THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
Vol.85-No.93 Tuesday, February 18, 1975
The University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
Rule may ax Beach Boys
By JAN HYATT
Kansan Staff Reporter
A SenEx interpretation last Wednesday of the University Senate rules may prevent the Beach Boys from appearing in concert at the University of Kansas this spring.
SenEx was asked by the University Events Committee to rule on the possibility of scheduling an SUA sponsored concert by the final day of the final examinations period.
SenEx ruled that all University events other than athletic conference or tournament events couldn't be scheduled during the final period. The events committee held a Wednesday final consideration of the committee until the committee meeting tomorrow.
During the events committee meeting, Kala Stroop, dean of women and events committee member, asked William Balfour, vice chancellor for student affairs, for his interpretation of Article I, Section 3 of the University Regulations of the University Senate.
Rule Seven of the section states: The only intercollegiate athletic contest which may be scheduled during a final examination period shall be a non-conference home basketball game on the Saturday night at the end of the first week of the midyear final period, except for events scheduled prior to the adoption of these rules.
Balfour disagreed with SenEx's interpretation that the article as a whole, which is titled Academic Scheduling, ended events such as concerts during finals.
However, Balfour said Monday that the rule could be interrupted two ways.
"I think that it applies only to athletic events. SenEx said it applied to everything."
James Seavey, SenEx chairman, said the SenEx ruler was in line with a general and long standing University policy that there should be courses and activities during final examinations.
He said the writers of the University Senate rules made a specific exception for certain athletic events so that University teams could participate in contests at other schools and conference and tournament events that weren't scheduled by KU officials.
In SenEx's view, it was assumed that no
other events would be held or scheduled, Seaver said.
Seaver said that he agreed that prohibition of non-athletic events during finals was part of an unwritten code only. Seaver said he never ever be necessary to write such a ruling.
Seaver emphasized that SenEx's ruling wasn't based on a value judgment of the event itself. SenEx didn't know that the events committee had a rock concert in mind when the committee asked SenEx to rule on the matter, Saver said.
Balfour had restrictions against activities during finals were outdated.
"My own feeling is that the ban was put on back when exams are all given in one week," Balfour said. "Now that they're stretched out over two weeks, I don't think it hurts to have events offered for people who don't have an exam for five or six days.
"I also think students are mature enough to decide for themselves whether they want to study abroad."
Dave Murfin, SUA Board president,
criticized SenFx's ruling.
"I just can't believe that SenEx is taking it upon itself to tell students how they should and shouldn't spend their time," Murfin said.
Seaver said the opinions on the ruling's meaning reflected differing viewpoints.
"I suppose it depends on how seriously you take finals," he said.
Rich Lindeman, SUA special events chairman, said the promoter for the Beach boys told him that May 7 was the best date for a KU appearance on the group's national tour. The promoter hasn't yet said whether he came earlier or come earlier than May 7. Lindeman said.
The Beach Boys concert, if it is held, is expected to earn more than half of the projected profits from all SUA concerts for the semester, Lindeman said. The promoter was planning to guarantee a large sum to SUA for producing the concert, he said.
The contract negotiations have been held up for three weeks while SUA tried to reserve a date for the concert, he said, and the promoter is getting hesitant.
"When things take three weeks, obviously 'the people on the other end think it's a messed up situation and don't want to have anything to do with it.' Lindman said.
Lindman said he would ask Seaver to place reconsideration of the ruling on a case in the Supreme Court.
Abominable snowball
Pooled resources are: necessary to roll this over-size snowball. Tim Short, Pittsburgh graduate student; Chis Ng, Hong Kong senator; Bruce Ryder, Bryden junior; and Brian Moe, University of Alabama grad.
The group planned to form a likeness of former President Richard Nixon, but darkness and falling temperatures halted work before completion. As a finale, the group finished.
Opposition grows against pay plan
A bweekly pay plan proposed by the state college system opposes an operation at the University of Kansas.
More than half the University's classified employees oppose a biewley system, according to results of a survey released Monday by the Office of Affirmative Action.
The survey was sent to 1,450 employees, an amount that is nearly all those in the classified category, according to the office of labor relations. Of the 1,089 who
responded, 761 opposed the payroll change and 337 favored it.
The survey was a joint effort of the office of labor relations and the Classified Office and Clerical Affirmatives (COCW), which is one of several Workforce Action advisory units.
If the biwekey system is approved, employees would be paid every other Friday instead of once a month. New employees would get their first paycheck after four weeks employment, instead of after the present six weeks.
committee is studying the University budget proposed by Gov. Robert F. Bemett. The University has already requested that unclassified employees be exempt from taxes. Shumik said, and would support a move also to exempt classified employees.
