WARNING
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
BLAZING
KANSAN
Booming business stays natural
Vol.87, No.159
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Wednesday, July 13, 1977
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Staff photos
No burgers yet
The billboard on I-70, west of Lawrence may entice customers.
but burger-seekers will have to wait. The McDonald's on Sixth Street isn't scheduled to open until July 25.
Census takers poll area homes
Ding-dong
Joan Steidman, 1995 Kasal Dr., doesn't blink twice anymore before ringing someone's doorbell and asking, "How many toilets do you have?" Next month she may ask what a resident feels about marijuana laws or how many children a couple plans to
It's all a part of her job as an interviewer for the U.S. Bureau of the Census, Stedham and Thelmia Ericson, 1125 West Hills Parkway, are responsible for conducting monthly interviews in Douglas and Osage counties.
together they average 75 hours of work a month, and their monthly interviews deal with no more than about 500 randomly-picked area households. When the information is combined with that from 70,000 other households across the United States,
the bureau of the Census is able to predict population trends.
For example, such diverse facts as one third of all recent first marriages end in divorce and there are cases where women directly from census data. Information about the number of toilets helps shape decisions about water usage in the United States.
Stedham said the job was interesting as well as informative.
"The answers we get are just as varied as the people are different," she said. "It actually will be the history of our country when you set right down to it."
Siedham conducts two surveys monthly, the Current Population Survey and the National Crime Survey, and Erickson conducts a quarterly housing survey. Both conduct supplemental surveys, too, with health, income or family questions. Government authorities are government sponsors but private companies can also participate.
Final tabulation is done in Jeffersonville,
Ind.
Information gathered in Lawrence is sent to the regional office in Kansas City, Kan.
The Current Population Survey, con See CENSUS page 6
IHPgets criticized—again
By PEGGY SPENCER
The Integrated Humanities Program (HP) at KU is under fire once again.
Staff Writer
The special program, designed to teach freshmen and sophomores Greek, Roman, medieval and modern literature through four semesters of course work, has been an emotional and a controversial program since it began in 1970.
The program is now being opposed by a group of Kansas Citians. The group has formed the Committee for Academic and Cultural Affairs to regular meetings throughout the summer.
According to a statement prepared by the committee's chairman, Veren Barnet, a representative of the board said:
group's purpose is to inform potential KU students about the nature of the course
ACCORDING TO THE freshman-
phomore catalog, students do not take
notes during the lectures and can not ask
questions during the classes. The program
also sponsors study abroad programs, an
art education construction in the art of italic script writing.
The committee's statement alleges that Dennis Quinn, John Service and Franklin Cunningham were in the business.
However, rather than opposing specific methods of instruction, the committee is more concerned with whether the method and content of the IHP violate constitutional prohibitions against public support for private religion.
Jayhawker Towers drops commercial zoning plan
By ROBERTGODFREY
Staff Writer
Lawrence city commissioners last night considered an array of issues including planning commission items, revenue bonds and neighborhood organizations.
While reviewing rezoning requests, Marie Angierarger, mayor, announced that she will be receiving a request to be rezoned from residence-dormitory to planned commercial development, which would have allowed the city to add more food and much store to the general public.
A petition against the rezoning request was signed by 32 Towers area homeowners
The Oread Neighborhood Organization (ONA) submitted a request for $3,500 and asked for a study session with city officials to create a comprehensive neighborhood plan.
Uncertainty arose as to where funds for the organization could be found as Community Development fund have already been used to fund four other Lawrence neighborhood groups.
The ONA might have to wait until the CD department receives its fourth year funds to obtain the money requested, commissioners said.
The commission gave preliminary approval to two ordinances authorizing issuance of industrial bonds, totaling $9.5 million, for construction of a Qaaker Oats
dog food processing plant in the Santa Fe Industrial Park.
Another $500,000 revenue bond was approved to fund construction of a warehouse for E and E Specialties, 910 E. 29th, ii, which according to Roger White, the firm's owner, would bring about stabilization of the company's yearly cyclical business.
Commissioners also adopted and approved a series of resolutions and ordnances concerning the refinancing of Lawrence Memorial Hospital bonds at an interest rate of 6.78 per cent, down from the lowest rate of the original 1975 bond issuance.
