THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
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Staff photos by JAY KOELZER
Construction boom sets KU record
Spencer Museum
By DAVID STEFFEN
Staff Writer
Construction at the University of Kansas can ignore the nursing course books that inflation has caused at other schools as a record number of major courses are open.
Allen Wiechert, assistant director of facilities and operations planning, said his office was currently involved in "the greatest construction activity that the company has ever undertaken."
Wiechert said planning or actual construction was being done on eight major projects on the Lawrence campus.
"All projects are either on or ahead of schedule due to favorable weather."
were the new law facility is the first scheduled for completion in fall
1977, he said.
ON JUNE 14, a ceremony marking the half-way point in construction was held and the last bit of concrete was symbolically poured to complete the law building's roof. This "tipping-out" ceremony was attended by Chancellor Dykes and other high-ranking University officials.
Construction of the $5 million structure to replace Green Hall began in March 1975. The five-story building will house the school's 140,000-volume library with room for 30,000 volumes. The 95,000 square feet of floor space in the new building is more than twice the current number of students and 400 more than Green was designed for.
The new structure, made of reinforced concrete with bronze trim and glass, is
StudEx hikes fares demands inventories
By BERNEIL JUHNKE
Staff Writur
Bus rides are more expensive this fall, bus drivers won't give change anymore and the Student Senate is keeping closer tabs on property bought with its funds as a result of action taken this summer by the Student Executive Committee of the Student Senate.
Students will pay $3 more for bus passes and five cents more for regular fares this
In increased rental costs the reason bus passes will go from $15 to $18 a semester for students and from $18 to $20 for non-students, Steve McMurry, Senate Transportation Committee chairman, said that fares will go from 20 cents a ride to 25 cents.
THE TRANSPORTATION fee each student pays as part of his activity fee will be $1.80 for full-time students and 30 cents a credit hour for part-time students.
The transportation fee was $150 for full-time students and 15 cents a credit hour for partial-time students.
The student bus service, KU on Wheels, is funded entirely by bus passes, regular fare
Bus drivers will no longer give change. In a case where a student can't get correct change before boarding the bus, he will receive one or more 25-cent tokens as change. For example, if a student pays $1, the bus driver will redeem for change at the Student Senate Office or use for rides. The payment must be made in multiples of 25 to receive tokens. Otherwise the amount over the cost of the fare will be lost. For instance, if a student gives three dimes to the driver he will lose a dollar; the driver only has tokens worth 25 cents.
MCMURY SAID the no-challenge policy should speed boarding and improve 80%
The Lunch Bunch Express, a bus service to bring the Hawklet lunch crowd up to the Kansas Union during lunchtime each day, shows that there aren't enough drivers, McMurray said.
The express is part of the KU on Wheels service that was started last fall when the Hawklet, a concession at Summerfield, was closed.
A procedures guide that explains how an organization can get and spend funds is distributed at the training session by the Senate's business manager and treasurer.
AT LEAST one member of each organization funded by Student Senate must attend a 30 minute budgetary training organization's account will be activated.
The guide explains how organizations can obtain University recognition, how they should petition the Student Senate for funds, how to get information about university rules and regulations on spending are.
C印象 of forms organizations can expect encounter in using their funds are also important.
TWENTY-SIX of the 106 organizations ended by the Senate at the first time since 2014.
Training sessions will be held once a month during the fall and spring semesters at the time and place advertised in the Fall Program. Session will be the first or second wk in September.
A new inventory system for Senate-funded organizations begins this fall.
Organizations must specifically request each year what Student Senate property is available.
"WE'RE GOING to start treating inventory just like dollars," Jim Cox, Senate treasurer, said. He estimated the repurchase rate of all Senate bills to be 2000.
Anything purchased with Senate funds
becomes Senate property items worth $50 or
more.
Typewriter, filing cabinets, calculators and any other Senate property will be physically repossessed by the Senate if the Senate don't request the equipment each year.
Each organization will be asked to certify its property at the beginning of the year—describing its condition and location. In its subsequent items will occur at the end of the year.
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BOXES TO COLLECT old newspapers will be placed in the lobbies of the Union and four residence halls: Corbin, GSP, Lewis and Oliver. Papers collected will be recycled at the Whammer recycling center, 6th and New Yorkshire, and revenue will go to the Senate.
Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home-away-from-home, the KU campus. But, unlike the homes that most of us came from, KU is sprinkled with fistfuls of agencies and organizations—some familiar, some dark and mysterious.
A sinairier for students who are on poli-
cityity management or research at the University.
A sinairier for students who are on poli-
cityity management or research at the University.
Carlos Baker, professor at Princeton University, says that regardless of how it's taught, written standard English is the language of American law, politics and business. Students who haven't yet been weaned on television would be a great tragedy, he said.
One compromise that has been suggested is to teach students to read and write but teach it through a visual process.
"We hope to bring together student representatives in the academic department to share our experiences."
The University requires 20 per cent student representation on all policy-making
Wattins Hospital ... 2
Job outlook ... 3
Legal defenders ... 2
Foreign students ... 3
Rape counseling ... 5
Financial aid ... 6
Outreach ... 8
Counseling services ... 8
KU Libraries ... 9
Contrary to popular myth, most of those agencies are there to make student life a bit easier. Who hasn't strolled through the maze that is Strong Hall muttering to himself, "This is for my own good"?
