THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
Vol. 85-No.137 Wednesday, April 30, 1975
The University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
By Staff Photographer BARBARA O'BRIEN
Spring planting
Paul Schiavo. Lawrence senior, sets out tomato plants in his
garden at Stouffer Place. He expects to gain not only pleasure but also savings by planting his own garden.
Vietnam war over; Saigon surrenders
By GEORGE ESPER Associated Press Writer
SAIGON—The Saigon government surrounded unconditionally to the Viet
Columns of South Vietnamese troops pulled out of their defensive positions in the city and marched to central points to turn in their weapons.
President Duong Vn Minh announced the surrender in a five-minute broadcast to the city and the Viet Cong. He spoke a few hours after an armada of U.S. Marine helicopters flown from the island of nearly 900 Americans and thousands of Vietnamese from the besieged capital.
Communist forces carrying AK47 rifles began moving into the city within two hours of Mihm's broadcast. A jeep flying the Viet Cong from the abandoned U.S. Embassy at seasn
MINH, A RETIRED GENERAL and
neutralist, was named president Monday in
a desperate and unsuccessful attempt to negotiate a peace with the Communist
In his address, Minh said, "The Republic of Vietnam policy is the policy of peace and reconciliation, aimed at saving the blood of our people. I ask all servicemen to stop firing and stay where you are. I also demand that soldiers of the Provisional Revolutionary Government Viet Cong stop firing and stay in place.
"We are here waiting for the Provisional Revolutionary Government, to hand over authority in order to stop useless blood-shed."
SOME SOUTH Vietnamese officers complained that the evacuation of Americans had caused panic in the city. They said that the police officers and most of the air force fleeing.
As he spoke, Saigon fell silent and shellfire subsided along the northern rim where Viet Cong gunners had been bombarding the airport.
shots fired by bitter South Vietnamese
droves, despite civilians
living to go with them.
OFFICIALS in Washington reported that about 6,500 persons, including nearly 900 Americans, had been airlifted to U.S. Navy ships in the South China Sea during the massive evacuation that began midnight EDT).
Senate to consider bus fare hike
The choppers picked up the evacues from the roof of the fortress-like American Embassy, the embassy parking lot and the tons of tomee American billlets.
by GREG HACK Kansan Staff Reporter
Bills concerning bus bares, health insurance, classroom teaching and student publications will be considered at this semester's final Student Senate meeting at 6:30 tonight in the Big Eight Room of the Kansas Union.
Bus fares will increase from 15 cents to 20 cents and bus passes from $14 to $15 per semester next fall if a bill introduced by the Transportation subcommittee, is passed.
The bill also would increase the rate paid to the Lawrence Business Company for $10.50 per bus-hour to $11. McMurray said Tuesday that the increased rate would cost the Senate about $7,000 next fall, necessitating the increase in fares and pass prices.
The bill retains the $1.60 campus privilege that is paid by each full-time student in education.
John Connors, a member of the subcommittee, said the fare had remained the same for two years while the bus-hour rate had increased each year.
"INCREASING THE FARE is the last thing I want to do," Connors said, "but until the campus privilege fee is raised we really don't have any choice."
HUNDREDS OF civilians swarmed into the compound and onto the roof after the bombing, which were building that had also served as an emergency helpel several hundred civilians huddled together, hoping there be more choppers to carry them away.
He said the $7,000 increase in payments to the bus company should come from new revenues, rather than the campus bus service's reserve fund of about $14,000.
"Bringing the reserve fund below $10,000 would be dangerous," he said, "and there is no way to build that reserve back up until the campus privilege fee is raised."
Ed Rolfs, student body president, said at a meeting of the subcommittee last Thursday that the Senate could increase fares and pass prices on its own, but that an increase in the privilege fee would require approval of the clanceholder and the Board of Regents.
The Senate will consider another bill by *Murray* that would retain last summer's budget.
