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Tuesday, November 12, 1974
University Daily Kansar
DIGEST
Coal miners strike
From the Associated Press
WASHINGTON—Arnold Miller, United Mine Workers president, said yesterday that coal miners wouldn't be "bludgeoned" into accepting an inadequate contract no matter how great the public pressure for reopening the mines. The contract expired at 12:01 a.m. today. Miller said that while a prolonged strike would be hard for the nation to bear, the company would still work with the unions and contract they could "work under safety and live under decency." Miller said that the union had planned a two-week strike but that the duration would increase for as long as the negotiations drug on. Most industries indicated they wouldn't begin to feel the effects of the walkout for about a week. Dennis Hayes, chief of the fuel energy office in Illinois, which gets about 85 per cent of its energy from coal, said no industry would stop the mine's production until coal are expected to be among the first hit. Hayes said that small manufacturers would feel the pinch after two weeks and added that if the walkout lasted a month, it could touch off a depression.
FEA nomination
From the Associated Press
WASHINGTON--Andrew E. Gibson is expected to withdraw as a candidate to head the Federal Energy Administration, probably within the next day or two, an informed source here said yesterday. President Gerald R. Ford had announced Oct. 29 that he would nominate Gibson to head the FEA when Congress returned from recess. But the anticipated nomination already was in deep trouble, congressional sources reported, because of increasing questions over possible conflicts of interest that would bar him from federal service.
Israeli bombinas
From the Associated Press
Israeli jets bombed suspected guerrilla targets in Lebanon yesterday for the first time in three weeks as the United Nations prepared to debate whether the United States should score scores of casualties in the 17-minute attack by 12 batteries-bombers in the southeastern part of the country. Sixteen members of the Palestine Liberation Organization, the first nongovernmental group ever invited to participate, responded. Arrived in New York for the two-week debate that starts tomorrow.
OAS conference
From the Associated Press
QUITO, Ecuador—Brazil, Chile and Uruguay proposed yesterday that the OAS conference rejects as Latin American delegates split bitterly over whether to lift sanctions against Cuba. The conference didn't act upon such a proposal, saying it would be session when pandemic broke out after Guatemala announced it would abstain. Guatemala's abstention left Venezuela and 11 other nations committed to lifting the sanctions powerless to muster the required majorities in votes. Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay already said they would abstain, including Nicaragua, Brazil and the United States were among those abstaining.
Byrd prediction
From the Associated Press
WASHINGTON—Assistant Senate Democratic leader Robert C. Byrd predicted yesterday that the next Congress would quickly pass standby gasoline rationing and wage and price control authority. At a news conference, the West Virginian also called on President Ford to withdraw his controversial nomination of Andrew E. Gibson to head the Federal Energy Administration. And he said he had seen no evidence to cause him harm in the nomination process. Senator Richard Nelson A. Rockefeller was in serious trouble in the Congress. He said Rockefeller's chances for confirmation are "fairly good." Byrd said that while the vice presidency remained vacant, Ford should refrain from any foreign travel.
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AURH extends test file system for students in residence halls
Following an old practice of sororites and fraternities, University of Kansas residence halls are collecting tests from residents for the formation of a new test file system.
Alen said residents' tests would be copied and sent back to the owner. He said one copy would be kept in the library of each school, where he would get copies of the departmental tests.
Mark Allen, coordinator of the new system sponsored by the Association of University Residence Halls (AURH), said yesterday the test file would be an extension of a file begun last year by GSP, Corbin and Bornis. Allen said that the new system would be more comprehensive collection and that more students would be able to benefit from it.
"The file will provide an effective means of studying for a test," Allen said. "Because we have such a large number of students at levels, the potential is unbelievable."
Phil Frickle, president of AURH, said that a test file gave an idea of how tests were written. He said there was a special need for an eye to the details in preview of what a college test entailed.
"If a professor teaches the same things and the same tests every semester, it
doesn't seem unfair for a student to know what will be on that test." Fricke said.
Allen said old tests served as a guide to what areas should be studied. He said that the data from the test could be used.
"I see no reason why instructors
can't help the students to get good
grades," Allen said.
