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Noise, color of local drag races attract unique crowd
By BRUCE JANSSEN
Reporter
The world of the drag race ritornls almost a world of itself. It is a world of smoke, noise, color and texture. The world metered a language that is its own.
"Ah, hell, Dickie staged too deep. Punk was damn lucky he didn't red light."
"Hoo-wee of' Jimmy really got him on that one. Got him with a hole shot."
"Well look over there, Jack brought the one with the huffer on it. He bought new hides just for tonight."
For the uninitiated, the "drags"
can be a baffling and bewildering assortment of cars and drivers racing from a standing start over a one-fourth or one-eighth mile asphalt strip in an attempt to reach the finish line ahead of the others.
The Lawrence Dragway hosted two days of racing last weekend. The race was sanctioned by the Amatur Racing Association and prize money was given in four categories.
THE CROWD AT LAWRENCE Dragway couldn't be confused with a crowd that might pay to see the U.S. Grand Prix at Wattens Glen, N.Y. Nor was it like the crowd that comes to watch the Carls Club
of America (SCCA) race every August at the Lake Afton road course outside Wichita.
The crowd at Lawrence Dragway on Saturday night was generally young. They drank coors and munched sandwiches as a number of children—apparently unimpressed by the noisy spectacle—played hide-and-seek in and around the bleachers. When asked what they have their earrums wrecked on a chilly day they seem unaware.
"I just like to watch the cars," one of them said.
A striking young woman from Leavenworth who was poorly
dressed to combat the effects of the cool, fall evening said she came because her boyfriend liked cars
because her psychiatrist need cars.
"It's something to do, you know," she said.
IN THE PITS - a grassy area with a dirt road—an unmuffined engine came to life occasionally as chews checked engine settings. Flashlights winked like firefests or repairs and adjustments were done, and the machine run down the dragstrip. The clicking of ratchet wrenches and the snapping of more pop-tops added to the caecophy of sounds.
On Dragstrip Road, the actual name of the street that runs past
the dragstrip, an expensive foreign sport car parked. The driver cautiously approached the gate and quietly entered the pit area, where the ticket sellers. He stood near the staging lanes and watched.
A University of Kansas graduate student was familiar with the advent of agripes in several years he had brought locations located throughout Kansas and Oklahoma. On three separate occasions he had set world records
THE GRADUATE STUDENT was recently accepted as a PhD candidate in the Graduate School.
He said he thought if his background in drag racing became known, it could seriously jeopardize his standing among the professors in his department and could even lead to the withdrawal of his teaching position.
"Drag racing is not like other kinds of racing," he said. "SCCA racing, for example, is kind of a law firm. They have lawyers and professional people come out to race in the SCCA. Drag racers are generally people who know their names when they are subservient to them." He looked for some sort of
recognition. SCCA racers, by and large, already have a lot of
large, already have recognition." SCCA racing is done over road courses. The courses usually consist of about 12 turns over varying terrain. The cars themselves range from Austin-Healey 300m turbocarched 1,000 horsepower to $10,000 each. IN THE SCCA, cars are placed in classes roughly equivalent to the ability of a car to perform, not by a set system based on weight and cubic-inch engine displacement. Races generally last 30 minutes.
drag race is a straight-line See DRAGS Page 12
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
Vol. 85-No.20 Monday, September 23,1974 The University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
Regents set policies on prof's outside jobs
By CARL YOUNG Administration Reporter
TOPEKA-Uniform guidelines on consulting and on outside work by faculty members of the Kansas state institutions and on Friday by the Kansas Board of Regents.
The policy permits and encourages faculty members to participate in personal professional activity within the following guidelines:—The faculty member develops in a professional sense or serves the community, state or nation in a professional capacity.—The faculty member's outside research, experience, his teaching, research and service to the University.—The outside work is consistent with the objectives of the University.
A report outlining the guidelines states,
"The University expects members of the
university to be by faculty, staff and
students) employed by (the university)
give full professional effort, to their
assignments of teaching, research and service.
"It IS THEREFORE considered inappropriate to engage in gainful employment outside the University that is incompatible with University commitments. Moreover, it is considered inappropriate to transact the business unrelated to the University from office or at times when it might interfere with commitments to the University."
Personal professional activity doesn't include the professional care of patients but it does include instructional service to other educational institutions.
Faculty members must obtain prior approval of outside work by filing written reports of their outside professional activity and by informing the chief academic officer of the department through the department chairman. Single occasion activities won't require prior approval.
"Those activities which involve only a single occasion, are clearly of a scholarly.
professional or technical nature, rather than commercial, and in which compensation is not the primary consideration given to students in writing as prescribed," the report says.
WILLIAM J. ARGERSINGER JR., vice chancellor for research and graduate studies, gave a preliminary report on outside faculty work to SenEx for consideration this summer, James Seaver, chairman of SenEx, said.
SenEx had only a few days to consider the giving its recommendations to, Arger.
See Related Story Page 12
Kansan wins All-American
The University Daily Kansan recently was named an All-American college newspaper for the spring semester 1974 by the Associated Collegiate Press. This is the 12th consecutive semester that the Kansan has been awarded this highest rating in college history. In addition to books and papers, Hail Ritter, now a reporter with the Rochester (NY) East Times-Union, was editor during the spring semester.
Come down easy
By Kansan Photographer DERBIE GUMP
singer's committee. The Regents wanted the report ready for this legislative session, Seaver said, so SenEx wasn't given more time to study the report.
A plane too old to fly was towed yesterday from Olathe to the Lawrence airport to be flown by Boeing 737-800 for Research Institute airplane, a twin-engine Beech BCSN-10, was given to the University of Arkansas.
