THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
RAIN
KANSAN
Vol. 87, No.129
The University of Kansas—Lawrence. Kansas
Hassles delay KU money bills
Wednesday, April 20, 1977
See story page five
KU energy-regulating plan awaits Legislature's OK
By LEON UNRUH
Staff Renorter
The University of Kansas is awaiting word from the Kansas Legislature on possible appropriations for the University to enhance its institutional system designed to cut excessive energy use.
Max Lucas, director of facilities planning, said last night that he had talked with the
House and Senate Ways and Means Conference Committee about an energy policy
ITWOULD TURN fans off and on
The system, which would use a computer programed to regulate cooling and heating circulation fan motors, would cost $350,000 per hour. The school buildings on the Lawrence campus, he said.
Mail-order ordination legitimate for church
By DONNA KIRK
Staff Renorter
For a $20 honorary doctorate, a church kit and a mail-order ordination as a minister of the Universal Life Church, Inc., Marvin Umholt, Lawrence, can now do something he has wanted to do for a long time—marry people.
“It’s an ego trip for me, something that I’ve always wanted to do,” he said recently. His desire to marry people and an advertisement he saw in whole Earth Catalog recently prompted him to join the Universal Life Church, a California-based religious organization that ordains its ministers by mail and sends them suggestions for performing services.
Being a minister is a service to people according to Kirby Hensley, president and founder of Universal Life Church, who said yesterday that his church ordains anyone. He serves the office and church are in Modesto, Calif., where Hensley conducts services each Sunday.
"WE BELIEVE that according to the Bible, John 16:15, that anyone who's called by God to be a minister can be a minister." Hensley said. "There's no charge for being a minister, but we send you a card on request that says you are a minister, because most states' laws say you need certification."
Hensley said that the fee, according to his church, was legal. The fee is the salary of a local minister, T. Miller. Miller could not be reached for comment.
The church tried to solicit new members through classified advertisements in the University Daily Kansan last week, listing a $30 box number to which the $3 fee could be paid.
HENSLEY, 77, said he believed that God was life and that the devil was death, but that his church's doctrine was that what's right for a person is right.
"All anybody really wants is freedom, good food, good sex and more of all that," she said.
Originally a Southern Baptist minister, Hensley began the Universal Life Church in 1982, because he said he wasn't satisfied with the doctrines of Baptist, pentecostal, and other religious factions under which he preached for more than 30 years.
Umholtz, who has been a minister less
than a year, said the church's non-demonstrational doctrine appealed to him, but he hadn't performed any marriage service, which he has advertised in the Kansan.
"Ive filed my credentials with the county
he said, "and so I can marry people
legally."
depending on how a building was being used on a given day. The fans would run longer, for example, on a class day than on a weekday or holiday when few people were using it.
"THE CONSTITUTIONAL protection of religious freedom is strong in this country, and the Universal Life Church is a celebration of that," he said.
Mike Malone, Douglas County attorney,
said that Kansas law provided that any
certified minister who registered with the
Berk's office could perform marriages.
Suggestions for conducting marriage and funeral ceremonies are included in a new minister's church kit and in periodic newsletters sent by the organization's central office, Umholtz said, but the suggestions aren't binding.
Each minister can make up his own ceremony, depending upon the interests and wishes of the participants, Urmoltz said, "You don't want to charge for performing ceremonies."
Ministers who want to start a part of the Universal Life Church in their areas can get a number for tax purposes provided by the Ministry. Its name for its central office, Uholzt said.
HENSLEY SAID the office issued a charter to new churches and charged them a $2 monthly fee to maintain their tax records. The Universal Life Church has more than 8 million ordained ministers, he said, and about 2,500 churches across the country.
As a certified religious organization, the church's tax-exempt status is legal, according to a 1979 U.S. District Court ruling, which also said that Universal Life mailchips were no less valid than credentiales obtained in other ways from religious organizations.
The 1975 ruling overturned a 1974 Kansas attorney general's opinion that said mail-order ordinations weren't valid under Kansas Law.
