THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
No.161
The University of Kansas—Lawrence. Kansas
KU urged to join ASK
Tuesday, July 15. 1975
See page 4
Hawklet's future unclear
By ALISON GWINN
Kansan Staff Reporter
A meeting to reconsider the closing of the Hawlett resulted in a compromise that is no compromise at all. Ed Rolfs, student body president, said yesterday.
"We asked for lounge space, and they said they'd give us lounge space that already exists—in the Military Science Building," she said of a collection of compromises where we get nothing."
THEHAWKLET was to close at the end of the summer session. The area it occupied was then to be used to accommodate new computers, which will arrive in the spring of 1978, and a new addition to the business school reading room.
Del Shanker, executive vice chancellor,
said there was a good possibility that half of the Hawket area would still be used for additional library space.
He said he would meet with commanding officers of ROTC tomorrow to discuss the feasibility of using space in the Military Science Building for a lounge area.
ROLFS SAID that vending machines might be moved up to the Military Science
Building to serve the lounge area, but that they wouldn't benefit Hawklet users.
A Student Senate position statement presented to administrators at the meeting said that libraries were consistently placed on mystical academic pedestals, and that the University needed to recognize other types of educational requirements.
Joseph Pichler, dean of the business school, said the accreditation report, which is made every five years by the American Assembly of College Schools of Business, was very critical of the business school's reading room space.
HE SAID ACCREDITATION was important to firms that hired students from the school, students who sought higher degrees in other schools and administrators who were recruiting and maintaining a business school faculty.
Rulfs said accreditation had never been emphasized as a reason for needing more training.
Originally, the reason for changing the Hawley area into a reading room was student demand, and the administration has been making sure that new requirements as a reason, Rolfs said.
Officer resigns, says group fails residents
By LYNN PEARSON
Kansan Staff Reporter
Ray Dryz, Lawrence graduate student, resigned last night as treasurer of the East Lawrence Improvement Association (ELIA). He cited the association's failure to respond appropriately to East Lawrence and its support of the Haskell Loop project as his reasons for resiring.
He said the group hadn't shown a commitment to the邻居hood's working class and had focused only on promoting good public relations in the邻居hood.
"MUCH TO MY DISAPPOINTMENT, ELAIA has failed to show much interest in the problems of the poor or the working people of the neighborhood," Dryz said. "I can longer tolerate scientists in cities where I seem appear to tolerate them by remaining an officer."
Dryz has been a member of the association for two years and treasurer since October. He said he wouldn't resign as a member of the association at this time.
The east Lawrence neighborhood is bounded on the north by the Kansas River, on the south by 15th Street, on the west by 24th Street and on the east by the railroad tracks.
DRYZ SAID that he opposed spending federal community development funds for the Haskell Loop and that the loop would Lawrence a drive-through neighborhood.
Dryz said that by approving and supporting the Haskell Loop project, which is a controversial road project that would connect downtown Lawrence to the U.S. 95 bypass, the association had committed itself to developing the uncompensated deterioration of 20 to 30 others that will be trained in a proposed industrial zone east and north of the loop.
He said the poor people of east Lawrence deserved equality.
"We deserve grants and programs to get
what we 'worked for so far,' he said.
"FILA is a great employer."
DRYZ SUGGESTED several courses of action to the association's members. He said members should oppose the Haskell Loop, commit ELIA to be a voice of poor people and work toward providing these persons more and better cooperative housing.
Tom Patchein, chairman of ELAA's
housing Raising Committee, said he
discussed his draft "Dryer."
"We are kind of at the mercy of the federal government," Patcheen said. "If we can't get loans and grants to fix up houses, none of us can scrape up the money."
He said the association's work wasn't as visible as Dryz would like to be. But, he said, the group had had clean up days, installed street lights, helped residents clean up their yards, cleaned up every alley in the neighborhood and fixed sidewalks.