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This, the Campus section of the Back-to-School Kansan, dispels the mystery surrounding such campus institutions as Watkins Hospital, Watson Library, the traffic court, the financial aid office, the counseling centers and many more.
Writing a lost art among students
By CORA MARQUIS Staff Writer
High school seniors are scoring lower on basic skills tests taken for college entrance. The National Assessment of Educational Progress, a federally funded testing program based in Denver, concluded last fall that American teenagers were losing their ability to communicate through written English.
In the view of some educators, keeping a keen eye on test results started after the Russians launched Sputnik in 1957. Competitiveness and special attention to measurable skills were given priority. Then, in the 1960s, youth rebelled against this regimented type of learning. Education is no longer an objective goal. Emphasis was placed on improving the self-concept and developing creativity—goals less readily measurable.
graduates now cropped up in forms from college graduates.
Just as educators are divided on the cause of the problem, if it can be defined as a problem, they are also divided on what needs to be done. The debate centers on the question of whether to let the written word be more likely to be understood over completely, or whether to "get back to basics" and require basic reading and writing skills for a high school diploma.
teacher pointed out that he'd hate to think that in the future he wouldn't be able to find a lawyer to represent him in court who had experience with "natural communications experience." Or he would have to be operated by someone with "intuition" books because he was "visually oriented."
Such goals have been used as both a defense and a denouncement of education. On one side are those who feel education has been diluted to make it "fun." On the other hand, we know that say less emphasis on the three R's is the only realistic approach to today's youth.
Today's high school graduate has seen more than 20,000 hours of television and some 500 movies. It's easy to understand why teenagers can quickly grasp what the director of a television program is doing when he pans across the set, but fail to grasp the foreshadowing that the author of a novel uses, Colyer said.
The personnel office of Bank of America reported that cannon errors they once fired at customers occurred.
Richard Colyer, professor of speech and English, said that today's student was thoroughly visually oriented. The traditional tests are geared toward literary communication, and the problem is communicating visually as opposed to traditionally with written words.
Marshall McLahan, author of communications books, has gone so far as to say that it was a decade ago that literary culture was through. Writing and reading were in the past, not natural. People think in visual terms, not written words, McLahan says.
Defenders of students with low test scores say that the visual communications "revolution" hasn't yet been felt by test writers. The book written in the student's language, they say,
"On one side of the desk is the teacher saying 'Why John, you can't read!' and on the other side of the desk is Johnny saying 'What can I do?' But teacher, you can't see." Colyer said.
Critics look at the impact of television and admit there is definitely a revolution taking place. However, they are quick to point out that sometimes visual communication is not practical.
College work, they point out, requires mastery of written English. One English
It's possible to beat the traffic ticket rap
Bv RON HARTUNG
Staff Writer
Reluctantly you walk into the courtroom. Directly ahead of you are three windows that, mysteriously, are laced with iron bars. To your right an impressive judge's bench. To your left a three high leather chairs. But the judges in those chairs look amazingly like students.
Scattered throughout the echoing room are others like you -pitiful tweets who've been drawn here by Fate and a yen for Justice.
No, this isn't an episode from some squalf divore court. The scene is the University of Kansas Parking and Traffic Court.
AND THESE jobs are indeed students—second-year law students, to be exact. On this Tuesday evening their hands shaping your immediate economic future.
When your time comes you approach the bench and swear not to perjure yourself. After studying your parking ticket, maps of the campus and copies of parking regulations, the judges plumb you for more information.
Why did you park where you parked? Have you ever scanned the regulations? How long have you been at KU? What type of permit did you have?
A parking ticket is the problem. To pay or not to pay; that is the question.
QUESTIONING OVER, the judges refire to reach a verdict. If circumstances warrant it, they will grant your appeal. If not, they won't.
The judges return. Their verdict: your appeal is granted. Go, spend your five dollars on frivolity. You breathe a sigh of relief and, like many a freeman before you stepped into the profession, such scenes take place weekly at the University Parking and Traffic Court, more commonly called simply the traffic court. Most students at KU probably don't know it exists; but for those whose college careers involve the traffic court can seem almost like home.
The purpose of the traffic court is to serve as an appellate body for those who feel campus ticketers have done them wrong. Should you return to your car one day and find a ticket tucked bodily under the windshield, you might turn it over and read:
"PETITITIONING FOR administrative review of this notice by the University's Parking and Traffic Court must be accepted at least one day before the calendar day after issuance of this notice."
You wouldn't always have had such a recourse, for the traffic court was organized only in 1972. Under an earlier system you would have taken your case to the Student Court. In 1972, the Student Senate alone. In an amendment to the Senate Code passed in October 1972, the traffic court was established as part of the University Judiciary. As such, the traffic court can hear the appeals of not only the courts but anyone ticketed while on campus.
Not surprisingly, officers of the traffic court are mostly law school students. The Senate Code states that the court shall consist of nine full-time students in School of Law, four faculty members and two classified staff members.
A TROUBLESOME backlog during the spring 17 semester, however, inspired then-Chief Justice Henry Sonday to implement a new system for the number of student judges to 12 and eliminated the prosecution counsel (that role will be filled this semester). Fifteen judges have been appointed for the fall, with only one judge to chief justice during the summer semester.
Only three judges hear your appeal. Every three to four months there is a faculty court, in which a law school faculty member joins two student judges to hear the appeals of non-student appellants. The judges are second-year law students.
Before a law student can occupy one of those high-hacking chaits, he must have
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You approach the bench and swear not to perjure yourself.