"However, I don't want us to be in a position of opposing something the governor and the legislators really believe they want to do." Shankel said.
A classified employee is anyone other than an administrator or faculty member.
Wise said the survey was a result of several complaints received by the COCW on behalf of the clients.
to make the change used to increase their salaries, a spokesman in the labor relations
The biweekly pay plan came under attack earlier this month from University officials who said the change would create unnecessary expense and paperwork.
Comments on some of the returned questionnaires indicated that some emerita students had difficulty
Proposals may ease O-zone load
Kansan Staff Reporter
Laurel Wise, chairman of the COCW,
gave the survey results to Del Shankel,
executive vice chancellor, Monday afternoon. Shankel said he would forward the results to the House Ways and Means Committee at its meeting today. The
By BILL.GRAY
Ron Hamilton, University comproller,
said it would cost $121,441 to make the initial change and $69,411 annually to operate the system.
The new plan would require the University to keep 28 time sheets on each classified employee, according to the survey. These times are currently kept on each employe
Finding a place to park in O-zone, near Watkins Memorial Hospital, may be easier if proposed changes in a parking policy prove effective.
Phil Frickey, chairman of the KU Parking and Traffic Board, said Monday that the board had received complaints all year from persons who had permits to park in O-Zone or had paid the 20 cent visitor's fee but the lot were unable to park their cars.
Frickey said proposals to decrease the price of permits for the zone and a five cent hike in the visitor's fee would be presented to the University Council in March. These proposed designations will discourage some of the persons who park in O-Zone only occasionally, he said.
Elaine Riseman, who works in one of the traffic boots at the O-zone entrances, has been in charge of the system.
"It's usually most crowded in the afternoons," she said. "But if people wait and
drive around long enough, they can usually find a place."
Riserman said she had complaints once or twice a week from people who said they were being treated badly.
"But they don't really get it," she said.
"They know there's nothing I can do about it."
She said people would often park illegally in your marked no parking areas if they were driving.
"They just take a chance," Risman said,
"Sometimes they get a ticket, sometimes
they don't. I don't have anything to do with that."
"The plan wouldn't really accomplish a thing good for us," Shanked said "and it would."
Beccky Scott, who also works in an O-zone booth, said that sometimes she would tell people to pack yellow O-zane area outside of the enclosed lot if there were apparently no places left in
"But they can't park there unless
sure they boots the tells they can," she
warned.
Riseman said she sometimes encountered students who were going to Watkins
Hospital who wanted to park in O-zone, she directed them to park in spaces away from the hospital.
Spaces reserved for Watkins patients are located in the northeast corner of the zone, on the left side of the corridor.
Frickey said if the increase in the visitor's fee and the reduction of the permit price didn't alleviate the situation, then O-1 would be made accessible to permit holders only.
"But there's only 15 or 20 spaces for the Almanac," said, "and people often park里 here."
"I hope it doesn't come to that," Frickey said.
Mike Thomas, director of the department of security and parking, said his department had complaints about the lack of parking spaces in the lot during the fall semester. He said the problem was the absence of handicapped parking, didn't have permits. Raising the fee to 25 cents to deter some occasional parkers might work, he said.
Bennett's KU budget cut questioned
University officials will ask the Kansas Legislature today to supplement Gov. Robert Bennett's recommendations for the University's budget for fiscal 1976.
Administrators will testify before the House Ways and Means Committee about requests that concern funding for a Minority advancement Program and a Career Counseling Service, the costs of a payroll system that will go into effect Sept. 1 and general use funds for financing instructional computing and research.
Bennett's recommendations left the University with $400,000 less than it had requested for computer funding that he would replace some teaching equipment and to purchase
library books, according to Keith Nitcher,
vice chancellor for business affairs.
Bennett deleted several items in his recommendations. Among them were funds for the recoording of Strong Hall and the cost of taking all the jobs would have totaled about $125,000.
The biweekly payroll system would delete unclassified employees, according to a request by administrators to the Kansas Board of Regents.
However, a poll of classified employees by the Office of Affirmative Action showed that a majority of employees don't want to change to the biweekly pay system.
If the legislature turns down the request
for the pay system, officials will warn the
legislator to defray the costs.
the expense of personnel, supplies and computer time to initiate the system.
Bennett also concurred with the regents to cut women's intercollegiate athletics from the $60,000 requested by the ad-venture. The team to have the original $60,000 registered.
