Special Edition
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
No.1
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Campus 1
Wednesday, August 20, 1975
Campus government is sensible...really
By JACK McNEELY
Kansas Staff Reporter
Between the time you first pull a card for a 7:30 math class and the time somebody trips on your robe during commencement, you're bound to wonder at least once who makes government decisions at the University of Kansas.
When you do, you'll be confronted by a seemingly bewildering array of senators, judges, and judges.
IF YOU'RE LIKE most of us, you'll simply shrug your shoulders and join the silent parade 4. U graduates who never did quite understand what was goaen awn.
But if you aren't like most of us, you study the hydra for a minute and read the rest of this story. And suddenly the fog will be lifted from your eyes, and you'll see that University governance isn't so complicated after all.
Government est omnis divisa in partes tres.
"that's Latin, and it means, 'If you can understand you can understand KU government.'"
On your first finger, count student government.
On your second finger, count faculty government.
AND ON YOUR third finger, count University government, which is a combination of student government and faculty government. That's all there is to it.
Administrators don't have a government. They administrate.
On your first finger is student government. It comprises three groups—the Student Senate, the seven committees of the Student Senate and the Student Senate Executive Committee, norrisically named StudEx.
Some say that because administrators administrate, they're the ones who really know how to work.
There are more than a hundred students in the Student Senate. Freshmen and sophomores in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences are represented according to which they live. All other students are represented according to which school they are in.
EACH STUDENT senator is a member of at least one of the seven committees, which are Student Rights, Privileges and Services, Staff Relations, Communications, Finance and Auditing.
Student Services, Sports and Cultural Affairs.
The Student Senate has the power to advise the administration on matters of interest.
That means some senators think up what to give administrators a hard time whenever they can, and other senators try to work with the administrators when the desires of students conflict with the needs of administrators!) (read “desires of administrators”).
The biggest problem faced by the senators who try to work with the administrators is to find enough information so they know what they're talking about.
THE SENATORS ARE here about four years. The administrators are here forever. So the administrators know how we got where we are today. The senators have to find that out before they can approach problems intelligently.
More than one senator has gotten behind in his book learning and beer drinking because he has spent so much time fighting with administrators and trying to protect himself. The president is generally the student who has spent the most time doing that.
Because the Student Senate's power is an advisory one, the administrators can listen politely to what the students say and then go ahead and do whatever they want anyway.
The administrators don't often do that. Partly as a result of massive demonstrations that happened here in the late '60s, students have a greater hand in running KU than students at other universities have in running their schools. The problem is to find students who want to devote time to running KU.
THE CHAIRMEN OF the Student Senate's seven committees lots of jobs to time figuring out what students want and then truing to do that.
The committee chairmen are members of the Student Senate Executive Committee and the Student Senate agenda and acts for the senate in times of emergency. A time of emergency is when something needs to be done and shouldn't time to call a meeting of the senate.
Other members of StudEx are the student body president and vice president, a senator who acts as chairman and the three student members of SenEx. More on SenEx later.
STUDENTS ALSO serve on various governing boards, such as the Parking and Traffic Board, which decides who can park and where how much he'll have to pay, the Athletic Seating Board, which decides who can sit where at athletic events, and the University of Kansas Athletic Corporation, who job is to produce winning sports teams.
Moving now to your second finger, we find faculty government. It comprises the Faculty Senate, the Faculty Council, the committees of the Faculty Senate and the Faculty Senate Executive Committee, called FaEx. Also, horribly.
The Faculty Senate is composed of the chancellor and his administrative assistants, the vice chancellors, the senior deans and almost all faculty members.
TJS JOB IS to advise the administrators on matters that concern faculty members. The department is not alone in Related Problems has original jurisdiction over any faculty member's complaint that administrators have violated his rights under the doctrine of tenancy and its provisions of freedom.
Because the Faculty Senate is so large, it meets rarely and votes by mail ballot.
The Faculty Council is composed of the 39 faculty members of the University Council.
Crowded shelves in Spencer Research Library
Staff photo by DON PIERCE
The Faculty Council is a workable version of the Faculty Senate. It meets twice a year, and the faculty elects the chair.
