THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Vol. 86 No.25
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
September 29.1975
Staff Photo by DON PIERCE
The compleat tailgaters
Two families of tailgaters combine for a pre-game party at a Memorial Stadium parking lot Saturday. Tailgating today is not
always limited to sack lunches eaten from the trunk of a car, but often include butane-powered powers and picnic tables.
Tailgaters abound before games
By RODNEY HOFFMAN
Staff Writer
On any Saturday morning before a home game, carloads of fans arrive early at the Memorial Stadium parking lot to meet players with a bite to eat and talk about football.
What began as picnic lunch before the game, has become a tradition with many clubs. Tradition is tailgating, but it's no longer limited to the tailgate or trunk of a car. Motor homes and campers are becoming familiar sights near the stadium on game day.
L. H. Johnson, Overland Park, said
L. H. Johnson, tailgating at the same
spot for the 9-2 victory.
"This way we'll know that we'll be on time for the kickoff." Johnson said.
C. W. Rice, a KU graduate from Topeka,
his family had been tailgating for about
10 years.
Probably the greatest concentration of pregame celebrating occurs in the parking lot directly east of the stadium. That's the meeting place for alumni and other KU supporters, and cars from nearly every county in eastern Kansas are lined up.
"We enjoy the social picnic atmosphere," he said. "It's just a lot more enjoyable eat out."
Rice said the big advantages of arriving early were avoiding heavy traffic and being comfortable.
Herman Heisterman, Quinter, said, "I think it's a great way to go to the games and if you're with friends it makes it even better."
ice cheets, lawn chairs and folding tables begin spilling out of open trunks more than two hours before game time. Fans gather around cars in parking lots, driveways and sidestreets which radiate in all directions from the stadium.
Heisterman, a season ticket holder since he graduated from KU Medical Center in 1911, said he began pinching close to the stadium because it was too difficult to buy meals in local restaurants before the games.
Menus for the pregame celebration are usually simple—sandwiches or cold fried chicken, a variety of drinks and plenty of ice.
Bob Sorem, a 1982 KU graduate from Manhattan, said he came early to meet old classmates and he "to have a couple of drinks."
"We used to meet at a motel until about
two years ago," he said, but then we
faced the stadium early rather than
fire that left it.
For those who pay more attention to what they drink rather than what they eat, reminders are posted at the stadium stating that alcoholic beverages on state property.
Mike Thomas, director of security and parking, said that although some drinking
may go on during the parties, it didn't appear to be excessive. KU officers have made some arrests for drinking in parking lots, as well as inside the stadium, he said.
"Most of the arrests are made in cases of flagrant violation of the law in an officer's presence, or upon complaint filed with us," be said.
No arrests were made during either home game so far this season.
Computer bids announced; choice to be made in 1976
The manufacturer for new computer systems at the University of Kansas won't be named until January 1977, although bids for four companies were announced Friday.
Paul Wolfe, director of the computation center, said yesterday, "You can't tell right away what is included in a manufacturer's bid. We can't just point at the lowest monetary bid and say, 'Here's our company.'"
COMPUTER VENDORS submitted proposals for a system to handle administrative computer tasks, a system to handle instructional and research projects, and a system to use two systems, an integrated system that could handle both types of computing.
A bid for the instructional and research system was submitted by Control Data Corporation (CDC) and bids for all three systems were submitted by Sperry-Univac, IBM and Honeywell Information Systems, Inc.
Wolfe said seven evaluation teams would examine various aspects of the proposed project. The teams at the lowest possible cost. Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor, has appointed a central evaluation task force to oversee the evaluation of data collected by the teams.
The low bids were: administrative, Univac, $1,314,856; instructional and research, CDC, $2,495,085; and integrated, Honewell, $4.218,388.
WOLFE SAID the teams should be finished by Dec. 24 and the evaluation task force's report should be completed by the middle of January. The University's final
decision on which system or systems to purchase will be made at the end of the period.
The teams will evaluate the technical aspects of the various systems to see if they meet the standards and will conduct tests at the various companies on equipment identical to that in the bids. Testing of the equipment, benchmarking, will begin Oct. 28, Wolfe said.
Other research teams will predict the total costs of each system over six years, the estimated lifetime of the KU systems. Although contract payments are the main cost source, other sources said costs such as electricity, cooling systems and conversion had to be considered.
"YOU CAN'T BE sure that a higher bid is
bad, because it may consider a lot of costs
to the seller."
A conversion evaluation team will be studying how easily the present KU system can be converted to each possible future system.
Another evaluation team will study the environmental requirements of the systems to see, for example, what cooling systems are required, both in the current computer area and the new computation center building.
