THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
Vol.87 No.2
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Kansas coaches like court ruling against NCAA
Tuesday, August 24, 1976
See page seven
Regents to make budget decision
By JIM COBB Staff Writer
Improvements in educational programs and hospital services at the KU Medical Center are on the minds of University administrators as they await fiscal 1978 budget recommendations, expected from the Kansas Board of Regents.
Increased operating expense requests of 46 per cent are being sought next year from state general revenue funds. Funding requests for building renovation and construction are 541 per cent more than this year.
What the Regents suggest regarding the increased Med Center budget requests will be an early sign of what the University might face next year in its drive for more medical instruction and hospital care funding.
THE REGENTS EXTENDED by two months the June 1 deadline for submitting the Med Center budget, partially because the budget will be presented in a different form from past years. At an Aug. 13 meeting in Kansas City, Kau., administrators presented the budget to the Regents for analysis.
Staff photo by DAVE REGIER
After the Regents' recommendations are received, requests for funding from the 1977 Budget are approved.
Keith Nitcher, vice chancellor for business affairs, said yesterday that a major reason for the increased requests was the current programs at the Med Center.
BOTH NITCHER AND ROBERT Kugel, executive vice chancellor for the Med Center, said criticism directed at the hospital indicated that improvements should be made in health care programs and services.
"It is a very conscious attempts on the part of the administration to make the needs of the Med Center known." Nichter funds to fill those needs."
Kuulel said the Kansas City hospital had been understaffed for some time.
"Again, we'll try to catch up on some of the overings of the past," he said.
THREE ALLIED HEALTH programs that should receive special consideration, Kugel who are emergency medical and laboratory therapy and nurse anesthesiology.
Programs that were given approval by the 1976 Kansas Legislature, including integrated family practice, a rural health institute and an expanded graduate
program in nursing, should also get state funding. Kuel said.
Twenty-seven assistant professors, 10 teaching assistants and eight nontheaching positions are being sought for the School of Medicine. Five teaching positions and one nontheaching position in the School of Nursing are requested.
THE TOTAL BUDGET request suggests $90,803,625 for operating expenditures at the Med Center, including funding for new and improved programs. Of that, $66,330,944 would be for revenue revenues funds, with the rest to be funded by hospital revenue and student fees.
The total request for construction is which is requested from general revenue fund, which is
Two major construction projects requested are a $million library building and a $million recreation center. About $3.5 million of those costs could be provided by the state, with the rest coming from gifts, federal grants and other sources.
KUGEL SAID A NEW library was badly needed at the Med Center. If a new building is constructed, he said, the old library area could be refurbished for other uses.
There are 2,000 students at the Kansas City campus who have virtually no
buying books in the crowded Kansas Union Bookstore isn't already difficult enough, Scott Holman, Houston freshman, had to get through a few of them.
Bookstore roller
See BUDGET page 11
crowded the first week of the semester, was probably a bit more crowded than usual because of an increase in enrollment on the Lawrence campus.
Record enrollment called smooth
By JERRY SEIB
BY JERRY SEL
Staff Writer
A record 20,643 students enrolled at Allen Field House last week, but the influx apparently caused no major problems.
According to figures released yesterday by Gil Dyck, dean of admissions and records, 22,398 students enrolled at the University of Kansas—20,643 at the Lawrence campus and 1,755 at the Kansas City campus.
Dyck estimated that the final, official
capacity of the city is 24,900.
817. Kuwait City, a total of 24,900.
Official figures will be compiled Sept. 17, the 20th day of classes. The delay allows for late and off-campus enrollment.
THE PROJECTED FINAL enrollment would be an increase over last fall's record 28,541. On the first day of classes last year, 1,758 students were called at Lawrence and 1,758 at Kansas City.
Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor,
Staff photo by JAY KOELZEH
The task of choosing candidates was over last Thursday night, and the Republicans ended their competition within the party and began the task of competing with the Democrats. This pile of discarded signs outside Kemper Arena was made after the nominated Gerald Ford for President. See related convention stories pages nine and 11.
say yesterday that his office had received no enrollment-related complaints. Shankel said that he had visited the field house several times during enrollment and had problems with them.
He said he had observed small "clog-ups" on business and physical education class tables.
Convention aftermath
"Those were the only two areas that seemed to cause any problems." Shankel
The new enrollment schedule, under which students started and finished enrolling earlier in the day, helped in the August heat, according to Shankel.
"I THOUGHT THE MOVE (to new times) helped a lot because it didn't get so hot," he said. "I think cooler temperatures help people keep their composure."
