THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Vol. 86 No.23
September 25.1975
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Staff Photo by DON PIERCE
Cramped auarters
Eight students students in ceramic make for tight working conditions in a room $12\frac{1}{8}$ by $13\frac{1}{8}$ feet set aside for their use in
Visual arts space lacking
By MARY ANN HUDDLESTON
Staff Writer
Lack of space continues to hinder the visual art programs of the School of Fine Arts and there is no relief in sight until the new visual arts building is completed in 1974.
Peter Thompson, associate dean of the School of Fine Arts, said yesterday that he had been told some time ago that there would be no room for the visual arts program to expand before the new building is completed.
Richard Branham, chairman of the department of design, said his department was so crowded that most of the faculty were in offices, and some had to share their offices.
The new building will provide 112,000 square feet of space for the same number of students now crowded into 60,000 square feet, Thompson said. The visual arts division is spread throughout 13 buildings on- and off-campus.
Branham had the design department had to turn away graduate students because of her illness.
THE DESIGN FACULTY, who must work with designers, have no studio space at all, he said.
He said that several hundred freshmen also have been turned away from visual aids.
There have been no graduate students in painting since 1989 because the department had no room for them, Thompson, former owner of a painting company, painting, printmaking and sculpture, said.
Thompson said he didn't foresee any space becoming available before the new building was completed. Green and Spooner Hall will be vacant, he said, but only for a year or less before the visual arts building is finished. It would be impractical to move to one of those buildings for only a semester, he said.
LAST SUMMER, Thompson said, he and Ralph Christoffersen, assistant vice chancellor for academic affairs, walked all over campus looking for available space. The only thing the found was a room in the building that did not dormitory that let in no light or air, he said.
"The solution we arrived at was to store
equipment there to make room for the students elsewhere." he said.
The offices of the Kansas University Endowment Association, 1317 Louisiana St., is the only facility that might become available, he said, when the association moves into the building now occupied by the Center for Research, inc. in West Campus.
THE PROBLEMS with space have evolved over the years, according to Thompson. Ten years ago the visual arts were housed in the mechanical engineering building, Strong Hall, Bailey Anex and Broadcasting Hall, he said.
As enrollment grew he said, the department had used inkjet shift spaces and they also used an iPad.
Lindley Annex is being shared by students in textiles and graphic arts. Ceramics students are in Oread Hall, built as wartime temporary housing in the 1940s by the stadium. Others are at 11th and Louisiana high school screen facilities are in a house on 14th st.
A new visual arts building has been discussed since murphy Hall was completed in 1968, Thompson said. Nine or 10 years ago he went to the committee to work on the project, he said.
Money isn't a factor in the space problem, Thompson said. He said that money could be appropriated if the department's needs were pressing enough. However, he said, money would not spend to provide a great deal of money on facilities that would only be used for the interim.
THE BUILDING WAS originally scheduled for completion in 1977. However, the plans had to be redesigned to cut costs. The deadline for the new plans is November.
Thompson said that whenever he asked the University administration for space, he was always asked if the department could use existing space without renovating it.
"You can't throw money away for two or three years." he said.
The space given the department is usually small, where things that are scheduled to be torn down at once are handled.
"try to keep our requests to" the minimum, "matter of a little life and fresh air," he said.
Branham said the design department needed laboratory space because technology was playing a greater role in design work.
He said there was no way Lindsay Annex could support facilities for weaving and working with woven fabrics.
See VISUAL page three
Sports bill to be revised
By JIM BATES Staff Writer
A series of billa creating a Recreation Advisory Board will go before the Student Services Committee.
The Senate Sports Committee last night delegated a special drafting committee to the University to combine funding and administration of the University's intramurals and sports clubs. The Senate sent the bills back to the committees for further instructions to make them more understandable.
Another bill, which would consolidate and modify Senate regulations concerning campus publications was discussed last night by the Senate Communications Committee. The bill was introduced twice last spring and was withdrawn both times.
The Sports Committee also discussed ways of ending possible discrimination in the University of Kansas Athletic Corporation (KUAC) bylaws and what Dave Crumpler, chairman, referred to as “our ever-present dissent”—the KUAC ticket subsidy.
SHAPIRO TOLD the committee he thought it was unfortunate that the recreation bill had been sent back to the committee. Most opposition to the bill came from graduate students who wanted to be in the program and had a say in the budget process, he said.
This time, Shapiro said, the committee would check the bill out thoroughly before it is passed.
"I don't like the idea of its being sent back," he said. "I guess I'll have to take the book."
Wilkerson said that, as far as the budgeting process was concerned, the three-week wait while the bills were revised wasn't that important. He said, however, that the delay could create some administrative problems.
Tom Wilkerson, director of recreation services, said the new board would help eliminate duplication of equipment and training between intramurals and the sports clubs.
THE INTRAMURALS and the sports
Lewis Hall trial closed; final defendant acquitted
Karen Raynes, North Hopkins, Minn., sophomore, was acquitted yesterday by a District Court jury of battery charges in connection with a Feb. 24 incident at Lewis Hall.
