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KANSAN
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
Vol.87,No.172
The University of Kansas—Lawrence. Kansas
Health insurance costs increase See story page three
Thursday, August 4.1977
Committee names Balfour as KU's first ombudsman
By PEGGY SPENCER
Staff Writer
William M. Balfour, former vice chancellor for student affairs and professor of cell biology and physiology, has been appointed University of Kansas ambassador.
Bafour is expected to take office at the beginning of the fall semester. Del Shankel,
Balfour is out of town on vacation and could not be reached for comment.
One of Bailford's responsibilities will be to hear and attempt to resolve grievances between members of the University faculty, staff and students.
Balfour was the only applicant for the position.
Deanell Tacha, chairman of the Advisory Committee on Campus Grievances, said that the committee had not given Bailour permission to his duties in the newly created position.
Shankel he had discussed with Tacha and Chancellor Archie Dykes the possibility of reopening the search for an ombudsman to get more candidates for the position.
"The committee felt the individual ought to have a broad flexibility in developing the plan."
Tacha said she thought the success of the office of ombudsman in dealing with University related grievances would depend on her innovative ideas and his experience with the law.
"However, the search committee enthusiastically recommended Dr. Bailour,"
Shankel said the committee had indicated that even if there had been more applicants, the board hadn't done so.
"With that kind of endurance, I couldn' imagine that we would have found a better way."
Shankel said that the appointment was made without reopening the search procedures because he and Dykes felt it was not worth the time or price before the beginning of the fall semester.
Shankel said that the office of the omnian would probably be in Balfour's faction, which he said was a 'real' one.
Tacha said she thought the ombudsman would benefit from having his office away from the central administration offices in Strong Hall.
"There won't be a psychological barrier to coming into the office with a complaint," she said.
The position of ambudsman is a 12-month half-time appointment. Balfour's concurrent half-time appointment is his position as professor of cell biology.
The position will be subject to re-positionment at the end of the first year, Tacha
Qualifications for the position included six years' experience as a KU faculty member.
Applicants were also required to have expressed a concern for mediation of grievances and to have experience in teaching and advising, along with a comprehensive knowledge of University organizations and procedures.
Balfour has been a faculty member at KU for 20 years. He was an assistant professor in the School of Medicine and director of Pearson college in 1967. He was vice chancellor for student affairs from 1968 to 1976.
Balfour received his bachelor's and medical degrees from the University of Chicago.
County needs $2 million to meet proposed budget
Bv CHRISTOPHER COX
Staff Writer
The Douglas County budget and accounting office is still waiting to receive about $2 million worth of assessments from the county government, according to Darlene Hill, budget director.
Hill said Tuesday that the county had drawn up its 1978 budget on an expected $174 million in countywide assessed valuation. As of Tuesday, the county appraiser had passed on assessments totaling only $172 billion in million less than had been antitended.
Aug. 29 will be the deadline for county residents to report property for assessment, as they are required to do by Kansas law, Hill said. Any property that is assessed between now and then will help to bring the property to the $74 million estimated valuation.
About $1 million in personal property assessments was added by the appraiser between July 1 and 25, she said, to reach the $172 million figure.
THE HIGHER THE county's valuation, Hill said, the less taxes will have to be raised to collect the $9.3 million the county needs to operate in 1978.
The proposed mill levy for 1977, which will
Staff photo by MARIANNE MAURIN
Small catch
Students of the Aquatic Biology Workshop, sponsored by the Dyche Museum of Natural History, spent the morning searching for water organisms in Rock Creek, $2\frac{1}{2}$ miles north of Lone Star Lake, yesterday. Sitting on the museum steps, while he's waiting for pants legs to dry, dry Chris Cook, son of Burnett Cook, Lawrence, inspects his catch—one Rock Bass and one Sun Perch. The students are instructed in the environment and identification of aquatic organisms.
finance the 1978 budget, currently stands at 24.04 mills, a 1.38 mill increase from this
Hill said that because taxes were due on Nov. 1, it was necessary to receive the county valuations quickly. An Aug. 28 valuation of property would be assessed, Hill said, because she had to make all the counties, cities, school and other benefit districts would get adequate distribution of taxes. The distribution might require adjustment of the mill levies, he said.