According to Don Lenz, hospital administrator, the refinancing will save $3,155 million over a 25-year period, as opposed to the $3,285 million savings which was reported to commissioners two weeks ago. The company will bond issue will come next Tuesday.
Authorization was also given to create an Assistant Public Works director's position to oversee the sanitation department and central maintenance garage.
In other action, the Lawrence Asphalt Company, with a low bid of $91,002.45, was awarded to do work on the summer street-asphalting program; Trinity Lutheran church, 1245 New Hampshire St., was appointed to lead the commission will be asked to make a re-evaluation of planned commercial development zoning.
to convert students to Roman Catholicism,
through class lectures.
THE COMMITTEE said they found this publication in the context of a public university.
Quinn said yesterday that he very much resented having to defend constantly the program and that he didn't think any of his colleagues had ever attended an IHP lecture.
"A few people are upset," Quinn said. "However this is a voluntary program. For six credit hours, freshmen can learn the great classics.
"It might be possible, to brainwash
but not a University of Kansas
classroom."
Quinn said that in the past seven years, no students had participated in the program.
"An overwhelming majority of our students are not-Cabalte. They come in and leave early."
"People in Kansas City will tell you that the trip to Ireland (Spring 1976) was a plot to make everyone in the program Catholic," he said.
Quinn said that one student had taken preliminary vows at a monastery in France. The student is also a member of the
"One out of 800 is not a crowd," he said.
"We have a large number of lawyers. Maybe we do something to make people want to be lawyers."
Another question that was raised in the committee's statement was whether the program in some cases contributed to lower cancer rates and alienation toward family members.
Quinn said that when the program began in 1970, many of the students who enrolled were rebellious and rejected conventional education methods.
"When you get students like that, you don't know what's going to happen. It isn't surprising that they would do extraordinary things like join the marines or go to a monastery. But these things are terribly exaggerated."
Quinn said that a brochure the program formerly sent to all incoming freshmen explained the controversial nature of the program.
"It made it clear how the program dif- ficulty of students would not enter without previous training."
Ron Calgaard, vice chancellor for academic affairs, said yesterday. "We've established a policy in the University that we have a single undergraduate catalog."
Wednesday
From our wire services
Kent State arrests protesters
KENT, Ohio—More than 190 persons were arrested at Kent State University yesterday in a peaceful protest against plans for construction near the site of an antwar demonstration in which four students were killed on May 4, 1970.
The parents of a student killed during the antiwar demonstration were among the first arrested.
University police said 192 persons were taken into custody—with little
resistance-after they defied a court order to leave a section of the campus where the university plans to build a $6 million gymnasm annex.
A university spokesman said that most of the demonstrators would be charged with contempt of court and released on $25 bill, but some might also be charged with a rest. A defense fund for the bond money has been collected over the past months.
McDonald's sues over glasses
WASHINGTON-The McDonald's burgermachine chain and glass manufacturers filed suit yesterday against Massachusetts officials who claimed decorative promotional glasses may pose hazards hazard from lead contamination.
The suit filed in Boston came the same day the U.S. Food and Drug Administration it found no evidence of malaria in glasses can contaminate liquid inside.
WASHINGTON—His code of silence unbroken and his motives for the Watergate burglarly still a mystery, G. Gordon Liddy won parole from prison yesterday. The U.S. Parole Commission set his release for Sept. 7.
The clamor over the glasses began last Friday when Massachusetts officials announced that their tests showed lead content up to 18 times what the state allowed in the carton decals laminated to the glasses.
By then he will have served 52 months in prison, more than two years longer than any of the 24 other men sentenced for Watergate and related crimes.
McDonald's of Lawrence said last night it would resume distribution of the glasses following the FDA announcement.
Liddy gets Sept. 7 parole date
However, the FDA said it is continuing tests of these and other glasses to see if there are other possible health hazards.
Baseball
Camping can renew tired student minds
Kansas City B, Chicago 3; Cleveland 7,
Boston 1; Detroit 2; Toronto 1; New York
5; Milwaukee 2; Texas 4; Baltimore 3,
10 innings; Philadelphia 5; St. Louis 4;
New York 4; Chicago 2; Atlanta 4; Cincinnati,
3; Los Angeles 8; Houston 0.
Liddy, whose planning and direction of the Watergate barricary set in motion the events that led to Nixon's resignation, must still pay his $40,000 fine or have it otherwise disposed of according to law before release.
