THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Vol.86 No.15
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
RAIN
September 15. 1975
Monday
Staff Photo by DON PIERCE
Greeting the crowd
Nearly surrounded by Secret Service agents, President Gerald R. Ford guests a crowd Kansas state leaders and attended a short reception at the Ramada before leaving for assembled in front of the Ramada Inn in Overland Park Friday evening. Ford met with the Alameda Hotel for more meetings and a dinner.
Security tight as Ford visits KC
By ALISON GWINN and
Staff Writers
THERESE MENDENHALL
It was an evening that moved without a
tower. The President came to Kansas
On Friday, in
From the eager bystanders lined up outside the Ramada Inn, where Ford at its headquarters, the Republicans, to the hand-clapping Missouri Republicans who paid $250 ape to eat and drink with the President at the Alameda Plaza Hotel, people were delighted with the victory.
EVERYTHING went as was expected. And amid all the complacent admirers teaching for her "President," the crews of the US Army were some of some uniformed and some incomprehensible.
Upon questioning, a man in blue jeans
was a security agent and quickly
walked to her.
His nervous, watchful mood characterized the whole security operation. Every one was conscious of making the evening go as planned. A man in the hotel lobby told me to leave on. They could wait in the reception room or outside, he said, but not in the lobby.
A policeman on the route from the Ramada Inn to the Alameda Plaza impatiently yelled, "Move! Go where I told you to!"
AS THE MAN in blue jeans talked, he briskly on eyes on the crowd. His arms were trembling and he was tense.
from nervousness. He avoided giving specific answers.
"They're all over," he said, as if he were exposing a great secret. "There's always someone I'm keeping eye contact with. That's my brother over there."
He reluctantly discussed the security
agents representing six agencies at the hotel.
The man said he had been trained to detect hidden weapons by looking for sharp angles, unnatural bulk and wrinkling in people's clothing.
Even though people weren't aware that security agents were among them, every one of them had been checked for concealed weapons.
HE SAID THE RAMADA IAm had been chosen because it was in a flat area, and had no vantage points for possible gunmen. The only nearby high spot was the drive-in theater sign, which he said had been a source of worry to security agents.
The man he pointed out was wearing a suit and tie.
However, Martin Dickinson, dean of the School of Law, said Saturday he won't sure the review course was worth the price of its enrollment.
Describing a similar but more extensive operation in Dallas in 1963 along the route President Kennedy was to travel through many of these cities. There were some mistakes made there."
He said the hotel and all the buildings within shooting range had been combed the day before, and were now "clean." There were no guests on the front side of the hotel.
BUT FROM LETTERS that the review center had received from students in the past, the spokesman said, students who took the LAST for the second time and who enrolled in one of the center's seminars improved their scores by 30 to 65 per cent.
"There are agents in all those windows," he said.
Students study for LSAT to help law school chance
Dickinson said the test called upon a Student's reading and reasoning abilities, which were developed during his entire college. He then taught children to develop those abilities by the time he
A spokesman for the review center, which has offices in New York and Los Angeles, said the company had no figures indicating the success rate of students who took the course.
Competition for law school admission is more keen than ever before. Some students are even taking preparation courses before taking the Law School Admittance Test in one of the factors law schools consider in determining whether to admit a student.
One of these preparation courses is scheduled in Lawrence Sept. 27 and 28. The course, which is being sponsored by the Law Board Review Center, will cost $55.
An advertisement placed in the Kansan last week by the review center said that the seminar, given by a practicing attorney, would be a law student to maximize his LSAT score.
It also said the seminar gave emphasis to those areas of the LSAT where scores were better.
"I's very doubtful that this seminar
has a significant help to a student," Dickinson said.
planned to enter law school, he said, no kind of cramming can repreceive him, for the test.
DICKINSON SAID he didn't think those figures indicated any significant.
We have to take some credit for helping them improve their scores,' the sokman said for that reason.
Additional study materials are also included in the $25 fee, according to the ad
The spokesman for the review center said there was no way to prove that the seminar was over.
According to the Law School Admission Bulletin issued by the law school, there is no evidence that cram courses or test review books provide any advantages not at the request of students. In fact, most test questions provided in the school's pre-law handbook or admission bulletin.
HIS NERVOUSNESS increased as the minutes passed. Suddenly he said, "They're coming."
About 1,500 people were around the entrance to the building and 125 Republican leaders.
"A lot depends on one's own ambition," she said.
Our blue-jeaned friend yelled to his brother, "Do you think it's time to go?"
The two tore off running toward the parking lot, and we lost sight of them.
against the background of quiet tension provided by the security operation was the first step. The new tactical
First came the policemen on motorcycles. Then came the president's car. Ford was buried in the back seat of one of the two Fleetwood Cadillacs that had been flown in for the event, forcing him to lean up to wave to the crowd.
About a minute later a helicopter appeared. Two minutes later the motorcade came into view, explaining the man's mysterious vision.