Because those tables were located in the field house lobby, away from the cashiers'
Steve Owens, student body vice president, agreed that enrollment had gone smoothly except for the lines at the business and physical education tables.
windows, some students didn't find them, he said.
Some horses also were cut loose by vandals during the night.
A better system, Owens said, would be to allow students to pay for the bus, football ticket and class dues options with their enrollment fees.
curries of students had caused some problems for their enrollment personnel. Pichler said many students had to wait in the dormitory table Wednesday, the first day of enrollment.
Owens noted one area for change, the location of the tables for buying football tickets and bus passes and for paying class dues.
Owens said the Student Senate hadn't handled any complaints about the enrollment procedure, and he said he had been told that it was an improper process had been improved this fall.
JOSEPH PICHLER, dean of the School of Business, and Wayne Oness, chairman of the department of health, physical education and recreation, agreed yesterday
"We had some difficulty the first day because of such a surge of students the first hour." Pichler said. "It simply backed up.
HE ALSO PRAISED the management of the Kansas Union for providing students with free soft drinks during enrollment and likely rating people through the book store.
that surges of students had caused some problems for their enrollment personnel.
THE WAGON TRAIN WAS to have camped on campus from April 29 to May 3, but stayed here only one night because of dissatisfaction with facilities provided by the University. KU police reportedly refused to allow campers to tether their vehicles to campgrounds and prevented bonfires on the O-zone parking lot where the camisole was located.
$1,250 bill for visitors faces board
After participating in a local parade, members of the wagon train wouldn't return to campus and accepted an invitation from William Bradley farm south of Lawrence.
Freshmen who had en-rolled during summer orientation sessions seemed to move through the field house quicker than usual. Owens said.
By JIM COBB
Staff Writer
Del Shakel, executive vice chancellor,
said yesterday that he and Max Lucas,
director of facilities and planning, would
attend the commission's Sept. 23 meeting.
Clencene Hills, commission chairman, had
replaced him in requesting that KU
represents attend.
"nere seemed to be a better set-up for patrons the cashier's windows," he said. "They like the way it looks."
According to Shankel, nearly all of the charges were for overtime pay for security and buildings and grounds personnel during construction work. In that strain that camped briefly at KU last spring,
"There were so many people coming in early because they worked or had conflicts."
University of Kansas administrators will attend the next meeting of the Douglas County Bicentennial Commission to explain why the university should sponsor spirits of some commission members.
See RECORD page 11
SHANKEL SAID THE bill sent to the commission was for services during parts of two days. Hills said the campers were here little more than 24 hours.
Shankel said he had investigated the bill and decided that there had been a slight misunderstanding between the University and the Bicentennial commission.
"Basically, the situation is that we thought we had an understanding that we would wail the facilities' use charge and give them back to us," working hours, but that they (the com-
See WAGON page five
Dykes backs balanced education
Bv JERRY SEIB
By JERRY SE Staff Writer
Chancellor Archie Dykes yesterday warned against emphasizing vocational training in college and urged KU students
In a 10-minute opening convocation address, Dykes told students and faculty that a changing world would soon make most vocational training obsolete.
"We live in a world in which the only constant is change, change more rapid and far-reaching than at any time in history," Dykes told a crowd of 1,500. "Our great task is to master that change, to understand it and to attempt to control
Dykes said statistics from the U.S. Department of Labor showed that most college students, within 15 years of their graduation, would be working in jobs for which they weren't offered. They were also the most educated most students would change careers twice in their lives.
"FACED WITH THIS FUTURE, you cannot afford to limit yourself to vocational or professional training while you are at the University," Dykes said. "To do so is to deny the future and to waste the present."
Dykes opened his address by welcoming new students and telling them that universities are "fractile."
In spite of an appearance of stability, he said, universities change frequently.
"Just a few years ago, students burned and pillaged buildings built for them, closed the libraries, shut down the Dyke's."
"So it is clear that students have the power to destroy. By their achievements, they also have the power to build."
DYKES SAID THAT THE mark of a university's greatness was its alumni, and he said that the achievements of KU alumni had made the school "one of the most distinguished of all our nation's universities."
"The University of Kansas is a great University because its students have been and are great people," Dykes said. "It is the students who in large measure have given the University the confidence to make things occur, where the life of the mind is fully and richly lived."
"I long ago concluded that the University's richest asset is its students."
The chancellor told students that they would receive the foundation for a good life at KU, but that they would have to build their education themselves.
"YOU WILL HAVE ALL the basic tools with which to construct for yourself the education you may have thought we would hand you," he said. "Neither we nor anyone else can educate you."
