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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
PLEASANT
KANSAN
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Vol.87 No.18
Thursday, September 16, 1976
Kansan delayed
Today's Kansas was delayed by an hourlong power shutdown caused when a car knocked down power lines near the University Printing Service, 15th and Crestline.
Permission granted
Max Tentman, Lawrence guitarist, who was told last week by Carly Smitch of the University's Events Committee that his guitar picking was "not being handled well" and "the quality is not good."
Committee, receives his reply. Scott Jarus, Wichita junior, a student mentor, informs Ferren that his proposal should be allowed but only at certain times.
Ombudsman move stvmied
Bv JERRY SEIB
Staff Writer
Four months ago yesterday, the University council unanimously approved the creation of a University ombudsman to deal with complaints for students and employees with complaints.
Today, the embassasman post remains unfilled. Administrators and the council must be able to meet the need for the position and leaders on both sides agree that the issue will be a priority.
Chancellor Archie Dykes and Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor, have told SenEx—the steering committee of the council—that they think an ombudsman is unnecessary because of the University's elaborate grievance procedures.
Council members have responded by saying that the complexity of grievance procedures makes an ambulumsm needless, compulsory and students liable to trouble. The range of regulations
"We've gone as far as we can, except to
handle the Fields. SenEx
championship and wrestler."
In approving the ambudman post, the council also created an advisory committee on campus grievances. The committee, comprising students, an alumnus, faculty members and administrators, would meet initially at the request of the chancellor to
HOWEVER, FUNDS HAVEN'T been avoided,
will not be unclear or unclear in future impugnage will be resolved.
According to the resolution passed by the council in April, the ambudsman would resolve grievances of "members of the University community" and recommend changes in the University grievance procedures. The ambudsman would meet with administrators, but couldn't take disciplinary actions.
ONCE THE ambassador was chosen, the committee would meet at his request to act
The provisions for the ambudsman and grievance panel are now part of the University Senate Rules and Regulations, and the alumi, student and faculty members of the committee have been selected.
nominate three faculty members for or-
mium chair. The chancellor will then make
the final decision.
"If the committee's never called together, there are no three candidates." Fields said. "And there's no need for three candidates if there's no funding for the omnibus."
But the administration hasn't nominated its two representatives, and Dykes hasn't called the committee together to nominate candidates for ambushman.
Dykes said last night that he didn't plan to
Committee allows guitarist two events a week
ALTOUGH HE said he hadn't yet studied the ombudsman proposal in great detail, Dykes said the University's extra-facility was to expedite more routes than usual for complaints.
filling the remaining seats on the committee or over the ambassadors position were resisted.
"Many universities utilize an ombudman," he said, "but here at the university you have to elaborate grievance procedure. I have discerned that some of the institutions that utilized ombudmen didn't have the same characteristics as those that characterized this University.
Role of state emphasized in housing problems study
"The present grievance procedures seem to work well."
Dykes said the ambulman position couldn't be funded in the current fiscal year and would probably be cut.
See OMBUDSMAN page two
A strong state role is necessary to solve current and future housing problems in Kansas according to a report prepared by the Institute for Social and Environmental Studies (IESS), a University of Kansas research team.
Herman Lujan, director of ISES, said yesterday that Kansas faced the most severe housing problems in areas outside metropolitan areas of the state.
The report, submitted last week to the governor and the Division of State Planning and Research, stressed the need for coordinated state efforts to help communities get their "fair share" and to aid regional planning centers.
Bv GREG BASHAW
The stillness in 229 Strong Hall yesterday afternoon was about to be shattered. The 16 members of the University Events Committee had heard and passed four requests for on-campus activities and were waiting for the fifth petitioner.
The committee comprises representatives of 14 departments "with a vested interest" in university activities, such as the Student Senate and Center, and nine students appointed by the Student Senate vice president. Additional members may be appointed if deemed necessary by Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor.
"I'd like to know what right y'all have to call me an event?" the big man in the blue jacket who had been sent from demand declined and was taken Tenant. Lawrence guitarist told to stop performing on campus last Thursday because his playing had to be approved in advance by Tenant.
Tenant's question and others involving the committee and its function in the University were debated before the acceptance of Tenant's request to play two days a week on campus for the rest of the semester.
TENANT REMAINED standing against the wall and let Forder do most of the talking. Forder said that the committee shouldn't sanction freedom of expression but should allow all individuals to express themselves freely.
Forer said that the committee had evidence that this was beyond its scope of power and that this was beyond its scope of power.
"The committee's jurisdiction is very clearly defined and it does not overstep the legal boundaries."
He cited East Lawrence and North Lawrence as areas that "would continue to deteriorate unless something were done." THE IBE issued a note.
For the next half hour, the sixteen members of the committee, Forer, and Tenant bantered around political debate, arrested around games and police attempts at reconciliation.
but can sing on another corner, you're infrining on freedom of speech"
Caryl Smith, chairman of the committee, said that the committee's scheduling of events wasn't a violation of personal rights or limited jurisdiction the committee had.