"I WISH we'd made *e* movie of how east Lawrence looked three years ago and then made one now," Patchem said. "I'd really ooen the ues of a lot of people."
He said the city's building and housing code had hampered some of the association's progress in rehabilitating residences.
"If we don't get the housing code changed, then we'll still be stymied," he said. "It takes too much money to bring some of these houses up to standard."
The reading room will then be maintained partly in its present capacity as a study area and partly to accommodate study resources. Some of them who are working on their Ph.D., he said.
Fischer said all the books in the present reading room would be moved to the library.
"Two times we have gone to every house in east Lawrence and left circulars explaining the 3 per cent loan program," Patcheen said. "We tried to tell them that the funds were handled locally and that it was just like going through a bank."
One of the association's projects, Patchen said, has been to inform residents of the 3 per cent loans available through the local community development office.
PEOPLE HAVE BEEN reluctant to take advantage of the loan program, Patchen said. Most of the reluctance has been due to the low level of government to cancel funding for the program.
Rolfs said, "In essence, they're moving 1,000 masters candidates and undergraduates out of the Hawklet area for 30 Ph.D. candidates."
Kyle Andregg, director of community development for the city, received word this week that the loan program would be continued for another year.
BRUCE WONER, CHAIRMAN of StudEx, who attended the meeting, said, "The thing that's perplexing to me about the whole situation, which didn't come out until the end of the meeting, is that we're on a really tight time schedule."
Concerning the Haskell Loop project, Patchen said he thought there would be no damage done to the neighborhood because the construction or the traffic it would attract.
"MOST OF THOSE houses affected would have had to turn down any way," Patchen said. "And they're going to put that road through whether we like it or not."
He said that since the schedule was tight, there wasn't enough time to look at options to the present plan. He said that if students had been allowed input at the beginning, more options could have been considered while there was time.
Patchen said he thought this assurance of lending you courageous requests to apply for jobs in India.
“There’s no reason for anybody not to fix in his house,” Patchen said.
The three-member student group presented a report to administrators reviewing several options that it described. The students studied the computation center and the business school.
George Elston, 825 New York St., agreed to the remaining three months of Dr. Kyle's work.
THEY PROPOSED that personnel located in Annex B of the computation center be relocated to the Military Science building; staff, now located in 108 Summer Hall, or the keypunching staff be moved to Annex B; and that plans for the expansion of the business school reading room be delayed until a faculty facility was built, in about two years.
It recommended that when the computer center was built, the business school would be guaranteed the use of two rooms in Summerfield Hall for expansion.
The report said the majority of business students preferred retention of the Hawklet to the creation of a reading room that would be open only during business hours.
The report said that over 2,700 square feet of military Science Building could be used.
The report also cited a survey of students and faculty members that was conducted by the Union's Committee on Planning and Long Range Development.
THE SURVEY indicated that of those students interviewed from a zone including Summerfield Hall, Murphy Hall, Watkins Hall and Wakefield Hospital, 70 per cent used the Hawklet for a food service area. The survey also indicated that over 15 per cent of all students used on-campus eating facilities as their primary food service area.
“It's either going to be an inconvenience to students or to administrators. There's no reason why students shouldn't have the entire Hawklet area,” Rolfs said.
Staff photo by DON PIERCE
Potter prize
Seven-year-old Mike Boulton, son of John Boulton, assistant professor of music, observes with a pleasure small fish caught in Potter Lake yesterday. The fish was thrown back
Board of Regents studies college profs' work week
TOPEKA (AP)—The average public four-year college faculty member in Kansas spends 55 hours per week on professional duties, with about two-thirds of that time related to teaching, a new study by the state Board of Regents shows.
The study was made of faculty members at the University of Kansas, Kansas State University, Wichita State University, Kansas State College at Pittsburg, Emporia Kansas State College and Fort Hays State College.
