THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
Kansas harvest
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Tuesday, July 1, 1975
See page 4
No. 154
Regents finish budget review
TOPEKA—The Kansas Board of Regents finished its review yesterday of the budgets of the state's colleges and universities for fiscal year 1977.
The Regents apparently made their final decisions on most items in the budgets during six tours of closed meetings. A meeting was held with the Regents taking action in closed session.
Max Bickford, executive officer of the Regents, said that all he could say about the budgets that some items had been approved was "too much." The pretty and some, had been cut, aptly.
Bickford said the Regents' staff would have to make computations to arrive at the final dollar amounts for the items that had been purchased finally. He said that would take a few days.
Announcement of decisions on items that were approved in full and items that were cut entirely will wait until the computations were approved items are worked out. Bickford said.
When asked how he could reconcile the Kansas Open Meetings Law with the Regents' making decisions during closed session, Bickford said, "All I can say is they made the motion (during open session) to override decisions they had made before that time."
With that statement, Bickford was saying the Regents took no binding action in the closed session. The formal motion, and thus the binding action, to approve decisions reached in closed session was made during open session.
The Open Meetings Law states, in part, "... it is declared to be the policy of this state that meetings for the conduct of governmental affairs and the transaction of governmental business be open to the public ... so that information or executive meetings provided . . . that they shall not be used as a subterfuge to defeat the purposes of this act."
NEW YORK (AP)—An Eastern Airlines pilot acknowledged a warning of dangerous turbulence minutes before his jetliner crashed on its final approach to Kennedy airport with a loss of 112 lives, according to tapes made public yesterday.
Tapes reveal pilot of ietliner warned
The crash of Eastern's Flight 66 June 24 in a thunderstorm excited the highest death toll of any single plane disaster in U.S. aviation history. The tapes of the pilot's radio contact with the ground gave no clue as to the cause.
Photo by JACK McNEELY
Saturday's a workday
Chancellor Archie R. Dykes walks Saturday from the Kansas Union, where he has just finished speaking to a freshman orientation session, to Strong Hall, where a pile of paperwork awaits him. Dykes became the 13th chancellor of the University of Kansas two years ago today.
Big gifts buy best seats
By STEVE McMURRY
The best football season seats in Memorial Stadium will go to season ticket holders who contribute to an athletic scholarship fund, John Novotny, director of the Williams Educational Fund, said yesterday.
A letter sent to several football ticket holders last week said that if they didn't contribute to the Williams Educational Foundation, their seats would be relocated, Novtay said.
The Victory Club is a select group of people who contribute a minimum of $500 to get good seats and a parking space at the stadium.
Many people affected by the change in polio have been season ticket holders for a decade.
Dr. Edward Jones, Harrisonville, Mo., said he had purchased season tickets for 17 years without ever belonging to the Victory Team, even when a contributor to other scholarship funds.
"The letter simply said if I didn't want to join the Victory Club and pay the $900 they'd cost," she wrote.
Cyclie Walker, athletic director, said he thought people holding seats in certain places should be contributors to the scholarship fund.
"Since these people have the best seats in the stadium they should contribute to the funds that we set up, but we're not taking advantage of that," Walker said, and we don't intend to." Walker said
Novotny said that the KUAC tried to satisfy all the requests as fairly as possible, but that people who contribute regularly will now get priority seats.
Some members of the KUAC board aren't in total agreement with the new policy.
"We have to run this thing like a business," Novotny said, "We have to give a little more attention to our big contributors."
Ed Kelfs, student body president, said the students shouldn't be forced to pay year after year.
"When we're talking about this kind of
what he wants, he most gets
what he wants. Woody said.
“It’s unfortunate that this type of requirement is placed on friends and alumni of the university,” he said. “These people have patronized KU and the athletic department for many years, and you just can't move in and tell them they're out.”
Patrons disfavor Hawklet closing
By ALISON GWINN
Virginia Sell Reporter
A reevaluation of the closing of the Hawklet in Summerfield Hall will be discussed by a committee of students and administrators as soon as possible. Ed Rolfs, student body president, said yesterday.
The letter, which was addressed to
Mary, came from a mailbox
(lo) called the Hawklet a valuable
Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor,
said the committee would examine
workable alternatives to the Hawket's
closing, but he didn't want to speculate on
the possibility of the concessions area
remaining open.
Westerday Shankel was presented with 183 copies of a letter, each copy signed by a different person, that supported the continuation of present services in the Hawklet. The letter was sponsored by the Uni- Business Council and StudEx, Rofs said.
The petition and letters were available yesterday at a table set up in the Hawklet.
"We didn't really solicit outside of the patronage area," Rolfs said. "We didn't go up to the student union and drag people off the street to stetch." In other words, the people who use the area are the ones who participated and signed the petition."
multi-use facility, used as a study hall, food-
serving service and user area.
The letter said plans to change the Hawklet would reduce the utility and flexibility of the area, which accommodates the needs of students to eat on campus and save time and fuel.
"Anytime that you can get 183 signatures inside of five hours, that's a voice and a force that needs to be listened to by the administration," Holfs said.
