THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
Vol. 87 No.24
The University of Kansas—Lawrence Kansas
Saturday is KU day at Crown Center
Friday, September 24, 1976
Name that tune
Barry Bernstein, Kansas City, Kan., freshman, is told by KU police officer Keith Barnhart to quit playing the guitar, after he had played for about an hour in front of Flint Hall yesterday. Bernstein later played unrestrained with another guitarist in front of Wescoe Hall.
Ceiling makes budget tight at Med Center
By BARBARA ROSEWICZ
As costs and the number of patients at the KU Medical Center increase, it's a race to finish the fiscal year within the hospital budget.
The budget is limited by an expenditure ceiling, an estimation of the funds needed to operate the hospital made by Med Center officials more than a year in advance.
The ceiling limits the amount that can be spent in operating costs, regardless of how much revenue is received, Keith Nitcher, chief business and fiscal affairs, said Wednesday.
Hospital revenue for the next fiscal year would be freed if a recommendation to remove the ceiling made last Friday by the Kansas Board of Regents is approved. The recommendation will be presented to the administration and later to the Kansas Legislature.
REMOVAL OF THE ceiling would allow the Med Center to handle unanticipated costs and patient increases, Nitcher said, because any revenue earned could be used for other projects.
If the ceiling is removed, hospital expenditures in fiscal 1978 wouldn't be limited by the proposed账款 $25,596,660. The ceiling for fiscal 1977 is $23,818,062.
Patients pay the higher medical care costs, Nitcher said, but the extra revenue
can't be used because of the expenditure ceiling.
The ceiling is determined for each fiscal year from an estimation based on the number of patients expected, the amounts expected in cash flows and the operating expenses and inflationary effects.
A PROBLEM occurs when the volume of patients and prices increases beyond the estimation, Nicher said, and the money appropriated for operating expenses must be stretched to cover additional patients and materials.
Even if the hospital has the revenue, to pay for unanticipated patients and materials, he said, it can't be spent unless a nurse is raised or removed by the lawmaker.
If there is a balance in hospital revenue at the end of the fiscal year, Nitcher said, it might be higher.
Debate echoes campaign pledges
The balance from fiscal 1976, which ended June 30, was $1,964.346.
NITCHER SAID the carryover wouldn't automatically increase the next year's budget, but would become part of the funds available to finance the next year's budget.
PHILADELPHIA (AP)—In the first of three debates between President Ford and Jimmy Carter last night, Carter demanded an end to "government by stalemate," and Ford said he offered performances, not just promises.
The Med Center has been limited by a hospital expenditure ceiling for the last several years, he said, and it is raced accustomed to high patient costs in the volume and cost of patient services.
For 82 minutes, Carter, the Democratic nominee, and Ford, the Republican nominee, answered questions and traded barbs. Then the sound system broke down. And on the stage of the antique Walnut Street Theater, the White House rivals cut off from the vast, nationwide television audience they sought to persuade.
In blue suits, on a blue set, they stood and waited. It took 27 minutes to get back on the
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FINALLY, THE DEBATE was wrapped up in overtime, with summations that were, in essence, reviews of their standard campaign speeches.
"We have suffered because we haven't had leadership in this administration," Carter said. "We've had a government of stalemate."
Carter said the nation needed unity after a time of division and needed cooperation between Congress and the White House after a time of confrontation. He had earlier said Ford had veted legislation at a rate not seen since the Civil War.
But Ford said Carter was playing fast and loose with facts—and at the same time contended that his vetoes had saved tax-payers $9 billion.
FORD SAID A major campaign issue was trust.
"A President should not be all things to all people," he said. "A President should be the saint of the world."
Body language used to judge Ford, Carter
He already had accused Carter of impression and wavering on economic issues.
By BILL CALVER Staff Writer
The debate between John Kennedy and Richard Nixon in 1960 is a testament to the importance of a candidate's appearance, mannerisms in selling himself to the public.
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With that in mind, Earl Forman, Shawnee Mission graduate student, observed the Carter-Ford debate last night and evaluated the candidates' nonverbal techniques.
Forman is working on master's degrees in educational psychology and research, and theatre. He also is a practicing psychotherapeutic counselor.
"ANY MOVEMENT or position can mean any number of things," Forman said during the debate. "You have to put them all together to come up with an impression of how well they work." The indicators were evenly matched, in their nonverbal performances, according to Forman.
Ford appeared more comfortable at the beginning of the debate, taking a square stance with his arms outstretched, gripping both sides of the lectern. Forman said.
"What I'm coming away with is a pretty even matchup. What one did was countered by the other," he said. "Both men have done a nice job of fielding questions."
HE SAID FORD appeared relaxed at the beginning of the debate, which was reflected by his sloping shoulders. This effect was countered when Ford became aggressive and threw his hands up on shoulders in an attack posture when he criticized Congress. Forman also said Ford made good use of head gestures by moving his head in a sideways motion to emphasize a point. He called that gesture a "thinking gesture," and Ford brow or closing one's eyes momentarily.
