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Vol.87 No.51
The University of Kansas—Lawrence. Kansas
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Parents plan open school for next fall
By DAYNA HEIDRICK
Staff Writer
Lawrence 5 and 6-year-olds will have an alternative to public school when a private, "open concept" elementary school begins classes next fall.
Michael Bryant, Lawrence graduate student who will coordinate the school, said yesterday that the school wouldn't be a free, or unstructured, school, although it would give the student more freedom and responsibility than public schools.
Although parents and educators establishing the school haven't yet found a building for the school, they do have an office at 1101 $^\circ$ Massachusetts St. and this week are beginning cooperative catalog order sales to help lower tuition.
MANY TEACHERS IN the Lawrence school district already employ the methods proposed for the new school, Bryant said, but a student and his parents have no choice about which type of instruction the student receives. As a result, he said, the student may have an open structured classroom one and a highly structured classroom the next.
Bryant said the parents and educators starting the new school believed that six or seven years of consistent open education would build qualities in children that generally weren't developed by more structured education.
PARENTS OF CHILDREN in the new school will pay tuition and also will be required to participate in school meetings. Parents will also choose either to work in a classroom or the school, which earns a profit on merchandise ordered by customers, or pay higher tuition.
Tuition hasn't been established.
The new school won't be Lawrence's first alternative school.
"The third time's the charm," said Marsha Paludan, one of the parents helping with the school, referring to two earlier students to establish an alternative school in Lawrence.
Paludan worked with both the Lorient School, started in the fall of 1970, and an alternative school program presented to the Lawrence School District in 1974-75.
PALUDAN SAID she believed the school would succeed this time because people with educational experience as well as people with business knowledge were inled
The success of other cooperative ventures in Lawrence is also a reason for encouragement, Paladan said. She mentioned the University of Kentucky's support for 35 years; a food cooperative, Community Mercantile; the Community Mercantile credit union; and arts and crafts cooperative, Kaw Valley Craft Exchange; as examples of successful cooperatives.
Karl Edwards, professor of curriculum and instruction and a member of the Educational Policy Steering Committee for education throughout the country were successful. Followup studies of students who have attended open schools indicate that students adjust well to other situations and succeed in school. The same is said, even though they prefer open schools.
THE IDEA THAT a student is more
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Ara Terminaffans, Tehran, Persian seniator, takes his mount Tee Jay through its early morning workout. Terminaffans rides as part of a horseman's class at the University of Chicago.
No stopping Tee Jau Staff photo by JAY KOELZBR
White House race closes with final appeal to voters
By WALTER MEARS
AP Special Correspondent
President Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter last night delivered the final, familiar words of a close contest for the White House.
Ford went home to Grand Rapids, Mich., and said in an emotional campaign finale that his motto as President is simple: "What can we do to help you?"
Carter said the nation needs a president "who is not part of the establishment," and counseled voters against discouragement that might keep them from the poll today.
"The promises I've made have been very cautious, and I'm going to keep them," Carter said in an election eve television broadcast.
IN DESTROY, suburban Livonia and then in Grand Rapids, Ford sought the votes to guard his home territory against Carter, the governor. The vote was the last-minute survey of voter omition.
"I am a part of this great state," Ford said. "I know you will support me as you do."
Democrats sought to turn to their advantage the episode in which Carter's Plains, Ga., Baptist Church canceled Sunday services after a black minister tried to gain church membership and join worshippers there.
Carter told a Sacramento, Calif., conference that he disagreed with the church deacons who called off the service. He said he would work to eliminate such vestiges of discrimination, but wouldn't resign from the church.
"I CAN'T RESIGN from the human race because there's discrimination." he said. "I can't resign from America because there's not a church because there's discrimination."
Black leaders campaigning with Carter, among them Mrs. Corsett Scott King and C. Delores Tucker, the Pennsylvania governor, who Carter and praised his civil rights record.
Ford's supporters sent a telegram to some 375 to 400 black clergymen and field staff at the United States Congress, the episode, saying if the Democratic nominee can't influence his own church "can we expect him to influence the issues of the United States Congress?"
THE TELEGRAM was signed "President Ford Committee. Washington, D.C."
Three national public opinion polls reported Carter and Ford in a razor-face
President Ford gets early lead
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DRIVILE NOTCH, N.H. (AP)—The first voters in today's election gave President Gerald Ford a 13 to 11 lead here over Jimmy Carter.