BECAUSE SOME of the evaluation converts qualitative information in the companies' descriptions of their systems into monetary terms, the determination of the total cost of each system is somewhat subjective, Wolfe said.
Because of the subjectivity, he said, each computer vendor will be allowed to review the estimated costs of non-contract items before the final bid selection is made.
Committee recommends StudEx makeup change
By JIM BATES
Staff Writer
The makeup of Studex needs to be changed, the Student Senate Rights and Responsibilities Committee decided yesterday.
The committee, which is attempting to validate Studx's powers, tentatively votes on the new bills that the votes that now belong to the three SenEx members on StudEx and giving a vote to the two SenEx members.
The committee postponed putting their recommendation into the form of an amendment until after they had discussed it with the SenEx members now on StudEx.
"Maybe they know a reason why SenEx should be represented on StudEx that we don't," Debbie Kruenegel, committee chairman, said.
HAVING SENEX represented on StudEx, she said, is the best means of communication between the University and Student Senates. She added that SenEx if not more experience in student government as anyone on StudEx.
Tasheff said the committee's action "smacked of personality clashes." Some people might be acting because of past actions by the SenEx member. she said
Tedde Tasheff, one of the three SenEx
StudEx consists of the chairmen of the Senate's seven standing committees, the three student members of SenEx, the student body president and vice-president and a senator appointed by the student body president to be chairman.
"It's important to have that experience around." Tashef said.
members, said she thought cutting the three votes would be a "bad thing for Student
SenEx debates report on quality of teaching
By GREG HACK
Regents OK Med Center fee hike
Staff Writer
Steps to enforce the University of Kansas anti-smoking policy in Hoch auditorium still haven't been taken, Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor, said yesterday.
Adrienne Hyle, ExnEx vice chairman, said at Friday's ExnEx会议 meeting and Gerhard Zuber, ExnEx chairman, had a specific step to prevent smoking in Hoch.
"We said that everyone going to a concert in Tech should have a warning printed on his shirt and that he should wear a ticket and should receive a card with the policy on it when he enters the auditorium."
Sharkell said he was considering these and other measures to prevent smoking.
"I'M WORKING with SUA and other groups that sponsor concerts in Hoch," he said. "We set down a fairly strict policy last year and SUA responded very well. There are indeed ushers and more announcements about smoking and think they worked well."
Shankel redistributed copies of the University's no-smoking policy last week after the University Council asked Chancellor Archie R, Dykes to give officials in Hoch Auditorium the authority to enforce the state antismoking law.
In another matter, SenEx decided to hear presentations about the Outreach program and the Topeka Capital Complex at its Oct. 17 meeting.
Zather said Ron Calgaard, vice chancellor for academic affairs, and Marvin Harder, director of the Topeka program, had agreed to appear.
HARDER WILL tell about the Topека program, which includes graduate level courses in public administration, and marketing. Students fit into the Outreach program.
SenEx also discussed recent developments concerning the Student Senate Commission on the Quality of Classroom Teaching and questions raised at Thursday's meeting of the State Colleges Coordinating Council.
Some members asked why money was not given to the students when the conclusions were only tentative.
SenEx members expressed displeasure with the distribution of the interim report of the Commission on the Quality of Classroom and members of the Kansas Legislature.
The fee increase, from $750 to $1,125 a year, was part of a three-ringged effort on the University's part to make up for a loss of funds in 2014 for this fiscal year, he said yesterday.
The Kansas Board of Regents' approval Friday of a $75 yearly increase in KU Medical Center student fees will help to alleviate a funding problem that could have been disastrous to Med Center morale, according to Chancellor Archie Dykes.
Staff Writer
Ed Rolfs, student body president, said
By ALISON GWINN
THE KU MED CENTER has previously ranked 50th among 70 state-supported medical schools in the country in the U.S., but has not said. This fee increase will make it 29th.
"I'm citing that statistic to point out that this will not be an inordinate cost." Dykes said of the bill.
DYKES SAID THAT with a combination of $125,000 received from the increased fees, the $73,000 from the state in supplemental funding and $100,000 generated from a education budget, the Med Center should be to successfully meet its funding problems.
In addition to approving the fee increase, the Regents approved a request for a $370,000 legislative supplemental appropriation for the Med Center.
wouldn't receive the news of the fee increase happily.
The Med Center funding problem is considered an emergency because the University expected to receive funding at the end of fiscal year 2015 (Shankel, executive vice chancellor, said).
Dykes said that the University had received capitulation funds for at least a quarter of its annual budget.
EVERY MEDICAL school in the country was suffered from the lowering in capitation资金.
predict an increase in the amount the Med Center would receive for fiscal year 1976.
