KU
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
Vol.87 No.4
Service helps prevent fires
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Thursday, August 26, 1976
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Staff photo by DAVE REGIER
Hassle
After wading through lines at Allen Field House for an hour, then proving that she's really a junior and not a sophomore, Jean
Good, Grand Island, Neb., finally got what she wanted—KU season football tickets.
Frazzled tempers, lengthy lines plague buyers of football tickets
By COURTNEY THOMPSON
Staff Writer
The option-card system for buying student football tickets has caused long lines and short tempiples among students, workers and staff.
Jon Reinhardt, Great Bend junior, said he had spent about an hour in line, only to be told he needed proof from the Office of Finance.
"They made me go to Strong Hall and get a signer letter saying I'm a junior, you said. "Why they couldn't pick up the phone?"
DOUG MESSER, assistant athletic director, said Tuesday that the purpose of the option-card system was to enable students to pay for football tickets, yearbooks and class dues at schools designed to provide a solution to lost football tickets, he said.
Messer said that students would probably be able to avoid confusion next year because the University may go to pre-enrollment, which would include a plan of purchasing season football tickets.
"Matching the ticket, ID and option card gives us a way to make a permanent record of where any student sits." Messer said. "If he can present us with the bits and pieces of his ticket you want, that's what we do. It's another one because we have the necessary records."
Messer admitted that the current ticket procedure was
cumbersome, but added that the Kansas University Athletic Corporation didn't make the rules by itself.
"THE STUDENT Senate determined the seating plan and decided what records the students wanted kept," he said. "General seating on a first-come, first-serve basis would be more appropriate if there would be no provisions for group seating or reserved seats."
The tickets have been available this week but must be picked up according to academic classification, with seniors traditionally being given first choice of seats in the student section.
Persons claiming tickets late Tuesday afternoon in Allen Person House saw no signs of the confusion that began earlier in the day.
FRANCES CLEVELAND and Pearl Albright, who have worked with football-ticket sales for more than five years, said that most of Tuesday had been chaotic. They said that the option cards they had to sort through were arranged by student number instead of alphabetically. Both agreed this had been partly responsible for the delay students experienced.
Albright said that despite long waits, students had been pleasant.
"I've been sworn at before, but these students are a nice bunch," she said. "At leave no one's told me yet that I am a silly person."
See TICKETS page seven
Regents okay $11 million for Med Center increase
By JIM COBB Staff Writer
Staff Writer
The Kansas Board of Regents yesterday recommended an $11.08-million increase in the operating budget of the KU Medical Center for fiscal 1978.
With that approval, the Regents indicated strong support for an increased faculty and expanded hospital programs at the Med Cancellor Archie Dykes said yesterday.
"I'm pleased—with an exclamation
mark," Dykes said. "We think that what they have approved in the Med Center budget will help counteract some of the abuse there have been at the Med Center."
In other business, the Regents met in executive session to review applications received for the position of executive-officer Bickford, who has that position, will retire.
GLEE SMITH, Regents chairman, said more than 70 applications for the post had
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'Body scanner' funds included in budget
By BARBARA ROSEWICZ
Before the Med Center can obtain the scamer, the budget must be reviewed by the state budget director and the governor. The budget must be approved by the Kansas Legislature.
Funds for a "body scanner," a machine that can diagnose cancer and tumors in their earliest stages, were included in the budget of the state by the Kansas Board of Recents yesterday.
The $600,000 body scanner could be used to locate unusual tissue conditions throughout the body, Russell Miller, vice chancellor of Med Center administration,
He said that because it didn't use X-rays the scanner wasn't as hazardous to the team.
THE NATIONAL CANCER Institute recently studied X-ray radiation as a possible cause of cancer. As a result of the study they banned breast X-rays for women
Miller said another reason the scanner was better than X-rays was that X-rays couldn't diagnose cells as body as X-rays could. The scanner, which analyzes the body in very minute quantifies.
"The visualization is much more refined," he said. "The scanner is tied in with a computer and actually draws a picture of what it's analyzing."
Chancellor Archie Dykes said the scanner would be paid for with funds from the 1978 budget.
THE MED CENTER now owns and operates a brain scanner.
er said the body scanner was a new and rapidly developing piece of equipment. General Electric, whose scanner is being considered for the KU Diagnostic Radiology Department, has only been manufacturing it for the past few months, Miller said.
He said a few body scanners had previously been manufactured in Europe, notably in England, but that General Motors has installed movements in the design of its body scanner.
Miller said that another hospital in the area had a body scanner, but that it probably don't have the same capabilities equipment the Med Center is considering.
be reviewed and all but six had been
reviewed, of those views of those
persons would begin soon.
KU administrators will now begin preparations to submit the total Med Center budget of about $9.79 million to State Budget Director James Bibb by Sept. 15. The project is funded by Gov. Robert Bennett, legislative requests will be submitted for state funding.
About $35.5 million in state general funds would be requested, Mack Bickford, Regents executive officer, said. That figure represents an increase of $8.73 million over Vestal.
Dykes said he was especially pleased that more than $2 million for the family practice and Outreach program had won the Regents' approval.
"THIS WILL ALLOW us to be more responds to you when we overwhelm the vastness of your requests," the hospital said.
