THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Vol.86 No.26
September 30,1975
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Federal files to draw few, agency says
Staff Writer
By MARY ANN HUDDLESTON
Spokesmen for area federal agencies affected by the Privacy Act of 1974 said yesterday they didn't expect a deluge of people anxious to see their government files.
The Privacy Act, which became effective Saturday, permits anyone to look at files kept on himself by federal agencies. The act also says that information collected on someone for one purpose can be used for a purpose without the individual's consent.
The Selective Service board isn't expecting an influx of requests from men eligible for the draft, according to Ma. Paul. Director of agency selective services, Topeka.
IDOLSAID HE THOUGHT there was less interest in selective service files than there was a few years ago because of the 'standby status' of selective service.
However, he said, his office had already had some inquiries about compliance with the law from the national Selective Service headquarters in Washington. D.C.
The FBI office in Kansas City, Mo., anticipates some requests for files, Bill Williams, special agent in charge of the Kansas City office, said.
All the files kept by the Selective Service board in Topeka are open to men eligible for the draft, Idol said. Last year the board eliminated files on violators, delinquents and felons. The board also duplicated from original files in local board offices, he said.
Curiosity, if nothing else, will bring them,
he said. However, he said, people would
probably be surprised at how little
information is in their files.
THE SELECTIVE SERVICE board keeps three types of files, according to Idol. One is a file folder for all men under the draft letter cutoff number, which contains copies of forms and letters filled out by the men.
The other files contain registration cards filed out by all men eligible for the draft.
"We're trying to make sure we don't have information the boys don't know about," said Sylvia.
The FHI will open its personnel files to employees, Williams said, but some of the files are private.
See PRIVACY page 12
Command performance
Sitting in a lawn chair and plunking a worn-out ukulele, Barry Bernstein treated KU students to an impromptu folk music concert in front of Watson Library Monday afternoon. Bernstein said he gave free concerts "for a living." Bernstein is from Kansas City.
Employe coalition to seek city's acceptance tonight
BY IAN KENNETH LOUDEN
Staff Writer
Four city employee associations last night announced a request to be accepted as a collective bargaining coalition by the Lawrence City Commission.
The coalition, the United Public Employee Associations of Lawrence, will make its request to the city commission at the commission's regular meeting tonight.
The United Associations includes the Lawrence Association of Firefighters, the Lawrence Sanitation Employees Association, the Lawrence Street Denport-
ment Employee Association and the Lawrence Police Officers Association.
None of these associations has been recognized by the city commission as a collective bargaining agent. Under state law an association must be recognized as a collective bargaining organization to be able to negotiate employment practices and conditions with city officials.
According to 12 representatives at the meeting, the coalition consists of a majority of city employees in the police, fire, street, and parks and recreation departments.
Legislature favorable to instruction report
Reactions from Kansas legislators appear to be in favor of the Student Senate's Report on the Quality of Classroom Instruction.
A preliminary report was sent to all legislators when it was released a few weeks ago. Heffls, student body president, told the responses so far had been favorable.
Rolfs said about nine letters from representatives had been received in the Senate office. He said he also had discussed the issue with legislators at Manhattan two weeks ago.
For the most part, Rolfs said, the legislators were glad to see students emphasizing the quality of classroom teaching at the University of Kansas.
He said the preliminary report was a good way for the representatives to show their constituents what was happening at the University.
"The voters want to be sure they're getting the best value for their money," he said. "And we need to convince them that they want to ensure quality education as the top priority."
Rufs said he hadn't heard much criticism from any of the legislators concerning the reform.
One representative commented on the proposals that deal with faculty hiring and retention.
the Commission on the Quality of Classroom Teaching should trust the department chairmen to handle hiring and evaluation, according to Rolfs.
Rolfs said the representative made a good point.
Rep. Michael Glover, D-Lawrence, said that although he hadn't read the report, the legislature was glad to see action like the commission's study at the University.
