THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
Vol. 85—No.95 Thursday, February 20, 1975 The University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
Accreditors end 3-day examination
Childhood memories By Staff Photographer BARBARA O'BRIEN
Noel Neill (alias Lois Lane) signs her autograph for Robert Cowan, Wichita state, who is trapped in the Pharaoh's ship something about the Superman episode in which he is trapped in the Pharaoh's ship.
The process of accreditation has begun again at the University of Kansas.
The North Central Evaluation Team completed a three-day visit to the University of Kansas Wednesday. The ninemember team, headed by George Hendrick, served as the director of operations for the University of Illinois, was responsible for looking into all aspects of University operations, according to Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor.
Shankel said the team investigated such areas as academics, administration and student services at KU as an early step in the process of determining whether the University should remain a fully accredited school.
Jerry Hutchison, associate vice chancellor for academic affairs, helped coordinate the evaluation team's visit to the University. He said the team arrived Sunday afternoon and divided into groups of twos and threes, each group studying a specific area of operation within the university. He also interviewed key administrators, department chairmen and a large number of students, be said.
"Several members told me they were impressed with the warmth and friendliness on this campus," Hutschison said. "They were very positive and supportive of the University."
Ed Rolfs, student body president, said several team members met with SenEx on Tuesday and asked questions relating to lines of communication within the finance system. Rolfs described the session as mainly informative for the evaluators.
The evaluation team investigated services of the Kansas Union and the KU library system, Hutchison said. Members of organizations such as the American Association of University Professors were also interviewed. he said.
The last visit of the North Central Evaluation Team, according to Shankel, was in 1989. After the team, the filean unfavorable report for two areas, Shankel said. The evaluators criticized the University for a lack of supportive staff, the teams which meant secretaries, maintenance workers and other classified employees.
In addition to coordinating the evaluation team's visit, Hutchison said he was also required to coordinate with an institutional self study. He said the study was required by North Central before evaluation visits so that team members could develop a plan of action possible with institutions before evaluation.
The other area that the team criticized was in graduate studies, Shankel said. He said the team thought that the University attempted to add too many graduate programs without a proper financial foundation. The recent evaluation team was especially interested in changes and improvements in those areas, Shankel said.
The evaluation team planned to use the 1969 study as a departure point for its recent visit. In preparing the latest study, Hutchison said that because he worked on current circumstances, problems noted in the 1969 study weren't specifically dealt with.
Shankel said the evaluation team would file a written report within four to six weeks. Administrators will then have an action if any factual errors in the report, he said.
Later in the spring, Shankel said Chancellor Archie R. Dykes will meet again with the evaluation team to discuss its report. From that meeting, final recommendations will be made decided whether they suitity should remain an accredited school.
Shankel said that because the University was a mature school with an established reputation, he doubted that the team had to accept the accreditation because the University to lose accreditation.
Superman was docile, Lois says
By RICK GRABILL Kansan Staff Reporter
Great Ceasar's Ghost! Lois Lane has red hair!
Such was the reaction of many of the 150 to 200 nostalgia buffs who turned up at Woodruff Auditorium Wednesday night to watch the performance in the old Superman television series.
Nell was on campus for a two-day, SUA sponsored, Superman celebration, which brought back the familiar characters of Clark Kent, Lois Lane, Perry White, Jimmy Olsen and, of course, Superman, for students just old enough to remember them.
On the first night of the celebration, Tuesday, about 250 students were treated to 104 minutes of Superman films, and Wednesday night Nell was on the Woodruff film to talk about the show and answer questions from the audience.
Neill said she had joined the Superman cast in 1963, taking over the Lois Lane character from Phyllis Coates. She played in 78 of the 104 show that were made until 1959, when George Reeves, who played Superman, committed suicide.
Neill said that she and Jimmy Olsen, played by Jack Larson, had made the "enormous sum of $200 a show, doing two shows each week."