THE PRIVILEGE fee last summer was 75 cents for students enrolled in five hours or more and 15 cents for those enrolled in fewer than five hours. The fare was 15 cents for students and 25 cents for nonstudent riders.
Connors said there were problems last year enforcing the 25-cent fare for non-students, but hoped there would be a better enforcement effort this summer.
City authorizes plan preparation for 12th and Haskell garage site
The city commission plan for Tuesday to prepare a site plan for the city garage at 12th and Haskell, the present site of Ray's Garage and Salvage Yard.
East Lawrence may have lost a junk yard but gained the city maintenance garage.
By SUSIE HANNA Cansan Staff Reporter
The vote came after a two and one-half hour discussion. About 100 people filled the commission room. People lined the walls and spilled into the hallway as the commission made its decision. Commissioner Fred Pence cast the only opposing vote.
The site plan for the city garage will include 20 acres, which are now filled with wrecked automobiles, plus four additional acres on the south side of 12th Street.
The 20-acre site would include, if the garage is built at l82 and Haskell, the park department, the sewage plant and an open space that could serve as a park area.
The park department facility, now located near the present maintenance building, will provide near and near the originally proposed garage and Indiana, will probably be moved into the building presently used for Ray's Garage at the current location, to Mayor Barkley Park.
The sewage treatment facility is already at the 12th and Haskell location.
Despite a 24-hour curfew, there was moderate traffic in the city's streets. There also were abandoned U.S. Embassy vehicles that had been taken over by
Judy Lemon, 1212 E. 13th, said the
But it had been obvious that the capital would fall. More than a dozen North Vietnamese-Viet Cong divisions were ringing in the city, and an entire division of demoralized green troops.
members of the Far East Lawrence Neighborhood Association would favor the location if the commission assured the residents that an open space would be left south of the garage, with the garage on the northwest section of the acreage.
Members of the East Lawrence Improvement Association (ELIA) had endorsed the 12th and Haskell location more than a year ago. Ed Dow, ELA president, said he favored the site as long as the traffic was routed onto the proclaimed Haskell Loon.
The vote to prepare the site plan came after a discussion of each proposed site. The Second and Indiana sites received the most votes, and the majority that organized a petition drive in support of the Second and Indiana location, presented their arguments to counter the opposition to Second and Indiana made by members of the Indiana chapter of Lawrence neighborhood associations.
The proposed Haskell Loop, if built as planned, would have an access road at 11th and Haskell, which would route city traffic from the proposal garage site.
After a motion by Pence in favor of the Second and Indiana location died for lack of a second, Pence moved that the commission consider locating the garage at the present location of the Lawrence Livestock Sale House so this motion also died for lack of a second.
Clark said that the construction date for the Haskell Loon was not known.
Stephen Rhudy, attorney for Concerned Taxpayers, gave the commission petitions bearing 1,844 signatures. He said 500 to 600 additional signatures were expected.
The 12th and Haskell site plan will be presented to the Far East Lawrence Neighborhood Association and to the city commissioner, Proposal, Commissioner Donald Binns said.
If approved, the city would then negotiate purchase of Ray's Garage and Salvage warehouses and 20 acres and development of the site are estimated at $205,000, which includes $105,000 for the purchase of the land and $85,000 for storm drains, City Manager Jim Burke, has been
Commissioners were expected to allocate $560,000 in revenue-sharing funds later in the meeting. About $400,000 was to be allocated for the renovation of the police-fire department building at eighth and Vermont to house the city offices when the police department moves to the new judicial law enforcement building.
Lawrence Memorial Hospital was to receive $100,000, leaving about $40,000 for additional allocations. Local social service had requested funds totaling $175,000.
Diane Ogle, general manager of the bus company, said last week his drivers would enforce the different fares, which would be posted on each bus.
Corners said the summer students should be charged 15 cents, rather than the 20 cents proposed for next fall, because bus passes weren't sold for the summer semester.
Streets around the abandoned U.S. Embassy and ambassador's residence were littered with papers and broken furniture from the Americans who charged in after the Americans left.
