THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
Vol.85-No.139 Friday, May 2, 1975
KANSAN
The University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
Rolfs to ask for approval of Union fee
By GREG HACK Kansan Staff Reporter
An emergency meeting of the Student Senate will be May 5, Ed Rufus, student body president
Hons will be called the meeting to reconsider a resolution supporting a $1.50 increase in the Kansas Union campus privilege fee that was defeated by the Senate Wednesday at its final regular meeting of the semester.
Rolfs said the meeting was necessary to determine whether the Senate opposed the Union fee increase or if the resolution was approved. The committee did not consult earlier about the increase.
Jon Josserand, a member of StudEx and the Kansas Union Memorial Corporation Board, said the Senate wasn't consulted during last month's budget procedures because the increased request had to be made at the meeting of the Kansas Board of Retents.
Rolfs and Josserand, neither of whom could attend Wednesday's meeting, said the Senate decision the resolution had no binder against the Regents had approved the increase.
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However, Josserand said the request was made to the Regents subject to Senate action.
"I believe the administration will follow the will of the Senate," he said. "If the Senate doesn't really want the Union fee increased, I don't think it will be."
Josserand said the fee was increased last year without the Senate being consulted at
He said it was important for the Union to know soon if the fee, paid by each full-time employee, was adequate.
"The Union needs the increased revenue for all reasons," he said, "and if we fail to do so, there will be no good."
"If the Student Senate doesn't increase the Union fee it would cause a decrease in services to the students and be a grave error."
He said the patronage refund, where students receive a percentage rebate on Union sales receipts each semester, might have to be eliminated to gain extra funds.
The Union will either have to close one day a week or find another source of revenue if the fee increase isn't passed, Joserand said.
Frank Burge, director of the Union, said this week that the fee increase was needed because the cost of utilities increased March 15.
He said the costs of utilities and paper supplies have increased two to three times in last year.
"Mr. Burge and the Union staff, in a time of inflationary pressure, have done an excellent job of holding down costs," he said. "The union can't go on without increased revenue."
The increase in salaries for part-time workers was made necessary when they came under the minimum wage law this year, he said.
Salary increases for full-time employees and part-time student workers and an increase in the number of custodial staff employed. Increased compensation expenditures to rise, Jossen and狼
The larger custodian staff is needed because of increasing use of the Union, he said.
"We're under tremendous pressure from the chancellor's office to keep the Union building very clean and presentable," Josserand said.
Rofs said, "This all boils down to a simple choice. We can either increase the union fee or oppose it, but we must take a stand one way or the other."
Senate speech
Chancellor雅克 Dykes listens to opening remarks while waiting to speak at the University仑塔纳大学，delivered University accomplishments of the year and delivered an optimistic foreword.
Dykes' view hopeful
By YAEL ABOUHALKAH Kansan Staff Reporter
In an optimistic, organized "State of the University Address," Chancellor Archie R. Dykes said that the University of Texas was looking forward to future challenges.
Dykes made his comments in a 20-minute speech at a University Senate meeting Tuesday.
"I believe the future for the University of Kansas looks very bright," he said. "We can have whatever kind of University we want."
Dykes praised several areas of progress made by the University in the rest year
He cited the improvement in quality of KU's academic program, more support from the public towards the University, the leap in student enrollment, the increasing number of undergraduate level, a maintained high level of faculty productivity through research and study grants, support of the Kansas College of Engineering, expanding building boom at the University.
Dykes then talked about the future, saying that some of the University's plans should definitely include the goal of striving for more and more public understanding.
"We can be no greater than the people of Kansas want us to be," Dykes said.
Dykes said the University needed to:
—Begin now on building legislative support for the 10 per cent increase in faculty salaries that will be sought next year.
Gov. Robert F. Bennett said last week that he foresaw increased resistance to such a pay hike if the state's economy didn't improve soon.
-Emphasize the importance of classroom teaching for students, particularly on the undergraduate level. Dykes warn against concern for undergraduates teachers.
However, Dykes stressed that the salary increase was needed to raise University faculty to a level of pay comparable to other Midwestern colleges and universities.
Dealings with press,policy-making surprise new dean of women
Two problems of being an administrator have surprised Kala Mays Stropse since she was appointed Dean of Women in January, Stroup said at a faculty forum Thursday.
"I haven't gotten used to the idea of saying something and having it become policy," she said. "I'm more group oriented."
