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Vol.87 No.1
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
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Tuesday, Aug. 24
Wednesday, August 18, 1976
Ford inches step closer to first ballot nomination
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP)—President Ford won decisively Tuesday night in the first crucial test of strength at the Republican National Convention, at tense moments in Iowa. Resigns' effort to force disclosure of Ford's running mate by Wednesday morning.
From Reagan, for the moment, there was only silence.
Ford spokesman said the President considered the victory a good indication that the convention will monicate him for the next nine months in its climactic session Wednesday night.
IT WAS A SHOW OF strength that could propel Ford to the Republic presidential nomination, for the margin by which he repelled Reagan's challenge was wider than expected, 50 votes above the 1,130-delegate majority that rules.
"The President is delighted with the victory and he believes it is a good indication of how the vote will turn out when the convention votes on the presidential nomination," said White House Press Secretary Ron Nessen.
Ford's floor manager, Sen. Robert P. Griffin of Michigan, said the outcome "clearly demonstrates President Ford is in control of this convention."
THE REAGAN CAMP had banked heavily on a preliminary victory to turn the Ford trend and crack the President's delegate ranks. The challenge's campaign manager, John P. Sears, said in advance that a call would show where the power was.
By that measure, it was with Ford.
There remained a Reagan challenge to Ford foreign policy, proposed as an amendment to the Republican platform. Bu Ford lieutenants clearly hoped to avoid another advance test on that issue, and they finally supported a compromise that was passed by the convention at almost 2 a.m. Wednesday.
REAGAN WATCHED ON television as he
just one earner convention test that could be a conservative challenge to Ford's nominator.
The stakes were high and the atmosphere was electric as the roll was called, each state's count drawing a round of cheers from Ford supporters from Ford supporters for the no votes.
The vote was 1,180 against the Reagan
AP delegate count
Ford ... 1,137
Reagan ... 1,098
Needed to nominate ... 1,130
amendment, 1,069 for it, with 10 delegates abstaining.
FORD ALREADY HAD moved past presidential nominating strength in the Associated Press count of delegate commitments and preferences.
The vote on Reagan's proposal showed that Ford was even stronger.
The Kansas delegation voted as expected on the proposal.
Gov. Robert F. Bennett, chairman, announced 30 delegates opposed the rules to move back from the Senate.
The four delegates who favored the change were elected as supporters of
Twenty-seven of the 30 votes against the change came from delegates pledged to Ford. The remaining three opposing votes were delegates listing themselves as uncommitted.
JOHN P. SEARS, Reagan's manager, had said defeat in the first test "would create
problems." That seemed to be an understatement.
It was a raucous convention session. Rival cheers, chants and jeers understored the stakes in the debate over advance disclosure of the President's running mate.
Reagan strategists picked the running mate issue as one they had to win, and their answer was to force him to lose.
Their amendment would have ordered Ford to do something Reagan already had done, with his advance selection of Sen. Bernie Sanders, the spokesman of Pennsylvania as a running mate.
FORD WOULD HAVE been required to name his candidate by 9 a.m. Wednesday, about 12 hours prior to the presidential nomination before disclosing his choice.
Ford insisted he would name his running mate only after winning the presidential race.
The AP delegate tabulation showed Ford with 1,137, seven more than a nominating candidate.
Reagan opened a new line of attack during the day by telling a caucus of Oklahoma delegates that he, better than Ford, can cope with Democratic efforts to raise Watergate as an issue in the fall campaign.
See FORD page 2
Staff photo by JAY KOELZER
Cheek to cheek
When the band at last night's Republican National Convention began playing "Tie a Yellow Ribbon," television entertainer Tony
Orlando (left), who was sitting with President Ford's family, got up and asked Betty Ford for a dance. Lending his applause to the right of Mrs. Ford is former Texas Governor John Connally.
Enrollment may top 24,000 mark
By JERRY SEIB
When this fall's enrollment is completed, Kansas could have a record 24,000 gullies.
