THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Vol. 86 No.34
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
October 10,1975
Vote to be disputed on holdover senators
A challenge will be filed early next week with the University Judiciary Board questioning the Student Senate's right to replace holder senators.
"The election was improper and not within the Senate's power," he said.
Jon Josserand, college senator, said yesterday he would challenge the Senate's election Wednesday of Dierck Casseman, Invatha senior, to fill a vacated hollow "center."
With the exception of the challenge, there were few aftereffects of Wednesday night's long and occasionally heated meeting. Ed talked about the bad weather, said he would send the budget belt passed.
Josserand told the Senate before it voted that he would probably challenge the election. This Senate, he said, didn't have the men to elect holdover senators from the Senate.
Each Senate elects three holdover
KU program gives blind daily news
The program is a closed-circuit FM radio service to the blind and physically handicapped, and provides 2,400 listeners with current stories and entertainment programs.
the university of Kansas Audio Reader program will celebrate its fourth birthday Monday. And like most four-year-olds, it is suffering from growing ains.
Space also has become a problem. All the program's facilities are stuffed into a former kitchen in Sudder Hall, the building where KANU broadcasts from. Audio Reader is transmitted on KANU's free internet and digital receivers can pick up the broadcasts.
Audio Reader operates on a $41,000 budget, funded by the state legislature through the University. But that figure is only half of what is needed to operate the program and to expand its services, Rosie Rodriguez, director of the program, said yesterday.
AUDIO READER HAS distributed without charge 750 receivers to hand-capped people in the area, she said, and could easily distribute an additional 300 if the program had enough funds. Each receiver costs the program $70.
In addition, Hurwitz said, Audio Reader needs money for more recorders, recording tape, hired staff members and an updated broadcasting console.
Audio Reader has an engineer-in-residence to cope with some of the mechanical difficulties. Tom Fish, assistant director, handles any minor problems that develop with the equipment. Audio Reader also re-orders training assistance from KANU staff members.
SOME MONEY COMES FROM private contributions, she said, but the amount isn't
Hurwitz said the program had requested $90,000 for fiscal 1978, but didn't expect to receive any more than the present budget. The program was not strictly an academic program.
The financial problems arise because the program is a new and innovative service,
KU's program was the second of its kind in the United States when it was founded, and it was the first program connected with the University of Pittsburgh—published in St. Paul, Minn., is six years old.
The University's Audio Reader was founded by an anonymous philanthropist who invested $100,000 to get the service on its feet. The second year, the program was a line item in the state library budget. The university took over its budget in fiscal 1974.
Now, four years later, KU's program, like now, is another in the United States, is still trying to make it work.
THE ONLY OTHER similar program in Kansas is in Wichita. That program is independently funded, although it uses the same equipment in Wichita State University's radio station.
The scope of the Wichita program is smaller than KU's, but its problems are more serious, reports indicate. It depends entirely on private donations to keep it operating, although it is seeking state funds.
According to one report quoting Robert Dawson, vice president of the board of directors of Wichita's program, the director recently resigned because of the heavy tax burdens associated with terminated its weekend broadcasting because of a shortage of volunteer readers.
There are 24 programs across the country and they all may have similar financial difficulties. Hurwits said, but each is unique, because the programs kinds of services offered to the listeners.
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senators from its membership just before the new Senate takes over in the Spring. These three serve in the new Senate and on University Council.
Casserman said he would accept the seat.
The election, he said, is valid.
Cassman admitted he hadn't heard of the Senate filling a vacant holder set fire.
"It's not covered in the Senate code," he said. "We're just going to have to wait and see."
Bill Blessing, Senate parliamentarian,
said the electrical validity should be left up
until it is approved.
"The (Senate) rules and regs aren't very clear on this," he said.
Josserand is probably taking a good course of action. Blessing said.
Joosserand said he spent time in Green Hall yesterday to figure out exactly how to file his challenge. He said he hoped to have the challenge filed by early next week.
Rolfs said he was generally pleased with the wav the Senate会议 went.
Staff Photo by GEORGE MILLENER
"I especially liked the way the new students got involved and asked questions," he said. "I was glad to see them taking such an active interest."
Rolfs said, however, he was concerned about the emotionalism of some of Wednesday's debates. He was disturbed, he said, by the subjective way such issues as funding the Karsan and Douglas County Legal Aid were debated.
Attempts to add allocations for the Kansan and Douglas County Legal Aid to the Finance and Auditing Committee's budget recommendations were defeated.
