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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
Vol. 85-No.9 Friday, September 6,1974 The University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
Traffic control study called for bv Senate
By ALAN MANSAGER Senate Reporter
The Student Senate passed a petition to the University Parking and Traffic Board last night that called for a complete repricing of parking lot permits.
The petition also called for a thorough review of the parking and traffic budget and the requirements.
Philrick Frickey, chairman of the board, explained that the prices of parking permits would be based on the location of parking lots. The closer the lot to the central campus, the higher would be the costs of a permit, Frickey said.
Frickey said the petition was submitted as a plea for fairness in the procedure of ticketing and in determining permit fees. The Senate passed another petition to
The Senate passed another petition to
Chancellor Archie B. Dykes asking for
establishment of a central job placement office for graduating students.
John Beisner, student body president, said the placement office was a result of many complaints by recruiting companies that they had to go from school to school at the University trying to get the people they needed.
"Several recruiters训 to heck with it; it"
Beinser said. "They would go to another school like K-State that has centralized job placement."
He said the central job placement service would serve as a coordinator for existing placement offices in individual schools, but it has been difficult from their existing placement programs.
Beisner said the job program placement "Work Force 75" was in full operation. He said the program would be sending out letters to seniors in the next few weeks
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Controversy continues over Senate vacancies
Renorter
By GARY BORG
Controversy continued last night over the method of replacing the senators ousted by the Student Senate Elections Committee on Wednesday night.
John Disch, Elections Committee chairman, contended that if the vacant seats were to be filled by election, the decision would have to be a joint decision between his committee and the school involved, which is the School of Journalism.
However, Disch said he wouldn't contact anyone in the School of Journalism.
Bill Webster, newly elected SenEx mem-
ber, said the code should be followed.
This is in apparent violation of the Senate Code, which states that the Elections Committee must "contact the appropriate individual from the school in which the vacancy occurs, and shall then determine if an election for a new representative can be held in that school within four school weeks to the vacancy of the representative seat."
"It's (the election matter) not a discretionary thing, especially for a nonsenator to decide. I would like to talk to him and tell him what he's doing, I do not know where he's coming off."
"They absolutely cannot do that," Rolfs said, "regardless of any legislation or regulations the student senate committees Senate Code supresses everything."
Ed Rolfs, an Ed SenX, said the Ed Committee decision contradicted the Code.
John Beisner, student body president,
refused to comment on the matter.
Disch said the ousted senators would be replaced by the runners-up for their seats in the last general election. He said the Elections Committee had met last night and
decided that the vacancies had occurred last May.
Disch said that the Elections Committee decision was final and that the only way to bypass the decision would be through the Senate Judiciary.
There was some controversy Wednesday as to when the Senate seats had been vacated. Beisner said he thought the senators were being elected at night, when the Elections Committee met to consider the senators' suspensions. Disch contended the vacancies occurred last May, after the senators had accumulated either one or two times in absences of any kind from Senate meetings.
Some of the senators who were on suspension they were bewildered about the way the vote worked.
Two said they hadn't been candidates at the time they were elected.
Abdul Fatah, former Graduate School senator, said his election had been a complete surprise to him. He said fellow students "were asking the students' names without even asking them."
Another former Graduate School senator, Randy Frost, said a friend had urged him to run and sponsored a small write-in campaign.
"I told them at the time I wasn't interested in serving." Frost said.
asking about their qualifications for employment.
Disch said there was no easy solution to the problem of totally disinterested senators being elected to seats they might never occupy.
He said the number of Senate seats couldn't be reduced, because of the state's size.
"The only thing I can recommend is for more students to run and more students to walk."
If the seniors are interested, they can mail back their qualifications and be matched up by computer to responding college representatives and Missouri that are seeking applicants.
The Elections Committee, Disch said, would sponsor a larger publicity campaign in an attempt to arouse student interest in presidential elections, which will be Oct. 2 and 3.
He said he hoped that by the end of December the Senate would getting funding.
