Mondav. September 23,1974
University Daily Kansan
Education week is legacy of dissolved student group
By ALAN MANSAGER
Senate Reporter
Although the Students Concerned About Higher Education in Kansas group has dissolved, a legacy of the organization, Higher Education Week, still exists.
Todd Hunter, student body vice president, said last week that the concerned students were not aware of what could happen if students become aware that there was any co-ordination among student groups.
"They saw that many student organizations own issues and groups," he said. "Someone said, 'Let's get an organization that doesn't have a constituency and help everyone'."
Hunter said the group helped co-ordinate the dissemination of budget information and promote educational ideals at the University.
Hunter said the financial problems at the university startinng in 1971 were some of the reasons for the stagnant economy.
"THE FINANCIAL PROBLEMS helped them get on their feet," he said.
A report issued by the group said that the University in 1971 was granted a 2.6 per cent increase in the budget from the previous year from the state legislature, a 1.7 per cent increase for fiscal 1972. The report also found things were looking worse for fiscal 1973.
John Beinser, student body president,
called the concerned students group a
noninstitutionalized organization that
rules on attendance of major financial
attendance at the University.
"Since the crisis has passed, the group
has become more institutionalized. Reisner said.
He said the group never had a president but was a loose-knit group of about 100 students who came together to promote higher education in the state.
It is now under the wing of the Student Senate and the Board of Class Officers.
"Structurally, there isn't any group," back
laugher if I have time next month."
"We don't have the emphasis on education any more, and this is our one big challenge," she said.
HE SAID THE promotional program, Higher Education Week, was begun by the organization to help people in the state and have more of what went on in higher education.
According to Hunter, Higher Education Week is an attempt to get faculty and staff involved co-operation in expressing the needs of the University to the community and people on campus.
"People don't have the knowledge of all that happens on campus," he said.
This year, Higher Education Week will be from Nov. 10 through Nov. 17. Hunter said plans were being made through Sen. James Pearson, R-Kan., to bring a prominent speaker to the campus during the week. He said Vice President designate Nelson Barkley would give the opportunity to talk, won't be able to speak at the Higher Education Rampus on Nov. 17.
ROKEFELLER ISSUED a statement saying he wouldn't make any public appearances until after his confirmation following the November elections.
Tenants 'need to gripe'
By VALERIE J. MEYERS
Students who have housing problems sometimes know about the problems even before they move in. Carol Boone, director of the CPA's Property Protection Association (CPA), said recently.
"Kids can't gripe about lousy housing and keep accepting it," Boone said. "Students should be educated to start making more considered choices of where they live."
Boea said that there were some good landlords in Lawrence and that the number of people complaining might force bad landlords to conform to the minimum housing code. The code, however, is difficult to enforce because the house of the scarcity of housing in Lawrence.
"They (the landlords) have a captive audience," she said.
Ed Covington, Lawrence minimum housing inspector, explained another problem students had in opposing some landlords' policies.
"Students are transient," he said. "We are here as a semester or a year and then the gone."
He compared the delay of some students' complaints with buying a pair of inexpensive shoes, though there is a defect in them that the knew was there, he wants to return them.
"That just does not compute as far as I can see," Covington said.
If a student had moved into housing knowing beforehand that it was below standard, that would be a legal matter, he said.
"The trust is, you have to approach the landlord with reason," Boone said of the CPA. "If you then get 'no' for an answer, then you can help stronger steps."
The old Theta Chi fraternity house stands empty now on a hill on the corner of 9th and Emery streets. Many people drive by the street, but few from the street, and grounded by trees.
Maybe it's just as well as because the house is in a state of disrepair. The windows on the first floor are boarded, and those on the top floor are three floors are either broken or missing.
At the foot of the outside staircase on the east side of the house, piles of broken ceiling tiles and wall boards lie where they've been thrown by the vast inhabitants.
Inside, the house resembles one on the set of a war movie. The halls are bare. Banging steel pipes and electrical outlets are the only break in the cement monotony. Most of the rooms are bare, too, except for containers of wood from broken desks and chairs.
Torn pages of Playboy magazines and
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The house was designed by D. Ross Hoge, a member of the fraternity. According to Tom Tschappt, a Theta Chi alumnus who lives in Lawrence, the design had been submitted by Hoge as a project in an architecture class.
How did this once busy fraternity house become little more than a trash dump facility?
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However, Hoge got a poor grade on the project and was told that it wouldn't work out, Tschappt said. In response, Hoge's father, Ross D. Hoge, built the house in 1980. The older house it could be done. The older Hoge, Tschappt said, had built fraternity houses before.
The house was built on the hill at 9th and Emery streets, which had originally been the site of the Old Mill, a Lawrence landmark. The roof of the house, which was designed to accommodate parties, has a basement of downtown Lawrence and the river area.
But there was a problem with a retaining wall that was built to help stabilize the base.
"The original retaining wall was poorly built. For a while, we were paying $2,000 a year just to fix things," said Tschappt, who was treasurer in 1969.
The house membership began to decline in the late 1960s, according to Mrs. Louise Reed, who was housemother at the Theta Chi house for five years.
"We didn't have enough guys," she said,
"but all the fraternities were hurting them. Eventually we have to go out of围场."
The fraternity finally closed in 1969, said Jim Brooks, former Interfraternity Council adviser at the University. He said he wasn't sure what the house was used for afterward, though he had heard that it had been used as a boarding house for a while.
house's closing were almost entirely financial.
fraternity at KU, said the reasons for the
The fraternity continued to exist at the University after it moved out of the house. It was situated at the Park 25 apartments for two years before it finally folded.
So the Theta Chi house still stands. Built on the site of a Lawrence landmark, its entrance is accessible only to residents.
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