THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
A LITTLE COOLER
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 REGIER
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Unlike his mentor, the Italian violin maker Stravidiari, Karel Blaas, professor of stringed instruments, is still making instruments. Here, he works in a small home workshop where he makes instruments, restraints bows and repairs students in the studio.
15 groups request $19,717 in Senate budget hearing
By CAROL HOCHSCHEID
During four hours of supplemental budget hearings last night, the Student Senate Finance and Auditing Committee heard requests from 15 campus organizations.
Supplemental funding requests of
$778,360 have been submitted to the Senate
by the Committee.
"I'm sure the request will be cut back, but I couldn't say how much, because that was not a request."
The committee will have another long night tonight as it bears the requests of eight more organizations and begins to prepare a schedule that it feels should be allocated to each group.
Mkernan said he expected the deliberations to continue tomorrow night. The committee will submit its fall alarms for approval at the next Senate meeting. OK.
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
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 Blas, professor of instruments, must love violins and violas.
Staff Writer
"I LIKE TO WORK with wood," blas. "I build shipwrights and carpenters back in Holland."
Besides spending his regular working day instructing students in the art of performance, for 30 years he has devoted many hours to making and repairing stringed instruments.
By BILL CALVERT
Biana said last week that his interest in making violas steremed from the interests of her students.
Blaas was born in Holland and came to the United States when he was very young. His family settled in Rochester, N.Y., where he attended the School of Music. There he met Bert Muckenport.
"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."
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, Blas hinted that he
"All I need is a couple more years of experience and I'll be all finished," he said.
Blaas has made 23 instruments during his
Godwin made 100 violins and violas during his career, Blaas said. He had spent years in London, which Blass called the greatest violin making school in the world. Hill & Sons is also known as a repairer, collector and retailer of stringed instruments, he
career, only two of which were violins. The other 21 were violas, except for one that was a fidel. A fidel, Blass said, is a 12th century viola, and because that was the predecessor of the violin.
"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."
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, be said.
IN ADDITION TO making instruments, Blas devotes time to repairing damaged instruments his students bring him. These instruments are frequently tightened, tightening the hair on a bow and major work
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.
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.
Blaas said the design for the instruments he made had remained fairly constant. The design he uses is probably an imitation Stradivari model, he said.
BLAAAD HASN AN opportunity to play some of the original violins made by Antonio Stradivari, Guarneri and Nicola Amati, all from the 1670s. The saxophone is a tabulart tour of Northern Italy in 1869
These instruments were in a museum at the music conservatory at Cremona, Italy. Blas was he able to get access to the instrument by meeting someone who had connections.
"I happened to run into someone in a bus station was in good with the guard at the museum. It was during off hours, and I found myself back door and slip him a little money."
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 waive ice rink rental.
Twelve national organizations of foreign students receive Senate funding through the implementation of a program.
Bahram Gerami, president of the club,
said the club's primary function was to "promote understanding between American and foreign students."
He said the club hoped that showing University interest in ice hockey would lead to the eventual construction of an ice rink in Lawrence.
To help pay for the expense of expanded services, Headquarters requested a $2,263 grant.
Phil Kaufman, a member of the organization, told the committee that this group of "organized manpower" needed to be recruited to our name and draw a larger membership.
Other requests were SCOREME, $1,050; Kansas Defender Project, $1,000; Women's Coalition, $800; Hilltop Day Care Center, $671; Volunteer Clearing House, $652; Jayhawk Fencing, $600; Student Services Business School Council, $325; Engineering business School Council, $320; Commission on the Status of Women, $305; Operation Friendship, $100.
Alpha Phi Omega, a service organization of 20 active members and 13 pledges, made
its programs, such as the crisis in-
vention center, provide counseling for
peopler with mental illness.
Med Center forum airs issues, concerns
By BARBARA ROSEWILZ
KANSAS CITY, Kan—KU Medical Center administrators hew 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 65 administrators, faculty members, hospital employees and students attended the discussion, which Robert Kugel, executive vice chancellor for the Med Center, said wasn't a "glorified gripe session."
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 Daniel Fischer, 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 projects were better served in the 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 the student space elsewhere at the Med Center.
Elizabeth Frakes, a member of the Student Union and dormitory corporation board of directors, said the unannounced flooding that occurred in municipalization 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 he will be that way in definitely," Waxman 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, but I think this is the best way to staff the hospital."
this also a complaint of lack of See FORUM page three
Design TAs generally satisfied with pav,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 deal, having a 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 spring.