With Liddy's release, only former Atter-Gen. John Mitchell and former Nixon lieutenants H. R. Haldeman and John D. Warner will be serving Watergate waters.
Today and tomorrow should be good days for swimming. Temperatures both days will be in the upper to mid 80° under the morning sun, in the evening will dip to the mid 70s.
Weather
By JANICE EARLY
Staff Writer
For students seeking a brief respite from the day-to-day hassles of summer school, a weekend camping trip can be a good way to get away from it all.
There are several parks and lakes within a half-hour's drive of Lawrence where campers can take advantage of low fees or can get in free.
Riverfront Park, along the east bank of the Kansas River north of Lawrence between the river and the levee, is free to tent campers if they obtain a permit from the Lawrence Parks and Recreation Department.
The park's flood-plain forest trail offers campers an opportunity to hike four miles through a variety of forest and wildlife communities.
For the fishing enthusiast, Douglas County Lake is the place to camp. According to Michael Bronoski, fisheries biologist for the Kansas Fish and Game Commission, the lake is designed to cater to fishermen and hunters.
Except for the trail, the 900-acre park is relatively unimproved. Camps must be at least two miles from the trail.
There is no fee for camping. Facilities at the lake include picnic tables and out-tollets. There is a pump on the east side of the lake for water,
THIS IS THE only park within the city limits that permits overnight camping.
LONE STAR LAKE, about 15 miles southwest of Lawrence, offers picnic areas with fireplaces and picnic tables, a camping area with individual hookups for trailers, showers and restrooms, play areas and boat rentals.
The lake is for fishing purposes only, Bronoski said yesterday. Swimming is not permitted. Any boat with any size motor is allowed as long as it is used for swimming. He be said.
A permit for overnight camping is $1 per night for tents, plus $1.50 a night for each
The lake is south of Lawrence on Haskell Avenue.
A spokesman for the lake said that although the camping areas have been closed, people have continued to visit.
Lone Star also has a popular swimming area.
Lake Perry, off U.S. 24 north of Perry, has campgrounds with showers and public bathrooms.
shelters with tables and grills, and boats on sand beach on the lake shore for swimming.
THE CAMPING AREA selected will probably determine the kind of equipment needed to make the trip for Sunflower Surplus, 804 Massachusetts St., said it was a good idea to try camping first before buying the equipment. There is no Lawrence that rent canning equipment.
Daily camping permits are $1. Animal
permits to go are also available. Trailer
permits to go are also available.
"Try it without buying, then go from there. Mullen said, "Good equipment is necessary."
George Latham, owner of Gran Sport 1226 W. Seventh St., said the most important thing to do before a camper goes camping or backpacking was to decide in advance what the major camping activity will be and then match the equipment to it.
The type of activity, the location and the season have a considerable bearing on the performance.
SUA Wilderness Discovery rents backpacking and camping equipment to KU students, faculty and staff for a small users fee.
CAREN RENTAL, including two paddles,
two life jackets, and a carapart carrier is $A
each.
Wilderness Discovery also rents sleeping bags, tents, stoves, coolers, backpacks and frames, lanterns and other camping accessories.
Reservation forms are available at the SUA Office in the Kansas Union for persons who wish to reserve equipment in advance. It's possible to rent equipment on the same day that it's ordered, although advance orders are recommended.
A $10 damage deposit and a KU ID card is required to pick up the equipment.
The rental fee must be paid in full when the equipment is ordered. If it's returned late, additional rental will be charged plus a fee that covers the daily rate or $10, whichever is less.
Checkout time for equipment pickup and return is from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday. The office is closed on weekends.
FOR NONSTUDENTS, A-1. Rental, 29th and lowa streets, rents beds, sleeping bags, stoves, coolers and cabs. A 9-foot square two-man tent rents for $5 a day or a $18 a week.
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Cammers' choice Staff photo by MARIANNE MAURIN
Staff photo by MARIANNE MAURIM
A camper has as much choice in its equipment as he does about where he wants to camp. Jill Hazelwood, who hitchhiked from Houston, Tex., is visiting friends in Lawrence. An extensive traveler, Hazelwood may be considering replacing some of her camping equipment with that displayed by Sunflower Surplus, 894 Massachusetts St.