THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
Vol. 87, No.134
Glover talks about himself
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Wednesday, April 27, 1977
See story page five
Commissioners okay hikes in Lawrence utility rates
By JANE PIPER
Staff Reporter
Commissioner Barkley Clark set the tone of last night's Lawrence City Commission meeting with the statement, "This is really the night to increase rates, isn't it?"
The raise in the water and sewer rates, about an 11 per cent increase for the average homeowner, will take effect on the May 20 water billing.
On that note, the commission approved increases in water, sewer and rural water district rates and sent a request for gas rate changes to an engineering company for further study.
BUFORD WATSON, city manager, said the increase was the first of several to be made five years to begin payment on bonds in the Reservoir Water Treatment Plant. The additional funds also will help pay for the rising costs at the new secondary treatment plant.
The last increase in the city's water rates was in 1969.
Chris Bell, spokesman for Lawrence Citizen's Voice, asked commissioners to design a structure that would encourage conservation of residents' residents deal with the increases. He said the new ordinance partly remedied what he called the historical problem of residential owners having to pay more than their fair rent in still, tall, big useriers received discounts.
The commission unanimously approved the rate increase.
Commissioner Jack Rose said, "We're too far down the line to think about change it (the structure) this year," but said the action factor could be considered next year.
A request by Kansas Public Service company for higher gas rates was referred
to Black and Veatch, a consulting firm from Kansas City, Mo., for a rate study.
Kansas Public Service and the city of Lawrence will share the cost of the study. If gas rate increases are recommended, the city can improve them before they can go into effect.
OLN PETEFISH, attorney for Kansas Public Service, said the possible increases probably wouldn't go into effect before October of this year.
funds and inflation costs as causes of the increase request. He said that Black and Veatch had previously determined $300,000 as a fair rate of return for Kansas Public Service, during the year of Oct. 1978 to 1977, because of the unforeseen cost of the actual project.
Petition cited rising labor costs, health and liability insurance prices, retirement
The city commission expressed its concern about the effects the gas price raises would have on low income families. Clark asked Kansas Public Service to look into the idea of a program to educate the public on conservation methods.
See UTILITIES page five
Subcommittee studies renewal of Feedback
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LINDA STEWART
Staff Reporters
Bv JOHN WHITESIDES
A subcommittee designed to investigate the renewal of Feedback, a program for student evaluation of faculty, was appointed by Senate Student Academic Affairs Committee.
The subcommittee was charged with finding the possible cost of the program, researching similar systems at other institutions, and determining procedures for renewing the program.
An F&A subcommittee had met last week
to draw up the proposed changes in the budget process. The topics included an earlier election date, which wasn't approved by the full committee, because the earlier date would cut out too much camaraderie and allowed the tickets to the full Senate for approval May 4.
Also last night, the Senate Finance and Auditing (F&A) Committee ended its final meeting of the semester by approving a budget for next year. The budget process take place earlier next year.
THE FEASIBILITY of the Feedback program was discussed by John Olson, former chairman of the Academic Affairs committee, who had researched the possibility of renewing the program last year.
Olson said the original Feedback program was begun in the late 1960s and was funded by the Student Senate for about $30,000 a year. The program was designed, he said, to provide students with a standard measure of their potential instructors. He
See FEEDBACK page 10
Court Services aids prisoners
By CHUCK WILSON Staff Reporter
Note: This is the last of three articles on crime in Lawrence. It deals with the Douglas County Jail.
Most county jails lack an organization that can help prisoners with their problems, but Douglas County is an exception. Douglas County Court Services offers a variety of services to prisoners in county jail and supervises the county's misdemeanor probation program.
And the Douglas County jail itself is in contrast with the run-down, uncomfortable cails found in other areas.
Besides counseling, Court Services makes daily rounds of the jail and helps provide a library and commissary service on Fridays. The program assists prisoners working on their Graduation Equivalency Diploma, comparable to a high school diploma.
COURT SERVICES helps prisoners find counseling for alcohol and drug problems and tries to counsel prisoners' families.
Court Services began in 1974 as a proam to help adults, but was expanded in January 1977 to include juveniles. Judy Osburn is the director of Court Services, which employes five persons besides the director.
Court Services also helps organize restitution programs and helps prisoners set up budgets, Osburn said.
Court Services is the only such program in Kansas.
"OTHER COUNTIES have pieces of things we have but nothing exactly like this." Osburn said.
She said she didn't think any other program in Kansas had the amount of cooperation from law enforcement officials and county and city commissioners as the Douglas County program. Such support is necessary for an effective program, she said.
Douglas Murphy, Douglas County undersheriff, said prisoners had said the Douglas County Jail was more comfortable than most other jails in the country. They have praised the food and living conditions at the jail, he said.
