THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
Vol. 85-No.64 Monday, November 25.1974
KANSAN
The University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
By Kansan Photographer DEBBIE GUMP
Soav overa celebrants
Can these Chi Omega women find happiness skipping class to watch a soap opera? Many KU students are finding it easy to do so.
crowd. Despite some opinions that they drag on forever and stress bad points of people, continues to draw large crowds at events.
Soapies soften students' hard days
Can Erica make Phillip happy?
No longer are soap operas only for bored, frustrated housewives. Stoapies have become a popular form of enlightenment.
Soap operas are those half-hour shows which, along with game shows, provide the bulk of television entertainment during late morning and early afternoon hours. Soap operas were given special attention and TV serials were often sponsored by soap manufacturers.
For KU students, the prime time viewing hours seem to be around lunch time. Short students interviewed really said they
"All My Children," which comes on at noon, seemed to be the favorite soap opera of the students.
John Morris, Clarendon Hills, Ill., senior, said he had watched "All My Children" since last summer.
"I don't watch any other soap operas and I probably would have been on while I was eating lunch." Morris said.
Kathy Coleman, Prairie Village sophomore, is another "All My Children". fan.
"I just started watching game operas this year," she said. "I never thought I would. I enjoy them but don't get all wrappers up in it."
Jeff Wiles, Leavenworth sophomore, also watches "All My Children."
"I've watched 'All My Children' for over two years." Wilens
is a kind of tough to watch. I have never I use have
classmates who have not learned that I must have
*Soap operas are ridiculous, but they're fun to watch. All soap operas are alike. Everything that happens on one soap opera is the same.*
"The Young and the Restless," which comes on at 11 a.m., is another popular soapie.
Amn Emerson, Lawrence sophomore, said she sometimes skipped classes to watch "The Young and the Restless."
skipped classes to watch "The Young and the Restless." "The Young and the Restless is the best gone歌 on TEI."
"The Young and the Restless is the best soap opera on TV,"
13 foreign students allege shortchanging
By JIM McLEAN Graduate School Reporter
Graduate students from five European countries attending the University of Kansas on Direct Exchange Scholarships alleged Friday that their financial responsibilities were misrepresented by the University.
THE CONTROVERSIAL STATEMENT of financial responsibility appeared in a letter sent by Weiss to the students informing them of their award. The letter said "The award consists of a tuition scholarship in addition to a cash stipend of $1,000 per year (nine months), from which you will be expected to pay all other expenses."
The students, who were awarded Direct Exchange Scholarships on the basis of academic performance at their European universities, contended that the letters of award they received last summer made it appear that the cash stipend of $1,800 they received from these universities their essential expenditures at KU. There are 13 students alleging misrepresentation.
In a letter to Arnold Weiss, assistant dean of the graduate school, and Clark Coan, dean of foreign students, the Direct Examination committee which we were given before we arrived made it appear that our stipend would cover all our expenses which would allow us to actively participate in the educational, cultural and social opportunities at Kansas University.
Rainer Matuszewski, Stuttgart, West Germany, graduate student, told Weiss at a meeting Friday. "You could have projected that there would be a big discrepancy between what the stipend offers and our needs."
WOLGAFN KESSLER, Kiel, West Germany, graduate student, said, "We signed up for a setup that would be adequate to cover our expenses. The information given to us did not presuppose that we would spend all our funds beyond what the stipend provides."
"Nobody in this room argues that you don't have enough money, that we all know," Weiss said. "I regret the fact that I did not, in the award letter, say precisely, to look for additional support because this year we cover all the way through the year."
The foreign students further contended
Regents OK geological system
ARES had been cut from KU's 1975 fiscal
bureau because wasn't listed as a priority
list.
EMPORIA—A 412,700 improvement in the Automated Resource Evaluation System (ARES) for the Kansas State University is scheduled Friday by the Kansas Board of Reeves.
Chancellor Archie R. Dykes asked the regents to endorse ARES because the Committee on Conservation and Natural Resources must endorse "substantial interest" in the project.