See KU GOVERNMENT page 6
KU library squeeze even tighter
By STAN STENERSEN
Kennan Staff Reporter
Kansan Staff Reporter
If you returned to campus this fall expansion the elevator in Watson Library to work with students.
Or if you returned hoping that you would have better luck finding the books you need for your term paper, your hopes for change are perhaps too high. The quirks and inconveniences that may have exasperated you in the past are likely to continue.
IT'S NOT THAT people who run the library don't care. Rather, they are struggling with outmatched, overcrowded libraries and that doesn't allow many of the things they need.
Librarians have their own definition of the "golden age," and for them it didn't exist so long ago. The early '60s were the heyday for libraries. During that time, libraries expanded rapidly and federal money for library programs was readily available.
The reasons for the state of the University's library system are varied. Some reasons, like inflation, are visible and vicious. Others are more long-standing and more insidious. To understand the library you have to go back a number of years.
The "golden age" began to close about 1965, when federal money for libraries became scarce, according to John Glinka, associate director of libraries. The drying-up ended an era during which the library had enjoyed a substantial growth in its budget.
ABUNDANCE BROUGHT its own problems, Glinda said. As more money is raised to fund library expansion the library's purchases outstripped the ability of the staff to process and catalog the new titles, he said, and additional staff members had to find because for them librarians were needed.
AFTER FEDERAL FUNDS dried up, the inflation of the last several years began to eat even further into the library's budget. James H雁, assistant director for technical services, gave these figures to illustrate the problem:
The library never caught up, however, and Glinda estimated that between 150,000 and 200,000 volumes were still uncataloged. Simplified procedures speed up research now, he said, but the library has never been able to overcome that initial backlog.
As a short cut, the library began briefing books; that is, it assigned them numbers without fully cataloguing them. A borrower could then ask a member of the staff to find the book in one of the storage areas.
The library's cost for serials-
magazines, journals and other periodicals-
has increased 263 per cent in the last 10 years, while the number of subscriptions has increased 263 per cent in the same period. The cost of serials is rising at about 14 per cent a year.
THE COST OF BOOKS and serials from many foreign countries has risen
—the library can now afford to buy only half as many books as it could five years ago. By contrast, twice as many books of all ages as today, last year as were published 10 years ago.
tremendously, Helyar said. Many faculty
meet students need such materials
hid their results.
In 1974, for example, the library lost nearly 70 per cent of its夺urging ability for books and serials from East Asia. A number of countries have also risen steeply in cost.
The price of so many foreign books and serials has risen so steeply because of inflation abate, devaluation of the dollar and a loss of recent federal support. Helvar said.
Antiquarian books, most of which are kept in Spencer Research Library, are also more expensive. Helyar said that while inflation in the book industry was about 10 to 15 per cent a year, antiquarian books cost from 25 to 60 per cent more every year.
IN THE LAST FEW years, KU administrators have tried to fight the erosion of the library's budget and year's budget of about $1 million for books and serials is about 40 per cent higher than the budget five years ago. However, the library is fighting to stay even that the library is fighting to stave even.
"Our funding is enough to meet inflation, but it doesn't do much more than that." Heylar said. "An inflation rate of 15 per cent means that you need another $150,000 a year to stay even. It's a bit like Alice through the looking glass."
The library's directors are encouraged, however, by efforts of University administrators to bolster the library's budget. In fiscal 1975, the budget for books and serials was increased by $90,000. That amount will double during fiscal 1978.
IN ADDITION, administrators have shifted some unused University funds to the library. One such shift of $75,000 has allowed the library to buy such new equipment as typewriters, card catalogue cases and new shelving. Part of that amount will be used to shelve unbound periodicals in the reading room.
NEVERTHERE LESS, THE added money won't solve the library's problems overnight, officials said. James Ranz, who came from the University of Wyoming to become
The additional money will probably be used to buy more books and serials, hire additional staff and join the Ohio College Library Center, a computerized resources center that helps students search activities for the library. Cost of the membership in the library center is estimated at $0,000 a year, but staff members said the library would probably save a considerable amount from its expenses and the services the center would perform.