Without giving their names, Dykes sketched the careers of scientist Cora Downs; Kansas Gov. Robert Bennett; and George Brown, lieutenant governor of Colorado, all KU alumni.
The convocation was the University's 111th and Dykes' fourth. Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor, presided over the 45-minute ceremony, and Jacob Gordon, chairman of the department of African studies, delivered the invocation.
"The lives of these men and women and their contributions to our society are the legacy of today's students of the University."
A slide show prepared by the Office of University Relations followed Dykes' address. The six-minute presentation sketched the building of KU and presented scenes of campus life.
Convention unique, inside and out
By BILL SNIFFEN
Associate Campus Editor
KANSAS CITY, Mo.--It's odd that television can make a politician's head seem big.
There he is, Rep. John Rhodes, R-Ariz., the House minority leader, seconding the nomination of Sen. Robert Dole, R-Kan. for vice president. Rhodes is as big as life, stunning and spectacular to the viewers, glorious and omnipotent.
Yet sitting in the Kemper Arena last week amid conflit, crushed paper cups and Reagan campaign posters, watching that media event of the year, the Republican National Convention. I was disappointed. I didn't hear about it than mine. Literally speaking, at least.
"He is the most capable man to ever serve . . ." Rhodes was saying.
More of the same talk could be heard at a Golden O'Rex Restaurant, one-half block away.
"YOU REMIND ME A LOT of Bob Dole"
one delegate told a South Carolina delegate
"You all come down to South Carolina sometime and have fun," one of the South Carolina delegates responded.
Bert, a cocktail waitress at the Golden Ox. described the Republicans she had
served as "heavy drinkers, but big tippers."
I asked her with what party she was affiliated.
"I'm a robot" she replied.
Not surprised by her response (1 was feeling a little like a robot myself), I approached some delegates from Michigan to ask them why they had carried brooms into
"TO SWEEP THE CONGRESS clean," said Ernie Fackler, a Michigan delegate. He explained that he had bad problems with the conventions rooms to enter, the convention, on the floor.
"First, the fire marshal told me it was a fire hazard," he said. "Then, they x-rayed
"Have you got our reservations?"
I immediately realized my error, and introduced myself as a reporter. He paused, and seemed a bit flustered. He walked past me before I could ask any more questions.
Outside the restaurant, things were just as confused. A member of No Greater Life, Inc., a religious group centered in DuQuinn, III., was lambasting the "sick sodomites" 25 yards away. The "sick" sodomites held 100 yards and a 12-foot high chain-link fence from Kemper.
ONE VIPPIE SAID SHE supported
Nobody for president. I couldn't get Nobody's first name, but I did get a campaign button.
"Ford is a bozo," she said, slipping a red cloth's nose onto her own. "So we are all alike."
"Nobody makes apple pie like mom."
"Nobody makes apple pie like mom." Passing up the chance to purchase a $4 Ford-Dole T-shirt, I approached the Jesus people.
I asked what kind of help we needed
"Just think about this," A vipple was saving to Gett. Bill Prenger of the patrol.
I asked what kind of help we needed.
"What really counts is whether the nation
would be able to continue."
'it all depends on your value system; it's all relative, to your value system.'
"Our country should return to capital punishment," screamed Fred Bishop of No Greater Love. "The Yippies are sick; the queers are sick. we are sick and we need
THEY ATTACKED WITH SPTI, water
themselves, content and bareed rear end. The
wheel was struck at the rear of the car.
Bishop's public address system was a "wheelchair" designed for the Yippee Retailing, by Bippies Inc.
Prenger replied: "What would you do if we wiped you out? Are we hurting your feelings psychologically?
I asked Prenger if he was going to kill the Vivio...
"What if I had the value system that I wanted to kill you?"
"No," he said, "I've got an open mind." The Jesus people left shortly after the attack subsided. The Yippies don't stay in church anymore. Mr. Delites begins filming, out of the arena.
ON THE WAY BACK TO the car, I met Bill Moeller, a member of the Ford camp finance committee. His Cadillac was to be towed. A flat tire lay in the trunk
"I tried changing the tire," Moeller said, but the big nuts are too tight. The tires are "soft."
An omen of November?
"I hone not." he said.
"Nice meeting you," he said as I walked towards our car. "You people in Kansas are great. Missouri, too."
So the convention is over, and now, the platforms and podiums, the posters and buttons, the confetti and rubber elephants are gone.
Maybe Kansas City will get another pollinator convention soon. Perhaps the males.
I hope so. At least then I could apologize to Bert for not giving her a tip.