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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Tuesday, September 7, 1976
Vol.87 No.11
Beep ball gives national pastime to blind athletes
Staff Writer
By SUSAN APPLEBURY
The Road Runners Beep-Eep softball team has lost two of the four games they've played this summer, but Charlie Vassallo, Lawrence senior, isn't too unset.
Staff photo by JAY KOELZER
"The purpose of beep ball is to give the players physical exercise," he said. "The
Beep ball, an adaptation of softball, is one of several "feel sports" designed for the blind. The beep ball, which is 15 inches in circumference and weighs 15 ounces, is so named that it emits a beeping sound. It is also used to the beeps and decide when to swing.
Vassallo, 44, who is blind in his left eye,
organized the last spring to provide
a range of services.
"ITS UP TO the handcapped person to help others, and we've been able to find them, and know what to help."
Although not everyone on the Road Rummers is blind, those whose partial or unseen vision may be affected.
There are seven positions on each team—two shortstops and three outfielders, who must be blind or blindfolded, and a pitcher and catcher who can see.
"His purpose is to be very consistent—pitch to where we hit the ball," he said.
Each pitcher pitches to his own team.
The arrangement of the beep ball tree differs from regular softball. Instead of the usual three bases, beep ball uses only first and third.
THE "BASE" is a road-caution cone with a buzzer inside. When the ball is hit one of the base controllers turns on one of the bases.
cnatle Vassallo, Lawrence student, a member of the Road Runners Beep-Bee softball team, says that it's up to handicapped people to help organize activities to help themselves. Vassallo, who is blind in his left eye, must wear blinders during the day.
The batter must then decide which base is
See REEF nine
Keen Hit!
By JERRY SEIB and COURTNEY THOMPSON
Opinion subdued on tax charges
Bv.JERRY SEIB
"I know both men very well and the have the warmest and greatest respect for them," he said. "They're both of such great integrity that I'm eager to learn more of what has happened in the company that maybe they as heads of the company have become responsible for and maybe didn't know anything about."
CHANCELLOR ARCHIE Dykes said it was too early to react to the indictments,
Learned and Keeler are former Phillips board chairmen and company presidents.
PHILLIPS PETROLEUM Co. is a leading education institution in the United States and Keeler and Kuhl won the KU Alumni Association, and both have won the Distinguished Service Citation, the University's highest honor. The building housing the School of Engineering is named
University of Kansas officials were subdued yesterday in their reactions to last week's indictment that charged two leading Phillips Petroleum Co. with tax evasion.
Stanley Learned and W.W. Keeler, both KU alumi, were among three Phillips Petroleum officials charged with defrauding the government for alleged nonpayment of taxes on $3 million kept in Swiss bank accounts and at the company's headquarters. William Martin, chairman of the board, also was named in the indictment.
Dick Wintermorte, director of the Alumni Association, said he hadn't seen the details of the case.
KU women 2nd in Big 8 funding
BY COURTNEY THOMPSON
The women's athletics program at the University of Kansas, of which nine out of 10 teams had winning seasons last year, has two more credits to add to that list, the second largest budget among all universities, for educational funding through the Williams Educational Fund.
A survey of the Big Eight schools last
Home-state campaigner
Staff photo by DAVE REGIER
sen. Bob Dole, R-Kan., and his wife, Elizabeth, sign autographs at a recent campaign stop in Kansas City, Mo. See story, page five
Friday indicated that KU, with a women's athletic budget of $19,400 (including recent additional funding), was topped only by the University of Nebraska with $215,000.
Other schools and their budgets were:
University of Missouri, $180,000; University
of Oklahoma, $148,000; Kansas State
University, $141,000; University of
Colorado, $122,000; and Iowa State
University, $82,000. All figures include
scholarship funding and staff salaries
except that for ISU.
NO INFORMATION was available for Oklahoma State University.
KU has 10 women's athletic teams, KS-State and Colorado have six and the other two have seven.
KU's program receives $109,000 from the University budget (state appropriations) and $55,000 from Student Senate allocations. The recent $30,000 additional allocation from the Williams Educational Fund will supplement women's athletic scholarships, which previously relied on revenues from KU's T-shirt sales and other fund-rising events.
Alen Swoelf, women's athletics director at NU, said $100,000 of their $215,000 budget came from men's football receipts. The other $115,000 came from fund-raising events, gate receipts from women's sports and the university budget, she said.
