University Daily Kansan / Monday, March 30, 1987
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Committee trims requests for organizations' funds
By MICHAEL MERSCHEL
Special to the Kansan
Meeting to review student organizations' budgets, the Student Senate Finance Committee cleared about half the money requested by the groups reviewed Saturday.
"Student organizations usually have inflated budgets." Clarissa Birch, finance committee co-chairman, said. "They know they're going to get cut to the bare bones."
The committee met Saturday to review the first half of the student organizations' requests. The rest, including some large requests from KU Rugby and KU Crew, will be reviewed by the committee tomorrow before going to the full Senate for final approval.
The 21 groups reviewed had requested more than $46,000, but the committee allotted only about $21,000.
Reviewing the budget proposal submitted by each group, the committee cut funds for travel, events with unconfirmed dates and the purchase of most audio-visual equipment. It also limited requests for advertising, postage and paper.
The groups and the amounts
recommended by the committee are:
the Academy of Students in Pharmacy,
$1,009; Amnesty International,
$660; AIESEC, an international
economics and commerce organization,
$1,485; Biology Club, $190; Chinese
Student Association, $291; Commission on the Status of Women, $988;
Hispanic-American Leadership
Organization, $535; Jayhawk Course
Source, $5,858; Korean Student
Organization, $330; KU Free Theatre
Company, $1,820; KU German Club,
$246; KU India Club, $583; KU International
Folk Dance Club, $580; KU Slavic Club, $350; KU Squash Club,
$160; KU Table Tennis Club, $229;
KU Vietnam Association, $250; Le
Cercle Francais, $300; Model United Nations,
$2.515; National Society of
Architectural Engineers, $149; and
SCoRMEB, a minority engineering program,
$250.
The committee came down hard on international organizations, saying that Senate no longer would pay for college and off-campus building rental for events.
The committee also said groups could use the Kansas or Burge Unions at less cost, making it easier for more students to attend.
Tom Woods, Senate treasurer, said that if an international student directory was needed, the office of foreign student services could take care of it.
Two KU administrators support stiffer admission requirements
"Events should be open to KU students," Birch said. "When a group rents off campus, they're excluding them."
Birch said the finance committee might be able to make exceptions if arrangements could not be made with the unions.
Staff writer
By BENJAMIN HALL
Incoming freshmen would be better prepared if the University of Kansas imposed some restrictions on admission, two administrators told the University Senate Executive Committee on Friday.
David Amberle, vice chancellor for student affairs, and Bruce Lindvall, director of admissions, visited SenEx to explain their support of a recommendation to require students to complete certain high school courses before gaining admission to the University of Kansas.
"I'm an advocate of open admissions, but I do believe we've got to do more to improve the preparation of students who come here." Ambler said.
Under the Board of Regents open admissions policy, KU and other Regents schools must admit any student who is an accredited Kansas high school
SenEx invited Ambler and Lindvall to its meeting after reviewing a recruitment committee report. Lindvall was chairman of the committee, which reported to Ambler in January.
The report said that KU administrators should urge the Regents to
enforce its recommendations for high school preparation.
The Regents recommend that high school students take four years of English, three years of mathematics, three years of social studies, three years of natural sciences and two years of a foreign language. But that recommendation is not enforced.
"There was no way I could have completed that," he said. "I've been an advocate for a long time of changing the open admissions policy, but these recommendations are too specific."
SenEx member Gordon Woods,
Ulysses graduate student, said students at many small high schools couldn't complete the curriculum.
Woods also said some high school counselors might not be competent enough to recommend the right preparation to college-bound students.
Lindvall said that about 70 Kansas high schools didn't offer foreign languages and that exceptions would be granted to students graduating from those schools.
"But I would argue that everything else should be available," he said.
SenEx member Thomas Mulinazzi, professor of civil engineering, said, "Don't penalize kids coming out of small schools because they don't
Small schools often instill a stronger work ethic than do large schools. Mulinazzi said.
have the courses."
Lindvall said the admissions requirements, if approved, would be put into effect gradually.
Economic problems and rising enrollments have forced KU to reevaluate its goals. Del Shankel, act executive vice chancellor, told SenEx.