David Berkowitz, county attorney, said he metiously doubled that additional charges against him.
None of the seven Lewis Hall women originally accused in the incident were
Charges were brought against the seven women after a complaint had been filed by Jeannie Hillse Wastell and Delra Lea Wastell Hill, Topeka sophomores, claiming the seven women had attacked them in the basement of Lewis Hall.
BATTERY CHARGES against D'Ann
Doug Walker, assistant county attorney, called six witnesses, including Mary Stuart, Greenbros. N.C., and Denise Brown, Overland Park senior, who had agreed to testify for the state after Walker dismissed charges against them.
RAYNES TESTIFIED on her own behalf Tuesday after three other witnesses had been called by defense attorney Richard Jones. Toeka.
Raynes, Stuart, Brown and Pilot had been convicted of battery April 10 in Douglas County Court, but that conviction was overturned the four appealed the case to District Court.
The charges against Stuart and Brown were dismissed Friday, as were charges against the former.
Tombs, Kansas City, Mo., sophomore, were dropped in April.
Mike Elwell, Douglas County Court judge,
dismissed battery charges March 26 against Taunya Looney, Wichita, and Jackie Ledbetter, Kansas City, Kan., junior. Ledbetter's attorney, Hertzel Whyte, Kansas City, Kan., said the charge against her was mistakenly identified by the complaint as being involved in the incident.
Raynes admitted that she struck Hill, but said she did so only after she had tried to pull Hill off Jacquetta Thomas, Mission junior.
Raynes testified that the disturbance started when Hill made an obscene gesture to her head.
to a group of women in the lobby of Lewis. She said she went with the group to the Lewis basement, where she saw Thomas on the floor with Hill on top of her.
Molly Lafin, who was Lewis resident director at the time of the incident, testified that HILL had told her that she started hitting Thomas when she felt threatened by Thomas.
Helen Kimbala, resident director of Lewis, said Hill admitted that she started the fight, and had become frightened when the women approached her.
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clubs are now working together, he said,
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power to make him a superstar.
It was incorrectly reported in the Kannan yesterday that Statiu and Brown testified that Kannu had been abducted.
For the second consecutive meeting, the committee discussed whether to continue the present $147,000 ticket subsidy to KUAC. A decision about the subsidy needs to be made at the next meeting or two, Shapiro said.
The ticket subsidy was passed by the previous Senate to keep student football
ticket prices low. a total of $4.15 is taken from each student's activity fee and given to KUAC. Part of this, however, is set aside to nav off bonds on Memorial Stadium.
According to John House, Senate
treatment for the subsidy.
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Most of the committee members who spoke last night said they were in favor of a bill to give the state more power.
Cities face quandary as funds cutoff nears
See SPORTS BILL page two
By IAN KENNETH LOUDEN
When the Federal Revenue Sharing Program ends in December, 1976, Lawrence and other cities may lose some of their local independence as well as money.
Mayer Barkley Clark said yesterday that cities in Kansas will be strongly affected by the lack of revenue sharing funds because the state is most liberal home rule in the United States.
This means that cities in Kansas can do anything with the funds that they want, he said. Some of them used the money to pay for their schools and other money runs out they wouldn't know what to do.
Lawrence can do anything with the revenue sharing funds it wants by establishing an ordinance, he said, as long as it doesn't conflict with state laws.
Since 1972 Lawrence has received $3 million in revenue sharing funds. Clark said the money had allowed the local government to become strong.
"THE FUNDING HAS helped stop the centralization of government," he said. "We have to stop the flow of government to Washington—even Toopea."
The money has been used in Lawrence to establish capital improvement projects and create jobs.
Capital improvement projects include the new city-county judicial complex and the new city-city police complex.
refer to independent community service agencies such as Penn House, Ballard Center and the Consumer Affairs Agency, which deal directly with Lawrence citizens.
Clark said 80 to 85 per cent of the revenue sharing funds had gone to capital imitations, and the amount for the judicial complex, and $700,000 for the city maintenance garage. Funds also have been used to renovate the Lawrence Building, 115 West 11th St., Clark said.
THE REMAINING funds will go to renovate the building that houses the Lawrence police department, Clark said. He also gave to the judicial complex in July 1978.
Most of the money was applied to construction, Clark said, because the federal government initially warned cities that it would end in 1978 and might not be continued.
"We've been very conservative in our use of the funds," he said. "Some cities were desperate and used the money to pay their police and fire officials."
Clark said that only 20 to 25 per cent of the money went into the people programs because of uncertainty whether the revenue sharing program would be continued.
It was also the first time the city had ever funded these agencies, he said.
See FUNDS page three
By THERESE MENDENHALL
Rezoning denial suggested
The city of Lawrence might be forced to go to court to condemn land for the city maintenance garage because of a county Planning Commission decision.
The commission voted 8-1 last night to recommend to the Lawrence City Commission that a rezoning request for the garage site at 12th Street and Haskell Avenue be denied. The owner of the property, Owllay Ray, had agreed that if the rezonement he would sell a northern portion of it to the city for the maintenance garage.