Forman said Ford's solid stance in the first half of the debate gave the impression of the confidence of a President who knew his information firsthand. Ford seemed to indicate security by his calm and explanatory gestures, which were punctured occasionally by aggressiveness, Forman said.
Carter's stance was less open than that Ford's. Forman said, because he often stood with one hand on the lectern and the other out of sight at his side or in his pocket. Forman also said that inconsistence in speech was a major topic with Topics Carter was most comfortable with.
BECAUSE CARTER constantly blinked and frequently stumbled in his speech, he seemed more ill at ease in the beginning, according to Forman.
"There is a difference in his speech when he talks about his past as governor of Georgia and when he talks about it as a fighter in the war, then he speaks the past, his voice is smoother and he
stumbles less than when he talks about the future."
MIDWAY through the debate, Forman said that Carter appeared to have gained confidence. He was blinking less, he had taken a more serious and began to speak a little more forcefully.
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Furthermore, Ford said in his summation, Carter had endorsed a Democratic platform that advocated more programs, more spending and would mean higher taxes and bigger deficits. He said Carter embraced the record of the Democratic Congress, and "It calls for more of the same."
In an earlier exchange, Carter had said that if he was to be tied with all acts of a Congress in which he never served, Ford would be denied his seat. But Richard Nixon, in which he did serve.
FORD SAID, "I think the real issue in this campaign, and that which you must decide on Nov. 2, is whether you should vote for his performance in two years in the White House."
Minutes later, as he left the theater, Ford said the debate had been great and he had
"The American people" won the debate.
Carter said, "I thought I did well."
He said he had wanted to stress what he considered Ford's lack of leadership 'and I' should have been more aggressive.
Predictably, the Democratic party chairman called Carter the victor and Ford's spokesman said the President had won.
"SCORE ONE for GOP, Carter," Robert
sussss, the Democrat party chairman
said.
"We think we won," Ron Nessen, White House press secretary said.
The next Ford-Carter debate will be in San Francisco on Oct. 6. It will be on foreign policy and the economy.
The 12-question sequence of responses,
followups and rebuttals generally produced a recitation of positions and points the two candidates had made before. There were no dramatic new proposals.
Carter told Ford to his face what he had been telling Democrats around the country; that he didn't think the President had done anything to demonstrate leadership. He was the Republican like Dwight Eisenhower was the Democratic Congress, but that Ford wasn't.
FORD SAID CARTER hadn't been more specific as a debater than as a campaign
There is considerable anti-Washington feeling outside the government, Ford said, but I think the feeling is misplaced. Any increase in feeling should be focused on Congress.
Ford said that Democrats were what was wrong with Washington and with Congress.
"That's where the problem is, and I hope you can correct my corrective action taken." Ford said that.
The President was asked, in light of his criticisms of Congress and the likelihood of a Democratic Congress next year, if he could work with such a Congress.
BUT FORD said he thought the Republicans had a good chance of winning a majority of House seats and of making gains in the Senate.
"And as president, I will be able to work with that kind of Congress," he said.
In the event a Democratic Congress is elected, Ford said, the voters should keep him in office to "check their excesses with my vetos."
Popularity of KU cups growing
Carter accused Ford of "public relations
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Bv CHRIS COTTRELL
Steve Delong's office at Packer Plastics, Inc. is decorated with cups -plastic cups featuring school insignias of various universities across the country.
Packer Plastics, Inc. of Lawrence is in the business of making plastic CokeCups—the ones you get at KU football games adorned with Jawshaws and the words "KU."
The company will furnish about 400,000,500 million for KU this year and annually produce several million cups for about 200 universities throughout the country. This is the fourth year they've made cups for KU, buying, company salesman, said Wednesday.
OTHER BIG EIGHT schools that do business with Packer Plastics are Kansas State University, Oklahoma State University, Oklahoma State University, Iowa State University, Packer's clients are from as far east as the University of Maryland, as far west as Arizona State University, as far north as the University of Texas and as far south as the University of Florida.
The cups are becoming more popular.
"Every year, we pick up a few more schools." DeLong said. "We started out with four. We had KU, Wichita State, North Carolina and Auburn,
"THE PRO FRANCHISSES contract their concessions out to a company who furnishes them with the necessary equipment."
The company also makes cups for several professional sports teams, but the cups haven't been as popular with team-fans as they have been in colleges. DeLong said that the success of selling the cups depended upon how they were promoted, and that pro franchises could better promote the cups.
*More and more schools have found they can make additional revenue through the use of student loans.*
"WE'VE FOUND THAT the cups help the school make money and are also good souvenirs. With the cost of things these cups cost, you'll likely it--you get both a Coke and a souvenir."
Jacqueline Cook gathers plastic cups destined to become the familiar "KU cups" sold at home KU athletic events. Packer Plastics, Inc., 2330 Packer Road, manufactures cups
explained, "and the company has to pay the franchise a percentage of what they sell."
