Bond proposal would fund new Kansas River bridge
By TOM BILLAM
Renarter
Lawrence firm will consider in the Nov. 5 general election an $11.75 million bond levy that would fund construction of a new Kansas River bridge and as many as 51 other bridges in the county within five years.
The proposed bond, discussed last night at a Citizens Advisory Council meeting, would necessitate an annual mill levy increase of four to six mills to retire it, county commissioner, Art. Keed, said.
Heck said the bond would raise taxes about five per cent.
Half of the $11.75 million would be used to build a
John Fratier, managing partner of Finney and Turnipseed Consulting Engineers, said the two-lane southbound section of the Kansas River bridge would be built before the existing bridge was destroyed.
four-lane Kansas River bridge at about the same location as the present bridge. The other half would be used to rebuild 51 county bridges badly in need of repair, said Walt Cragan, county commissioner.
The north end of the first section would be as close to the existing structure as possible, Frazier said. The south end would funnel traffic into Vermont and Massachusetts Street, as the existing bridge does.
After the first section is open to traffic, Frazier
said, the present bridge will be torn down and the new northbound section, also two-lanes, would be built approximately along the line of the west side of the existing bridge.
Cragan said the Kansas Highway Department had told the commissioners that the department wasn't interested in building a river bridge to funnel traffic into downtown Lawrence, although the department might want to build a bridge east of Lawrence as a highway bypass bridge.
Several county residents at the meeting advocated placing the Kansas River bridge project and the Cedar Creek Bridge in the area.
Frazier said inspection of the existing bridge, which was built in the 1920s, showed deterioration in the spanning beam and surfacing. No deterioration was detected in the arching itself.
issue to avoid the possibility of double taxation for the bonds.
Cragan said the projects were on the same bond
The cost of repairing the bridge would be about half as much as building a new one. Fraser said...
A two-mill levy is presently being assessed as a levy amounting to $50,000 in reimbursed money in return about $300,000 revenue in year.
The money allows the county to rebuild about two or three bridges a year. The bond issue would enable
about 50 bridges to be built within five years, Cragan said.
The number of bridges to be rebult is unknown because of inflation and materials shortages, Frazier said.
Cragan said county bridges on school bus routes would be given priority in the construction schedule,
Frazier said he thought it would be wise to pass the now and because bridge building costs had increased. He said he'd use that as a guide.
The river bridge under consideration would have a life expectancy of 40 to 60 years. Frazier said.
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
Administration shift to be unveiled today
By DENNIS ELLSWORTH Administration Reporter
Chancellor Archie R. Dykes yesterday discussed changes in the University of Kansas administration and in the methods of funding higher education in Kansas...
The University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
John Conard, assistant to the chancellor, said after Dykes' remarks at a press conference that a detailed statement administration would be released late today.
"The University is engaged in research, service and scholarship, as it should be," he said. "We are only the bottom half of student credit hours in leaving a large portion of our faculty's time at UMN."
Vol. 85-No.17 Wednesday, September 18, 1974
Dykes said the changes were designed to make the University more responsive to the legislators' need for information, particularly concerning the Med Center. He said aid efforts to be more responsive to the internal groups of the University, he said.
per cent of the work done by the University
couldn't be measured by credit-hour
productivity.
"It's more of a realignment. We won't be bringing any new individuals into the club."
"I would hope that by the time of the expiration of the Regent's present program for improving the support of higher education, we can enter into a new system of funding," Dykes said.
Dykes said a group of people at the University had been working for about two years on a proposal that would replace the present funding system.
Dykes also said the present system of funding on the basis of credit hours was inadequate to meet the needs of the University. He estimated that probably 60
"We should fund higher education according to the missions of the various institutions in the state," he said.
Student credit-hour production will remain an important part of funding because teaching will always be an essential part of the University.
He said student credit-hour production would remain an important part of funding because teaching would always be an essential part of the University. He said, however, that teaching wasn't the only function of the faculty.
Dykes said he was opposed to an increase in the student tuition fee.
Financial exigency is the fiscal situation that could necessitate the fixing of tenured firefancy
"We would hope our student fee assessments could remain at the level they now are for the foreseeable future," he said, "and we should maintain our present fee structure."
Dykes said he favored keeping fees as low as possible while continuing to require that non-resident students pay higher fees than resident students.
