THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Vol. 86 No.9
The University of Kansas—Lawrence. Kansas
September 5.1975
sophomore, has found the tubs does have its advantages. The tubs are a heendst during practice breaks, and it definitely is more comfortable to rest on than a
Parade rest
Lugging a tuba around a marching practice field can be tiring, especially when compared to carrying smaller instruments such as clarinets. Yet, Greg Pitt, Lake Wales, Fla.
Rolfs supports Union beer sales
By STEWART BRANN
Ed Rolfs, student body president, said yesterday he would strongly recommend to the Kansas Board of Regents that the sale of 3.2 beer be made legal in the Kansas Univ
Rolfs talked yesterday by direct telephone hookup with the student body presidents of the other five state colleges and universities. The six presidents will attend a regional proposal and present it to the Regents some time in October or November. Rolfs said.
At the present time, consumption of 3.2
tonnes is legal in the Union, but its sale there
is not.
Rolfs said he had been meeting with KU administrators and Union officials to determine what their attitudes were concerning the sale of beer in the Union.
Rolfs said that after talking with them, he would propose that the sale of beer be made
He will submit his proposal at the Sept. 21 meeting. The student body presidents will discuss each proposal submitted and will present a recommendation to present to the Regents.
"I'm hoping for a unanimous opinion among the presidents." Rolfs said.
Frank Burge, Union director, said his office would comply with any decision made by the board.
In a statement issued last October, Burge said that the situation of authorized beer consumption without legalized sales was cumbersome and inefficient because of delivery, storage and consumer estimation problems.
The statement requested that the Regents consider authorizing local control of beer
Rolfs said Union beer sales had recently become an important issue in Lawrence because area residents had become concerned.
"People are concerned because of the terrible problems we had last year; with crowd control at places like the Wheel and Hawk," he said. "It's pushed people to the point where they want to see something done."
The Lawrence City Commission recommended Tuesday night that a letter be drafted requesting the Regents to allow beer sales in the Union.
The commission has received complaints from residents about crowd and noise problems in the area of the Wagon Wheel Café. On the corner of 14th and Ohio streets.
Rofls said he would recommend that beer be sold only in the Union and not in any academic building, such as Wescoe Hall, which also has cafeteria facilities.
According to Burge's statement from last year, a survey of college unions in 1974 indicated that more than 200 campuses were required by law to provide evidence of problems relating to its sale.
"It's a procedural and mechanical change to be made rather than philosophical," he said. "It's not going in the air that there already is beer in the Union."
Rolfs said the public attitude across the state had changed in the past few years concerning beer sales on campus. People are looking at the matter and evaluating it
with more logic and reason than before, he said.
Resolution favors teaching report
By JIM BATES
Staff Writer
THE EXACT NATURE and extent of the changes won't be known until the commission votes on its final recommendations, he said. He said, however, that the commission delete a call for 10 student advisors.
Most of the committee's questions concerned the commission's recommendations for improvement of the Curriculum and Instruction Survey and evaluation of teaching assistants (TAs) and assistant instructors (Als).
A resolution generally endorsing the preliminary proposals of the Commission on the Quality of Classroom Instruction was approved unanimously last night by the Student Senate Academic Affairs Committee.
The idea of student advisors isn't dead, but the administration it just doesn't fit in the commission's agenda.
The resolution's intent, according to Jeff Southard, committee vice-chairman and resolution sponsor, is to let people know where the committee stands.
Four other Senate committees met last night in the Kansas Union. The Senate's Services, Culture, Communications and Finance and Auditing Committees primarily discussed general plans for the fall semester in their meetings.
Before and after passing the resolution, committee members asked Dave Shapiro, commission researcher, questions about the commission's recommendations.
Southard stressed that the Academic Affairs resolution was non-binding. The committees isn't committed to supporting commission's specific recommendations.
Shapiro told the committee that it was important to remember that the present recommendations would be subject to many changes and the commission makes its final report Oct. 1.
Blessing and the rest of the committee, however, said they thought it was a great idea if they could find the money to publish it.
Shapiro said the stricter guidelines for TAs and Als proposed by the commission would make the University of Kansas a center in the training of graduate assistants.
The committee also decided to establish a committee to investigate grade inference.
"We'd probably be far ahead of the rest of the country," he said.
Several members of the committee said they thought Shapiro was aggrassing a bit. After all, they said, only 15 schools replied to a questionnaire sent out concerning graduate teaching, training and evaluation.
According to Blessing, the sub-committee will decide whether more lenient grading is a problem and what, if anything, should and can be done about it.
SOME CRITICISM was made of the commission's recommendation that course descriptions and lists of teachers' training in the Curriculum and Instruction Survey.
Blessing said he thought most of the problem could be blamed on easier with-
Shapiro admitted the number was small but said the schools that replied supplied a very broad cross-sample and a good general idea of what other schools were doing.
"The thing would be a foot thick," Bill Blessing, committee chairman said.
"most of the D and F students drop," he said, "the average grade will be around B."
Molly Wood, committee member, disagreed and said she thought a rising GPA could be blamed on sympathetic students. She said she would go to graduate and professional schools. she
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Blood House defies sanguine title
Bv BRUCE SPENCE
"Blood House," contrary to the images its name brings to mind, has had a relatively peaceful existence in Lawrence for more than a hundred years.
It began its second century on an auspicious note, that being its recent listing in the "National Register," a publication of the National Historical Society that lists historical buildings and sites throughout the nation.