Two other recommendations by Bennett will be challenged. Bennett recommended $24,421 and two classified positions for a Minority Advancement Program. The University requested $30,073 and three unclassified positions for the program.
The University also asks for $2,004 and two classified positions for a Career Services service. Bennett suggested $2,352 and one classified position for the service.
Court order has closed door to proposed city garage
By JOHN CRICHTON
Kansan Staff Reporter
After almost a year of debate, the city is now awaiting a court decision before taking further action.
A temporary restraining order that stops the city from further action on the garage is in effect until December 24. The City of Pittsburgh Paddock decides whether to grant a permanent injunction against the city. The decision should come shortly after Feb. 28, after Milton Allen, city police chief, made an effort to neighborhood associations, have filled their briefs.
Last spring, the city began studying potential sites for a new maintenance garage that would house and service all city vehicles. The present garage is at fifth and Mississippi, but city officials and most of the opponents of the proposed garage agree that it is an eyeore and inadequate for city parking. Because there is no room for expansion at the present site, the city must find a new location.
The issue has been, for the past eight months, an emotional and controversial one for the residents of the Pinckney neighborhood and the members of the City Commission.
After several locations were studied, the City Commission decided the best site was at Second and Indiana, north of the city water plant. This site, the location of the two land development tenance facilities and would be only five blocks from the old site. The only major change would be that traffic would flow three blocks farther into the neighborhood than it presently does. The city said it would install a driveway with the old garage, which was a blot on the area.
The Pinckney neighborhood is the 45-block area north of Sixth Street and east of the wall turnpike exit. It is predominately residential, but includes the city hospital at Fourth and Maine, the water plant at Third and Indiana and the present city garage.
Many residents of the area say they have been trying to restore their neighborhood. If the city builds a garage at Second and Indiana, they say, it will discourage more families from moving into the neighborhood and will contribute to the deterioration of many of the old homes.
Local residents riendly disagreed. They said if city wanted to build a new garage, they didn't want it.
One home in the Pinckney area at 304 Indiana one
block from the proposed garage site, is included in the national register of historic homes.
Increased traffic is the main objection of most of the residents. When the site was chosen by the city, the residents of Indiana Street complained that the increased traffic would endanger their children walking to and from school, and would eventually change the character of their neighborhood.
In response to the criticism, the city decided to route the traffic to and from the maintenance center, and to report a city report, onto Maine. Maine already carries approximately 3000 vehicles to and from the hospital every day. The only exception to this rule is that on weekends any route they choose when going to and from work
Mayor Jack Rose said the city eliminated the resident's only valid objection to the garage by routing the traffic down he said. He also told the authorities that the environmental state it already carried 3000 vehicles a day.
In their design of the garage, the architectural firm of Williams, Peters and Kubota said the traffic flow would encourage employees to use Maine rather than Oregon. The city's chief engineer and the City's action or the architect's assurance.
Rose said that there would be an enforcement problem, but that it could be worked out.
David Pearlv, 346 Indiana, said he doubted that the city could enforce its directive. He said the increased traffic would be a hazard to his children when they walked to and from school.
Donald Lenz, director of the hospital, said the increased traffic wouldn't be detrimental to patient
Some area residents also said that routing the traffic down Maine would be harmful to the hospital. They said the 3000 vehicles that traveled from Portland to Maine were slowed down in hospital and that they therefore slowed down. But, they argued once there are a lot of additional vehicles that are passing the hospital, destined for a farther point, the vehicles are less likely to slow and show concern about conditions at the hospital.
Although the Lawrence-Douglas County Planning
"Some of the finest hospitals in the country are located adjacent to interstate highways," Lenz said. "We have discussed this, and in our mind we have increased traffic will pose no threat to patient care."
Commission stated last summer that the Second and Indiana site wasn't in accordance with the comprehensive plan for Lawrence, the City Commission overrode the planning commission on Nov. 12. But before the final vote, the City Commission hired an outside consulting firm in hope of finding some resolution to the growing problem of the garage.
The Oblinger-Smith Corp. was hired in late august for $6,500 to do an intensive location study for the project.
In their study, Obinger-Simmer evaluated nine potential sites on their initial and long term economic cost, neighborhood impact, ada-
tiveness, impact, impact, site usability and timing considerations.
In October, the report of the consultants was finished and submitted to the City Commission. Nineteenth and Haskell, which was also considered responsible for the commission, the planning commission, was ranked as the best site overall. Second and Indiana was ranked second, and 12th and Haskell, a site the planning commission
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