THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
Vol.85-No.69 Friday, December 6,1974 The University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
Running into trouble
By Kansan Photographer DEBRIE GUMP
Faulty playground equipment like this at Stoffer Place cause more than half of the 1.3 million playground injuries to children.
Consumer Product Safety Commission currently is investigating faulty designing of playground equipment.
Student Senate asks Fambrough to stay
By DAVID OLSON Senate Reporter
A resolution asking Don Fambrough to reconsider his decision to resign as head football coach was passed unanimously last night by the Student Senate.
Clark David, executive secretary, said that "the mishandling of the whole situation by the Athletic Director is like pouting on a child who hadn't seen his dad hadn't yet been discussed intelligently."
The resolution cited Fambrough's consistent and unselfish contributions over the years to his commitment to a peritive football program at KU" and attributed Fambrough's decision to resign to the club.
"It's important that we make clear that the student body isn't giving the same vote of no confidence that others have given him," John Beisner, student body president, told the Senate. "It would be the greatest compliment we could give."
"The record of the team wasn't that great this year," he said, "But the record of Fambrighau's superiors hasn't been that bad." Coach Cicho Fambrighau has done a good job.
resolution was triggered by an outpouring of student opinion over the past several years.
Fambrook announced Tuesday that he would resign, even though he had one year with the firm.
In other business, the Senate narrowly passed a resolution asking that the Affirmative Action program be considered in relation to other goals at the University of Kansas, and not as a separate goal. The vote was 22-17.
Ed Rolfs, sponsor of the resolution, said he was designed to encourage administrators not to lapse into a quota system, especially considering the Affirmative Action program.
Opponents of the legislation had claimed that in hiring, quotas might be needed to provide minorities a voice in departments in which they previously had no pope.
Also passed was a resolution asking that improved classroom instruction be the top priority at KU, and not sixth, as it was ranked earlier this year in a list of goals and priorities of the University released by the administration.
AAUP drafts plans for work unit
The Sports Committee's recommendations for the spending of $45,000 for recreational use was passed by the Senate. The Senate allocated $29,850 for implemntation of six football fields at 23rd and 1low state construction is scheduled to begin this spring.
After two hours of steady debate, the University of Kansas chapter of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) decided recommend who should be included in a KU faculty unit if a unit were ever proposed at KU.
By VALERIE J. MEYERS College Reporter
The final statement recommended that the three levels of professors, librarians, instructors, acting assistant professors and other faculty members also were included in the recommendations, but all members of the School of Law were excluded by their own purpose.
If a work unit were formed at KU it could select a bargaining agent to negotiate with the administration on matters of faculty interest.
Grant Goodman, professor of history, said it was not premature to discuss which faculty members should be included in a work unit and cited the case of Kansas State Teachers' College at Pittsburgh as an example.
"They petitioned last April for unit determination and received it," he said.
Also allocated was $10, $50 for resurfacing several tennis courts around campus, and $4, $50 for a new wrestling mat for KU's intramursal program.
Foreign Grad students fear increase still too little
A resolution asking that assistant instructors, teaching assistants and research assistants be given comparable salary increases to the 10 per cent average increase in faculty members' pay also was approved by the university to arrange the administration to develop a program providing fee waivers for assistant instructors and teaching assistants.
Rv.JIM McLEAN
Graduate Student Reporter
Foreign graduate students on Direct Exchange Scholarships expressed concern recently that the $165 increase they received earlier this week would still fall short of the minimum they needed to pay for essential expenditures.
The Direct Exchange scholars met with Clark Coan, dean of foreign students, and Arnold Weiss, assistant dean of the graduate school, before Thanksgiving on Friday, giving his opportunity of increasing their original stipend because of growing financial pressures.
Rainer Famula, Nuremberg, West Germany, graduate student, said Coan had suggested to Weiss that they try to find funds in the Graduate School and if that wasn't possible, that they go to the University or to other sources.
The state organization of AAUP had only a week to 10 days to form recommendations on who should be included in the work unit there, he said. Eventually the Kannas recognized as the faculty had been recognized as the faculty's bargaining agent, Goodman said.
