A LITTLE COOLER
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
Vol.87 No.26
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
A's rip Royals; race continues
Tuesday, September 28.1976
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Staff photo by DAVE REGIEK
Stringing along
Unlike his mentor, the Italian violin maker Stradivari, Karel Blaas, professor of stringed instruments, is still making instruments. Here, he works in a small home workshop where he makes instruments, reairls hooks and repairs students in
15 groups request $19,717 in Senate budget hearing
By CAROL HOCHSCHEID
Stall Writer
During four hours of supplemental budget hearings last night, the Student Senate Finance and Auditing Committee heard requests from 13 campus organizations.
"I'm sure the request will be cut back, but I could't say how much, because that was just a stretch."
Supplemental funding requests of
$30 to 84 have been submitted to the Senate
by 27.
The committee will have another long tonight as it hears the requests of eight more organizations and begins to work on the project. It feels should be allocated to each group.
Randy McKernan, chairman of the Finance and Auditing Committee, said last night that he thought the requests "were a lot more reasonable than in the past," but that he couldn't estimate how much the committee would finally allocate.
The International Club requested an
McKernan said he expected the deliberations to continue tomorrow night. The committee will submit its fall allegation for approval at the next Senate Meeting. Orta
Violin maker's love of music shows
If a music teacher's affection for an instrument can be measured by the amount of time he devotes to it, Karel Blaas, professor of stringed instruments, must love violins
"I LIKE TO WORK with wood," Blas said, and no successors were shipbuilders or carpenters.
By BILL CALVERT
Staff Writer
Besides spending his regular working day instructing students in the art of performance, for 30 years he has devoted many hours to making and inspiring stringed instrument
Blaas was born in Holland and came to the United States when he was very young. His family settled in Rockville, Mich., a school of music. There he met Bert Godwin,
"He used to fix my violin," Blaas said, "I just kept pestering him and finally he said 'All right.' After that I was his apprentice for three summers."
Baasa said last week that his interest in making music from the interests of women had come up. Dutch musicians.
one of the world's greatest instrument makers. By persistent nagging, Blasas finally persuaded Godwin to hire him as an apprentice.
IN SPITE OF his 30 years' experience in making instruments, Blasa hinted that he
"All I need is a couple more years of experience and I will be all'd," he said.
Blaas has made 23 instruments during his
career, only two of which were violins. The other 21 were violas, except for one that was a fidel. A fidel. Blass said, as a 12th century violinist, "the violin was that was the predecessor of the violin.
Goldwin made 100 violins and violas during his career, Blaas said. He had spent five years as an apprentice of Hill & Sons in the string instrument shop in Nassau, the violin making school in the school. Hill & Sons is also known as a repairer, collector and retailer of stringed instruments, he
The reason for his making more viola is that there is a greater demand for them. He said most people who were interested in stringed instruments already had a violin.
Two hundred to 400 hours of work go into each instrument, Blaas said. The time is usually spread out over a year. The phase that takes longest is the varnishing. he said.
"MORE PEOPLE have violins in their attics than violas. It used to be that people thought the violas were not as glamorous, but more people need them."
IN ADDITION TO making instruments, Blaas devotes time to repairing damaged instruments his students bring him. These instruments are too expensive to tighten the hair on a bow and major work
such as replacing the neck of a violin. Some repairs are hopeless, Blaas said.
"The worst thing is to have a taxi run over your violin," he said.
Blaaas said the design for the instruments he made had remained fairly constant. The design he uses is probably an imitation Stradivari model, he said.
BLAAS HAD AN opportunity to play some of the original violins made by Antonio Stradivari, Guarneri and Nicola Amati, all from Italy. The sabatical tour of Northern Italy in 1898
These instruments were in a museum at the music conservatory at Cremona, Italy. Haas said he was able to get access to the instruments by meeting someone who had conceived them.
allocation of $6,710 the largest request submitted this fall.
The University of Kansas Ice Hockey Club requested $2,911. Stan Markovich, treasurer of the club, said $2,503 of that amount was needed to pay ice rink rental.
"I happened to run into someone in a bus station who was in good with the guard at the museum. It was during off hours, and I got a taxi back door and slip him a little money."
Bahram Gerami, president of the club, said the club's primary function was to "promote understanding between American and foreign students."
Twelve national organizations of foreign students receive Senate funding through the Student Research Fund.
He said the club hoped that showing University interest in ice hockey would lead to the eventual construction of an ice rink in Lawrence.
Alpha Phi Omega, a service organization of 20 active members and 15 pledges, made
To help pay for the expense of expanded services, Headquarters requested a $2, 363 million budget.