The 56-page study, which has gone to Gov. Robert F. Bennett, memphis of the Board of Regents, presidents of the six state colleges and universities and legislative leaders.
The survey was prepared from data supplied last September by faculty members at the six schools. They filled out report forms showing how they need their time.
The study involved all unclassified employees of the six colleges, but none of the faculty at the AU Medical Center. It included part time employees and part time employees at the schools.
Thea Lynn Clark, assistant instructor of English, who was charged last week for possession of heroin or cocaine, was found dead Saturday in a pickup truck on a township road three miles north of Lawrence.
He said the cause of death would be established when reports from the state troopers were received.
The body of Mrs. Clark, 28, 415 Elm St., was taken to Lawrence Memorial Hospital where J. A. Sanders, deputy county coroner performed an autopsy.
was made public Monday by Bickford, Regents' executive officer.
Sanders said yesterday that the autopsy showed there were no broken bones. He said it was either an accident or a disease, for the death.
KU instructor dies,body found near Lawrence
Officers investigating said the woman may have been dead for 12 hours. Drug paraphernalia and an unknown substance, possibly heroin, were found with the body.
A similar study had been made three years before, because of demands by some legislators to learn how much work colleges professors were doing for the state.
Mrs. Clark's body was discovered by Douglas County Sheriff's officers after a person reported having seen the pickup truck at about 8 p.m. Saturday in the same place.
Douglas County Sheriff Rex Johnson said the name was withheld until about noon Monday while officials tried to contact Mrs. Clark's husband.
She had been an assistant instructor of English while she was doing graduation work here.
Mrs. Clark graduated from the University in 1974 with a degree in English.
Mr. and Mrs. George Listen, Burbank,
California. They are reportedly on route to awareness.
Mrs. Clark's body will be in Warrens-
ment until family members can reach Lawrences.
City parks dept to hire youths for trail project
sophomore level courses, $31.19 for junior-
senior level courses, $88.59 for master's
level courses and $100.10 for doctor's level
courses.
The Lawrence Parks and Recreation Department has received funding for a Youth Conservation Corps project for the last four weeks of the summer, Fred DeVictor, director of parks and recreation, said yesterday.
The conservation project, funded on an 80 to 20 per cent federal-local basis, will hire between seven and twelve youths, 15 to 18 years old, to work with the kids through Naimsh Park, deVictor said.
City can seek warrants
The program is not limited to youth of any particular social, ethnic or economic background. Children who will be paid $2 an hour for six hours a day. An additional two hours each day will be spent in educational sessions designed to acquaint the youngsters with environmental issues.
Kansas State had the highest percentage of its time spent on non-in instructional action, but only 14.3 percent of the inclusion of county extension personnel, who were classed as non-teaching, KU had 32.6 per cent of its time devoted to non-instructional action, and 59.7 schools had between 19 and 24 per cent.
The commission also decided to reaffirm at tonight's commission meeting the area included in the original Hill Inspection Area.
In a closed session with city attorney Milton Allen yesterday, the Lawrence City Commission decided that obtaining warrants from the district court to enter houses for inspection against the wishes of the owners was within its legal authority.
At all six colleges combined, 38.5 per cent of the faculty time is spent on formal classroom teaching, 24.9 per cent on non-instructional activities, 16.7 per cent development and advising students, and 34.5 per cent on non-instructural activities, such as management talks, research and
"It is the feeling of the commission and the feeling of the staff," Clark said, "that in order to enforce the housing code conditions, such findings where permission has been denied."
By LYNN PEARSON
Kansas Staff Director
"We hope to put them to work by Monday." DeVictor, said.
The idea of the project, he said, is to provide necessary conservation work on public lands and to develop in the workers the skills we need for our natural environmental heritage.
The controversy over whether the city had legal authority to sew warrantes to
He said that the Parks and Recreation Department would accept applications until November 2016.
