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Friday, October 15,1982 Vol. 93,No.40 USPS 650-640
Councils ponder new calendar
By DEBORAH BAER
and DIRK MILLER
Reporters
PITTSBURG—The Council of Presidents of Regents institutions will not approve a new academic calendar designed to save on utility bills. The council's calendar will save, the Council decided yesterday.
Chancellor Gene A. Budig, chairman of the Council, said the group, which met here yesterday, would refer the proposed calendar change back to the Council of Business Officers.
The business officers voted last week to recommend the calendar to the presidents.
Budge said the presidents wanted to know how much money would be saved by delaying the starting and ending date for the fall and spring semesters.
The business officers had said only that the savings would be "substantial."
BUT JAMES GILBERT, vice president for academic affairs at Pittsburgh State University and chairman of the committee that developed the calendar, said that even if the presidents could get data from the business officers indicating that a substantial amount of money could be saved by adopting the proposed measures students should consider the calendar carefully.
"The Council of Presidents has to balance the demands of the academic programs with the needs of students."
In July, the presidents asked the business and academic officers to come up with a new calendar that would avoid some of the hottest days of the current fall and spring semesters.
A committee of business and academic
officers prepared a calendar that would start fall semester about Sept. 1 and end final examinations Dec. 23. The spring semester would begin a week later than usual and end the fall semester on August Martin Jones, KU assistant director of business affairs and chairman of the committee.
The Council of Chief Academic Officers rejected that plan.
GILBERT S�AID COCAG rejected the calendar because it would be harmful to academic printers.
See related story page 13
Denaell Tacha, vice chancellor for academic affairs, said she was concerned about the
amount of time available for final examinations and enrollment under the proposed calendar.
"It would not be in the best interest of the students." Tacha said.
But a week after COCAO voted against the calendar, the Council of Business Officers voted to remove it.
The calendar developed by the committee would have had students in class on Labor Day, the day before Thanksgiving and the day after Easter.
THE BUSINESS officers' calendar does not include Labor Day as a class day because employees would have to be paid overtime for working on a state holiday. Jones said.
William Hogan, associate executive vice chancellor and chairman of KU's energy committee, said his committee probably would be asked to estimate the savings the proposed calendar would generate for KU. He said to calculate the savings would take about a week.
He said he would use the average temper-
atures for the days that cleaners were
available. He said the cleaner and the square
footage of the rooms that would not be used to determine the savings.
"THERE'S NO guarantee." Weichert said. "It depends on the weather."
But Allen Weichert, director of facilities planning, said that any estimate might not be very accurate.
Budig he would heir to meet with the university presidents and business officers again before next Thursday, when the presidents were to meet with Carlin.
Duane Acker, Kansas State University president, said the presidents should have a specific calendar plan for this fiscal year and the next fiscal year to present to the Regents before
Stanley Kopilk, Regents executive director, said that because of the state's economic situation, "things are going to start happening really fast after the meeting with the governor."
Budig, Tacha and Jones have all indicated a desire to allow each institution to have different academic calendars, but that idea has received negative reactions from the Regents, Jones said.
HE SAID that because KU paid more for gas than other institutions and because Pittsburg was in the southern part of the state, KU would save more than Pittsburg would save by starting a company.
Gilbert said the committee had not been asked to suggest a "radical" change, such as recommending different calendars for the different schools.
"It's very difficult to get a common calendar for all the schools," he said. "We in southern Kansas are concerned about summer, and in the north of the state, they're concerned about winter."
Rioters battle to avenge death of Polish worker
By United Press International
WARSAW, Poland—Riot police in Krakow battled into the room with Solidarity supporters seeking to avenge the police killing of a colleague a day earlier, witnesses said yester-
It was the fourth day of protests in a Polish city since Monday, when shipyard workers struck in Gdansk and began a series of protests against the imprisonment of union leader Lech Walesa.
The fatality was the first reported in demonstrations since four Solidarity supporters were killed. Aug. 31 in clashes marking the second anniversary of Solidarity.
The official PAP news agency said Bogdan Wlosik, 20, was shot during a street protest Wednesday by a plainclothes police officer who was "brutally to the ground."
PAP said the officer, "in the defense of his life," first fired a warning shot, then a second, which struck Wlosik. He was taken to a hospital
and died on the operating table yesterday, PAP said.
"WE WILL avenge you," shouted a small group of youths who marched to the police station when news of the death spread through Nowa Huta, an industrial suburb of Krakow.
One witness said a crowd erected a symbolic tomb where the youth was slain, placed flowers over the spot and held a memorial service in the street.
The witness said fighting with police erupted afterward and continued for more than three hours.
Riot police, who had battled demonstrators until after midnight Wednesday, fired tear gas, flares and concussion grenades, the witness said.
THERE WERE no immediate reports of casualties or arrests from the latest violence, but PAP said 67 police were wounded and "scores" of police vehicles were damaged by
See POLAND page 3
He means business
John Houseman, well-known writer, director, teacher and actor, stared down a reporter during a press conference yesterday before speaking to a packed crowd in the Kansas Union Ballroom. Houseman, 80, starred as the tyrannical Professor Charles Kingsfield in the popular television series, "The Paper Chase." See related story on page 3.
Tomorrow will be fair with a high around 70.
from the north to northwest at 10 to 20 mph
It will be mostly clear tonight with a low
cloud.
Weather
Today will be mostly sunny with a high in the upper 60s to low 70s, according to the National Weather Service. Winds will be from the north to southeast.