The other problem, she said, is the constant demand made on her to deal with the
"I sometimes don't have an opinion on some matters," Stroup said.
She said she was asked for her opinion on almost any event in the University that affected women. And, she said, since she has worked with women, many of her ouiences affect women,
Stroup said she was honored and humbled to serve in the position formerly held by such distinguished women as Martha Peterson and Emily Taylor.
Peterson, dean of women from 1962 to 1966, is president of Barnard College, a women's school in New York, and is, as well as one of the few women college students who isn't a nun.
Taylor resigned last year to become director of the Office of Women in Higher Education for the American Council on Education.
Stroup said that both women had a great influence on her life.
The Office of Affirmative Action and her own office are the only ones on campus that have women in top administrative positions, Strup said, and therefore they function as images for women students who might be interested in administration.
Stroup said much of the controversy about Affirmative Action employment guidelines had been caused by fervor in supporting workers than in beinne concerned with outcomes.
"We've seen so many males in decision-making roles," she said, "that it is often difficult to perceive women as administrators."
She said her own thinking on the subject had recently been reshaped. The ideal is to give qualified persons the opportunity for jobs regardless of race or sex, she said, and this result is more important than advocating detailed and confusing guidelines.
The dean of women's office has a Women's Resource and Career Planning Center with one of the finest women's libraries in the nation, according to Strom.
She said the Center collected information, counseled students and sponsored speakers
One such project, the Hashing Hall production of "Free to be you and Me," has produced a number of
Another project, Stroup said, is a career exploration service focusing on math and science careers for women. She said that both higher education and industry had discouraged women from entering such fields because both that are becoming more cooperative.
Stroup said that since many of the changes that developed in the late 1960s, her office no longer had parietal power over women students. Nonetheless, she said, the office still gets many calls from parents and even frightened merchants about
"We regard women as adults," she said. "We have no power over whether they live with us or not."
Journalist experiences changes
By ROY CLEVENGER
Kansan Staff Reporter
The past half-century has seen vast changes in journalism and business, and few have watched those changes closer than James W. Irwin, who has been an editor of *The New York Times* and an executive of several large corporations, although he never finished high school.
Irwin, 72, was on campus Thursday and
as part of a tour of university journal-
alism.
He wanted to a geologist, he said, insad he took the only job he could find: At 18, he began working as a reporter, without going to the Wisconsin State Journal, Madison.
In an interview and lectures to journalism classes in Flint Hall, Irwin described his experiences and the changes he has seen since he entered journalism in 1921.
The tour turned out to be a break for him. He said the publisher took an interest in him because of the resourcefulness he showed in his work, and the same subject every day for six weeks.
The publisher assigned him to cover
The Wisconsin Cooperative Tobacco Pool, an industry organization, wanted a reporter for a six-week promotional tour, and he was invited to write the newspaper could spare. Irwin said.
"I had never attended a journalism school, and I had less than a year's reporting experience. But I did learn how to edit and how to make story assignments. There was enough Simon Legree in me to make me a good city editor."
"The minute I got a beat leaked, they put me on another one," he said. "At the time, I didn't know what they were doing. After about a year of this, I got tired and threatened to quit. That's when they made me the city editor.
Two years later, at age 21, he became managing editor of the newspaper, "thanks to the current alcoholic managing editor," he said.
various subjects, including police news, commercial news and the city's university.
Two years later, in 1924, he became city editor of William Randel Hearst's *Arizona*.
He said he met the responsibilities of his job with "gut instinct and intuition. I was a teacher."
In that job, he had a staff of 172 persons,
including 20 photographers and 14 police
Within a short time, he became one of the two associate managing editors of the [**DVD**]
Late in 1927, when Irwin was 25, F. C.
Once, he said, while his superior was up of town, he launched a series of front-page stories attacking gasoline companies for increasing their prices two cents a gallon, not realizing that his superior was the largest stockholder in Continental Oil. The company filed an indemnification, two largest petroleum producers involved in the price increase.
Irwin, who said he had never even seen an iCopy of the Post, became its supervising manager editor. He said his greatest problems there were the newspaper's newspapers and the mile-high altitude of the city, which made him constantly fall asleep at his desk.
Bonfilas of the Denver Post hired him as part
of his job with the Scripps-Howard newspaper chain.
"We won the fight, they lowered their prices, and both women," he said, "he said, 'I'll just find a fun thing.'"
When the Depression hit, and Iriwin lost his job on Christmas Eve, 1930.
