THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Vol. 86 No.36
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
October 14,1975
Rolfs wants to terminate ticket money
Staff Writer
Staff Photo by DON PIERCE
By STEWART BRANN
The Student Senate's philosophy toward budgeting organizations could change tomorrow night if the Senate Sports Committee votes to discontinue the University of Kansas Athletic Corporation (KUAC) ticket subsidy.
Ed Rolfs, student body president, sent a letter to the Sports Committee Monday that recommended KUAC's present $147,000 ticket subscribed be terminated.
Dave Shapiro, Sport Committee chairman, said yesterday that if the committee approved the recommendation, it would help the university photography for budgeting University organization.
As the philosophy now stands, he said, The Senate is supposed to serve those groups that serve the most students. But if the subsidy is cut, he said, that move would indicate the Senate wants to serve foremost those groups that need money the most.
Rolfs has said that the subsidy cut would enable the Senate to provide more money to other organizations without increasing the activity fee.
Shapiro said that he thought Rolfs made some good points in his recommendation but that cutting the ticket subsidy was an entirely questionable move.
Fountain frolics
This semester about 10,500 students
ought football season tickets, Shapeo said,
that the game will be on Saturday.
If the subsidy were cut completely, football season ticket prices could increase by as much as $11 and basketball tickets could increase by as much as $8.
Shapiro said such an increase in season ticket prices easily could hurt student ticket sales. He also thought the thoughts about cutting the subway completely if it would drastically affect ticket prices.
Marcy Hilton, Frarrie University sophomore; Lynette Vick, freshman; and Joise Steinbacher, Kansas City, KY, freshman, combine in an attempt to throw Darden Bard-Saunders at the ball. (Jillian Reagan)
Cyde Walker, athletic director, said ticket prices couldn't be quoted realistically until a decision had been made by the Senate concerning the subsidy.
Ticket prices are determined by KUAC.
See TICKET SUBSIDY page three
Architect envisions beehive cities
By J. MARTIN DOLAN
Imagine yourself several deades, perhaps even a century into the future.
Pollution is minimal, labor is automated, social slls are almost nonexistent and every cultural pursuit imaginable is at your command inside the city.
You and as many as a million others live in a city that resembles a gigantic beehive towering a mile above the countryside and providing a place for everyone necessary for your health and well being.
A Flash Gordon episode? Perhaps, but to a 56-year-old Italian architect named Paulo Soleri, such a scene is a distinct possibility. In fact, Soleri's *Sorcerer's* theory, it is only possible.
Faculty and students of the University of Kansas are divided in their opinions of Soleri and his theories; Some praise him as solved the difficulty of his ideas. And doubt the feasibility of his ideas.
SOLER'S THEORIES CALL for a change in both man and the cities he builds. His idea is one of man compatible with his environment. Soleri envisions a world in which the city strikes a balance between the two. He has coined a word to describe that concept of the city, "arcology," from the words architecture and ecology.
To Soleri, the city should be a compact, one-building structure, similar to the idea of a mall but on a much grander scale. His theories say this would reduce the amount of pollution, the energy needed, the time and distance required and the space necessary for thousands of people and industries. A typical Soleri city would have heavy, heat-protective walls surrounded by businesses and shops. The residential spaces would be along the outside walls of the city to take advantage of the view.
Soler' studied with the renowned American architect Frank Lloyd Wright and founded Broadway City, an integrated and self-sufficient community with single-family plots of one acre each, is almost directly opposed to Soler's plan for single-building
SEVERAL FACULTY MEMBERS and
Architecture and Urban Design have work
in progress.
Since 1969, Soleri and a band of followers in the Arizona desert on a scaled-down version of such a city. The structure, named Arcosanti, is being built as an experiment by Soleri and about 60 people who pay to work on the structure.
One of these is Will Malone, Park F. a-
lmano, who founded the Appaloosa and Soleri's theories
called for a new man, a compassionate man, to effectively deal with the problems of huge numbers of people living in close proximity. He said Soleri was as much interested in changing man as he was in changing architecture.
Another of those who were in Arizona was Bob Burford, Lawrence special student. According to Burford, Soler's theories are comparable to a close-knit neighborhood on an exaggerated scale. He said many of Soler's ideas could be traced to his sense of spiritualism, a "community of mankind" that worked together for the common good, he said a concept that isn't prevalent in the mobile American society.
Christ Theis, assistant professor of architecture, visited Arcosanti in 1970, but don't work on the structure. Thesai said the project is still under construction and implied an attitude of authoritarianism. He
Charles Kahn, dean of the School of Architecture and Urban Design, said Kahn had no idea of how a cross-section of any population would react in such a situation. Kahn rejected the notion of Soler as a founder of Soler, who was only the thesisist. He insisted that the success of a man who had no experience as an urban planner and had built only one building.
"SOLERI'S CONCEPT IS to place people in forms and spaces which will force them to turn inward to solve their problems, to be more prepared to deal with the mobs who群众 confront their fellow man."
said that in such a city there would be a great pressure on the society to conform
"Solarit will back his on an urban setting he doesn't like. Kahn said, 'He hasn't come to know me well.'"