Disville Notch, incorporated in 1660 but so it could stage the early-arb vote and immediately release the results, has 18 Democrats. Republicans and eight Democrats.
A survey by Burns Roper issued
a year ago. The candidate the leader
of a four-point margin.
George Gallup reported a one-point Ford lead.
Harris released a poll yesterday that gave Carter 46 per cent, Ford 45 per cent and others 3 per cent with 6 per cent still undecided.
An NBC poll announced yesterday called a dead heat at 41 per cent each with McCain.
FORD CONCLUDED his long campaign in a voice husky with emotion, recalling in Grand Rapids that during 25 years as congressman "we said what can we do to help you—and that is the way I want to be your President."
Both Carter and Fold appeared on each of the three major television networks in 30 minutes.
The Ford program included a brief statement boasting of an America strong and on the move, claiming economic progress and promising more to come.
THE PRESIDENT said once again that he would recommend a personal income tax cut, through an increase from $750 to $1,000 in the personal exemption.
The Carter broadcast was a tape already shown in three major states. It shows Carter in the study of his home in Plains, Nebraska, where he spent much of the economy, defense and other issues.
With the poll close and the race tight in key electoral vote states, today's turnout was a major question—the higher it is, the better for Carter. Organized labor was hard at work, particularly in the cities, scouting voters in the state to vote in a drive to get them to the polls.
There are an estimated 150 million voting age Americans. In the last presidential election, the turnout was 55 per cent, and the proportion of the percentage probably will be lower this time.
Collection flaws slow KANS-A-N payments
As they choose a president, voters also will elect 33 senators, the 438 members of the House, and 14 governors. Continued discussion of both House and Senate is a sure thing.
By SARAH RIDDELL
Staff Writer
Flaims in the system of collecting bills for the KANS-A-N telephone service have delayed payment of August and September 2015. The University of Kansas controller, said Friday.
Foul-ups at Topeka, where initial billing is made, and a delay by University departments in confirming their bills have repeatedly slowed the process, McCoy said.
The KANS-A-N service is a long distance telephone network for state offices. It was built in 1960.
"Topeka is our first problem," McCoy said. "They have tried to upgrade their computer system while billing us and several delays have resulted."
FOR INSTANCE, he said, the computer
pee for the April bill wouldn't fit KU's
specifications.
An official of the voucher and audit division of the KU comproller's office, who asked not to be identified, said bills were arriving at KU more regularly now than when the system was begun. He said that the August bill arrived from Topека Oct. 15. The bill was received by the Office. The office expects to receive the October bill Nov. 15, the designated billing date.
Laurence Kunkel, director of state telecommunications, said the telecommunications department, which sends the bills to KU, had also been having problems
HE SAID THAT his department received a monthly bill from Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. The department then has to divide the bill among state agencies. That bill normally doesn't come until the eighth or ninth working day of the month.
"it takes so much time to run the billing through our computers that we wait until
the weekend to run it," Kumkel said. "The
weekend was run three times before it
was set off."
Kunkel said he thought that, if there were no mistakes in the billing that Southwestern Bell sent his office, bills could be sent out by the 16th of the month.
MCOU SAID things had been slow at MCOU end, too. Bills must be divided among the University's departments from a single billing list received from Topeka. The bills are sent to the departments, where they are returned back to the KU voucher and audit division.
The July bill was entirely collected by Nov. 1.
According to McCoy, the university has requested that departments return their bills in five days. A problem arises, he said, when students think they have been billed incorrectly.
"TOPEKA HAS given us no procedure for calls that a department refuses to accept," he said. "We make a note of a protest but we don't want it, so I tell the department will be charged."
McCoy said that the billing system hadn't been explained well when the KANN-A-N-S system was installed.
"We sent out notices of a meeting and nobody came at first. When they finally came, nobody could thoroughly explain the billing system." he said.
McCoy said he had received many complaints from departments that must keep records of all KANS-A-N calls. He said his office has been busy with business practice to keep such records.
"I WISH PEOPLE at the University would look past the immediate problems and see what a savings it would make, and that that's going to be with us for some time in the future."
Energy cuts planned for upcoming winter
By NANCY TEETER
Although the University of Kansas doesn't face an immediate threat of energy cutoffs, as it did one year ago, University officials believe that the university's measures will be carried out this winter.
The University has had a program of energy conservation for the past year and a half, Max Lucas, University director of facilities planning, said last week.
KU naved more than $4,500 last winter using energy conservation procedures, he had.