The legislature seems to be interested in and encouraged by the commission's report, according to Rolfs, and they want to see copies of the final report.
The commission will present its final report to the Senate tomorrow.
If the report is more than just a superficial approach to studying the quality of classroom instruction, Glover said, the effort is excellent and commendable.
"If they (the legislature) find out that the Senate isn't telling teachers how to teach," he said, "but rather offering suggestions for construction, the legislature gets real excited."
Glover said he saw the report as an effort to present a good image of the KU student body to the state legislature. The results could be productive. he said.
"Students are watched and listened to by the legislature," he said.
Rep. Lloyd Buzzi, R-Lawrence, said he was certainly and hadn't been able to review the report.
Rep. John H. Vogel, R-Lawrence, said he hadn't read the report yet, and hadn't been in Topeka enough recently to know what other legislators thought of the report.
It consists of 45 of 47 fire department employees, 40 of 43 sanitation employees, 54 of 64 police department employees, 26 of 30 park and recreation employees.
Dennis Smith, president of the Sanitation Employees Association, said the coalition also had been negotiating with secretaries to hall and water department employees.
Rep. Arden Booth, R-Lawrence, couldn't be reached for comment.
KENNETH D. COULTIS, a member of the law officers Association, and ROMAN J. GRANTS, a member of the law officers Association.
He said it was necessary for the city to recognize the coalition because of problems regarding "safety, equipment maintenance, personnel codes, morale, supervision, training, upgrading, job security, job classification, performance evaluation and standards, wages, grievance administration, public feedback, enforcement of city ordinance and communications with our City's governing bodies."
"The failure to implement is understandable since these understandings are enforcement and regulation and were subject to varying interpretations. We are convinced that in the absence of a written performance inefficiency will continue."
The commission will meet tonight to finish the report. Last week several officers were informed or altered, and tonight the commission will give a final review to the proposals.
Some progress has been made by talking to city management, he said, but there is a need for more.
Because of a lack of written procedures, he said, "It became apparent that understandings reached on top (city management) often went unimplemented the lower supervisory levels, leading to lower sufficiency, inefficiency and loss of morale.
Earl Silvers, a member of the Lawrence Street Department Employee Association, said that while some progress had been made in reclassifying the street employee reclassification of salaries, the city had failed to provide on-the-job training for employees as it had promised.
IN ADDITION, HE SAID, most of the
in office street employees were of a
in Chicago (nlp.org)
Class officers' debt will be paid in 3 years
"They are very old for year-round use," he said. "Not much is left of most of them."
A $ 3,533 debt incurred by the 1974-75 Board of Class Officers will be paid by the present senior, junior and sophomore classes during the next three years.
Alvin D. S. Samuelis, president of the library and an applauded user successfully five times to the city since 1966 for recognition. He said his officials had promised cost of living raises for students.
Bv DIERCK CASSELMAN
Dick Wintermite, executive director of the University of Kansas Alumni Association, outline the payment terms of a class of Class Officers Friday.
The letter specified that the classes make annual payments to the Alumni Association, the board's sponsoring organization and current debt holder. until they graduate
Payments this year will cost the classes as
of $2.259, according to Wintermute's
letts.
Phil Bohlander, secretary of the Sanitation Employees Association, said its main concern was job security. The city will receive bids tonight from private sanitation companies, and it had a job security clause written into the proposed private contract, but that all
Wintermute said yesterday that the
Alumni Association was on a nonprofit
campaign to help pay for scholarships.
"THERE'S A MISTAKEN belief that the Alumni Association is wealthy," he said. "They must be mistaking us for the Endowment Association."
budget. It can't assume the board's debt, he said.
Of $2,295, $1,260 will be paid by the
seniors, $480 by the juniors and $555 by
the sophomores. This year's juniors will pay
$1,263 their senior year and sophomores will
pay $152 their junior year and $1,283 their
senior year.
Freshmen weren't included in the debt payment because they weren't members of the Board of Class Officers that incurred the debt. Foster said.