In other business, the Senate elected Bill Webster, Carthage, M., senior, to replace Richard Paxson as a Senate representative to SenEx. Webster served on SenEx last year as well as on the University Council and the Chancellor's committee.
Dierck Casselman, chairman of the sports committee, said the board would be a good way for students to watch the funding of the organization and to inform in institutional policies and programs.
The Senate also voted to establish an Intramural Board. The board will be composed of five student members and a student chairman.
A student Health Services Advisory Board was also voted into law by the Senate. The board was created to monitor, advise and recommend to the Health Service Director.
Beisner said the present health committee would probably be dropped. The Board will consider a set only on budget, insurance or public policy matters, not on anything requiring medical knowledge. The Health Services committee will serve senate services health sub-committee.
A petition for a student position as vice chairman of the hearing division was sent to the University Council. The vice chairman would have the power to bring complaints against the student violators of the codes of conduct, the Code Date or other University regulations.
John Disch, chairman of the Elections Committee, said the idea for the position came from a hearing that had been on the hearing division for one or two years said they had served at a
The Senate also approved a bill for the allocation of the Controlled Reserve Fund.
All those seeking funds must apply by Oct. 1. The Finance and Auditing Committee review requests and make a recommendation of fund distribution to Stu Ed.
By Kaman Photographer JOYCE MENDELSOHN
Loyla Bachour, Syrian graduate student, checks some of her pepper plants in her garden at Stouffer Place. She and her husband Fund found that they could effec- tively grow peppers in the shade.
Students dig in
Campus cyclists allegedly create traffic problems
But on most days, bicyclists can be seen riding on lawns and sidewalks-activity can be strenuous.
The entire University of Kansas carpus has become in essence a bike path, according to Mike Thomas, director of the Security and Park Department.
Bicycles are covered under the Uniform Traffic Code, and bicycle riders must obey rules and regulations like all vehicles, said Diane Gayle of the Security and Parking Department.
Automobile parking and traffic problems overshadow the safety hazards caused by bicyclists' ignoring traffic laws, Thomas said yesterday.
Thomas said the department might begin giving tickets to cyclists to enforce traffic laws, even though the officers had never done so before. Security and Parking is also discussed bicycle paths with the Lawrence Traffic and Safety Commission, Thomas said.
Last year, the Lawrence City Commission approved three bike routes serving the campus. The Commission also approved the distribution of 125 signs marking the routes.
City Engineer Leonard Hoover said all 125 signs were erected during last spring semester. Hoover said the Traffic and Safety Commission, of which he is a member, had appointed a subcommittee to investigate the progress of the bike routes
Stouffer gardens fruitful
e the progress of the bike routes
See CAMPUS Page 3
Growing food in a garden plot provided by the University of Kansas is a good way to save money, according to several residents of Stouffer Place.
"You would be surprised as to what all you can fit into a 20 by 20 plot," Jeanne Alexander, a Stouffer resident, said yesterday.
J. J. Wilson, director of housing, said the University provides the plots at no cost to the reside
The University did the initial plowing of the plots, fertilized them with peat moss.
Alexander said she and her husband were saving $12 to $15 a month by growing campaloupes, beans, cucumbers, zuchini squash and other food in the plot that the University provides them. She cained and prepared the food from their garden, she said.
fenced the plots in and provided Stouffer residents with garden tools and water access.
Only two or three of the 105 garden plots
with office, Daly West, housing office
secretary, said.
"It is such an important step in our society when you can live in an apartment complex like this one and still have agaric stink, Stein, another Stoffer resident, sad."
"The idea of having a garden is so sensible," said Paul Schavoy. Steen's husband, William, also liked the garden.
Stein said she and Schiavo didn't plant their garden until August 3, two days after they moved in, but they were able to raise cabbage, beetles, turnips, bears and squash.
"When I went to the grocery store before, it cost us $2 a week." Janet Hogg, Stouffer resident, said. "Afterwards it was down to $18."
