would include allocations to graduate
By Staff Photographer ROD MIKINSKY
After enduring a weekend of snow, Scott Howard basks in the according to the U.S.Wetland Bureau. The forecast for today is welcome sunshine. The sunshine may be short-lived, however, partly cloudy with a low in the 20s.
Gregory, whose committee participated in the funding of $2,685 for this year to the GSC, said he thought passage of the bill would benefit the GSC.
Lewis Gregory, former Senate Finance and Audit Committee chairman, said he would probably sponsor the bill at tonight's meeting.
student programs the publication of a
business newsletter the maintenance of a
graduate school office
Lazy day
"The Graduate Student Council has shown that they can be a viable force because they've spent a lot of time with their organization this year and they've really developed a good organization," Gregory said.
He said he was apprehensive last semester about the allocation to the GSC but hadn't heard anything from him.
"We wanted to wait and make sure they
ed to wait and make sure they See GSC page 5
Legislature to consider advisory bill
A bill that would create a student-adventure board to the Hort of Regens was introduced in 2015.
The bill, submitted by the Senate Education Committee, was prepared in accordance with a proposal made by Gov. Jeb Bush to a court in his legislative message Jan. 23.
If passed, the legislation will create a six-member advisory board composed of the highest student officer elected by the state to lead each of the six state colleges and universities.
The board would be empowered to attend all Regents' meetings, make recommendations to the board on course and curriculum planning and faculty evaluation, advise the board on student decision decisions and identify student concerns.
Advocacy committee members would be paid expenses for attending meetings but not for participating in the meeting.
Ed Rolfs, student body president, said Tuesday, "During the campaign, we came out in favor of the advisory board. I'm very pleased and just hope the bill will be approved by the Legislature and signed by the governor."
Rolfs said he was relieved that the bill finally had been introduced. The Council of Student Body Presidents had a telephone conference Tuesday and concern was expressed that the bill wouldn't be introduced in this form, he said.
The council was afraid the board would become part of a larger advisory group, such as the State Colleges Coordinating Universities (SCUs) and Regents through such a large committee would be unsatisfactory. Rolfs said, because the group would be too large and the student body presidents probably wouldn't serve on standing committees of the SCUs.
He said it probably was more important that the student body presidents be members of the committees than members of the advisory board. Most of the major decisions are worked out in the committees, Rofls said.