270 federal prisoners take courses offered by KU
By ALAN HURLBUT
Reporter
Teachers from the University of Kansas are conducting classes within the stark and imposing walls of the maximum security federal prison at Leavenworth for the 22nd consecutive year.
The program, a part of the Continuing Education division, began in 1983 by offering two classes in psychology. The four 14mm enrolled. Since that time, many students have been taught, and enrollments have totaled 7.041.
THIS SEMESTER 20 inmates have enrolled in the 10 courses being offered, said Jack Craih, executive director of the program.
Although no degree is offered the inmates by KU, the program generally follows the lines of a year-grade system.
The courses vary from year to year, Crail said, and are determined mainly by the educational needs of the students.
earned through the program is transferable, Crail said, and an assesser of arts degree from highland Wisconsin.
"It wouldn't make much sense to offer a lot of freshman courses if your students were ready for it."
THE UNIVERSITY CHARGES standard fees for the courses, Crail said, but the Federal Bureau of Investigation has also granted permission also has grants available and about 40 per cent of the prisoners enrolled receive assistance under the program.
The government also pays for all textbooks.
Four KU teachers who have taught in Leavenworth described their experiences and impressions.
Several points their observations were almost
almost identical.
Each said his experience there was a unique part of his life, each thought KU's commitment to the program there should be continued and increased, and each learned that Leaweenth was indeed a prison, where incarceration was the primary function and rehabilitation was a distant second.
John Lyle, a graduate student in anthropology who has taught at Leavenworth three semesters,
"It's a hole," he said. "I was terrified when they started closing all those doors behind me."
However, Lyle said, once he and his students became accustomed to each other, his biggest fear was that he would fall.
"The biggest criminal." He said pointing towards his front room, "is that TV set in there. The way the portrait painter life on their programs, I was expecting to see a lot of knifings and beating shots."
Steve Shawel, professor of physics who taught
us at Penn, said the prison environment
"is intimidating."
"I ALWAYS KNWE where I was," he said,
"seeing the inside of Leaventworth made me all the more certain I wanted to stay on the straight and narrow," he added.
Shawl said he felt a considerable amount of tension in the classroom at the start of the semester, but eventually the rapport was better than at most of his KU classes. He described the interaction in
the class as great and said the inmates were very direct in their anomalous of his teaching.
"Someaid they thought I was the best teacher they had ever had, and others came right out and said, 'You should get him.'"
BOB REINHEMER, assistant instructor of speech, taught a course in personal communications this summer. Reinhemer said that by the time the semester had ended he was more afraid of the guards than of the inmates, even though six murderers were in his class.
The thing he had the most difficulty in understanding, Reinheimer said, was the realization that some of the men he was teaching had been born to him. He was born, and that some of them would die there.
See PRISONERS Page 10
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
Vol. 85—No.4 Thursday, August 29,1974
The University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
Ticket price prohibitive to many fans
By JILL DOLES
Reporter
The increased price of student tickets is keeping some avid football fans from the game.
Eleven out of 18 students contacted last night on the Hill said they weren't buying tickets, and many said it was because of the price.
he to miss the games, but I can't afford "15 for a ticket," said Steve afford "$15 for a ticket," said Steve. He was senior, not going to pay the athletic development $15. I can't understand it (the increase).
Ticket prices were increased last spring from $6.50 to $15 because Student Senate decreased its allocation to the KU Athletic Corporation.
John Beinser, student body increase, and student senators fought the increase, which was later decreased slightly by means of a $25,000-plus-basketball ticket, which sells for $25.
By Kansan Photographer DEBBIE GUMI
"I hope the traditionally outstanding student support of athletics will not be disrupted."
Cindy Buxton, Atlon, III. senior, who bought a ticket despite the increase said, "I am in Student Senate, so I knew the candidate is right." But couldn't imagine not going to the games."
"I think the students will support the football and basketball programs," said manager. "I don't think the increase in injuries will affect sales very much, if any."
Nancy Ray, Wichita sophomore, thinks differently.
Steph Ferguson, Overland Park senior, suffered through the average 45-minute wait for her football ticket during the first day of ticket sales. The computer foul-up that caused problems at enrollment was again at fault for the delays, according to Mike Howard. ticket manager
it seems awfully expensive," she said.
See FOOTBALL Page 10
Exigency unlikely, SenEx member says
By ERIC MEYER
Editor
Financial exigency probably never will be a member of SenEx will yesterday.
So the main purpose in studying it is to
case the minds of faculty members, another
group of faculty members.
The first member said a declaration of exigency, like a declaration of war, was such a drastic measure that no one ever would use it.
The other SenEx member said the biggest benefit from the adoption of exigency guidelines would be to make faculty members feel more in control of their fates.
SENEX MET YESTERDAY afternoon to discuss what recommendations it would make to the University Senate concerning the adoption of guidelines about financial exigency—an adverse financial condition required by the firing of tenured faculty members.
Two sets of guidelines, one prepared by a Senate committee and another by a "group of concerned faculty," have been presented to SenEx. SenEx will present the proposals on Sept. 12 along with its own recommendation to the Senate committee to be formulated at the meeting yesterday.
However, SenEx chairman James Seaver asked all of them and spectators to leave the room. A few people kept calm.
SEAVER ALSO INSTRUCTED the reporters present that no comments made during the meeting could be quoted directly and that no individual member of SenEx
could be identified as having made the comments.
