THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
Vol. 85—No.120 Monday, April 7, 1975 The University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
Groups vie for scarce funds
By JIM BATES
Korean Staff Reports
Kansan Staff Reporter
Student Senate committees Sunday night again heard campus organizations request
Ed Rolfs, student body president, said Senate committees had less money to allot this year because of an increase in funds designated for line items.
Rolfs said the funds allotted to men's and women's intercollegiate athletics had increased, as well as the amount allotted to intramurals. The addition of band and forensics to the list of item also includes the committees' allocations, he said.
The Student Services Committee head 10 organizations request $44,560 at a meeting Sunday afternoon. The committee, which includes the school board and requesting $8,383, can allot only $14,449.
The Sports Committee, which can allot
$16.1 mil, meet Sunday morn and hear two
organs of the game.
The committee also appointed members to the Allen Field House Utilization Board and the Intramurals Board. The appointments are subject to Riley's approval.
The Student Services Committee had two twice as much as this year, more than twice as much as this year.
John Rhoads, Student Services cochairman, said the groups that requested money would have to supplement their funding from other sources. It's unlikely that any group will receive all the funds it requested, he said.
Pat Weiss, president of the board of the Consumer Protection Agency, said that if CFA funding were cut back, all the money invested in the CPA would have been wasted.
The groups that appeared before the Student Services Committee said they understood that the available funds were not enough to buy all the devices they had cut their budgets to the minimum.
The Campus Veterans said they were eligible to hire 22 people through the Work Study program. A sizable cut in funding would make this impossible, they said.
The Friends of Headquarters told the committee they worked with both the campus and the community, and as a result couldn't move to more inexpensive offices
in the Kansas Union. They said it was
necessary for them to stay on at all times.
The Commission on the Status of Women, the Commission on Indian Affairs, the Douglas County Legal Aid Society, MECHA, the Office of the Ombudsman, the Volunteer Clearing House and the Women's Resource Center also defended their budget requests.
No group that appeared before the Sports committee applied for Senate money last fall.
The newly formed KU Hang Glider Club requested $1,100 for next year from the committee, which also must consider a bill that would give the new club $1,400 out of the Senate contingency fund for immediate equipment, a monoplane kit and a car ton carrier.
The revived KU Cricket Club told the committee that the club had been funded by the Senate in the past. It requested $300. Committee members appointed to the chair included Toby O'Neill, Marty Searcy, Independence junior; David Stinson, Overland Park freshman;
Kathleen Maginn, Englewood, Colo.
Kathleen Magnin, Pat Schaefer, Prairie Village
Committee members appointed to the inmurals Board were: John Broadle, Wishaw junior; Jeanne Ryan, Shawnee Mission Mission; Brown, Overland Park junior. *Museum.*
Amounts requested by groups appearing before the Student Services Committee were: Campus Veterans, $3,706; Commission on the Status of Women, $3,750; $10,896; Friends of Headquarters, $8,871; Commission on Indian Affairs, $2,100; Dollars for Legal Aid Society, $7,500; MECHA, $4,146; Ombudsman, $46,140; Volunteer Clearing House, $819; and Women's Coalition, $3,058.1
The Student Services Committee will finish hearing requests and have final deliverations at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Cork Room of the Union. The Academic Committee will begin deliverations at 6:30 p.m. Monday in Parlor A of the Union.
Guggenheim fellowships awarded to 2 professors
Fellowships have been awarded to two University of Kansas professors by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
The foundation announced Friday that it had awarded grants to Kenneth R. Maxwell, associate professor of history, and William M. Tuttle, associate professor of history.
Maxwell, currently a visiting professor at Princeton University, received the grant for research on Caribbean slave unrest and *democratic revolutions of the late 18th
century, Tuttle's grant is for research to write a biography on James Bryant Count, *Anne of Greenwood*.
The grants were made to 308 scholars, scientists and artists chosen by the Committee of Selection from among 2,819 appearances in the annual competition. The awards totaled $4,138,500.
The fellowships were awarded on the basis of demonstrated accomplishment in the past and strong promise for the future. The fellowships are granted nearly $60 million in fellowships.
