THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Vol.86 No.13
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
September 11, 1975
Sports committee debates ticket subsidy adjustment
By JIM BATES
All an-or-nothing decision needs to be made soon about the Student Senate's athletic ticket subsidy, according to Dave Chapman, chairman of the Senate Sports Committee.
Shapiro told the committee at a meeting last night it had to decide by the middle of October whether to recommend that the grant increase or end the present $147,000 subsidy.
At the meeting the committee also heard a memo from Ed Rolfs, student body president, about a lawsuit against the KUAC by-laws; recommended favorably bills creating a Recreation Advisory Board and a resolution calling for public entrance and heard a report on plans for a pop趴 prior to the Kansas State football game.
THE TICKET subsidy, which takes more
Buses still crammed
Staff Writer
Relations between the two groups have been strained in the past, he said, and it might be a good idea to take positive action towards KUAC.
By STEWART BRANN
SHAPIPO SAID there wasn't enough student representation on the KUAC board to make much impact and KUAC was one of the students mainly because of the _biddy_.
Sahpiro didn't come out for or against the subsidy. He did say, however, that cutting the subsidy might damage a slowly growing market between the Sports Committee and KUAC.
After nearly three weeks of classes students are still cramming the buses.
Shapiro said the subsidy should either be left at its present level or cut completely. Doing anything else, he said, would be avoiding the issue.
than 4% from each student's activity fee, was passed two years ago to keep season
Now, the third week of the semester, the bus line is running at full strength and buses are
When the semester began, University of Kansas students were riding the buses in record numbers. Additional buses were added to the line and operating hours were increased. But students have kept the buses loaded.
According to Duane Ogle, manager of the Lawrence Bus Co., the service is transporting an average of 8,200 passengers a day per cent from the same period last year.
INCREASED DEMANDS on the bus company have caused problems the last two weeks, he said, but the problems are being worked out.
Ogle said yesterday that 11 buses were operating a total of 105 hours a day. Last fall, nine buses were running about 80 hours a day. The bus company owns 12 buses, Ogle said, but one is kept as a spare in case another breaks down.
"We've still got too many people and not enough buses." Ogle said.
Additional bus service is being offered in the mornings on the Gatehouse, Daisy Hill and Oliver-Naismith routes, according to the official map of hill problems on the Oliver-Naismith route.
THE DEMAND FOR bus service this semester is overwhelming, McMurray said. The Transportation Committee had an agreement went on sale that 2,700 would be sold.
Steve McMurry, Student Senate Transportation Committee chairman, said a 2,000 semester bus passes had been sold so far this semester. That figure is up from about 2,300 passes last fall and from about 2,450 last spring, he said.
Mc Murray agreed with Ogle that the problems of the last two weeks would eventually be solved. He said a pattern of bus service that most demand for bus service was developing.
The biggest problems now. McMurry
said, are personal problems. He said students sometimes lost their bus passes and sought help in obtaining replacement passes from the transportation committee.
He said two schools he'd heard from in Jersey and Indiana had experienced problems.
Some schools with bus systems are considering adopting systems like KU's he said. The bus service at KU is funded by the student fees and managed by the Student Senate.
THE SCHOOLS considering a change to this type of system are subsidized by city governments or university funds received from the state and are experiencing financial difficulties.
But the trend at KU is exactly the opposite, McMurray said. He said KU was considering joining the city in subsidizing the bus service. Lawrence. like many
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Cutting the subsidy might cut that responsiveness, he said.
Kelly Scott, committee member, said she wasn't sure students had any say in the process.
"I've never been impressed by their responsiveness," she said.
Jeanne Ryan, another committee member, said she doubted the subsidiary gave the board control. "The subsidiary is killed, she said, the athletic board will just shrug its shoulders and raise its confidence."
“(CLYDE) WALKER's hands are tied to some extent,” he said. “He's to stay competitive with programs like Oklahoma's and Nebraska's.”
Shapiro said he could sympathize with the athletic need's need for money.
What the committee needs to decide, Shapiro said, is who should pay for football—all the students or just those who buy tickets.
Activity fees support the theatre and the Kansan and no one complains, he said. The committee needs to find out what students think about the matter.
Marty Searcy, committee member, said the committee needed to look at what football did for the University. It makes the team compete best the rest of the sports going, he said.
Not many schools have subsidies, according to Shapiro. He said, however, that Oklahoma State University has a $200,000 subsidy.
SHAPIRO SAID he would bring information about other schools' subsidies and athletic budgets to the next committee meeting.
Shapiro read a memo in which Rolfs called on the committee to submit some alternatives to the present KUAC appointment by-laws by Oct. 15, Rolfs, the group of students being sued because of quotas defining student membership on the board.