Students and faculty members in general dislike the closure of the Hawkeye
Adequate research of the possibility of building a new science building has not been done, he said.
"We really need the Hawklet. There's nowhere to go in this building," Linda Parsons, Kingman senior, said. "I haven't upset who, or who wasn't very upset about it," she said.
Ed Eower, Lenexa graduate student, said, "This is my home. I've always said I want to go up above the second floor. I'll go up to the reading room and bring books down here. I always feel like I'm jammed into a closet in the reading room. It's more open down
Monica Barash, Leawood junior, said, "Everybody I know is dead set against it, but that may be because everyone I know is in a Murphy or has classes in Murphy or, Haworth.
"It isn't that Wescos's that far away, but Wescos' up the hill. Summerfield's in a
Dykes enters third year of solid leadership
By JACK MCEELY
Kansan Staff Reporter
By JACK McNEELY
When a reluctant Kansas sun rolled laboriously out of bed this morning to have another go at burning away a muggy Mid-America backpack, I saw some satisfaction the sprigly step of a short, mostly bald man wearing spectacles as he made his way from a beautiful white house fronted by warm trees to an ugly backpack ending fronted by a frozen oosteridly.
Chancellor Archie R. Dykes had reason to sprinker his praise as he walked toward the Strongs.
central location. If the Hawklet wasn't here, I'd probably use the reading room, but I didn't.
Dykes had his first press conference during his second visit to campus-at a meeting in the Kansas University under tight security, because of fears of a demon- boy by students who were unhappy with Student Senate allocations from activity fees.
When Dykes became chancellor of the University of Kansas two years ago today, he was the fourth man in five years to have the job. The University was reeling from approximately equal portions of student funding and riot and reduced legislative funding.
Several people interviewed said that if increased library space meant closing the Hawklet, they were in favor of the administration's decision.
Students interviewed generally said they'd use the reading room for studying and reading computer print-outs, but not using it for taking or for discussing group projects.
Few people were making book that this Tennessee with the flashy smile and eager handshake would survive the slings and arrows of an outrageously demanding job.
But survive he has. And, in the many students, teachers and administrators, he has done more than survive. He has turned this University around.
Dykes has, to use his own phrase,
"increased support" for the University. That
It has slacked off a bit during the past year, but trips throughout the state still consume enough of Dykes' time during the summer in his office on Saturdays and Sundays.
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"For those of us in the business school, the reading room is the only place to study." Rob Fletcher, Cameron, Mo., graduate student, said.
"As much as I hate to see the Hawklet close, I would prefer seeing it closed to me," he said.
"I'll just have to budget my time better,
get up earlier to make a sandwich."
Typically, Dykes praises the efforts of her own role in building support for KU.
"increased support" also refers to less tangible things than money. It covers the attitudes of legislators, Regents and KU graduates in education in general and KU in particular.
been most beneficial to the improvement of public support," Dykes said Saturday.
"We've had exceptionally good student leadership in the University, and that has
Dykes' blitz of public relations earned
But Dykes doesn't mention his own whirlwind campaign of jaunts through the state to improve KU's image. That camp was a "say no" camp for Dykes' time during his first year here.
means more, than just "gotten more money."
He also praised the efforts of faculty members who have taken educational and service programs to the people of the state, while at the same time subsidy lobbying for
Another group drawing Dykes' praise is the Chancellor's Associates, a group of prominent Kansans formed by Dykes shortly after he became chancellor to give him a feel for what people in the state think they have originally had 36 members. Now it has 50.
"It has been a very helpful organization," Dykes said. "The interaction we have had with that group of people has made this a better university."
him the suspicion of newsmen early in his chancellorship. When a guy is always happy to see newsmen and never has anything nasty to say about anybody, skeptical reporters naturally wonder what he's biding.
Dykes said that if the coming legislative session granted KU's request for a third consecutive increase of 10 per cent in teacher numbers, they would be in the middle rank of the 23 schools.
But Dykes is completely frank about his goal, which is to keep KU one of the best universities in the country, and is always happy to tell reporters that to achieve that end, the University needs "increased support."
When Dykes came, funding for KU's faculty salaries ranked 23rd of 23 schools in the American Association of Universities, and it ranked fifth in the top 15 in major educational areas.
Dykes has gotten lots of money for KU
career stature, and he is properly
grateful for it.
Dykes noted that Kansas was one of only eight states that gave enough money to higher education in fiscal 1976 to keep abreast of inflation.
In addition, KU has under way the largest capital expansion in its history. About 75 million worth of construction is in progress, including buildings for the KU Medical Center, the law school and the department of visual arts.
When asked about his plans for the future, Dykes emphasized continuing education, which has become one of his recurrent themes.
The idea of college as a place to go for the early high school is an idea the past. Dykes
"the circumstances of our society today will require lifelong education," he said.
Dykes reiterated his stand on the balance between the university's three functions—study, research and teaching.
"Clearly there must be present within the institution a strong commitment to teaching," be said. "The quality of teaching is at the very heart of this institution. I believe that progress has been made in that area."