"For years, we have sort of maintained the policy that we don't recruit students, that we're not in the business of recruitment," he said. "Circumstances are forcing us to define ourselves a bit."
Ambler said, "I don't think we know what we want to be at this university with respect to our student body makeup."
Woods said the administration should seek student input on admissions decisions.
"If you don't include students, you're going to be excluding some opinions that could be very insightful." he said.
SenEx member Evelyn Swartz, professor of curriculum and instruction, said any changes in admissions standards should be slow and deliberate.
What's cooking on the hill featured in 'Rock Chalk Cookin' cookbook
Staff writer
By KIERSTI MOEN
People who want to know what the bigwigs eat can find out in a new cookbook featuring recipes from well-known KU personalities.
"Rock Chalk Cookin'" includes Larry Brown's taco salad, Gretchen Budig's spinach and artichoke canole, Darnelle Manning's "Sock It-to-Me" cake and other goodies from the kitchens of local celebrities.
Some dishes have a local twist, such as The Wheel, a steak soup; Jayhawk Jam; KU Pecan Pie; and Cookies-Triangle Fraternity.
The Minerva Club, an organization of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity members' mothers, wives and sisters, published the book as a fundraiser for the fraternity, 1301 W. Campus Road.
Thinking there would be an interest in local cooking, club members contributed their own recipes and collected others from University of Kansas faculty, staff and alumni to make a cookbook with about 400 entries.
"We thought it would bring interest in the house and in campus itself," said Charia Kelly, chairman of the committee that prepared the book.
One section, called "Specialties from the Hill," features well-known people's recipes. University officials, staff and faculty; athletic coaches
The book has sections for beverages, appetizers, soups, salads, entrees, poultry, vegetables, breads, cakes, pies, cookies and desserts.
and administrators; local church leaders; and house mothers of local fraternities and sororities contributed.
Mary K. Amber, wife of David Amber, vice chancellor for student affairs, contributed a spinach mushrooms recipe. The Rev. Vince Krische, director of the St. Lawrence Catholic Center, explains how to make spinach balls, San Diego Salad and chicken cordon bleu.
Gretchen Budig, the wife of Chancellor Gene A. Budig, submitted a casserole recipe that she has served at parties and receptions.
Manning, the wife of Ed Manning,
assistant men's basketball coach,
said her contribution, the "Sock-It-to-Me" cake, was a favorite with her
husband and her son, Danny Manning,
a forward on the KU basketball
team.
Reilly said some recipes were not only family favorites, but also wellkept secrets until they were published.
Monte Johnson, athletic director,
submitted a recipe for Monte's Italian
Spaghetti. Martian Washington,
women's basketball coach, shared
the recipe with Max and Max's
Chili came from Max Falkenstien,
the voice of the Jayhawks.
"I know they would like it because I know it's been a success here at the house on many occasions," she said.
"The nicest part about it was that when we contacted people, they said, 'No problem, they'd love to contribute,'" she said. "Everyone just seemed so easy to work with."
"It doesn't have to be complicated to be good."
Almost too easy to be true."
Most of the recipes are easy to prepare, Reilly said.
Other dishes, however, are more intricate, such as those from the Adams Alumni Center's chef, Howard W. Poore. But he said anyone who followed his directions carefully would succeed with his pork savoyard and cream of broccoli soup.
"Rock Chalk Cookin'" includes directions for each dish, general cooking tips, a calorie counter and instructions in kitchen mathematics.
So far, the book's publisher, Cook book Publishers Inc. of Olathe, has printed 500 copies, which hit local bookstores Tuesday morning. "Rock Chalk Cookin'" can be purchased on campus for $10 at the Oread Bookstore and the Kansas Union Bookstores.
Police 'kidnap' Lawrence city officials
robert Hughes, Tulsa, Okla,
junior and president of Sigma Alpha
Epsilon, said the fraternity had not
yet decided how to spend the money.
Hughes said he was grateful to
the book's sponsors and contributors
Reilly said she hoped for high book sales before Mother's Day in May.
"It's a very well-done book," he said. "It's something that any KU student or friend of the University would enjoy."
"What woman wouldn't like to have a cookbook in her home?" she said. "Every man likes to cook, and everyone has to eat."