The Regents also authorized station radio KUOK to sign an application for a 10-watt amplifier, which would replace the present cable broadcast to the University residence halls, making the student radio station broadcasts all of all KU students within a five mile range.
Elizabeth Czech, faculty adviser to KUOK, said KUOK-FM might be in operation by March. When the station goes FM will depend on how unclezy the FCC processes KUOK's license application and when equipment can be delivered, she said.
WILLIAM O. RIKEE, executive vice chancellor for the KU Medical Center, announced four administrative changes that created no new positions. The appoach was David Waxman, vice chancellor for student affairs, vice chancellor for faculty and academic affairs; Russell Miller, vice chancellor for medical center administration, and David Robinson, vice chancellor for clinical affairs. The appointments are effective Nov. 1.
See REGENTS Page 12
Carl Leban, associate professor of East Asian studies, said the clauses stopped the faculty to miss out on discussions they should have knowledge of.
The executive committee of the University of Kansas Association of Professor (AJP) expressed confidence that "accession frequently closes" of SenEx meetings.
AAUP members are frequently assigned to attend such meetings. Walter Sedelow, professor of sociology, said many SenEx meetings were closed, apparently at the behest of the administration. He said SenEx didn't have to honor such requests.
Profs criticize SenEx closings
Sedelow said one excuse for such closings was "discussion of personalities."
The University may be better served if the personality discussions) were curated.
He said that in recent years Senxh
mates had dwindled to the point where
they were no longer viable.
The executive committee then voted to have Frances Ingemann, AALP president, held the meeting. The committee's concern with the frequent closing of SenEx meetings and the minutes
"Our observation has shown," Lebanah said. "The SemEx minutes don't inform members of our activities."
Leban also said the minutes of SenEx meetings were far from comprehensive.
The committee also discussed the matter of unit determination for collective bargaining.
"There's a question whether the faculty really wants a collective bargaining unit," Sedelow said. "There appears to be no clear mandate for it."
Gitchy aitchu aoo
One of the duties of Douglas Johnson, assistant instructor of Naval KOTC is to check the various hair lengths during an interview. He will measure the hair length for you.
By Kansan Photographer DAVE PETERSON
ROTC regaining strength
damped enthusiasm for the ROTC program. Army ROTC enrollment has increased for the first time since 1971.
By MIKE FITZGERALD
Reporter
The Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC) at the University of Kansas is beginning to recover from an enrollment crisis. Dr. Michael Col. Joe Moeras, professor of Arrive ROTC
Mears said there were two major causes for the slump. The war in Vietnam and an invasion of North Korea by the military was one reason, he said. The second reason for the slump was the repeal of the draft, which cut enrollment in students trying to avoid the draft, Mears said.
But Meers said he hoped this year's increase in ROTC enrollment, the first in which he was commissioned.
"This year we've had a substantial increase from the past three years," he said. "Only this year there has been more interest in the art. The antiquity feeling has subsided."
In 1971, 97 persons were enrolled in the KU ROTC program. That number dropped to 63 in 1972, and to 56 in 1973. In 1974, the number rose to 68, 65 persons at KU and three more at the KU ROTC branch program in Emporia.
Mears said several adjustments were made to try to counter the program's
MEARS SAID THE Vietnam war was the primary cause of the decline in ROTC enrollment. He said the war created a disenchment with the military and then the draft pressure eased, causing the decline.
"We've created better publicity and have drawn more attention to our existing program. We've continued im- pression in the schools we have less close-order drills, for example."
The close-order drills are the disciplined, military exercises, usually consisting of marching in different formations. These formations include Allen Field House or in X-Zone parking lot.
"WE JUST DO these once a month."
The required amount is five pounds, a armful.
Mears said ROTC has a more liberal policy on length of hair.
nears said women could enroll in the same program as men and were treated
"Since 1965, we've had a rather significant number of women taken in," Mears said. "Out of the 65 here now, 10 are women. They are in the regular program
and can go into any branch of the service except combat."
Mears said the number of women in ROTC increased because of the general awareness of the importance of women. He said he thought women could do any job as well as men, except in the combat specialties and the "muscle jobs."
WOMEN RECEIVE EQUAL pay for equal work in the Army. However Mears said it was hard to find a job that took them up to $14,000 in the first three years.
"It offers a number of advantages," he said. "It can be another career option, like an internship or a master's degree."
Mears said there was no requirement or prerequisite for entering ROTC.
"We will allow any person to try out for ROTC," Mears said. "Only qualified people, those that will make good officers, will make the last two years of the program.
Mears said there were two main reasons
for the move. The career and care for
management and leaders was also a
reason.
"The number of good freshmen that have
*Most take ROTC for the management and leadership experience, receive, or promote a sense of ROTC.*
enrolled in the last year has been good. They seem only to want to be in it for what it has to offer. We did not cut any, but several others. We cut out a collection of KU felt cut them out from it.
Hopes frustrated
According to Mears, the ROTC program will continue to grow in the coming years. It should have a good program and that it should increase numbers until it reached about 120 persons.
see ROTC Page 12
Inside the KANSAN
Saturday night was frustrating for football players and fans alike as the Jayhawks fell to No. 17 ranked Tennessee, 17-3. The story was the same as the previous weekend—impressive statistics but a lack of points. See page 10.
HOPE finalists
Calder Pickett, professor of journalism, who says there's no sure formula to teaching, and J. Hammond McNish, professor of business law, who returned to RU to teach after practicing law, are featured in the first of a series on HOPE award finalists. See page 7.
Warmer
Today is the second day of fall and nothing could be better than a beautiful fall day. That's what is needed to keep you warmer temperatures. The highs should be in the upper 70s with southerly winds of five to ten miles per hour. No rain is forecast and no thunderstorms to tonight should be in the upper 80s.