Assembly votes to terminate IHP
By ROBIN SMITH
Staff Reporter
After nine years of controversy, the Integrated Humanities Program at the University of Kansas will officially end this fall.
The College Assembly, with 115 of its members present, yesterday voted unanimously to abolish the HPV Advisory Committee and HPV-courses in the department of humanities.
The professors who teach the IHP courses said yesterday that the action amounted to censorship of their teaching and would hurt the classes.
In its vote, the College Assembly followed the recommendations of the Committee on Undergraduate Studies and Advising, which approved the authorization of Liberal Arts and Sciences, had approved
**HP IS A** four-semiester series of six-hour courses that fulfills part of the English requirement for undergraduates. Until 1973, HP fulfilled all English, speech, Western Civilization and humanities distribution requirements for freshmen and sophomores. In 1973 College Assembly voted that HP could not substitute for those courses.
Now, a new Humanities Committee will administer all humanities course offerings at KU, including the IHP courses. The committee also will develop a budget and student members and will administer a budget for instruction and support services for the humanities. The committee also will develop a budget to provide library services.
Dennis Quinn, director of IHP and professor of English, will leave his position as director July 1. He said yesterday that he was grateful for the support the committee that Cobb had offered him.
"ABSOLUTELY NOT." he said. "To serve on such a committee would imply that I agreed with the abolition of IHP as a program."
Couns said that he was disappointed in Quinn's decision not to serve on the new committee but that he assumed Quinn would continue to teach the courses.
Qin said that he had an obligation to his students to teach the classes but that he was still very busy with work.
"At least they left the courses in," Quinn said. "But the whole is more than the sum of parts. The program will lose its character. There will be less direction."
"It will not be integrated—but disintegrated."
John Senior, the other IHP professor, also said he was not sure whether he would teach them.
"IF SOMEONE is going to tell me how to teach, 'I'm not going to teach,' he said. "The action (of setting up the committee) I consider to be direct censorship."
Senior, professor of classics, said he would not be on the committee if he were
"That would constitute bad faith about theork we've been doing," he said. "I won't.prepart with it."
In a recent press release, Quinn wrote that serving on the committee "would involve us in direct cooperation with an arrangement that we consider a disgrace to the University and to the principles of academic freedom."
IHP has been controversial since its
beginning in 1970. Students do not take notes during class, and do not ask questions of the teacher.
CRITICS SAY THE HP professors present one-sided viewpoints in class, try to convert students to Catholicism and urge students to rest the gnost of University life.
Supporters of the program say it offers students a unique, in-depth study of the humanities that is superior to taking separate courses in the subjects.
"It was the dean that eliminated IHP," Quinn said yesterday. "Two years ago I was told there would be some changes—I knew all this along. The dean did what he wanted, taking from the start; he just spread the responsibility to around ..."
Quinn said Cobb had opposed IHP and had pushed through the proposal to end the program. On March 9, Cobb sent a letter to Quinn, outlining the IHP recommendations that he had approved and asking that Quinn give IHP's tife to the Humanties Committee.
Cobb denied the charges.
"THE RECOMMENDATIONS were not solely due to Robert Cobb," Cobb said. "And I'm sure that those members of the College Assembly and the Committee on Unattendance will be surprised that this is being viewed as a purely administration action."
IHP students and former students had mixed reactions to the decision to end the program and to put the classes in the humanities department.
Jim Bassom, Manhattan junior and a former member of IHP, said, "All along it has been the administration's objective to just accept the class and just another class within the University."
"I'm not surprised about Quinn's reaction. The administration's last motive is to give him more freedom, so he was dismissed. Now, if Quinn accepted a position on the new committee, it would only dignify the actions of the administration."
GARY SEATON, Lawrence junior and a former IHP student, said, "The University must have thought about losing Quinn by getting her expulsions. It must not have thought that it would be a loss."
"I think it was all a political move. And now, from the move of the administration, students will have to deal with a watered-down consequence of the program."
However, another former IHP student, Amy Tarnower, Teopka junior, said, "It has always been the students who gave the character to the program. They will still work together, I am sure. The program won't change; it will be stronger than ever."
Janette Luehring, Topek junior and an HP student, said the new committee might lack knowledge about the program but students could give advice.
"And I am sure that students will be able to turn to Quinn if they have any questions about the course."
Quinn also said members on the new committee might not have the knowledge
"If we leave, who will know what the program is about? Who will know what it means?"