The term 'arcology' I think arcology is totally indefensible in terms of what life means.
EDGAR BOLES INSTRUCTOR of architecture, worked with Soleri in 1971. He said he agreed that there were problems with the use of computers and that Soleri admitted the same.
"He is vague on many issues of city politics, and particularly political structure."
be said even if Arcosanti was built, it
See BEEHIVE CITIES page six
Committee will consider student stand on pay idea
A resolution to "let the Governor know where the students stand" will be considered by the Student Senate Communications Committee tomorrow.
Jon Josserand, College senator and sponsor of the resolution, said yesterday that the resolution was intended to make it easier for students paying for any new faculty positions out of a proposed 10 per cent faculty pay increase. Gov. Robert Bennett said on Oct. 1 in an informal speech in the Kansas Union that he felt the faculty would increase with enrollment.
Ron Calgaard, vice charger for academic affairs, said, "The University's position on the question is clear. We hope the governor will support the 10 per cent pay increase. We also hope he will support funding to university positions to keep pace with enrollment."
Referring to Jossezman's resolution, he said the administration always welcomed
support from any part of the University community.
Rolfs said that Kansas State University would sucker proportionately to the same
Joersand said he brought the Governor's statement was intended as a trial balloon and that it was important for students to voice their opposition to such a proposal.
The University's increased enrollment, Josserand said, would entitle the University to 70 new faculty positions under the funding formulas now used. Abandoning the formulae would mean a mean increasing faculty load or funding the positions through increased student fees.
Ed Rolfs, student body president, said he completely agreed with Josserd's resolution. He said not granting the new positions would punish KU for its increased
"Each Board of Regents institution should carry the budget burden equally," he said.
Spencer collection valuable,accessible
By STEVE SCHOENFELD
Staff Writer
This is the third year of a planned three-year program of 10 per cent faculty salary increases. The goal is that University year plan is intended to bring University faculty salaries up to those of similar institutes.
A survey taken before the program began, he said, listed KU 23rd out of 23 universities in faculty pay. The University, he added, is an academic excellence, "closer and said."
Students who are after the "real thing" could have a field day scanning some of the rare manuscripts and books in the special treatment of the Spencer Research Library.
Many of the Spencer collections can't be found anywhere else in the world.
Josserand said, "It's essential we maintain our present programs before anything
"Any of the manuscripts we have here are rare simply because they are the only ones that exist." Alexandra Mason, assistant director of special collections, said "Many manuscripts are things that have been written down and not printed or duplicated."
"Some of the books here can't be found anywhere else," she said.
The resolution says the 10 per cent salary increase and adherence to the present credit hour method should determine base pay. The departmental secretary, should come out of new programs.
Mason said the manuscripts weren't the only rare items in the library.
How rare an item is depends on its purpose, Mason said. Some things are more valuable to the English department, she said. Others are more valuable to the French or history department.
Mason collection, nevertheless, the University collection is very valuable and is one of the few in the world.
MASON SAID SHE couldn't determine the monetary value of any of the books or materials.
"We can't sell anything out of this place," Mason said, "so we can't talk of monetary value. You only know how much the books are worth when you get ready to sell them."
for 18th-century English newspapers and periodicals, we may have one of the only two that's even respectable. Our Yeats (W.B., the Irish poet) and Joyce (James, an Irish novelist) collections are two of the best in the country. And our Rilke (R.M., German author) is the best around except for Harvard's."
"There are only about two dozen really respectable collections of this nature around," Mason said. "Each specializes in certain things. We are probably equal with Yale (University) and McGill (College) for the best collection for the history of birds.
degree as KU and that Wichita State University would suffer slighly less.
THE COLLECTIONS range from Joseph Addison and Richard Steele's 18th-century British newspapers, the Tattler and Spectator, the children's poetry of the 1960s. We are works from famous author* like D. H. Lawrence to recent science-fiction writing.
Much of the collections are from 18th- 17th, and 18th-century European writers and poets. There is a special section of Italian works.
Mason said that although the collection was begun in 1845, the bulk of the collection was made up in 1860.
"When the University increased its graduate program in the 1950's," she said, "it became necessary to have books that went along with these courses. The time gave in books support at that time. And the cost of books was much lower then."
Since then the library has greatly increased its collections, Mason said. The library gets its books either as gifts or buys them.
MASON SAID THAT more than 2,200
about 1,400 of those were purchased.
Josserand said the continuation of the program for the full three years was impor-
She said that the books in Spencer's special collection were used more often by students than books in other special-collection libraries, but that the students still didn't use the collections enough.
The collections are frequently used by students and faculty, Mason said.
"I receive five-to-25 advertisements for books every day," Mason said. "I look at them and see which are the type of thing we're interested in. I or a member of the stuff select them. But faculty and students aren't interested in books they're interested in us acquiring."
"There's some kind it usem going around that students can't use it," she said. "That's not true. We've had a 7-year-old in our class who can use it, or we can't use our library, anybody can."