Wendell J. Barker, Hutchinson third-year
scholarship in which he was secluded for applying for
See TICKET SUBSIDIES Page Twelve
Three members of the Nity Gritter Dirt Band, Jimmie Fadden, Jim Ibbotson and Jeff Hanna, run on the atonces during a song
Cosmic Cowbous
Staff Photo by GEORGE MILLENEW
Wednesday night at Hoch Auditorium. The band played to a crowd of about 3,000. See review on page 12.
Rural health care studied
By ALISON GWINN
A program of regional health education centers designed to encourage medical students to practice primary health care in conjunction with those considered by KU Medical Center officials.
The centers, which will be areas of con-
KU officials cheer veto override
Vital funding for the University of Kansas was obtained yesterday when the Senate overrode President Gerald R. Ford's veto of the 1976 Education Appropriation Act. The bill now becomes law.
Chancellor Archie R. Dykes said yesterday, "The bill will provide badly needed funds for a number of programs that would benefit the public." We are pleased with Congress's decision.
The $7.9 billion bill provides funding for many University of Kansas programs Ford opposed, including student financial aid, foreign studies and library services.
Jerry Rogers, director of student financial aid, said Congress's override was unclear.
"TIM NOT REALLY surprised at the vote, but it's important for our direct loan program," he said. "Banks have shown that they've been more resilient and that's where we would've had to go for."
money if the federal funds hadn't come through."
The direct loan and supplemental grant programs served 2,297 KU students last year.
J. A. Burzle, director of foreign studies,
and he was delighted by the bill's enactment.
"I don't understand the President's priorities, he said. "He has approved salary increased for himself and Congress, but Mr. Obama says that gives a little relief to foreign study."
THE BILL PROVIDES $2.7 million for Fulbright-Katz fellowships, which allow students and faculty to attend and teach at institutions in the U.S. and Canada, and mended only $1.36 million for the fellowship.
The bill also provides $13.3 million for national defense fellowships and National Defense Education Act (NDEA) centers. Ford had recommended $84.64 million.
Bill Fletcher, director of KU's NDEA center, said the funds could make expansion more feasible.
The center has books and other
educational materials for Slavic and Soviet studies, he said, but could now expand to provide materials for Latin American, East Asian and African studies.
L. E. HELYAR, assistant director for the KU libraries, said the veto override was great news because the bill provided about $4,000 for University libraries.
trolled learning in which Med Center students would be supervised by doctors, administrators and faculty members earlier this week, according to Joe Dominic, director of student and program development at the Wichita branch of the School of Medicine.
He said the money would be used to strengthen the libraries' book supply, in minority studies. The grants have been used to purchase Indian and women's studies books, which will be continued with this year's funding.
The bill funds other programs Ford oppose, including college work-study, university community services, public schools, undergraduate instructional equipment.
The Senate, following Tuesday's House vote to override, favored the bill 88-12, 21 more votes than the two-thirds needed to override.
This was only the second vet overridden by this session of Congress out of 10 made by BF.
One center has already been established in Harper, where two medical students have been working as residents-in-training. That project is now being evaluated for possible expansion before other centers are established. Domnic said.
Dominic said that physicals, pediatrics and emergency care were stressed in the centers and that the Med Center hoped to make students interested in practicing in the healthcare state legislature recently suggested a need for more rural physicians in Kansas.
DAVID W. ROBSONN, acting executive vice chancellor for the Med Center, said that Med Center officials were beginning to look toward expanding their outreach program to include more Kansas towns. In addition to programs in Kansas City, Kan., and Wichita, there are resident programs in Toonek, Garden City and Newton, he said.
Robinson said the theme of the retreat was to bring the Med Center and the Wichita School together.
"There has been a mistaken concept in the Wichita branch. They didn't understand that they were part of the Kansas City Med office." He added, "to administrative faculty here," he said.
He said that the retreat provided a good opportunity to mold the Wichita and Kansas City branches together. For example, administrators discussed the concept of
giving students on the separate campuses identical class curricula and identical exams. Previously, exams have been similar in content only.
DOMINICSAID administrators discussed a report from an ad hoc committee on student evaluations. He said it was difficult to find standard evaluation procedures when dealing with medical students' evaluations must deal with clinical activities.
Students must be evaluated on their abilities to interact with other human beings and their abilities to learn massive amounts of new material quickly, he said. All courses require a different kind of teaching than is required in basic science courses.
Retreat members also discussed and came to basic agreement on two separate drafts of goals for the two campuses, called "mission statements," Domin said.
These statements provide descriptions of idealistic programs that the Kansas City and Wichita branches of the Med Center and University facilities and funds they wanted, he said.