Mike Elwell, Douglas County Court judge, had relied on the 1974 decision when he refused in 1975 to recognize Universal Life Insurance Company's decision brought a $7 million
A fire and security system could be added to the 29-building arrangement at an additional $200,000 cost, Lucas said. A printout at the computer, which probably would be stored in a plant building, also would give immediate alerts when fire or security alarm sounds.
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KU's energy management system request total $550.000.
But the system could pay for itself in less than two years, Laus said, by reducing energy consumption. Savings of up to 30 per cent were realized with the computer system, he said.
THE CONFERENCE committee is considering a Kansas Board of Regents request for a $2.5 million allocation from the department to pay projects at all Regents institutions.
KU asked for just under $2 million of the $2.5 million for its own energy-related projects, but Lucas said KU officials didn't realistically expect to get that much.
Besides the $550,000 computer system request, KU asked for $400,000 to improve air conditioning at the KU Medical Center; chased by KU to power on campus and not lost in transmission; $20,000 to upgrade controls on the main boiler at the Lawrence campus; and funds for adding insulation to the boilers. In some buildings at the Lawrence campus.
THE UNIVERSITY asked an additional $80,000 to connect a power management system already installed at the new Med Center clinical facility to the existing campus. The Center computer was installed as part of the original construction plan, Lucas said.
The conference committee also is considering power management systems for the other Regents schools, State Rep. Mike Koch, who has served on the committee member, said last night.
KU's chances of receiving funding for the system have improved for two reasons since the Regents proposal first was offered. Glover said.
See LEGISLATURE page two
Staff photo by GEORGE MILLENER
KU music composer Vicki Burkhard, Manhattan senior, and Nancy Engelken, Goff senor, waited for the start of Burkhard's recital rehearsal yesterday in Swarthout recital hall. Burkhard will hold a recital of music she has composed tonight in Swarthout. See story page seven.
KU composer
Wine sellers likely to flee over tax fee
By DEENA KERBOW
Staff Reporter
A liquor tax bill passed by Kansas legislators in a last-minute move before first adjournment may force wine distributors out of the state.
The bill would require manufacturers or distributors of each brand label of alcoholic liquor sold in Kansas to be registered with the state for $500 a label.
J. L. McClure, manager of Schneider's Retail Liquor Store, said his distributors had told him that the majority of wine producers wouldn't be able to afford that price because wines are bottle under so many different labels, even within a single
Area liquor retailers and wholesalers and a Kansas省man met in Tepeeka yesterday to consider methods for reducing the $500 per gallon of beer owned by owner of Underdwell's Real Liquors.
UNDERWOOD REFUSED to reveal the senator's name and said nothing happened
"It was generally agreed that we would not get into specifics outside the meeting,"
But, he said, the $200 charge would be a regressive taxation, and "we're—all in the business."
He said the group was trying to decide "what can be done to make this thing palatable and still make money for the state."
Legislators have estimated that the bill would generate $800,000 annually for the state to be used for community alcoholism and intoxication programs.
Retailers do not agree.
ONE ANONYMOUS Lawrence retailer said, "It is no doubt that they are not going to get it."
MMcure said, "I presume that $800,000 figure was arrived at by someone going down the books and looking at the brands on the shelves," he added, we expect they, won't make that figure."
McClure explained why wine companies wouldn't distribute in Kansas under that law. One typical example, he said, would be the RBG Co., which grossed $150,000 last year. Considering its profit margin to be the 25 per cent of the revenue, McClure awarded 22% of $72,000.
The company produces its lub
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Prison serves as KU classroom
By MARY RINTOUI
This is the first of two articles on classes taught by University of Kansas professors Eugene T. Meyer and John D. Ward.
By MARY RINTOU STaff Reporter
Every Wednesday night, two University of Kansas instructors must pass through an elaborate security system before they are allowed to face their classes.
The instructors, Don Hatcher, assistant instructor of philosophy, and Mike Gaines, associate professor of systems and ecology, teach courses at the University courses at the Leaweworth University courses at the Leaweworth
Federal Pentientian—what Gaines recalled called the "palace of federal
KU has conducted classes at the prison for 24 years, but only in the last few years have inmates been able to earn a bachelor of general studies degree.