But, Dykes said, the highest quality of undergraduate teaching is achieved only in a university that has extensive research and public service programs.
USD teachers get 12% raise in new budget
A 12.33 per cent increase in salaries of teachers in Lawrence Unified School District 497 highlighted the 1975-76 budget for the school district at the school board meeting last night.
The budget, presented by Kenneth E. Fisher, ast. superintendent for business and facilities, would also provide a 12 per year grant to all of the offices of administrators and classified employees.
Fisher said the budget called for a staff increase for the coming academic year of four full-time positions and one part-time position. He added that the system's scealal education department.
In addition to the salary increases, substantial increases would be made in many of the line items of the general fund, supplies and books, substitute teachers, supplies and books.
Fisher said that if the assessed valuation for the school district increases by an estimated $4.1 million, the total mill levy for the school's budget will increase by less than $200,000. The valuation increases more than $4.1 million, there might be no increase in taxes.
"Over the state, the levies will increase by two mills, or a little more, on the average," Fisher said. "Lawrence will be at the median or a little lower."
The publication of the budget will be July
18th, the budget hearing and final adoption
will be August 23rd.
In other business, the school board approved the hiring of 11 teachers for the 75-76
The board also directed Fisher to study the advantages of building a new steel building compared to renting and renovating a vacant business building for needed facilities for the school's vocational extension program.
Cyclist crosses country to promote zero auto growth
By IAN KENNETH LOUDEN
Ed Arszman is protesting cars.
Arszman, who was sporting a bright red sunburn, baggy blue jeans, a weathered hat and a T-shirt that read "I believe in Zero Auto Growth," said yesterday that the belief that the automobile job market is necessary to the American job market.
Instead of carrying a picket sign or sitting on a General Motors assembly line to stop production, he is riding a bicycle from Detroit to protest what he calls the "roadblock."
"Cars pollute the air massively, slaughter thousands of our citizens annually and mangle the heart out of our cities and towns," he said. "Yet every protest of the automobile meets one standard line of defense: 'What about jobs?'
In truth, Arzman said, the national reliance on cars has put many people out of work and out of business. For example, he said, "They have jobs because they don't have cars."
As a result of this revelation, Arsman said, he sold his car, bought a bicycle and became a member of the Committee for Zero Automobile Growth.
Arsman said that when he worked as an employment interviewer for an urban job corps in Indianapolis in 1972 he realized that he had to find a real-time trouble finding jobs didn't have cars.
"Having a car determined whether they had a job," he said. "Without a car they didn't get a job. Without a job they couldn't afford a car."
sponsored several anti-car rallies. It is mainly concerned with informing people of the alternative to cars, such as mass transit systems and bicycles.
The group, which has its headquarters in Indianaapolis, has about 206 members. It is a nonprofit organization.
Arszman said the organization tried to convince people that the bicycle was a better option.
"One of the biggest problems that we face is that bicycles are still considered toys instead of vehicles," he said. "Roads and bridges are hard to get into. People should take bicycles seriously."
He said that a fear ofairs also caused many people to shy away from bicycles.
"If a person is riding a bicycle that collides with a car, it doesn't matter whether he was in the right," he said. "The person riding the bicycle is still going to have greater injuries than the person in the car."
Next to cars, Arzman said, the beetles' greatest enemies are bicycles there.
Arzman said he flew to Oakland from Indianapolis in May. He left Oakland June 1 and plans to reach Boston by the end of August. His bicycle is a Columbia.
"Columbia is the oldest American bicycle," he said. "In 1884 Tom Stevens rode a Columbia bicycle from Oakland to Boston, where it was born. That is where I got the idea for the protest."
Arzman said that he had been staying at motels or youth hostels during his trip and that sometimes he camped out. He encountered bad weather only once, in
"I don't have a raincoat or a tent," he said. "When it rained in Colorado, I just got wet."
Otherwise, he said, he hadn't had any problems.
Although the dress is mainly a protest, Azizman said he is enjoying it. He said he must keep his hands away from the crowd.
"Bicycling, however, gives you a freedom of movement. It relieves tension instead of causing it to build up. Most people don't try it so they never notice the difference between the confined space in a car and the freedom on a bicycle."
"You experience movement when you ride a bicycle," he said. "People who drive cars become caught in traffic jams and always have to be wary of rules and other drivers. It can be a terribly frustrating experience.
Arazian stressed that he was doing more than just protesting. The Committee for Justice had said.
alternatives to using cars, he said. They include:
-That all Highway Trust Fund money be available to construction of bikeway or road construction.
That Congress levy a horsepower tax on all new cars, the proceeds of which could be used to develop energy efficient means of transportation.
—That the federal government take over ownership of the track beds of the railways
Wait, in the image, it looks like "the federal government" on the left.
In Markdown, it's "the federal government" on the left.
So the same thing? No, they are different.
—That bike lanes and sidewalks be put on the street and highway in the United States.
"We aren't saying that cars should be abolished," Azmanm said. "We just want as many different forms of transportation to be available to neocle as possible.
"It's all in the name, you know—Zero Automobile Growth."