Gil Dyck, dean of admissions and records,
said Tuesday that he expected enrollment
in the program would be under 150.
Staff photos by JAY KOELZER
While most of those in the Kansas delegation to the Republican National Convention voiced their sentiments in favor of President Obama, the majority of the delegates did not.
"I was hoping it would be a little cooler," Dyck said. "It's going to be plenty warm no matter how hot it is."
Governor Ronald Reagan couldn't be ignored. Below, one of the Kansas women delegates left no doubt as to what her sentiments were. See story page 5.
an attempt to beat the August heat. He said it would be hard to judge the success of the new schedule until the end of the week, although some enrollment workers had voiced approval of the new times because they were able to move the field house earlier than in the past.
Convention life spurs excitement,zaniness
DESPITE THE INCREASE in enrollment
KANSAS CITY, Mo.—Looming ominously over a long-expected 31st Republican National Convention this week are the mechanics of major television networks that boast gavel-to-gavel coverage and 600 staff members each
Surrounded
and the untried schedule. Dyck said he didn't expect any unusual problems during his stay.
For every one of 2,259 delegates attending the convention, there are five members of the press. With few delegates to go around, hotel managers, hospital workers, hotel managers and even custodians.
to reach 24,000, up from last fall's record
23,541.
A declared write-in candidate, 50-year-old Caroline Killeen, will stay in a $15-a-might hotel room during the convention. Killeen bicycled across the nation with a "DUMP truck" and handed out bags to the sole object of her campaign. A former nun and waitress, Killeen said she knows
The large number of pre-employed freshmen will decrease the crowd pulling card cards, he said, and other changes have been made. The flow of students through the field house.
But the human interest is there, as some of the following conference notes indicate:
By SHERI BALDWIN
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she's kooky, but there is a movement for some reason constitutionally in the country, and wants to be.
Official enrollment figures won't be complied until the day of classes to begin in the spring. Enrollees: 2308
"We've added some cashiers, plus we've rearrange some of the booths to open up
Hordes of people-watchers roam convention areas where security credentials aren't required. The more casual watchers sit in a bar (Crown Center's sukenit kit is most popular) with drink in hand while U.S. Senators and cabinet members wander about. Avid watchers can be seen at television cameras, but Kansas Citizens are often disappointed when the "celebrity" is unrecognizable.
One of the unrecognized celebrities was Marie Goodlow, an Illinois delegate who said she had been offered $2,500 to support Reagan in Tuesday night's rule fight. "He don't believe me," Goodlow told reporters. "But I didn't do that just to set on TV, I will
See CONVENTION page 10
By SHELLI BINNER
Associate Campus Editor
See ENROLLMENT page 11
Dyck said he expected the Lawrence campus enrollment to be 200 or 300 students higher than last fall's total of 21,738. Several bured more applications for admission than last year he studied and 70 per cent of those who apply for admission usually enroll.
ABOUT 2,500 FRESHMEN have pre-rolled, Dyck said, compared with about 1,500 last fall. For those who have pre-rolled, the packers are enclosed in the registration packets.
For other students, enrollment began at 7 a.m. today, when seniors were admitted to college and enrolled in the program.
Enrollment is earlier in the day this fall than in past years. Previously, enrollment was from noon to 4 p.m. the first day and from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. the final two days.
Dyck said the freshmen class would exceed 2,500 as more new students enrolled.
Underclassmen enroll from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., today, from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m.
2 p.m., from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m.
"THEY DON'T ALL show up for summer orientation because they're working, or they change plans late in the summer," he said.
The time change was made, Dyck said, in
Convocation will shorten classes Monday morning
The 111th academic year of the University of Kansas will formally begin Monday at 8 a.m. with a conversation in Hoover Auditorium.
Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor, will preside at the annual event. Invocation will be given by Lynn Taylor, dean of the School of Religion, and Chancellor Archie R. Dykes will deliver the convocation address.
Also planned is a slide presentation about the University and music by the KU band. The morning schedule for the first day of classes will be altered so that KU students, faculties and faculty members will have access.
