THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Vol. 86 No.29
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
October 3.1975
A LITTLE WARMER
Friday
Large voter turnout caps Student Senate elections
By STEWARTBRANN
Staff Writer
A heavy turnout at the polls yesterday
elected the largest Student Senate
elections in recent years.
A total of 1,012 students voted in the two-
dale election Wednesday and Thursday,
according to Britt Buckley, Senate election
committee chairman. Of that total, 777
students voted yesterday, compared to 428
on Wednesday. Buckley said last night.
The Spirit of 76 Colton swept three in the offices. Three golf course ran candidate
Scott Morgan was elected freshman class president, receiving 186 of more than 900 freshman votes cast. Russ Engel was elected vice president with 191 votes and Susan Rieger won the race for secretary with 187 votes. All three candidates were in the Green, of the Workin Everywhere Council, was elected treasurer, with 178 votes.
Twenty-three students were elected to Senate seats from among 61 candidates.
Students also elected representatives to the College Assembly, but results weren't available late last night. In the Assembly race, 18 students were running for 37 seats.
Buckley said that he had anticipated the elections would draw 1,000 voters. Last fall in New York, he said
He said the large turnout was due largely to the five coalitions that ran candidates. Coalitions always generate interest in the polls, but not necessarily and they always draw voters to the polls.
He said earlier that he expected a heavy turnout because of increased enrollment and the record number of students running in the fall election.
Buckley said the interest generated by the coalitions was indicated by the fact that seven of eight freshman-sophomore Senate candidates were filled by candidates from coalitions.
Most of yesterday's votes came during the off-campus elections from 5 to 7 p.m. in several residence halls and fraternity and sorority houses, according to Buckley.
In the Senate elections, the most votes were cast in Numaker Center, with more than 10,000 votes.
The least number of votes came in the School of Journalism where 26 students voted. The journalism school had one Senate seat to fill.
Originally, 21 Senate were to be filled in the election, but two seats opened Wednesday in the School of Education and Engineering, with senators resigned, according to Buckley.
In Numerakier Center, a tie for ninth place will call for a coin-toss today to determine who will fill the ninth seat. Tim Carlisle and Craig Blessing each received 106 yockets.
All four candidates running in the School of Education were elected to the Senate, including Steph Daleen, a write-in candidate, who got one vote.
Student Senate candidates and their total votes are as follows:
Bialaye, 41; Mike T. Burkawson, 39; Meredith Biasing, 44; Mikael T. Burkawson, 39; Gerald J. McKee, 28; David F. Smith, 27; Brandon Siddhartha, 5; Scott Branford, 4; Kim Naah (writes), 2; School of Film Art (two seats), Sarah Srivenson, 24;
Graham T. Miles, 24; Samantha T. Miles, 24;
School of Journalism (one seat), Steve McMurry, 15.
Charl Bateau, 9. Bradley Grade 4.
Graduate School (four seats); Erice Garza, 44; Roger Leder, 43; Allan Schaffer, 60; Shahir Attarid, 37; Charlie Barker, 29; and Tom Haddad.
Loder, 43; Alain Bousquet, 40; Shahhair Naif爱曼, 37 Chara
Bousquet, School of Education (our seats), Bouchrie,
School of Education (our seats), Bouchrie, 18.
Boyle, Barry J., 17, Becky Powell, 15, Donald Shipman, 16, James Frazier, 18, Daniel Garrison, 20, Brian Batter, 17, Becky Powell, 15, Donald Shipman, 16, James Frazier, 18, Daniel Garrison, 20, Brian Batter, 17, Becky Powell, 15, Donald S s
President: Scott Morgan, 186; Buck Reabe, 179; Milke Pile, 188.
Hopkinsville Briar Engage, 131; Bruce Burke, 186; Kent
Gerwyn; Glen Burnie Blaze, 109; Wendel McAdam
Treasurer: Leslie Green, 178; Monica Michener, 175;
Ce Cimela Smith, 169.
Full-time equivalency more than predicted
The official full-time equivalent (FTE) enrollment for this fall was six per cent more than last fall, Gil Dyck, dean of admissions and records, said yesterday.
This FTE figure was a record for the Lawrence campus at 20,449, he said, compared to 19,227 last fall. The increase of 863 students over the earlier prediction of an increased of 200.
Del Shanker, executive vice chancellor,
said the University would ask for an increase in funding for utilities along with the authority to spend the fees. The Office of
Administration for Budgetary Affairs
The amount of state funds and student fees the University is authorized to spend was determined by the FTE predictions, which were made on the basis of one FTE for every 15 undergraduate and nine graduate students rather than by the official FTE figures.