SMITT SAID any individual or group that wished to hold an activity using University facilities should obtain approval by the Dean of Women's Office, through the Dean of Women's Office.
"You're dealing with First Amendment constitutional issues," Forer said of Tenant's dismissal from campus. "We're still not sure whether the mittee to reevaluate freedom of expression."
Marilyn Kent, Lawrence graduate student and events committee member, said the committee performed an important activity where all of the activities were to be allowed on campus.
Scott Jarus, student member of the
Scott University, said, "This campus is our
campus."
TENANT WAS accompanied by Norman Forer, associate professor of social welfare, who had asked the guitar player whether he wanted representation at the meeting.
"THE COMMITTEE sorts out what events should be held and helps the University function better. We do things differently," he never imagine, sorting-wise, "Kent said."
"I think that's the problem," Forer said. Russell McClanahan, Wichita graduate student and committee member, said, "The paramount issue here is whether or not classes should be disturbed. The purpose of this body is to keep harmony."
A mismatch between the type of housing under construction (multifamily units, such as apartment complexes, vs. single-family homes) and the demand for the type of housing.
See RIGHTS page two
Delta Delta Delta were battling for first place for the numbers of pitches bought by the teams.
But by the end of the evening, the race was too close to call, sponsors said. The finish was a toss up between Kappa Alpha Theta, Delta Delta Delta and Delta Gamma. Members of the three sororities consumed nearly 1,090 pitchers of beer.
By 8:15, the Delta Gamma sorority and
-An inadequate supply of single-family dwellings in western and central Kansas.
One sorority member was seen giving pitchers away in an attempt to lead her team to victory. If she couldn't give them the ball she poured their contents on the ground.
Beer fest nets $1,100 for charity
Except in the view of one more matter-of-fact fraternity freshman, released from the weekday abstinence required by his pledge program.
An hour later, with eight of the 50 kgs gone, the Delta Gammas had assumed a course.
The beer was flowing and the cash was going, as members of KU sororities, fraternities and residence halls last night were in attendance and raised more than $1,000 for charity.
Amid blirting music and fraternity and sorority chants could be heard the comments of 800 people who attended last night's bash at Ichabod's.
All for charity, of course.
As he put it, "I'm here to get drunk," downing what left of his pitcher.
"Can we get a pitcher, birdlegs?"
We want the pitcher my goer? "There's too much foam."
The bash, sponsored by the Sigma Chai fraternity as part of an annual nationwide drive to benefit Wallace Village for Childcare, a home for the minimally handicapped, started with 50 kegs. For each pitcher purchased, 30 cents went to the village.
"Our team is getting behind and we need a comeback . . . Where did my pitcher go? I'm going to raise hell if I don't get my pitcher. I've been here five minutes . . ."
—The need to place emphasis on multifamily units, instead of single-family dwellings to accommodate a growing population in some sectors of the state.
—An inadequate supply of low-price single family dwellings.
He said much of the governement-granted financial aid toward construction came for Washington, D.C., and, without any centralized state office, residents of Kansas communities had little to say about that money's use.
THOMAS GALLOWAY, senior research associate for ISES, said an increased state role-the creation of a state finance agency -was necessary to allow Kansas residents some control over housing production.
An overall increase in housing production, accompanied by increased cost of living.
$2.57 million bids okayed for new computer center
The University of Kansas has accepted low bids that total $2,574,650 from three firms for construction of a computer service center at the south edge of campus.
The University computer center in Summerfield Hall and areas in five nearby towns will be moved related work will be moved to the new building, to be completed in fall 1978. Construction work, including excavation and pouring of the foundation, could begin in June.
Max Lucas, University director of facilities planning, said yesterday that after several days of study the general construction contract was awarded to B. B. Andersen Construction Company, Inc., Toekea.
$425,393 from Midwest and Mims and $396,579 from Midwest Mechanical.
A bid from Linder and Mims, Inc., Wichita, was accepted for electrical work from Midwest Mechanical Contractors, of Kansas City, Mo., for mechanical work.
LUCAS DECLINED to release the amounts of total individual bids and alternate packages that were accepted. The amounts are $1,965,558 from B. B. Andersen.
Lujan called the report an attempt at local initiative, and a state response to get it going.
Those three bids were the lowest of those submitted. Lacas said most of the bids were low and were within funding limits set for the project. He said that, in general, all alternate proposals were accepted in addition to base bids.
Those alternate include "system status displays", television monitors linked into computers that list the progress of each computer job. A television monitor is the interface between the computer and would operate much like "automatic tellers" used at some banks.
"There were a number of bidders who were very close together," Lucas said, "which indicates that these were very accurate, as well as competitive, bids."
AN 88-SEAT auditorium on the building's second floor will include an observation area above the computer rooms. Plans also include several energy-saving features, including the use of heat from computers to heat the building.
The low bidders weren't announced after the kids were opened last fall because they
THE REPORT also stressed the
THE REPORT as a cheaper
option than building housing.