A bill by Blee Sagebrecht, Olive College senator, if passed would change the student health insurance offered to students by offering full coverage of prescription drugs.
SEGGERRECHT SAID the Health Services
best recommended that the drug
cover
He said insurance for one student offered this year cost $96.36, including the drug coverage, but that the same insurance for next year would cost $121.20. By dropping the drug coverage, Segebrecht said, the insurance would only be $94.44.
Americans going to assembly points for the emergency evacuation dodged random
"The group think that most students do not buy $2.76 worth of prescription drugs in one year," he said. "Also, the general health insurance pays for 80 per cent of the cost of any prescription drugs over $100 per year."
He said the board didn't think the drug coverage was worth the extra 2.76 to me.
Segebrecht said the increased cost of the insurance and the minimal benefits provided by the drug coverage were the main reason he recommended the drug coverage elimination.
ROLFSAID Tuesday he would introduce a bill extending the May 17 deadline for the final report of the Commission on the Quality of Classroom Teaching. He said the commission would make some preliminary recommendations at the Senate meeting.
Rolfs also will propose that the Senate give the commission $750 for a research assistantship to match the $750 the commission received from the administration.
Eric Meyer, chairman of the board, has prepared a statement to be distributed to senators at the meeting. The statement says that if the committee is eliminated, rather than transferred.
Kevin Flym, chairman of the Communications Committee, is proposing transferring jurisdiction over publications in Instant Publications Board to his committee.
Meyer's statement says that major campus publications were opposed to any Senate regulations and that the publications thus powerless to enforce any guidelines.
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Dykes pessimistic on biweekly plan
By TRICIA BORK Kansan Staff Reporter
Chancellor Archie R. Dykes said Tuesday he thought there was little chance a bwekely pay plan at the University of Pennsylvania would be implemented in the near future.
Dykes said the lack of time and resources needed to begin the plan probably would delay the formation of any definite plans. The state legislature and Gov. Robert F. Bennett will take these things into consideration, he said.
The bweekly pay plan was passed during the 1974 legislative session, but recent action by the legislature gave the State Finance Council the responsibility to decide when, where and whether the plan would be implemented.
Dykes said the University would present the Finance Council the reasons for the University's decision.
The plan provides for state employees to be paid twice a month instead of once a month. It also provides for new state employees to be paid after four weeks instead of after six weeks.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS administrators have been opposed to the plan because they fear it would involve unnecessary costs and paperwork.
Ron Hamilton, University compilter,
has estimated it would cost the University
$121,441 for the initial change to the
pay plan and $89,411 to operate it
Charles Burrows, associate compilator, said Tuesday that the issue of whether faculty members would be required to keep computers worked out had details had been worked out. One item to be considered, he said, is that nearly 6,000 paychecks would have to be distributed twice a month. That would result in increased costs for paper and postage, he said.
"Our people don't prefer the biweekly
plan. We have no resources to implement it at the present time and we feel the funds that would be used for it could be better other programs at the University," he said.
IVE ALWAYS FOUND the legislature and the governor to be very open to input from the University, and I think they will consider these things," he said.
W. Keith Weltmer, legislative post auditor secretary of the finance council, said most corporations in Kansas paid employees twice monthly. The general manager at the firm said, is that the plan will help people in low-income manage their money better.
"The plan would help meet the real needs of 'people in the lower income bracket,' he said. "Sometimes people with lower income run out of money at the end of the month, and if they were paid twice monthly, they'd help them manage their money better."
Also, Woltmer said, the plan might help the state in efforts to recruit people to work for it.
"As it stands now, new employees have to 'wait in some cases over six weeks to get their first paycheck,' he said. "With the team pay system, they could be paid sooner."
"I don't think anyone can say, because we just don't know," he said. "The finance team knows that the plan will look like what the plan will look like. The options are infinite, really, and they may vary from agency to agency. I'm sure the council will want input as to the who, what, when and why."