However, Quinn emphasized that he would not serve on the committee.
"I refuse to kiss the hangman," he said.
Photo by ORLIN WAGNER
Power production
Kansas winds, which have been a source of power for decades, give way to larger coal burning power plants, contrasting two separate approaches to the energy problem
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Wednesday, April 11, 1979
Vol.89,No.129
Killer twisters hit Texas border
From the Kansan's Wire Services
Pompano Beach. At least 36 people were killed, most 850 injured yesterday when tornadoes struck along the Texas-Oklahoma border, an area known as "Tornado Alley."
Officials said damage was running to millions of dollars.
In Wichita Falls, Texas, a city of 100,000, a huge tornado smashed through two shopping centers, demolished entire neighborhoods and left at least 20 people dead. One of the dead, a four-year-old girl, died on a tableting table during emergency surgery.
officials confirmed four persons had used and that the unconfirmed deaths were from a car crash.
Police Capt. Bob Edmondson said he feared many bodies would be found today because many elderly people lived in the residential section hit by the twister.
In Vernon, Texas, a city of 12,000, there were 12 confirmed deaths. In Lawson, Oka
An estimated 700 people were treated for injuries in Wichita Falls, according to James Lee, Civil Defense medical coordinator. He said at least 500 people would require surgery, hospitalization or extended doctor's care.
A spokesman at Hesthana Hospital in Westhita Falls said 139 people had been taken to the hospital.
operating on emergency power, the spokesman said, and injured people were treated.
Nursing homes in the area said they had treated at least 200 people for minor injuries, in addition to those seeking aid at Hospital and Wichita General Hospital.
At Wilbargar Hospital in Vermon, administrator Billy Robertson said corridors were packed with the injured from the tornado.
"We have legs cut off, a guy with his chin nearly gone and a lot of broken bones,"
In Lawton, hospital officials reported treating 58 injured people.
Oklahoma Gov. George Nigh accrued the National Guard to assist in the damaged area in Lawton where two trucks carrying hazardous chemicals were overturned—one a block from a hospital. A chemical firm was through the night to neutralize the water.
The National Guard also was activated in Wichita Falls to guard against looting.
In Kansas, a tornado struck Hays, injuring two persons and damaging about 20 mobile homes and at least two businesses. The area were treated and released at a local hospital.
Gasoline alternatives provide little relief
By TOM ZIND Staff Reporter
As predictions for the price of gasoline spiral toward the dreaded $1 figure, it appears that Lawrence drivers will have few alternatives to paying the higher prices.
Several Lawrence service station managers say that gasoline, the much publicized alternative to gasoline, does not appear to be part of Lawrence's future.
At least one state has been experimenting with the fuel, which combines grain alcohol and ethanol.
According to a Kansas City Times
editorial, 400 Iowa service stations now carry gasolol.
However, seven Lawrence service station owners and distributors said yesterday that the
Wally McGrade, co-owner of M&M Oil Co. 645 Locust, which distributes Phillips 66 products, said use of the fuel did not appear to affect grain supplies were used to make the ale.
MCHIDEK that because of the world need for grain as food, gasoloh's use has been reduced.
able to develop some other source to come up with the alcohol," he said. "The cost is prohibitive also. I've read that it costs 16 cents a gallon more to produce gas."
One fuel source that could be used more extensively is diesel fuel, which one service station owner said is, on the average 6 cents to 7 cents cheaper than regular gasoline.
Mike Finneran, manager of Lawrence Turnpike Standard, predicted that more service stations soon would be pumping diesel.
"It won't be widely used unless they're
Finneman said that car manufacturers were building more diesel-powered automobiles and that diesel fuel was easier to burn than gasoline, the fuel required fewer oil changes and no tears.
RON ROWLAND, salesman for Jimm Clark Motors Inc., 2121 W. Bristol ST. Terrace, said the price of a pickup truck that had been stolen from his house was $1,600 more than one equipped with a gas engine Rowland said the option was discontinued because it did not meet standards.
Ellena said diesel-powered cars were attracting buyers in part because they got about 20 percent better mileage than gas-powered engines.
Although the better gas mileage makes diesel cars appear to be a good investment, the savings are offset by the higher price tag of diesel cars.
greater amount of them in the future," he said.
HIS STATION is selling diesel fuel for 69.8 cents a gallon.