A mill represents $1 for every $1,000 of assessed valuation, so a levy of 24.04 mills would raise $24.04 for each $1000 assessed valuation.
The budgeting process occurs yearly and is based on the county appraiser's assessments of local real estate, personal and commercial property. The appraiser is also required to provide "fair market value" as the "assessed valuation" of the property.
ALL MILL LEVIES must be completed and certified by Oct. 1, Hill said, so that the county data processing and treasurer's offices could have taxes preloaded by Nov. 1.
The assessed valuation is the figure that is taxed. The county then determines its tax rates by taking the assessed valuations and the tax rates. The county is needed to operate the county for the next year.
The 1978 budget will be published Aug. 5.
After publication, the budget can be decreased but not increased, and mill levies can be either decreased or increased, Hill
Public hearings on the budget are scheduled for Aug. 15 at 10 a.m., in the auditorium.
Tuition, enrollment will go up this fall
Tuition and enrollment at the University of Kansas are going up this fall, University of Kentucky is closing.
In-state tuition will be $344.40, an increase of about $50 over Spring 1977 fees, Gilbert Scott's private school.
Dyck said it would be difficult to list exact fall semester fees for the Medical Center campus because those students pay fees by the year, not by the semester.
Tritition fees listed in the fall timetable do not include $2.50 in student activity fee increases that was approved after publication of this notice. In accordance with the office of admissions and records said
Out-of-state tuition will increase by about $150 and will raise the total fees to $89.40.
The School of Law tuition will be $394.40 for
state students and $194.40 for out-of-state
students.
Joe McAarlund, academic officer of the
koe Institute of Regents, explained the
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"There is a general understanding among the Kansas Legislature, the Board of Regents and the state schools that the student fees should approximate 25 per cent of the education instructional costs," he said.
Deb Teeter, institutional research and planning director, said that the official projection for enrollment this fall was 22,750.
This year the portion of educational costs the students paid through their tuition package is $59,600.
"We try to refrain from more frequent adjustments," he said.
Fearland said that Kansas State University at Oklahoma State would also help in the search.
The fees are adjusted every four years, he said.
The projection is based on what has happened historically during enrollment periods, the number of students graduating from high school, pre-enrollment figures and what the University has done throughout the year to attract students to
See TUITION page four
A total of 2.763 students have pre-enrolled
Black gold researcher
Looking through a heavy steel combustion tube, which he plans to use in his Ph.D. experiment at KU, is Birah Givenuet.
Fire proposed to drain oil wells
By KEVIN KIOUS
Istanbul, Turkey, graduate student. Guvenir said his experiment is an "extinct oil recovery process" that used heat to reduce the pressure in a reservoir. (AP)
Staff Writer
Setting fire to underground oil may double the amount of recoverable oil in Kansas wells if research by a University of Kansas graduate student proves successful.
The student, Ibrahim Guwenir, Istanbul, Turkey, is trying to develop "fire flooding," a method of burning part of an oil spill from a force oil left after pumping to the surface.
The process would recover 90 to 95 per cent of the oil in the reservoir, Guvenir said. The other 5 to 10 per cent would be burned and still beneath the earth's surface, he said.
Oil is found trapped in reservoirs between layers of porous rock. Guenir described a reservoir as a giant "underground sponge" made of rock and saturated with oil.
As much as 50 per cent of the oil can be pumped out under古ological pressure or forced out by water pumped into other wells in the same reservoir, he said.
Most of the remaining oil can be forced out by burning some of the reservoir.
The burning method, which has had limited testing in Kansas oil fields, raises the temperature of the oil in one end of the reservoir to its combustion point with electric heaters inserted from the surface, he said.
When oxygen is pumped into the heated area, it increases the pressure and the oil pressure.
The heat from the combustion would thin out the rest of the oil, making it easier to burn.