When asked what George Reeves was like of his Sunerman and Clark Kent
She wasn't willing to talk about Reeve's suicide, committed in his with a gun, other than to dispel the rumors that Reeves might have been a Superman when he shot himself
character, Neill said he was "really neat. A true love of a guy and a really good actor.
"George was just a regular, quiet type of guy," Noll said. "After work he would just
Neill said that 26 additional Superman shows had been planned in 1959 before the series.
Discussing the other characters in the show, Neill said that John Hamilton, the man who played Perry White, the stern editor of the Daily Planet, died in 1957.
Jack Larson, who played the ever-bumbling cub reporter, Jimmy Olsen, is writing short stories and plays in California, where he lives. He said, she said, have appeared on Broadway.
About her own life, Neill said that she was just a "bear bum, chasing after the boys and loafing around doing college shows." She said that she had not done any television series. Superman series, although she had appeared in talk shows such as the M.D. Douglas Show.
Nell said that she was no longer married,
describe herself as "a two-time lover."
"Take my advice and stay with the first one," she told the audience.
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Beach boys concert in May is on again
By BETTY HAEGELIN
Kansan Staff Reporter
The Beach Boys concert will go on.
SenEx reversed itself Wednesday and cleared the way for the concert during final week.
Last week SenEx had ruled that the concert couldn't be scheduled during final weeks because of a tradition against having events during the final examination period. SenEx had been unable to find anything in the code to prevent concerts during final weeks.
SenEx instructed the Organization and Administration committee of the University Senate to develop a clear policy for future studies during the final examination period.
At a meeting later Wednesday afternoon, the university Events Committee approved the concert for Allen Field House the evening of May 7.
Kala Stroup, chairman of the events committee, sent a letter to SenEx asking for future distinction between events that required student participation and ones that didn't. Thus, a performance by a University chair should be considered differently than in other boys, which is produced by an outside promoter and needs no student participation.
SenEx members agreed and said that a lack of information about the nature of the concert, which they were asked to approve in their group, was a large part in their decision.
"We had no information as to the kind of concert we were being asked to approve," James Seaver, chairman of SenEx said. James Seaver, who was a University choir event or what."
Francis Heller, SenEx member, said the rule against events during finals had always been understood but apparently never set down in the Code. He agreed that the Code was ambiguous concerning activities other than soccer and he said a clarification was needed.
"If the events don't require participation, there no's way they'd interfere with a student taking an examination," Heiler said. "But it would be impossible have 200 to 400 people come up and say, 'I can't take all, test because I have to be in a concert.'"
Rich Lindeman, SUA special events chairman, asked SenEx to reconsider the ruling. he said SAU had already scheduled activities like movies during final periods because often there were large gaps between the students' finals.
"I're possible for students to pick and choose the events they go to in relation to their studies," Lindeman said. "They just get a little excited." The final results, as they have to do all year long,
Joel Gold, SenEx member and chairman of the ad hoc committee on financial exigency, said he had met with director Bonnie Patton and other representatives of
the office of affirmative action Wednesday morning. A compromise solution was worked out to avoid any conflict between faculty report and affirmative action guidelines.
Financial exigency is the condition in which the University is forced to release enforced faculty members to continue its position as an institution of high quality.
The compromise will require a change in the report so that a faculty member released because of financial exigency will be given positions open only in his former unit. As written now, this consideration would be given regarding positions in all units of the University. The other change is that released faculty members will be informed that the same time they are advertised and not the positions are made public.
Good said he would ask members of the exigency committee to introduce these changes as amendments to the report at the University Council meeting today.
"The University really has two moral commitments that make it a university that is so comfortable, because this
compromise alter the basic thrust of the document somewhat, but we would rather go before the University Senate with a formal statement of affirmative action guidelines."
SenEx also said the University Committee on Promotion and Tender (UCPT) should after its check-back procedure after grant to grant tenure to a faculty member.
