KU
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
KU buildings: a mix of designs
Vol.87,No.141
Friday, May 6, 1977
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
See story page six
Workers sift through the remains of Albert Wacker's barn, Rt. 3, Baldwin.
Staff Photo by ELI REICHMAN
Walker, KUAC budget evaluated
By DAVE JOHNSO!
By DAVE JOHNSON Staff Reporter
Last month the University of Kansas athletic Corporation (KUAC) Board approved a new partnership for the fourth year that Clyde Walker, athletic director has controlled the purse strings of the U.S. women's basketball team.
During that time, he has been criticized for being insensitive to the needs of
students. Many thought that when it came to raising student ticket prices or cutting
Analysis
budget items, Walker usually chose the former
At the same time. Walker has been
praised by one student on the KUAC Board as "one hell of a businessman," who has put his name forward.
So, what is KUAC's true financial situation? What are its long-term debts? Where does its money come from and where it goes? How much will it "loat" at KUAC's $4.6 million budget?
AN EXAMINATION of the new budget, recent audit reports and an interview with
Field hockey's funding uncertain
Despite additional funding from the Student Senate, the women's field hockey program at the University of Kansas faces an uncertain future.
The field hockey program received $4,252 from the Student Senate Wednesday night, which will combine with $2,500 promised by the administration to keep the program in operation next year. After next year, the program will possibly receive only $2,500.
Del Shanker, executive vice chancellor, said last night that the administration would provide the funding only if the Women's Collegiate Advisory Board showed an interest in maintaining the program.
Funding from the Senate and administration became necessary for the program when Martian Washington, who had taken over from next year's budget, Washington said she decided it would be better to completely cut the program to make smaller cuts in several programs.
THE FIELD hockey program will be unable to receive additional funding from the Senate after this year because of the budget for fundraising women's intercollege athletics.
Members of the field hockey program told the Senate Wednesday that if the Senate approved supplemental funding for the program for next year, Shankel had promised the program $2,500 for next year and every following year.
Nancy Lambros, field hockey team member, said that after next year the program would either have to get more than the $2,500 from the University or would have to convince the women's intercollegiate team to fundist funding for the field hockey team.
"There's no way we could justify recruiting women to KU to play field hockey without a four-year commitment (from a funding group) to continue the program," Washington said. "It would be unfair to the players."
program adequately," Washington said. "I don't think so."
Washington said neither of those possibilities were likely. She said one reason she had decided to stop funding the program was the lack of a four-year commitment from anyone to help fund the program.
Washington said that she was encouraging field hockey to become a club sport, which would make the program eligible for recreation department funding.
Diana Beebe, field hockey coach, said that the women hockey players wanted to remain competitive on an intercollegiate level.
"As a team we want to continue to be a part of the women's athletic program,"
She said that she didn't consider the administration's promise to give $2,500 yearly to the program if the Advisory Committee is containing it to be an adequate compartment.
Dou Messer, assistant athletic director, in charge of business affairs, may shed some light on the role.
Washington said she hoped that the field hockey program could remain in operation, adding that the entire women's athletic program was endangered.
Beee said, "We're not fighting the program. We feel we can contribute to the program."
"We hope there won't be any more cuts, but due to our lack of funding we are studying for program (for possible further cuts)," she said. "We're in a critical state."
MESSER SAID KUAC was making good progress toward retiring its long-term debts. As things stand now, the fixed debts won't be paid until 1990.
According to an Oct. 7, 1975, news release from the Sports Information Office, when Clyde Walker came to KU in July 1973, "the entire team would be operating debt of $29,386 for a total debt of $1,047,928.62." The fixed debt included payments on the east and west expansions of Memorial Stadium, the artificial turf in the stadium, and the office annex to Allen Field House.
Since then, the artificial turf has been paid for, and the total debt has been reduced to $606,293, according to the latest auditor's report, dated June 30, 1976.
The west stadium expansion debt will be paid in 1984. KUAC budgeted $2,900 for the new stadium.
The field house annex deb; will be paid in
See WALKER'S KUAC IMP page nine
Victims clean up with friends' help
Bv JANE PIPER
and LEON UNRUH Staff Reporters
Friends, relatives and neighbors on Wednesday's tornado victims gathered yesterday to begin a long, heartbreaking task of cleaning up the debris scattered over acres of farmland between Vinland and Baldwin.
The cleanup came in the aftermath of a tornado that struck Wednesday evening, destroying 12 houses, and damaging an additional 20.
Help, food and shelter came pouring in from relatives, friends and the Red Cross early morning morning. Francis Deay, RT,2 said as many as 40 people were clearing away broken trees and debris from his property at one time.
"When you come out of a basement and see everything wiped out, you have a feeling you never forget," Wilma Heffner, RT. 2. "We're going in a nutshell and it's very sad, very sad."
All victims have found shelter, and the Red Cross hasn't had to open an emergency shelter area, although Cola Patti, Red Cross volunteer, said they had been prepared to.
"THE QUESTION is will that fund the
The task now, Mrs. Joe Heilrich, Rt. 2,
said, is to begin sorting through six-foot-
square carpet tiles.
"WE'RE GETTING the clothing first," her son's fiance, Susan Scaob, said. One neighbor found a child's pair of tennis shoes while sorting through the rubble.