In the other car were other members of a gang. The police say once men hunt on the outside like gamsters.
The president had come to meet the people, and meet the people, he did. Amid a cordon of security officers, he marched through a hand-shaking course and left a herd of starry-eyed admirers five deep behind the ropes.
"ONLY BY GOING around the country to meetings like this, by meeting the people face to face and listening to what they have in common with us, the people feel and what they, black," he said.
The President learned that the people were thrilled to see him and craved to shake his hand. His schedule left him five minutes, what the 1,500 people felt and thought.
The Kansas City Republicans got what they wanted, too: an evening's distraction for the wheels of the party machine, the imported prestige of the President's flattery, and a $125,000 shot in the arm for the two states' party organizations.
The people seemed to get what they wanted and so did the President.
"Good to see you here," he told them one after another. "Glad you came."
The apricot-colored tablecloth, the carefully designed centerpieces and the scurrying waiters made the dinner at the Plaza seem social rather than political.
They also gave him a chance to cultivate the friendship of some of the Kansans and Mouridaurs who can assure him of their support next year's race for the presidency.
Ford's rewards from the Republican gathering were worth his effort, too. The reception and $100-a-plate dinner were pep rallies for his domestic and foreign policies that have met so much resistance from the Democratic Congress.
Only a few didn't get what they wanted from the visit. Some sign carriers on an intersection near Alameda Plaza objected to the involvement in South American politics and to the lack of government caution in the promotion of nuclear energy plants.
AND THE PEOPLE who gathered on the three routes not taken by the motorcade traveled from the Ramada Inn to the Alaia Plaza must have gone home disappointed.
But all things considered, the President's tour was a success. Most people got all they had hoped for out of the visit. And those who were not prepared for more stayed quietly in the background.
But most importantly for the Republicans who planned the evening and the security agents who made sure the plans were made, the evening passed without disturbance.
StudEx studies fee schedule bill
By JIM BATES
A bill intended to take a confusing mixture of student fees and collect them into one convenient package was given its first reading by StudEx last night.
According to Senate treasurer John House, who introduced the bill, the bill is to help make the whole fee structure more understandable.
The bill is over 5,280 words long.
At the meeting, StudEx gave eight other bats their first readings and heard reports on their success.
House's bill doesn't make many changes in the way student activity fees are divided. The amount given to the women's athletics team is $1.35 per student to $1.50 per student and cut the amount given from the women's athletics team from $1.50 per student to $2.80 per student.
It would also increase the student transportation fee by $1, raising it from its current rate.
House said the final distribution of funds was up to the Senate and its committees. He said he expected some changes in the allocations.
The cut in the funds guaranteed to men's athletics will probably result in a slight increase in football and basketball ticket prices. The increase will be at most $1, be said.
He said the main reason for the change was a greater need for money by women's unions.
House said he expected little debate over the increased transportation fee. Inflation and student's increasing use of translator machines make an increase necessary, he said.
In addition to getting the eight fees, (Student Activity Fee, Student Transportation Fee, Student Health Fee, Student Health Facility Fee, Student Union Building Fee, Student Union Annex Fee, Student University Building Fee) straight, house said, we also give the Senate an opportunity to review the entire fee structure.
"Student interests and priorities change," he said. "I think it's a good idea to have the Senate review the fee distribution every four years."
There hasn't been a thorough review since 1971, he said.
Debbie Kruenegel, chairman of the Student Rights and Responsibilities Council, will lead her committee would have an open meeting to discuss StuXdEn's power next Sunday night at 8:30.
Kruenegel's committee is studying
Learned project near end
In other action StudEx:
-Approved the allocation of $750 to Work Force to hire a secretary.
StudEx because of a Senate resolution calling for a clear definition of its power.
Most of the work on the underpass was completed this summer, since construction required closing Naimshi Drive from W. 15th St. to Crescent Road. The $145,200 project will provide a pedestrian route from Daisy Hill to the main campus.
Construction at Learned, a $3,750,000 project, was started in September 1973. A two-story addition of classrooms and rooms was completed. The original structure. A five-story wing was
The Academic Affairs Committee is studying grade inflation, according to Bill O'Reilly, the committee chairman. He said the committee should "consider the computer read-out on University GPA's."
The committee is also sending a questionnaire to faculty members on their reactions to the Commission on the Status of Instruction's preliminary proposals.
"I also 'sent the Finance and Auditing Council authorizing the hiring of a special assistant to the treasurer. The assistant would help primarily with inventory, House said."
The underpass, designed to aid pedestrians and relieve traffic congestion at 15th and Naimish Drive, should be finished by the end of Semester. Canole said.
added to the east end of the building to accommodate a laboratory.
StudEx placed a series of bills sponsored by Dave Shapiro, Sports Committee chairman on the agenda on Wednesday's Senate meeting. These bills would create a Recreation Advisory Board to oversee the intramurals program and sports clubs.