"We feel it would be worthwhile to undertake this project and we would like the endorsement of the board so the legislature can approve. Will this be important," Dykes said Friday.
ENDORSEMENT BY the regents will substantially increase the costs of ARES being approved by the legislature, Dykes said.
"I'm absolutely delighted with their action," William W. Hambleton, director of the Kansas State Geological Survey, said. It was important for the regents to en-
dorsé ARES because without endorsement, the legislature probably wouldn't tuck it, he
ARES is a highly sophisticated system that converts information such as maps or aerial photographs of different scales into digital information, processes the information and then produces scale maps, Hambleton said.
ARES has been so successful that its computer program has been purchased by Stanford University and the government of the United States, who have also asked for the ARES program.
IN OTHER ACTION, a new regent policy
of two-day meetings generally pressured the regents and KU administrators.
Dykes, Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor, and William O. Rieke, executive vice chancellor of the KJ Medical Center, who approved the new meeting schedule.
The two-day meeting gives the regents and administrators a chance to talk 'in considerable depth' about issues concerning the regent institutions. Dykes said.
The administrators met with various reagent committees Thursday and Friday.
Stewart said that during the last couple of years the regents had been busy with such problems as finding a replacement for the headmistress and had to abandon two-day meetings.
member of the Board of Regents, was a return to former resent policy.
THE REGENTS announced Friday that state budget hearings for the regent institutions would be Dec. 12 and 13 in Topeka. The regents also decided to hire a
The relegients also decided to hire a professional labor negotiator to bargain
See REGENTS page 3
that the University knew the estimated figures for the death of living at KU before letters were sent.
"We asked the I.I.E. people (Institute of International Exchange) where they get the figures for the cost of living in Kansas and they told us, 'Well, Dean Coan provides us with those.' This was a contradiction to what we told before.
"It's quite clear that they knew and were not unaware of the whole situation, but apparently it let it be," said Rainer Wiesberg, West Germany, graduate student.
"THE FULBRIGHT PEOPLE requested that we have about $40 of pocket money a day for them, and we need me. Now that is gone completely for dorm rent or books or something like that," said Uwe Pleban, Gelsenkirchen, West Gerbera, where his parents cannot afford to send me money.
"The main point we are arguing about is,
"I'm terrily sympathetic," Weiss said. "We know that the scholarships are not lavish and that the cost of living has gone up sharply, but my question is where do we go from here. We wish we had more funds to provide for you."
they say, 'Well, we see you are short of money and that you need much more, but there is no money left and we can't get any more money from anywhere, so you just have to stare or whatever.' That's their main argument!"
MISINFORMATION REGARDING expenses for room and board, books and supplies was also supplied to the students last summer, Matuszewski said. Figures that were already outdated appeared in literature sent to the students. The students learned about financial needs, he said. Even though the graduate school lists a higher price for
See STUDY page 7
A recent recommendation by SenEx for increased membership on the University Committee on Promotion and Tenure (UCPT) could set a precedent for future representation, Vicki Hanner, director of the Office of Affirmative Action, said yesterday.
The recommendation that UCPT be increased from nine to 12 members to meet affirmative action guidelines was sent to Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor.
SenEx proposal seen as antibias precedent
The recommendation came about after SenEx received a complaint from John Wright and Barbara Etzel, professors of human development, that UCPT wasn't properly balanced in regard to affirmative action.
The committee now has two women members and no minority members. The percentage of women on the committee, thus, is 22 per cent. Women make up about 24 per cent of University faculty. Minorities make up about six per cent of KU's faculty.
SHAKENL SAID he would pass this report to Cancellor Archil R. Dykes with a recommendation that Dykes approve the increase. However, Shankel said he didn't consider the incentive for automatic increases in committee sizes to meet affirmative action needs.
Although no steps have been taken, Hamer said it was conceivable that this action could affect other committee members. Women's Affirmative Action Advisory Committee meets Wednesday and will probably discuss what action is to be taken, she said.
"The turnover on this particular committee is about once every three years, so we have to make sure that it is made by many different chancellors." Shankel said. "Therefore right now it is out of balance, so I feel, and will recommend to the chancellor, that he approve the increase."