Dial Drug aid begins Tuesday
By PETER PORTEOUS Kansan Staff Reporter
The Dial Drug Project, Douglas County's drug alert service, will be in operation Tuesday, according to Bing Hart, the project's director. The telephone number to call for drug information is 841-DRUG (3784).
Hart, a drug epidemiologist, has started the telephone service as part of a program called Telephone Service.
drugs and to collect information about drug abuse patterns.
He is being paid $1,750 by the county to run the service. The funds are made available through a federal grant aid and the Douglas County Drug Abuse Council.
Hart said last week that he received an initial installation of $1,000 from the county government. He and the company of $250 April 2. He said the operation was delayed because he had to go through the telephone company bureaucracy to locate and get the necessary coupling devices.
See DIAL page 8
By Staff Photographer DON PIERCE
step aside as Lawrence mayor Tuesday after four years on the city commission.
Expert instruction
By Staff Photographer DON PIERCE
Jazz guitarist Jerry Hahla listens intently to a question of one about 15 aspiring musicians at Hahla Hall Saturday. Hahla spent the weekend conducting a jazz concert for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra on Thursday.
Mayor Jack Rose
Jack Rose answers one of many questions he handles as director of laboratories for the department of chemistry at KU. Rose will
Senate to study budget request
The Senate Ways and Means Committee will probably consider Wednesday the budget request for fiscal 1976 for the State Department, Ross Doyen, K-Concordia, said Sunday.
KU's budget is part of a $294.8 million appropriation request of the Board of Regents, passed Thursday by the Kansas House of Representatives.
Doyen, who is committee chairman, said he foresaw quick approval by the committee of the appropriations bill, possibly on Wednesday. That would allow the senate to consider the bill for passage Thursday, he said.
"I see very few problems," Doyen said. "There may be one or two minor changes. I would hope it gets passed soon. I'm tired of arguing."
He said that the committee could recommend approval of an additional $285,000 to pay for utilities costs of the new building at Spencer Museum of Art at the University.
Even if the committee considers and
approves the bill Wednesday, and the full senate passes it the Thursday or Friday, Doyen said Gov. Robert F. Bennett's signature wouldn't be automatic. He said it would probably be a few days before Bennett signed the bill, even though the governor had previously expressed approval for the bill in its present form.
"I'm surprised at the details he goes into looking these bills over," Doyen said, "Of course, that's what we want from a governor."
Other committee members were optimistic that the bill would be passed this year.
State Sen. Joseph Harder, R-Mountridge, said he didn't know of any large changes that would be made by the committee. But he agreed and a chance to look at the bill very closely.
The same reaction came from State Sen. Wayne Zimmerman, R-Olahe, who said he hadn't looked at the bill in detail. However, Bennett pointed out that the most part, followed Bennett's budget
recommendations. He said he doubted that the committee or the senate would make a recommendation.
Applications for UDK posts
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.
Applications for the positions of editor and business manager for the Kansas for the summer session and September until noon April 11 in 165 Fint Hall.
The Kansan Board will interview candidates and select summer and fall editors and business managers on April 16.
Outgoing Lawrence mayor reviews past city actions
By WARD HARKAVY
Kenson Staff Reporter
BY WARD HARRAVY
Kausan Staff Reporter
Elected officials should study the issues and vote according to their consciences, Lawrence Mayor
Rose, 44, director of laboratories for the department of chemistry at the University of Kansas, said the term 'responsiveness' meant that elected members of the department were necessarily to the personal wishes of the public.
Rose also commented on the city garage issue, the recent termination by the city of a job held by Army deserter Jim York and the city's increasing use of federal funds.
Rose didn't seek re-election this year. His term on the city commission and as mayor ends Tuesday. He was elected to the commission in 1971 and has been mayor for the past year. He was born in Lawrence and has worked at the University since 1961.
Rose said that when he was elected four years ago, one of his first acts was to urge the commission to institute a "sunshine" policy of making all commission meetings open to the public.
He said the best argument against such a policy was that it might inhibit the commissioners' frank expression of ideas. Some previous commissioners said they would feel more comfortable discussing city problems in a private, informal atmosphere, he said.
"That's a legitimate point of view." Rose said, "except that I think most people would say that our system of government was never designed for the comfort of the office-holder.
"As far as the deliberations of the city commission go, there's nothing left to open up. They're being conducted in a fish bowl."
