THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
Vol. 85—No.122 Wednesday, April 9, 1975 The University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
Dean likes collection at library
By TRICIA BORK Kansan Staff Reporter
James Ranz, new dean of libraries at the University of Kansas, is impressed with Watson Library's book collection but is skeptical about the library building itself, he said Tuesday.
Ranz, whose appointment was announced Tuesday by Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor, and Ambrose Sartacks, vice chancellor, of the University serving as acting dean of libraries at the University of Wyoming at Laramie since last year. He will replace Dave Heron, who left the University in June 1974 to accept a position at the University of California at Santa Cruz.
"The book collection at the library here is very strong, the result of many years of collecting books," Ranz said from his office in Laramie.
"But I think it's obvious to the administration and staff alike that the building situation must be improved. The building staff must be able to serve the service the staff is able to give."
RANZ BECAME vice president for academic affairs at the University of Wyoming in 1970 after serving as dean of academic affairs since 1964. From 1962 to 1963 he was university librarian at the University of British Columbia at Vancouver. From 1955 to 1962 he was director of libraries at the University of Wyoming,
Ranz said that during two short visits to the campus in February and March he had talked with several persons who had many questions and were be done with the library system at KU.
"In that respect, the job as dean of libraries at KU won't be entirely new to me, but I'm sure it'll be somewhat different," he said.
"But on the basis of such a short visit, I don't think anyone would have much confidence in an really specific judgments I might make after such a short time," he said.
RANZ'S APPOINTMENT will become
serving as acting dean of libraries.
"Ranz has had good experience at Wymingham, and I think he's a very good man for the libraries." Glinda said. "I think the variety of experiences at different levels that he brings to the job will be very useful."
Ranz said he was especially impressed with members of the library staff and the
"I thought it was particularly impressive that two students were included in the committee whose job it was to find a new dean," Ranz said.
Shankel said Kanz had been enthusiastic about the search and the library staff.
"WE ARE EXCEPTIONALLY pleased that we have been able to fill this important position with a person we believe will bring outstanding leadership qualities and administrative abilities to our libraries," he said.
Robert Hoffman, chairman of the search committee, said that the committee sent a rank listing of four recommendations to Chancellor Archie R. Dykes last month and that Dykes then approved Ranz for the position.
Ranz received a B.S. degree from Nebraska State Teachers College in Kearney in 1942 and an M.A. in library science from the University of Michigan in 1948. He also received a Ph.D. from the University of Illinois in 1960.
By Staff Photographer DON PIERCE
Walker responds
cyocy wuker, athletic director, responds to a question about the athletic budget at a game. The basketball players are all from another, other things, the bultu of KU football players in a lupita hotel but home games, the kuzu of MU football players in a lupita hotel but home games.
Move stalls budget
By JIM BATES Kansan Staff Reporter
The Student Senate Student Services Committee passed a special resolution Tuesday night at an attempt to avoid having 12 organizations by almost 79 per cent.
The committee, which had $30,064 to allocate last year, has only $14,449 to allocate this year. The committee must obtain $12,578 from organizations requesting $29,943.90.
The resolution called for a concentrated effort by the Senate to obtain additional funds from any source available before the Senate budget is finalized. It said the cuts could result in the death of groups that provide crucial services to many students.
Scott, Siebels, committee cochairman, said he submitted the resolution to the committee because of a serious lack of available funds.
"I saw the situation as so bad that the committee had to make some sort of effort to figure it out."
Ed Ruffs, student body president, was at the meeting and responded to the request.
Rolfs said he was also very concerned about the shortage of funds and said StudEx was planning to meet Sunday in the attempt to find a solution.
The lack of funds is the result of actions taken in January by the previous Senate, he
"Certain moves in the last year have caused drastic cuts in the amount the Student Services Committee can allocate," the resolution said.
The resolution also blamed the previous Senate for the shortage.
The previous Senate approved a bill Jan. 30 that guaranteed fixed funding support from student activity fees for several University programs. The largest amount went to a ticket subsidy for football and basketball, which were guaranteed $4.15 per subsidy year. This year's subsidy total $147,000 out of a total revenue of $446,897.
Student committee slams KUAC outlay
Unlike the Academic Affairs meeting
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By GREG HACK
Kansan Staff Reporter
Clyde Walker, University of Kansas athletic director, was faced Tuesday night with charges of felulous spending of the school's athletic funds of the Student Senate Sports Committee.
Strohbehn said this wasn't justified when
Walker said the $147,001 was viewed by the KUAC as a ticket subsidy. His appearance before the committee wasn't for the KUAC budget item by item, he said.
other groups were requesting almost $13,000 from the committee, which would have $616 to allocate if the KUAC received its line items of $147,400 for a student ticket subsidy and $47,819 for women's intercollegiate athletics.
