THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
Vol.85-No.32 Wednesday, October 9,1974
The University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
Student population, full-time equivalents up sharply
Enrollment increase to bring in $400.000
By CARL YOUNG Administration Reporter
The University of Kansas will collect more in fees from students this fiscal year than officials had anticipated because of increased enrollment, Keith Nitcher, vice chancellor for business affairs, said yesterday.
The figures, compiled on the 20th day of classes to include withdrawals and late withdrawal, indicate a total enrollment of 22,182, with a cumulative variance campus and 1,787 at the KU Medical Science campus.
Enrollment for this semester is 20,390, up
1,712 from the last fall's 18,883, according to
figures released yesterday by the Kansas
Board of Regents.
The increase in enrollment is greater than University officials had expected, Nitcher said, and means the University will collect about $400,000 more in student fees than expected. The University will also have to increase its 1976 budget request by $1
million to cover the increased number of students, he said.
The enrollment increase is a result of a combined effort by Chancellor Archie R. students, faculty and the admissions office. Dyck, dean of admissions and records.
The publicity received by last year's
nationals and basketball teams also helped,
he said.
The honors banquets for outstanding high school students across Kansas helped increase the number and quality of students coming to the University, Dykes said.
"I don't think you can pinpant one group or one person," Dyck said. "It's a combination of efforts that really made this come about."
We are pleased with the increase and applauded for that so many people made." Dykes said.
Wichita State University had a 1.6 per cent increase (2.6 per cent) FTE, Emporia Kansas State College had a 3.8 per cent increase (but FTE down 2.4 per cent), Fort Hays State College had a 10 per cent increase (FTE down 6 per cent), and Kansas State College at Pittsburgh had a 7.8 per cent increase (FTE down 2.4 per cent).
The Regents' figures included the following breakdown by classes here: freshmen, 4,067; sophomores, 3,378; juniors, 3,204; seniors, 3,482; fifth year students, 98; special students, 1,499; post baccalaureate students, 432; master's degree candidates, 2,461 and Ph.D. candidates, 1,774.
The FTE breakdown by classes is freshmen, 4,140; sophomores, 3,510; junior, 3,351; seniors, 3,474; fifth year students, special students, 529; post baccalaureate, 3,277; and PhD, master's degree candidates, 2,397; and PhD, candidates, 1,352.
Surtax finds critics in Congress
From the Associated Press
WASHINGTON—President Ford's plan to increase taxes appeared headed for trouble yesterday as Congress promised swift action in his sweeping new anti-inflation package.
Following Ford's address to a joint
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session of Congress, Speaker of the House Carl Albert said he would talk to White House officials and congressional leaders about postponing the upcoming recess in an effort to rush through some of the President's proposals.
New coal mining methods to help fight energy crisis
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Other Democratic leaders said Congress
Two methods of coal mining that may help solve the energy crisis have been developed by the Kansas Geological Survey.
Fulltime equivalent enrollments (FTE), on which state funding is based, also increased with the number of students enrolled. Of the total 15 total is computed by dividing the total number of credit hours being taken by 15, the average number of hours taken.
The demand for coal was intensified yesterday by President Gerald R. Ford's announcement before Congress that by 1980 the country would be able to either炉 or uranium for their current
With the recent increase in use of coal, the incentive to find and mine coal has increased. R. A. Hardy, public relations director for the survey, said yesterday.
The search for coal is complicated by a federal law passed Aug. 1. requiring all strip mining operations to refill the land damaged.
The new methods recommended by the survey are less expensive than strip mining and sand mining.
The new ideas are long-wall and angering
methods, he said. In the operations, a 75-foot-wide trench is dug to the depth of the coal beds, which are no more than 18 inches thick. Then all coal within 100 feet of the trench can be excavated or hydraulic lifts behind conveyer belts that carry the extracted coal back the trench.
Hardy said the trench would run the length of the coal bed being mined. Present strip mining methods remove all ground or rock material from the coal bed before the coal is extracted.
The new methods are expected to cut by so per cent the amount and damaged by so per cent the amount of dry soil.
