THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
August 29.1975
Vol. 86 No.5
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
ROIN
Friday
StudEx act is defended by chairman
By JIM BATES Staff Writer
"We did what we had to do." he said.
StudEx is being unfairly singled out for criticism for the way it restored full prescription drug coverage to the student population. Woner, StudEx chairman, said yesterday.
Staff Photo by DAVID CRENSHAW
"We had what we had to," he said. "We were also a member of the Student Health Advisory Board, announced Wednesday he would submit to the Student Senate Wednesday a resolution to censure Stud.Ex. Flood's resolution claims StudEx act in excess of its proper authority July 27 when it reversed the decision and remove the free prescription drug rider.
"StudEx has the right to act for the Senate when necessary," he said.
Werner said the StudEx's summer action was legal.
StudEx restored the rider after reportedly receiving numerous phone calls and letters.
Ed Rolfs, student body president, agreed that the action was justifiable under the Senate code. He said that since it was imminent, he would have reconsidered the rider before the insurance was to have been on sale at enrollment, StudEx had the right to act in
Although he thinks the rider should be abolished, Flood said, it's not the restoration that upsets him. The real issue is the definition of StudEx power.
Both Rolfs and Woner said they thought Flood had a point.
"If StudEx can reverse any Senate decision," he asked, "why have a Senate at least
"The role of StudEx needs to be defined," Rolfs said, "but I personally think the power needs to be there if circumstances come up where Senate can not meet."
Rolfs said he thought Flood's resolution was a negative and nonconstructive action. He said, however, he favored suspending it so it could be discussed by the Senate.
"It will be good to get the whole thing out in the door," he said.
Two to tanale
The rules will have to be suspended before the resolution can be considered since it hasn't had a first reading before Studex It will be introduced from the Senate floor.
Ted Collins, White Cloud second-year law student, and Tom Bush, Leewood second-year
lawmate, take time out from a School of Law intramural football team practice to
watch the game.
Flood also plans to introduce an amendment to the Senate code regarding StudEx
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Art of hitchhiking refines, grows
Bv BRUCE SPENCE
Staff Writer
Hitchhiking has come a long way since the early days of the extended thumb and the hiked skirt. Hitchhiking is economical and, with rides fairly easy to get, it has developed into a burgeoning mode of travel, including advantages and potential dangers involved.
No longer is hitching a ride left to denim-clad travelers sticking their thumbs in the air. Ride boards, where prospective travelers post notices for rides or riders, aid many persons who want to take to the highway with new acquaintances.
Although hitchhiking is defined by dictionaryes as traveling by soliciting free rides from the side of a road, many people apparently consider advertising for a ride only a slight variation from travel by thumb.
Many of those people offer to share expenses or driving, but the principle involved—traveling with a stranger—is still the same.
Laura Bassett, Lawrence freshman, said she didn't consider using the ride boards any different from thumbing a ride on the side of the road.
"Most of the time you don't have any idea who you are riding with, 'Bassett said,' but "I don't."
Mark Phillips, Wichita state, said that he didn't consider the ride board any different from bikihiking and that he usually went up to up a bikihiker where the law permitted it.
The Kansas Union lobby has a ride board, shaped like the United States, with hooks to mark all major cities throughout the country.
Ride boards, seemingly here to stay, are proliferating and easy to find. Colleges and universities have at least one board devoted to that purpose.
Labor break
The Kanan will not be published Monday, Labor Day. Publication will resume Tuesday. The Kanan news website will be closed, but the business office will be closed.
Hitchhiking laws vary across the country, and prospective thumbers should check with an authoritative source in each state, preferably law enforcement officials. Misinformation can be costly in terms of fines or iail sentences.
For example, the latest edition of People's Yellow Pages contains a misleading paragraph about hitchhiking in Kansas. It saves:
However, according to Mike Reeves, patrol officer in the technical services department, although there is no city ordinance for bidding hitchhiking as such, there is an ordinance that prohibits a person from soliciting hitchhiking from a business soliciting a ride, employment or business.
"Hitchhiking a ride within the city limits is illegal and enforced. For traveling the turnpike, stay on the entrance ramps. All other highways are usually hassle-free from the Law if you are outside the city limits. Be careful."