SenEx requests Outreach report
- Heard a report about the Student Health Advisory Board by Steve Seebrecht, board chairman, who said that Watkins Hospital is now fully accredited.
The departments of aerospace, civil and electrical engineering are present in
The new space is for the departments of chemical, petroleum and mechanical engineering an the environmental engineering division of the civil engineering department. Those departments are now scattered in three different buildings.
Canole said yesterday that a final inspection of the Learned addition would be made after the contractors completed work, probably by Oct. 1. Laboratory equipment and machinery in other buildings on the site will be transferred by mid-November, he said.
William Smith, dean of the School of Engineering, said some of the administrative offices had already been opened. "We wouldn't be completed until later this fall."
Two construction projects, a major addition to Learned Hall and a pedestrian underpass east of Learned, are progressing on schedule and should be completed this fall, according to James Canole, assistant director of facilities planning.
'SENEX has a history of interest in Courier County. Zuther has an and a good sense of the Laguardian last
Information about the University or Kansas Outreach program and its Topека Capital Complex Center component has been requested by SenEx.
SenEx received an offer from Marvin Harder, director of the Topeka complex, to them about the program, which includes graduate travel courses in public administration.
SemEx decided last Friday to request an outline of Harder's presentation and then to invite him and Ron Calgaard, vice president for academic affairs, to an open meeting.
Gerhard Zuther, SenEx chairman, said Calgaard, former associate vice chancellor for Outreach, would be invited to give an overview of the Outreach program.
Joel Gold, faculty SenEx member, suggested having Caliga@ at the meeting to help put the Topeka complex in context of the Outreach program.
"I would like to see if the Tokepa Capital into the entro scheme of Outreach." He
The date when SenEx will meet with Calgaard and Harder hasn't been set. Calgaard said he was "always happy to meet with SenEx when my schedule permits," but SenEx hadn't contacted him about any specific date.
SenEx also recommended placing a time limit on discussion of the Student Senate's Report on the Quality of Classroom Inventation at the Sept. 18 University Council meeting.
Zuther said the discussion of the report would be placed early on the agenda. The time limit on discussion would allow Faculty Council to meet later that afternoon and could continue at a later University Conference meeting if it wasn't completed, he said.
Gold said he was considering proposing a Faculty reply to the report at the Faculty Council meeting. There still are parts of the report that bother him. Gold said.
SenEx met Sept. 1 to discuss the report and its conclusions with Ed Rofls, student body president, and other students who worked on the report.
Taverns doubt union beer effect
By DEBBIE BAUMAN
Staff Writer
Tavern owners in the vicinity of 14th and Ohio streets say they doubt that the sale of beer in the Kansas Union will decrease their business.
Ken Wallace, owner of the Jayhawk cafe, 1346 Ohio St., and John Wooden, owner of the Wagon Wheel, 511 W. 14th St., said that he would be willing to provide beer in the Union. However, neither agreed with the rationale that the availability of beer on campus would help solve the problem of large crowds gathering at the intersection of 14th and Ohio streets.
"If the reduction of crowds in local bars is the biggest point in favor of the sale of beer in the Union, then there has been some misrepresentation," said Wallace.
BOTH WALLACE and Wooden agreed that students went to bars to do more than just drink beer. The lack of atmosphere at the bars made it difficult to back down to their favorite bars, they said.
Glen McGonigle, an owner of properties in the area of 14th and Ohio streets, said he had never filed a complaint about the crowds in that area. He said that none of his tenants had complained and he hadn't worried about any property damage.
"The sale of beer in the Union will make no difference in the crowds gathered at 14th and Ohio; it will only make more profits for them when they cater parties." Wallace said.
wooden sand that the only times large crowds gathered outside the bars were during Country Club Week and on football weekends. Since the trouble with crowds in the street was so infrequent, Wood said, there had been no changes if beer went on sale in the Union.
Erma McManness, who owns four houses
MEGONIGLE, a lab supervisor in the department of physics and astronomy, said he didn't think it was the University's place to sell beer. If the Union is allowed to sell beer, never, he said he doubted it would affect the students who went off campus to drink beer.
in the vicinity of 14th and Ohio streets, said
the prosecutor, who probes the bar crowds
this fall that they were.
McManness said it was necessary to file complaints last year because of the parking and sanitation problems that resulted from the large number of people who congregated in the streets near the two bars.
"City regulations require efficient upkeep of the homes themselves, so we felt they should know about the problems going on outside of our homes," said McMannings.
THE ALLEYS between houses in that area were being used instead of trash cans and rest rooms, she said, and the resulting sanitation problem was getting out of hand.
A proposal for the sale of beer in the Union will be submitted to the Board of Regents for final approval sometime in October or November.
"I'd like to see this issue resolved in favor of the Union selling beer as quickly as possible so that the names of the Hawk and the Duck are mooted in the press daily," said Wallace.