The time and cost of the methods are projected to be half the cost of methods presently being used, he said. He said that 40 per cent of the cost of presupose methods
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Committee upholds Pearson disapproval
By GARY BORG
Reporter
The Educational Policies and Procedures Committee (EPPC) voted yesterday to uphold its disapproval of the Pearson program in France.
Dennis Quinn, director of Pearson College, said he would meet today with Robert Cobb, associate dean of the college of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences.
The EPPC is one of three committees from which Cobb sought recommendations on the Pearson program in France. Cobb has the approval of the French government.
The EPPC had a special meeting yesterday to hear arguments presented by Pearson Humanities students in favor of the program in France. The students were Betty Barker and Charlie Rhoades, students in the EPPC program, and Brad Barker, a former student in the program.
"positive values far outweight the problems," she said.
She then listened to the EPCP to the proposed program and offered arguments against them.
Better Barker said she and her brother, Brad, had conducted a "thorough investigation" of the proposed Pearson program in France.
Several members of the EPPC had expressed concern that the French program would hinder the Pearson program in Lawrence because the program's teachers were not trained.
Of the three professors teaching the Pearson program, one, John Senior, professor of comparative literature would stay in France for the full semester. Senior has been granted a sabbatical to conduct research in France. He would spend only about a month with the Pearson program and then go on to other two professors, Quinn and Frank Nelick, professor of English for their time between the program in Lawrence and the program in France.
But Barker said the value of the French experience for the majority or the Pearson students would offset any possible detrimental effects on their education.
Betty Barker said Quinn had carefully outlined the Lawrence program for next spring to minimize the impact of the French program in exchange.
"After all their work and dedication," she said, "it seems almost absurd to me that they'd allow the Pearson program (in Lawrence) to suffer."
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could act before Friday's scheduled recess on Ford's call for a $300 billion spending ceiling for fiscal 1975 and a $3 billion program to subsidize mortgage interest payments and to finance about 100,000 new homes.
However, Ford's request for a one-yearive per cent surcharge tax on middle and upper-income taxpayers met with widespread opposition.
However, since taxes are levied against taxable income rather than adjusted gross income, formula must be devised for translating an average basis, gross into taxable income.
The requested surtax would be imposed on families with adjusted gross incomes of $15,000 or more and on single people with incomes of $7,500 or more.
Examples were given in a White House fact sheet that indicated that the surtax would be levied against taxable income of families and families of families, and $ 4,540 for single people.
The surtax would not apply to the total taxable incomes of such taxpayers. They simply would increase by five per cent the amount they would otherwise owe.
Senate Republican Leader Hugh Scott and Sen. Jacob K. Javits, R-N.Y., said the $15,000 family income level that would trigger the five per cent surent was too low.
Senate Democratic Whip Robert C. Byrd said the proposed surtax would "soak the middle and working classes", and Sen. Henry M. Jackson, D-Wash., said he could not support it until loopholes in the existing tax structure were plugged.
Sen. John C. Stennis, D-Miss., called the proposed tax "a good recommendation"
Sen. Russell B. Long, D-La., chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, said the 10 per cent investment credit, up from seven per cent in 2009 and four per cent for utilities, recommended undoubtedly would stimulate business spending. But he added that it was doubtful without giving additional tax relief to low-income families.
Injured student out of hospital
Other measures outlined by the President include:
—A program to create public service jobs
  in unemployment exceeds six per cent of the
  population.
Lou Ann Lee, one of two University of Kansas students injured in a natural gas explosion Friday night, was released from the Memorial Hospital yesterday afternoon.
Connie Willbern, the other student nurtu m the blast, is still at home in Coffeyville after being released from Watkins on Saturday morning.
Lee and Willbern were working at the Accurate Telephone Secretarial Service Co., 612 Massachusetts St. $1, when a natural gas explosion at about 8:30 p.m. Friday destroyed the one-story concrete block and brick building.
$500 million to $2.2 billion, depending on the severity of unemployment.
The explosion occurred when Williburn struck a match, lighting natural gas that had leaked from an uncapped cell in the building.
Lee, who received first and second-degree burns in the explosion, said yesterday she planned to return to classes Thursday and to her job Friday.
