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Senate committees near completion of priorities
Editor's note: This is the first of two reports on committee committees under John Bellew's administration.
By DAVID OLSON
Senate Renorter
Progress reports of Student Senate committees reveal that work is nearing completion on charges given to them last spring by John Beisner, student body president.
Beiser presented each committee with a list of priorities to work on during the current term. Committee chairmen agree that although there are many other terms, work on most charges already is done.
The Academic Affairs Committee has completed work on its charges. Petitions recommending a system of pre-enrollment and a central advising center were formulated by the committee and
passed by the Student Senate on Oct. 2. They are now being considered by the administration.
A change of the foreign language requirement to a "foreign culture requirement" was recommended by the committee to the College Assembly. The proposed changes are included in Educational Policies and Procedures Committee.
One obstacle to carrying out the charges this year has been low attendance at committee meetings, according to Chris Davis, committee chairman. He said members were present for last Tuesday's meeting.
"I've been a little disappointed in attendance," said Davis. "I've accepted responsibility for some things."
Davis said there were 20 members who attended the first committee meeting last spring, but attendance had dropped gradually this year.
"Some kids have had class conflicts because of Thursday night meetings," she said. "Some had other meetings to attend. But I've kept them in place. I would have liked to get their input on issues."
Davis will resign as chairman when she graduates in December. Low attendance has created a problem in finding a new chairman to fill the unexpired term, she said. The committee will elect a new chairman, Davis said, but there appears to be only one person qualified for the job.
Bill Blessing, Lake Quivir sophomore, is the only one qualified because he's a senator and has at least two years of experience.
Blessing said yesterday he thought the low attendance at Tuesday's committee meeting was an occasion.
"I think the weather is why people weren't at the
Blessing praised attendance of academic affairs committee members at last spring's budget hearings.
meeting, plus the fact that the committee has finished most its work," he said.
Other committee chairmen, have reported good attendance at committee meetings.
"I've got some excellent committee members," claimed Steve Segebrech, Student Services committee chairman. "You always have about one-fourth of the people that have a conflict with all of us. Come on in at the University. It's quite good to have the fourteenth turn out for committee meetings."
The Student Services Committee has accomplished most of what it set out to do, according
to Segebrecht. Work Force 75, a senior job placement program, is underway and initial results have been favorable, he said. The Student Health Center is one of the student input into operation of the health service.
Dierck Casselman, sports committee chairman, said he was satisfied with the progress his committee had made this year. An Intramurals Board was formed earlier this year and is now working to coordinate and improve the intramurals program, he said.
The committee is in the process of developing guidelines for expenditure of $45,400 returned from allocations for floor improvements in Allen Field House, Casselman said. The committee now is waiting for cost estimates on alternative ideas for expenditures, he said.
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
Vol. 85—No.48 Friday, November 1, 1974
The University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
By Kansan Photographer JAN SEYMOUR
Mapping his life
Orla Reese, a sophomore at Lawrence High School, often visits the Map Room in Spencer Library to look at maps of the nine
different places he has lived. Here Reese checks maps of the University. See page seven for a look at the Map Room.
McCollum money debated
By ROBERT A. GAVIN
Reporter
"These are suggestions that can be talked about," Schwyet said.
Administration proposals to dispose of nearly $25,000 in McColum Hall contract money will be presented soon, Tom Schlumberger, president of McColum Hall, said yesterday.
The McCollum Hall Senate will come up with a counterproposal, he said. "We'll go from there."
The central question, Schweite said, is what to do with the $50 surcharge that was to have financed the now cancelled McCormick's bid. The center was unanimously rejected by the
McCollum Senate although it had been accepted by the University Housing Board.
Schwetye met with the University Housing Board last Friday and a subcommittee was formed. Members of the subcommittee are J. J. Wilson, director of The Rickeney, president of AURH, Fred McElennan, associate dean of men, and Schwetye.
The committee's recommendations include reducing the surcharge by changing the rate classification of McColum Hall and having the Senate decide the residence hall's classification next year, Schwetye said.
A "C" classification requires a surcharge
of $12, and requires no surcharge
The recommend fee is $8.
One proposal is to place the $35 difference into a food subsidy, he said. Expansion of Sunday night supper, two helpings of Sunday night supper, steak nights are included in this option.
change McCollum's classification from a
    $B" -b " resulting in $$s surcharge
    reduction.
A $1 reduction for vacation housing is another possibility, Schweetey said. This subsidy would cut the cost of staying in a hotel during the vacation periods from $3 to $2 a day.
"That is the responsibility of the Senate," he said.
The remaining $15 would be used for hull improvement as need arises, Schweye
Kansas doctors split on Roy's health bills
By PAULA JOLLY
Reporter
Although Rep. Bill Roy, Democrat candidate for U.S. senator, uses the title of doctor in his campaign, he has less than unanimous support from Kansas doctors
Thomas F. Taylor, Salina physician and chairman of "Doctors who Support Sen. Bob Dole for Re-election," said yesterday that he was not prepared to be harmful to the practice of medicine.
Taylor said one Roy-sponsored bill, HR 16204, would make the institutional side of health care delivery a public utility, controlled by the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare. He said Dole was against the bill.
"Decisions should be made in the counties around a hospital, not in Washington,"
Paul Pendergast, administrative assistant for Roy, said the bill would reorganize health care but wouldn't make it into a public utility.
