THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
Vol.85-No.117 Wednesday, April 2, 1975
The University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
StudEx has to allocate meager sum
Although there will be $30,000 more in student activity fees next year, student committees will find their job of allocating those funds harder than ever, according to budget figures released at Tuesday night's StudEx meeting.
The reason is that more organizations are now guaranteed funds, leaving other groups fighting for uncommitted money than last year.
Sixity-six organizations have requested $142,106 but only $82,341 is available, meaning there are five dollars of requests for every dollar to be allocated.
Forensics, the University Daily Kansas,
the University Theatre, the University
Concert Series, KU Bands, the Graduate
Student Council (GSC), the intramurals
program and the University of Kansas
and its students guaranteed $9.70 for
every $12 activity fee.
Forensics and the GSC are line items for first time, and intramural will receive £10,000.
DAVID HATTON, Student Senate treasurer, said line items were subtracted from the activity fee, and then each committee's share of remaining fees was determined by the committee's share for the last two years.
None of the committees come close to having the amount of funds requested.
The Academic Affairs Committee will face requests of $2,433 with whom $0.671 will be paid. The Committee may also ask for an audit.
By Staff Photographer ROD MIKINSKI
However, $4,450 of that request comes from graduate student groups who will probably be covered by the GCS' $8,209. Various other fundesees hold these graduate organizations.
The Cultural Affairs Committee will have
$2.297 for $16,684.46 in requests.
The Student Services Committee has required for $2,942 and only $1,449 to complete.
THE INCREASE IN intramural leaves the Athletic Committee with only $616, with the hockey, soccer and rugby clubs requesting $11,535. The glider and cricket clubs, who didn't receive funding last year, are accepting $1,400.
The Communications Committee has only
$1,306 and requests for $27,060. KUOK,
KUOK
See STUDEX page 5
Marnie Argeringer, top vote getter for city commission, and Martha Mastalton, who won a spot on the school board, receive a little hopeful support Tuesday from Mastalton.
City delays action on Ling in housing code violations
By SUSIE HANNA Kansan Staff Reporter
Daniel S. Ling, associate professor of physics and astronomy, will have another chance to prevent court action against him for overstating the classification of the minimum housing standards.
At the city commission meeting Tuesday, Buford Watson, city manager, reported to the commissioners that Ling had failed to show up for two meetings scheduled in the past week with Ed Covington, minimum housing code inspector.
Another meeting to inspect the houses for previous violations or new violations is scheduled.
Milton Allen, city attorney, told the commissioners he was prepared to take the case to District Court if Ling was still in violation.
The commission has twice ordered the city staff to take legal action on the Ling properties, but little progress has been reported.
IN FEBRUARY 1974, six houses own'd by Ling were condemned and placarded with signs that said it was a misdemeanor to live there.
Mike Widgen, assistant city manager, said four of the five houses still in violation were now occupied by tenants. One house was brought up to standards.
The five houses are located at 1321 Tennessee, 1228 Ohio, 1301 Ohio, 1119 Ohio and 1057 Ohio.
At the March 19 commission meeting, the enforcement area east of the University of Kansas was expanded to include more than 200 standard buildings in two areas immediately northeast and southeast of the old Hill Study enforcement area.
IN OTHER ACTION, the commission moved to refer the proposal for construction of storm sewers at Sixth and Maine to the planning commission, approved issuance of a letter of intent to appropriate industrial revenue bonds for the hospital expansion project next week and to postpone the moderation and approval of land for the city, garage construction.
Watson also told the commission that letters were being sent to property owners in two new housing code enforcement areas informing them of uncomending inspections.
The drainage project, requested by commissioner John Emick and H. H. Belote, was approved last June over considerable opposition from Pinkney area Women Veterans and the Douglas County Environmental Improvement Council.
The project begins west of Emick's home at 1200 W. Sixth and runs east between the Ernick and Relote properties. The site has been prepared for completion after completion of the proposed project.
TO COMPLY WITH KSA 12-704, the commission referred the project to the planning commission, which will report back to the commissioners after determining whether the project is in compliance with the comprehensive plan.
The commission isn't bound to the comprehensive plan and can overrule the planning commission's recommendation by a four to one vote, according to the state
KSA 12-704 states that all public facilities must be approved by the planning commission in compliance with the city's comprehensive plan. Confusion has arisen, however, concerning whether the city must follow this procedure.
The state law applies to "certified" plans, and although District Court Judge James Madison concerned that the city garage concerning the city garage that the city had adopted a comprehensive plan, Wildgen said he questioned whether the 1965 comprehensive plan qualified as a certified plan.