It is unlawful to walk along a roadway within the city if sidewalks are provided, Reeves said, which means if one is going to the city it must be done from the sidewalk.
"If we see somebody on the roadway",
Revees said, "we'll tell him to get out or get
on the sidewalk. If we see him sitting out
at a curb, I'll give him a waving hand.
We usually give at least one warning."
Kris Fraser, Prairie Village sophomore, said, "I think that under certain circumstances, it's probably the only way some people feel they can travel. It's cheap, but it can be so dangerous that I don't think it's anything I'd ever want to do.
Reeves said if a car stopped to pick up a hitchhiker and blocked the traffic lane, both the driver of the vehicle and the hitchhiker could be fined.
Hitchhiking violations in Lawrence are misdemeanors carrying a maximum sentence of $100 or 10 days in jail for a first offense, $200 or 20 days for the second offense, or six months in jail for the third offense, if all the offenses occur in a one-year period.
Any pedestrian who walks along a public highway has to walk on the left side of the roadway facing approaching traffic, he said, which makes it difficult to get rides.
In Kansas it is illegal to hitchhike on the turnip or interstate highways. Entrance and exit ramps and access roads are considered part of the interstate system.
Besides the legal points involved, another deterrent appears to be the dangers related to car accidents.
He said there were more hitchhiking violations when the University was in session, but said it wasn't a serious problem.
While Lawrence police generally check out hitchhikers, Reeves said, hitchhiking isn't discouraged as long as the hitchhikers stay out of the roadwads.
"I have girl friends in school who have
I their cars break down, and one of them
wants to buy a new car."
Architect urges rejection of Med Center clinic bids
By ALISON GWINN
The Kansas Board of Regents will make a financial mistake if it accepts three bids on the new clinical facilities building at the University of Louis Kruger, state architect.
Staff Writer
However, Med Center officials will recommend that the Regents accent the
three bids at a meeting next m Tuesday, Chancellor Archie B. Dykes said,
*Any delay in accepting the bids would only result in greater cost to the University and may reduce its ability to compete.
Krueger, who will appear at the meeting in an unofficial adviser to the Regents, said he stood alone in his opinion that all four bids, which are for mechanical, electrical,
Low cost rise helps increase enrollment
Bv GREG HACK
Staff Writer
Inflation, a tighter job market and greater interest in college by women are the main reasons for this fall's record success. The shortened executive vice chancellor, said yesterday.
"I am sure that with living costs increasing and the tuitions at many private colleges increasing," he said, "many are finding KU's in-state tuition attractive."
Final enrollment figures have not been tabulated, but the Office of Admissions and Records expects total University fall enrollment to be about 40 percent more than the last fall's 22.8. At the same time, the U.S. Office of Education and a study by the American Association of State Colleges and Universities predict that college enrollment will decline this year.
The cost-of-living index rose 41 per cent
and the index, and 174, but higher education
costs increased.
Figures from the Department of Health, Education and Welfare show that for the last seven years tuition at private colleges has increased an average of 7 per cent annually and public colleges' tuition has increased an average slightly less than eight per cent annually.
A survey of 2,400 schools by the College Entrance Examination Board indicated the cost of public schools would be up 12 percent and that the costs are expected to increase about 8 per cent.
The increases nationwide are in sharp contrast to KU's $283 in-state fees, which increased less than 4 per cent during the past two years.
Noting declining enrollments at some Kansas private and junior colleges, Shankel said some students might have to KU them get a job after graduation. He could help them get a job after graduation.
"Any time you have a tight job market," he said. "I think students look for anything that is unattractive."
Shankel also said trends in society had apparently led more women to enroll at KU.
"The percentage of women who graduate from high school and go on to college is increasing," he said, "and the University has benefited. Women as a percentage of total enrollment has increased over the past few years."
"The campus has settled down over the last few years," Shankel said, "and some parents' fears about sending their daughters to KU have subsided."
Gil Dyck, dean of admissions and records,
said he expected about 8,624 women, 44 per cent of the Lawrence campus total, to have enrolled.
University officials had predicted stable
enrollments the next three years, Shankel might predict an increase for next year.
Enrollment had been expected to increase by 200, but went up by about 1,100 this year. Shankal said it was important to get an education for all students state funding was based on the prediction
elevator and general construction, be rejected.