"The taxpayers of Kansas support the University," he said. "It is entirely appropriate and fair that students from other states, who have not shared in paying the cost of the institution through the tax code, the state, pay more in the way of tuition."
The reduced possibility of financial exigency partially accounts for the decline in credit availability.
Lack of concern for the problems of graduate students is one of the real challenges in our society, in a sense, turned our backs on some of the most able and talented young people in our society by failing to provide ways for their talents to be used most effectively," he
Graduate education nation-wide is in a state of low morale and most graduate students are frustrated when they can't find jobs, Dykes said.
"Financial exigency doesn't seem to be nearly as imminent for the University now."
Del Shalek, executive vice chancellor,
said the University had been concerned about the future of graduate education since the college was founded and that college enrollments were going to drop.
"We are all looking for solutions to that problem," he said.
Shankel said Dykes and he agreed they wouldn't comment on the reports until they were asked to discuss them with the anoriborne governance body.
Shankel said graduate students at the University of Kansas had more opportunities to determine the direction of research there than at any other institution he knew of.
Dykes and Shankel also discussed the status of financial exigency at the University. They agreed that the conflicting priorities being with financial exigency were compatible.
In discussing the controversy over open meetings at the University, Dykes said it was important that all organizations be able to carry on discussions in private. Discussions concerning personalities, matters that might be damaging to industry, or other topics are suitable for other steps being taken are suitable for closed-door discussions, he said.
When questioned as to whether meetings of the board of the KU Athletic Corporation should be opened, Dykes said, "I personally believe they should."
Dykes said it was important, however, that all groups in the University be open and transact their business in full public view, insofar as it is possible to do so.
Also discussed was a contractual agreement between the University and the private medical practice associations and corporations of the state.
Dykes has appointed a study group to consider the open meeting question and other areas of concern between the University and the athletic corporation.
Conard said the agreement would formalize the relationship between the companies.
Half the companies selling automobile insurance in Kansas are reducing their rates by five per cent today. It is the second year in a row that employers are reducing their rates.
Inside the KANSAN
Today should be even warmer than yesterday, with the high going to the mid or upper 80s. Skies will be generally clear with occasional clouds. Tomorrow should be about the same.
Warmer
Atheletes are not dumb jocks, said their athletic counselor, Bobby Skakan. They don't major in physical education because it's easy, he says. "The more you do, the harder it is."
By Kansas Photographer DAVE PETERSON
Researchers all wet
Women's sports put on defensive
Colette Burton, Lawrence graduate student, and John Hough, Congen, N.Y., graduate student to Potter Kate in an effort to improve the way teachers teach.
Marian Washington, assistant athletic director for women's intercollegiate athletics, cried foul yesterday upon reading comments from Clyde Walker, athletic director, on Title IX and women's sports in general.
Sports Reporter
"This is the first time that I have sensed
or read anything so negative toward
you."
Studies increase
away empty handed, however, because all the fish they caught were shorter than the five-inch requirement.
Rates decrease
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Walker, who spoke in the Kansas Union Monday, said that TITLE IX provisions outlawing sex discrimination in collegiate programs could be the ruin of college athletics.
"I don't agree that it will be. And I have to appreciate that Clyde Myley is looking at it from the perspective of his men's athletic program," Washington said.
Washington was critical of Walker's statements, as reported in a Kansan story.
"But in my opinion it's going to do a world of good for the total athletic program," she said. "For too long we thought of college sports as just another sport." And this is what we're trying to get rid of.
"This institution is providing for all the students, not just for men. And with that in mind title IX isn't going to do anything but help us," Washington said.
"They were not saying to me that if the women received $10,000, that you (women) would have to pay them." "But they are not saying either that if the women receive $100,000 that you (women) would have to pay them."
Ninety per cent of those who contribute to our work couldn't care less about hunger or sickness.
According to Washington, Title IX doesn't explicitly state this. In a letter Washington received from the department of Health, he said that he had not information, the key word they used was entitlement.
Washington said the main reason the women's athletic program wasn't receiving much financial support was simply that the women's program wasn't visible.
"I don't understand how he was able to make that statement. If he has proof, I will do it."
If Title IX becomes law, women's and
men's athletics would be equally funded.
Women's sports would be
"Sure," said Washington. "He's suggesting that 90 per cent of the people couldn't care less about women's athletics, but they are known what women is athletics is all about. That's why I hope to be out there to help them understand and reeducate them."