Enrollment only six minutes long with computers
By VERONICA JONGENELEN
Staff Reporter
KU's new computerized enrollment system will get students enrolled faster and still leave time to correct any problems, Gary Doyle, director of registration, said yesterday.
An undergraduate student will be able to enroll in six minutes or less, and a senior might be able to enroll in less than 90 seconds, he said.
Thompson directed his remarks to 300 students crowded into 3140 Wescoe for the second of two enrollment information meetings.
Timetables will be available at 8:30 a.m.
Monday in the basement of Strong Hall.
Students can start the enrollment process Wednesday by picking up their personalized enrollment cards, filling them out and seeing the teacher. Students will end when students pay fees in Japan.
UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS pick up their cards at their school's office, he said. Graduate students; will find their cards at their department's office.
The student must have an adviser's signature and a clear's stamp in order to start trading.
Juniors and seniors in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences are not required to have an adviser's signature and may be self-advised, except for those undergraduate programs in the college, said.
Students who take any course that requires the consent of the instructor or permission of the department must get approval in writing from an advisor and the department will provide, be said.
Beginning Nov. 3, and after the signatures have been obtained, the student goes to the enrollment center in room 111 of Strong Hall and is listed on the enrollment card. Thomas said.
THE FIRST time a student may enroll is
ENROLLEE.
See ENROLL page 5
George Wamplers, right, facilities operations employee, eyed two water pumps that were empty. Green Hall yesterday after a water main break flooded much of the building's level.
Water floods Green Hall after pipeline ruptures
Staff Reporter
Re RONAR MENNINGER
The main water line to Green Hall ruptured yesterday morning, sending torrents of water into the lower level of the building.
Water from the broken line was six inches deep in places, and mud and sand were deposited beneath it.
Facilities operations crews worked into the night in an attempt to get water restored by today, as service to the Satellite Union also was disrupted by the break.
Robert Porter, associate director of physical plant maintenance, said the break appeared to be caused by dirt settling beneath the pipe, located to the north of the building's main entrance.
However, a facilities operation plumber, Jess Walbridge, said he thought the fracture resulted from the testing of fire hydrants on campus by the company and that facilities operations personnel morning daily.
ramara Dutton, the Green Hall bookstore manager, discovered the leak on the ground floor of the building at 10:50 a.m.
PORTER SAID water to the building was shut off roughly 28 minutes later. But Wabridge said it was only due to a leak.
Dutton, who said structural problems had plagued the building since it opened in the fall of 1977, said she noticed water on the floor of the common area. After checking an empty classroom nearby she saw water spilling across the floor from a crack along a wall.
Maggie Cartar, placement director of the School of Law and assistant to the dean in charge of building operations, said water was gushing past the baseboard it had dislodged when she arrived at rooms 106 and 107 after Dutton called her.
The water accumulated in the lower lectern areas of the split-level rooms, leaving trails of debris.
Lawrence fire department officials and facilities operations personnel were testing fire hydrants on campus yesterday as part of an effort to locate a fire that had according to Jim McVinn, Lawrence fire chief.
PORTER SAID that it was a coincidence that the line broke during the testing and that the
Carlin assails Hardage's severance tax stand
By JULIE HEABERLIN
Staff Reporter
In a speech peppered with barbs for Republican Sam Hardage, Gov. John Carlin told KU students yesterday that his alternative to the severance tax was, unfortunately, his opponent's
"Unfortunately, the alternative to the severance tax is Mr. Hardage's plan, which means ignoring school finance and raising the gasoline tax," Carlin said in response to a student's question at a KU Law Forum. "There is no good alternative."
Hardage recently has focused on Carlin's single-mindedness during the campaign, accusing the incumbent governor of lacking economic wisdom and the Legislature fails again to pass the severed ties.
The Kansas House of Representatives passed Carlin's proposed severance tax during the spring session, but the measure was narrowly defeated by the Senate.
However, Carlin said, because of the pressures from senatorial elections next year he was
confident he would have enough support for passage of the oil and gas tax in the 1983 Legislature. Senators are not up for re-election this year.
In a phone interview later, Hardage's press secretary. Darrell Day, accented Carlin's副
"THE HOUSE will be just as strong on the severance tax and the Senate will be anxious to clarify its record," Carlin said. "They realize the public sees the severance tax as the best
Hardage proposes solving the state's financial programs with a business incentive plan and by increasing the gasoline tax 4 cents a gallon.
"That's absurd." Day said. "From the beginning, education has been one of Sam's highest priorities. He will find necessary funding by getting eminent wannabes to programs offered by Education."
Addressing about 150 students and faculty members, Carlin stressed the importance of the severance钱 in funding higher education and providing money for only providing money to improve highways.
DAY SAID he could not provide information
concerning which programs Hardage would reduce but said there were obvious discrepancies concerning the state's funding of higher education.
Carlin also said Hardage's proposed gasoline tax would directly tax the Kansas consumer from 50 to 75 cents "every time he pulls up to the pump."
"I've acknowledged that out of every $100 the state receives from the severance tax, the Kansas consumer will pay $5." Carlin said. "If I had $100, I wouldn't have made the consumer will nav $5 out of every $100."
Day said the thrust of Carlin's figures was questionable because the Democrat did not include resulting unemployment and the anti-business climate if the oil industry was taxed.
"I've never heard these figures before," Day said. "But you can manipulate numbers to say
DURING THE FORUM, a student asked Carlin whether Republican Wendell Lady's decision not to endorse Hardage had helped the Democratic campaign.
"Yes," Carlin said, grinning. He also said the
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