SWOFFORD SAID that, although the $15,000 an impressive figure, it was extravagant.
MU ranked third in the survey with $180,000, $20,000 of which is specifically marked for scholarships and must be raised through donations and fund drives.
"That amount covers everything—equipment, staff, custodian, clip papers."
Jean Cerra, director of women's athletics, said she wasn't able to compare the two teams.
need to know exactly how we stand," she said.
OU doesn't have separate men's and women's athletics departments. Army Dahl, coordinator of the women's division of the athletic department, said the program at OU was funded by ticket sales and donations.
"I realize we're a little behind other schools now, but I think by 77 we'll be on a much sucker basis than those departments which must continually face fund raising. I want our coaches to coach, not fund raise," Dahl said.
She said that in 1977 a portion of the funds given to men's athletics would be reallocated to the women's athletics and the latter would define a definite distinction between the two.
"I'M NEW IN this position and that's going to be one of my major projects. We
DHAIL SAID she thought comparison of women's athletics programs at the Big Eight schools wasn't legitimate because they had a different basis and different needs.
K-State, which ranked fifth with $141,000,
combines women's and men's programs in K-State University Intercollegiate
Athletics. Inc.
Conrad Colbert, business manager for the athletic department, said K-State's women's athletics program was funded primarily through football and basketball revenues, with some additional state appropriations.
"The women's funds are more restrictive than those allocated to the men's program," she said. "I want to offer additional money however they choose, but there no guarantee they'll get to use it. The money goes into an outside support organization authorized only by the athlete council."
THE WOMEN'S athletic program at CU is funded completely by student fees. Jane Wahl, women's athletic director, said the program was supplied entirely by the state legislature.
Eight schools for national tournaments, so no comparative budget or performance data.
General university funds and student activity fees are sources for the $82,000 budget.
Ruth Lauver, women's athletic director, said that no donations, scholarship funds or coaches' salaries were included in that figure.
She said that CU didn't compete with Big
TITLE IX requirements may be responsible for KU's secondplace standing in women's athletics funding.
KU's program is the only one in the Big Eight to have received tangible evidence of an effort by the University to establish parity between men's and women's athletic scholarship funding. The sincerity of the action has been questioned and many see it
but he lauded past contributions of Phillips Petroleum.
"The Phillips Petroleum Co. over the years and the Phillips officials have all been generous supporters of the University of Kansas." Dykes said. "They have contributed generously to various scholarship programs and to various capital improvements and in other ways to the University."
Todd Seymour, president of the KU Endowment Association, said he couldn't give a specific figure of contributions to the University's Petroleum College or from Learned himself.
Seymour said that another fund in support of the center for economic research in the School of Business was funded through Learned's personal contributions.
"IM SURE donations from both (the company and Learned) were quite significant," he said. "Two chaired professorships have been established through Learned's contributions, one in the business, the other in the School of Engineering."
He said that a major student loan fund was also the result of Learned's donations. Seynour said this fund was universitywidely and isn't reserved for engineering students.
LEARNED SERVED as the chairman of the Program for Progress, a capital fund drive from 1986 to 1989 that raised more than $150 million sources for the Endowment Association.
Seymour acknowledged that KU had made an indebted money from the Philips Petroleum.
See WOMEN page seven
"I'm sure Learned sat in on the committee that determined the distribution on the company's charitable contributions," he said. "I imagine he would have suggested that KU receive a major portion of those donations."
Seymour said he didn't think recent charges against Learned and two other company executives would have any effect on his association with Phillips Petroleum.
"THE COMPANY has been generous in its support of higher education, specifically at KU, but also at Arkansas, Oklahoma and other universities in the region."
Phillips Petroleum and Learned have been generous contributors to the team that taught them the KUAC), which funds KU's athletics programs, but Jerry Waugh, assistant athletic director, said he had no idea how much money had been given to the athletic team.
"I know Phillip Petroleum has contributed to KUAC and recently to the two scoreboards, which cost $100,000 each. I don't know if she just taken over this office. I have no idea at all."
See PHILLIPS page five
Senate to fill 19 seats
According to Senate rules, the Elections Committee is responsible for tuning all seats vacated over the summer before the Senate's first meeting.