Before the public was evicted, however,
several SunBx members commented about
their concerns.
One member said the major difference between the two proposals under study was that the Senate committee's report called for declaration of exigency on a depart- mental or propto- tical basis while the con- tentional could be declared only for the whole University.
Another SenEx member said it would be ridiculous to declare exigency only for the entire University. He said this, carried to an extreme, would force the University to fire every librarian and maintenance man who single-toured professor could be terminated.
HOWEVER, ONE MEMBER said, the “concerned professors” proposal really didn’t differ very much from the Senate committee’s proposal. He said that the committee would be fired if professors would be fired were roughly similar under both plans and that the “concerned professors” plan espoused departmental quotas for eliminating them.
It's only the method of implementation that isn't the same in the two reports, he said.
Another SenEx member was concerned about a statement in the "concerned professors" report about faculty morale. He said he'd shudder if the statement ever found its way onto the floor of the Kansas Legislature.
Senate moves to save day center
BY ALAN MANSAGER Senate Reporter
The Student Senate is offering to pay the
Student Fees. A small fee will rent to the
Hillton Day Care Center.
The existence of the center is required by the affirmative action plan at the University, according to Clark Davis, executive secretary of the Senate.
The plan to rent the Wesley Building,
Twenty-year old Sandra Grady smiles a little. She knows she's safe walking home at night. She's the 1974 Mid-American Women's Judo champion. For most women, self-defense is the reason they are interested in judo. But to Sandra, it's a family affair. She and her younger sister, Rachel, had a father as a judo instructor KU, holds a fourth-degree black belt. And her older brother is a judo instructor in the Air Force. See page 5.
Davis said some offices would be open in the building for the collective use of student organizations.
located east of the Union, was discussed at the first fall StudEx meeting last night.
It looks as if the same old routine is setting in. It'll be rainy today with a 30 per cent chance of scattered showers or thundershowers. But at least you don't have to use a air conditioner. It'll get no warmer than a comfortable 80 degrees.
John Beinser, student body president,
and chair of the student
organization offices, criticized
Senate refusal to pay the Wesley Foundation $16,000 a year for the building
because of other financial priorities. For
the Senate had paid the entire
$16,000.
Rainy
The Wesley Foundation will decide today on the Senate offer.
In other business, three students were tentatively nominated to serve on the
Inside the KANSAN
A student pushes the store exit open and starts to walk down the sidewalk. Suddenly, a firm hand grip him on the shoulder and a voice tells him that the manager would like to talk him about the eight-track tape he just took from the store. About 50 to 75 students appear in municipal court in Lawrence each year on shoplifting charges, and many never even go to trial. See page 8.
Good defense
Common offense
Allen Field House Board. Beiser said the board had to have student representation before the field house could be opened for use.
Beisner also called attention to a survey conducted this summer to determine the influence of the Associated Students of Kansas (ASK). Slightly more than half of the 64 per cent of the Kansas legislators who responded advised the Senate to join ASK. The senate voted against the University's joining ASK last fall.
Across-the-boards reductions in salaries shouldn't be included as an alternative to the department where the member said. He said that after salaries were cut in some departments during the Depression the departments never had any cuts to the departments that fired professors instead.
The "concerned professors" report said that in-fighting between schools and departments at the University had caused faculty morale to deteriorate and that declaration of exigency by department would worsen the situation.
**ANOTHER CONCERN WAS the "concerned professors" request that the chairman disband members to be fired. Several SenEx members disagreed with the idea, saying that the chancellor wasn't close enough to the president's individual department to make such decisions.**
Beisner said ASK was a lobby group formed in 1972 to represent various colleges and universities in Kansas at the state legislature.
See SENATE page 9
SenEx's next meeting will be at 1:30 p.m. tomorrow in the Regents Room of the Library.
he wall and leave before termination of enured faculty members became necessary. So, only the weaker faculty members, who probably should be terminated anyway, will remain when exigency is applied, he said.
One SenEx member said that good professors would read the handwriting on
Former patients recite problems schedule march
By KATHY PICKETT
Reporter
A panel of former mental patients last night at the Kansas Union discussed the planned march and a national conference to address mental illness and "pression" to be in Topeka this weekend.
Former mental patients and other interested persons who have banded together to fight what they call "psychiatric opioid addiction" in the Toperka State Hospital 2 p.m. Sunday.
The panel discussed problems the members had had personally, either as patients or as former patients, as well as general problems encountered by patients and staff. The panel also suggested mental health. The march is supposed to help change some of those problems.
The panel discussion was sponsored by the University Committee on Patients' Rights in Mental hospitals, either voluntarily or involuntarily. They came from different backgrounds.
Members of the panel said that in Kansas and many other states, any person could be committed to a mental institution merely by the signature of a "reputable citizen." The group said it was trying to have this legally changed.
Also discussed by the forum were specific complaints of mistreatment within the mental hospitals, including shock treatments given involuntarily, the use of drugs or alcohol in patients under supervision room," which, according to the panel, is the same as solitary confinement for criminals.
A few in the audience of about 50 persons did protest some of the panel's complaints. They said the panel was making unwise generalizations.
Just hanging around
To celebrate their pledges "first dinner walk-out last night activities from Delta Delta voworize constructed a "welcome to greeting with the pledges' leadership" Delta
By Kansas Photographer JOYCE MENDELSON
Salina senior, place finishing touches on the line. However, members of Sigma Chi fraternity confiscated the bras before the pledges returned.