Michael Strobble, Lawrence graduate student, said the Kansas University Athletic Corporation (KUAC) spent $3,000 for tutoring recruited athletes and about $6,000 to take KU's football team to Topkea the night before each home game.
STROBEHIN PRESENTED his complaints despite a statement by Dave Shapiro, committee chairman, that the meeting should only address itself to the ticket subsidy question. Strobehin said the items in dispute should be discussed because the activity fees went into general revenues.
Monday, the Student Services meeting was attended by large numbers of observers from the organizations concerned. The observers, who were numerous enough to necessitate a change in meeting rooms, were asked to comment during the proceedings.
Longer residency bill approved
After passing the resolution, the committee began its deliberations, commenting that all 12 groups were worthy of funding. Siebels said the committee would have to concentrate on the four or five groups that it gave highest priority and give the rest of the organizations only enough for rent and a phone. He said priority would have to be given to the students, the number of students served and serving and the availability of alternative funding.
By RICHARD PAXSON
Kansan Staff Reporter
Committee members discussed a list of tentative allocations prepared by the cochairman, Rolfs and a few committee members. The office of the Ombudsman was tentatively cut completely. The committee was unable to decide on its final allocation until April 20th, and agreed to meet again at 7 p.m. Wednesday to conclude its deliberations.
The issue first came before the city-county planning commission Feb. 26. Residents of Pleasant Valley appeared at the meeting. After the commission heard their testimony it voted 84, with one abstention, to approve the project. The issue was then passed to the Douglas County commissioners.
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Walker said the allocation, an increase over this year's $39,519, would allow next year's student season ticket prices for football and basketball to be reduced from
TOPEKA-A A bill that increases the residency requirement for students to qualify for in-state tuition at the state college where the courses has been passed the Kansai Senate.
THE COMMISSIONERS met March 12, and after hearing testimony from both sides, deferred the final decision for four weeks.
The bill, which increases from six to 12 months the time a student from outside the state must live in Kansas before he is allowed to pay resident tuition, was passed by the Kansas House Office and Gov. Robert F. Bennett for his approval or veto.
Cuts made on the list of tentative allocations were: Campus Veterans, from $3,700 to $700; Commission on the Status of Women, from $3,750 to $1,600; Consumer Protection Agency, from $10,860 to $7,156; Medicare Agency, from $9,210 to $800; Commission on Indian Affairs, from $2,100 to $250; KU-Y, from $4,433 to $500; Douglas County Legal Aid, from $6,750 to $1,900; MECHA, from $4,146 to $500; Ombudsman, from $644.10 to $80; SORBEMEH, from $2,958 to $100; Clearinghouse, from $319 to $450; and Women's Coalition, from $3,658.10 to $200.
Bennett refused to say at a news conference Tuesday morning whether he would approve the bill. He said he would reserve comment on the bill "for the appropriate
Under the present residency law, a student must have lived in the state for at least six months before the enrollment of the student enrolled in to qualify for in-state tuition rates.
The plans for the Pleasant Ridge Village project were begun in 1973. But hostilities over the project have erupted only recently because of the government's failure to know of the proposal until February.
The bill, House Bill 2258, increased the period of residence required in the Board of Regents Committee sponsored the bill at the request of the Board of Regents. Max Bickford, executive officer of the board, said at the time the bill was passed in the House that the board asked for the change because of declining funds from the collection of lo-fi state tuition.
Foster home's fate determined tonight
He said the ticket price increase this year had been made necessary because of a new law that makes it possible to
"If the allocation is cut," Walker said, "the prices will rise above $10."
The original Village, Eagle Ridge, was named the Coppera in 1971 and has drawn nationwide pride.
Applications for UDK posts
The vote on the bill was 34-6. State Sen.
Anna Booth, R-Lawrence, voted in favor of the
proposal.
THE IDEA IS BASED on the belief that there is a chance of preventing a need for professional treatment or for correction of delinquency. This preventive measure is accomplished by placing the children in a new environment of love, care and
Applications for the positions of editor and business manager for the Kanasan for the summer session and in fall 2017 until noon April 11 in 105 Flint Hall
By KEN FULTON
Kansan Staff Reporter
South of Lawrence on Highway 59 is an area of the Wakaura River basin called Pleasant Valley. The serene atmosphere of the valley has been shattered recently by a controversy over a proposed project that would provide foster homes for children.
the Senate Monday afternoon as emergency actions. The bill was given special treatment because the current legislative session is near its end. If the bill had been held up for a committee recommendation, it would have provided care over to the next legislative session.