Martin Jones, associate vice chancellor for business affairs, said the University would request authority to spend $240,000 in expenditure of last year's prediction.
Staff Photo by GEORGE MILLENER
Jones said, "It's common practice to ask for the authority to spend extra fees when we underpredict enrolment. The fees won't really provide enough money to pay for the extra classes we have to provide for the increased enrolment. though."
See EQUIVALENCY page 10
Results peek
Student senate members and ballot counters gather for a peek at a list of winners Thursday night following their day long ballot
count in the Curry room at the Union. The election filled 22 Senate seats.
Close vote cancels Shocklev debate
By DIERCK CASSELMAN
A debate on William Shockley's theory that blacks are genetically inferior to whites in intelligence was cancelled last night by the SSA Board.
Brad Bradley, SUA Forums chairman,
said, "The board felt simply that the
disadvantages to the debate, no matter
they would be, outweighed the advantages."
Shockley, who shared the 1956 Nobel Prize in physics for his contribution to the development of the transistor, was to debate Richard Goldsby, professor of chemistry and microbiology at the University of Maryland. Nov. 13 in Hoch Auditorium.
Greg Bengtson, SUA president, called the board into executive session and temporarily yielded leadership of the meeting to make the motion to cancel the debate.
Although discussion of the motion was closed, the meeting was reopened when the board voted 7-8 to cancel the debate. One member abstained and one was absent.
Rich Lindman, special events chairman,
said, "I just want to remind the group, that in the past, a vote this close has been thought of as rather decisive."
Lindman, who voted against the motion to cancel the debate, said after the meeting that because the board had committed itself to voting for the motion he thought it should go through with it.
Bengtson said that after talking with black University of Kansas administrators and students, he was convinced of just the opposite.
"My intentions or the basis for my wanting to recommend the cancellation of my services."
Bengtson said that protests about the debate had been numerous and that there had been little positive reaction. But he said that the protests weren't the reasons for the cancellation.
socially divisive issue and that the debate itself would be of no consequence, but that the repercussions in a human sense could be very detrimental." he said.
However, Mike Miller, SUA activities adviser, said the protests did serve to awaken the board to factors they hadn't considered when the debate was originally scheduled.
Tim Rogers, SUA publicity chairman,
said, "What happened to me over the
weekend was that my first thoughts about it
changed."
Rogers said he had thought the debate was a valid scientific question worthy of exposure to the University of Kansas community.
Staff Photo by DAVID CRENSHAW
Managers vexed by pets
The 1000 block of Lawrence Ave. has at least five dedicated Jayhawk jwfs. Kyle and Kevin Shelton, Ricky and Greg Mikkelson, and John Spix (not spent) spent yesterday afternoon showing their support for the KU football team. All five are avid Jayhawk football fans.
Street artists
By RACHEL CASE
But, he said, in a sense the board also responded to students' concern about doctrines.
Staff Writer
Six out of seven apartment managers interviewed yesterday listed pets as their companions.
"What you are dealing with all the time are people's wishes," he said. "We certainly are trying to find out people's wishes, so in a sense we yielded."
program areas. He said he didn't know how the $2,000 were collected from the areas.
Bradley, who also voted against the motion to cancel the debate, said it was hard to say if outside pressure was the cause of the board's action.
Then, he said, he saw that Shockley wasn't an expert in genetics and couldn't understand it.
Miller said there had been no pressure
com anyone within the University admin-
istration.
One resident manager, who asked not to be identified, said his apartments' owners allowed pets but he always had to see them first.
Junita Hubbard, resident manager of the Mall's Old English Village apartments, said that staff had been allowed at the Mall until new February. New tenants weren't allowed to keep cats, although tenants from the Mall years were allowed to keep theirs, she said.
"if it were left up to me, I wouldn't allow pets," he said. "Anytime you have a pet,
Jean Jones, manager of Spanish Crest apartments, said Spanish Crest's policy of allowing dogs in apartments "came to me when I was a kindergarten or spring semester. Cats are still allowed."
Tim Watson, SUA trips chairman, said he thought the debate would have given Goldsby and the University blacks the chance to disprove Shockley's theories.
"They've discussed the matter," he said, "it was said then that there would be no action."
Hubbard said that some owners let their cats out at night, and she would get complaints from other tenants who didn't like them on their cars or playing on their balconies.
