THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
Vol. 85-No.2 Tuesday, August 27,1974
The University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
By Photographer JAN SEYMOUR
Field house chat
Chancellor Archie R. Dykes officially began the school year by giving a 38-minute speech during convocation in May 2016.
the audience, and almost as many photographers fringed the field house.
Dykes urges change in funding priorities
By ERIC MEYER
Editor
Chancellor Archie R. Dykes yesterday blasted the priorities used by the Kansas Legislature in funding the state's six colleges and universities.
"WE MUST FIND ways to tie funding to the mission—the role and scope—of each of our institutions," Dykes said, "so that our own obligations for research, graduate education and service can be adequately met.
Speaking to about 2,000 students and faculty members at the annual opening convocation in Allen Field House, Dykes said the legislature had ignored the quality of education by stressing only the quantity of student credit hours produced.
Dykes told the present formula for funding the schools discouraged diversity and failed to meet the special needs of graduate students in the programs and community service projects.
"Being the comprehensive type of university that it is, the University of Kansas has a unique place in the educational pattern of the state.
"in their networks of schools, most states have found it essential to establish a university which, along with undergraduate education of the highest quality, has special responsibility for graduate education and large research enterprise associated with it.
Quoting chancellor Frank Dyke, said KU should continue to be "the most
Complaint alleges unfair book price
One way to improve educational quality is by fostering research. Dykes said,
Administration Reporter
"No university ever achieved distinction and no student ever received a quality degree. My research was not valued and actively encouraged," he said. "The quest for new knowledge through research is essential to the success of students and to the viability of the University."
"WE HAVE NOW for the first time in recent history the opportunity to improve the quality of our colleges and universities more than simply make them larger," he said.
"All of us in the University must work to help the people of Kansas see this coming period of enrollment stability as an opportunity to do something that has been deferred too long—namely, improve the quality of education," he said.
The Kansas Union Bookstore raises the prices of books remaining from old shipments to the inflated prices of books in new shipments, says John Dagenaen, who has filed a complaint with the Consumer Association (CPA) against the bookstore.
By JACK McNEELY
Research, however, has been a topic of great controversy in recent years. Leading legislators, including the president of the University, have called for less research and more classes.
DAGENIA SAID the bookstore routinely raised the prices of some books already on its shelves when it received new shipments and sold them to those prices had risen because of inflation.
Dagenais, Wichita graduate student, filed the complaint in January. It alleges that the price of a book he needed was increased 110 times when a new shipment of the book came in.
That practice is dishonest and shows that the bookstore has forgotten its purpose, which is to serve students, Dagenais' complaint says.
"It would be absurd to suggest that ' whatever excess profits the bookstore makes come to the student later in the form of refunds,' the complaint says. "No reason, he said, for him to perhaps a majority, of his fellow students be cheated when buying textbooks so that
Dykes' plea for renewed emphasis on the quality of education comes in the face of stabilizing enrollment and, therefore, lessening growth of credit-hour production.
his refund will be a few decimal points larger six months later."
powerful intellectual and spiritual agency" in Kansas.
"The main thing we want to know is whether money from a decrease in rebates will keep up."
The CPA is investigating the bookstore to try to discover how it can serve students better, Carol Boone, CPA director, said yesterday.
Frank Burke, Union director, called the Kansas yesterday to complain about a story in which Mr. Burke was accused of
Burge complained about the first paragraph, which said, "A book that cost $25
last semester may be wearing a $10 price
tag this semester."
Burge called that sentence inflammatory. He said the 100 per cent increase it described didn't accurately represent the effects of the bookstore's pricing policy.
BUT DAGENAILS' complaint says that in December he checked the price of the book he knew and then returned it to the semester. When he came back in January, the complaint says, the price of the book was $40.
When Dagenaira asked about the increase, the complaint says, he was told that a new
But Dykes said the University should continue its efforts to provide funds, time and expertise.
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So says a prepared statement released yesterday by Frank Burge, Union director.
Burge explains book policy
The Kansas Union Bookstore raises the prices of some textbooks already on its shelves when a new shipment of the same books marked at a higher price is received
The Union management prepared the statement in response to conflicting reports about the number of women in the army.
of books from old shipments when the price of books in new shipments increased.
Burge said last week that the bookstore didn't raise the price of old merchandise when inflation caused the price of new shipments to increase.
But Charles Bills, assistant manager of the bookstore, said the bookstore did raise prices on some books from old shipments when new shipsmen were received.
The number of students using food stamps will jump sharply this semester, says the local director of the program. He estimated that by the end of next month 150 students would be purchasing stamps, about 50 more than the spring semester. The director said the inflation of food and general living costs would force more students into the program. Eligibility is determined by monthly income. See page 5.
Today should be another good day to lie in the sun. The high will be in the 80s, under partly cloudy skies. Winds will pick up a bit, but it will not warm up, heartbeat, so find a spot sheltered from them. No rain is forecast from them.
Warm
higher price and that all remaining copies of the book had been increased accordingly.