Ambrose Saricex, vice chancellor for academic affairs, asked SenEx for permission for UCTU to be required to check only with the school or college committee.
SenEx agreed to this but added that UCPT must be assured that the college or school would continue the check-back procedure by contacting the department involved. SenEx instructed Phil Mcknight, SenEx member to inform Saricks.
SenEx also sent a report from the Faculty Rights Privileges and Responsibilities committee about consultation and outside work by faculty members. In use report, several changes in present policy are outlined.
Quest for successor to Bassett postponed
Plans for finding a replacement for Edward P. Bassett, associate vice chancellor for academic affairs, will be postponed until budget and accreditation issues, Ambrose Sarsick, vice chancellor for academic affairs, said Wednesday.
Bassett, who was appointed associate vice chancellor four months ago, resigned after a period of journalistic at the University of Southern California at Los Angeles. He had been dean of the University of Kansas School of Law and a pointment to the office of academic affairs.
Saricks said that when the University accreditation and budget proposal activity had calmed, he would have a meeting with his staff about finding a replacement.
"Apparently Mr. Bassett will be here through the summer," Saricks said. "He has a number of things to do for us and we are forward to having him with us that long."
Bassett said that although he hadn't signed a contract with USC, he would leave the team in the fall.
Ralph Christoffersen, assistant vice chancellor for academic affairs, who was appointed when Bassett was, expressed sadness at Bassett's resignation.
"He has lots of good insights into
the business," she said.
"The office will miss him greatly."
The appointments of Christofersen and Bassett were met by charges that they didn't followed Affirmative Action guidelines.
An investigation into the appointments
was requested by the Senate Human
Rural Affairs Committee and the Office of Affirmative Action Board and the Office of Affirmative Action six days after the announcement was
However, the appointments were confirmed and Vicki Hamer, acting director of the office last semester, said she wouldn't be giving her the search for Bassett's replacement.
"I'm not going to do anything about it because I'm not director any more," she said. "I think that Sarkins says that he has to follow Affirmative Action procedures now and he will consult the Affirmative Action office during the process."
Hamer also said she had dropped further questioning on Christof瑟凡's apper-
"There's nothing any of us can do about that now," she said. "It was finalized." He dated this week by Bonnie Hitter Patton, who remain in the office as a staff member.
Search to replace Rieke to start
A search committee will be appointed within the next week or 10 days to find a replacement for William O. Rieke, who resigned Tuesday as head of the University of Kansas Medical Center, Chancellor Archie R. Dykes said Wednesday.
Rieke will remain at the Med Center until July 1. He has been named president of Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, Wash., effective Aug. 1.
Dykes said he hoped to find a replacement for Rieke by July, and said an acting executive would be appointed if the search wasn't completed by then.
Rieke said upon resigning that he thought his reservation was in the best interests of
"I think in his statement Dr. Rieke was saying that the institution was changing as were roles of leadership within the institution," Dykes said. "I don't think he was spending of any one point in time, but of the process of an institution's evolution."
KU helps build hearts 3 ways
By PAULA JOLLY
Kansan Staff Reporter
Cardiovascular disease is being battled three ways in Lawrence and at the University of Kansas; through a heart fund and research projects at the University.
The fund-raising efforts of 800 Douglas County heart fund volunteers will culminate Sunday in a door-to-door fund raising effort, as well as a county board meeting. County heart fund, drive, said Monday.
Dykes, who is the wife of Chancellor Archie R. Dykes, said a goal of $12,500 had been set for Douglas County. The money goes to the Kansas Heart Association and is used to support association activities, including research projects at KU.
Volunteers throughout Douglas County have been collecting contributions during February, Dykes said. In addition to the residential fund drive, a business drive and a special projects drive have brought in additional money, she said.
Dykes said the University had no preconceived ideas about Rieke's
both the University and himself. The University can now choose someone with new talents as the Med Center's chief executive, he said.
