THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Vol. 86 No.3
August 27,1975
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Wednesday
First day drill
Staff Photo by GEORGE MILLENER
Susan Cox, Evergreen, Colo., freshman, maneuvers to bounce a ball on the tip of her hock stick during the first day of Women's FIELD Hockey practice.
Student surge limits funds
Shortages in faculty, classified personnel and money for supplies could result from the University of Kansas enrollment increase to accommodate executive vice chancellor, said yesterday.
Shankel, speaking at the first of a series of regularly scheduled press conferences, said that the University had expected an imminent increase in the number of students increased this semester by 1,100 students.
State funds for the University, which are based on last year's enrollment projections, might not meet the needs of the unexpectedly larger student body, he said.
When enrollment projections for the fall semester were made last October, Shankel said, the University filed a report with the state, which then drafted a formula for funding in three areas: faculty, classified facilities, supplies such as classroom equipment.
The University probably won't get any additional state funds for more faculty and staff.
The University must manage this year's enrollment increase with money from last year.
Additional activity fees resulting from such an unexpected increase could help to compensate for the shortage of state funds, Shankel said. Activity fees are deposited with the state, which must then authorize the release of the funds.
KU's enrollment should remain level for the next three years, and then decline
During the years of campus unrest, KU's credibility faltered, he said, in the past few years, Kansans have gradually regained their confidence in the University.
Shankel said he expected the state to authorize the release of all the University's research.
Although the number of graduates is declining, Shankel said he expected the University's enrollment to remain constant for the next few years while untraditional students return to school in increasing numbers.
during the following eight to 10 years to cent of the present level, Shankal said.
"In the course of the next 10 years, some colleges now in business will be out of business," he said. "I don't expect KU to be one of them."
Trash service bidding open
By IAN KENNETH LOUDEN
The Lawrence City Commission decided last night to accept bids for a private building.
Staff Writer
The decision came one day after the commission decided to appoint a committee to study problems in the present city sanitation service.
The decision to appoint the committee resulted from a meeting Monday between civil officials and Ross McKinney, professor of civil engineering, and Norman Forer, associate professor of social welfare. McKinney and Forer will be on the com-
Forer is also an independent consultant to the city sanitation workers union, which opposes hiring a private service. Forer has said the present service is the best for the price the city pays. Homeowners pay $2.50 a month for twice-a-week service.
Forer wasn't present at last night's meeting.
City Manager Buford Watson said he thought the city should accept private bids even if a committee will be studying ways to improve the present system.
"I'm opposed to a long, long study," he said. "We need to make a declaration on what we believe we should do."
He said he thought the city had sufficient data to make a decision. It will take about five weeks to receive the bids, he said, and during that time his study of the present service by thphp.
Under a private contract, the city would continue to bill and collect, he said. The city will look at bids for once-a-week and twice-a-week service for homeowners. In addition, the contractors will negotiate independently with commercial users.
George Williams, director of public works, said city-owned collection trucks would be bid upon by the private service. The city will also appoint a private group to appraise the trucks. The private service will account for the investment in Lawrence but not at the city garage.
Commissioner Fred Pence said he thought Williams meant the private service would provide the services the city service is supposed to provide.
Complaints will be remedied within 24 hours, he said. The private service would provide the same services the present city service does.
Williams said the city would try to see that present sanitation employees would be hired in the spring.
Watson said that although the city would continue to control the landfill, a provision
Commissioner Donald Binns praised the proposed private contract.
for ownership wouldn't be included in the contract.
Med Center expects few bidding problems
"Ive had more phone calls complaining about sanitation than anything else," he said. "This will make the city an advocate for the citizens instead of an antagonist."
The building is now about $30 million above original cost estimates and a year behind construction schedule, according to the Associated Press.
Pence said it was possible for the price of collection for homeowners to be higher from a private service. The price for a public service is less. Everybody has to pay a fair share, he said.
"Once you make this decision there aren't many ways you can turn back," he said. "The contract is for five years."
W. Keith Weltmer, state secretary of administration, said the Regents had two choices. They can readverise the general electrical and elevator work or change on other materials needed. Or they can accept the bids on the mechanical, electrical and elevator work, which are within the architect's estimates, and run by the new general contract specifications.
A bid by the Thomas Construction Co., St. Joseph, Mo. of $20.69 million on the general contract was substantially above the architect's estimate.