The Douglas County Jail is a modern facility housed in the Douglas County Judicial and Law Enforcement Center at 11th and Ninth Avenues.
THE JAIL is a maze of electrically locked doors guarded by closed circuit television equipment.
There are four individual jail cells used to hold maximum security, problem prisoners.
Prisoners are allowed out of their cells only for recreation. They are no longer allowed to do any odd jobs to help in the operation of the jail. This is because the type of prisoners in the jail has changed.
There are also one 6-bunk women's cell, four 6-bunk men's cells,
one 8-bank male juvenile cell and one 6-bank female juvenile cell.
"USUALLY, THE people we detain now are ones picked up on violent crimes," Murphy said.
As they always have, prisoners still get three meals a day.
For breakfast, prisoners are fed cold or hot cereal; for lunch, a meal dish such as beans and crumbs or chill, and for supper, sandwiches.
The food is prepared in a kitchen in the building of the building and is brought up to the prisoners on a cart. Each prisoner is served 100 calories of flour or sugar.
ALL PRISONER'S dress in identical gray coveralls and tennis shoes. Only underwear can be brought from outside.
During the day prisoners are let out of their cells into a room where they can watch television or read books. Murphy said.
Once a week they are taken from their cells to a recreation room where they can play basketball or table tennis. The amount of time they get to exercise depends on the number of prisoners, Johnson said.
There also is a library of paperback books bearing titles such as "Passions of the Mind," "Rabbit, Rabbit," "Indian Tales" and "200."
Murphy said that visitors were allowed once a week, but that only members of the immediate family could visit prisoners. Relatives can bring only money and underwear to the prisoners. Everything in the building mail, including mail, is thoroughly searched for contraband. Murphy said.
THE BOOKS come from the Lawrence Public Library, Murphy said, and a prisoner can borrow up to five a week.
The jail's temperature is kept at 70 degrees most of the time.
Money can be used to buy such things as cigarettes, which are bought each Monday, Wednesday and Friday at local stores,
Hardbound books usually aren't permitted because they could be used as weapons, he said.
Staff photo by GEORGE MILLENER
Bounce for cash
Mike Riede, Little Rock, Ark., junior, took his turn yesterday during the first day of the Tau Kappa Epsilon Boys Club benefit marathon trampoline bounce. The trampolimists will continue to bounce in front of Allen Field House until Friday noon—a total of 77 hours. They hope to raise $1,000.
Legislators back,ponder KU funding
Staff Reporter
The Kansas Legislature reconvened this morning to tackle a large workload it had left when the houses called an early first adjournment three weeks ago.
Although most legislators weren't available for comment yesterday because the telephone switchboard system in the state capitol wasn't working, action is underway that will three days on several appropriations bills that will affect the University of Kansas.
The main appropriations bill, which would provide funds for salaries, retirement benefits, utilities funding and other operating expenses for all Kansas students, was remained in conference committee until the final day of the first legislative session.
STATE SEN. Wint Winter, R-Ottawa, said yesterday, "There wasn't any com-
mission."
Winter referred to a *house-proposed* cut in faculty salary increases from 7 to 6 per cent, and a cut from 8 to 7 per cent in a increased increase in other operating expenses.
Winter said the conference committee had prepared the bill by noon—adjournment day so that final legislative vote could be sent to Gov. Robert Pence.
However, he said, "Then it was the decision of the Speaker of the House (John Carlin, D-Smolan) to not consider conference committee reports."
CARLINSAID Monday that it would have been difficult to take action on appropriations bills before the conference call and compromise on a public school finance bill.
He said the higher education appropriations bills would allow a 6 per cent increase in student numbers, whereas a Senate-House conference committee couldn't compromise on a version of the public school finance bill, existing law requires that a 6 per cent increase in teachers' salaries.
Carlin said the differing salary increases could cause a lot of pressure in the level.
BUT, HE SAID, if quick action were taken on the school finance bill, appropriations would be reduced.
To provide University funding, the appropriations bill must pass during the three days of the legislature's clean-up session this week.
Another appropriations bill that must be passed is a capital improvements bill that would provide $7.3 million for additions to Malott Hall and Robinson Gymnasium. The businesses are expected to announce their recommendations on the bills in today's sessions.
The University's supplemental appropriations bill, which would provide $800 million in expected utility costs this fiscal year, remained in conference committee
THE SUPPLEMENTAL appropriations would provide between $726,000 and $642,000.
An Associated Press story yesterday also reported that a joint ways and means subcommittee neared agreement late yesterday on how much money should be spent on energy projects at the Regents institutions and the Med Center.
But Rep. Phil Martin, D-Larned and chairman of the committee, pushed for a change in the law to prohibit
Most subcommittee members appeared to agree that the full funding of $363,400 to insulate all college buildings except residence halls and student unions built and maintained from other funds was necessary and wise now.