Only one major injury has been reported. Etah Daniel, Rt. 3, Baldwin, remained in serious condition with spinal injuries in the intensive care until last night at the KU Medical Center. She was trapped in her mobile home when the tornado struck.
"We'll have to wash these," Helfrich said softly.
Few of the victims attempted to estimate monetary losses on their property and possessions, saying instead that personal belongings and heirlooms were the inplaceable losses.
Steve Parsons, whose parents' farmhouse and barn several miles east of US 59 were destroyed, understands the devastating impact of the attack. Baker University in Baldwin, lost most of his personal possessions in a fire that gutted the Kappa Sigma fraternity at Baker university last August. He stored his sister's belongings in the basement which was destroyed Wednesday night.
Earlier reports of a crashed plane were unfounded, according to Johnson. An area 10 miles southeast of Lawrence was seared by a jetliner, but no evidence by believers, and no evidence was found.
"I feel sort of like I have a black cloud over my head," he said.
"We aren't asking for a federal declaration of disaster because the tornado here didn't do that much damage," Travis Brann, civil defense director, said.
REX JOHNSON, Douglas County sheriff, predicted that losses in the area would be greater.
"The search will be called off," Johnson said.
"We're going to come back here, for
a Max Kapu. Rt. 2, said "We've been
here." We say that."
Most of the victims have indicated their desire to rebuild.
The Kepples' house structure still stands, although the roof was lifted off. Unlike many families, their major appliances were saved.
"WE CONSIDER ourselves lucky because there are people who don't have the money to travel."
Kepple, his wife and son sat out the torrado in their daughter's basement. Her house, about 100 years from his, suffered only minor structural damage.
Kepple, whose house was covered by insurance, planned to buildez the remaining structure and replace it with a modular home. His family will stay in
See STORM CLEANUP page 12
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Ham operators track tornado, help alert city
Hours before a tornado that struck Douglas County Wednesday evening had even touched ground, leaving a path of destruction behind it, amateur radio units were on the alert for possible severe storm activity in the Lawrence area.
By RICK LINK Staff Reporter
Early in the day, after civil defense director Travis Braun pulled a tornado shield from the roof of his Service weather wire, volunteer harm operators activated an emergency communications network from the Douglas Fire Department (EOC) at 11th and New Hampshire streets.
The warning sirens were already being sounded in Lawrence. Hardman tracked the tornado for several minutes before it could move, shooting from vantage points in Lawrence.
SHORTLY AFTER 7 p.m., Eric Hardman, Salina graduate student, who had dispatched to an area south of the city to study storm clouds in the area, said. "We have a definite fluff cloud three to four miles directly east of the Quality Oil station on 59
"At the time the first tornadoes were spotted, we had seven mobiles in the field." George Penfield, who directed much of the operation from the EOC, said yesterday.
"I followed the thing as far as I could," Hardman reported later, "but it was really moving, and the debris in the road got so thick I had to slow down."
Shortly before 6 p.m., the Amateur Radio Emergency Corps was called into the field with volunteer mobile units that could assist in evacuation from EOC from almost any point in the county.
Before the tornado had even left the ground, two other amateur units were
See HAMS ALERT page three
Sculpture center attracts national attention
Crowded into a tiny office in the third floor of Strong Hall, Elden Tefoln, professor of art, promotes sculpture through the administration of the National Sculpture Center. It is little-known locally, but the center has generated much national and international interest in sculpture since it was founded during the late 1960s.
The National Sculpture Center doesn't collect or display sculpture. Rather, it provides an information center for sculptors and educators. In addition to planning biennial national and occasional international sculpture conferences, the center provides a variety of services for sculptors.
THE CENTER gathers the information to allow sculptors to share information and research with colleagues, he said, and to create sculptures that can be adapted to studio work.
The organization's goal is to record all the available information by or about sculptors and sculpture technology, Tefft said earlier this week.
Some of the information may be found in the center's office in a file of difficult to find technical information on sculpture and casting.
The center also publishes newsletters and handbooks on many aspects of sculpture and maintains a directory of all sculptors in the United States.
The center has compiled a collection of irreplaceable material about sculpture
and major contributors to sculpture, which is in Spencer Research Library.
Locating the center at KU has been a benefit to students because of the availability of the information, Tefft said.
"One of the best ways for a university to keep abreast of information is to become a link in the informational chain," he said.
The center and the conferences it sponsors attract many prominent sculptors to the KU campus, enabling students to discuss methods and learn from them, Teft said, and the center has information that allows researchers to follow sculpture trends and styles in different parts of the country.
TEFTT'S PERSONAL enthusiasm for bronze casting led to the establishment of the National Sculpture Center in 1966. He used a mold for pouring molded metals into a mold) at KU during the 1950s. By 1958, KU had one of the largest collections on a U.S. college or university campus.
Tufft organized the first conference to exchange ideas on bronze casting has been held every two years since then but the 1976 conference have been at KU.
The first several conferences were on casting techniques only, but later conferences have included all sculpture forms, Tefft said.
The center has been no successful, he said, that a sister center may soon be needed.
Information Center
Staff photo by MIKE CAMPBELL
The National Sculpture Center was formed in 1868 by Eldon Tefft, information about sculptors and sculpture technology. Tefft also professor of art. Although little known locally, the center gathers started a biennial conference on all forms of sculpture.