THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
Vol.85—No.28 Thursday, October 3, 1974 The University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
SenEx says administration flouts governance system
By JILL DOLES Reporter
SenEx yesterday charged the administration with what it completed disregard for
The charge followed a decision by Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor, to reserve 400 parking spaces in X-Zone for free football games for athletics contributors.
Nerither the Parking and Traffic Board sent SenEx was consulted by Shlumberger, who said
SenEx voted unanimously to draft a letter to Shanker pointing out the location of the Parking and
Traffic Board once again bypasses the University governance system, an action we had been assured not happen again."
SenEx also voted to invite Shankel to one of its meetings and to send a representative of SenEx to the Parking and Traffic Board meeting Friday.
Shankel he preferred not to comment on SenEx actions until he had seen the
Phil Fricke, chairman of the Parking and Traffic Board, told ExenEx he questioned the validity of a precedent set by former Cancellor W. W. Clarke Wescoe several years ago in which major contributors were given free parking.
Frickley said Wescoe's ruling was made before the present Senate forwards its forces for another six months, it would be invalid.
If this is the case, then Shankel's decision would appear to be to send an email in a letter to SenEx.
Allowing the 440 spaces to be used without charge will modify the parking budget of the Department of Security and Parking as it was approved by the University governance system, another possible violation of the Senate Code, he said.
Frickey also questioned the definition of "the chancellor or his designated representative" in a KU Parking and Traffic Board regulation that allows the
Changes possible after dean's exit
By CARL YOUNG
Administration Reporter
Emily Taylor's resignation as dean of women has opened the door for an administrative change in the dean of women's office.
"I expect to have an office to serve the needs of women students," Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor, said yesterday. "Exactly what form will be worked out with the vice chancellor for student affairs and the staff in that office."
SHAKNEL AND WILLIAM Balfort, vice chancellor for student affairs, discounted the rumor so far the dean of men's and dean of women's staff was enlisted into a single dean of students' office.
"No changes are planned," Balfour said.
"We've got to have an office primarily concerned with women students. We don't want to change what Emily has been doing."
"We certainly don't want to submerge it as has been done in some places. But it will take some study and conversation in the division to see what kind of changes we might make or accelerate changes we've started."
HOPE voting concludes today
Voting for the HOPE award was light yesterday, particularly at the Information Booth, as an estimated 150 to 200 seniors attended. The chairman of the HOPE award committee;
Finalists for the HOPE award are Calder M. Pickett, professor of journalism; Jess H. Witteman, associate professor of biology and cell biology; John Senior, professor of comparative literature, and Jung, associate professor of journalism.
Balloting will continue in the lobby of the Kansas Union, in front of Maltot Hall and at the Information Booth from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Seniors must present their current KU registration cards to vote.
Seniors without class cards will be required to pay 25 cents before voting.
Taylor resigned Monday to become director of the Office of Women in Higher Education of the American Council on Education (ACE) in Washington, D.C. of major colleges and universities dedicated to cooperation in American education
"We will miss her enormously," Shankel said, "But this is an outstanding opportunity and provides with a chance to be involved. We are pleased they have recognized her ability."
Taylor said she had been considering the AEC job since the first of August. Other jobs have been offered her during her 18 years at KU, she said, but they were similar to the jobitions job at KU. The ACE job will allow her to work at the national level, Taylor said.
"As I TOL HER, I was surprised, but I wish her well," Donald K. Alderson, dean of men, said. "I didn't have any advance information."
Alderson said Taylor's resignation wouldn't cause an immediate change in the organization.
"There are inevitable adjustments"
Akwanen's office differs from one in seven one. We need to into a set of procedures that will have to be followed every year. You have to be up to
Alderson said there might be a future
addition to office to better serve the needs
of the students.
“This has always been true,” he said. TAYLOR HAS MADE a large contribution as dean of women to the University, Chancellor Archie R. Dykes said.
"The position that she is assuming is one of national leadership and we are pleased to see her talents in this area recognized," Dykes said.
Taylor was the founder and adviser of the KU Commission on the Status of Women and helped write KU's affirmative action statement with these, sex bias still exists, she said.
“It’s been a most interesting period of time,” Taylor said. “It’s been interesting to see the development of women, of their increasing awareness.”
TAYLOR SAID MOST women were in a back to home, getting married period when they arrived.
nothing wrong with raising family, she said, but women need more to satisfy their needs.
"From the very beginning, there have been women who pursued a nontraditional
Emily Taylor
objective in life," Taylor said. "The difference now is that there are an increasing number of women pursuing roles that are non-traditional.
"Since I have been here there have been tremendous changes. They come gradually, slowly, with each change."
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chancellor to create, preempt or modify parking.
Frickey said the Parking and Traffic Eboled thought it was the designated representation.
"If the board is the designated representative, then it appears that our power was usurped with consultation or even any notice," he said. "Also, does the chancellor's power to 'create, modify or preempt parking' provide him with the power to determine the charge for parking in preempted parking areas?
"Board members are frustrated because we spend a good deal of time handling tedious, unenjoyable tasks like the nausea of parking permits and the pain of flipping out the door of appeals, and now we seem to have had our parking policy-making power usurped."
SenEx discussed the technicalities of the Senate Code with regard to the Parking and Toll Booths.
Gerhard Zuther, SenEx member, warned against the "wholesale roping off of parking lots." He also said he was concerned that faculty members paid for parking permits along Memorial Drive and were forced to park elsewhere on Sundays.
Ed Rolfs, a student SenEx member, said the question was one of "recognition by the University administration of University governance."
Joel Gold, professor of English, said the Parking and Traffic Board "had allowed to play the game for a while and not made a big decision, they are not to be consulted."