The commission also issued a letter of intent to appropriate $15 million in tax-exempt industrial revenue bonds for the hospital expansion project.
ALSO, WILDENG said the state law did not go into effect until 1985, while the state was planning to make it permanent.
The commission passed commissioner Barkley Clark's motion that the project be referred to the planning commission to avoid possible litigation.
Donald Lenz, hospital administrator, told the commissioners that a cost estimate of $725 million was required.
By SUSII HANNA Kansan Staff Reporter
Educators victorious
Two educators and the wife of a University of Kansas administrator won a clear victory over three businessmen in Tuesday's city commission race.
See CITY page 5
Marnie Argersinger, 325 Park Hill Terrace, wife of William Argersinger, vice chancellor for research and graduate studies, received 4,131 votes to walk away with first place over a field of six candidates running for three commission seats.
She was followed by Donald Binsnell, 1402 E. Glenn Drive, with 3,941 votes. Binns and Argersinger, who placed first and second in the election, will serve four years on the commission.
Out of a total of 29,312 registered
Lawrence voters, 7,119 voters or 24 per cent,
cast ballots in what Delbert Mathia,
Maryland County clerk, called a light turnout.
Carl Mibek, 1208 Delaware, came in third with 3,578 players. Placing fourth in the primary race among a field of 20 can-men will serve two years on the commission.
Vera Mercer, city clerk, did more people might have turned out if the weather had been warmer. She said voter apathy had slightly increased on the local election level.
VOTER TURNOUT was slightly lower than the 8,000 voter turnout Madiah had predicted Friday. A total of 6,816 voters participated in the primary.
All of the newly elected commissioners had spoken out against the proposed location of the city maintenance garage at 2nd and Indiana. They also had campaigned for more revenue sharing money to be directed toward service programs, or what they called "people's programs," such as day care care for the going and public transport.
Arersinger led in 12 of the 20 pelling places and led in absentee balls. At
Arngersinger said she was pleased by the results even though her victory wasn't as strong as it had been in the primary when she won. "We didn't have the nearest competitor, Bins, 1,798 votes.
Robert Radcliffe, president of Ober's Inc., which owns five General Jeans stores, plauses in the race with 3,079 votes, plus fourteen for 3,079 Colyer, Jr., president of John E. Coloyer Co., Inc., a plumbing and heating supply firm, and a service company. With a total of 2,985 jobs.
"ITHINK I PICKED UP votes from John Taylor and Ottiss Vann." Argersinger said, "And, of course, I got the student vote and I asked the Taylor and Vann were primary candidates.
The third place candidate in the primary race, Dale Willey, owner of Dale Willey Pontiac-Cadillac, Inc., received 2,494 votes for a last place showing.
Binns also said he was very pleased. "I was happy with the results, although I tried hard to run first." Binns said. votes in the primary so I trained on her."
Bimns said that the first thing the new commission must do was settle the garage issue. He still he strongly supported the 2rd and Learnard location.
Voters choose school leaders
★★
MIBECK, WHO IS the debate coach and head of the social science department at Lawrence High School, carried his horse Bimbs by 20 votes with a total of 191 votes.
Julie Hack, 2216 Massachusetts, was re-elected to the board for another four-year term with the second highest vote total in the county.
By WARD HARKAVY Kansan Staff Reporter
One incumbent was reelected and one was defeated as voters on Tuesday elected four persons to seats on the Lawrence District 497 Board of Education.
However, incumbent Richard Holmeister, 2921 Topiake, who finished fourth in the voting in the March 4 primary, fell to fifth this time and lost his seat on the board.
William Bradley, Route 2, a former school board president who lost his bid for reelection to the board in 1973, led the county and school board voting with 4,657 votes. Hack followed with 4,557 votes, only 100 behind Bradley.
Bins, a former Lawrence High School teacher and director of the high school extension program, won six of the remaining seven polling places, collecting his largest block of votes at Central Junior High School with 306 votes. He also had a strong showing in his home precinct at Kennedy School with 272 votes.
SUA events chairman explains mix-up in Beach Boys concert
School Board
William F. Bradley 4,657
Julie Hack 4,557
Charles Oldfather 4,077
Martha Mastonin 3,984
Harris Hillman 3,584
James A. Hills 2,543
Dorothy E. Scott 2,327
Edwin A. Alexander 1,889
Centermial, she tied with Robert Radcliffe with 137 votes.
The Beach Boys are still scheduled to
Lindman said Tuesday that many people thought the May 7 concert had been definite, but SUA had never even reached the negotiation stage with the Beach Boys' promoter, Celebration Productions of Chicago.
There won't be a Beach Boys concert May 7, and the concert was never close to becoming a reality, according to Rich Lindeman, SUA Special Events chairman.