Lawrence Mayor Sandra Praeger, County Clerk Patty Jaimes, and Gary Toebben, vice president of the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce, all were abducted this weekend. They were kidnapped by the local Arthritis Foundation and radio station KLWN 1329-AM, that is.
The event raised about $1,900 for the foundation to fight the nation's number one crippler, said Debbie Seats, event chairperson. More bail was expected to come in from the foundation after a group of people who were not able to take part in an event, so Seats said she expected the total donations to be about $2,000.
The hostages were held from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday at the KLWN radio studio, 3035 Iowa St. They pleaded over the air for bail from the community so they could be released from their radio jail.
By a Kansan reporter
Seats said that the foundation used the radio station each year because it was more effective than a pretend masthead. Seats also were a unique way of raising money
up and everything went oft as planned," Seats said. "We were also able to disseminate a lot of information over the air about arthritis."
Search for frog inspires biologist
"I think almost everyone showed
During the event, Seats said Kelley Scott, KLWN disc jockey, and some of the hostages exchanged jokes about who could raise the most bail.
Famous frog causing anger in bypass plan
The city officials and 18 other people with various positions in the community were taken hostage Saturday by the Lawrence Police Department during the foundation's annual Hostage Days.
Instead, keep going and be as quiet as possible. The slightest noise could hinder biologist Penne von Achen's hunt for the elusive and endangered Northern Crawfish frog.
By TODD COHEN Staff writer
If some late night this spring you see a woman, armed with a flashlight and net, wading through the Bare Wetlands — don't stop.
"I think everyone had a good time," Seats said.
Von Achen intends to be there to catch the frog that, despite its shy nature, has become the most famous frog in the county.
"They are so secretive and elusive, they may only come out one night a year." she said
The frog has become a big player in the controversy about a proposed $39 million southern Lawrence trafficway that would pass on the Wetlands' northern border.
Trafficway opponents have said the project would destroy the Wetlands, the frog's northernmost habitat. The wetlands, south of 31st Street and between Louisiana Street and Haskell Avenue, would be 15 feet from the trafficway.
The slightest noise could send the frog fleeing into its underground burrows and out of sight, said von Achen, who lives near Eudora with her husband, Kurt, two daughters, Megan and Kate.
This spring, von Acheo will spend several hours almost every evening, after putting her children to bed, in the wetlands looking and listening for a frog species that hasn't been seen there since 1978.
A bill allocating $7.2 million for the project was vetoed Friday by President Reagan. But aides to U.S. Rep. Jim Slattery, D-Kan., have said a congressional override was likely.
Her research is being financed
Biologist Pennie von Achen of Eudora is in search of the endangered Northern Crawfish frog in the Baker Wetlands. The Kansas Fish and Game Commission has given von Achen a $1,500 grant to study the elusive frog, which lives in crawfish harrows.
by a $1,500 Kansas Fish and Game Commission grant to find out how many crawfish trogs live in the Wetlands, what type of habitat they prefer and to maintain the species.
"I want to find this frog. No one wants that more than me," she said.
And if she finds one, she'll certainly celebrate. "You'll probably bear me all the way to Eudora," she said.
Finding the frog, though, would be more than a personal accomplishment. It could have political repercussions.
However, to von Achen, her work is purely scientific.
'Nobody's put any pressure on
me," she said. "The only pressure I feel is the attention of the press."
But she said she did realize the political issue was a primary reason the fish and game commission awarded the grant. And she's concerned that the politicians could interpret her study the wrong way.
"This study may prove that they're here, but it can't prove that they're not here," she said.
Von Achen, who teaches summer biology classes at Johnson County Community College, said it was difficult to study the frogs because they only came out at night, usually after it rained.
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ANNOUNCING:
KU ON WHEELS
SPRING 1987
ROUTE HEARINGS
Thursday, April 2
FOR the 87-88 Academic Year
The Student Senate Transportation Board is holding its annual route hearings to discuss possible changes in the bus routes for the next academic year. We will be hearing requests and recommendations on Thursday evening April 2,7:00-9:00.Call 864-3710 for an appointment. Remember to gather as much information as possible as well as composing a realistic impact statement on the KU student body.
Call 864-4644 (Mornings) or 8643710 for more information.
Hearings will be held in the Northeast (upper level) Conference Room of the Burge Union.