The Finance and Auditing Committee, Roffs said, did an excellent job of preparing and presenting its recommendations. He said that although he didn't completely agree with the committee's recommendations he was still generally pleased.
Open air act
following a three-man 15-minute theatre performance in front of Dyche Hall Thursday afternoon, J'vain Mokewitk, or
member of the New Jerusalem Players of Jews for Jesus, mocks
the church's leaders and promotes homophobia. The three have
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Superheroes rule comics world
By BRUCE SPENCE
Staff Writer
Chances are that during your childhood, you were quite familiar with Captain Kangaroo and the likes of Daffy Duck, Bugs Bunny and Baby Huey.
The light-hearted comics are still around, but they seem to have taken a back seat to the superheroes who entertain them by BOP. The comic book is the victory over those villainous evildoers.
Well, the Captain is still around, but you probably won't find many of the comic book series he wrote in newspapers. The illustrated heroes of comic books today are a new breed—Daffy has given way to Spiderman and Bugs and Baby Huey who were replaced by the Creeper who is coming.
The superhero and horror varieties are
easily the best sellers in comic books, according to Charles Sherrick, assistant manager of the Kansas City, Mo., based company, the agency, which distributes comic books.
He said that superhero comics, which had been popular for the past few years, continued to increase in popularity and showed no signs of abatement.
Collector comics, which are reprints of old comic books, and special edition comics
Bv Noves, manager of the two Town Crier shops in Lawrence, said that the superhero comics, which outside the town are a regular feature for boys and men, ages 10 to 15 and 22 to 25.
THE PRICE IS UP to 25 cents for a regular comic and anywhere from 50 cents for a graphic novel.
Staff Photo by DON PIERCE
Fred Cleaver, a computer programmer at the University of Kansas, is amid part of his research on the robotics that he collected the comics stole the early 1980s. He estimates the value of his collection at $50 million.
For example, a 1388 Superman Action No.
condition is worth up to $8,000. be said.
So the dime comic of the earlier years is now yours for $1.50, but the old original comic books are carrying much higher price tags.
George Marsee, a clerk at the Grandview Book Gallery, 820 Main St. in Grandview, Mo., said, "Some of the old comics run in the market" and even thousands of dollars on the market."
Marsee said that an annual price guide put out by Robert M. Overstreet set the prices of comic books and listed every comic ever made.
Comic book collections have really come into being in the last 10 or 12 years, Marsee said. There has been even more interest in comic collecting the last several years, he said, which made the old comic book trade quite good.
Shazam!
COMIC BOOK CONVENTIONS have been organized all over the country, including a small one last summer in Kansas City, Mo., Marsee said.
"I'm really not into trading too much because I haven't found that many people in Lawrence who are as serious of a collector as I am, and everything I have, I don't want to trade."
Fred Cleaver, a computer programmer at the University of Kansas, estimated that he had 4,000 to 5,000 comic books in his collection.
"They're too boring," one student said. Sharon Wilson, Lawrence graduate student, said, "No, I don't read them. At least I haven't since it was little."
Any student from the University who is male can apply for the Rhodes scholarship through the regional committee, Casagrande said.
He spends about $25 a month on comic books, Clever said, which he buys in bulk.
Cleaver said that a few of his comics were worth from $50 to $100.
The other Marshall candidates are Randy Altman, Prairie Village senior; Sarah Covill, Lawriston, N.Y. senior; Thomas Burcham, Lawrence senior; John D. Friedman, Manhattan senior.
EVEN KU COLLECTS the gody oldies. A cartoon collection in the Spencer Research Library includes a few copies of some underground comics ranging from "Jesus Meets the Armed Forces" to the "Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers."
"There isn't anywhere in Lawrence for a curious collector to go to fill in holes in his books."
Federal anti-discrimination laws prohibit educational institutions from making official recommendations for scholarships that are limited to one sex.
Werger Ward, Lawrence senior, and
Valerter Oglut, Birmingham, Ala., senior,
and John J. Meyer, Birmingham, Ala.
The other Danforth candidates, who will enter primary competition, are Cheryl Forbes, Valley Center senior, and Diane Hawley, Salina senior.
The Gilbert Collection, a private collection of first-issue publications and special issue magazines housed in the William Allen White Journalism Library in Flint Hall, contains from 30 to 40 old comics, including the first 19-cent issue of Looney
The Danfort Fellowship provides $2,500 a year plus expenses for support of doctoral studies for students who show promise as future instructors. Applicants for the positions are asked to name several schools where they are interested in studying.