The cups aren't the only novelty item that Packer Plastics makes. They also make plastic flower pots in which popcorn can be sold at the games. The flower pots, however, haven't sold as well at KU as the Cokeums.
"They've tried them." DeLong said, "but
they haven't been too successful with them.
In a crowded game, the people have enough to carry, and the flower pots are just an extra thing."
BUT DELONG EXPRESSED hope that the company would someday be as popular as the Coca-Cola.
"I think it's going to be a coming thing," he said, "but it just hasn't caught on yet."
mploves fuming in smoke-filled Wescoe Terrace
By KENNA GIFFIN
Staff Writer
Despite repeated attempts to cool and clear the air in Wescott Terrace its atmosphere is still warm, the air is very humid.
Five kitchen employees, who asked not to be identified, said they suffered from dehydration caused by the constant high heat in the kitchen. They said that fumes from the pizza oven and from cigarette smoke from the eating area made them ill.
The employees said they would like more ventilation to remove the fumes and to cool the kitchen. The kitchen temperature is almost always between 90 degrees and doesn't cool at night, they said.
"It's like a pool hall," one kitchen employee said last week.
FORREST JOLLY, Kansas Union vending services manager, said several factors caused the heat: the number of people in the 4,000 square foot area, especially at the peak period between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m.; customers opening and closing the doors; '5,300 times a day;" food warming trays in the delicatessen which must keep the food at 140 degrees; and kitchen appliances.
The only appliance fumes come from the pizza oven, and those fumes travel up and through an air duct above the oven, he said. As much cigarette smoke as possible is removed by the air-conditioning and ventilation system, he said. There is too much smoke and hot air for the system to handle, Jelly said, and nothing can be done to improve conditions.
Jolly said he hadn't noticed the kitchen temperature hotter than 84 degrees.
Jolly said that there wasn't a solution to the heat and fumes problem. He suggested that the employees wear cooler, looser clothing to avoid being overheated.
Wescoe Terrace opened in the spring semester of 1974 as a study lounge with seating areas and vending machines. It has expanded steadily and now includes serving areas for soft drinks, hot food, fast food snacks and a delicatessen, which operates from 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m., Monday through Friday.
"There's not a damm thing anyone can do except to ban smoking, and you can't do that," he said.
THE UNION kitchens have the same kind of heat and fumes problems. Jolly said.
"THE DAY WE opened we were obsolete," Jolly said. "We've been trying to catch up ever since."
Jolly said that Wescoe Terrace was designed to serve 400 people daily. The total served is closer to
Eventually, Wescoe Terrace must either be expanded or closed, he said.
After completion of the computation center and visual arts building near the center of campus, the Wesco traffic might grow too large to serve at all, he said. Neither of the two new buildings will have
Building and Grounds maintenance has adjusted Wescoe's air-conditioning three times, and the building has been expanded.
RICHARD PERKINS, Buildings and Grounds maintenance engineer, said part of the problem with the Wescroft Terrace cooling and heating system that it didn't receive enough fresh air to cool the heat.
There are three air-conditioning units under Wescoe's two auditoriums. Two units take care of the auditoriums. The third and smallest unit cools Wescoe's two auditoriums until it fresh in fresh air from the air outside. Wescoe
Air can't be taken in from the north, because intake is blocked by the hill on which the building rests.
said. Taking in air from the south or west sides would require the modification of the building.
The problem with modification is aesthetics, he said. Large air duct openings would be visible on the ceiling.
He said the state architect was investigating the problem.
- we're doing everything we can with what we've not." he said.
Wesco Terrace employees have complained about inadequate kitchen facilities. The kitchen originally
WESCOE TERRACE does have an exhaust fan, and air goes through ducts in the ceiling, Perkins said. But there isn't room for larger ducts, and any additional ventilation would require more incoming air. The system couldn't handle that because it already is running at full capacity. Perkins said.
HE SAID HE didn't know whether the state architect or anyone else was planning to modify the design.
Keith Lawton, facilities manager, directed that a wall, built after the main construction, cut off some air-conditioning to some areas of the dining room. He added that the kitchen, and air balancing problems were corrected.
was built for handling prepackaged foods, but the employees now prepare some food themselves, such as peanut butter.
There is only one double sink in the kitchen and it is used for preparing food and washing dishes.
Jolly agreed that the kitchen was inadequate for food preparation, but he said the alternative was to stop preparing food and to remove appliances. State law allows food preparation and cleaning up in the same sink as long as the two are done by separate shifts.
IN SPITE OF the inadequacies, Wescoe is meeting state health inspection standards.
"On a 100-point inspection scale, we've never been below 90, and that's equivalent to an AAA rating."
People also have complained about crowd in the ball outside the terrace.
"In the winter the hall is wall-to-wall people," one employee said.
Professors complained about the noise, and janitors complained about the trash left by people eating in the hallway. Joly said he requested that Jesse Terrace employees pick up the trash each day.
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