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Computer aids theses
Social scientists can learn to use the University's computer for theses and dissertations at the Social Science Statistics Laboratory in Fraser.
Bobbi Bowman, coordinator of the laboratory, said recently that the purpose of the program was to encourage work with the computer in the social sciences.
The laboratory was started in October 1973, she said, and is funded through the Institute for Social and Environmental Arts and the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
City approves lowered speed on Iowa Street
The Lawrence City Commission in its regular meeting yesterday proclaimed this week as "Beat Missouri Week" in Lawrence. The commission also approved the installation of a sanitary sewer system in Deerfield Park and several items recommended by the Lawrence Traffic Safety Commission.
Bob Nelson, a KU football fan, read the "Beat Missouri Week" proclamation to the commission. Nelson said he hoped to attend a victory celebration Saturday night after the Jayhawks "twist the Missouri Tigers' tail."
One of the traffic safety commission's recommendations approved by the City Commission yesterday was the lowering of the speed limit on Iowa Street between Harvard and 15th streets. The limit would drop from 45 to 35. The commission voted to raise the state highway State Highway Department because Iowa State is part of the state highway system.
In other action, the commission heard the first reading of a city ordinance that would result in a slight increase in telephone rates for local customers.
City Manager Buford Watson sums the Southwestern Bell Telephone Company bought a franchise to use the streets and alleyes of the city. The ordinance would increase the costs to the company from 2.5 per cent to three per cent of the gross income and would increase the rate per minute. In the next month, the Commission will take final action on the ordinance at next Tuesday's meeting.
The commission deferred action on extending Earlhart飞翔 Service's present lease at the city airport and on approval of sidewalk construction.
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ISES, on the sixth floor of Blake, was created in 1970 from a merging of the Center for Regional Studies and the Government Research Center. Bowman said ISES is a research center focused on environmental, social and governmental problems of Kansas and the Midwest, according to an ISES pamphlet. It is funded by the University of Kansas and federal research grants and contracts.
In one room of the laboratory, a consultant is on duty from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and from 1:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. five days a week, Bowman said. The consultant helps students with their homework, she said, which are programs that already have been prepared for the computer.
Canned programs are stored in the computer and tell it what to do with numerals that the user gives as data, Bowman said. The user must know how to call the program from storage and give the data, but he doesn't need to learn a computer language or how to write programs to use them.
The Computation Center in Summerfield Hall has similar facilities Bowman said, but most people who use it are learning computer languages and programming. The Center has also people who need to use a computer but have little technical knowledge of programming.
The equipment, in the other room of the lab, consists of keypunches, hard copy terminals, a computer card sorter and one card verifier.
The hard copy terminals resemble typewriters and are plugged into the Summerfield computer by cable, Bowman said. The user types messages to the printer on the keyboard, and the computer type replies. This is one way to run a program.
Another method is to punch cards on a keypin, verify that they are correct and then give them to the Computation Center employees to be fed to the computer.
A cathode ray tube terminal also is available at the lab. It is similar to hard copy terminals, but no hard copy, typed pages, are retained. For this and the card method, the computer results must be picked up at the Computation Center.
A log, kept from October 1973, until summer 1974, indicates that almost 68 per cent of the lab's total usage has been by people in the psychology and political science departments. The School of Education and the departments of speech communication, human development, anthropology and economics used the remainder.
A course, Data Analysis Workshop, is taught by the lab consultants. It is a one credit-bourne course in the use of this course and it is open to all students, Bobman said.
According to the log, about 74.5 per cent of the work done at the lab was by master's degree and Ph.D. candidates. The rest was graduate's, faculty and research assistants.
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SUA defends concert oversell
The lack of a legal decision by the state fire marshal caused standing room tickets to be sold to the recent Sly and the Family Stone concert, according to Richard Lindman, SUA concert series board chairman.
Lindeman said yesterday that 300 more tickets were sold for the concert than there were for the performance.
Harry M. Buchholz, director of the physical plant, said recently that there were 400 to 800 standing room tickets sold and 1500 illegal towers to allege a concert by them.
Lindeman said that only 2,000 tickets had been sold when the concert was moved from Alen Field House to Hoch. He said the extra sales would increase the to the increased sales after the change.
room crowd at the London Symphony Orchestra concert as precedent for the action. He said the extra tickets were sold on the main floor, but that after Sly came out, the people couldn't be controlled and moved closer to the stage blocking the aisles.
Lindeman said that before overselling the concert, he had tried to discuss the legal question with the state fire marshal, but that the fire marshal didn't show up. He said he checked with the Security and Parking Department.
"They really don't have a standing policy," he said.
Lindeman said SUA decided to sell the extra ticket and consider the standing
SUA is concerned about smoking at
concerts, Lindeman said. It was announced a concert that there should be no smoking.
"If no-smoking restrictions can't be enforced in the classroom, how can they be enforced in a concert situation?" Lindeman said.
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