On June 10, three students at Leavenworth will become the first KU graduates to graduate.
Any inmate, except those in solitary confinement, may enroll in classes at the prison. However, unlike most federal prisons, the inmates pay their own tuition.
Charitable ride
Carolyn Costley, Stillwater, Okla., junior, got a free ride down town Boulevard in an old bathhouse to attract attendance for a beni dance held last night. Susie Nanson, Kanea State University, came to attend her class on Thursday.
Staff photo by MIKE CAMPBELL
Hudleston, Kansas City, Mo., sophomore, and Patricia Manson, Overland Park sophomore, worked from the opposite end. Alpha Phi Omega, Alpha Phi Alma and Delta Phi
TUITION FOR five classes is $290, not including books.
To pay for their tuition, almost all the inmates work in one of several prison factories, where the maximum hourly wage is 75 cents.
Some of the inmates are disturbed about having to pay for their own tuition.
According to some of the inmates, in almost all other federal prisons, the federal government allocates funding for the inmates' tuition.
Enrollment at the prison has dropped from about 200 last year to 80 this semester, according to Gaines. Inmates said recently that most of them dropped classes because they didn't work at any of the factories, and simply couldn't afford the tuition.
OTHER INSTRUCTORS who teach at the prison and the classes they teach are; Sam Jones, assistant instructor of political science—American Political Parties; Al Johnson, assistant instructor of sociology—Sociology; Larry Gwin, assistant instructor of sociology—Sociology; Larry Gwin, assistant instructor of economy—Economics.
Gaines, who began teaching the fall semester of 1976, said he thought the job
1. and planned to teach only one
    man; but it gets in your blood, "he said
    perhaps."
Gaines isn't paid for teaching at the prison. However, in proportion to the number of students taught, he receives $500, which can be used toward his professorship.
As an assistant instructor, Hatcher, a graduate student, has to teach two University courses each semester, and the prison course counts as one of them.
During the drive to the prison last week, Hatcher and Gaines spoke freely about their experiences, their feelings and inmate's feelings.
GAINES, 34, a tall man who has
distinguished roles as the black
gangster on his plight.
Hatcher, 29, his redish-blond hair neatly combed, wore dress shirt and dress pants.
Hid faded jean jacket had tattered sewers, and there were holes in the left knee. They were holes in the left knee.
Hatcher was more reserved about discussing Leavenworth, while Gaines, speaking with a marked New York accent, talked confidently and seemed to enjoy
"I was terrified the first time I went to Leavenworth," Gaines said. "I had stereotyped what about what can happen in a classroom and robbed someone." Once in the classroom, though, all my fears
were gone. The inmates made me feel at ease."
GAINES SOON found that he taught the inmates as he did KU students. However, he noticed one big difference between KU students and Leavenworth students.
"Students at KU are subconsciously grateful for what I teach them," he said, "but the guys at Leavenworth are demonstratively grateful."
The last semester when he finished giving the final exam, Guinea said, students shoot his handgun.
Hatcher, who has taught two years at Leavenworth, said that before any instructor began teaching at the prison, he was briefed by prison officials.
"The BRIEFING scared me more than the actual classroom did," he said.
Hatcher and Gaines said they often strapped from the subject in class and talked to the inmates about their feelings and anything else they had on their minds.
"Pirson takes their identities away—and their self-respect," Gaines aid. "It's dehumanizing. These classes give them back their self-esteem."
Hatcher said, "The inmates love the classes because someone from the real world—not a guard, not a fellow inmate—has been in charge." Be an inmate is a degrading position.
GAINES SAID once he was settled into teaching at Leavenworth he could talk to the inmates about almost anything and they would tell him almost anything.
"Most of my students are bank robbers," he said. "I couldn't really talk to them about the reason they were in prison until they began to trust me, though. Teaching is a mutualistic thing. They've taught me as much as I've taught them."
Tomorrow: Inside the prison
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