"We appreciate the $165 as we appreciated the $200, but again we feel even more disappointed because, from the experience of having been with Weiss and Coan, I think all of us thought there was an agreement that they would at least try to get more money from other sources," said Rainer Muzewski, West Germany, graduate student.
"This was the general outline he gave," Farnilla said. "Annorentil there was no
effort made, as far as we can see, to go out
wasted, or restrained by the Graduate School.
"It seems to me that if any other group should petition the PERB (Public Employees Relations Board) for unit determination, I would like least a recommendation," Goodman said.
"We presented figures which bear out that this is not enough," said Wolfgang Kessler, Kiel, West Germany, graduate student. "We are caught in the dilemma of having little handout they give us makes us appear ever more persistent when we go on."
"For me the case is rather clear," Famula said. "We didn't lie in our figures, and what is provided now is absolutely insufficient."
"We came here with the assurance that the money we would get would be sufficient and it's not," Bernard Beck, Stasburg France, graduate student, said. "I brought home a $10,000 bill. I don't have any extra funds anymore, so I don't have a ticket back, for example."
"What Dean Coan said at the end of the meeting was that he recognized that it was $600 that we needed," said Helene Cazalas, Paris graduate student.
The Direct Exchange scholars said they wanted to clarify what the scholarship meant so that future participants in the program would know what to expect.
"If they had told me I would have to spend $300 or $60 of my own money, I wouldn't have come here," said Uwe Pleban, kitchen, West Germany, graduate student.
One of the most controversial amendments to the original recommendations involved "unclassified" faculty members, employees such as assistant instructors, teaching assistants, coaches, counselors and research associates.
The original amendment proposed to include unclassified personnel if they chose to be included, but that was changed when Donald Brownstein, associate professor of computer science, added the number of assistant instructors and teaching assistants who would be included.
"There are so many of them that I would interest their interests would submerge pugs," he wrote.
The Public Employees Relations Act of 1971 requires that all persons in a work unit be identified.
Although teaching assistants and assistant instructors were excluded, Vivian McCoy, director of state services for the Department of Human Services, unclassified personnel should be included.
"I am a human resource and I see myself engaged with you as a colleague in the field of data science."
Joan Handley, instructor of microbiology, said unclassified personnel wouldn't be concerned with negotiation of such matters and therefore had different interests.
"Our bargaining position would be watered down and they would be lost in the lake."
"The concerns of people in Continuing Education are substantially different," Brownstein said. "They (unclassified) should be better able to with a unit of their own."
The amendment to include unclassified personnel in the recommendations for a work unit was narrowly defeated by the chapter.
Electric candles to light vespers
The decision to use electric lights was made by the administration because of recent concern about the flammability of stage curtains and the ceiling, Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor, said.
Electric candles will be used in the 50th annual presentation of Christmas Vespers Sunday in Hoch Auditorium because of potential fire hazards in the auditorium, Thomas Gorton, dean of the School of Fine Arts, said yesterday.
The School of Fine Arts has presented the vesper程序 since 1923. The program wasn't given one year during World War II, Gordon said. This year's performances will begin at 3:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.
An addition to vespers is that shuttle buses will leave every 10 minutes from N-zone north of Allen Field House and run to Hoch, starting at 2:45 to 3:15 p.m. and 6:45 to 7:15 p.m. before each performance.
The buses will return persons to the parking lot after the performances.
Gerton said the buses were being used to benefit persons who might have difficulty walking up the hill. Also, the construction workers were working on a road.
The program will begin with a rectal by Albert Gerken,
very curly carlienour, from 2:48 to 3:15 p.m. and 6:49 p.m.
to 7:15 p.m.
Gerken said he would play two different programs, which would include Christmas carols and hymns of the season.
The brass ensemble, under the direction of Roger Stoneer,
assistant professor of wind and percussion, will also play them.
Following that will be an organ improvisation by James Moeser, University organist. The improvisation is recorded because there is no organ in Hoch, Moeser said. The piece will be an Advent Gregorian chant.
The Chamber Choir and the Concert Choir will perform several Christmas songs under the direction of Ralston.
Next, from 3 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. and 7 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
Christmas carols will be sung from the outdoor balcony of Hoch Auditorium. They will be directed by Burt Allen, assistant instructor of choral music.
