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Vol. 87, No.127
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Monday, April 18, 1977
staff photo by GEORGE MILLENER
Hot practice
While simultaneous keeping a safe distance, Dean Thompson, Overland Park, tried to extinguish a man-made fire yesterday morning near Raymond Nichols Hall on West
campus. The fire was set to give stock car track worker们 who were meeting here this weekend experience at putting out car fires. Track workers came from far as away as Jacksonville, FL.
Watson, commission agree to evaluation plan
Buford Watson will continue in his position as city manager will be subject to an annual evaluation, Mayor Marnie Arersinger said Friday.
Watson said, "I'm pleased with the confidence the city commission has shown
The Lawrence City Commission and Watson met in closed session last Thursday to discuss guidelines that Watson and the newly elected commission will follow in the
Argersinger said that in addition to Watson's job evaluation, the mayor and the city commission would take greater political roles in city government.
flack," she said. "As elected people, now we
should that hail me" blame and the credit for
anything that happeed.
"THE CITY manager takes so much
The commissioners will meet later this week, Argersinger said, to write out the goals and responsibilities expected of the city manager and the commission.
A set of priorities for the city will be established, Argersinger said, and Watson will be expected to carry them out. Complaints should be addressed in the guidelines for handling citizen complaints.
THREE CITY commission members, Watson, the assistant city manager, University of Kansas officials and some members of the press left yesterday for Norman, Okla., to attend a Big 8 cities meeting.
The meetings were first begun 10 years to discuss common problems to discuss common problems.
She said all complaints would be put on forms so that all commissioners would be notified were to be handled, and would also know what irritated the other commissioners.
"ITS TIME to set up some standard operated procedures." Argersinger said. "We're all after efficiency in city government."
She said each new commission had the tendency to fall into the same patterns of the previous commissions instead of analyzing problems in new ways.
Watson said the evaluation of him was appropriate because he evaluates many other city employees. Watson is in charge of hiring and firing city officials.
The Lawrence contingent will return tomorrow evening. The regular Tuesday city commission meeting has been canceled.
Initial O.K. given on KU fees raise
By LEON UNRUH Staff Reporter
The Board of Regents gave initial approval Friday to a request that would tack an additional $2.50 onto KU student fees next fall.
The request asks that the KU activity fee be raised by $1.56, from $9.60 to $11.10, and that the Kansas Union building fee be boosted by $1, from $14 to $15.
The increases will be up for final approval at next month's Regents meeting in Topeka. The Regents require 28 days for deliberation after an initial presentation.
The KU Student Senate approved the fee increases Tuesday.
STEVE LEBEN, student body president who attended the Regents meeting, said Saturday that the request met little opposition.
"Considering that the senate had voted for it and the administration wanted it, it
The additional money generated by the activity fee would fund the improvement of some recreational facilities at KU and Robinson Gymnasium. Of open hours at Robinson Gymnasium,
The Regents also approved a new fee schedule to raise the cost of parking permits next fall. A year's rate will increase by as much as $120 per vehicle, and by $10 on the Lawrence campus.
CONTRACTS WERE approved for two sterilizing equipment companies to equip a new 20-acre Med Center hospital, American Sterilizer, Erie, Pa., will get a $787,86 contract, and Kentex, Leneza, will get a $64,445 contract.
The Regents also approved a plan under which students entering the Med Center starting in 1977 will pay fees directly to the National Board Examination. Previously, the Med Center collected the fees and forwarded them to the examining company.
A reshuffling of funds in the University's maintenance and remodeling allocation will be done.
"WE GOT no new money," Keith Nilcher, director of business and financial affairs, said. "We don't want to be the worst."
reallocate between projects the money we already have."
Buildings benefiting from the relocation will be Haworth Hall, where air conditioning tubes will be repaired, and the KU Printing Service and the east addition of Watson Library, where new roofing will be installed.
Money was reallocated from other repair and maintenance projects.
The promotions of more than 100 faculty members at both KU campuses were approved by the Regents, Nitcher. Thirty-four faculty members became full professors, 56 were named associate professors and 10 were named assistant professors.
FORTY-FIVE Lawrence professors and
FORTY-FIVE Center received sabbatical
for next year.
Nitcher said that the Regents favored a new KU proposal changing some qualifications for sabbaticals, so that people who have terminal degrees and the ability to teach, but don't, also were made eligible for the sabbaticals a year from now.
All seven Regents schools were granted a week's delay from May 1 to prepare and present 1978 fiscal year budgets, Nichter said. The delay was granted because the Kansas Legislature hasn't decided allocations yet.
Nine KU faculty members received emeritus status by the Regents. They are: Nachman Aronzak, professor emeritus of Theology; Jacob Egan, professor associate emeritus of the Kansas Geological Survey; William Griffith, professor emeritus of Geography; Fred Kurata, professor emeritus of Engineering; Emily H. Smith, professor emeritus of design; George B. Smith, professor emeritus of administration, foundations and higher education; Rayan Sahu, professor emeritus of performance; and Edgar Wolfe professor emeritus of English.
THE UNIVERSITY'S Low Temperature Lab was named in honor of Fred Kurata, professor of chemical engineering, Kurata, who is retiring this year, founded the lab.
Congress fight likely over energy package
WASHINGTON (AP) - Congress is embarking on what may be the fiercest legislative battle in years as it returns from its Easter recess to receive President Jimmy Carter's complex program of staff education, remediation remedies and new energy taxes.