Phil Kauffman, a member of the organization, told the committee that this group of "organized manpower" needed more help from the power name and draw a larger membership.
its programs, such as the crisis in-
tervention center, provide counseling for op-
eration problems.
Other requests were SCrMEB1, $1,050; Kansas Defender Project, $1,000; Women's Coalition, $800; Hilltop Day Care Center, $621; Volunteer Clearing House, $652; Jayhawk Fencing, $600; Student Services Council, $400; School Council, $325; Engineering School Council, $320; Commission on the Status of Women, $305; Operation Friendship, $100.
Med Center forum airs issues, concerns
By BARBARA ROSEWICZ
KANSAS CITY, Kan—KU Medical Center administrators hear employee remarks yesterday on student union changes, nurse work shifts and research funding at the first of three scheduled open forums on Med Center affairs.
About 68 administrators, faculty members, hospital employees and students attend the meeting. The executive vice chancellor for the Med Center, said wasn't a "glorious griep
Concerns were aired before an administrative panel of Kugel; E. B. Brown, vice chancellor for faculties and academic affairs; Russell Miller, vice chancellor for Med Center administration; David Waxman, vice chancellor for students; and Brian Sternberg, vice chancellor representative and chairman of the department of gynecology and obstetrics.
A STUDENT CENTER dietetics instructor asked for an explanation of changes at the student center during the past six weeks. She said student center teachers were other Med Center projects without explaining the changes to student center employees.
Waxman said that until the new clinical facility was finished, available space at the student center had to be used because of a lack of space elsewhere at the Med Center.
Elizabeth Frakes, a member of the Student Union and dormitory corporation board of directors, said the unannounced March 2016 sexual misconception problems at the Med Center.
HOWEVER, SHE said, the issue wasn't the communication problem but the questionable use of the student center, an independently operated facility.
Waxman said the space would be relinquished when the new hospital was built.
No solution was offered for a registered nurse's complaints that nurses were tired of working three different shifts, often in the same week.
"I assume that it will be way in- dentery," Warman said. "I don't know how."
'THE BEST I can do is say we recognize this is more than some people can accept, particularly in nursing, and I think this is the best way to staff the hospital.'
was also a complaint of lack of See FORUM page three
Design TAs generally satisfied with pay, work load settlement
By JERRY SEIB Staff Writer
Graduate student teaching assistants in the department of design yesterday said they were generally satisfied with a set agreement to dispute over their pay and work load.
The School of Fine Arts, of which the department of design is a part, has agreed to raise the salaries of 12 students who complained that they were receiving less pay and performing different duties than agreed to last sorting.
In a written summary of their complaints, the students said they had been assured that they would be rehired as assistant instructors (Ais) at $35 a month this fall, but were told during enrollment week that they were teaching assistants (TAs) at $200 a month.
Connie Cassani, St. Louis graduate
student and a department of design representative on the Graduate Student Council, said she would receive $500 a month rather than $200.
She said that she had originally been told that she would be an AI earning $350 a month to teach two sections. Under the new curriculum, she was given time for three sections. But, she said, the hours of work would be about the same, because the classes were held in laboratory sessions had been lowered.
School of Fine Arts officials said last week that the dispute arose from a departmental change that assigned fulltime faculty to previously taught solely by graduate students. The graduate students were changed and no longer in charge of the class.
"ITHINK ITS the best that could be done in the situation," Cassani said. "From what I can tell from talking to most people, they seem pleased with the results."
HOPE voting this week
Each person may vote for up to five of the 17 semifinalists who were chosen by seniors in enrollment. The HOPE Award is presented annually to honor an outstanding, progressive educator.
Senior class card holders also can vote at the Senior Class Regalia party from 4 to 7 p.m. Friday at BrokenArrow Park.
Ballooning for the five HOPE Award finalists will be from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. tomorrow and Thursday in the information booth on Jayhawk Boulevard. All seniors are eligible to vote by presenting their KU-ID's.
The students were assured that there would be written contracts outlining graduate student jobs in the future. Those contracts should work entirely to the benefit of students.
spend in her position as TA were about the same as she spent as an AI last school year. She said all students who had been promised positions at $500 a month as Als were still in the department and had been given extra work in the department and were promised $350 a month.
Cassani said the hours she would have to
Robin Thom, Merriam graduate student, said he had been put in charge of two sections and given a raise to $350. He said he was performing the same duties as an assistant in the previous year, and assistant in title because it was too late in the semester to change appointment titles.