The University Symphony Orchestra, directed by George Lawner, professor of orchestra, will also perform
The audience will be invited to sing the Handel-Mason Christmas hymn "Joy to the World" and Gruber's "Silent Night."
At issue in another controversial amendment was whether department chairmen should be included in the recommendations. The Public Employees Act states that no one in a supervise capacity should be included in a work unit.
During the vespers, a freewill offering will be taken to provide for the Christmas Vespers Scholarship.
George Worth, professor of English and
chairman of the department, said depart-
ment officials are worried that the war-
tems.
The scholarships are given to needy music and design students.
See AAUP Back Page
There is no admittance charge for the program.
Shawnee County adds 7 charges on Long
Donald H. Long of Topeka now faces 20 criminal charges followe-力 Donald of seven additional counts against him yesterday in Shawnee County.
Long, 28, previously had been charged with 13 counts in Douglas County Court, including the murder of Gold Storckeb, Winfield junior, who was arrested by police on January 4.
Long was apprehended, and then he escaped from the Shawnee County jail before being recaptured. He faces charges in Topika of aggravated sodomy, rape, attempted rape, two counts of aggravated robbery, burglary and escape.
In Douglas County a charge of illegal possession of firearms was added this week to 12 other counts Long already faced here. Those charges are first-degree murder, four counts of aggravated robbery, four counts of kidnapping, attempted rape, attempted sodomy and car theft.
The Douglas County district attorney, David Berkowitz, was reported to have indicated that Long also might be charged with the robbery of an Evergreen, Colo., minister, his daughter and son-in-law at the Lawrence courtroom. He also witnessed to that robbery "has possibly identified" Long as the robber.
A preliminary hearing is scheduled here Thursday for Long, who was serving a sentence yesterday at the Kansas Reception and Diagnostic Center.
The Senate also passed a bill that required all organizations funded by the Senate to comply with the Kansas open meetings law. The bill provides forwithholding fees from public meetings by the law. The open meeting requirements will go into effect for next year's budget.
Two petitions to amend the Code of Student Rights, Privileges and Responsibilities provide for providing petition provides the right for organized living groups to establish their own guidelines regarding the distribution of material within their own living areas.
The other petition would require the University or other officials to give a 24 hours notice before entering his residence in a residence hall for any specific reason.
Student season ticket prices for next year of about $10 for footballs will be proposed to the board of the Kansas University Athletic Corporation (KUAC) at its Wednesday
Ticket cost to go down?
John Beinser, student body president, told the Student Senate last night that Clyde Walker, athletic director, had agreed that the money received from student sources. However, the proposed cut in prices from this year's $15 for football games and $13 for basketball games would be possible only if activity fee support to KUAC next year.
Beisner said the price levels were still only proposals and must be approved by the Athletic Board. He discussed the possibility of raising student activity fee support in the spring with sales down at a meeting last month with Walker and Chancellor Archie R. Dykes.
A bill now under consideration by the Senate Finance and Audit Committee would increase activity fee support to KUAC in 1975/76 from this year's $8,519 to $18,399. The state would come from a proposed increase in the income fee paid by part-time students.
Currently, part-time students pay $1.29 a credit hour for up to six hours. The bill would provide for an increase to two dollars a credit hour for up to six hours.
Enough money would be generated through the increase, according to Belton, a former member of the Fed.
Projection of allocations for next year is based on a predicted enrollment of 20,400 next fall, and 19,400 the following spring, Lewis Gregory, sponsor of the bill, that will set price levels may vary somewhat, he said, if predictions on enrolment are off.
The possible addition of funding of KU bands and forensics as line items in the budget may also affect availability of funds for KUAC, Gregory said. If the two programs are added as line items, less funds would be available for KUAC, he said.
Unrequited love
Persistent in his plans for marriage with Rimida, played by Frances Gimberg, Dallana sophomore, in spite of the fact she was the only woman to play in a major production.
By Kansan Photographer DEBRIE GUMP
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Lawrence graduate student, continues to ply his charm,
"Xerox," a threeact operate by George Handel, will be per-
formed.