"We have to make our final projection for the State Board of Regents in October," he said. "It looks like an increase can be reasonably defended."
Easy Access allows nondegree-seeking students to take a few classes without having to register before enrolment or through enrollment at Allen Field House.
The KU Outreach program has also drawn in more students. More than 250 students participated in Easy Access enrollment last Sunday, according to Dock
The 11 semifinalists for the 1975 HOPE Award were announced yesterday by Anne Cox, co-chairman of the HOPE Award committee.
HOPE Award committee lists 11 semifinalists
The HOPE (Honor to an Outstanding Progressive Educator) Award is given annually by the senior class to a faculty member for his teaching excellence, Cox said.
The semifinalists were the faculty members who received the most nominations from more than 450 seniors who submitted ballys ticketed at the information booth on Jayhawk Boulevard and last Wednesday during enrollment.
Five finalists will be chosen Oct. 8 and the winner will be chosen Nov. 12. Both selection will be bounced by popup votes of the students. Voting will be on p.m. at the information booth both days.
Tom Decoursey, co-chairman of the committee, said that seniors don't have to pay senior class dues or any other fees to vote.
The semifinalists are: Allan Gigler, assistant professor of political science; Phil Huntingstor, associate professor of physical education; Earl Huyser, professor of physics; Paul Reinecke, professor of business; Louis Michel, associate professor of architecture and urban design; Ruth Noyce, associate professor of education; Phillip Paludan, associate professor of history; Calder Piclett, professor of journalism; Dennis Lawrence, professor of literature; Lance Sherr, professor of business; and Lee Young, professor of journalism.
"I think there are some dangers down the road," he said. "The changes we make in the general construction contract are bound to the mechanical and electrical contract."
The bids for mechanical, electrical and elevator construction totaled about $14 million, and were within funds allocated for the project.
The lowest bid for the general construction contract, however, was $9 million. The highest bid was $25 million.
On Tuesday, Curt Schneider, Kansas attorney general, ruled that negotiating on the bid for the general construction contract constituent constitutional under state bidding laws.
He gave the Regents authority to decide whether the other three bids would be accepted.
State architects are redesigning plans for the project's general construction, trying to cut costs so the new bids will be within appropriated funds. Krueger said.
"We'll have to reft mechanical and electrical construction to general construction, and I think it would cost the state more money later," he said.
One big change being made in the general construction contract is on a seven-foot interstitial space that will exist between all of the building's floors. Krueger said.
The space, which would hold all of the Med Center's life-saving equipment, is large enough to facilitate changes and improvements made in equipment in future years.
A mechanic could climb through the wall and walk in the interstitial space to work.
In the original design, plans called for a floor of gypsum board, which would be strong enough to walk on, and $3.3 million in materials that were required for structures in the interstitial spaces, he said.
Redesigned plans called for a ribbed metal floor and a sprinkler system for fire. These changes could lower construction costs by about $5 million, he said.
But if these changes are made, changes would have to be made in air ducts, light fixtures and electrical facilities in the interstitial spaces, because the material being penetrated by facilities would be the same that in the original design, Krauser said.
“If we revised all of the bids simultaneously, it would give us less possibility for a financial loss,” he said. Ultimately, it will also take some time.”
Kruger said no matter whether the board rejected or accepted the three bids, changes in the general construction contracts would take about six months.
He said he didn't think simultaneous changes made much of the three contracts we signed in my father's hand.
"The difference of opinion on the acceptance of the bids exists because some people think that mechanical and electrical construction could begin right now," he said. "In some respects it could and in some respects it couldn't."
The structural steel of the building is bracketed and it is about 60 per cent completed.
"We can't expend more money than we have," she said. "We change orders come later on, and there isn't any money for them, then they'll have to be disregarded. There's no pork barrel or petty criminal."
Kruger said the Regents requested his presence at the Tuesday meeting to hear his
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On the road
Staff Photo by DAVID CRENSHAW
On the road
A lone hitchhiker on Highway 40 thumb a ride into Lawrence. Highways 10 and 40 are popular routes for hitchhikers going to Kansas City and Topeka. The short hikes are definitely cheaper and sometimes as fast as traveling by car.