And until auto manufacturers step up production of diesel-equipped cars, many Lawrence service station managers say they won't invest in diesel fuel.
Jack Ellena, owner of Jack Ellena Buxo Oldmobile GMC Inc., #121. W. 29th St. Terrace, said almost all models of Old-engine were equipped with optional diesel engines.
Dallas Davis, owner of Davis FinA Sinae,
1900 W Sixth St., said he don't carry
dairy products.
"I would expect that there would be a
"I wish I did carry diesel," he said. "I more or less demand it."
HE SAID he knew of one person who had modified his vehicle engine to burn propane, which Davis said cost about 36 cents a gallon.
McBride said that some of the service stations he supplied carried diesel but that the demand for it was not great enough to justify investing in more diesel pumps.
He said the cost of putting in a standard 8,000 to 12,000-gallon diesel tank was about $20,000. The cost of the pump could not be at the current demand for the fuel, he said.
Davis predicted that all service stations soon would be pumping diesel.
McRide agreed with other service station managers who predict the death of the car.
"The demand for premium will probably be plashed out and replaced with diesel," he
WHILE THESE traditional alternatives to gasoline are being exploited, research
George Forman, professor of mechanical engineering at KU, said yesterday that there had been research into the possibility of using power to power the cars of the future.
At KU there has been an ongoing study into electric-powered cars.
into ways of changing the vehicle itself also is being conducted.
Dale Rummer, professor of electrical engineering who has been directing the research, said a prototype had been built and tested here.
Illustration by BRUCE BANDLE
Rummer said, however, that there were problems with an electric car.
"ITS STILL not practical in the sense that it doesn't have the range and speed of a plane."
Hummer said he did not know of any companies that were marketing electrical products.
Forman agreed that Lawrence probably would be stuck with gasoline for row, rather than fuel.
"Here in our community we have not actively pursued these concessions," he said.
Motorists to pay higher fuel costs
By PATTI ARNOLD
Staff Renorter
It won't happen overnight, but President Carter's decision to deregulate crude oil prices eventually will increase gasoline costs. The same local service station owners said.
Wayne Hattabough, owner of Wayne's Mobile Service, 900 Iowa St., said deregulation "will cost people." Prices will rise and then continue to rise slowly, he said.
Prices at several stations are about 72 cents a gallon for regular gasoline at self-service pumps and 76 cents for self-serve gasoline. The average 75 cents for regular and 78 cents for special
The legal maximum that can be charged for regular gas is about 75 cents a gallon.
cents is a gallon. Controls on domestic oil
riches will be lifted gradually through 198
Bil Strom, manager of Sinclair Service Station, 845 Iowa St., said unleaded gasoline prices would go up first. He said the prices would rise "any day."
AND DALLAS Davis, owner of Davis Fina Service, 1500 W. Sixth, said he expected his价 for regular gasoline to soon increase five cents a gallon. He said that when the distributor increased his prices, the service was forced to follow in order to keep a profit.
Riley Eckert, owner of Hillcrest Standard Service, 914 Iowa St., is taking a wait-and-see attitude. He said he was going to watch his children play in the park and companies before he made any predictions.
Eckert said people were buying small,
ALL THE owners agreed that a reduction in driving would not be used to fight higher prices. They said people would continue to buy gasoline rather than curtail driving.
economical cars that got better gas mileage as a means of fighting high gasoline prices
Some KU students confirmed the predictions that consumers would not cut carbon taxes.
Lisa Pretor, Dodge City sophomore, said and not cut down on driving yet, and did not eat.
CARLEN THEDEN, DeSoto junior, also said she did not plan on cutting down.
"It's difficult when you're on a budget, but if I want to go, I pay the price and go anyway. But, according to my parents, prices here are cheaper than at home. They're paying as much for regular as I do for unleashed," she said.
"I don't think I use enough gas for it to be a problem," she said.
However, Theden's roommate, Pam Davis, DeSoto junior, said, "I don't drive too much but if it keeps going up I'll cut down. My car devours gas!"
Ardia Bryan, Gardner sophomore, said she probably would cut back on her driving if gas prices kept rising. She said she would buy a car and dump truck with a small car to save on gas.
"I don't like small cars," she said, "I'd work on my truck first."
John Childers, manager of Snappy Gas,
400 New Hampshire St., said people would
not be able to go to the store.
"People pay $3,000 for a car and they aren't going to park it. The way Americans pay is the same."