The bookstore's practice of increasing the prices of books from old shipments to the inflated prices of books from new shipments will be reviewed by the Merchandising Board and Practices Committee of the Union's board of directors, the statement says.
Inside the KANSAN
Though the results haven't been too encouraging, three physicians at Watkins Memorial Hospital are trying to treat heroin addicts with methadone. The clinic was started in January 1972 with Student Senate money. At times it served 15 persons, but now two to nine persons participate each day. In theory, a person's addiction is transferred to methadone from heroin and then he is weaned from methadone. See page 10.
Dagenais argued that the increase was excessive and convinced a bookstore employee to sell the book at its original price, the complaint says.
"I believe the fact that the man did agree to lower the price shows that he felt this policy was ultimately indefensible, perhaps not that it was morally honesty." Dagenais said in the complaint.
Handing out stamps
The statement released yesterday says such price increases were "standard operating procedure for retail stores, including the majority of college bookstores."
If the committee finds the changes are warranted, the bookstore will make them.
THE TEXT OF THE statement will appear as an advertisement in the Kansan
IF A STUDENT BUY a book for $10 in August, he would expect to sell it back for $2 in December. But if, because of inflation, the price of a new book rose to $12 by December, the student could get $6 when he sold his book.
The bookstore's buy-back policy balances the increased profits that result from the purchase of new inventory.
WHEN THE CPA INFORMED J. D. Christman, bookstore manager, of the complaint, Christman replied in a written statement, "I wasn't aware of any such policy such as the one stated in Mr. Dagenais' complaint."
Stamping out horse
Paying 50 per cent of the current price instead of 50 per cent of the selling price balances the profits that accrue when the customer pays for the product from old shipments, the statement says.
Warner Ferguson, associate Union director in charge of financial affairs, said Union officials would investigate the matter. He also semester rush at the bookstore was over.
At the end of each semester the bookstore
bays books from students—usually at 50 per
day.
made three appointments to talk about the complaint with Christman. The CPA canceled one appointment and Christman cancelled the two others. Boone said.
In addition, any excess profits resulting from the pricing policy are distributed to students in the form of patronage refunds, the statement says.
And he also called for greater emphasis on quality in the determination of faculty salaries.
Students can collect patronage refunds if they save bookstore receipts and turn them in.
"We have long talked about the importance of teaching and its central place in the University; we now must make certain that excellence in teaching are rewarded."
"As we begin this new academic year, I am asking those in positions of responsibility to help me understand which excellence in teaching has been achieved in all decisions about promotions, and how that has changed."
"This means adequate remuneration, opportunities for self-realne and improvement, necessary equipment and training. This stimulates scholarly activity," he said.
DYKES SAID ALL necessary steps must be taken to retain the University's most distinguished, dedicated and productive faculty members.
The refund rate currently is 8 per cent, the highest rate in 10 years.
He also called for improvement of student advising and counseling methods.
"In a good university, there must be ways for the student to receive the personal help of competent and understanding faculty and staff," Dykes said.
"In our University as elsewhere, the need is clear for an academic setting in which students can have close, personal relationships with faculty members who have the capacity to make the students' intellectual development the highly
stimulating and personal experience it ought always to be."
He pledged to KU's new students the kno-
d of personal attention "that many think is
not possible."
"GROUPS ARE IMPORTANT," he said, "but education is for the individual. No matter how large our University may be, we know it and we expect it and for us it is the individual that counts."
He said that individualized attention was essential to the learning process and that personalized education also meant responding to social and intellectual
See DYKES page 7
Enrollment might be changed
By ALAN MANSAGER
Senate Reporter
The problems intensified this fall with an unusually large number of students enrolling in a shorter time, according to the office of admissions and records.
A new enrollment procedure may be implemented by next fall as a solution to the increasing problems encountered at student body president, said yesterday.
"THIS IS THE largest enrollment we've had at KU." Dyck said. "It is also the first time we've tried to do the fall enrollment in two and a half days.
"Last spring we did it in the same time
we had a few thousand less people in the
spirit of 2016."
Dyck would 'give figures on how many students had enrolled so far this fall.
Many people in the departments thought three days were too long a time to sit at Allen Field House during enrollment, Dyck said.
HE GAVE TWO reasons why the enrollment period was shortened a half day.
"Also, a subcommittee of the faculty felt we should go to a two-earmendment period
DYCK GAVE OTHER contributing factors to the slow-down this fall.
"There is the problem of cashiers," he said. "In the fall, there is an entire new crew unfamiliar with procedures. In the spring semester they know how to work."
Another factor is that those who attended the summer orientation session also enrolled Wednesday, adding more students, Dyck said.
HE SAID ONE solution to the problems of
See ENROLLMENT Page 7
And the lines continue
By Photographer JOYCE MENDELSOHN
The new cash registers were installed in the Kansas Union Bookstore to help speed the flow of students during heavy-use periods, according to Chuck Bills, assistant manager of the Bookstore. However, some employees had said that
because of the type of machines purchased and their unfamiliarity with the new procedures, slowdowns rather than rapidness.