"The program is only intended to bring KU up to a medium level," he said, "and this (paying for new positions out of the increase, combined with inflation will frustrate
The resolution says that any tampering with the present base level formula would be an abandonment of the governor's campaign commitment to support the three-year salary increase plan. It suggests that the Governor abandon consideration of the formula and "continue (this) excellent and well appreciated support of higher education."
Kevin Flynn, communications chairman,
said he had no idea what the committee's
plan was to do.
City to explore drug line action
The Lawrence City Commission is scheduled tonight to hear from Milton Allen, city attorney, on whether there is any legal way the commission can take to stop the Dial DRUG line.
The commission voted unanimously last Tuesday to determine what could be done to stop Dial DRUG after Donald Bims, city manager of a Dial DRUG message at the meeting.
Dial DRUG is a program, originally sponsored by the Douglas County Drug Abuse Council, that provides information and training on drug use among drugs available in the Lawrence area.
Bing Hart, chief consultant of the Dial DRUG program, told the commission last Tuesday that the Dial DRUG line did not in providing information about local drugs.
The tape played by Binsn referred to the use of heroin at Lawrence High School and a report that described some marijuana as "fantastic."
Binnis said Hart hadn't proved that there was berino in the high school and that if Hart could prove it, it was his obligation to be an instructor at Lawrence High School, an administrator at Lawrence High School.
Hart said he was in a difficult position because he had to work between drug users and his patients.
At last Tuesday's meeting, Mayor Barkley Clark said he didn't know whether the commission could do anything about the Dial DRUG line.
Director says honors program more visible
Bv ALISON GWINN
The freshman-sophomore honors program has better sprit than it did two years ago, because it has become increasingly visible, according to Peter Casagrande, dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
Before two years ago, and before Casagrande began directing the program, students weren't required to have a certain high school grade point average or a certain score on their ACT tests, he said Thursday.
Students are now invited to participate in the honors program on the basis of their high school record, their ACT composite score, which must be at least 30, and their interest. Casagrande said.
THE CRITERIA FOR INVITATION aren't as important, perhaps, as the students' interest, he said.
"We don't think of the program as an exclusive club," he said. "We're really not interested in locking
the program exists to provide a set of academic opportunities for bright students, he said, although it isn't a program in the sense that no required sequence is followed by honor students.
A student that follows the program must take 24 hours of honors courses within the first four semesters of his college career. Casagrande said. The student must complete a study, and must maintain a 3.25 grade point average.
We set aside special courses because bright
students thrive best in an atmosphere where they are motivated. About 370 students are now enrolled in the freshman-sophomore honors program, he said, with students from junior and seniors following an honours curriculum.
MOST FIRST SEMESTER FRESHMEN who start in it can continue in it for all four semesters, he begins.
Grading varies from department to department, he said. Most honors classes are smaller than regular classes, and they are usually more demanding. he said. Most faculty members are almost always taught by full-time faculty members.
"The atmosphere is different," Casagrande said. "Again and again, honors students say that in a regular class the progress is slower, it's hard to make meaningful contact with the instructor and they see other students struggling with material they find easy."
Casagrasque said that with small classes, honors students got to know each other better and had better opportunities.
He said it was difficult to generalize on the grading methods in honors classes.
"It's almost impossible to impose a rigid grading system on honors classes," he said, because if a grading curve was used, students would receive differences for minimal differences in the quality of their work.
"THERE ARE PROBABLY more As and Bs given in
honors classes, because there are probably more A and B students in them. $ ^{13} $
Darlene Daubert, Great Bend senior, said, "Honors classes are different in the sense that the professor often assumes that the class is intelligent, so it's more casual and casual. He trusts that the students will do the work."
She said honors courses weren't any harder or easier than regular classes.
Dan Uyesato, Wichita senior, said the classes were easier.
Uysato said the discussions in honors classes were much better than those in regular classes.
"The teachers assumed you were bright, so they didn't make you work as hard," he said. "They allowed
"The fact that everyone in the class is bright makes class easier," he said.
In an honors Western Civilization class, for example, the students usually figure out what the reading basically means during the first fifteen minutes of the lesson. In this discussion, we consider the period discussing the implications of the reading.
LISA EMERSON, OLATHE JUNIOR, said of her classmates in the freshman year that she was in college rather than in a glorified high school class.
Emerson also has taken honors freshman English courses.
Karl Stockhammer, associate professor of ontology, said he went into greater depth in his honors work on the subject.
"I try to provide them with reinforced training, with material from the class, the textbook and worksheets. We don't cover material as superficially. The honors in college, internet, because we have to cover so much material."
Stockhammer said experiments were generally more complicated in honors laboratories than in
"Usually, the students make better grades. Generally, the students are smarter, plus they have intensive training. They're exposed over and over again to subjects." He said he didn't think strict criteria were needed for acceptance to the honors bioloy class.
"To me, it afflicts if the people have acceptable grades, if they have a B average, as long as they have a C grade."
NANCY REBER, LAWRENCE JUNIOR, said, "It depends on the class, but usually honors classes are easier. Like my honors biology class, I don't think my
See HONORS page two