Marcia Patrick, scholarship chairman of Kappa Kappa Gamma, said problems arose when the University changed the course. The college had been filed by the old course numbers.
According to Frickey, the cost to each hall would be about $20 a year,financed through AURH activity fees. AURH allocated $4 on Sept. 26 to start the program.
Test files at sorteries and fraternities are individually organized. Most keep the records for the following purposes:
Patrick said her sorority's file was out of date because there were different in-rooms courses, and no courses were used, so some courses were no longer used, and so the sorority was reorganizing its test file
Steve Brownback, member of Phi Gamma Delta, said his fraternity's file was composed of books and notes. He said it contained recommendations on classes and instructors and served as an aid during enrollment.
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Kansas Power & Light Co. has asked the Kansas Corporation Commission for a $11.1 million annual rate increase across the general price increase for KP&L since 1949.
KP&L proposes rate increase
An average electricity bill will be $168 higher if a proposed rate increase is enacted.
A formal hearing will be Thursday Dec. 12 at its offices in the State Office Building.
If the increase is granted, it will amount to about 13 per cent for the average residential user, boosting his bill $1.88 a month or from about $1 a year to about $1 a year, according to Duane L. Walrafen, KP&L vice president.
The proposed increase would be applied uniformly across Kansas because rates are the same throughout the 23,000-square-mile area in northeast and central Kansas served by KP&L. The increase will be the same for students in Lawrence as for residents of Topeka or Rosville, for example.
He said that the proposed increase was
the first in 25 years and that there had been three decreases, two in 1964 and one in 1966.
"Labor rates went up 17% per cent in the last two years, and everything we buy is up," he said. "Fuel costs are up 50 per cent from last year."
Walrafen said the company was asking Waltrafen an 8.44 per cent return on its investment. It added that Walrafen's share price had risen by about 16%.
KP&L reported earnings of 71 cents a share of common stock for the third quarter of 1974, compared to 79 cents for the same period in 1973.
Operating expenses and maintenance costs are higher, he said.
The firm listed operating expenses of $36.23 million for the quarter, 9.6 per cent higher than in the same period for 1973. Net earnings at $4.81 million, down 10.4 per cent.
generating capacity.
gK&L also is spending $7.5 million to expand its Hutchinson generating station. Installation of the 90,000-kilowatt addition will increase the Hutchinson plant's capacity by about 24 percent, making it second among KP&L plants to the Lawrence plant in generating capacity.
Lawrence and nine other cities, including Leavenworth, Atchison, Topeka and Manhattan, plan to protest the proposed rate hike.
KP&L made a major expansion in the Lawrence area in 1971 and is constructing a 2.8 million-kilowatt station north of Warmago in Pottawatomie County. The station is expected to cost more than $750 million and will nearly triple the company’s
Lawrence City Manager Buford Watson
would say the rate increase would mean a 30 per cent decrease.
Volunteers in Court benefits juveniles
By BETTY PALLANICH
Reporter
"We don't think they should raise the residential customer's rates by 13 per cent and we are not going to change it."
Volunteers in Court is a salvage operation.
The group's goal is to help troubled youth to get out of trouble, according to Susan Cain.
There are four programs within the organization, she said, and each is designed to work with specific problems. They are the Person to Person program, the Alter-Recreation to Detention Homes program, Project Concern and Recreation Volunteers.
Chernisis said recently that Volunteers in Court used Douglas County citizens to work with juveniles in trouble with the law, at home or at school. She said the organization was generated in fall 1972 by a group of citizens who "wanted to improve the quality of life for kids in trouble by using community manpower."
Person to Person volunteers provide a role model for the child, show support, and they participate in the activity.
Cherniss said working with juveniles individually was the format for the Person to Person program. She said it was run by trained, supervised volunteers who spent a minimum of three hours a week with a child.
volve the youngsters in recreational activities.
Cherniss said each volunteer received nine hours of training and attended inservice training sessions in which they meet once a month to discuss problems.
The Alternative to Detention Homes program which began in June 1973, provides a temporary home with a Douglas County family for a juvenile who can't or shouldn't return immediately to his own home. She said these Douglas County children were either or were waiting to be sent to foster homes, youth centers or a state institution.