The city commission will decide whether to deny the rezoning request Oct. 14.
Ray requested that the property, on which Ray's Garage and Salvage is situated, be reserved limited industrial. It is located in the basement of the house. Because the salvage yard was situated before the city annexed the property, the property was designated, and is designed a noncommercial use.
Dick McClanathan, director of county zoning and planning, said the city had no control over the salvage yard as long as it was in the jurisdiction where land was reoned, the salvage yard would be subject to city regulations in matters such as screening of the property, stacking and disposal of debris.
Wall Hull, 1205 Almire Ave., asked the waiting commission to recommend denial of admission to the hospital.
some owners of property within 200 feet of Ray's property. He said if the property wasn't rezoned, it would eventually return to residential use.
Hull said the far east Lawrence neighborhood had originally agreed to accept the clay bricklayers in the garage the garage would take the place of the salvage yard. He said now, however, the neighborhood was being asked to accept both the garage and the salvage yard in the city.
The city wants to rezone the land to bring the salvage yard into conformance with city regulations, Hull said. He said, however, that this use of the rezoning power wasn't legitimate and that it "digitized the offender instead of unbolding the laws."
The city commission accepted a contract with Ray Sept. 2. That said if the land was resized, Lawrence would pay Ray $46,000 to build it and replace the salvage yard, which is on the southern part of the property. Raay said, however, if the land wasn't resized, he would allow the city to condemn it and would allow a court to price that the city would pay him for it.
Hull said the neighborhood property owners would rather forego the screening than accept the rezoning. He also said the property owners thought the increase in value of Ray's property at the expense of theirs was unfair.
Jim Hewitt, Planner II of the Lawrence- Douglas County planning staff, said if the
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KU students financially afloat on short-term loans
By BILL KATS
Staff Writer
Cutbacks in federal financing have dried up many sources of long-term loans, but short-term loans are rising.
Jeff Weiberg, associate director of the office of student financial aid, said that short term loans were available through the Kansas University Endowment Association.
Several Lawrence loan officers said Tuesday that the recession had little impact on the ability of students to attend college.
Apparently, University of Kansas and city loan officers have found no pressing economic need to invest in education.
Larry Hebe, vice president and secretary of the Endowment Association, said that the short-term loans were financed entirely from private contributions to the University.
However, the loans are available only for educational expenses, such as tuition, books and supplies.
The money comes in a variety of forms, he said.
including bequests, memorial funds and gifts from persons who had financial difficulties while in school and want to help alleviate that problem for present university students.
"Nothing is held against a student if he happens not to have had any borrowing experiences in the past."
loans are issued to students by the Endowment for loans increased during the enrollment period.
Heeb said that last year nearly 5,000 short-term
Weinberg said that it was necessary for a student first to fill out an application for a short-term loan at financial aid office. Previous non-KU credit hours are required, whether a student will receive a loan, he said.
If the student has had previous loans with the Endowment Association, his repayment records are used as a credit reference, but beyond that the only criteria for obtaining a loan are that the person be a student, that he is able to make repayments on the student's minimum 2.0 grade point average. Weinberg said.
Heb said that the student could take up to a year to repay short-term loans at a four per cent interest rate. Loans are granted primarily on the basis of credit score, and the amount loaned is adjusted accordingly.
When asked if some persons might not use the loan money for non-educational items, Weinberg said that "we assume that the student is honest." He also pointed out that students are obtaining loans for specific educational purposes.
The First National Bank of Lawrence doesn't discriminate against students in applying for loans, said Bill Terry, commercial loan officer at First National
Terry said that students were treated as any other
"The bank may be hesitant to grant a loan if all the student's income comes from his parents."
prospective borrowers. Previous financial records and credit dealings are observed, he said, but nothing is held against a student if he happens not to have had any borrowing experiences in the past.
Victor Johnson, vice president of the University State Bank, said that the major criterion for obtaining a loan is a student's ability to repay. The bank requires that all students' income comes from his parents, he said.
The bank is concerned only with the student's ability to meet payments on the loan, said Terry. His income and job status are observed, he said, and employment possibilities are taken into account.
Terry said that a large number of students carry commercial credit cards. Generally, students are reluctant to make the fact known, he said. First National is an associative bank for BankAmericard.
A spokesman for the regional office of Montgomery Wards in Kansas City said that it was an advantage to be a student when applying for a charge card. The fact that students may not have had previous credit dealings with other companies is anticipated, and students aren't penalized, she
She said Wards was actively interested in giving students a break when establishing new accounts.
Vera Kemeny, credit manager at J. C. Penney,
said that it was difficult to estimate the number of
students who had obtained credit cards at Penney's.
She said she repeated the same as any other applic-
ations, she said.
Non-local charge requests are handled through the applicant's local credit bureau, Kennedy said. While it is no more difficult for a non-local person to obtain a charge plate, she said it does take slightly longer.