-Higher unemployment benefits for people whose other unemployment compensation has been exhausted or who are ineligible for such compensation.
Willben will probably return to classes next week, a roommate said.
- A five per cent surcharge on corporate taxes, which would raise an estimate of 6 percent.
FTE for fall 1974 is 19,277, up 1,036 from
18,241 last fall.
-Various mandatory and voluntary energy conservation measures to reduce imports of oil by one million barrels a day by the end of next year.
The President's proposals met with a mixed reaction from business and labor leaders.
The House Ties and Means Committee will meet today to hear Treasury officials explain the details of Ford's suggestions, including a bill that would commit the committee's second ranking Democrat.
The other state supported schools had increases in the number of students, but Emporia Kansas State College, Fort Hays State and Salina High School decreased. Pittsburg had decreases in FTE, total.
Enrollment figures for the other state schools are: Kansas State University, 16,422 (FTE 10.75), Wichita State University, 15,065 (FTE 10.340) Emporia Kansas State College at Pittsburg, 5,409 (FTE 4.847) Hays State College, 5,602 (FTE 4.874)
Total enrollment for the six state-supported schools is 68,536, up 9,797 from 64,599 last year. The FTE total, however, is up to 59,858 this year, an increase of 1,980.
KU had a 9.2 per cent increase in enrollment in the Lawrence campus over last year, and a 5.7 per cent increase in FTE.
Kansas State University had a 6.1 per cent enrollment increase (3.7 per cent FTE).
Modern man scrutinized by lecturer
Public life in capitalist industrial societies dehumanizes man, Robert P. Wolff, professor at the University of Massachusetts, said last night. Wolff presented this year's second Humanities series lecture in Woodford Auditorium on Monday in the lobby here But us Persons: The Denial of the Abolition in Contemporary Liberal Thought." "I'm going to pose a problem I can't give," he said.
The problem he referred to, he said, is the reconciliation of two opposing views of man.
Walt shows his first view of man was as a rational leader and season and MOEREN MODEM 12.
Hashinger offers 'Fantasticks'
The theater office of Hashinger Hall was filled with young actors and actresses putting finishing touches on their make-up.
Hashinger Theatre opens its season Friday with the musical "The Fantasticks," the longest running off-broadway show in the United States. The production is free to Hushinger residents. A 50 cents admission fee will be charged for all other students.
May Daniels Johnson, director of the show and assistant resident director of Hashinger, said yesterday that this was the third year theater productions of this sort had been staged in Los Angeles by the company "BECAUSE" because it was a show she had wanted to do for a long time.
"I think it a show everyone can relate to in experience," she said. "It'a a matter of going back and remembering your first encounter."
The musical tells the story of a troubled love affair between two young romantics who tried to "memorize the moon," in which a man and woman fall in love.
"It's a parable about love and people who are interested in
love," said Bruce Ryder, Lawrence junior, who plays Bellarney, the girl of the girl in love.
The cast and crews are made up entirely of Hashinger residents, some experienced in theater. Johnson, a 1917 theater education graduate, said students could gain experience in acting or technical work through Hashinger productions.
everybody," they said. "Auditions for 'The Fantasticks' bring the first week of classes, and the cast has been rehearing two to three weeks a day since Labor Day, according to Jim Stringer, Prairie village sophomore, who plays Matt, the boy.
Stringer said long rehearsals had cut into his study time but the entire cast was very enthusiastic about the show.
Even though "The Fantasticks" isn't a major theater production, Johnson said, enthusiasm is high.
"I've never seen a bunch of students auditioning stay and get so excited about a show," she said.
The cast has only eight roles, but Johnson called the production a mass effort on the part of all students involved.
Conspiring cohorts
Michael Mooney, St. Louis sophomore, Bruce Rydier, Shawne Mason junior, play the roles of two fathers who take a family lead to draw their children together into matrimony in a rehearsal of "The Fantasticks," Hashinger Hall's theatrical
BY Kansan Photographer JOYCE MENDELSOHN
opening. To end the "fend" they hire el Gallo, played by Rob Davis, Lewis junior, to create a crisis, giving the family an opportunity to escape.