In a written summary of their complaints, the students said they had been assured that they would be rehired as assistant instructors (Ais) at $350 a month this fall, but had been told during enrollment week that the teachers were teaching assistants (TAs) at $200 a month.
Connie Cassani, St. Louis graduate
STUDENTS INVOLVED in the dispute said that although they were still serving as TAs rather than as AIs, they had been given pay raises.
student and a department of design representative on the Graduate Student Council, said she would receive $350 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 her, but under the rules of the school, she will be paid for three sections. But, she said, the hours of work would be about the same, because the hours she would have to spend in laboratory training would be much less.
"ITHINK IT'S 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
School of Fine Arts officials said last week that the dispute arose from a departmental mismanagement issue at汁um-farm families to introduce students previously taught solely by graduate students. The graduate students were changed, and A&S and Tax because they were obligated to graduate.
Balloting 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.
Each person may vote for up to five of the 17 semifinalists who were chosen by seniors during enrollment. The HOPE Award is presented annually to honor an outstanding, progressive educator.
Senior class card holders also vote at the Senior Class Regalia party from 4 to 7 p.m. Friday at Broken Arrow Park.
Cassani said the hours she would have to
The five finalists will be announced Oct. 4, and the winner will be announced Nov. 6 at halftime of the KU-lowa State football game.
The 17 semifinalists are: Karlyn Campbell, professor of speech and drama; Allan Cigler, associate
spend in her position as TA were about the same as she spent as an AI1 last school year. She said all students who had been promised positions at $500 a month as AI5 had been assigned extra a training as TAS or AI6, but no extra as TAS for employment and were promised $500 a month.
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, but he is not assigned an assistant in title because it was too late in the semester to change appointment titles.
THOM PRAISED Peter Thompson, associate dean of the School of Fine Arts, who met with the students to negotiate the settlement.
The students were assured that there would be written contracts outlining graduate student jobs in the future. Then the students would work entirely on the benefit of students.
professor of political science;
Laurence Draper, professor of microbiology; Paul Friedman, assistant professor of speech and language; professor of curriculum and instruction; Earl Huyser, professor of chemistry; Glenn Johnson, professor of business; J. Hammond McNish, professor of business; Louis Michel McNish, professor of urban design; Ruth Noyce, associate professor of curriculum and instruction; Jean Pyfer, associate professor of physical education; William Dodds, professor of journalism; Lawrence Sherr, professor of business; Paul Snyekw, assistant professor of radio-television-film; John Tolleson, professor of business; Peter Turk, acting assistant professor of radio-television for Wyatt, teaching associate in curriculum and instruction.
But Thom said the affair had left him with "serious questions" about the handling of information.
"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 could have had 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. He also stated that academic affairs, agreed to provide the money when he assured students that any commitments made to them would be made up in part by the funds.
Thom said the pay raises for all students would be retraconforic for the first four weeks.
Because of the higher salaries, Thompson said, there may be fewer graduate students interested in attending spring. But, he said, the reduction would be made by not filling slots 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
Dede Morezzo, 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.
Jaybirds plan to share nest
BY COURTNEY THOMPSON
Birds of a feather flock together and Jayhawks are no exception.
On the sidelines, love was in bloom.
Births of a tavern back kite runner and jazz wavers are in exception. While the KU football team did its thang 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.
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 disappeared in her direction during a third quarter lull, her heart melted.
ADMITTEDLY, FEFW 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 friends (an entire University's worth).
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 club.
DEDE MOROZO, Wichita senior and Baby Jay, said she and DeDe Patenhuis, were just friends who sat and talked before game-time.
The relationship remained on a purely intellectual plane, or the avian equivalent thereof, until well into the 1975 season.
Morocco said she and Palenshus went out after the games a few times but didn't work together as Jayhawks 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 alternates choosing, for one reason or another, not to make the trip to Iowa State University, Morozzo and Palenshus as Baby and Big Jay were on their way to represent KU on television. So, if we had few of us have our dates televised, as Jayhawks or otherwise.
"This was the first time we'd really done the Baby Jay and Big Jay together. Morozso said, 'We got to know each other well'."
LOVE KNOWS NO bodies—the rest of the football season, through basketball and track. When you are a big, blue-feathered, red-crested, yellow-bellied bird, and you find a cute little bird of the same description who really likes vom; the world is beautiful.
It's easy to let little kids pet you, store at you and pull at you; it's fun to use for people of all ages ask for your autograph; and it doesn't annoy you when some people label you a "fuzzy-looking weird bird from KU." Love concludes all.
PALENHSUH GRADUATED last May with a degree in business and is currently a naval officer in Athens, Ga. Morrozo 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 rather dull.