Weltner said that the council would meet in May, but that since the agenda for the meeting hadn't been planned, he didn't know whether the plan would be considered then.
Administrative reorganization makes friends for KU
By BETTY HAEGELIN
Kansan Staff Reporter
Slowly but surely, the University of Kansas central administration is changing to fit the style of Chancellor Archie R. Dykes. Efficiency and order are the guidelines, but the goal is to make friends in Kansas for the University and to make the University a friend to Kansans.
More than any chancellor before him, Dykes has worked hard to make the University more receptive to the needs of Kansas. When he arrived at KU more than 18 months ago, he had few changes in his approach, although a visit or appointment made has had the clear motive of providing the greatest benefits to the state.
The reorganization of the administration was no exception. By streamlining the administrative procedures, managers can focus on day responsibilities and therefore could concentrate on long-range planning of projects for the Univer-
Dykes has introduced the Outreach program and has appointed Ron Calgaard to the administrative position of associate vice chancellor for Outreach. Outreach is designed specifically to bring classmates together people out of the Lawrence area. The program is concentrated in Kansas City and Topahek.
and research, Dykes said recently, but he thinks it is equally important to provide educational opportunities to Kansans outside Lawrence and to professional advice and guidance to state agencies.
CENTRAL TO THESE efforts is the newly added emphasis on the service role of the University, KU. In addition to the faculty and staff,
"Anyone who's spent most of his life in university administration realizes how important good relations with the people who support it are." Dykes said. "A university cannot be more than the people in the state want it to be. We literally rise and fall as the public mood dictates."
The effects of this program and of Dykes numerous speaking tours around Kansas have been to regain support and friends for the University, fulfilling one of Dykes' primary goals.
developed, Dykes said, to meet the needs of a two-campus university so it could completely serve the state. The two executive vice chancellors take responsibility for the general operation of their respective campuses, but no major decisions are made without consulting the chancellor.
THESE ACTIVITIES illustrate the benefits of the central reorganization. The new structure was
Dul Shankel, executive vice chancellor for the Lawrence campus, said he and Dykes were concerned about a staffing problem.
"Most important things on the Lawrence campus come to me through other vice chancellors or are sent by other institutions," said the Chancellor and I work very closely together on most matters, and I attempt to block out some lengthy matters that don't need his immediate attention, which include maintaining things that are maintaining a low profile."
AT THE MED CENTER, the title change of William O. Rieke to executive vice chancellor for the Kansas City campus allowed a separate administrative internal control of the Med Center, Dykes said.
"The reorganization has strengthened the overall administrative structure and allowed
Even though the Med Center openings, are all hirings screened by separate search committees whose recommendations are then considered by the chancellor, Dykes said the filling of such openings gave him the chance to build an administration of like-minded individuals.
"Every administrative opening provides the opportunity to bring new ideas initiative. Driven by our mission, we work with each new appointment and to do this, we seek out the most able and competent persons for our team."
Med Center to develop its own supportive staff through internal restructuring," Dykes said. "The new structure just brings a greater degree of rationality to the total system."
HE SAID there were several reasons why this change was made, including the need for assurance that the new system would be able to meet its requirements.
In another move to better centralize the two campuses, Dykes changed Keth Nitcher's title to director of business and fiscal affairs to include business responsibility for the Med Center.
University budget, not just the Lawrence portion of it.
"With a budget of $23 million and 6,000 employees, we need a strong business and fiscal head," Dykes said. "Increasingly, the world outside, especially the legislature, is expecting a greater deal of accountability to justify our expenditures."
Nitcher retained his role as vice chancellor for business affairs on the Lawrence campus, but said his assistants had taken over much of the day-to-day work in Lawrence.
Shankel said some slight adjustment probably would be taken to officially relieve Nitcher of some responsibility.
Nitcher reports to both Shankel and Dykes and presents them all problems that need some immediate solution. Nitcher said that since the chancellor was responsible for the good of the University as a whole, he must keep him informed of all business and fiscal developments.
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