Departments within the University submitted energy conservation programs to Lucas' Energy Study Task Force more than a year ago, be said
Lucas said the same types of conservation measures will be used again this winter.
Campus thermostats will be set at 68 degrees, as they were last winter, he said, down from the 70 to 72 degree settings two years ago.
THE PROGRAMS included guidelines for turning out lights, wearing heavier clothes and other safety equipment.
"The lower temperatures aren't, that much of a problem with people now," he said. "Most people at the University are not going to be able to energy and will continue to be in the future."
Although more lights are used in the winter months, people will be encouraged to be more conservative about the way they use lights in offices and classrooms, he said.
that windows posed the worst energy conservation problem.
"An open cabin can take out a lot of heat," he said. "We encourage students to turn down their heating units first and then open windows if they are still hot."
An energy monitor roams each of the large residence halls, usually from midnight to 2 a.m. His job is to search for excess lighting and open windows and doors
A STEAK DINNER is awarded to each hall that can cut its gas and electricity consumption by 5 per cent under its consumption for the same period the year
J. J. WILSON, director of housing, said
"The monitors have done a good job of cutting consumption." Wilson said.
The mild winters of the past two years have helped halls with the steak dinner, he said.
"One year, a Corbin RA (resident assistant) turned on plenty of heat in a few rooms over break and baked records and plants residents had collected there," he
During Thanksgiving and Christmas breaks the temperature will be reduced to about 60 degrees in the halls. Residents will be asked to turn their thermostats down before they leave and turn off lights and heating fans, he said.
"We ended up paying several hundred dollars for those molded records and plants by taking responsibility for the RA's action."
See ENERGY page seven
Graffiti nuts create artistic, humorous mess
By MARSHA WOOLERY
Staff Writer
"What makes you think I would stoop to writing graffiti?"
Graffiti such as this, scribbled on desks, walls and tables, keep KU maintenance crews busy, aside from their other duties, Odell Wiley, supervisor of building maintenance, said last week.
One year the bathrooms in Bailey Hall had to be painted four times because of the great amount of graffiti written on them. The rest of the room had to be painted at all the last two years.
However, the amount of time required to clean up the writing on the wall fluctuates from year to year with the amount of graffiti that students write, he said.
In the removed chair arms they have found razor and knife blades that students left behind with their raffiti.
Going from building to building and room to room, the crew first tries to remove graffiti by scrubbing and then repainting. In cleaning up chairs, Wiley said, the crew replaces the arms instead of the seat because it takes less time and money.
"Progress is but a word used to shield us from the terror of the future."
Mimeoaranhed sheets in Watson stacks
"I'm lost. Leave name and address and we will mail directions."
To help curb the desecration of the elevator walls in the stacks of Watson Library, the circulation staff began putting up graffiti sheets a few years ago.
Nancy Lynott, circulation orbarian, said the sheets had been effective except
when they got too full. Then the overflow of students' thoughts goes back on the wall.
An elevator in the west stack was painted three weeks ago, Lynott said, but before a graffiti sheet could be put up on the walls, students had written on the walls.
Lynott has kept and read the graffiti sheets for the past two years but has been continually disappointed in the students'
creativity, often not surpassing their use of vulgarity.
"This is a great place to be perverted." Maynard Shelly, professor of psychology, said graffiti were "the major public creative expression."
His former students found in graffit
studies that most student writings at KU
were unhotel comments about sex and
marijuana. Because of the presidential
election this year, more graffiti have
been written about politics and religion,
"Ford is America's net rock."
Shelly said, usually in an attempt at humor.
"It's a primary form of humor," said Shelly, "and yet it don't know anybody who has a really good explanation of humor, so it's not surprising that no one has a good explanation of graffiti, either."
He said that graffiti provided a way of expressing and learning things that couldn't be expressed in any other way. He said that graffiti involve more, even he, said.
"In the sense that they combine incongruous things, they are an art form, because all art is in one way or another and different things together." Shely said.
"We need more campus revolts."
"Why? Campus is revolting enough." Graffiti are man's oldest form of written communication.
The bond and tool makers, the Aurignacians of the paleolithic age, were the first men to make such drawings.
As lava from Mt. Vesuvius preserved Pompeii from 79 A.D., it also preserved the graffiti within this Roman city, "Sodoma, Gomora," was one of the wall writings found there and also this political comment:
"The Philosopher Amaneaus Seneca is the only Roman writer to condemn the barbarism of the Greeks."
"What can I write here that no one else has written, except that I, as only my husband, will write it?"
You have my deepest sympathies."