Watson stressed the importance of the decision to accept a private service.
Renegotitions will probably begin at the earliest possible time, Miller said. He estimated it would be about 60 days before the new bids could be received.
In other action, the commission decided to give Commissioner Carl Mibbe two weeks to revise the 1973 Lawrence housing code.
Miller said he doubted the bidding process would be affected by the new public financial limitations of the Med Center, but the group could easily smoothbids to get a valid cost estimate.
The commission decided this summer to review the code because it wasn't specific enough.
Schneider ruled that the Regents fell under the state's general bidding statute which requires that all bids be thrown out. The architect, who all bids exceed the architect's estimates.
According to the Associated Press, Schneider in effect told the Regents they would have reprimed bidding for the $20 million general contract and try to get a lower bid, to bring it within estimates made by the state architect.
KU Medical Center officials don't anticipate major problems with Atty. Gen. Curt Schneider's ruling that the Board of Regents can't negotiate a general contract for building the new clinical science building at the Med Center.
A revised code was presented at last week's meeting but a decision was deferred because the committee felt it was important.
"It won't be too difficult if it's done promptly," Mills said. The bids already approved are the Med Center's main concern, he said.
1973 code was accepted was that the city wanted to get federal revenue sharing money to renovate Massachusetts Street. The 1969 code's standards weren't up to standards and if they hadn't been changed the city couldn't have received the money, he said.
"The building code wouldn't work because the federal government wouldn't let it do that."
Mibeech said he was concerned that if a new, more specific and definite code wasn't prepared, people would have trouble finding good places to live. He was concerned that
Mayor Barkley Clark said that after listening to members of the Lawrence Building Code Board of Appeals and the Minimum Code of Appeals last week, the commission had assumed Mibeck's proposed changes were unacceptable.
Russell H. Mills, vice chancellor for administration for the Med Center, said yesterday that officials at the Med Center were "very much concerned" that the contracts be awarded. However, he said that medical officers don't expect major problems.
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He said Mibec had gone back to the 1969 code and made changes in it instead of reviewing the 1973 code. Clark said he had received that decision he had decided the 1973 code was better.
Commissioner Pence said the reason the
landlords would take advantage of University of Kansas students during the present housing shortage.
The commission also approved contract of purchase for hospital revenue bonds. It authorized the issuance of $12,655,000 in hospital revenue bonds and the execution of a lease between the city and the Lawrence Hospital Board of Trustees.
A scheduled injunction hearing on Lawrence's right to condemn property for the city maintenance garage at 11th and Haskell streets was delayed.
Earlier yesterday, Douglas County District Court Judge James Paddock ordered a continuation on the injunction. The case was brought to the court and was made by the city and by Katherine and Orville Ray, owners of the property, petitioned for the injunction two weeks ago.
City officials met after the commission in executive session to discuss negotiation.
Waiting for dorm rooms also problem at K-State
For most University of Kansas students, waiting to obtain a room in one of the residence halls is a new experience. But Kansas State University students have had to deal with an on-campus housing shortage for years.
The ironing rooms in Hashinger, Oliver and McCollum halls are still full with 30 students waiting to move into regular classrooms; associate dean of men, said yesterday.
There are 10 students left on the waiting list to move into the temporary housing in the ironing rooms, McEllenie said, and 11 rooms have been moved into regular rooms.
"We're not making overwhelming
Computer bids to be kept secret
By ALISON GWINN
The names of bidders and the amounts of their bids for a new University of Kansas computer system won't be made public until Sept. 26.
The state division of purchases and University of Kansas officials learned the names of the bidders and their bids on Friday, which was the deadline for bidders to put up a guarantee of $2,500 for each computer system they intend to bid on.
The purchasing division recommended, however, that the University not release the bidders' names because such information might affect the binding process, Paul Wolfe, director of the computation center, said yesterday.
"I can see the rationale for that," he said.
"I can see the bidders' names aren't public information."
"If, for example, this information would give any bidder an advantage, it would be considered favored information and it shouldn't be released."
The release of bidders' names primarily is a problem of the purchases division because it is responsible for receiving bids and for rewarding contracts. Wola said.
Wolfe said KU would follow the guidelines or the division but didn't think releasing the guidelines would be good.
"It may look like a KU procurement, but it's really a State of Kansas procurement."
they had met at a vendors' meeting on Aug. 1.
