University Daily Kansan
Wednesday, August 20. 1975
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Haskell is healthy, but lacks KU contact
By KELLY SCOTT Kansas Staff Reporter
Most people forget that Lawrence, in addition to being the home of the University of Kansas, also boasts one of the most institutions of higher education in the country.
Haskell Indian Junior College, located southeast of downtown Lawrence just off K-10, is one of two federally-funded junior colleges in the state. It also restricted to Americans of Indian descent.
STUDENTS AT HASKELL are primarily Indians from reservations in the north-central and midwestern parts of the country. They are funded school, administered by the Bureau of Indian Affairs, there is no distinction made between in-state and out-of-state tuition. Because of federal funding, students are required to travel to lawrence pay little tuition.
Haskell is one of the best-equipped modern junior colleges in the country, Wallace Galluzzi, president of Haskell, has said.
When compared to KU, Haskell seems small in physical facilities, area and curriculum, but comparisons are unfair to him. He is among the missionors of the two schools, Gallaui said.
IN THE PAST FIVE years, efforts by Haskell administrators to balance course offerings have resulted in an expanded liberal arts and humanities program.
Previously, Haskell was primarily a vocational-technical college.
"We have tried to achieve a balanced program," Galluzzi said. "We want students to have the option of going either wav."
The breakdown between students in vote
tech programs and in liberal arts is roughly
equal.
Although Haskell now follows the basic two-year curriculum of most junior colleges, Gallucci said, there had been expansion of expanding it into a four-year school.
"It would mean massive physical expansion, " it so depends very much on us being able to work out a proposal that would be acceptable to our regents," Galluzi
Haskell is administered by a federal Board of Regents from within the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Although it is publicly financed, Haskell is more like a private institution than is KU in terms of the enrolment and funding.
GALLUZI SAID there was not yet a declining enrollment problem at Haskell. Because of its limited facilities, it couldn't grow much and far over its levelament of 1,100, he said.
"We'll have the numbers needed for the
institution we run now," Gallucci said, "and if we expand to four years, we feel the demand to come to Haskell would fill the extra spaces, too."
Relations between KU and Haskell are unclear, and haven't always been harmonious. The reasons are partly the differences between the types of schools and partly differences between the kinds of students at the two schools.
A 1973 Kisanan poll showed that Haskell students perceived KU students as "rich, upperclass smokers." The poll also showed that KU students were the most segments of the Lawrence community.
THERE IS LITTLE interaction between Harel's student students. Ron Tebbel, Hassell shellwork.
"For some reason, we're a lot more distant." Tebbat said.
Tebbel said he felt there previously was more contact between the institutions in the region than with any other country.
A college education is more or less automatic to KU students, he said.
the reservation or of being able to contribute something to improve it.
WHILE THE CURRICULUM offered at KU allowed the students the luxury of spending more time in college, Haskell students don't have the time. Tebbat said.
He said the reason a Haskell student attended college and the reason a KU student went to college were fundamentally different.
Ed Rolfs, president of the KU student body, said he thought there were fewer academic exchanges than cultural exchanges between KU and Baskell.
"The two institutions just have different directions," Rolfs said.
Although Haskell is one of the top junior colleges of any kind in the country, Rolfs said, KU just doesn't have much in common with junior colleges.
IF THERE WERE large-scale institutional exchanges and joint programming between Haskell and KU, Reifs said, it would set a dangerous precedent for KU's relationships with other Kansas junior colleges.
He said that, to an Indian, a college education meant the possibility of escaping
One relationship that Rofls said he thought was good was that of encouraging him to be an author.
"We must approach all junior colleges like this," Rolfs said.
KU has the advantage of having Haskell, a potential source for transfers, in the lab.
Dr. James Moser, dean of the School of Fine Arts, agreed with Rolfs.
The University should be encouraging Haskell students to remain in Lawrence to be involved in the program.
Local company succeeds in bowl stacker business
"IN FINE ARTS, we have the advantage of a relatively sophisticated facility in Murphy Hall that they just don't have at Haskell," Moeser said.
Jerry Hutchison, associate vice chairman for academic affairs and chairman of the fledgling American Indian Studies department at KU, said that contact between Haskell and KU had been steadily decreasing in the past three years.
In the highly competitive world of industry, terms such as "roller stack unit," "automatic oiler," or otherwise mean little to all but a specialized few. It is with these few, however, that Carson-Burger-Weekly, Inc., of Lawrence, does about $1 million in sales.
By MARK PENNINGTON
Kansan Staff Reporter
The men behind the company that manufactures this sophisticated array of machines, which sort, count and stack materials, come from vastly different backrooms.
"You just don't see that much interaction anymore," he said.
DAVE CARSON, 27, graduated from the University of Kansas in 1970 with a B.S. in mechanical engineering. Jon Weekley, 42, has a second grade education and was a carpenter and shop foreman. He is a graduate of the original Carson-Burger, has left the company.
Carson and Burger met while working at the University's Center for Research in Education. They had a problem related to plastic lad handing. The two men got together and decided to strike out on their own, designing and manufacturing the unit they had studied at University.
Hutchison participated in faculty exchanges between the two schools in education.
Carson-Burger owed him so much money in back pay that he asked them to forge the debt.
Weekly started to work for the company soon after it was formed. At one point
THE TWO MEN READLY accepted the offer and Carson-Burger-WEEKly was born. It wasn't a very auspicious birth—the girls were Weekly's 12-foot by 24-foot garage.
He said that perhaps the declining interest in Haskell and in American Indians in general was reflective of less interest now uniteres than in the late 80s and early 70s.
The company is now located in a large steel-frame building at 320 N.E. Industrial Lane in north Lawrence. Carson has his own office and is an owner of the company's research, drafting and sales.
"The first machine we made was by accident." Carson has said. "We ran across the town and hearing about the problem they were having sorting and stacking plastic lids. We came up with an idea and the whole process was given from that. We were very fortunate."
"WE NEW MANUFACTURE automatic lid stackers, container stackers, lid inventory systems, conveyors and a variety of implementments and trailer parts." he said.
Weekly said that as a result of the success of the lid sorter and stacker, a succession of other machines have been built to work in conjunction with it.
40 men and have 100 markets for their machines from here or work on a business success don't come easy
ALTHOUGH BOTH MEN said their business was a success—they now employ
"We started out without a penny," he said. "We couldn't have built the first machine at all if we hadn't received an advance from the customer."
Last year's sales volume for the company was around $70,000 and they expect to sell about 50 percent more.
BECAUSE OF THE recession and the cost of petroleum products such as plastic, the company has had to cut the evening plant work force now works only a day shift.
"The situation we're in is that the equipment we make has the potential to be huge. The amount of equipment volume is not big enough to keep the whole company busy, so ideally we should have another line of equipment so we would have the volume and sheer scale we're looking for on equipment."
CARSON SAID THE biggest surprise in forming the young company and watching it grow was the tremendous emphasis that had to be placed on salesmanship.
Weekly said the company was now building a good clientele in the fabrication business and that the future for fabrication looked very good.
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