She and her husband raised lettuce, carrots, tomatoes, beets, oranges, cantaloupes and cucumbers. Hogg said. The land quality was so good, she said, that their garden overproduced and they were able to share their produce with others.
Hogg said most Stuffer residents took good care of their gardens, but that the care varied from good to bad. The foreign students garden differently than Americans do, she said, and it is interesting to see the kinds of plants they grow
"They (the plots) are a lot of fun," Hogg said. "I got to know a lot more people. I guess you could say it was kind of a social event."
Drought squeezes KU farmland yield,profits
By KATHY PICKETT
Martin Henry, property management director of the Endowment Association.
Reporter
Kansas University Endowment Association owns 33,000 acres of farmland in 28 Kansas counties and uses profits from these farms to help the University. And this summer's weather didn't help those profits at all.
The University of Kansas has been the summer's drought affected by this summer's drought.
Watering the flock
By Kansan Photographer JOYCE MENDELSON
More than 20,000 research animals are fed daily under the supervision of Nikki Jochman, animal care supervisor. Here,
she changes the water for a collection of mice in Haworth Hall See page 3.
Henry based these figures on the production of 24,000 acres spread throughout the state. He said these 24,000 acres usually produced two-thirds of the Association's crops and could therefore be considered typical.
said that wheat production this year would be about 15 million cent less than last year's.
Henry said the main reason for this year's smaller wheat crop was the weather.
In addition, the Endowment Association's corn crop was hurt. Three-fourths of the Association's agricultural holdings are the crop itself, but there is "also corn, milk and soybeans."
The corn is planted mostly in the northeastern part of Kansas in Douglas, Jefferson.
"The five-week drought did hurt our corn body," Henry said. "Some of it won't even happen."
The smaller harvests will hurt the University directly because the Endowment
Henry said some late corn, milo and soybeans had been planted. These would be harvested, he said, but there would be a decrease in their total production.
A total of 2,300 passes have been sold this fall. Last fall 1,100 passes were sold according to Steve McMurry, chairman of the Student Services Committee, which directs the operation of the Lawrence Bus Comms Unit to exceed those of last spring by 700 passes.
Bus-pass sales double at KU
McMurray attributed the increase to more publicity and said he thought people were finding that riding the bus had an advantage over driving.
Last year an average of seven buses a day were in use at the University. This fall an average of four buses a day were in use.
Bus-pans sales at the University of Kansas since the fall has more than doubled since 1964.
More buses will be added to the routes to accommodate the increase in riders, he
Association rents the farmlands on a share basis, Henry said.
The Endowment Association is a private organization working to produce funds for
the needy.
pays for improvements but receives a bigger share of the production. Hear's said.
"We are at, with and for, but not of the University of Kansas," Henry said.
The farm properties are administered by farm managers who deal directly with the farm tenants. When improvements are needed, the tenant sometimes pays for them, or the tenant
bigger share of the production, Henry said. Henry said the funds coming from the farm properties were of great importance to the Endowment Association.
Cashing in
Some of the farm revenue is designated for particular things, and other goes into a miscellaneous fund. According to Henry, virtually all of the farm property was left by the Endowment Association. Some bequest specify the use to be made of the revenue.
Inside the KANSAN
Next Sunday, Evel Kniewel will blast himself into history. If he survives his rocket-powered jump across the 1,600-foot wide Snake River Canyon, about $19 million will line his pockets. Kniewel's vehicle will be a modified fuel tank from a Navy patrol bomber. More than 50,000 people will crowd the launch site and many more will watch on closed circuit television. See Page 2.
Cashing checks
It's easier to cash an out-of-town check at a local grocery store than at a local bank. The stores cash checks as a service to their customers and have had little problem with bad checks. Banks, on the other hand, charge 25 cents to 60 cents to process a check. See Page 5.
More of same
Today should be much like yesterday. The high will be in the high 70s or low 80s. The skies will be clear to partly cloudy. Evening temperatures have been well below normal the last few days. Less than 20 warm c chance rain exist through Monday.