The Student Senate Elections Committee must fill 19 vacant seats before Sept. 8, when the Senate meets for the first time this semester.
The vacant seats will be offered to various schools' candidates who ran in last spring's election and received the most votes behind the winners.
But this method of selection won't work to replace the 10 seats vacated by graduate student senators. There is a tie among the 97 students who were write-in candidates last spring.
the committee decided Friday to draw each of the 97 names at random from a basket and to offer the seats to the candidates in that order.
In addition to the 10 vacancies to be filled in the Graduate School, there are three from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences; two from the School of Education; one each from the School of Journalism, the School of Numerisker Center (District 2); and one numerisker seat appointed by the Senate last summer.
vacancies occur when a senator, elected in the spring to serve for a year, resings.
If the 19 seats are filled, there still will be six full-year seats from Nunemaker Center and one half-year seat from the School of Electrical fall elections, scheduled for Oct. 6 and 7.
The names of the 19 senators will be announced tonight.
Candidates from Nunemaker Center will be running at large, instead of within 10 blocks.
Johnson gets inside view
Bv.JIM.CORB
Staff Writer
Jeanette Johnson has seen the administration from both sides now.
Her first visit was from the perspective of a graduate student. Later, she looked through the eyes of a civil servant, as a secretary to the chairman of the department of English.
Johnson is on the inside now, and as administrative assistant to Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor, some of her ideas have changed.
"I GUESS I just don't understand the magnitude of some problems. I know now that the administration is more interested in more accessible than most students think."
"I've been around the University a long time," she said. "I have the typical grips and problems and shared certain complaints that all graduate students have.
Johnson said her job, which she began
July 1, was not easily defined. In her small
corner office on Strong Hall's second floor,
she noted the perceptions of the KU
administration.
Johnson serves as a liaison between Shankel and students, faculty and staff members who seek his time. Because Shankel is the top administrator for the Lawrence campus, many of his working hours are spent in meetings. Johnson said, and he often isn't available to meet informally with individuals.
Shankel's position was created in 1973 by Chancellor Archie Dykes to have responsibility for all operations on the Lawrence building. As Assistant, Shankel's assistant last year, now is
"We're dealing with people. A lot of the time people just want to be assured that somebody cares—that they're still on our list, even if it is on the bottom."
"DR. SHANKEL is an extremely gracious and patient person. There's just no time. Each problem takes time and we hear about a lot of problems."
assistant to Robert Cobb, dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
★ ★ ★
AFTER LEAVING her small, northern Illinois home town of Elburn, Johnson received a B.A. in Germanic languages and literature with minors in English and
Johnson brings to her job varied experience in several fields of work.
See ASSISTANT page three
Prof tackles new job
Two thick books filled with fine print and endless columns of numbers lie on William Hogan's desk in Strong Hall. Hogan points to the books and explains the significance they will have to him in the next nine months.
That is the task that will occupy much of Hogan's time as an American Council on Education (ACE) academic administration intern during this school year.
By JERRY SEIB
HOGAN, ASSOCIATE DEAN and assistant professor in the School of Engineering, is one of TECH educators self-identified as a K-12 educator. Spend the year working closely with
"Of utmost importance is that I understand the budget of this institution, from beginning to end," he said. "To make an impact on an institution, you have to understand that institution's budget, its policies.
"If you don't, it's certainly going to be difficult to change requests."
Staff Writer
Chancellor Archie Dykes and Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor, to get a first-hand look at the inner workings of a university power structure.
He has received bachelor's, master's and doctorate degrees in electrical engineering. He took time out between earning his last degree as an engineer for Calling Radio Co.
It is a job that already has Hogan working 17 hours a day. But a beetle schedule is nothing new for Hogan. There hasn't been much wasted time during his 34 years.
HE CAME TO the University of Kansas in 1973 and had been dividing his time in first academic appointment between teaching and the administrative work required of the associate dean of a professional school.
Now Hogan has even greater demands on his time. He is participating in the administrative intern program while teaching an intermediate class with his ties to the School of Engineering.
See NEW JOB page three
New assistants
Staff photo by GEORGE MILLENER
Both William Hogan and Jennifer Johnson will be working within the central administration this year. Hogan, associate dean and vice president of the school's athletic department,
administrative intern for the school year for the American Council on Education, while Johnson is the new executive director to Del Shannon.