In his letter, Winternote said the debt was caused by "substantial loss in individual class and board of class officer" in which classes classed concerts, in the 1974-75 school year.
Proposed voting changes bother StudEx members
The committee postponed putting the recommendation into amendment form until after it had discussed the proposal with the SenEx members.
"I really can't say anything until I have more information," Brace Woner, StudEx
Werner said he needed to hear more of the committee's reasons for the proposed bill. "I was not sure," he said.
Several Studex members declined the proposed change in Studex members.
The Student Senate Rights and Responsibilities Committee tentatively decided Sunday to recommend taking away the votes that now belong to the three SenEx members on StudEx and give a vote to the Senate's Executive Secretary.
See COALITION page nine
"My first impression is that the idea isn't too hot," he said.
Ed Rolfs, student body president, also said it was too early to say whether the makeup change was a good idea. However, Rolfs said the makeup change was investigating StudEx's structure.
"They've been doing a very thorough job (of studying StudEx)." he said.
"The officers involved in the 1974-75 year and you who are officers for the 1975-76 year have mutually agreed with the Alumni Association and your class sponsor, Steve Clark, to repay the deficit as rapidly as possible, but totally within the three-year period which covers your undergraduate years." his letter said.
Rifa's said the committee probably had
the reasons for suggesting a makeup
change.
The committee was instructed earlier this week to Rafa and the Senat to redefine *StudyE*.
However, it is important to remember that the committee hasn't yet taken any action.
Teddie Tasheff, SenEx member, has said the assignment was absurd. The Senate and StudEx need the avenues of communication she represented on StudEx provides, she said.
"The Alumni Association bailed them out last year, and those who ran for class officers and, to my understanding, those who have served in the Army," said our hoise is to be as fair as possible.
The committee will continue its discussion of the role of Studex Wednesday. According to Debbie Kruegelman, committee chairperson, the committee has some definite proposals at that meeting.
Adrienne Hyle, the third SenEx member,
is out of town this week and unavailable for
work.
WINTEMOTE MOTE the purpose of his letter was to clearly state the position of the position.
Steve Segebrecht, SenEx member,
refused to make any comment concerning
JACK Foster, senior class vice president,
said he first learned of the current board's
debt when he received Wintermote's letter
Friday.
She added that SenEx members usually move as much, if not more experience in Linux than in Unix.
He said he was told when he was elected to office in February that each class's treasury would begin at zero and there was no mention of a debt.
Foster said he thought the major part of the deficit came from two concerts that the board co-sponsored last year with SUA. Concerts with Loggins and Mesina and Jose Felliciano, and the Dionne Warwick and Righteous Brothers homecoming concert lost money last year. The homecoming concert lost the SUA nearly $7,000.
"I'm sure they just didn't know about it then," he said. "Steve Clark is a real good guy and he wouldn't have not told us if he knew."
Previous board-sponsored concerts had been very successful, Wintermote said. He said, like any business, the board had both good and bad years.
STEPS HAVE BEEN BEEN TAKEN, though, to keep a situation like this from developing
In his letter, Wintermote said any expense made by any class officer would be the officer's personal liability unless it had been submitted as part of the budget in advance of the expenditure. Even then, he was not convinced that an approved by the class sponsor, in writing,
Actually, Wintermote said, the letter would bring into focus a bad financial problem so people could deal with it on a continuing basis.
"We'll do everything possible to be damn sure they don't corner themselves in a bad way," she said.
forecast in the light of new financial burdens, according to representatives of each sector.
FOSTER SAID the senior regalia party would be unaffected by the added debt.
No curtailment of class activities is
See DEBT page three
Computerized flight
Gerald Gera, manage of KUF's Flight Research Lab, stands beside an experimental airplane cockpit at the lab in Nichols Hall
Staff Photo by DON PIERCE
while lab assistants man computers. The computers stimulate
their learning in a parallel while new equipment is tested. See related story on page 147.