Bengtson said that the plans for the debate were made without thinking of all of the issues.
"I think is would have exposed Shockley for what he is," he said.
"I've had to get up in the middle of the night to get lost cats off the balcony," she said. "I have even taken two cats to the garden where I saw them and then treat them in a human way."
"It just isn't fair to the pets to keep them in a confined apartment," she said.
The dogs caused a lot of damage to the apartments, she said, and she was faced with the choice of raising both the rent and the deposits for people with dogs or simply not allowing dogs. She decided to prohibit the dogs.
Watson, who voted against the motion to cancel the debate, said that besides the fact that Goldsby would have effectively opposed Shockey's theories, the board had acted foolishly by raising the $2,000 they to pay Shockey and Goldsby to debate.
Freeman said there were many complaints from people who didn't like dogs' barking. The decision to ban cats as well as dogs from students' apartments was due to extensive damage caused by cats' scratching.
"I was tortured to the animals to be closed up all day while the students were in class",
He said he thought the board's action interjected a humanistic aspect where he was not trying to be in control.
"Last year there were lots of dogs on the student side," she said. "People would let their dogs eliminate anywhere, including in the halls. We had to call the humane society one tenant would leave his Irish settler on the balcony all day while he was in class."
Gunda Freeman, Meadowbrook salesman, said that Meadowbrook no longer accepted any pets in students' apartments. Dogs over 17 inches high at the head are no longer cared for in family apartments, although cats and small dogs are permitted, she said.
See PET PROBLEMS page 10
Jones said fleas were a problem last year, and some of the apartments had to be sprayed. Another apartment had to be completely recaptured.
A clause in the debate contract states that SIA must pay the $2,000 fee even if the debt is repaid.
Miller said he thought there was only a slight chance that the money could be recovered. SUA will balance the loss by reducing the budgets of each of SUA's 10
Freeman said that the dog owners were charged one half-month's rent as a deposit for their new dog.
In other action, the board approved a new ticket policy and coupon price for the hotel.
The new policy changes the tickets from reserved seats to general admission and raises the cost of purchasing tickets to all five festival shows from $7 to $8.
Carol Poulson, Festival of the Arts chairman, said the changes would speed ticket sales and provide more money to get better groups for the program.
Rosalela Postma, SUA vice chairman, was chosen to serve as the regional vice president of the International Unions International. The regional vice president is in charge of planning the next regional conference. This year's conference will be held in 70 regional ACUI conference will be at KU.
Historic Morgan house is razed
The Rose Morgan house, 1101 Missouri St., residence of visiting professors at the University of Kansas since 1953, is being torn down.
Safety is one of the primary reasons for the raiding, Max Lucas, assistant to the chancellor, said yesterday. The structural soundness of the house was in doubt, he said. The administration decided that it would cost more to construct a new house.
The house was built in 1910 by Rose Morgan, associate professor emerita of English at KU for 34 years. When Morgan died in 1951 she gave her home to the University to be used as a residence for visiting professors.
The rairing began two weeks ago, according to Keith Lawn, director of facilities and planning. Lucas said that furnishings and most of the interior of the house had been removed last year for safety reasons.
This year the legislature appropriated money to raze the house after the Board of Regents gave its permission, Lucas said. The University must follow the same procedure to tear down a building as it does to build one.
Two years ago, Lucas said, he visited the house to see about renovating it. The plumbing, wiring and the furnishings all needed repairs, he said.
A visiting professor from Japan who was scheduled to stay there then was housed elsewhere, Lucas said, while Buildings and Grounds officials investigated the problem.
Morgan house
It was then that the safety of the house was questioned, he said.
It is the University's policy to remove a building that is thought to be unsafe, he said.
Lawton said the space where the house stood would be landscaped. Lucas said he knew of no plans to construct a new building on the site.
Visiting professors are now being housed in the Raymond Rice house, 1531 Crescent River.
Because so many departments on campus need space, Lucas said, the possibility of building an office for them was investigated. However, it was not safe enough to be used as it was, he said, and the cost of renovating it for a different purpose would be more expensive as the construction of a new building.
Ed Rolfs, student body president, said that he hadn't been aware that the razing was being considered last spring, but that it had been discussed at 4 with administration officials.
Rolfs said he thought the blouse blended well with other homes in the area. It stands on the side of Mt. Oread on 11th Street near the university overlooking the city and the University.
"I think it' a beautiful looking house," he
lives. "I'm nervous it'll turn the area into a
painful place."