"The senior man stayed on," he explained, "and by burying me, they picked up a dog."
Since then, he said, he has had opportunities to return to journalism, but none offered the authority he wanted. Instead, he turned to public relations.
His first job in that area was as public relations director for Frigidaire in 1931. Later, he became director of public relations at Crosby Motors of General Motors, including Frigidaire.
"I'm prouder of my journalism background than my corporate background, but I'm not apologizing for that," he said. "I've had, I think, the most exciting public relations career of anybody in the business."
He also had several high-level public relations positions with the Monsanto Corp.
He opened his own public relations counseling office in New York City in 1945. A year later, he said, he was recruited by the Ford Motor Co. to an assistant to Henry Ford II and a member of the policy committee. At Ford, he worked to reorganize public affairs and employee relations.
He continued his own business and counseled large corporations until he retired.
"It's at this level that the basis for graduate level study is said," he said.
The past 45 years haven't been spent entirely in public relations work, though, he said. He has continued his contacts with journalists and has covered many major organizations.
-Be increasingly responsible to the educational needs of all Kansans. The University's outreach program has accomplished some of these responsibilities, he said. However, more attention should be paid to expand continuing education programs to reach more Kansans of non-college ages, he said.
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He gained his greatest fame in 1945 when
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—improve the advising systems in all University departments and schools.
"One of the major problems we have at the University is at the level of advising," Dykke.
- Emphasize the importance of the Office of Affirmative Action. He said the university should work harder to police its behavior and ensure that agencies encrouch upon this responsibility.
He said much work remained for University. He was charged of charge of research on K12s, advising schools.
—Be prepared to concern itself with the question of calls for collective action by KU's faculty. Whether collective action is accepted or rejected, it should be done with the fullest involvement of the faculty, he said.
The chancellor also emphasized some long range plans he wanted the University to make.
He also asked for more concern with public support for the University. The whims of the public greatly control the financial support KU receives, he said.
He asked for the maintenance of improved quality education at the University by students, teachers and administrators. He said the University could then keep its students in a connected institution of learning, even when compared to more publicized private schools.
Finally, he asked that an environment and atmosphere be firmly attested at the University to continue to recognize intellectual achievements.
Hawklet's space causes debate
By BERNEIL JUHNKE Kansan Staff Reporter
The Interim Computer Facilities Planning Group has recommended to Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor, that two new computers be installed in Summerfield area and converted into storage space and a place for people to prepare computer programs.
Some business students have asked that the Hawklet be converted into a reading room and the computation center has asked for the Hawklet area for its own purposes.
A controversy is developing over the allocation of space now occupied by the Hawklet, a concession area in Summerfield Hall.
The computer group was appointed to study space allocation for the computer center until construction of a new building is completed. The building, which will house all the computer hardware located in Summer field, won't be completed until 1978.
John Setz, chairman of the computer group, said Thursday that half the Hawklet area would be for people preparing computer programs, a third would be for key punch facilities and the remainder would be used to store files and documents.
Students from the graduate and undergraduate councils in the School of Business have recommended to Shankel Biddle space be used for a reading area.
Carol Williams, president of the Graduate Business Council, said that students at Summerfield were in need of more reading space.
She said she hoped that the proposed
Joseph Pichler, dean of the School of Business, said that the reading room in Summerfield had 44 seats to serve 1,100 students.
expansion of the computation center in a field would be moved to another building.
Williams and Pete Kanatzer, president of the Undergraduate Business Council, assigned a request to Shankler asking for the conversion of the Hawklet into a reading room so the present reading room could be used for office space.
"If the Hawklet is to be moved away from and service, it should be converted into a artifact."
Seitz said the work area for people preparing computer programs would be 24-hour s-a-d, whereas a reading area would probably have limited hours.
Pfeiffer said the computation center needed space and he hoped a recommendation could be accepted that would increase the use of the computation center and the reading room.
"Problems have become severe with the large increase in enrollment," Yessen said.
Robyn Yessen, Graduate Business Council officer, said that conditions at Summerfield were crowded and that he had been lobbing to get more reading room space.
He said that there were more faculty members than offices and that the problem would get worse next year when new faculty members arrived.
If the reading room were transferred to the Hawkett, he said, the room now used for training was needed.
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James Irwin
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James W. Irwin, former journalist and public relations counselor, describes his coverage of the crash of a bomber into the Empire State Building in 1945. Irwin was on campus Thursday and today.