The house, which takes its name from the first mayor of Lawrence, Col. James Blood, M.D., served as the city's mayor.
Glasses, deposits vanish with bankrupt optical shop
The highly ornate porch, with its paired columns, wraps around the front and both sides of the house, and a gabled roof covers the rear. The lattice work, added by a later owner, isn't cut out but rather painted to match the floor, with black insects on a white background.
Staff Writer
By BRENT ANDERSON
When Optima, a local optical shop, closed and filed for bankruptcy early in August, eyeglasses belonging to at least 35 persons were locked inside.
The bank that Optima had an account with, Swope Parkway National Bank in Kansas City, Mo., also went bankrupt, making the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) the receiver of the Optima bankruptcy.
Richard Pankratz, member of the Kansas State Historical Society in Topeka, said the
Although there are no records of who the architects or builder of the house was, it is thought that Col. Blood may have built it himself.
The FDIC claimed the stock left in the store at 742 Massachusetts, and all merchandise and financial records were taken from the building to Don Allen, an accountant with the FDIC.
Strohbehn has compiled a list of 32 people who have claims against Optima, and said anyone else who lost money or glasses should notify the CAA.
Goldberg said one girl had told him she had placed a $10 deposit on some new glasses but had never received them. Other customers had bought glass at the shop valued at up to $90.
The CAA hasn't been able to find the passeys yet, she said, but she has been in touch with her.
Carol Boone Strohbein, director of the Consumer Affairs Association CAA), taught students at University of Rensselaer in mid-August from University of Kansas students and Lawrence residents who had either left glasses at the shop to be repaired or placed a deposit toward the purchase of new glasses.
Goldberg said yesterday that his shop wasn't associated with Optima in any way, but that he was trying to get the lost glasses returned to their owners.
IN THE MEANTIME, Steve Goldberg, a businessman, has re-opened the shop after many years.
red clay brick, exemplifying the early Victorian influence on Kanasas architecture.
"I've had 50 people call me about glasses
at the old shop and I want to help them
them."
who is representing the former owner of Optima.
GOLDBERG SAID he hoped to re-build in reputation of the shop, which show his godlike craftsmanship.
Goldberg said he would be willing to replace glasses that had been lost or ordered at wholesale cost with no profit for him in the event the glasses weren't found.
Buckley said students who wanted to run for the Senate had up to 5 p.m. Sept. 15 to vote on nomination. Those running for freshman must have 50 signatures on their petition.
Election will fill Senate openings
Each student filing for a Senate seat or class office must pay a $5 fee filing.
If they aren't reinstated, two freshman-
sophomore seats, two seats in the School of
Fine Arts and one business school seat will be open. Buckley said.
In addition to the Senate seats, the freshman class officers will be elected.
Britt Buckley, Senate elections committee chairman, said yesterday that eight seats were open in the freshman-sophomore class, two in the College of Liberal Arts and one in the School of Fine Arts, one in the School of Education and one in the graduate school.
At least 13 new student senators will fill Senate senate seats following Senate election.
But he said that four of the five senates would probably have valid reasons for missing the past meetings and would probably be reinstated.
In addition, Buckley said, five more Senate seats might open up if senators who had missed several meetings were expelled frm the Senate.
He said the vacancies resulted from several senate terms that expired this fall and from some senators who didn't return to the University of Kansas this semester.
Nose job
Staff Photo by DON PIERCE
Herb Bairn, Denver senator, left, takes a light meter reading from the under nose of Jim Jewell, Lawrence junior. The exercise
was part of the instruction in a cinematography course conducted yesterday east of Wescoe Hall.
house, which had to pass review boards in both Kansas and Washington, D.C., before it was entered in the "National Register," was more significant for its architectural significance than for its historical significance.
Lawrence city directories listed Col. Blood as having lived in the house, located at 1015 Tennessee St., until 1879 when it chanched hands for the first of many times.
The pendent owner is Nachman Aronzajn, professor of mathematics, who was born in New York.
Aronszajn said the first modernization of the old house was done after Blood sold it to the daughter of an Oklahoma Indian chief who was rich with oil money. He said she had converted the fireplaces from wood burning to gas heating.
Although the house is basically in good shape, Arzenzani said, a great deal of work was needed to make it functional.
"just last year, I spent over a thousand dollars on the equipment, making care of this place can be a big burden."
Arthur Townsend, director of the Elizabeth M. Watkins Community Museum at 1047 Massachusetts St., said Lawrence was "one of the best fabric and environment of earlier days."
The house has otherwise proved to be extremely safe. Aronsain said.
It should be, "he said. It has very thick walls—three layers of brick in thickness."
ARONZLAJ SAID that while he was aware that his house was a historical monument, he hadn't sought to have it desiged as such.
"Many of the buildings from the third and fourth quarter of the nineteenth century still occupy their original site."
Records of the Kansas State Historical Society show that Col. Blood came to Kansas in 1854 as an agent for Amos laying a foundation of a permanent citizen in the community, first emerging as a merchant with a general store and later, working as a bricklayer.
Townsend said that entries in the "National Register" gave a lot of exposure to historical sites that ordinarily wouldn't receive much attention.
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BLOOD QUICKLY became immersed in local politics. Besides serving as the first mayor of a city, he was a delegate to the Wyndamote County Convention and a member of the Board of Trustees of Lawrence University, which was later to become the University of Arkansas.
From 1844-68. Blood served as Douglas County treasurer and he also served one year as sheriff.
During the territorial conflicts of that period, he was a commissioned colonel in the Free State Cavalry, from which he retained his title.