The report also shows that professors conduct 20.4 per cent of the classroom in their institutions, associate professors 20.5 per cent, instructors 9.7 per cent, graduate assistants 20.9 per cent and others, such as administrators and guest lecturers, 3.3 per cent.
"We have ample authority to do this," said Mayor Barkley Clark, "provided the house is within a designated inspection area."
Clark has said that the city has the authority to seek warrants for housing inspection, but Allen and his staff have said that the city must show probable cause before seeking a warrant for inspection. At a city commission meeting two weeks ago, Clark said that the fact that a house was included in a detailed inspection request indicated probable cause and requested a memorandum from Allen on the subject.
The project is administered jointly by the Department of Interior and Agriculture, DeVictor Institute.
inspect both tenant and owner occupied housing began last fall when the city commission was faced with several owners in the Hill Target Area who refused to pay their inspection. Daniel S. Lang, associate professor of physics, was one of these owners.
Carl Mibeck, commissioner, has finished
The commission, according to Clark, is going to back up the warrants with misdemeanor charges if an owner refuses to bring his property up to the city's code.
Faculty salary costs for a student credit hour at the schools are $16.23 for freshman
The University of Kansas had graduate assistants doing the teaching 32.3 per cent of the time, and KU has twice as many assistants as the other institutions, Bickford said.
Clark said that the commission was going to enforce the code equally for everyone in each designated inspection area and that it would scrutinize the forms that the building inspector sends to owners of noncomplying property.
the first draft of a new city minimum housing code. Both the commissioners and the city administrators said that the new code would be more specific and easier to enforce.
"As far as I'm concerned, it was a bad decision," he said.
"We want to word the letters in such a way as not to upset the typical owner," Clark said. "We want to rehabilitate houses, not demolish them."
Clark apologized to the press for the closed meeting between the commissioners and an attorney.
Allen requested that the meeting be closed because of the privileged status of attestants.
Arts festival gets money
By KELLY SCOTT
Karsen Statt, Reporter
A $4,500 allocation from the Student Union Activities Board may make the difference between a successful 1976 Festival of the Arts and this spring's abortive effort.
Next spring's Festival will have this allocation to absorb losses before they're passed on to students in the form of internships. Mike Miller, MSA adviser, said yesterday.
PREVIOUSLY, THE FESTIVAL was budgeted by the SUA board to break even, he said. Last year, when SUA had financial problems, it closed its garden kird, and the festival had to be canceled.
IF THE FESTIVAL is to succeed, he said,
it will have to draw more townpeople.
Carol Poulson, director of the 1976 festival, said she hoped to plan events and attractions that would attract townpeople as well as KU students and faculty. Poulson also led by an advisory committee comprised of students, faculty and townpeople.
Poulson said she had written to faculty members asking them to keep the Festival
Poulson and Miller said they hoped the Festival would include informal, spontaneous events as well as big-name nightly entertainment.
SUA wants people to get away from the idea that the team's employees are supposed by SUA, Miller said.
in mind so that exhibits of visual arts and writing could be set up to supplement the
The ultimate goal, Miller said, is to obtain the offer of a relationship between KLU and ACME.commy.
Arno Knapper, professor of business and member of the advisory committee, said that until the residents of Lawrence were convinced that the Festival was intended as a joint venture, the people of Lawrence would continue to perceive it as a KU event.
KNAPPER SAID he and the other members of the advisory committee were being used merely as a "sounding board" to ensure any financial control over the festival.
Ann Evans, director of the Lawrence Arts Center and a member of the advisory committee, said she favored the use of the Lawrence Arts Center facility by Pedial events.
"It's time the Festival came down from
it's hill and into the community," Evans said.
The festival will take place from Sunday, April 4 through Saturday, April 10.
Admission to the festival will be offered through the purchase of coupons, as in prince William's 2015 event.
PULSONSAID she hoped to incorporate elements of the local observance of the American bicentennial into the festival, but she hoped the entire festival a bicentennial theme.