Much of the confusion about the concert stemmed from public received by the University Events Committee and Sen.Ex. When Lindemann presented the possibility of a concert, the committee Kala Events Committee, its chairman, Kala Strum, forwarded the proposal to Sen.Ex.
"Between here and there, we lost the date." Lindeman said.
A THREE-WEEK period elapsed between the time the promoter contacted SUA and the time SenEx finally ruled in favor of the concert.
SenEx had to approve the concert because an existing rule stated that no events other than a nonconference event would play, the game could take place during finals.
Lindeman said it made more sense for the Beach Boys to appear in Kansas City because the concert there had a $500,000 bill. They have had only a $600,000 to $700,000 potential.
Promoters aren't turned away from the University because of the excessive red tape of the system, he said. The thing that discourages promoters most about the university is the lack of a concert. The last concert to sell out was the Sonny and Cher concert in October 1973.
appear in the area, however. They will play against Royals Stadium, in Kansas City, Mo. We'll see.
LAST SEMESTER a joint appearance of Ski and the Family Stone and Tower of Powder Mountain, from Allen Field House because of medica ticket sales. The Yes concert, in November, is at the University.
The main reason SUA has gone to strictly promoter concerns is that they lost $9,000 on the project.
The Scales and Crofts馆 Thursday at Allen Field House has sold less than half
Linderman said he thought poor ticket sales were due to the high prices of the
tickets. High prices for tickets are characteristic of promoter shows since the promoters must guarantee either a fixed sum or a percentage of the profits to the group, such as SUA who are producing the show, he said.
Last year SUA sold the Nitty Gritty
Dirt Band concert for $3.00 a ticket. Prices
for Thursday's Seals and Crofts promoter
concert are $5.00 and $6.00.
LINDEMAN SAID groups weren't bypassing the University even though Chicago appeared at Fort Hays State and Oklahoma appeared at Kansas State University.
"All of the concerts that have been in Kansas were first offered to KU," he said. Chicago contacted SUA about a possible竞赛 when KU was being considered. It was during the week of spring break.
Lindeman said a certain amount of red tape was involved in producing any concert. Although he still has hopes of putting on a concert in Memorial Stadium to compete with concerts at the Harry S. Truman Sports Complex, Lindeman said, the team had more remote with apparent inability of tickets to even fill Allen Field House.
Mibke attribued his win to strong campaign help from some friends, including Mabella and Daphne.
Charles Oldfather, Route 5, a former University of Kansas attorney and professor of law, finished third in the general election with 4,077 votes, 480 behind Hack. Oldfather also finished third in the primary election.
See VOTERS page 5
Bins said he was also interested in working out a garage project with the company.
"Of the six candidates, the three of us blend better than the other three, but all six candidates were clean, honest people that had have served the city well." Mibeeck said.
MIBECK SAID that he was very fortunate to have placed third and that he would have been satisfied even if he'd placed fifth or better, since himself had been a rewarding experience.
"I've probably spent $70 to $75 of my money out of $450 to $500 total expenses for the campaign. It was kind of a grass roots effort." he said.
All the six candidates campaigned for better communication between the city commission and residents. Argersinger had said that stabilization of neighborhoods would develop the people's confidence in the city government.
MIBEK ADVOCATED a more open city government and Binns stressed better decision-making and more responsiveness towards the people by the commission.
None of the losing candidates was present at the Douglas County Court House as the returns poured in. *Totals started trickling in* and *all in* were filled, all in all* for the unofficial tally by 9:30 p.m.
Colyer said he probably wouldn't run in the next commission race.
Wiley said he was disappointed at the low turnover and said he wouldn't seek permission.
"I would like to congratulate all the candidates for a clean campaign," he said. "The voters made their choice, and I guess I'll have to live with it."
He said that it was his first attempt to run for public office and that his loss was due, in part, to his inexperience. He said that he'd been extremely busy in the last weeks of the campaign and hadn't devoted as much time to his campaign as the winning candidates
Raddliffe would make no comment about the election results.
City Commission
Marnie Argersinger 4,131
Donald A. Binnis 3,943
Carl Mibos 3,943
Rbert R. Hardliec 3,079
John E. Colyer Jr. 2,906
Dale Willey 2,944
Working on wheels
Kansan photo by DEBRIE GUMP
meeting around at work proved to be easier Tuesday for three staff members in the reserve room at Watson Library, D'Ane Murphy, Mary Royer and Linda Harver donned roller skates in honor of the nonsense that April Fool's Day calls for. The students were not annoyed at the extra noise, joined the library workers who came to look and applaud.