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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY kansan A student newspaper serving KU LAWRENCE, KANSAS
78th Year, No.92
WEATHER
The U.S. Weather Bureau predicts considerable cloudiness tonight and Friday with continued warm temperatures and a chance of scattered light rain. Precipitation probabilities are 40 per cent through Friday.
Thursday, March 7, 1968
Photo by Mike Shurtz
FEELING GROOVY
Doctors and nurses freak out after an encounter with the hippie Flower family (left to right, foreground, senior student nurses Jan Schmidt, Sandy McCarthy and Lori Bartlett), in the musical comedy, "What a Happening," to be presented by KU Medical Center student nurses March 8 and 9. See story on page 10.
Many will run on UP slate
ISP seeks party status
By Joanna Wiebe Kansan Staff Reporter
The Independent Student Party (ISP) is circulating petitions asking to be recognized as a legitimate campus party, Lyle "Buzz" Fisher, Bird City junior and ISP vice-president, said Wednesday night.
ISP failed last fall in a similar attempt to be recognized as a campus party because it could not produce a petition with the required 1,500 signatures—that is, 10 per cent of the student body. As a result, University Party (UP) candidates ran essentially unopposed in the 1967 fall elections.
More than 1,000 KU students
have already signed the new ISP petitions, Fisher said.
He said he was confident the 1,500 required signatures will be collected before the March 13 filing deadline for candidates in the April All-Student Council (ASC) elections. The petitions for recognition as a party will be filed with ASC, he said.
The change in ISP's status would allow the group's members to run for ASC president and vice-president, Fisher said. He added that ISP candidates for these positions will be announced next week.
Scott Brown, Wichita sophomore and UP president, was unaware Wednesday night of ISP's
UP candidates for ASC president and vice-president positions will be announced early next week, Brown said.
plans for the April 3-4 elections. He said UP plans to run more candidates for many positions than in previous elections.
UP candidates elected to ASC will function individually and not primarily as promoters of the UP party programs, he said.
The candidates for such positions as living district representatives would not be required to subscribe to all tenets of the UP platform, he said. They would merely use the services of UP in their campaigning.
Parking fines illegal,maybe
By Carla Rupp Kansan Staff Reporter
A recent Arizona court case indicates that KU's system of fining for parking violations may be unconstitutional on the grounds that only courts have the right to levy fines.
In the Arizona case, Pima County Superior Court Judge Lawrence Howard agreed with a University of Arizona law student who said the university was violating the separation of powers doctrine.
Although the situations at AU and KU are strikingly similar, KU officials are confident KU's traffic and ticket policy has a solid legal base, despite the Arizona decision.
Keith Lawton, vice chancellor for physical plant operations and chairman of the traffic and security committee, said a 1957 state law and a 1957 Board of Regents ruling clearly gives the University the right to fine.
The Arizona statute which gave the university the right to fine "constitutes an unlawful delegation of judicial authority and is, therefore, invalid," Howard said in his Jan. 16 decision.
The Kansas statute Lawton cited says in part:
"All roads, streets, driveways,
and parking facilities for motor vehicles on the grounds of each institution shall be under the care, control, maintenance and supervision of the Board of Regents... The Board is authorized to allocate and designate parking areas on the grounds of an institution ... and fix such fees for misuse of such parking areas by the officers, employees or students attending such institutions as shall be established by the rules and regulations of the Board."
See KU parking, page 4
RFK to speak at K-State
WASHINGTON — Sen. Robert Kennedy, D-N.Y., announced Wednesday he will speak March 18 at K-State in Manhattan. He had already postponed dual speaking engagements at K-State and KU for Feb. 20 and 21, and cancelled a March 5 date.
Kennedy will arrive in Manhattan in the morning and leave after a 10 a.m. address at Ahearn Fieldhouse. It is not known whether he will speak at KU.
This was the conclusion of student leaders and Lawrence Chamber of Commerce officials
C of C urges projects to boost town-school rapport
If KU and the city of Lawrence are to become closer and if a better relationship is to be established between the two, students and permanent residents must work together in projects beneficial to both.
Watkins salaries can't compete
By Sandy Zahradnik Kansan Staff Reporter
Watkins Hospital, which may or may not get a $500,000 addition to its building, has as many staff problems as it does space problems.
A planning committee is doing preliminary work on the addition, but Dr. Raymond Schweglier, director of the Student Health Service, says he would have trouble finding the people he would need to staff the addition.
For example, a doctor on the Watkins Hospital staff last year was hired away by the University of Missouri because MU was able to offer him a higher starting salary than he was getting at KU after a year here.
He's having trouble now—Watkins can't pay competitive salaries.
The Civil Service regulations now set a top doctors' starting salary of $14,250, and Schwegler says he can't find doctors who want to come to KU for that salary—but he's trying.
MU offloaded the doctor $14,000 to start, and Watkins, which now has only eight of the 10 doctors authorized under Civil Service regulations, couldn't match it.
At Iowa State, starting salaries are $17,000; some hospitals start doctors as high as $20,000.
Watkins starts nurses at $425 a month, and top salary is $530. Lawrence Memorial Hospital starts them at $500, and some Kansas City hospitals are paying $600.
The KU nursing staff -which also is covered by Civil Service regulations-is filled, but problems may come up.
By summer, KU's present staff of three X-ray technicians will be married and gone. Schwegler foresees problems in getting replacements because the hospital can't come close to normal starting salaries. Starting technicians here are normally started at about $395. Top pay is $530, the same as the nurses—but Lawrence Memorial is paying about $450 to start.
With such a discrepancy in starting salaries, Schwegler thinks many nurses and technicians will follow the money downtown or commute to higher-paying cities.
Even if Schwegler could find the two additional doctors allowed under Civil Service regulations, he would still be short of American College Health Association (ACHA) recommendations.
The ACHA says universities should have one doctor per 1,000 students, or 15 doctors at KU. If Schwegler finds those other two doctor, he'd only have 10. At present pay scales, the five additional doctors the ACHA recommends would cost $71,250 a year.
Schweegler isn't worried about getting money for these five doctors, however, because they aren't available anyway at the salaries Watkins can pay, he says.
who met Wednesday night at the Holiday Inn to discuss problems and possible solutions to these problems that confront both the University and the city. About 40 persons attended.
See Watkins, page 3
To hire them, the hospital would have to have a state appropriation or an increase in student fees to pay their salaries.
In March, the hospital—which spends about $47,000 a month for staff salaries—will discuss raising doctors' starting salaries to the next Civil Service pay level of $14,500.
Dolph C. Simons, president of the chamber, said that Lawrence must become first-rate if it is to have a first-rate University. He believes Lawrence eventually should attract from 10 to 15 of KU's top graduates each year to accomplish this goal.
It was agreed that the major obstacle facing the promotion of a closer relationship between the city and KU is lack of communications.
One student suggested, as a solution to this problem, that freshmen receive information concerning Lawrence at the same time they are oriented to University life, preferably during summer previews.
This was one of several projects mentioned that could lead to cooperation between KU and the community. Student leaders and chamber officials discussed the possibility of advertising the assets of the town to students through the chambers' "Project 71."
This recently-announced plan would develop Lawrence during a three-year period, ending in 1971. It would seek to "sell" the city to Lawrence residents, then to Kansas and eventually to the nation.