In the past, a number of legislators have campaigned to get the Med Center to train more doctors who would settle in areas of the state that lack physicians. Some of these legislators asked the Med Center this year to seek more funds for the Outreach project.
Funding for new staff positions at the Meed
School is being requested and recommended by the Regents, The School
See REGENTS page five
Committee suggests uses for Green, Spooner halls
The University of Kansas Space Assignment Committee has made recommendations on the permanent use of a building at 3105 West 27th Street of another when the buildings are vacated
The committee has recommended that Spooner Hall, currently home of the KU Museum of Art, be used to store the University's anthropology museum and the College of Arts' collections, and that Spooner's first-floor gallery be used as a lecture and rectal hall.
Sponner is scheduled to be vacated next summer when the art museum moves to the Helen Fosterman Spencer Museum of Art, under construction west of the Kansas Union.
Also in the committee's recommendations was a suggestion that Green Hall, site of the KU law school, be used as a staging area for continuing education programs during the construction of a new building. The committee also advised that Green be used to temporarily store some Watson Library collections if funds became available for
proposed remodeling in Watson in the next two to three years.
Green will be unoccupied next summer, when the law school moves to a new campus.
Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor,
yesterday said Chancellor Dykes had approved the committee's suggested uses of Sooner Hall.
Shankel said the proposed uses of Green Hall would depend on final approval of the proposed continuing education center construction and extensive remodeling of Watson. Funds are still being sought for those projects.
Shankel said neither the Spooner nor Green conversion would be expensive. Only minor alterations will be needed, he said.
There are no long-term plans for Green Hall, Shankel said. If the hall is needed for the temporary uses the committee will use the committee use be determined later, he said.
The committee is composed of students and faculty.
Classes begin using new computer units
By JERRY SEIB
Some final, major steps remain for computation center personnel, but for most users, the University of Kansas' conversion to a new computer system has been completed.
The University's old computers, a Honeywell 635 and an IBM 1401, remain in the Summerfield Hall computation center. The new conversion will be made by mid-October.
But virtually all instructional and research programs from the old system are
Union to accept 2 credit cards for first time
Warner Ferguson, associate director of the Union, said yesterday that the Prairie Room would begin accepting credit cards in a week, and the bookstore in two weeks.
The change in policy was a result of student requests for use of credit cards, he said. BankAmericard and Mastercharge cards will be accepted.
Ferguson said the reluctance on the part of Union management to accept credit cards was because of the three per cent interest rate that must pay to the credit card companies.
Within about two weeks, the Kansas Union will reverse a long-standing policy and begin accepting credit cards for books and food bills.
But demand outweighed the cost, he said.
Credit cards will only be accepted in the Prairie Room because the Prairie Room is a "sit down" type of restaurant and has less business than other Union restaurants, Ferguson said.
now running on the new system, Paul Wolfe,
computation center coordinator, said last
"All classwork started this fall is now running on the new Honeywell system," he said. "It makes a very smooth transition from the system students saw last spring to a new system that is essentially a compatible system."
IN MID-JUNE, KU began testing a two-pronged, $5-million computer system. A new $2.7-million Honeywell 66-60 computer for instruction and research, and a $2.4 million IBM 370M-140 computer for administrative work, make up the new system.
By mid-October, programs from the IBM 1401, which was used solely for administrative programs, will be transferred to the IBM 2000 and the 1401 will be removed. Wolfe said.
The University's computers are used for computer science classes, for research work in various departments and to store student records.
By Sept. 1, all programs will be transferred from the old Honeywell 635 to the new, faster system, Wolfe said, and the 635 will be removed.
**WHEN THE $$$ is removed, Wolfe said, power in the computation center will be shut off briefly to disconnect cables from power supply. The computers of the morning so users won't be affected, he said.**
"Our whole effort on this change-over has been to minimize user effect whenever possible," Wolfe said. "Our staff has been working all summer to complete this change-over before the start of fall semester so all would be in place and working well before thousands of students get turned onto the computer."
Computation center personnel are already working on an express small programs (WELP) feature of the new Honewell, (WELF) said. The ESP will be
See COMPUTER page eight
Staff photos by DAVE REGIER
ID number crowded out
I wanted to come to college to new faces, meet new people and relish the ambiguity of being "lost in the city."
But never did I expect this. . .
Everywhere I go—a crosstown drive, a trip across campus, to barroom john—the scene is the same. People everywhere. Walking three acrest. Laughing. Talking. Some screaming to be heard. Trodding on the freshly watered grass, filling up the hallways and using every parking space in zones A to Z.
New faces are no longer around the corner. They are at arm's length. They are at Watkins' waiting room, the drinking fountain and the newstand. (I wait in line to buy a pack of gum.) I've forgotten what solitude
feels like although a bump, a shove and a casual "Excuse me" are common.
Meeting new people is no challenge. It is hard to escape conversation when I practically sit on my fellow students in most classrooms. I'm lucky, though. I have a desk. Others sit on the floor.
But there aren't many inconveniences . . . yet. I could get used to vending machine "make another selection" lights above every possible selection, and the hot cans of pop that fall down when there is a selection. But only in the winter, not in this hot weather.
It is a good idea I wanted to be lost in the crowd.
It's not so bad, but 108143, no have other choice. Yet
it never contented me.