Rose said that during the past four years, the commission had taken other steps to bring city authorities to action.
Rose said the commission also had established the Citizens Advisory Council (CAC), to bring more public opinion into the operation of city government. The CAC will survey to determine the needs of lawrence citizens.
He said the commission had arranged for local media to publish agendas of commission meetings at least one day before scheduled meetings and also invited citizens to participate in private citizens to discuss problems and issues.
The commission has instituted a policy to notify persons placed in a benefit district for public work improvements. Rose said. A benefit district is the area服务区; improvements as street and construction areas; persons in the benefit district are assessed for a portion of the money spent on his work, he said.
The commission had approved a site at 2nd and Indiana for the garage. But construction was stalled by local residents who obtained a restraining order. A subsequent court ruling, although favorable to the city, delayed plans for the garage until it was too late for the present commission to act. All three of the new commissioners elected April 1, Marine Arngersinger, Donald Binski and Carl Miebeck have
One of the major unresolved problems that will have to be solved by the new commission, which takes office Tuesday, is the location of the city maintenance garage, Rose said.
said they favor locating the garage at a site other than the one at 2nd and Indiana.
Rose favored the 2nd and Indiana site and voted for its approval while he was on the commission. However, he said, the decision on a new site is up to the new commission.
"I will never complain about where they put that parague." "I trust," because I acknowledge that is wrong.
"I really think that garage thing has been a temptation in a teepot," Rose said. "For instance, two weeks ago we took an action that was tremendously more significant than that city garage location, and it yet went public in the press. That may have contributed to the commission's fund. In a very small way, child day care centers."
He said that during the past four years the commission had dealt with more important issues related to the situation.
The city commission March 25 approved a grant of $4,000 to the Douglas County Child Care Association to purchase county state and federal matching funds to give the association $116,000 to allocate local day care
"City government has maintained stayout of social services and has restricted itself to physical
He said that the appropriation represented an important change of direction for the city and that it might set a precedent for the city's involvement in social service programs.
The city has been receiving money from the federal government since 1971, Rose said, but it had not received much.
it had become necessary for the city to establish a working relationship with the federal government to help it.
Lawrence is at a disadvantage in such a relationship because it is nonpartisan (form of government).
"The problem with the federal government is that it's like sleeping with an elephant," he said. "If it rolls over on you, it can crush you without trying to do any harm."
He said Lawrence's city manager-city commission form of government precluded both the partisan and the professional elected official. He said that cities that had full-time elected officials with strong political bases could campaign harder than Lawrence officers to get federal funds.
"Lawrence commissioners have no partisan base and they have little experience in partisan politics."
On March 20, labor officials in Topocha ruled that Vick was insigible for the city job, which was passed on to his mother.
Rose also commented on the city's hiring and subsequent release of Jim York, a former army deserter who returned to the United States under President Gerald R. Ford's amnesty program.
York was hired by the Lawrence Parks and Recreation Department in February, but protests by some veterans led by Wes Santee, a local insurance broker, were presented to the city commission at its March 11 meeting. The commission, however, refused to fire York, and Santee appealed to Department of Labor officials in Washington, D.C., Kansas City, Mo., and Topeka.
placement and Training Act of 1973, a federal job opportunity program.
Rose said he was distressed that York was hired over qualified longer-term Lawrence residents. But he said he also shared the view of Commissioner Ransom Williams, who said they were having difficulty finding jobs elsewhere.
"The city has always tried to downhit people," Rose said. "I think before one points a finger too hard at a person who has deserted the Army, one should bear in mind that a lot of the more affluent people rode out that war by attending universities."
"If you look at the whole Vietnam situation," Rose said, "a strong case could be made that the government deserted the soldiers, not that the soldiers deserted the government. And I'm very thankful that I was never placed in a position of power and decided of what I personally would have done."
The administrators who ruled York nailable for the job showed a lack of responsiveness, he said.
Rose said he questioned whether these administrators were concerned with the public's welfare in the York case or whether they listened to the "loudest shrill" of public clamor. He said this wasn't the kind of responsiveness a public official should have.
Rose said he had no plans to seek public office again.
"I have reached, and now passed, the zenith of my political career," Rose said with a smile. "But I'd hate to say that under no circumstances would I run again."