THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
Vol. 86 No.8
September 4.1975
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Staff Photo by DOM PIERCE
student body president. Prompting the laughter was a phrase from the report alleging that Rolls acted "unlawfully, improperly, arbitrarily and capriciously" in a matter involving an appointment to the athletic board.
Thursday
Laughing matter
Student senator Mike Pendergast, Overland Park sophomore, explodes with laughter during an otherwise serious discussion of the recent sex scandal.
Senate passes resolution to define StudEx power
By JIM BATES Staff Writer
Although a resolution passed at last night's Student Senate meeting didn'tensure StudEx, the meaning was the same,to Dave Flood, co-sponsor of the resolution.
"The resolution as I finally wrote it still "says StudEx went too far, but it says in it a much more constructive manner," Flood said after the meeting.
The resolution, which passed by a voice vote, calls for the Senate's Student Rights
and Responsibilities Committee to study the past and present role of GBDEx and draft a new policy.
In addition to passing the resolution, the Senate passed two bills concerning Senate procedure, discussed a secondary report by the Commission on the Status of Instruction and unanimously overrode a veto by Ed Rolfs, student body president.
The veto was over-riden with Rolfs' support.
Flood and Steve Segebrecht, Oliver
Student suit charges KUAC discrimination
By ALISON GWINN Staff Writer
Wendell J. Barker, a white, third-year law student, has filed suit against the University of Kansas Athletic Corporation (KUAC) charging reverse discrimination.
Barker, who intends to defend himself, also demanded judgment that the Student Senate not allocate or disburse any funds for athletic recruitment and athletic corporation until the corporation revises its bylaws to eliminate race and sex as qualifications for membership on its
Barker, who filed charges yesterday with the Hearing Division of the KU Judiciary, is also suing Clyde Walker, athletic director; Ed Rolfs, student body president; and the Student Senate. Barker charges that the four parties participated
Computation center plans passed
"I just wanted all the applicants for this equal consideration," Barker said, wickedly.
senator, introduced their resolution because of StudiEx's July 27 decision to reverse an earlier Senate decision and restore full prescription coverage to the health health insurance plan. The resolution recognizes StudiEx's power under the Senate code to regulate the summer but questions the power of StudiEx to reverse Senate decisions.
By GREG HACK
The Senate code says StudEx can act "in lieu of the Senate" and Flood said, that treatment will be made available.
Staff Writer
University administrators approved architectural plans for the new computation center and sent them to the Board of Regents yesterday.
StudEx's restoration of the "drug rider" was apparently the first time StudEx has ever reversed a Senate decision. Neither would she be willing to meet, could recall its happening before.
The Senate unanimously overrode Rofa's veto of a change in the Senate code to allow women to vote, while the change eliminates a phrase allowing the Senate Finance and Auditing Committee to justify sexual discrimination which is certain certain groups requesting Senate funds.
Flood said he had decided over the weekend not to introduce a censure motion before reported. He said a censure motion earlier bogged down in a debate over semantics.
The plans were approved at a meeting called by Keith Lawton, director of facilities planning and operations. Lawton, Chancellor Archie R. Dykes; Dial Delkhan, executive vice chancellor; and several faculty members who are serving on planning committees project examined the plans and prepared the recommendation to the Regents.
David Miller of the architectural and engineering firm of Hollis and Miller presented the plans for the $4-million said budgetary limits were being met.
Lawton said the building might be ready by 1978.
"We're at the one-third juncture in
wearing and we're still recorded with the co-
nnection."
Shankai said, "We way ahead of where we usually are on preliminaries for a company."
"If the Regents approve these plans we can have working drawings hopefully by March," he said. "If money is available we could then go into bidding for the construction contract July 1, 1976. Construction should take one and one-half to two years."
Several changes in the initial plans would reduce construction costs, which should be about $32,000 of the project's total budget. Miller said.
Construction costs were first estimated at a $24 square foot, but now we are at a $36 square foot.
However, he said, some hallways had been eliminated, which cut the expected construction from 50,000 square feet to about 25 feet, and balanced the increased cost.
building has been significantly reduced," he said, "but by cutting on corridors we have been able to save money without reducing the building's working spaces."
"The amount of space taken by the
An extensive fire extinguishing system, extra parking and additional sidewalks originally planned have been made optional, he said.
"We can't be sure what the economy will do," he said, "but I expect more inflation next spring. When we get closer to actual construction we can decide whether we have the funds to add some of these more expensive features."
Miller said a fire prevention system using fire extinguishers and sensitive smoke detectors under floors and above ceilings was now planned.
"The whole east wall of the original building will be easily detachable," he said "and there will be about 300 feet from the building to the building on which we can expand."
Wolfe said this would almost eliminate the possibility of a power failure's shouting
Rolfs told the Senate he didn't care if they overrode the veto. He said he voubled the bill out of concern that it might prevent certain groups like athletics from being eligible for funds, but newly-revised Title IX guidelines had solved that problem.
The center will receive electricity from two generators, each capable of supplying 75 per cent of the center's peak power needs. Miller said.
"Almost every fire involving computer hardware is some sort of small electrical fire you can put out with a hand extinguisher." he said.
Paul Wolfe, director of the computation center, said he amply pleased with the results.
Shankel said the basic construction of the building would be concrete and safe from fire.
The building, to be located at the intersection of 18th and Illinois streets about 400 feet east of Robinson Gymnasium, will house the University's administrative computer system and the instruction and research computer system.
He said a major portion of the computer system, known as the west feeder, shut down 18 times between summer 1974 and spring 1975.
Miller said the site was very good because it allowed for exclosure.
down the computers, which has been a problem in the past.