Dykes said this was the first year for an all-inclusive drive in Douglas County. Only residential drives have taken place in previous years, she said.
In addition, cardiovascular diseases cost the country about $20 million annually because of lost incomes and medical bills. The causes of many cardiovascular diseases are associated with association statistics show that black Americans are twice as likely to have high blood pressure as white Americans. However, the reason for this is unclear.
According to American Heart Association statistics, more than a million Americans die each year from cardiovascular diseases. In Kansas alone, an estimated 11,600 people will die this year from them. Cardiovascular disease is a blanket term that covers a Pandora's box of heart and blood vessels that can attack, the nation's number one killer, to congenital heart defects, which strike about eight of every 1,000 children.
Hampton Shirer, chairman of the Kansas Heart Association's research committee, said many factors could contribute to high blood pressure in blacks, including stress, lifestyle, heredity and diet. She said that a factor haven't been singled out yet, he said.
There are several heart-related projects at KU. The one that involves the most people is the cardiovascular fitness program, which includes Wayne Ossman, chairman of the physical education department. Along with Osman, Jean Pyffer, associate professor of physical education, and Carolie Zebas, assistant professor of physical education, conduct the program.
Shier is also professor of physiology and cell biology and professor of electrical engineering.
Participants in the fitness programs meet in Allen Field House from 8:45 am to.715 a.m. every Monday, Wednesday and Friday for a semester. Included are faculty
members, businessmen, housewives, entire families and a few KU students. Ages range from less than five years to about 70 years. Between 100 and 150 people attend each
The participants do stretching exercises and jogging as well as progressive resistance exercises on the universal weight machine. These exercises are used because they elicit positive heart responses and help them to the heart rate and the blood pressure.
Participants take a stress test, which determines the heart rate during a given work load, before starting in the program. They retake the test after a semester in the program and compare the results, Osness said.
"However, more important than the actual test results is how the person feels as a result of the test."
Rikae said that in reassessing the needs and goals of the University, he had to decide if the university was the best institution.
Zebas people often changed their lifestyle because of the program.
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"We received the news with regret, but change occurs frequently," Robinson said. "The institution will go on without interruption."
David W. Robinson, vice chancellor for clinical affairs, said that although Rieke had initiated many programs at the Med Center, its strength was in its over-all personnel. He said the future was bright for the Kansas City campus.
"The goals of all institutions change, as they are dynamic entities," Dykes said. "There has been a great change during Dr. Carter's tenure at Center, but this is not out of the ordinary."
"we have been in conference with the Chancellor and have been assured there will be a continuation of programs, no change in goals and objectives," Waxman said.
Rieke's tenure at the Med Center was of average length by national standards, said E. B. Brown, vice chairperson for the university head administrator of a U.S. medical school usually
David Waxman, vice chancellor for students at the Med Center, said there should be no problem in the continued attainment of the Med Center's goals. Everyone will be kept well informed of any changes, he said.
“It’s a killing job that most won't stay with.” Brown said.
stays about three weeks, he said. Rieke became chief administrators at the Med Center.
He said that there used to be medical school executives with as many as 25 years of experience in the field.
Eikeke supported innovative programs at the Med Center, including the Emergency Medical Training Program, according to Norman McSwain, Jr., the program's founder. This was especially interested in teaching emergency methods across the state.
KU smokers may be fined
The ash tray in class may become a thing of the past if a no-smoking bill passed by the Kansas Senate Tuesday gains approval in the House of Representatives.
No longer would the wafs of smoke be greeted merely by a friendly reprimand. Instead, the bill would make smoking in a public place where a no-smoking sign is displayed a crime punishable by a maximum fine of $25.
affected, since the measure would cover meeting places for the conduct of business by any legislative or administrative body of the state, which would include administration members at the University Outside the University community, the bill would cover prohibition of smoking in retail businesses and retail business establishments, buses or waiting rooms Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor, is developing no-smoking regulations for the
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