"I don't think we're bandcuffed by this action at all," Seaver said. "The only rules are that you can't attack us, that it, what's we want to do. This action may not be just to strong a precedent."
James Seaver, chairman of SenEx, said the Tenure and Related Problems committee also was increased by one female member, but it and UCPT were unusual among that trial rights and were very important and sensitive to a faculty member's career.
"It's the chancellor's committee, and all we do is recommend names for his approval," Heller said. "But we have given due regard to representation of women and male groups, and if you look at the lists, you'll see that he has its damnedest to keep them balanced."
FRANCISHELLER, a member of SenEx, said the affirmative action policy document spoke specifically to the need for representation on committees dealing with promotion and tenure, so this action would be useful for any other committee assignments.
James A. McCain, president of Kansas State University, denied at Friday's Board of Regents meeting a Wichita Eagle story that included the claim that she was "a ball-million dollars in the hole."
McCain said the Eagle story exaggerated the financial deficit of K-State's athletic program, but K-State did face a financial crisis in its athletic program.
One problem confronting the administration is the overload of committee assignments for minority faculty members, and it was clear that didn't have many minority faculty members, and those who were here were often asked to serve on many committees and
"I THINK I WILL look into other committee members," Hamer said. "This is a very complicated situation, but the thing that's important in this particular issue is to look at the crucial committees in terms of representation."
"This is a real concern to the University, but it's also a concern to make sure that we have adequate representation," Shankel said.
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Report suggests KUAC changes
Meetings of the University of Kansas Athletic Corporation (KUAC) Board should be open to the public unless one-third of the Board votes to close them, according to a report issued Saturday by the chancellor's athletic study group.
Probably half the other major schools in the country are having problems with their teachers.
The Eagle story said K-State would lose more than $300,000 in anticipated revenue for its athletic program. The $300,000 figure is likely the amount of visits teams gave $160,000 of that money.
Although Atty. Gen. Vern Miller ruled that the Kansas open meetings law didn't apply to the KUAC board, the committee recommended open meetings.
"I concur with the committee's recommendations in every instance and shall promptly ask that they be implemented." Chancellor Archie R. Dykes said yesterday. "The recommendations will enhance the work of the Athletic Board and will improve the board's interaction with the University community generally."
The study group also recommended restructuring the board to give women and minorities better representation, expanding the board from 20 to 22 members and combining the finance and budget committees into a single unit.
The chairman of the Student Senate Sports Committee and the director of
The two additional members would recognize the role of women's sports in the total intercollegiate athletics program of the University and would make a logical student addition to the board, the report says.
Women's Intercollegiate Athletics would be added to the board, expanding its memorials.
Student members of the board would be the president of the student body, chairman of the Senate's Sports Committee and two students appointed by the president of the student body for two-year terms. At least one of the students would be a woman and one a member of a minority group, recommends the committee.
The study group also recommended that the six faculty members be appointed by the faculty Senate rather than being elected. Two of the faculty members would be women and one a member of a minority group. Faculty terms would be three years.
Six of the board's members would be alumni of KU.
The report recommended that the
separate position of chairman of the board be eliminated and that a faculty member be appointed.
Present assignment of physical facilities to the athletic corporation is generally consistent with University policy but wide access to athletic facilities should be provided for nonvarisity uses, the group recommends.
"In any event," concluded the report, "the University's athletic and recreational facilities are, in the opinion of the committee, inadequate, and the committee recommends the development of short and long run plans to remedy that inadequacy."
The 22 members of the board will be the athletic director, the director of women's intercollegiate athletics, the faculty representative, the vice chancellor for student affairs, the comptroller, the assistant to the chancellor, the president of the Senate and chairman of the Senate Sports Committee. They are ex officio members.
The remaining members are six fulltime faculty members, six alumni and two assistant professors.
Showing the ropes
Ed Webb, guest performer from Iowa State, gave a short lute demonstration to a few members of the audience after his performance. (AP)
By Kanaan Photographer JAN SEYMOUR
the Art Museum. Wesla's talk was the final event of the museum's Spanish festival. See story page 3