The five finalists will be announced Oct. 4, and the winner will be announced Nov. 6 at halftime of the KU-State football game.
The 17 semifinalists are: Karlyn Campbell, professor of speech and drama; Allan Cicler, associate
rout them said the affair had left him with serious questions" about the handling of evidence.
professor of political science,
Laurence Draper, professor of
microbiology; Paul Friedman,
assistant professor of speech and
language; James Husser, professor
of curriculum and instruction;
Earl Husser, professor of
chemistry; Glenn Johnson, professor
of business; J. Hammond McNish,
associate professor of physical education,
Michel, professor of architecture and
urban design; Ruth Noyce, associate
professor of curriculum and
instruction; Jean Pyfer, associate
professor of physical education;
journalism; Lawrence Sherr,
professor of business; Paul Smyek,
assistant professor of radio-televi-
sion film; John Tollefon, professor
of business; Peter Turk, acting assistant
professor of curriculum for Flor
Wyatt, teaching associate in
curriculum and instruction.
THOM PRAISED Peter Thompson, associate dean of the School of Fine Arts, who met with the students to negotiate the settlement.
"I THINK it may prove to be more of a safeguard for the University, because if they would have been able to inform us last week, we wouldn't have little that we could have done." he said.
THOMPSON SAID more than half of the money for the salary increases would come from the budget of the Office of Academic Affairs, who agreed to provide the money when he assured students that any academic affairs,
Thom said the pay raises for all students would be retroactive for the first four weeks of school.
Because of the higher salaries, Thompson said, there may be fewer graduate student teaching positions in the department next fall. He also noted that a lot of students made by not filling spots left vacant when students leave. He said none of the students involved in the dispute would be in danger of losing their jobs.
Thompson said that problems behind the misunderstanding were complex, but that he thought that written contracts would prevent them from recurring.
Love birds
Dale Morozzo, Wichita senior and KU Baby Jay, and Dave Palenhus, former KU Big Jay, get together with the Big Jay costume for old times' sake. Morozzo and Palenhus were engaged in July.
Staff Writer
By COURTNEY THOMPSON
Jaybirds plan to share nest
birds of a feather flock together and Jayhawks are no exception. While the KU football team did its last year to the cheering and music of the KU band, KU's Baby Jay and Big Jay were marching to the beat of a different drummer.
muchting to the beat of a different air
On the sidelines, love was in bloom.
It's hard to say what first kindled the infatuation. But when a small, blue-feathered, red-crested, yellow-baked Baby Jay spied a tail, mature, blue-feathered, red-crested, yellow-baked bird and placed its hands in her direction during a third quarter lull, her heart melted.
ADMITTEDLY, FEW young birds could resist overtures from an avian with such a striking combination of good looks and that certain air of sophistication—not to mention the obvious resemblance and abundance of mutual birds (an entire University's wind).
Actually, the first hint of love in the air for Big Jay and Baby Jay didn't surface until some time after their initial introduction at a Pep Rally.
The relationship remained on a purely intellectual plane, or the avian equivalent thereof, until well into the 1975 season.
DEDE MOROZO, Wichita senior and Baby Jay, said she and her children Palenus, were just friends who sat and talked before掐着胳膊。
Morozoo said she and Palenshus went out after the games a few times but didn't work together as Jayahays very much. Two people take turns wearing each outfit (Big and Baby Jay). Palenshus usually worked with the other Baby Jay.
So it remained, until the early morning hours of Oct. 18-
specifically 5:30 a.m.
With their alternating choosing, for one reason or another, not to make the trip to Iowa State University, Morozco and Palenshus as Baby and Big Jay were on their way to represent KU on television. So I asked the audience, "Few of we have our dates televised, as Jawhavas or otherwise."
"This was the first time we'd really done the Baby Jay and Big Jay together. "Morozzo said, "We got to know each other well
LOVE KNOWS NO bounds—the rest of the football season, through basketball and track. When you’re a big, blue-feathered, red-crested, yellow-bewaked bird, and you find a cute little bird of the same description who really likes you, the world is beautiful.
It's easy to let little kids pet you, stare at you and pull at you; it's fun to have of all ages ask for your autograph; and it doesn't annoy you when some people label you a "funny-looking weird bird from KU." Love compulsors all.
PALENHUSH GRADUATED last May with a degree in business and is currently a naval officer in Athens, Ga. Moorzo will graduate this May, also with a degree in business. They announced their engagement in July and plan to be married May 28 in Wichita.
But without a stadium or field house full of fans chaperoning, bands playing, or teams clashing, the ceremony may be dull because it takes so much time.