The President is set to highlight the dimensions of the nation's energy problem in a televised "fireside chat" to the nation tonight and then to formally unveil his energy package at a joint House-Senate session on Wednesday.
members of Congress who have received briefings on the energy program predict that the President's program will touch off that will extend through most of the year.
Several congressional leaders have suggested that the President will have so much difficulty getting his proposal through Congress that he may have to resort to making his appeal directly to the people—in order to prevent a fistful of fideis chat —in order to hould support.
many elements of the package, especially those that would cost consumers the most in added energy costs, may never make it a good deal. A company modified some concessionaires' aides say.
The biggest battles are certain to be over the proposed new taxes on gasoline and diesel. But there are also economic benefits.
one president's energy message. Least controversial will be conservation incentives, such as proposed tax benefits for homeowners who improve insulation in their houses or install solar energy devices, according to key congressmen and aides.
Forms for staff now available
The energy issue will clearly dominate congressional action this week. Little else of consequence is scheduled for floor action, especially with the President's withdrawal last week of his proposed $50-per-person tax rebates for most Americans.
White House aides said that in his televised address to the nation tonight, Carter would draw heavily on a new Central Intelligence Agency report that concludes that the world has far less oil and natural reserve than has been generally believed.
According to published accounts, the CIA report claims that in less than 10 years the world will be using more oil than it produces, resulting in scarcities that will boost the price of U.S. gasoline to more than $2 a gallon by 1990.
Applications for staff positions on the summer and fall Kansas are available in 105 First Hall, the Student Senate office, or at the offices of the deans of men and women.
Although the plan is subject to last-minute refinements by the White House, drafts of its key components have already been prepared by government agencies and on Capitol Hill.
Carter has called the report deeply disturbing and said that he hoped to convince the American people of the truth about energy shortages.
Summer and fall editors and business managers will interview candidates next Monday and Tuesday. Interview sign-up may be posted outside 111 and 141 Flint Hall.
Positions are open on both the news and business staff. Applications must be turned in by 10am on Monday.
—new taxes of several dollars a barrel on domestic crude oil, which would further drive up gasoline prices, and new price increases in gas prices which would allow its price to rise also.
—A gas tax starting at $121 for fuel-efficient automobiles, possibly as high as $2.500 for the worst offenders, with off-highway vehicles for cars that get the most miles per gallon.
- tax credits to partially offset the cost of residential insulation and solar energy devices and for industrial fuel-saving measures.
"A standby gasoline tax of up to 50 cents a gallon that would begin in 1978 if U.S. government taxes increased."
The program is likely to include:
'Jazz' concert pleases listeners
By BILL UYEKI Entertainment Editor
Saturday night's KANU-FM Jazz in the Night concert at the Lawrence Opera House seemed like a giant puzzle, with several distinct pieces.
There were the Jazz in the Night staff and its respected following it has built in the area; the managers and operators of the Opera House, and their acoustically concert hall; local promoter Brian McKinney and his popular sound and lighting system; two virtuoso guitarists on the ECM label, Ralph Tower and John Abercrombie; and, alas, a definite clique of local musicians matching to suit their tastes in a comparatively dry concert season at the University.
A HERCULEAN task, but the pieces all fitted as nearly as could be expected. The sound, lighting and quality of music were appropriate to the imperative an conditioner that made the balcony uncomfortably balyne, the two shows Saturday were produced well and provided a perfect setting for an attentive audience, the talents of performers and Aber crombie.
when two guitarists, playing nothing more than their instruments, can keep a rapport with an audience of almost 600 with only their music, then there must be a common respect flowing from both the audience and the performers.
The crowd seemed to sense that here are two musicians, with backgrounds in classical and jazz, playing something that could be heard by keyboards and/or formal structure.
IMPROVED LIKE jazz but lacking its beat, rhythms and chord patterns, the pair's music so captured listeners that the near-capacity of the drum set for both shows sat in silence -silence only broken by applause between numbers. Strangely, a similar form of music last fall hardly drew more than 100 people in Hoch Auditorium.
Towner, who actually started in music on piano, studied guitar in Vienna before he joined the Paul Winter Consort in 1970. He has recorded albums with Weather
Report and vblist Gary Burton, and is now a member of the group Oregon.
ABERCROMBIE is a product of Boston's Berklee Music School, and played around the club circuit in Boston and New York. He became a seasoned session guitarist while backing Gil Evans and Gato Barberi, and later caught notice in the jazz world with his work on the bands of Chico Hiberton and Billy Edwards. Abercrombie has been playing with Jack Denhottie's Directions.
Together Towner and Abercrombie released their album, "Sargasso Sea," last fall.
It seemed the slightly dissimilar styles of the two guitarists were essential in
Performance
making them the perfect match for each other. Abercrombie, who also played electric mandolin, opted for a more electric, amplified sound. He reverbed again playing electric guitar. He picked gentle and medited melody lines and strummed chords emotionally, often humming to himself contemndly as the notes streamed
TOWER, HOLDING his guitar like Sergivia while finger-plucking outsturbs of ideas, complemented his cohort's soft singing. He plucks the chordings on six, and 12-string guitars.
The Nairobi Trio, with Johnny Moore on drums, was assigned the difficult task of entertaining the audience while playing between Tower and Abercrombie's two acts. But this talented trio, who included MacKenzie group groups Tide and MacKenzie-Lynch, also provided the evening's dose of mainstream and progressive jazz.
It was fortunate that some 'jazz' was heard because, except for a Miles Davis tune played during an encore, Towner and Abercrombie hardly approached the musicians played in its place was music impressively executed and fully appreciated.
John Abercrombie Staff photo by JAY KOELZER