Khen Knouw, director of the purchasing division, said, "They know who's attending the pre-bid meetings, but they don't know who's actually bidding."
"It's not unusual in here for a biddder to call in and want to find out what his com-
    portant is."
He said the details about bidders and bids were privileged information.
There are times when it wouldn't make any difference if the bilders' names were released, he said, but he was uncertain whether he would make a difference in this instance.
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strides, but we're pecking away at it." McEllenbie said. "It's like a merry-go-round. We're moving people out and moving more people in."
The shortage of on-campus housing is nothing new at K-State, Thomas Frith, director of housing, said. K-State has had a few rooms in rooms for at least the last 10 years, he said.
The 4,300 spaces in residence halls at K-State were all full by July 1, he said. About 40 students, men and women, are now living on campus, where students waiting for openings in regular rooms.
Women will be moving into regular rooms immediately, Frith said, but the men in temporary housing will have to wait a couple of weeks.
K-State didn't have the exodus from oncampus housing during the late '80s and early '70s that many other universities had. The fact that halls always been popular, be said,
Fritish said men were be discouraged from trying to move into the residence halls and the housing office wasn't keeping a record of what had happened to want to move into on-carrus housing.
at both KU and K-State, women can move directly into the residence halls, officials said.
Like most other universities, K-State has projected an enrollment decline, Frith said, but that projection may have to be reassessed.
"We've projected an enrollment decline, but if this enrollment increase trend continues, we'll have to revise our thinking," he said. "People keep asking me if we shouldn't build more dorms. I just don't know the answer."
Administrative aides begin training program
By GREG HACK
Staff Writer
Eleanor Turk, administrative assistant to the executive vice chancellor, said yesterday that five half-time and one full-time students had been established for the current academic year.
The University of Kansas is training six women and minority group members in an administrative intern program to help KU meet its affirmative action goals.
"All participants will be from the University," she said, "and will be working under a vice chancellor to learn about the University's administration."
Turk and Bonnie Ritter Patton, director of Affirmative Action, said the program was designed to increase the pool of women in the profession and to assume administrative positions.
Plans for the program were announced last spring after two KU students
Saricks' department had hired two white men on a half-time basis, Edward Bassett and Ralph Christoffersen, to replace James Rosser, the only minority person in the central administration. The lawsuit never materialized.
threatened to bring a lawsuit against Chancellor Archie R. Dykes, Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor, and Ambrose then vice chancellor for academic affairs.
"I wouldn't say the controversy last spring caused the announcement of the internships," Patton said, "but people did become more aware of the need for a larger pool of women and minorities trained in administration."
Interns interviewed said it was too early to evaluate the program, although they viewed it as a good opportunity to learn about university administration.
Shirley Harkness, assistant professor of
sociology, said she had become interested in administration by working on many committees, including the sociology department's personnel committee and the University Committee on Promotions and Tenure.
"I have learned about the University's administration through my committee work," she said, "but only by being in an administrative office; it can办公室 you really know it. is like."
Harkness said she didn't know whether
"I have been talking to many people involved in administration and reading documents about the University. I will be attending this year, and the way policy is arrived at this year."
She said she had done work in urban sociology and was looking forward to studying whether the University is an urban institution—a city university.
she would ever hold an administrative position as a result of her internship.
Lenore Findlay, professional counselor in supportive educational services, will be an intern with Keith Nitcher, vice chancellor for business affairs.
"Either way I go, into educational administration or sociology, I think my knowledge of administration gained this year will be valuable," she said.
"Some other universities have tried some administrative intern training, but this is the first I know of at KU. It is quite innovative on KU's part."
After she observes different activities of the office, she said she might undertake a more complex project in one area of business affairs.
"I have had one meeting with Mr. Nitcher," Finday said, "and I will be exposed to areas of business administration on a rotating basis."
"The whole office has been very receptive," Findlay said, "and I hope the year will be beneficial for me and the business affairs office.
She said the intern program was flexible, and would probably be well established by the end of the year.
Finding said she hoped to stay at the university in the coming years, whether as a course teacher or an intern.
"I am working on my M.P.A. (master of public administration) degree now, too," she said, "so I'm very busy. I have worked with 'people problems' before and I think this training in administration will be a new experience."
Evelyn Senecal, administrative director
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