The Med Center's funding problem was brought on by nothing but the failure of the federal government to do what was expected, he said.
The fees will increase for the spring semester, which could instigate some legal challenges. Dykes said, because fee rates are usually published in the catalog at the beginning of each school year and aren't listed there for the spring semester. However, Dykes said Davis, the university general counsel had said the increased funding was legal.
THE REGENTS also approved a request of $100,000 in funds from Regents planning
money to study a burnable trash system for an alternative KUl fuel system.
The money will be used for a study of the system, not for any actual building of a trash-burning shankel. Shankel said, and may help to create an environmental solution to study the University's proposals.
Shankel said that the use of Regents planning funds instead of funds from the bank would save money and the time of the trash system, but he said the timing of the study would depend on what planning funds the Regents decided to allocate, and how much cash the bank officials to discuss the system.
A REQUEST for a supplemental legislative appropriation to purchase the Wesley Foundation Building was changed to require KU purchase an option on the property.
that the interim report was distributed to the legislature and Board of Regents to get their opinions for the final report, scheduled for release Oct. 1.
ROBERT CASAD, faculty SenEx memher, said SenEx was talking about the report too much and giving it additional publicity.
See REGENTS page eight
Sorry. I think we should just write See SenEx page three
Frances Horowitz, faculty SenEx
member, said, "I think we should just wait
Waiting
The Senate treasurer is a nonvoting StudEx member.
Mike Custer, 2119 Marvonne Rd., looks back over the field of 185 walkers who started the fifth annual CROP charity walk yesterday. Custer was one of 118 walkers who participated in a plotted the walk. Funds from the walk will benefit international food programs.
JOHN HOUSE, Senate treasurer, told the committee that the student body president was also a nonvoting member. Ed Rollos, chairman of the board, after the meeting this was incorrect.
Both the president and treasurer are named as "ex-officio member." Serifed as such, he doesn't mean they can't vote. The treasurer is defined as a non-voting member in a diff. election.
House said SenEx at one time was very powerful.
Jerry Levy, committee member, said he didn't see why the three SenEx members were on StudEx. StudEx, he said, is supported by the Student Senate's executive committee.
SOME COMMITTEE members suggested giving the three SenEx members one StudEx vote between them. After some discussion, the committee decided this would create more problem than it would solve.
But SenEx, House said, no longer has that much power.
"I practically ran the University," he said, "and job the (University) Council did now."
"I can just imagine what would happen," Krueneg said.
"Perhaps I shouldn't be saying this," house said. "But this summer's action was aimed at preventing these."
Committee members asked House how much influence the SenEx members had on the Senate.
The committee also discussed summer communication between StudEx and the Senate, and StudEx's power to refer bills to committees.
StudEx voted this summer to reverse an earlier Senate decision and restore full prescription coverage to the University's health insurance plan. The action resulted in a resolution calling for a redefinition of StudEx powers.
THE COMMITTEE decided not to recommend representation on StudEx for the summer, and the committee would summer. Senators can always make their opinions known, the committee said, and it would be too complicated to institute a special voting procedure for the summer.
It is proper for StudEx to have the power to refer bills to committees, the committee decided, but some sort of Senate control is needed.
"It makes a lot of difference what committee a bill is referred to." Willard said. The chairman, StudEx chairman itemize the referrals StudEx made in his Senate会议 reports.
118 complete charity walk
Light rain did not dampen the spirits of most of the people participating in Sandy's cleanup.
The walk, which started at 2 p.m. yesterday, was 13 miles, extending from Broken Arrow Park to Douglas County Lake.
Betty Stewart, Lawrence director of the walk, said yesterday that 118 of 165 participants who started the charity walk completed it.
CROP, formerly the Christian Rural Overseas Program, is a community hunger appeal of Church World Service. Funds donated to CROP go into developmental programs in Asia, Africa and South America through such agencies as CARE and PROHEP.
Stewart said more than 100 Kansas communities sponsored CROP walks this past weekend to raise money for the program.
Participants arrived at the walk with
edges of money from family and friends
for their own meals.
Jim Ryun, former KU track star, and eight members of the KU cross-country team participated in a mile course in one hour and 15 minutes. Stewart said the last participants got to the lake about 7 p.m. where they ate a picnic dinner donated by several businesses in
The rain didn't hurt anyone's appetite, she said.
"People ate awfully fast though," she said.
Among those participating were Gale Sayers, assistant director of the Williams Educational Fund, and Matthew Habiger, director of the Catholic Student Center.
The Civil Air Patrol provided medical services, and volunteers from several churches patrolled the roads and manned checkpoints.
Stewart said the amount of money collected would be determined today.