Application forms are available in 105 Flint; the Student Senate office, 105B Kansas Union; the office of the dean of men, 228 Strong Hall; and the office of the dean of women, 222 Strong.
father. A similar project is under way in Europe.
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The project, called Pleasant Ridge Village, is the brainchild of Karl Menninger, world-famous psychiatrist from Topeka. The Village is intended to be a home for youth with little liness, truancy and minor delinquency.
The debate, which has been bitter at times, will reach a climax at 8 tonight in the court house when the Douglas County commissioners vote on the project.
Commissioner I. J. Stoneback has said he would have to vote against the project, which needs a unanimous vote of all three commissioners to be approved.
The Kansan Board will interview candidates and select summer and fall editors and business managers April 16.
Under the Village concept—a family environment is created for teenage and preteenage victims of divorce, abandonment and poverty. A house is placed in a house designed to be run in an ordinary manner by a couple whose only task is to serve as mother and
The bill, which was being considered in
the Senate Ways and Means Committee,
was passed on Wednesday.
The number of students classified as nonresidents for fee purposes has sharply declined, he said. Bickford said the board could better decide after 12 months whether a student came to Kansas to establish a dormitory residence or merely to attend school.
Mavor blends KU, city interests
Bv BILL HOCH
Kansan Staff Reporter
Barkley Clark, 35-year-old professor of law at the University of Kansas, became one of the youngest mayors in Lawrence's history Tuesday night.
Clark became mayor when the new city commission met for the first time Tuesday. Commission members elected him to the board, which most made the most votes in the 1973 city election.
Clark first served in local government in 1970, when he was appointed to the Lawrence-Douglas County Planning Commission. He served there for three years. The last year he was chairman. His county poll was elected to the city commission.
Clark said last week that the town-gown split common to many university communities.
"With one foot in each camp," said Clark. "I am able to see the interdependence of KU and Lawrence. Lawrence is a much better university community that many others."
Among Clark's concerns for the city's future are the proper use of revenue sharing funds, a new city hall, a new sewage plant, and an improvement over the Kew River, on Massachusetts.
"TD LIKE TO ARTICULATE to the citizens of Lawrence where the city is doing all its work, helping schools and to meet with other groups to help educate citizens as to what the city is doing for them. Above all, I intend to keep all of our deliberations on the commission."
Clark graduated from Harvard Law School in 1965. It was there that he developed am interest and an expertise in specific areas of law; commercial banking and consumer law and state and local government.
In 1969 Clark came to KU from his hometown of Denver on the advice of a colleague, Martin Dickinson, who was to become dean of the law school at KU.
"Iwas influenced by Martin," Clark said. "When he came here that indicated to me what a really top quality law school KU was, I was interested in teaching so I came to Lawrence and was immediately imitated in our beautiful campus and friendly moose."
CLARK'S TEACHING load in the law school consists of two six-hour sequences.
one in commercial law for second year
students and one in governmental law,
willing to take up the position.
"Teaching is the most important part of the academic triumvirate of research, teaching and service," he said. "I would never want to give a up a class. One of the most important aspects of the classroom is attempting to make the law living and exciting for students."
One of Clark's goals as a teacher has been to get students out of the classroom and involved in society, particularly in affairs of state government.
To that end Clark has instituted an internship that enables interested students to work with the company.
annual sessions. This session 10 KU students are working either for legislators, in the office of the legislative counsel, for the governor or for legislative committee chairmen. They receive two hours of credit for their work.
"THESE IS A DEFINITE obligation of KU, as the only state university with a law school, to become more involved in state government." Clark said.
Since Clark came to KU, he has worked as a consultant to various legislative committees. When Governor Robert F. Bennett appointed him as the chairman, Clark was one of his primary consultants.
One of Clark's most notable achievements in Topeka was as consultant and primary
draftsmans of the consumer protection laws that went into effect last year.
In the law school. Clark has worked to strengthen the curriculum. As chairman of the Interdisciplinary Studies Committee, he was instrumental in developing programs, one in law and public administration and the other in law and economics. Before he came to KU he had published four law review articles. He has published five more since becoming a professor.
HE HAS ALSO WRITTEN two books:
"Handling Consumer Credit Cases," published in 1972, and "Law of Bank Accounts and Credit Cards," published in 1970.
Double duty
until the three new elected city commission members watch,
the mayor Mayor Barclay Clark bids料件 for a new department.
This is one of the many changes in this new
Bv Staff Photographer GEORGE MILLENER III
mayoral duties, Clark doubles as associate dean of the School of Law.