"To escape reality," Steve Dooey, Clay Center freshman, said with a grin.
His preference is for Superman, Beetle Bailey and the Sunday comics, Doocy said.
Despite competition from television, the comic book is still around. So what's the answer?
The eight students were selected from 46 applicants, about 25 per cent more applicants than usual, according to Peter Lowe, who heads the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
"I enjoy comics for humor," Doocy said, and that kind of (superhero) stuff is too hard to digest.
Eight University of Kansas students have been nominated to compete for either Marshall or Danforth Graduate Fellowships for the 1975-76 academic year.
Eight students nominated to try for fellowships
About 65 Danforth Fellowships are awarded nationally by the Danforth Foundation of St. Louis, Casagrande said. KU has won 16 awards within the last 20
KU won't nominate any Rhodes scholarhain candidates this year.
Sheryl Moyer, Kansas City, Kan. seni, said that she had read her sister's Archie McGraw novel and read it to her.
Twenty-four Marshall Scholars will be selected nationwide in late February or early March. The Marshall Fellowships were founded by the British government in 1953. KU students have won 22 of the awards.
KU nominates DanFernick candidates on the student's population. It can nominate for student.
Marshall Awards fund two years of graduate study at a British university. Students who win the awards receive $2,500 and students amounted to more than $5,000 in England.
Staff Writer
By DIERCK CASSELMAN
Endowment group invisible on campus
East of the Kansas Union, concealed in a grove of trees halfway down the slope steep of M. Oread, the Kansas University Entrance. A large, arched entrance, the least visible organizations on campus.
The result of its existence, though, can be in nearly every aspect of the Univers.
"The feeling that I've received and that I had myself when I was a student was that the Endowment Association existed," Larry Heb, director of deferred giving, said Wednesday, "but where it was and who it was remained something a mystery."
Heeb said that the mysterious image wasn't intentionally induced.
Because the focus of the organization, University fund raising, is off-campus, he said, contacts with faculty and students are limited.
UNLESS A STUDENT RECEIVED a loam or scholarship, he probably has little reason to complain.
the organization's outward orientation is the basis of its survival.
Like the University of Kansas Alumni Association and the University of Kansas Athletic Association, the Endowment Association is a corporation registered with the State of Kansas and independent of the University.
Since 1893 when it became the first separate foundation at a state university, the association has accumulated an endowment of $47.5 million.
It has been the model for several university endowment foundations and has been ranked among the top 10 public school associations in the nation for the total amount of donations and bequests received annually during the past decade.
The association hires professional consultants to assist it, with investment.
SOME PEOPLE THINK the association in a financial "Santa Claus" that can fund the economy.
According to Frank Aydelotte, Endowment Association public relations director, more than 90 per cent of the donations the receptionists are received in their use.
Actually, Jim Martin, director of programming development, said, unless a gift is given with no restrictions on its use, it is not necessary for the program specified by the donor.
"It's much more appealing to donors, that the value of their gift, through wise investment, can, over a period of years, mean substantially more to the University," he said.
Several meetings a year are organized with alumni volunteers throughout Kansas, Colorado and Missouri.
The fund-raising efforts of the organization involve continual contact with potential donors to encourage solicit and have a general love for the University, the director of the Greater University Fund.
GUF is a program corsipposed by the EWDU association and the Alumni Asso-
sociation.
AT THE MEETINGS, Whitson said, the alumni volunteers try to contact all KU alumni in the area by telephone. If the students are not available enough, the volunteers travel door to door.
The goal of GUF is to obtain modest gifts from many alumni. He said the program's main thrust was to create a broad base of donors.
Last year 20,000 people gave more than $800,000 to GUF. Money collected by the program can be used in as many ways as there are donors, he said.
F five mailings are made each year. Donations may be made to the scholarship-loan and or for unlimited use, but, Whiten said, some donors make specific requests.
One woman gave money to GUF specifying that, on the day the Dykes moved into the chancellor's residence, a bouquet of flowers went to welcome Mrs. Dykes, Whitten said.
HE SAID THAT ON the proper day, Mrs. Dykes received the flowers, and that the remainder of the money went into the unrestricted gift fund.
The unrestricted donations are used for a variety of things, Martin said. Departments and agencies throughout the University make requests for the funds and the chancellor recommends how the funds should be used.
An example, Martin said, would be a department needing matching funds for a grant. If the University budget didn't provide for the matching funds, he said, the
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