THE ENTIRE FACULTY has the responsibility of determining the final form on these mission statements, and they will be revised, probably within the next month, before they become official policies, he said.
"This was not a meeting to make
any policy," said "so we didn't really
make any policy."
Dominic said the retreat was designed to get faculty members and administrators away from the constant daily demands of the telephone and paperwork.
Robinson said that this year's retreat, which is an annual event, included ad-
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Supporters of Tallgrass Prairie plan conference
By THERESE MENDENHALL
Supporters of a Tallgrass Prairie National Park for the state will take yet another step toward their goals.
New light will be shed on old problems encountered in promoting the park, Charles Stough, Lawrence president of Save the Tallgrass Prairie, Inc., said vesterday.
The third annual Save the Tallgrass Prairie Conference will be this Saturday and Sunday at Camp Wood near Elmldale, which is 85 miles southwest of Lawrence.
Save the Tallgrass Prairie, Inc. (STP) is a Kansas City, Kan., based organization of park supporters "People who have fought for national interests will be there to tell us how they did it." Niseh.
There should be a large number of students at the conference, expected to be the biggest one yet, said Elaine Shea, executive secretary in STP's Kansas City office.
The establishment of a Tallgrass Prairie National Park is the objective of a bill introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives by Rep. Larry Winn, R-Kan., in July. The bill, sponsored by Winn and
"Kansas was the only state left with any tallgrass area left in sufficient area to support the prairie ecosystem."
15 other congressmen, is only the latest in a 10-year-old effort of Kansai congressmen to introduce such
"As time went on the encroachments were such that actually Kanzan was the only state left with any tallgrass area left in sufficient area to support the prairie ecosystem," Stough said.
Stough said the National Park Service had been recommending that land be set aside for the park since the 1930s. He said land in several states had
originally been considered, but the choice had eventually been narrowed to Kansas.
Stough said former Sen. Frank Carlson, R-Kan,
had introduced a bill proposing the prairie park in
the Senate in the mid-1980s. The next attempt was
the 1994 vote by James Pearson, R-Kan,
late in the '60s, he said.
Efforts in the 1970s have hail all men possessed by
Wifi. In this year hail all men possessed by
Hewi.
on the prairie park. The first, in 1971, never go out of committees. The second was introduced July 12, 1973.
Opposition to the pearlie park hasn't been limited to the U.S. Congress. The Kansas Legislature adopted a resolution in 1974 stating that the park was not owned by the federal government, Stouth said.
He said there was no 60,000 acres of federally owned tallgrass prairie in Kansas. Environmentals have set 60,000 acres as the minimum area required to support the tallgrass
Kansas opposition to the park is represented by an organization called Grassroots.
Several reasons have been given for the opposition in the past. One is that the park would remove 60,000 acres of grazing land from the state, while another industry estimated at 3 million pounds a year.
Another is that, by turning the land over to the federal government, Kawamis would lose political power.
Opponents have also said the land would be better preserved by leaving it in its current use than by mining it.
Stough said support for the park had been growing in recent months. He said articles in the Wall Street Journal and Smithsonian magazine this summer and an article in National Parks and Conservation magazine this month had promoted the park.
"Several reasons had been given for the opposition ... the park would remove 60,000 acres of grazing land..."
KyI, assistant secretary for congressional and legislative affairs of the Department of the Interior, will be the first public discussion of the study. Shea said the study would be released later this week.
The Elmldale conference will begin this Saturday morning with a series of speeches by persons informed on different aspects of prairie park idea. A talk on the feasibility study for the park by John
Other speakers will be Rep. Larry Winn; Stoup;
Mike McClockey, executive director of the Sierra
Club; and Randall Jesse, public affairs director of
the Environmental Protection Agency.
On Saturday afternoon, persons attending the conference will choose one of nine field trips to study the tallgrass prairie, Shea said. She said the trips were archeological, geological and botanical tours, driving and horseback riding tours, a canoe ride through the valley and a hike lore and wild flowers, and a photography tour.
On Sunday morning experts will discuss in a forum different viewpoints on the prairie park. She said biologists, legislators, state land planners, STP representatives, Grassroots representatives and National Park Service representatives would attend the forum.
E. Raymond Hall, KU professor emeritus of zoology and a backer of the prairie park, said he and his wife would attend the conference this year as they had the past two years.
Mrs. Hall said Stewart Udall, former secretary of the interior, and Karl Menninger, founder of the Menniger foundation in Topeka, had been speakers at past conferences.
Shea said no preregistration was necessary to attend the conference. She said persons attending would pay either a $1 registration fee or a $15 fee, covering cover five meals, lodging and registration.