The combustion would also create enough pressure to force the remainder of the oil out
Guenvir said the price of the oxygen pumped into the reservoir would account for about 85 per cent of total costs of fire flooding oil recovery.
Most oil companies are not willing to invest in fire flooding, he said, because of the high cost of repairs.
"Fire flooding is in a very experimental state." he said. "It is a pretty exotic resource."
The five-foot-tall pipelike structure opens on both ends to hold a core sample of rock. The sample would be filled with oil, Guvenir and packed into the pipe structure with sand.
Guenir, whose research is being funded by the state of Kansas, is now working on a model that will stimulate an oil reservoir. He has developed additional fire flooding methods.
Guenvir said the main problem with fire flooding was supplied just enough oxygen to fuel it.
Oxygen would be pumped in one end to create pressure, he said, and then the oil would be ignited and flow out the other end. The condition is being monitored by a computer.
We need to find how much oxygen you supply, so you don't burn the whole reservoir.
Results of the experiment, which may take two to three years to complete, could be a practical recovery method for oil companies.
But, he said, getting the method to work in oil fields may not be easy.
"Scaling it to the real world is a difficult problem," he said.
Thursday
among women," a staff report presented to the 20-member commission said.
From our wire services
Pressures affecting women
WASHINGTON—Women suffer a disproportionate share of mental problems because of job and educational discrimination, the President's Commission on Mental Health was told yesterday.
More women than men are treated for mental problems—most frequently depression—because of low-paying or dead-end jobs, lack of educational opportunities and other problems, the commission was told.
President Jimmy Carter's wife, Rosalynan, an honorary member of the commission, was present at yesterday's session.
The report also said that suicide rates for elderly women had been increasing, and large numbers of women in the general population suffered from depression and other problems but not the same extent in turning instead to drugs such as alcohol.
"Dependency on drugs is on the rise
Another report presented to the meeting suggested migrant and seasonal workers also suffered more than their share of mental problems and perhaps should be declared a "federal security" need could be more directly addressed.
WASHINGTON—The House, picking up steam in an effort to pass comprehensive energy legislation this week, handed President Jimmy Carter a victory yesterday by rejecting he is allowed of price controls from natural gas.
Carter, speaking through his press secretary, Jody Powell, said he was extremely pleased by the outcome and great victory for American consumers."
Gas price controls rejected
"It saved them millions of dollars."Carter said.
The 227-199 vote kept the essentials of Carter's proposals by maintaining ceilings on natural gas, although the House made some modifications in his
In general, the provision would increase price ceilings on gas newly brought into production, but would shield new plants from prices in lowest priced gas for residential use only.
Prison escapes fret Bennett
TOPEKA-Gov. Robert F. Bennett said yesterday that he was just as concerned as anyone else about a rash of escapes that have occurred in the past month from the Kansas State Penitentiary at Lansing.
However, the governor said, there has been no evidence or indication that negligence on the part of the prison of officers had contributed to his failure to carry out his duties had contributed to one of the escapes. Bennett said that the guard had been fired.
Bennett said he had ordered an immediate and through investigation into the latest escape, which took place last Monday.
Baseball
Kansas City 7, Toronto 4; Minnesota
11, Detroit 1; St. Louis 5, Atlanta 1;
New York 4, Los Angeles 3, 14 innings;
Philadelphia 8, San Diego 1; Montreal 4,
San Francisco 2; Houston 3, Pittsburgh
6; Cincinnati 5, Chicago 3, 10 innings.
Harry Jack Bloomer, 44, convicted of killing the Wakeeney city marshall and wounding the Trego County sherrif 15 years ago, lee the prison apparently by walking away from a minimum security jail, before floating down the Missouri River on a log.
Bloomer was the ninth inmate of the Lansing institution to escape within a 29-day period. All but three have been recaptured.
Weather
A 20 per cent chance of rain is forecast for this afternoon, according to the National Weather Service. The scattered thunderstorms are expected to last until the weekend. Temperatures will be in the low and mid 80s today and tomorrow.