Cherniss said the advantage of the alternative homes was that the child could continue to attend school and have a good home environment with adult supervision. The other option, it doesn't always necessary, she said, the home provides an alternative place to stay.
Nineteen University of Kansas students make up the Recreational Volunteers, a program that began in October. One of them is Bake Hall, Lawrence graduate student
Watson said the protecting cities had met several times and were trying, with help from the League of Kansas Municipalities, to obtain more information.
Hakte said teams of two volunteers went to the jail and took the juveniles to the gymnasium for recreational activities such as weight lifting and table tennis. He said the purpose was to get them out of their cell sites where they were confined all day.
At a meeting in mid-October the group agreed that members had two options—bring a lawyer to present their case informally, or spending an estimated $25,000 annually to satisfy the rate increase and present a formal protest to the corporation commission.
Watson said he favored hiring a consultant. He said the city could gain back the money spent on the consultant in savings if the suit was successful.
Watson said yesterday that the city still hadn't decided what action to take to protest
Local architectural firm chosen to design projects for schools
A Lawrence architectural firm was selected last night to design expansion projects at Lawrence High and West Junior School. The Lawrence School District 497 Board of Education.
The firm, Peter, Williams and Kubota, has done other projects for the school district, including additions to the Deerfield school.
Tenure policy draws faint praise
CarlS. Knox, superintendent of the school
Reaction to the recently revised guidelines in the Procedure and optimum treatment been that of repeated testing.
Granting of tenure was given more importance in the revision, and more emphasis has been placed on the Promotions and Tenure committee's decision on a faculty member, according to Ambrose Browne, vice chancellor for academic affairs.
In general, the procedures for granting tenure are good, J. Bunker Clark, associate professor of music history, said recently, but the proof is in how it's done. It is necessary to be careful so that tenure isn't granted to marginal people. he said.
The recent revision of the guidelines includes additions and deletions suggested by the Council of Deans and Sen.Bs, Surkars and Barringer, in which some were included in the final revision Oct. 18.
The revisions were the result of an annual study of the guidelines by the committee. The original guidelines were drawn up by members of the American Association and appeared in the 1973-74 Faculty Handbook.
The purpose of the revision was to broaden the base for suggestions of what can be done in practice.
The criteria for tenure and promotion remain teaching, research and service.
An addition to the guidelines states that two to six years usually elapse between the promotion from instructor to assistant professor. Saricks said the rank of instructor hadn't appeared in the guidelines before.
The promotion of instructors has never posed any problems, according to Francis Heller, professor of political science. Not only does the University entrance rank, but it has virtually disappeared from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, he said. Most of the University's instructors are in the Schools of Fine Arts and Computer Science, and instructors seldom plan to stav at KU.
Contrair to the opinion of many faculty members, Helfer said 'temure is more likely' than 'a mere study'.
More emphasis was placed on the tenure clause in the guidelines because it deserved more importance, according to Joel Gold, professor of English. The tenure clause was said, but the revisions were made to adjust actual promotion and tenure procedures.
According to Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor, the purpose of emphasizing drought out in the guidelines so that candidates would be more carefully considered.
The revision states, "The awarding of tenure to a faculty member is the most critical point in the process of selection and improvement of faculty members and improves the quality of the faculty."
Ernest Angino, professor of geology, said he wouldn't be convinced of the revisions' effectiveness until they were put into operation. However, he said, the revisions would have to prove adherence to the judging standards used in the tenure and promotion selection process.
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Tenure is granted to candidates if they meet the guidelines' criteria of teaching, research and service. However, Shankel must remain to maintain flexibility in the guidelines.
The revised version of the guidelines and criteria for promotion and tenure probably will appear this summer in the next edition of the Faculty Handbook, Saricks said.
Saricks defined tenure as the decision to allow a faculty member to remain at KU indefinitely. If the employment of a professor is terminated, the professor has the right of appeal denied an untenured professor, he said. The right of appeal is granted in the guidelines of the American Association of University Professors.
"We're just in the thinking stage." Fisher said.
More definite decisions are expected to be made Thursday when the three groups meet.
Kenneth Fisher, assistant superintendent for business and facilities, reported recent talks with county and city officials on a system to be purchased and used jointly.
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