Galloway used Leavenworth as an example of a city that was constructing a school for the elderly, minorities, and the lower-middle class—the main victims of housing policies in Kansas—at a cost that would "hurt the community" long run" as older housing deteriorated.
TO SOLVE Kansas' housing problem,
ISES offered the following suggestions:
As short range options, which Lajan said state officials were most interested in, local authorities should be encouraged to form regional housing centers, and a division of house development within the Department of Economic Development. The cost of this short-range option is estimated to be between $60,000 and $100,000 a year.
—The state should provide guarantees to promote housing and housing rehabilitation as a medium-range option. Also, some state mechanism should be established to insure that regions with limited tax revenues aren't unfairly burdened by costs of housing action. The more range options are estimated to cost a minimum of $250,000.
As a long range option, within five to 10 years, the state should establish a state housing finance authority, which would provide short-term construction financing. The state would also be required to be $300,000, and would require the issuance of $20 million to $30 million in bonds.
Student opinion split on new stadium scoreboard
By COURTNEY THOMPSON
Staff Writer
Students attending football games at Memorial Stadium can now choose between cheering for the Big Blue of KU, the Big Mac of McDonalds or the Giants at Bank, Bank, Bank, the installation of the new stadium set up.
The $160,000 scoreboard is the most up-to-date of its kind and includes a message center ("DEE-FENSE", "TOUCHDOWN" "CHARGE") that provides reading matter to initiate, reckonable or intuitive spirit. A similar computerized board for basketball was installed in Allen Field House last winter.
A survey of 28 students this week indicated that reactions to the scoreboard ranged from en-
joyment to outrage.
“IT LOOKS good to me-it adds to the stadium and increases crowd participation,” he said, “like with the CHARGE stuff and all. I think it will be nice if we can inspire spirit, it'll help in the tough games commute us.”
Tom Whittaker, St. Louis junior, said he was impressed with the board.
the fact that the scoreboard worked without any problem during its debut was good enough for him.
For Fred Mathey, Lawrence graduate student.
STUDENTS WHO liked the board said they weren't bothered by the obvious use of the message center to advertise the four businesses that paid the $180,000 for the scoreboard: McDonalds, University State Bank, Mitchell-Stephens Realty and Phillips Petroleum Co.
The comment made most often among a students questioned was "i really like it." Those who approved of the board thought it added to the school's new look and added professionalism to L1.foothorn.
"This board isn't in front of everyone at the games like the basketball one is." Waugh said. "Since it is off to the left or right of the farm they can on it other than to check the time or score."
Jerry Waugh, assistant athletic director, said the athletic department still needed to learn more about their players.
"IF THEY HAVE to take their eyes off the game to a watch question they won't do it. I know I didn't watch this board like I do during basketball games."
Waugh said the first priority for messages to be displayed through the message center computer onto the scoreboard was given to the four "owners." The advertisers were allotted four 30-second snaps.
University departments or organizations can request that specific messages be displayed, but not all messages are permitted.
*WE WORK THEM into the priority listing on a first-come, first-serve basis and we put them on the board whenever there's some dead time in the same—time out, injuries, like that.*
Waugh added that other commercial advertisers weren't allowed access to the board because the four owners had paid for exclusive rights to the scoreboard's advertising for 15 years, be said.
The students who said they didn't like the scoreboard were generally opposed to its commercialism and to the distraction from the game created by moving messages.
JEFF GELVIN, Junction City junior, said he wasn't impressed with his view of the board.
"It's a big distraction," he said. "It's too big and takes away from the game by making it more demanding."
"It also seems like it' too bad the people sitting on the hill can't see the game now because of this."
"I think the obvious free advertising for those particular companies upset people and distracted from the game in a bad way. It became the butt of a lot of iokes and people laughed at it."
Several students objected to the slowness of the messages and to the repetition of the same one.
WILKERSON SAID he was working with Dick Bennett, a Lawrence resident, who volunteers his
He said the computer, located in the press box at the stadium, could store 9,000 characters or 125 words.
"The original programing of the computer was so much trouble you wouldn't believe it—five to six hours worth just to get the initial stuff programed," Wilkson said.
*Making a logo like an animated Jayshawk would require 14 logos and we now store all, 12 you, as part of our portfolio.*
Tom Wilkerson, recreation director and programmer for the scoreboard message center computer, said he hoped to become more creative in the messages displayed.
time to work with the scoreboard computer, to program a moving Jayhawk into the computer.
Despite sophisticated circuitry, complex timing devices and lots of lights (2.541), Wilkerson said the human element wasn't missing from the operation of the board during last Saturday's game.
"The damm thing brok and someone had to turn the ad sign by hand—for the whole game," he said. Clyde Walker, athletic director, said he'd received nothing but positive comments about the board and the new system involved in the message displays.
CHARLIE FAIRCHILD, Leawood senior, questioned Walker's justification of the $100,000 required to build a bridge.
"I think it's an expensive toy for Walker to have around." Fairchild said.
"Sports in general at KU have become so commercialized now. I'm waiting for the day when our team appears with Chico's Bail Bonds across the backs of their uniforms."