"But it's not going to help me any if we have the director of men's athletics at the club."
Walker said he would give women's
athletics all the help he could as long as it
worked.
"I think probably the biggest help Mr. Walker's given us is to be a big enough person to permit us to be here," said Washington. "There's no two ways about it. He appears not to be interested in women's athletics.
However, Washington said, help had been requested in the areas of expertise and the training of new teachers.
and thought he could help on organizational structure.
Washington said she respected Walker
Washington said she didn't understand the point Walker was trying to make.
Walker also said there weren't any women who could compete with men and that they were not going to play.
"I think it's apparent that the individuals who have invaded men's athletics have done so because they have not had a really bad experience at compete at that particular level," she said.
"I don't believe that women on the whole are interested in competing against men,"
She said the only thing the women's program tried to do was show society there
was a need for programs that allowed women to develop their athletic skills.
Walker said the passage of Title IX would create problems.
"the only problem I can imagine is that he recognizes that he's not going to be able right up. Meaning that he is going to be restricting our governing our programs," Washington said.
She said that if Title IX passed, women would have equal access to facilities that are�easier for them.
"He's not going to be able to put up an argument as to why we can't have them,"
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FBI report says crime increases for area below national average
Bv STEVE FRY and
City Reporters
Statistics from the FBI indicate that university and local crime is backing the government.
The figures were taken from the annual informa-
tion, Crime Reports, which was issued on
April 14.
Although national crime rates increased 6 per cent in 1973 from 1972, the number of crimes reported to Lawrence and KU increased or remained stable in most categories.
Whether the local statistics will continue to compare favorably with the national statistics is a matter of conjecture, according to a study by director of KU and Parking.
Predicting crime at KU would be like trying to predict the weather, Thomas said.
Thomas said a large student population concentrated in a small area might be one of the factors that affects the University crime rate.
That category, burglaries, jumped from 168 in 1972 to 209 in 1973. Thomas said one of the factors that should be considered was the amount of valuable equipment at KU.
Crime at KU has remained stable between 1972 and 1973 in all but one category.
Thefts decreased from 1984 to 2015, though many thefts were a result of people needing
money for drugs. Economic conditions such as inflation also may cause these thefts,
KU had the highest rate of rape in 1973 of all the universities that reported rape statistics. The statistics, which included rape attempts, reported eight rapes at KU. Thomas predicted the rape rate would decrease next year.
The number of robberies also dropped from 15 to 2 and assaults dropped from 16 to
The category of murder and non-
narrigent manslaughter showed no change
Lawrence crime statistics in 1973 showed either no change or no increase compared with 1972 in all crime-index offenses except in the assault category.
The number of criminal offenses committed in the United States during 1973
Rape declined 30.8 per cent in 1973, the largest decrease in a Lawrence crime statistics survey since 1965.
Aggravated assault showed a 31 per cent increase while manslaughter by negligence, an offense not listed as a category in the crime index, increased 50 per cent. There were three such offenses in Lawrence in 1973.
The percentage decreases in other crime categories are: robbery, 16.8; burglary, 7.2; grand larceny, 8.8; petty larceny, 11.9; and auto theft, 16.1.
increased 6 per cent over the 1972 figures according to the FBI report.
Violent crime, which makes up 10 per cent of the total crime-index offences, jumped 5 per cent in 1973. Property crimes in 1973 increased 6 per cent.
The report said, 8,638,400 crime-index offenses were committed. Crime-index crimes were the most offences crimes and property crimes. Offenses in the violent category are murder, forcible rape, robbery and aggravated assault. Property crimes are burglary, larceny-theft and auto theft.
"The national crime rate, or the risk of being a victim of one of these crimes, has increased 24 per cent since 1968," the report said.
"A crime rate takes into consideration only the numerical factor of population and doesn't incorporate any of the other variables."
"The crime rate in a given area," the report said.
The 1973 national crime rate rose 4.9 per cent, 25.5 per cent from 1968 and a 120.3 per cent increase.
Cities with a population of more than one million showed a .5 per cent decline in crimes committed. However, cities of 250,000 people had a 1 per cent increase; suburban areas increased 9 per cent, and the rural areas increased 6 per cent growth, the largest increase in crime
The violent crime rate in Kansas grew
0.077 per cent and the property crime
rate was 0.29 per cent.