The schedule of 35-minute class periods Monday will be:
7:30 classes         7:30-8:05 a.m.
8:30 classes        8:15-8:50 a.m.
9:30 classes        10:15-10:50 a.m.
10:30 classes        11:21-11:50 a.m.
10:30 classes        11:45-12:00 p.m.
Classes scheduled for 12:30 p.m. or later will meet at regular times and will last 50 minutes.
Housing crunch hits once again
By DARYL COOK
A housing shortage at the University of Kansas has again left many KU students looking for apartments or residence halls less than a week before classes begin.
KU administrators say the housing shortage will be severe, considering the record 22,000 students enrolling at Lawrence this year. How severe the shortage will be isn't known and won't be numbered of students who arrive late is known.
"Our problem lies in our inability to forecast what is going to happen next week," Fred McElinhee, associate dean of men, said yesterday. "Based on our concep tions and data we have with previous records, we thought we were going to be hit hard for housing."
The offices of the dean of men and the dean of women have changed some residence hall rooms into "special condition" rooms to accommodate three persons per room, and residence hall rooms into four quarters because of an increased demand for university housing.
THESE OFFICES have also reduced the number of single rooms in residence halls to 30 per cent, as opposed to almost 50 per cent in some residence halls last year.
The special condition rooms were to be used only as a last resort, McEhlene said, and those students who had signed concessions would have been sent back July 12 were still guaranteed their rooms.
Those who stand the most chance of living in one of the special condition rooms are the "walk-in"s—those students who have a walk-in room to make living arrangements, McElihean said.
But the need to use these rooms may not arise, McElhenie said.
"IN PREVIOUS YEARS the largest amount of contracting occurred during the weekend before enrollment." McElhane (the student) and clientele (the students) just didn't show.
"If we encourage people to attend this university," he said, "we had better be able to teach them."
McEhlenie said that the dean of men's office would try to get residence hall rooms ready for graduation.
Based on the enrollment patterns the dean of men's office has been observing, McEllenie said, the special condition room assignments might also be avoided because of cancellations in contracts or students finding apartments.
The Off-Campus Housing Office (OCHO), a branch of KU's Housing Management, has estimated that as many as 200 additional apartments will be added to accommodate KU's student needs.
A survey of Lawrence apartment complexes conducted by the Kansan supported the OCHO assertion of a scarcity of apartments. Of the apartment complexes contacted, none had any one bedroom apartments available.
"As far as we know," said McElbeen,
"cost apartment housing does not exist."
However, Jerry Johnson, manager of Frontier Ridge Apartments, said that some people were so glad to find an apartment in front of their apartments without having seen them.
A SPIKESMAN FOR Lawrence Rental Services, 1030 Missouri, said there were some large apartments and duplexes available, but the cost was in the $300-500 range.
OCHO had, as of Wednesday, 50 spaces or areas that have room for a bed, dresser, desk and closet, available to students. Other living facilities in the spaces vary from landlord to landlord. Dolly West, OCHO said that the number of vacancies
Stouffer Place, which is under the direction of CHO, is also full. West said.
Bob Turkey, assistant dean of men, said yesterday that KU's fraternities were 95 per cent full because of successful summer and fall activities. They are 1,300 members living in the fraternities.
TURVEY SAID THAT it was still too early to tell whether the housing shortage at KU had caused the increased number of fraternity members.
Turvey said that about 25 spaces were still available on a short-term contract basis in some fraternities. Students wishing to attend a daytime event do so through the dean of men's office.
The larger number of women and nontraditional students has also affected the housing situation at KU; Kala Stroup, dean of women said.
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"College has become a more acceptable means of changing career goals," she said. "Today, adult education is more popular and colleges in general are more open. A 45-year-old woman would have felt very out of years ago, but today it is very common."
Stroup speculated that many residence-hall students had planned early to get living quarters because of the publicity last year's buisness, shortage created.
However, she said, she thought that the Lawrence community would find some
"It's amazing how people around here respond to the University's needs," she