Vegetarian diets vary by philosophies, preferences
By STEVE PARSONS
Staff Reporter
For whatever the reason—health, morals or money—the vegetarian way of life has attracted interest.
Local grocery stores, restaurants and the University of Kansas have begun to recognize vegetarians' needs and are trying to meet their demands.
Chuck Magerl, a member of the Community Mercantile, one of Lawrence's main suppliers of vegetarian foods, said recently some vegetarians are limited types or amounts of meat, some cut all meat from their diets and others even abstained from dairy and egg products.
FARLY POPULAR now, he said, is the raw vegetable diet in which no cooking is done so no skin is removed.
Among those who call themselves vegetarians one can find a variety of diets and degrees of vegetarianism.
"Then you get to the absolute lunatic," he said, "the extreme in which a guy cuts down food consumption to the point of practically living on white light."
vegetarian kitchens of Watkins Hall. Kitchen one uses many dairy products and kitchen five occasionally cooks chicken or fish. Watkins, unlike most organized living groups on campus, has several small kitchens that serve about seven women in each serving everyone in one large kitchen and dining hall.
Two steaming cups on the stove were carefully watched by Mary Anne Orazem, Manhattan sophomore, who explained that the pan with sliced green peppers, celery and onions would yield cream of onion soup when added to milk sauce in the other pan.
Kitchen one and, less strictly, kitchen five are the
NOTHING IN kitchen one betrayed its peculiarity other than a copy of "The Vegetarian Epicure" piled with other items on a catch-all table and opened to a manicot containing no meat, but lots of cheese.
Other kitchen members who joined Grazem for the manicot and onion soup were Elaine Syrion, Lyons sophomore; Cindy Treater, Buhler sophomore; and Kelly Lyne, Abellene freshman.
THEY EXPRESSD different reasons for being vegetarians but cited a common tiredness of the lack of energy.
"Just because you don't use meat, you don't go out of your way," Orazm said. "I just started liking
these vegetables I didn't like before. I've made jembu beans in a variety of ways."
She pointed out several recipes for lentils in one
record recipe books piled on the window丝. The list
of recipes was quite extensive.
The kitchen members said that they are many Chinese, Indian and Russian dishes but very few American dishes because these usually required meat
"OTHER COUNTRIES are forced to be vegetarian because they can't compete with the United States on food."
Another advantage of eating vegetarian, they said, was that it was cheaper. They said that six meals for seven people on a meat diet had cost them $40-$50 a week, but only about $30 for a vegetarian diet.
"Nationwide, it's kind of a fad." Lyne said. "There are vegetarians for the wrong reasons."
"WHEREH ITS A fad or not," responded master, "I thai it a good fad. There a lot of talk about it."
Vegetarians not only object to preservatives in meat and other food products, but also to other
Magerl said highly carcinogenic chemicals such as nitrates and nitro amines were added to meat.
Magerl, who became a vegetarian two years ago when it was "very hip and fashionable," said he had remained one largely because of the wastefulness of his diet. He said he bought pounds of grain to make one pound of beef, he said.
HE SAID some people objected to eating dairy products because male calves were killed when born Cows have to give birth to calves before they giv milk, he said.
Many vegetarians are introduced to the eating style through voga.
The members of kitchen told of some problems they had run into because of their vegetarianism.
Sally McGee, a clerk at Norwegian Woods Natural Food and Specialty Shop, decided to try walnuts. The staff asked,
Treater said, "I couldn't kill an animal I'm a real pacifist. If you've ever been to western Kansas in feedouts where all the cows are crowded together, you know that even dumb animals need to be treated that way."
SHE SAID SHE didn't expect to remain a vegetarian, but liked it so much that she'd stayed with it for seven years. She said she had no philosophical reasons for her vegetarianism; it just wasn't right.
They said six of the seven of them who ate meat while they were home over spring break became
TREASTER SAID it was hard for her parents to understand her vegetarianism. They thought it was too much.
Treasurer she wished people wouldn't get apprehensive when a vegetarian was coming to eat with them because there were more things to eat that they shouldn't worry.
Restaurants can be harder to get along with, said, but some are offering special vegetarian dishes.
but, some are offering special vegetarian dishes. Diana Wong, Hong Kong freshman who has been a waitress at Royal Peking Restaurant, 711 W.23rd St. the past three years, said the restaurant had two dishes without meat and planned to get new menus in July that would have many more vegetarian dishes.
CATHAY, A NEW restaurant at the Holiday Plaza, 250 and Iowa streets, has a Chinese vegetarian menu.
The Sister Kettle Cafe, 1347 Massachusetts St., is a cooperatively owned restaurant that serves only fresh ingredients.
The largest supplier of food for Sister Kettle and kitchen one in Watkins Hall is the Community Mercantile. See DIETS page eight
See DIETS page eight