He said the bill included a provision for state boards that would direct health care planning for each region. The boards would elect elected and appointed members, he said.
Taylor said 80 to 85 per cent of the doctors in Kansas supported Dole. He based his claim on a series of campaign mailings sent to the majority of doctors in Kansas.
"We sent out several mailings with a card that said I will support Sen. Bob Dole for the president," Taylor said. "We got back about 60 per cent of the cards supporting Dole."
Taylor said some doctors didn't send in the card, but instead sent a contribution. Still others didn't send in anything, Taylor said. The company names on advertisements supporting Dole.
"This adds up to about 80 to 85 per cent of the doctors in Kansas," Taylor said.
"However," Pendergast said, "I'm in confident the majority of patients in his support."
Pendergast said he wasn't sure of the accuracy of the figures Taylor gave.
Taylor said Roy had misrepresented
Dole's voting record on Medicare. He said Dole voted against Medicare in 1965, but that he did so because he was supporting an alternative plan called Eldercare.
Pendergast said Eldercare was a totally inadequate program promoted by the American Medical Association (AMA) that was eventually relected by Congress.
Now Date is supporting plan called MedCredit, Taylor said, a program well-known in the state.
Under Medi-Credit, Taylor said, a person making about $7,000 a year would get back some of his health care expenses in the form of income tax credits. A person making about $5,000 a year would receive the tax credit, Taylor said. He gave no definite income limit for the tax credit.
Pendergast said Medi-Credit was a new version of the AMA-sponsored Eldercare. He said the program was inadequate and had no chance of passing.
Pendergast said a study in the Congressional Quarterly showed that legislators who cosponsored Medi-Credit appeared to have received contributions from the AMA, usually in the amount of $5,000. He said Dole had received more than that from the AMA.
Pendergast said Roy was sponsoring a program of national health insurance paid for through private insurance companies. (For or non-administer the program, be said.)
Renorter
Bv MARK EKLUND
Sherry Jones, chairman, and other members of the Black Student Union (BSU), asked a Kansan reporter to leave the BSU meeting last night in the union because the reporter wasn't an invited guest of the BSU.
Kansan reporter asked to leave BSU meeting
The BSU would not respond to questions last night on its recent protest of the appointment of Gary Flanigan as director of Supportive Educational Services (SES). Jones said the BSU would release a statement on the matter early next week.
Flanigan, director of SES, said yesterday that he met with members of the BSU educational committee Oct. 8. The BSU discussed this point during the BSU was discussed at that time, he said, but he hasn't received further communication from the organization.
"It's not in my interest to have the situation explained any further," Flanigan said. "I haven't received any follow up on
what the problem was last Monday. Until I
had heard from the ISU, I had nothing to say.
I could not help but say.
The BSU's refusal to allow a Kansas reporter to attend its meeting is in apparent violation of the Kansas Open Meetings Law of 1972. Section two of the law states that all meetings conducted by groups or organizations by public funds "shall be open to public and no binding action by such body shall be by secret ballot."
One member of the BSU said he couldn't care less what the law was. He implied that physical means would be used to remove someone from the reporter refused to leave the meeting.
Jones was a bit more tactful. She said she wasn't trying to create problems, but it was the BSU's policy to restrict its meetings to black students or invited guests.
Gilbert Brown, BSU vice chairman, said last Monday that Flagan had limited options for his team.
By Kansan Photographer JAN SEYMOUR
See BLACK Back Page
Treats, no tricks
Trick-or-treaters Gertrude Sellards Pearson and Corbin Halls last night at the invitation of the women in the hall. The goblins are from the Child Development Laboratory and their hosts are Sharon Lonergan, Overland Park freshman, left, and Jaa Schultz, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, freshman.
The SUA costume ball, parties for preschoolers and parties by the room mothers in the elementary schools also brought out the ghosts and goblins.
Halloween magic beguiles Lawrence
Under the full moon, trick-or-treaters made their annual trek from door to door collecting goodies last night. But that wasn't the only way Halloween was celebrated.
Costumes, relays and bobbing for apples were part of the traditional festivities Monday and Tuesday at the Lawrence grade schools, according to Dorothy Williams, a teacher at Schwegler Elementary School.
The SUA's free dance at the Kansas Union awarded concert tickets to the two persons with the best costumes.
Many of the residence halls helped celebrate Halloween with
their costumes and contained costume-clad
dressing tables and holding skeletons.
Residents at Hashinger Hall got into the Halloween spirit with a showing of "The Raven" and "The Return of the Vampire," which featured some of their favorite songs.
Many trick-o-treaters might have been disappointed with the quality of their loot this year, although the quantity wasn't down. John Albens, salesman at Gibson's said shopper seemed to be a little chooser about the treats they bought this year. With candy prices skyrocketing, many people were buying items such as bubblegum instead of candy bars, he said.
There weren't as many pumpskins available this year, according to a spokesman for Rusty's in Iowa Street. Even though the prices were higher this year on the available pumpkins, Rusty's had no trouble selling them, he said.
Witches and goblins are in vogue for costumes this year, according to Albera. The skeletons just won't move this winter.
Horrors
By Kansan Photographer DAVE PETERSON
These two young men got their money's worth out of the Jaycees haunted house at the White school in North Lawrence. The Jaycees began working two weeks ago on the project, and the teacher said they were ready to start.