During budget hearings this past summer, administrators placed the library first on their list of priorities for new and expanded programs. They requested an additional $358,171 for the library in fiscal 2017 an amount the Board of Regents cut to $269,426. The board made by the governor or the legislature before the appropriation passes.
"The crucial period was 1979-71," said Linda. "Whigs are getting better now. We need a new president."
Library officials said they hoped the increased funds meant that the library had more staff.
dean of libraries at KU in mid-July. Thou
wouldn't improve much in the near future.
"You don't repair the neglect of a decade in emergency appropriations," he wrote.
One nagging problem, said Ranz, is the size of the library staff. Its current size of about 140 is 25 per cent less than libraries of comparable size, he said, but the current number of staff has added more. With an increase in staff size, the backlog of work will increase, he said.
By far the greatest problem, library of officials said, is the library building. Watson Library and most of the branch libraries on the campus are overcrowded, outmoded and difficult to remodel even if money were available, they said. And in the meantime, Watson is coming closer to bursting at the seams.
ROBERT MALINOWSKY, assistant director for reader services, is chairman of a 13-member committee whose job is to recommend how the University should spend an estimated $2 million to $25 million on new library equipment and buildings. The assignment and the figures were submitted to the committee by University administrators.
Malinowsky said the need for new facilities was critical.
"Right now, our stacks are more than 90 per cent full. In some places they're more than 100 per cent full, with books lying on the floor or in piles." Stacks only about 75 per cent full so that you
See LIBRARY page 10
Dyche collection evolved from adventurous spirit
By DAVID BARCLAY
Kansas Staff Reporter
To pass the time before the University of Kansas opened in 1866, Francis Huntington Snow, one of the three original professors at KU, went hunting. The animals that Snow shot were the beginning of a collection that is now the fourth largest museum of natural history owned by a university in North America.
Lewis Lindsay Dyche accompanied Snow on many of his early expeditions. Dyche came to the University broke in 1877 and camped where Dyche Hall now stands. During his first months as a student he supported himself by hunting.
By the time Dyche graduated and joined the faculty in 1884, Snow had given KU botanical, zoological and geological collections second in America only to those at Harvard. Dyche was enlarging his own collections of stuffed birds and mammals.
Dyche first earned national fame in 1893 when he displayed over 100 large stuffed animals at the Chicago World's Fair. Unlike other museum collections at that time, Dyche's
Dyche traveled throughout Kansas and across the United States, lecturing and teaching.
stuffed animals were positioned in natural
environments and backpack depicting
their natural habitats.
In 1894 and 1895 Dyche traveled to Greenland, where he collected specimens of polar bear, walrus, and caribou. On this expedition he won international recognition when he rescued the stranded arctic explorer, Commander Robert E. Pearcy.
The exterior of the museum, described as Venetian Romanesque by the architect, was modelled after the Cathedral of Saint-Michel in Paris. The entrance of the museum showed the most
He was so well known by 1897 that when the state legislature cut the salaries of KU's faculty, Dyche was the only one exempted. The state legislature also persuaded the legislature to allocate money to build a special natural history museum for KU's growing collection, then stored in old Snow Hall across from Wasson Library. The appropriated dollars was appropriated in 1901.
obvious resemblance. Its columns and archways were inspired by the cloister of the cathedral. The stones used to build the church are stone, which were married near Lawrence.
The carvings of beasts, birds and other creatures on its columns were intended to illustrate the building's purpose. The building was carved at the site by two Italian craftsmans.
According to one account of the museum's history, two students, Antonio Tommasini and Fred Pickett, were allowed to carve one of the gargoyles. It was a feathered creature which stood on a skull with its wings outspread above the surface of the building in formation of the Jayhawk. It was taken down in 1982 to make way for a new addition.
The names of six men who have made outstanding contributions to science—Huxley, Darwin, Audubon, Cope, Agassiz, and Gray—were printed on the walls of the museum and, until recently, were covered by vines.
auquob's and Gray's names were
see DYCE MUSEUM JM page 6