"The chances of two generators going out at the same time are almost nil," he said.
A computer stores numbers as electrical impulses, so a loss of power ruins all programs being run at the time of a power failure.
Miller said the center would also include an auditorium, a drive-up window and an office.
Roll call votes are now possible as a result of the two procedural bills pass last night.
The new guidelines make distinctions for things like athletics, he said, so there is no need to change the rules.
Lawton said the auditorium would seat 80
Miller said the drive-up window would
pay $30,000, but would pay for
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to 100 people and could be used for classes, meetings and meetings with industries.
"Work handled at the window will be small amounts of paper that can be sent upstairs on a dumb waiter," he said. "This money is used of the elevator, saving some money."
He said he knew of no other computation center with a drive-un window.
Lawton said the observation area would allow townpeople and KU classes to observe a computer area in action without interfering with the center's work.
One-third of the senators at a meeting must vote for a roll call vote before one occurs. According to Rolfs, who submitted both procedural bills, the bill would make it possible for senators' constituents to have their votes now when their senators voted on crucial issues.
Request to go to Regents for beer sale on campus
Student body presidents from state universities will ask the Kansas Board of Regents to reevaluate the state beer sales report, and students, student body president, said yesterday.
Barker charged in his suit that the athletic board amended its bylaws in March to include an amendment that eliminated a requirement for nomination for a 1975 appointment to the board.
By IAN KENNETH LOUDEN
The announcement came after a recommendation Tuesday night by the Lawrence city commission to send the lawsuit stating that 1.3 beer be sold in the Kansas Union.
Rolfsa told the student body presidents would talk over a direct telephone hook-up at 2:30 p.m. and decide when to present their recommendation to the Regents.
"The present policy is unworkable," he said. "It allows beer in the union but not the sale it. The union management has all the benefits and headaches and none of the benefits."
IEC individualizes teaching
The number of students enrolled at the center has increased 72 per cent in the last year, from 116 students in the fall of 1974 to 210 this fall, he said.
The Intensive English Center's (IEC) new director, Michael Henderson, is instituting changes in the center to decrease problems of adjustment for foreign students.
Bv MARY ANN HUDDLESTON
The amended bylaws required student membership on the board to include one woman and one minority person. Four student positions are available on the board, including president of the chairman of the Student Sports Committee and two students appointed to
This semester, IEC students are divided into four large groups. Three of the groups are full time and one, the most advanced, is part time. Part time students can take University courses as special students or participate in department offering the course consents.
In spite of the increased enrollment, he said he had attempted to individualize the program. Henderson said students were now placed in courses according to their level and ability rather than locked into one section according to their overall proficiency test score.
Each full time group has three levels.
Because the proficiency test sections are
Henderson said he expected two benefits from the change in placement. First, he said, each class will be composed of a more homogeneous group than before, so the material taught will be suitable for all the students in the class.
graded on the curve, a student may be placed in a second level grammar course, a first level reading course and a third level composition course according to the same test scores. The more advanced groups have similar placement.
Second, he said, by attending different levels of classes, students will come into contact with more people. Formerly, small groups stayed together in all classes.
Another change Henderson said was being instituted was separation of the students' proficiency test scores from their final grade in class.
Under the old system, Henderson said, students who made progress in class could still get an F when their proficiency test passed. And some students worked work grades. Henderson he thought the
Ginny Gathercole, assistant instructor in the IEC said the changes hadn't affected her teaching but she thought they were probably beneficial to teachers and students. She said her students seemed satisfied with Henderson's program
new way of grading would be more fair to the students.
Yvonne Jimenez, a second semester IEC student, said she thought the changes wouldn't make much difference for students. She said, however, that the students and she speaking more with their students and she could understand them better.
"He has lots of ideas and is open to suggestions," she said.
Henderson said that he thought the new program was working well and that the team needed to organize the new schedule. He said he hoped to be able to use a computer to do the job next semester so he could give instruction to course content and teaching.
See IEC Page Six
"The philosophical question was addressed in 1972 when the Regents voted to allow the consumption of beer in the Union. We have to address the mechanical
See SUIT Page Three
He said he was glad to see the city commission address the problem.
The commission also agreed to ask the Lawrence-Douglas County Planning Commission for action on a student commision and to allow the state to allow expansion of the present bars.
Commissioner Marnie Argersinger said she made the recommendation because of complaints from area residents concerning the use of Street, immediately west of the University.
The commissioners said neither tavern had the space to accommodate the crowds it drew, and the taverns couldn't expand because the businesses are nonconforming zoning uses. That means they are commercial buildings in a residential zone.
The commission will consider the letter at its October meeting.
See SENATE Page Nine
The commission has been receiving complaints from residents near the Wagon Wheel Cafe and the Jayhawk Cafe about rows of students who drink in the street.
Argersinger said last night that this was the first time the city had ever asked the Regents for help on a law enforcement problem. Every fall the residents around the Jawhawk and the Wagon Road企划 team in the city has never done anything about it.
There are 188 student unions in the United States that sell their own beer, Argeringer
Arginger said she was surprised by the sudden groundwell of public opinion both for and against the beer proposal. She had argued that all thealls day yesterday about the noresol.
"I didn't expect this would create such a furor," she said.
She wasn't advocating making students drink beer, she said, but she wanted to get them off the street and into their own territory.
See BEER Page Nine
Just a spectator
Slaff Photo by GEORGE MILLENER
There will be no drill for Midshipman L1. Chris Taylor, Shawnee Mission junior until December. Taylor, who is now restricted to the sidelines during drill practice, suffered a fracture in his left hip.