Frickey said the loss of revenue from the X-Zone lot during home football games
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Casting a ballot
By Kansan Photographer JAN SEYMOUR
Election officers were surprised yesterday by the unexpected high number of voters, one of whom was Kelly Altman, Kansas City, Kan., freshman. The volunteer at this table in Wescow Hall is Barb Pierce, Topeka sophomore. Elections for Student Senate me.mebrs and freshman class officers end today.
Polls close today after heavy turnout
Fall elections for Student Senate and freshman class officers will conclude today.
He said 73 students had filed as candidates for the 18 vacant positions last
"We're extremely pleased. Voting today has gone above all expectations. We expect an even heavier turnout tomorrow," John Committee, said yesterday.
Disch said that yesterday's turnout at the polls might have exceeded the total number of votes cast.
week. This was an early indication that there might be record turnover for voting.
Because of a misprint in the ballot, the election for Olive College senators is void.
The ballot said there were four seats open in Oliver College Actually, two seats on the ballot.
"We didn't detect it until this morning," Disch said.
election will be scheduled probably for next Wednesday.
Students can vote today at any nine polling places on campus. The polls will be open until 5 p.m. in Summerfield Hall, the fourth floor of Wescoe Hall, the lobby of the Kansas Union and the rotunda in Strong Hall.
No ballots for Oliver College will be distributed today, he said, and a special
Students also can vote from 1 a.m. until 4 p.m., and from 4 p.m. until 8 p.m., in Gerlitz Sebelkha Pearson Hall, Oliver Hall, University of New York at St. Louis, and Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternities.
Although the first day of winter is still three months away, the moon is rapidly becoming an earlier sight on the campus
By DAVID OLSON
Senate suggests enrollment plans
Moonrise over campus
Pettitions recommending a system or pEnrollment and establishment of a centralized advising center were passed last night by the Student Senate.
horizon. Kansan photographer Dave Peterson took this picture just before sunset.
The petitions, presented in the form of a report by the Academic Affairs Committee, will be forwarded to Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor, for consideration.
"I think it's important that the Student Senate take a tough stand on this issue, because so many groups are looking into it. John Beisser, student body president.
He said the problem was gaining exposure across the state.
Beisner said the Chancellor's Associates, a group of advisers from each senatorial district in Kansas, who met with Chancellor Archie Dykes last week, told Dykes of complaints from people across the state about the advising system.
"When Republican gubernatorial candidate Robert Bennett was here last week he was asked what the University could be doing better," Beasner said. "He said as he went across the state one thing he commonly heard was the problems with the counseling and advising system at the freshman and sophomore level."
The Academic Affairs Committee report recommended establishment of a centralized advising center, replacing the current function of the Colleges within the College. The report said advising of freshman and sophomore students would be conducted by a professional advising corps, paid on a part-time basis.
A periodic evaluation of the advising program would be instituted, according to the report, and feedback would be obtained. The effectiveness of the advising center
The report cited several advantages to the new advising system. Among the advantages were: the University would not provide personal personnel; such a system would provide an opportunity between departments and freshmen and sophomore students; and faculty participation in the program wouldn't be regarded to tenure, promotion and salary.
Chriss Davis, chairman of the academic affairs committee, said, "Success of preemployment is contingent upon a good education, training and experience, and moving up the time for advising."
The committee's report recommended a
Computers that could handle the new system of pre-enrollment are ordered, but won't arrive until April, Beiser said. It would be optimistic to assume, he said, that the system could be instituted as soon as the fall semester 1975.
combination of the optical scan-terminal pre-enrollment system. The optical scan system, according to Davis, requires each user to submit a schedule. The form is then submitted to computer system that selectively organizes schedules and detects conflicts. Those conflicts be worked out by the student terminal system with the help of an advertiser.
The cost of the computer system wouldn't be passed on to students, he said.
In other business, the Senate elected two representatives to the University Council to replace vacancies that occurred this fall. Aaron Haman and Clark Davis will fill the seats.
Under the proposed system of pre-enrollment, according to the committee's report, advising would begin about the time of mid-term examinations of the previous semester. Once the computer accepted a class schedule, a student could pay fees.
Student Senate passed a resolution commending the chairmen of the Cham-
ium Senate. **SENATE PAGE**
Negotiations plan deters effective talks, prof says
By MICHAEL WALLINGFORD
Reporter
The legislature's new collective bargaining proposal for state employees precludes the possibility of effective negotiations, a member of the University of Iowa, and an alumnus of the American Association of University Professors (AUP) said yesterday.
"Proposal 80." Brownstein said, "his strong anti-emplite, patiently biased and sensitive leadership," he wrote.
AAPU is seeking revision of the collective bargaining bill, which Donald Brownstein, associate professor of philosophy, said was intended to narrowly constrain employee bargaining."
Browstein suggested extensive changes in the proposal, and the AAUP executive committee made recommendations Saturday for submission to the state revisor of statutes Oct. 9. AAUP revisions will be considered by the Special Legislative Committee on Ways and Means.
University employees would need signatures of 30 per cent of the members of any proposed bargaining unit to call for elections concerning employee representation. However, the chancellor could call an election at any time, Brownstein said.
Proposal 80 requires approval of new collective bargaining units by half the state employee eligible for membership in the employee organization. Brownstein said that workers would be affirmed voters to bargain units was unfair because many employees wouldn't vote.
He suggested a revision to allow half of those actually voting to approve an employee nominee.
The proposal would force those not voting to vote for no representation at all," she said.
Proposal @ calls for signed ballots in some bargaining agreements, but Brownstein had he favored secret ballots. See Ann M. Perdue's
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